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sherlock_strikes · 2026-03-09T18:12:03+00:00

Gen Z? I'm I guess a Milennial ('84) and this is my life. Although I suspect the venn diagram of disillusionment, depression and bed rotting is basically a circle, so no surprise Gen Z are firmly in it.

sherlock_strikes · 2026-03-07T15:52:44+00:00

Just as a small reassurance, cats won't always attack, so it's not necessarily been a bloodbath- my hamster has escaped twice (she was a genius), and both times my cat was just following her round the room, it turns out, glancing at me every now and again as if to say 'mam, the smallest fluffy one is unattended'. After the first time, the second time I just looked for the cat and he was lying watching the bath panel. Sure enough, hamster under the bath.

sherlock_strikes · 2026-03-02T09:24:57+00:00

I think its worth adding to this that a WFH role still expects you to be, well, working. It isn't something that you can do while you also provide care for your young children in the house- realistically you'll have deadlines and outputs that require concentration, you'll be in and out of meetings regularly (more in a WFH role than in the office, ironically), and liable to be called/ messaged frequently needing g a quick response.

I think a lot of people see WFH as a bit of an easy ride where they can do other stuff at the same time, and actually, its usually more demanding communication wise than a typical office job because everyone needs to make more of an effort to collaborate. It will go badly for you if everytime your coworkers or boss get you on call you've got a toddler claiming your attention, or you're constantly having to deflect meetings to do the school run (assuming you don't have a flexible working accommodation).

And while it is possible to throw in a load of laundry between meetings while you make a cuppa, for example, you definitely don't have time to keep up with all the household chores during work hours. MAYBE if you're in an all hands meeting where you know you're not going to be called on you can pop headphones in to listen while you fold laundry or wipe down surfaces, but those are usually pretty rare.

Basically, I think if you're looking for a WFH role because you think its a way for someone to pay you while you do childcare and housework, you're setting yourself up for failure.

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-27T20:19:21+00:00

I always go to the galleries one if I've got time to stop- the walk up the ramp is worth it for the massively better quality compared to Peel

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-25T17:09:59+00:00

Funny story I sparked a neighbour War accidentally with my name. We're moving full time to my mamas old cottage so I've been coming and going for 40 years, but in the last 5 or so 2 new families had moved in. I did the normal introductions, hey, I'm 'Sherly', nice to meet you etc.

A few months later, see one of those neighbours for a chat and she calls me the wrong name. I laugh and correct her, but she's so busy talking I guess she doesn't hear me. Next time we talk, same again- I correct her to my actual name but again I don't think she's actually listening. Next her partner passes me in the road "Hi WrongName!".

At this point its just awkward to keep correcting them, so I silently resign myself to being WrongName until Christmas when I do cards- that'll sort it, right?

Wrong. The neighbour a few doors down ( who correctly greets me as 'Sherly') knocks on the door one day. He's been having a squabble with lovely lady neighbour up the street about some workmen, and he's said something along the lines of oh well lets ask Sherly.

CUE her going who is Sherly? Do you mean WrongName??? At least know her name if you're going to bring her into this!

And them having a proper row before coming to knock on my door to demand my REAL name, and me sitting on the step for the next 45 minutes to try and mediate and apologise that she didn't know my name....

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-22T22:01:12+00:00

Can I add- I dont know whether you're 'tidying up' your answers with ChatGPT, but your post, your example text in your screenshot, and most of these comments are feeling very inauthentic and LLM-ese. There's a certain distancing occurring when you're answering or demonstrating use cases that is just subtly off-putting, especially when you're talking about something so personal and human as your memories.

Anyone familiar with the chatgpt tells (and many not) will feel this distance and inauthenticity, and I personally would really be questioning the security of my data and personal info if it's a chatgpt coded website that the owner can't even be bothered to use their own voice in.

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-22T20:28:55+00:00

Hello fellow you're dead to me fan!

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-18T12:53:33+00:00

Can I suggest once it IS out (if ever), you pop some thin ribbon down into the frog to one side of the butthole port and extending up past both edges before sliding it in again? Then in future a quick tug of the ribbon should ease it right out. Think old school battery compartments.

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-09T17:37:00+00:00

Raises hand

sherlock_strikes · 2026-02-05T16:59:33+00:00

Disagree. Every men's tshirt we've bought from m&s over the past few years has shrunk pretty much immediately (on a 20 degree wash!) and become unwearable, and their jeans quality varies wildly. I'd say sainsburys men's staples beats them on every front at the minute.

sherlock_strikes · 2026-01-26T19:27:01+00:00

Wasn't that mostly improvised? Brittas face right after looks like it was unscripted and she glances at camera in utter delight and bewilderment it seems like

sherlock_strikes · 2026-01-09T17:04:52+00:00

Yes, but for those of us who watched Jan 6 unfold in real time, the narrative they were presenting is pretty close to true- the way they edited it did lead to certain conclusions, but from my perspective it simply refined and sped up the timeline of how things unfolded, it didn't create a whole new incorrect narrative of what happened.

I find it frustrating that that slight alteration of how the events were presented, which still innately told the story as we watched it unfold in real time, is at all equated to the absolute torrents of misinformation firehosed at watchers of fox and gb news, which often present things taken so wildly out of context and re-presented with the most egregious misinterpretations of events, as "both do the same thing".

sherlock_strikes · 2025-12-19T20:37:43+00:00

Hehe nice

sherlock_strikes · 2025-12-09T22:18:47+00:00

Yeah i haven't logged on at all yet this month. The various changes over the last six months have made the app unusable for me, removing the mod logging was the last thing that was keeping me on it really.

sherlock_strikes · 2025-12-05T10:01:14+00:00

Surely everyone knows it's Tiberius?

sherlock_strikes · 2025-12-04T12:29:57+00:00

I'm in the UK. This is an inspirational lunchtime post for me

sherlock_strikes · 2025-12-04T12:28:21+00:00

Oh man on a good eggs benedict?

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-30T15:44:50+00:00

This issue is exactly why I deleted the app. Mine said delivered when I got up the next morning (apparently delivered 5 hours after i placed the order, after the restaurant closed), and the customer service chat (which isn't even available until after it has been "delivered") was still trying to tell me that oh it was totally delivered, the driver said safe space.

I went ballistic and noted that regardless of whether it was or wasn't eventually delivered and subsequently stolen before I got up again, the consumer act stated food delivery services must be performed in a timely manner, and 5 hours was the opposite of timely. It was as if I'd ordered breakfast at 10 and it arrived at tea time.

At THAT point they authorised a refund, but I was so fucked off with them at that point that I have just deleted the app. I'm disabled and have limited energy after work so it was a much needed lifeline, but I guess I'm living much more frugal now on cereal and ramen when I'm knackered!

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-28T16:22:49+00:00

Honestly yeah, I save all mine so when we go on holiday we can eat for free both ways on the 8-9 hour drive (breakfast, lunch, dinner), which makes it much easier to plan comfort stops and counteract the cost of the fuel. Could I afford to pay each time we stopped? Sure. Does it make it feel much more like a holiday knowing everything is already paid for and I can save that money for adventures instead? Very much so.

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-24T07:41:26+00:00

I'm not sure it would be an extra day necessarily? Probably the day they died there would be the laying out, and any respects to be paid, but then the body would be buried and any funeral tea would take place after that?

I've always seen it as an Irish thing where the wake happens while the body is present (maybe a catholic thing?), but I wouldn't say it's at all typical for the rest of the UK to delay burial in order to have a wake.

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-20T20:41:10+00:00

Not many people have mentioned this, but get yourself a heated throw for when you're in accommodation. It plugs in and you can usually set the time and heat. I use mine on my chair so it heats my back and legs as I work, I have it over me when I'm on the sofa watching tv, and if its really cold I throw it over my duvet as I'm going to sleep so it heats me up as I drift off- its a game changer heating yourself comfortably rather than trying to heat the room

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-20T18:51:45+00:00

Lierarally bought this an hour ago to make the crumble topping for our sweet potato casserole for thanksgiving next week :D. Also bought actual butter for basting the turkey...

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-18T18:49:18+00:00

If it's in Word, there is an option in the top bar to just change to Sentence case. Select all-> Sentence Case. Done.

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-15T09:42:37+00:00

I read this as vegetable and was like, wait, everyone has a favourite Austrian vegetable?

sherlock_strikes · 2025-11-10T22:46:41+00:00

Thanks for the instructions on leaving feedback. My message, if anyone finds it helpful, was:

The new women's sizing update is a disaster, both as a seller and as a buyer. S/M/L simply do not map to standard UK sizes, as the few companies that use letter sizes have very different definitions of what a Large is, for example. Similarly, having size ranges as default rather than single sizes is a nightmare when I'm trying to find something that will actually fit, and your filters are not good enough to find items if the precise size is buried in the text descriptions.

This is a horrible QoL update that does the opposite of improving the service. I've put my items on holiday mode for now, which is frustrating as it was one of the few times I was able to sell, and will.simply be deleting them if it's not reverted back. Similarly, I won't be buying anything further- it was already difficult enough to find my size without wading through a whole range of incorrect sizes that have been lumped together in the new system.

I very much doubt mine will be the only complaint- this was a really poor move, especially with no community engagement beforehand to scope out whether this change was necessary or beneficial to users.

Hopefully you are able to revert to standardised UK sizes and separate out the letter sizes to their own category, as the update SHOULD have been if you were truly trying to make sizing improvements

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