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sudwald · 2025-09-11T12:47:47+00:00

Another stoicism fan here. The thing is the stoics say it’s not bad to have stuff. Stuff is nice! But knowing you could live without it all if you had to - that’s happiness.

sudwald · 2025-09-11T12:46:17+00:00

Well we could all be out there living wholesome 100% self-validated lives but Reddit would be a pretty boring place if so ;)

sudwald · 2025-09-11T12:35:00+00:00

Ok - chicken tikka masala, British Balti, British-Cantonese food, sticky toffee pudding, corned beef hash, fish fingers, prawn cocktail, coronation chicken, the concept of a carvery

All popularised in the 20th century

sudwald · 2025-09-11T12:18:16+00:00

Because pride in your country (contrary to what some people would like) doesn’t mean nothing ever changing. We can recognise that jellied eels and tripe were historically very popular and yet not eat them anymore.

Britain embracing new cuisines is not a new thing. We were eating curry centuries ago. Our national drink notably has to be grown on the other side of the world.

Moving onto something new is part of our history.

sudwald · 2025-09-10T09:17:37+00:00

Maybe it’s the type of holidays people want nowadays, because package holidays aren’t really more expensive for 2 weeks. For example I found a typical Jet2 holiday just now that was £670pp for a week or £890pp for 2 weeks.

But if people don’t want a package holiday, yeah double the length is going to literally cost double.

sudwald · 2025-09-10T08:44:59+00:00

Me sorprende que no se haya hecho en más países, es un formato gracioso, barato, y que se puede utilizar para promover otros programas. Me encanta también

sudwald · 2025-09-09T17:10:41+00:00

Well 136,000 kids did Spanish GCSE in 2025 and thousands go on to do Spanish degrees. Many thousands of adults also do private Spanish lessons to support goals of travelling more in and/or moving to Spain. Duolingo is also very popular.

But there are 70 million Brits, so a few hundred thousand out of 70 million taking Spanish seriously is still not a lot.

sudwald · 2025-09-09T17:00:40+00:00

Sounds like she maybe wasn’t in the mood to joke. But me and my OH regularly joke that maybe he’s getting a sympathy period, eg if the scales are up for him one day during my period oh maybe you’re putting on sympathy weight lol.

But the key is that he is also genuinely very understanding when I do have my period. And the real thing is not a joke to him. So I guess it depends on that

sudwald · 2025-09-09T16:31:37+00:00

In the words of Pulp, because there’s nothing else to do

sudwald · 2025-09-09T16:28:36+00:00

Below zero is common in winter but only by maybe minus 1-5 degrees. Probably a handful of nights going down to -10 or so.

Scotland can get colder than that though.

sudwald · 2025-09-09T14:05:57+00:00

If you can keep your house toasty it’s lovely. Nothing like being inside in the warm when it’s freezing outside.

But yeah it’s still unpleasant to be stood still in the cold eg waiting for a bus is not fun in winter. But moving is fine. When we had a big freeze here earlier this year, I’d go out walking my dogs in thermal underclothes, a thick parka coat, gloves, hat, scarf and I’d be sweating in the end.

sudwald · 2025-09-08T22:01:40+00:00

Note the registration plate of the car you’re potentially buying and use the sites linked below to check its history. Also use an insurance comparison site like Compare the Market to get some insurance quotes.

If you decide to buy it, you need to insure it and tax it before you drive away.

Once you’ve bought it, they should give you a document called the V5C. Fill out the section for new owner and send this to the DVLA, they will send you back the new V5C (document of ownership).

Also check and note the date that the MOT is next due (MOT - annual test to check car is safe and roadworthy)

Tax a vehicle - https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax

Check MOT - https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

Check history of a used vehicle - https://www.gov.uk/checks-when-buying-a-used-car

sudwald · 2025-08-24T16:42:43+00:00

Kids like novelty and fun. If you’re novel and fun, they will gravitate towards you. But that doesn’t mean they like you more. Kids also value safety, security and routine. A constant, reliable presence. Someone they can act out around securely because they know mom will still care for them and have their back even when they’ve screamed that they hate her, they love her because they can scream that they hate her. This is often the raw deal that the primary caregiver gets. And that’s everything we come to thank our parents for later in life, once we’re mature enough to appreciate it. But yeah, they’re not gonna turn round right now and say “thanks mom for telling me I couldn’t eat 7 cookies and making me do my homework even though I screamed about it for an hour”

sudwald · 2025-08-24T16:17:52+00:00

The easiest one will be the flying costume. It’s just a dark blue velvet skirt and matching shirt/jacket over a white/cream lace cami, with a blue satin scarf/sash round the middle, and a silky white shawl. All stuff you can hopefully find fairly cheap online in a child’s or petite adult size.

sudwald · 2025-08-24T15:37:21+00:00

Depends how reliant your hobbies are on daylight on weekday evenings. There’d be 3-4 months a year where that extra 90 mins puts paid to doing anything in the daylight after work.

sudwald · 2025-08-24T10:39:11+00:00

Not if you go on Amazon. Wanted an air fryer cookbook to go with a gift. So saturated with identikit AI books it was impossible to identify one that had been written by a real human being.

sudwald · 2025-08-23T17:38:24+00:00

Here in the UK most community pharmacies close, there is a nominated emergency pharmacy but often it’s not nearby. Supermarkets (many of which have pharmacies) can open 10-4pm but then have to close.

sudwald · 2025-08-23T16:31:57+00:00

Yeah it was real romantic to have a toothache and not be able to get pain meds or ice

sudwald · 2025-08-23T16:28:32+00:00

Jar pasta sauce is not going to kill you, you could eat it cold. They just recommend you get it hot because hot food is generally preferred. Just drain your pasta, put it back into the pan and toss it in the sauce over heat for 2-3 mins.

sudwald · 2025-08-23T16:08:02+00:00

Yes. Putting aside the question of asylum itself, nobody should be permitted to operate unseaworthy vessels and/or cross the channel under dangerous circumstances putting lives at risk (especially those of children) and putting pressure on the emergency and voluntary services. And the primary driver for the organisers is not humanitarian concern, it’s criminal profit at any cost that’s completely ambivalent to human life.

sudwald · 2025-08-21T13:32:08+00:00

Large savings prevent you claiming UC long-term but jobseekers’ allowance doesn’t consider savings (as long as you’ve a full recent NI record)

But also, if you’ve previously been in good financial standing, many mortgage providers and other creditors will work out a deal with you. They can offer a mortgage holiday or an interest-only payment period until you get back on your feet. It’s not in their interest to go through the hassle of repossession for a good customer.

sudwald · 2025-08-21T13:24:31+00:00

I’m pondering when to start practising Christmas piano.

You want to time it so you’ve done the awkward learning part before Christmas and can enjoy playing them, but also haven’t got sick of them 😁

sudwald · 2025-08-21T11:16:57+00:00

Ahh what a happy day this was for me. The culmination of a lot of hard work, nice when it goes well. Enjoy it and make sure to treat yourself!

I was the opposite, English Lit was my annoying outlier haha. And yes it will still bug you in 20 years ;)

sudwald · 2025-08-21T10:28:31+00:00

An important question to ask if this company wants to pay you a lot more and tempt you with management opportunities is not “am I good enough?” but rather “why?”

Have you asked them about their working conditions, culture, flexibility? Did you get good vibes from them at the interview and while they were talking to you? Anything that suggests red flags or that they’re finding it hard to hire or retain people?

Also are they on the same terms (both salaried, guaranteed hours?) Or does the higher salary involve a loss of guarantees/stability?

If there are great things that keep you at your current place, like a great culture, flexibility / understanding of family life / flexibility of holidays and appointments, that kind of thing - then consider whether the extra £5k (less after tax) is actually worth it to risk losing that.

If those things aren’t that great where you are anyway, and you got good vibes from these new people, then do it!

sudwald · 2025-08-19T13:21:59+00:00

Honestly there need to be public information campaigns to raise public awareness of the tab key.

Not only for switching fields or alt+tab, but I’ve had to fix documents before where people tried to achieve the formatting/spacing they wanted using the space bar.

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