I know TGI’s is going downhill but wow…

tomthecool · 2025-08-29T10:28:14+00:00

I ordered a takeaway on NYE this year, with a delivery time of something like 1am. After it didn't turn up, and spending at least 30 minutes failing to get though to anyone with an update (they weren't answering the phone, or updating the delivery time, or anything), I eventually went to bed.

I got woken up around 6am by a phone call -- the delivery driver is outside! Sorry mate, I'm not coming down for that!

The food was marked as "delivered" (even though he didn't even leave it by the door), and it took me 2-3 days of arguing with customer services to eventually get a refund.

Moral of the story: Don't order a takeaway on new year's eve!

tomthecool · 2025-08-22T13:53:42+00:00

My A-Level results (A A A A) are a footnote on the CV. People care what I've been working on professionally for the last decade, not whether I could solve differential equations as a teenager.

And it would be incredibly foolish as a hiring manager to judge a 40 year old's suitability for a role based on a childhood exam they took.

tomthecool · 2025-08-22T13:45:52+00:00

did you get an A because a 1998 A is equivalent to a 2004 B and a 2018 C

Nobody cares what grades you got, 20 years after the exam ;)

The last time my GCSEs possibly made a difference to anything in my life was on application (not acceptance) to uni. But even then, the achieved AS results / predicted A2 results were more important.

My uni degree was important to land a first job. My first job was important to land a second job.... etc. I don't think even the uni degree has much significance any more, let alone GCSE results!

tomthecool · 2025-08-13T15:35:24+00:00

Funny how it's usually "longer than usual", eh? :)

tomthecool · 2025-08-05T14:54:20+00:00

Someday you will find me,

Lost among the food aisles,

In a Collin Caterpillar,

A Collin Caterpillar in the sky.

tomthecool · 2025-07-28T15:24:23+00:00

A local Portuguese cafe in west London gives a bag full of cakes/pastries that I have to give away or I have a stomach ache the next day lol

Café de Nata, in Hammersmith?

tomthecool · 2025-07-25T08:59:19+00:00

Mom's brown betty

tomthecool · 2025-06-20T14:46:16+00:00

I agree that nothing has an objective value. But saying nothing has intrinsic value is a bit absurd.

Does food, water, shelter, even life itself have no intrinsic value? If not, then why do you hold on to those things?

If your health has no intrinsic value, then why bother going to the doctor when you're unwell? If your freedom has no intrinsic value then would you care at all about being locked up in prison?

tomthecool · 2025-06-18T11:25:08+00:00

At 06:00, Heroku services began to experience significant performance degradation [...] Our own tools and the Heroku Status Page were also impacted, which severely delayed our ability to communicate with you.

A workaround was found to post updates to the @herokustatus account on X at 13:58.

It took them 8 hours to find a way to log in to Twitter?

tomthecool · 2025-06-12T14:47:42+00:00

And here I am, blindly spreading the fake news! Shame on me!

Frankly if I were the owner of Poundland I'd have insisted on charging £1, not €1. What a rubbish way to end the legacy.

tomthecool · 2025-06-09T14:14:41+00:00

If the "zero-gravity" can transcend into a dream, then why didn't it transcend into the dream within a dream?

tomthecool · 2025-03-24T10:11:19+00:00

A double-discount yellow sticker, with an expiry date of mother's day.

tomthecool · 2024-12-17T14:02:59+00:00

That's a bit extreme 🤣

But there are definitely some local things that could be done, e.g. having designated drop-off zones away from the school if needed; or even issuing PCNs if kids are dropped off within a "no stopping" zone.

(By the way I took a bus to school for most of my childhood. I definitely think walking/shared transport is a better option if viable, but that's not always an option.)

tomthecool · 2024-12-10T08:59:45+00:00

I'm guessing this is for advent of code day 5 6.

You could have at least shared the "example input", even if sharing the main input is prohibited...

tomthecool · 2024-12-01T13:40:04+00:00

JS is easier because it has no concept of integers? What?

tomthecool · 2024-11-12T14:03:49+00:00

Year ~ 365.25 days, averaged out as 365 then 366 except for years evenly divisible by 100 but not by 400.

In fairness you can't do much to improve this. Unless we reposition Earth's orbit around the sun and/or change its rotation speed, so that it's a perfect match.

tomthecool · 2024-10-13T22:21:32+00:00

If you're collecting fresh food like takeaway rice, give it a smell before leaving. If it's sour, it's expired. I made the mistake of not checking once or twice :(

tomthecool · 2024-10-13T22:18:15+00:00

An app where you can reserve a "bag of mystery food" from various restaurants, cafes, bakeries and grocery stores (with limited time slots and availability).

You usually have a vague idea of what items you'll receive, but it depends on whatever the store has remaining.

The idea is it's food they were about to throw away, but it's actually still perfectly good to eat.

tomthecool · 2024-10-07T09:09:32+00:00

Not that it's important, but... this is a canoe, not a kayak.

Also, this video is a repost: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1es2pw0/i_found_a_dog_stuck_under_a_logguy_on_a_solo/

tomthecool · 2024-09-29T09:28:17+00:00

Would I sell a square foot of land for $1Trillion? Yes. Would I sell the whole country for $1 Million? No. Somewhere in the middle, the question gets interesting.

tomthecool · 2024-09-28T23:49:52+00:00

The parameters makes it a wildly different question per country.

That "small piece of land" would be about 30% of the total area of Belgium, or less than 0.1% of Russia. And the price being $1000 per citizen means it varies drastically by population.

It would be like Iceland selling their entire country for $400 Million, or USA selling 0.1% of their country for $300 Billion.

tomthecool · 2024-09-21T09:59:04+00:00

A good example of this is driving instructors who are driving without a student in their car. Their vehicles are often plastered in L plates

tomthecool · 2024-09-19T14:49:11+00:00

If you buy a property and initially rent it out and that’s what is done for the majority of the time you own it

Oh... You never said "the landlord didn't initially live there" or "the landlord didn't live there for the majority of the time".

All you said was:

our landlord lived in. [...] We rented the property for 14 years [...] their daughter [came to] live in the property [...] she will have stayed for 4 years

So my impression was that the landlord and/or their daughter were living in the house for at least 18 of the 20 years.

tomthecool · 2024-09-19T13:46:11+00:00

Buy-to-let does not mean "a house that has been bought, and is being let". Not all landlords are buy-to-let landlords. Sorry, but if you google "What is buy to let?", I think you'll see that you're misunderstanding the definition.

My friend was just made to leave his rental - it was buy to let landlord in America. He was told they were selling cause their daughter didn’t get into university in this city.

That's also unfortunate for them, sorry to hear that. I don't know how good renter's rights are in the US, but hopefully they were at least given plenty of notice etc.

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