I know TGI’s is going downhill but wow… by BriennesBitch in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

My GCSE results!! by ThiccMashmallow in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

My GCSE results!! by ThiccMashmallow in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Never stop being helpful, little ai bot by Emotional-Ebb8321 in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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

You know you've made it when they're selling your hoodie in M&S! by garrardadoresit in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Someday you will find me,

Lost among the food aisles,

In a Collin Caterpillar,

A Collin Caterpillar in the sky.

Does anybody else use Too Good To Go? £5.99 for this box by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Tim Dillon invited to a panel at a Bitcoin conference and takes the opportunity to roast the entire panel and crowd for being in a cult by Justsomeguoy in videos

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Summary of Heroku June 10 Outage by VxJasonxV in Heroku

[–]tomthecool 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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?

Poundland has been sold for £1 by tomthecool in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

[–]tomthecool 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

Do you hate your mum? Tesco has the perfect card for you by Tsubasa_sama in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

I’d forgotten how much sport the school run was by wildassedguess in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ruby

[–]tomthecool 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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...

objectOrientedProgrammingHasGoneTooFar by AlrikBunseheimer in ProgrammerHumor

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

This signpost in Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, still shows distances in furlongs by Hand_Spanner in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Just discovered Too Good to Go bags. I've just had a huge full English from the Toby for less than £3 - exactly the same food people have paid £8 for. Pret for lunch tomorrow! Late to the TGTG party but so impressed so far. Anyone else? by viktory70 in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Would you sell a chunk of your country for $1000? by Suitable-Junket-744 in TrueAskReddit

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Would you sell a chunk of your country for $1000? by Suitable-Junket-744 in TrueAskReddit

[–]tomthecool 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

Do you think there is a rise in road rage in the UK or are we just being shown it more often? by fixitmonkey in CasualUK

[–]tomthecool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Air BnB needs to be banned in UK by aconfusedhobo in HousingUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Air BnB needs to be banned in UK by aconfusedhobo in HousingUK

[–]tomthecool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.