Nope, I don’t think I’d ever heard of it prior to the Arthur version.

We did the fall of Icarus in Year 3. My little sister learned Theseus and the Minotaur when she was around the same age, which is how I knew about it. Other than that, I don’t remember studying Ancient Greek anything, not even Heracles. Your school was obviously better than mine.

Mine didn’t. We did Buddy, The Crucible, Animal Farm and Shakespeare from what I remember. First I heard of the Odyssey was when I was 19 and DW did a retelling of it on Arthur. When I saw a copy of the story in the shop I worked at, I got it so I could read the actual story.

Can a catapult launch a 90kg projectile over 300m? No, didn’t think so.

And doesn’t spacex also live off tax money? Stealing your jobs AND living off benefits!

Nope, not using Firefox on mobile. (I do on Linux mint though, and even with ublock I still got YouTube ads last time I was able to actually connect to the Internet.)

I’ve never got one of those anti-adblocker messages on YouTube and I just use a vanilla browser with no addons and I get zero ads. The Channel 4 website won’t let me watch anything without disabling the adblocker, so it’s not like my browser is in some super stealth mode where servers can’t tell I’m blocking ads. I’m not complaining though.

I used to in a previous job. They brought in a thing where if your birthday fell on your usual shift day, you got it off at full pay.

Haha, okay, but they’re nothing special. I used to buy kits, but now I make them from scratch.

There are for my nieces. I’m currently making a game room for my mate, a full house and I’m thinking of making a mini vinyl shop too.

This was my first attempt at soldering too, as I couldn’t find any 3V LEDs prewired. Let’s just say it was an adventure, but it was worth it.

Yep, they’re great. I used them to buy some LEDs and battery holders for my miniatures.

https://cpc.farnell.com/

Buying homes as investments really needs to be de-incentivised. Mega tax on residential properties that aren’t occupied by the owners? I don’t know enough to know the answer, all I know is that renting costs way more than monthly mortgage repayments, yet I’m on a low wage and wouldn’t get accepted for a mortgage. Meanwhile greedy private landlords are making renters pay off their mortgage at a profit.

Thanks, I’ve been wondering!

There is no social housing left. Meanwhile, people are having to put up to 80% of their salary towards private rent in some parts of London, according to this 2019 article:

https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/26/map-shows-much-salary-spend-rent-different-areas-london-10072789/

If anyone can find up to date figures, please share.

What did you type? I keep seeing this glyph in messages. I assume it’s not supposed to look like this?

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When you read classic novels and you see the kids having to spend ages trying to figure out how to divide a half crown among 5 kids.

I had three adverts slapped on one of my videos on my crummy 4 subscriber channel and I don’t get a single penny from it.

I’ve seen people (ie USers) say that imperial makes more sense because it’s easily divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 so it’s more intuitive. Yet I’ve never seen any of these people campaign to ditch their base 100 currency for a more “intuitive” £ s d style system. You already use decimal currency and find it easier than a system where 240¢ makes $1.

I’m getting it on the NHS, so if I ask for a new therapist it might be a 6 month wait, just to get another one who’s maybe clueless about autism related anxiety too. I’ll try to ask this one to spend a bit of time learning. If she still doesn’t then I’ll see what the procedure is if I want to switch therapists.

In other news, my GP is helping me get an assessment referral and he said the waiting list is closer to 18 months than three years.