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.

That’s really great to hear!

Also, tinned coconut milk is actually labelled coconut milk just fine without a problem.

I wonder how many people might be be put off dairy, even if it’s just for a moment before putting it out their mind, if all dairy products were labelled mammary secretions.

Awesome! Did it do what it said on the tin? Did you make the mental shift so that you didn’t want to smoke after? Or do you ever feel tempted?

I know this is a 4 month old comment, but maybe this explains why I’m just not connecting with my anxiety CBT therapist, whereas I did really well with my phobia CBT therapist.

I’m 5 sessions in and I still feel like she just does not get it. For the second session I even brought in printouts from the National Autistic Society’s page on anxiety. She skimmed through, said, This is the same as non autistic people.

She described my difficulty in dealing with new people and social situations as overthinking, and when I told her I don’t see it as that at all, spent a lot of time trying to convince me that my processing issues are just overthinking, so I gave in. She admitted herself she has no knowledge of autism and because I don’t have an official diagnosis (it’s a three year wait now for adults), I think she just dismissed it.

Now I’m wondering if it’s worth continuing, because I don’t think I’m gaining anything from this.

You might try Allen Carr’s easyway book, it’s meant to make you give up in a way that you don’t even want to smoke anymore, rather than fighting the urge. I’m a non smoker so I can’t give my personal experience on it. But it was recommended by some former smokers on the ukcasual community. I bought a used copy for a colleague, but I don’t work there anymore, so I’ll try to catch up with him sometime and find out how he went with it. I’m currently reading Carr’s other book, The Nicotine Conspiracy, and I’m finding it very interesting. (I have an ebook copy of his easyway book if you want it).

That’s okay. The GF actually stands for gayfriend.