Mick Lynch: rail union bruiser who’s more than a match for the media

I’ve been thinking about this book for the last couple of years. It was required reading at my high school, and I actually read it. I don’t know why you would have high schoolers read it, aside from it being a sexless and relatively boozeless Hemingway book. I wonder what I would think of it now th...

Utisz wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:28 am

The site will be down for a wee while soon, should be no more than a couple of minutes.

We're back up (with a new SSL cert).

The site will be down for a wee while soon, should be no more than a couple of minutes.

I have my own tea blend that I call "the Earl of Assam" It's basically Yorkshire tea Gold (GOLD! not the dishwash pishwater red one for the slack-jawed, unwashed mouth-breathers, that stuff is little better than Tetley) ...plus Earl Grey (preferrably PG Tips brand, I've tried just about every other...

JohnClay wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 12, 2022 5:25 am

Ha ha I hacked it!

Proud of you John! Did you try that with any celebrities?

I also will now read pretty much anything someone recommends to me This seems highly exploitable. Everyone, recommendations to MoneyJungle post haste. My recommendation is "The Old Man and the Sea". I haven't read fiction in awhile. When I read lately it's mostly health books. I still want to read ...

puerile_polyp wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:07 pm

I used to use a kettle, but since it's not faster and needs to be cleaned I don't bother anymore.

What do you use instead of a kettle?

jyng1 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:01 am

I've never cleaned a kettle. Ever.

Then your water is soft? Everywhere I've lived, limescale builds up pretty quickly over time.

Ferrus wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 05, 2022 11:51 am

For example I just opened Johnson's dictionary at random and scrolled along until I found the concept of the rareeshow.

Old school YouTube.

There's a poll y'all can answer. I'm getting increasingly tired of the increasing realism of violence in fictional movies and TV. I've always been turned off by it, even as a kid. I remember one of my friends and my brother playing a video game called "Phantasmagoria" when I was maybe 10, and I just...