Old man yells at clouds

Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

Or worse, voted Leave to ‘send a message’. I know a few people who did this. They were very sheepish afterwards even after I said ‘the only message you sent was that you’re a fucking idiot’

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

In technology there’s a saying, whenever there’s a weird issue ‘It’s always DNS’ In business, when something starts going wrong, we should just say ‘It’s always PE’

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

I’m loving the blues vs the reds vibe of this match. Like a football game on the ZX Spectrum

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:03 UTC

Yep, in London a chef called Tom Aikens opened a new place (after going bankrupt and screwing suppliers, plus potential abuse of staff) and all the reviews mentioned it. It’s got an open kitchen so you can very much see he’s making an effort to be nicer to staff. Though he is still a little scary

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:52 UTC

Oh totally. But I don’t know if they are empowered to do that

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

If it was me I’d go “Stop. Hold on. What the fuck do you mean, killing live babies? That’s bullshit. Show me your evidence. Now. If you can’t then we will stop you after every single thing you say and won’t proceed until we have fact checked it”

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

$8 for Disco Elysium and Witcher 3. You’d not leave the house for a year.

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:18 UTC

Weirdly I got an email for a Fintech conference today and one of the speakers is ‘Head of Blockchain’ for a large U.K. bank. Amazed that title still exists. Might go just to find out why they aren’t now the Head of AI (via Head of VR and Head of Crypto roles)

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 11:14 UTC

HS2 was a no-brainer and look how that turned out

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 10:48 UTC

Listening to Kevin Drumm’s ‘Malaise’ to block out the nearby school’s sports day music is rather like sawing off both legs with a rusty hacksaw to deal with a verruca

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 09:57 UTC

It’s just negative campaigning again. Multiple polls and focus groups have shown that the vast majority of people are sick and tired of this sort of thing and want to know what politicians are actually going to do to fix their problems. Plus Sunak has yet to demonstrate any fight about anything.

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 09:04 UTC

Notwithstanding the fact that a majority of polled people respond ‘yeah, I don’t mind paying a bit more tax if the roads get fixed and I can see my GP’

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 07:14 UTC

Totally. Why can’t people read the actual message rather than responding to what is floating around in their head?

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 07:13 UTC

It’s like it’s been translated from German, a language in which you can’t work out what the fuck is going on until the very last word in the sentence

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 12:27 UTC

Twat

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 12:21 UTC

I also love that 1500 years ago an artist was arguing with his friend about whether it looked like a poop.

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:12 UTC

It isn’t, though. This stat gets bandied around and it’s not quite correct - there are large pockets of affluence all around the U.K. Go to Bath, southwest Manchester, Harrogate and some Leeds suburbs etc and so on. Cotswolds!
Poland still quite a bit behind UK data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

“Daaaad! She keeps asking if I want to visit the Tower of London! Tell her to stop!”

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

It took me literally 10 seconds to find this, from Feb this year: www.newsweek.com/rob-schneide...

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

Oh and Between The Bars and Ballad of Big Nothing

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

Waltz #2 Say Yes Happiness Son of Sam Stupidity Tries Alameda Christian Brothers Condor Avenue Clementine Sweet Adeline Twilight Yes I know that’s 11 shut up

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Mazogs

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Did they say it was a cock-up?

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 08:00 UTC

I hate to be that guy, but isn’t this the other way round? Gandalf getting Aragorn up?

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 07:43 UTC

This is an Opinions piece, rather than an editorial. A paper in which everyone held the same opinion would be boring, no?

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 09:53 UTC

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

And then MS threw out the entire IE code base and replaced it with Chromium, which is basically Chrome without much of the bullshit

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Steamed hams?

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Growing some trees (especially fast growing ones) and then cutting them down and storing them somewhere that they won’t rot isn’t a terrible idea (with caveats). Cutting down old-growth forest is even dumber than buying a Cybertruck or whatever the fuck they are called.

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