Radiographer. Writer. Procrastinator.
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My phone did nothing whatsoever. My wife's phone bleated weakly.
The worst part of me having a cold is the headache. The cold disrupts my sleep to about 2 hrs per night and pressurises my sinuses, which then causes a headache even the most powerful medication does not touch. I have had 48 solid hours of feeling like iron spikes through my skull.
Strangled Dog has been strangled.
I always associated it with Jimmy Savile when I was a child. In retrospect, much worse. But ironic, given what the Federation framed Blake for.
Your employer is perfectly within legal grounds to not supply a reference in the UK. Similarly, it's a myth that they aren't allowed to provide a reference saying bad things, because they are. If you have a contract obliging them to, then you would need to sue with a civil case if they don't.
Why is Facehole ignoring decent fesses whilst happily reposting stuff people have sent it before?
It sounds like HG Wells.
Do dolphins particularly like having their belly buttons touched?
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
It's a government contract, the builders will routinely double or triple the cost quotes because no matter how expensive they make it, it will still go ahead.
A Florida judge just ordered “Alligator Alcatraz” to shut in 60 days, after Florida and the feds skipped environmental reviews and blew $200M+ siphoned from FEMA on a swamp detention camp that threatens wetlands + endangered species. Waste. Fraud. Abused.
Because science can't be understood by thick people. Therefore, many of them reject explanations they don't understand in favour of "a wizard did it", because they can understand that.
Are you sure it's a critter? It might be a varmint.
Why does it have rufty tufty feathers?
Katniss the quail having a dust bath, watched by her friend Kuina.
Fesshole was much better when they used to include genuinely moving and emotional fesses. Now they only print the comedy stuff, usually prioritising anything with faeces in it.
Which is why so many companies now have a policy of giving neutral references. Litigious knobs sueing their former employers have made references a totally useless aspect of employment now. Which is stupid, because if you have a crap employee, it's usually really easy to prove they were crap.
Concept: conservationist metroidvania where the only way to get the best ending is to avoid killing any of the endangered local wildlife, which gets progressively harder throughout the game because each mobility upgrade creates new ways to accidentally explode critters.
Pints o' cream During dinner mints Hoisin crispy owl Bonbonbonbons McFortune cookies Mystery meat Quiches Lorraine Fluffy ruffs 20 cheese omelette
That's because the Pleiades meteor shower doesn't exist.
Do you mean Trivial Pursuit?
I was thinking about popular gameshow The Weakest Link. It's the only one I've seen where not only do the contestants not understand how the strategy the show pushes them into works, but also that strategy isn't even the best way to win the game. It used to make me annoyed when I watched it.
Oh, but you do 😁.
Adam Clayton is fine.
I think it hasn't occurred to you that this scenario can only occur if you DO have savings in the bank. Without them, he would be unable to indulge in fakery. Also, the implication that there's something wrong with being middle class or having savings just makes you look like a jealous sourpuss.
Natalie, is this you? I hope so. 😁
My wife has also never been in our loft, but that's because she KNOWS what's in there: spiders.
Fleetwood Disposable Rain Poncho.
if you work online all day, avoid eye strain with the 20-20-20 rule! after 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then leave ithaca to fight in the trojan war and return 20 years later a broken man
My daughter is doing a course with owls. I was very disillusioned when she told me they are not at all wise, and their brain is half the size of a baked bean.
Someone's been watching that sketch with Kevin Eldon as George Martin...
My ex boss was once on the Paul Daniels TV show in some hypnotism item, and said that when he came up from the audience, Paul whispered to him "just go along with it, OK?", so he did. However, genuine hypnosis is a real thing, my brother is a qualified hypnotherapist.
Its closest living relation is the pigeon, so I imagine similar to pigeon. I have eaten pigeon once, years ago, but can't really remember what it was like.
Canada goose with reflection of the sunset behind it.
Some things can't go through self checkouts if they detect weight. For example, you can't put a croissant and a pretzel from the bakery in the same bag to save waste. It's bloody stupid.
Assert dominance by wearing a cape to your morning meeting
Once a Roomba devours its first toe, and gets a taste for human flesh, it has to, unfortunately, be put down
It has a stupid brand name anyway, it's like something a five year old would call it.
Why do people think everyone wants to hear their convos on speakerphone. ? #NoisePollution
Washing some of the eggs laid by our adorable quails for supper tonight. They were delicious.
When they try to lure you in with a dog puppet, but something isn't quite right...
Why didn't Peter Batten get a credit?
this image shows jets of silicon monoxide being ejected from a baby star outside of the solar system. we are witnessing the birth of rocky planets around a star similar to the sun ✨
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's farewell concert raised an incredible $190 million for charity. The "Prince of Darkness" puts all the Christians-in-name-only to shame.
It depends on the country. Places like the UK, there are extremely strict controls on human remains. You can't just have order a real skeleton and do what you like with it.
Given that ChatGPT just makes up fictional answers to things when they can easily be found with a cursory Google search, I don't believe this for a second.
I really wish I could check that job candidates understand (not believe) that the moon landings happened as an interview question, and any that don't would automatically go on the scrap heap, but I am not allowed 🙁
Saying something like "I think Brexit was a good idea" is a difference of opinion. Saying something that's scientifically proven beyond all possible doubt didn't happen, is just making yourself look wilfully ignorant. If people don't like you, it's because you have just said "I'm a complete tool".
You deserve to be humiliated. Trying to look like an ape from Planet Of The Apes was a stupid thing to do, and you should be publicly shamed.
Was it Neil Garton?
Why can't people understand the word "biased"? So often I see people saying things like "I'm probably bias". No. Bias is a noun. Biased is an adjective. If you are subject to bias, you are BIASED. You are not "bias".
An infrared picture I took of Hever Castle. This was a fun day out.
I honestly wonder if there is a country on earth where loyalty or hard work are actually rewarded.
Yes, you can block an empty drive but not trap a vehicle in, because it impedes them, but keeping them out doesn't. I do exactly this to a neighbour who does the same thing.
You know what will happen? When your drive is empty, people will start parking across the entrance (which is legal in the UK) because they will notice you leaving your cars in the road. I know this because I do it to a neighbour who does the same thing.
I love that your cat is called Heater ❤️
AI bots don't exercise any form of censorship in what they scrape and train from. They simply restrict what users are allowed to ask for. However, presumably your company projects aren't on publicly accessible servers, so the whole thing seems pointless.
Nobody answered their phones back then, either. I remember about 15 years ago telling someone that nobody answers, she disputed it, I said pick a random number in your contacts to call, she called her brother and he didn't answer. Before smartphones they were often switched off to save battery.
I see them.
Bailiffs will only come if you have had a court judgement against you, and they don't usually "rock up unannounced".
May I just suggest something? We will probably need to triple our electricity generation in the next 10 years, not because of electric vehicles like fossil fuel supporters have stated endlessly for the last 10 years. No, it’s because of data centres, to run “artificial intelligence” systems.
It makes me very sad that the news reports showing the views of the sun's pole for the first time in history are awash with comments from dullards going "so what?" "lol fake" etc. How depressing that there are so many people who can't appreciate the wonder & significance.
God, I can't wait for Skynet to round me up for orderly disposal
Dark matter is only thought to be present by the fact that galaxies CAN hold themselves together. There's no way of measuring how much dark matter an individual galaxy has other than "is it holding itself together"? You can't detect it directly. This is suspect information.
Yes, that's why every radiographer seems to amp up these rare occurrences as always being someone they themselves x-rayed or scanned.
Are you aware that the amount paid TO the treasury by the Crown Estate exceeds the amount paid FROM the treasury to the Sovereign Grant by about 300%? In layman's terms: the government gets more money out of the Royals than it gives to them. Net cost to taxpayer: less than zero.
Real radiographer here. In 20 years of NHS practice, I have encountered this exactly twice in patients I have x-rayed, and witnessed about another 3 my colleagues have dealt with. It's not nearly as common as the fesser is claiming.
I don't know what he is doing in real life, but I got imaginary revenge on a school bully in a novel I am writing by having a character with his name mauled by two goblins and thrown down a ventilation shaft to his death.
Was the cat OK?
Our good little quail hens have laid these cute eggs in just 4 days. Tomorrow, we shall see what they taste like!
Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.
Look, just because I created a character called Kandi the Strypper in Baldur's Gate 3 and the game allows nudity, does NOT mean she's walking around without clothes on.
There was a sale on, so I treated myself to a new Stearman biplane... well why not?
I am more excited than I should be for the Eurovision Song Contest.
This bird is trying to break into my house
This is actually a really good reality check if you're training yourself to do lucid dreaming.
A picture of the moon from last night.
The colours used to be the other way around, but everyone in the USA seems to have forgotten that.
I do love Flight Simulator. It sometimes looks so stunning and majestic.
I have been for an eye test today and will need new glasses. Also finished constructing a quail jail.
Shouldn't they be able to have both?
A mosaic from four close up shots of the moon's surface I took earlier this month.
One of my photos of this morning's partial solar eclipse. Taken on Nikon D90 through Celestron Nexstar 5SE, with a Baader solar filter.
You aren't grasping the whole picture. Electricity prices are SET BY gas prices even for a provider using no gas based sources. This is by a cartel agreement among providers so that none of them can significantly undercut each other. You can't get electricity from anyone who doesn't do this.
Roses are red Violets are blue
This is what happens when you have a cartel with a monopoly on an essential good. People can't choose to not buy, the prices are fixed among the providers, so there's no mechanism to prevent prices rising to whatever they want.
This, it needs repeating aggressively and repeatedly. Gas drove up electricity prices in UK, not renewables or wretched Net Zero.
I tried a photogram of some goose grass with the new cyanotype paper I got for my birthday. I love how the blurriness of the parts furthest from the paper gives a sense of depth.
Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:
THERE’S A LUNAR ECLIPSE TONIGHT AND IT’S CLOUDY
Today was a good day.
This whole "bullying Canada" business seems like a movie where a cocky young punk decides to abuse & demean the kindly elderly neighbor...only to discover the old man is some unstoppable war hero badass...
I thought it was an American company?
Venus will be visible, it's so bright.