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-23 fucking brass monkeys mate

I might consider using voice prompts on Google assistant if it wasn’t so terrible at understanding me. You’d think after over a decade and with all their resources Google could have made it better at understanding a British accent. It still gets about 1/5 words completely wrong.

Tbh unless I try to be careful it’s hot and miss is I’ll be able to read it later

Fuck off frog face

Super neat, extremely readable. On a few you can tell you’ve taken a long time forming the letters, so probably just need to practice until you can write at a useful speed, while keeping it as neat.

I’ve never once seen a video on pixelfed, it’s a photo platform.

The others I’ll take a look

Forums like the fountain pen one and and the photography one you suggested are a Reddit replacement. However, sometimes you want to watch a video though. So they’re not good YouTube replacements in my opinion.

Pixelfed is great as an Instagram replacement, but again no videos.

Fair, didn’t really study the list in that much detail.

With regards to work culture since Thatcher we’ve definitely been on a path that brings us closer to the US. Unions have become extremely weakened and it’s almost a dirty word. We keep voting for governments that want to curtail workers rights. The present government is an exception after almost a decade and a half, and it looks very much like it’ll be back to business and usual (probably with a jackboot on the accelerator) after the next GE.

Oh that’s interesting. So brings it down to the low 30s like much of the rest of Europe.

Na, just a few nonces

I did use to work somewhere that measured it in hours. So I was entitled to 240 hours. I think it was too make it easier to calculate pro rata holiday for part time staff.

Where I am now I do have the option to take a half day if I want to. Can be nice on a Friday, get to leave before lunch especially if I’m working from home.

I’m not understanding what you’re saying.

Yeah, UK is pretty shit when you compare it to our European neighbours. Statutory sick pay is a joke too (like £90 a week) and maternity (90% of your pay for 6 weeks and drops right down to “187.18 or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower) for the next 33 weeks” for only 33 weeks. It’s because we keep electing right wing parties. :(

It’ll vary country to country. In the UK (I know we’re not in anymore) it’s 28 days. France is 30, Italy 32, Estonia 40. I’m not sure if there’s any with less than the UK, as we’ve probably got the closest work culture to the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country

this would have been better

Every day is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

Don’t worry, our government will somehow manage to make everyone hate the idea then U turn on it in 6 months.

And when he refuses to be removed and orders the army to defend him from the domestic terrorists trying to undermine him?

Did you mean he’s not a fucking dictator? Because you said he is, so a dictator really wouldn’t care what someone else said