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Why is anyone surprised by this?
Autumn Statement Live: Jeremy Hunt announces Β£55bn of tax rises and spending cuts
Did you not think this would happen? Did you think the magic money fairy would continue to dish out money left, right, and centre?
Did you honestly think the Furlough money was free money? Or the Money spent on COVID was there to be poured out like water?
It was obvious to anyone with half a brain cell halfway through COVID that the money would need to be paid back.


Never mind George Takei I'm waiting for @JeriLRyan to join the #Fediverse she already follows me on Twitter plus she's a massive geek. 😍


Currently sending out a Christmas-themed Newsletter, and it's only November 16th. Don't blame me; I'm just following orders from above.


Watched The Young Ones' "Boring" on the TV last night.

Shocking Police IQ levels

Copper 1 "Well, I said something about the Pope, didn't I."
Copper 2 "That's a bit stupid; you know she's Catholic."
Copper 1 "Yeah, I didn't know the Pope was, though."



I've currently got more #excency points than #hive power. 🀣

29326.851 POINTS
2,429.870 HP






You know, that Martin "Money saving" twonk does give some crap advice. He keeps banging on about using a hot water bottle. He himself states it costs 35p to boil a kettle, and yet a 100W electric blanket at the 34p per kWh rate would cost 3.4p to run at full power for an hour!
in reply to Shredni Vashtar

That's wrong. Boiling enough water for a HWB could cost less than 1p. 2kW for a minute or two
in reply to Steve

Tell it to Martin; I'm just going by what he puts the shits up the MIL with.
in reply to Shredni Vashtar

I think the guy is trying to help. Not that I tend to watch or read him. A lot of people don't know how to economise. Hence those waiting to pick up at the station with their engines running.
in reply to Shredni Vashtar

Mmm? He bangs on about switching cards; he tells you how "It won't cost a penny", and then you find the card issuer charges a transfer fee. His shitty program has caused my wife and daughters so much grief with the MIL, who thinks he's the font of all wisdom. I've no time for the bloke.


Air Fryers are clearly the new "Thing" in this drive to lower household bills. When I got home last night, the wife berated me that from the comfort of our double-glazed home sofa, she had spent nearly two hours on her iPad tracking one down because "Everywhere is out of stock!"



The dipshit of Highways Cannock thinks it is a good idea to effectively close and bring to a standstill all major routes between Walsall and Cannock. This morning I saw an elderly woman in a Peugeot get side-rammed from a car which exited a side road as they desperately tried to avoid the five-mile traffic jams. The poor woman was physically shaking and had to be consoled by a road worker. Image, having waited your turn to go through (Supposedly safely) some roadworks and out of nowhere BANG!


So I've just been to Costa Coffee to see my grandson, and the place is rammed! And that place ain't cheap. (Obviously, I can't take a picture behind me.)
#HeatOrEat

in reply to Shredni Vashtar

Is that your own instance? TBH that's why I created this one in case my dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk went down.



I can't play the drums, but I wish I could.
youtube.com/watch?v=Qsr5063uOU…


Twelve years ago (I'm sure it was longer than 12 years?), this man held us captive in a cellar in Liverpool. It's not The Cavern, but it did look like the sort of place Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb might hang out.
@methoddan



When someone leaves the company and people phone to speak to them, one of my favourite pastimes is to say to callers: "I'm afraid [insert name] no longer works for the company."

The four-second silence is brilliant. You can literally sense them thinking:
"Oh! What happened there?"
"Were they sacked?"
"Did they get another job?"
"Are they still in IT?"
"Where are they now?"

The vast majority of repressed Brits, although desperate to know, will be too tight-lipped to ask. 🀣



I just realised that if the Woke community has flooded to Mastodon because they believe Elon Musk intends to reinstate right-wing accounts, they're going to have a massive shock when they find out cancel culture doesn't work on Federated services. You can block and mute them, but you can't silence them. ✊


A whole slew of followers on the shrednivashtar account, "which was nice." Better start using it more, I suppose?

youtube.com/watch?v=XOhZgAPn_C…



Heard a noise outside my office window that, seriously, sounded like a cat had been run over. Goddam seagull is flying in a circle overhead, screaming its arse off!



What I find so hysterical about the mass Twitter exodus to Mastodon is that the very people and attitudes Twitter leavers will cite as their reason for moving have been on Federated services for a long time. If anything, Far-Right groups are bigger on Mastodon.



I woke up this morning and spent the first hour or so convinced it was Thursday. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ



I miss TEXTS FROM DOG

twitter.com/textsfromdogs?lang…



Today's events demonstrate that you really need your own instance on the #Fediverse.

My biggest mistake was using my dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk account, which then put that instance owner in a difficult position which made me very concerned for them, TBH.

in reply to Shredni Vashtar

I posted a comment on someone's post about how their pictures were really good and that they should create an account on Hive so they could earn money for their work. It was a genuine attempt to show them somewhere they could earn some money. I don't even think I mentioned Crypto? The individual just told me to "FUCK OFF", and then the next thing I know; their weenie friends started reporting me to Sem. I was a bit worried for an hour or so.

in reply to Shredni Vashtar

You should know better. Let the new ones meet you first, earn their trust and then scam them but give them some days you're going too fast.


Groan. I take it I have to delve into the db to delete the username of an account I deleted on my #friendca instance if I want to use the username again?



And its gone dark again with a hint of rain. It's like when we were kids and flipped the light switch on and off like a poor man's disco strobe light. #Ukrain
in reply to Shredni Vashtar

I watched the weather with the Missus this morning; the radar picture they displayed showed it all going up through Wales to Scotland. I was like: "Oh well, they both used to rain. :-D


And this is why it is Great Britain. The rain has stopped, and it is daylight again. Nowhere in the world does mental weather like the UK does.


youtube.com/watch?v=zjgbKv7-vW…

This is why I don't "Play Online" I don't even think it's funny. Because of this, I won't buy "Internet Access Required" games. Imagine if you coughed up the Β£100 for #CallOfDuty #cod and these arsewipes were waiting for you.





Watched "All Quiet on the Western Front" on NETFLIX at the weekend. Brilliant version IMO although I was surprised [Kemmerich's] boots were left out.

in reply to Shredni Vashtar

I watched it at an ungodly hour of the morning and then realised my mistake as it meant I had nothing to watch in the evening. :-D


The wife has a basket of sweets by the front door, ready for the #halloween #trickortreat There is no longer any kids in our street, so unless some urchins from over the road show up, it looks like I'm munching through small bags of Haribo later. \o/



So my car passed its MOT Saturday with no advisories. Driving along a few moments ago, and the goddam engine light has come on! #ShakesFist

in reply to Shredni Vashtar

Will everyone stop telling porky pies and making out I'm ever so slightly over the weight threshold for my age and height? #ShakesFist


IMPORTANT:


IMPORTANT: Do not pay for 0.A.D.
twitter.com/play0ad/status/158…


tech.slashdot.org/story/22/10/…
#blockchain #crypto #google


Blimey! If Gnome cannot maintain its own installation of Mailman, what does that mean for LUG's?
theregister.com/2022/10/27/the…
#lug #mailinglists #gnome


So your broadband comes into your building to a router. It's that router that lets you on the Internet. If you have VOIP phones, they also need an internet connection to work.
π—–π˜‚π˜€π˜π—Όπ—Ίπ—²π—Ώ: "Hi there, I was told to reboot our router, but I don't know what that is?"
𝗠𝗲: "It will be a white box with Draytek on it."
π—–π˜‚π˜€π˜π—Όπ—Ίπ—²π—Ώ: "I found it!"
𝗠𝗲: "OK, on the back is a small black switch.........."
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ


We were young and hungry! Well, OK. Maybe I wasn't. πŸ˜‰



Aha! The image library was no longer working after upgrading my #Friendia instance. The fix is, wait for it, switch themes from vier to, in my case, Frio. TBH, I like it. I wish I had better emoji, though. Does anyone know how to get custom ones installed?
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