Thank you, friend. It's lovely to have such a positive reply.

I'd recommend it to anyone - education is never wasted. This is the end of year five or six now mind and I've had a bit of a titsful of it - the summer break has come at a perfect time. I'll smash this last year in then give it a rest I think, maybe formalise my French over a year or two.

I abandoned my plan to go into software development by means of university, left secondary school and took up employment in a different field.

After a bit of lateral movement and promotion to a job that was more desk-oriented, I'm doing a computing degree part time, and I actually really enjoy it.

I'm doing it for fun, because I enjoy the subject - I've got no plans to use it and there's no job pinned on the hopes of passing. It's wonderfully liberating.

That said, I appreciate I'm in a privileged position to be able to do what I'm doing.

Yes?

No such thing as a weird kids collection.

Whatever a kid is excited about is fuckin awesome man!

edit: as long as something isn't being unalived to add to the collection obvs

I'm not sure about elsewhere in the world, but daytime TV in the UK is full of programmes where people want to move house to somewhere a little nicer or chilled - whether it's to escape the rat race, bring up kids outside of a city, to retire, whatever. They have the strangest "contestants" though, like (and I'm pulling these from my arse but I doubt they're far from the truth) meeting Tarquin, 44, a part time artist; and Helena, 49, who volunteers at the local farmers market.

"Their budget is 1.2 million pounds"

what the actual fuck

My academic institution took the more sensible approach of just making the exams open book, and adjusting the questions to demonstrate understanding and application of the concepts, rather than just recite stuff.

My colleague's lad has randomly started telling anyone who will listen: "my mum's getting new boobies".

This lady is in fact not getting new boobies, and they're both at a loss as to why the kid has suddenly decided that, and why he has chosen to announce it.

Legend.

Is that a picture of a tweet of a printout of a MS Notepad file that was probably cut and pasted from a forwarded email, newsgroup post, or web page?

my head hurts

Firstly, fuck the Express and fuck that site in particular, turned my phone's screen into Times Square.

While the article doesn't mention their 2016 voting, I'd love to see a Venn diagram of those who had the means and bought property in the EU, and those who had voted to leave. I suspect they'd not be far off a circle.

I feel genuinely sorry for the outliers (edit: assumed outliers) who believed in the EU's ideals and wanted property for whatever reason - work, family, whatever - and are getting horsed by the Blue Passport Gang.

Anecdotally, a good friend of mine has British parents who moved to northern France, voted to leave, and are now shocked that new and harsher rules could possibly apply to them. The most frustrating part is that they're absolutely blind to the prospect that they might just have pissed on their own chips. It's genuinely saddening to see people put two and two together, and come up with "someone else's fault".

Cool. It is his right to do so.

Given the fairly decent conditions he's reported to be living in, and Norway's efforts to give him every avenue to rehabilitate, I very much doubt this case will get very far.

As always, the only winners in pointless stuff like this are the solicitors and lawyers.

neurospicy

outstanding