Word_Geek

Two grey doors with brass handles in a dark corridor. There's clear triangles of light around the tops of both frames, because neither frame is even slightly square

We are staying in a castle. None of the walls and floors are level in any way, leading to doorways like this

Apart from needing to be quite careful about going up stairs, it's a lovely place to stay

Well that is a delight. Very much in the mode of the vans saying go home that Teresa May had driven around in areas where a lot of (poor) immigrants lived

Weirdly, they never mind if rich people come from other countries

This is probably also a factor. But I bet they spend a fair amount of time not applying for help desk jobs, because they should be able to just waltz into that well paying job they imagined when they signed up

Taken the baby outside for a walk at 2am because they often fall asleep just as you reach the bus stop and after 90 mins of crying you are just crazy enough to see if it works at night too

And if he is the baby's dad, and he is only babysitting, then I pity his partner, who is doing all the actual parenting

The baby is asleep and he apparently doesn't need to free up a hand to do anything on his computer. He is not even answering emails

100% staged

Plus I would be unsurprised to hear that small business owners who interview a business major for a junior role regret it. I bet a bunch of them do a case study on the business model and present it at interview, when what is wanted is someone to do office admin

Nope. It's because when you choose to study Art history, you do it for fun. It would be cool to get a job in the art world, but you don't expect it. So you cast a wide net. Computer science guy wants a super well paying job as a developer and won't take any stop gaps

I graduated into the 90s crash. Any job counts

Oh, it's much more profitable to have a treatment than a preventative

I truly hate this obsession with finding treatments instead of cures or preventive vaccines

We need a crying reaction

FFS

Back when the dotcom boom was building, I heard about a fund manager who looked at the crazy valuations and the complete lack of anything backing that valuation, and refused to invest in any of them

His fund therefore trailed the overall market and he was fired, about 6 months before the crash

So I guess just don't put anything in PayPal notes now because they'll use any excuse to freeze your account and steal your money 🙄

Again, the CJEU has ruled in VP v Országos Idegenrendészeti Főigazgatóság that people’s gender identity is that which they live, not that which they are assigned at birth.

These U.K. guidelines breach the U.K. GDPR, and people impacted by them should challenge the UK’s adequacy decision.

I am very sad that when my gran could no longer see well enough to use her machine, my mum encouraged her to get rid of it without offering it around the family. It was one of the old Singers that were built into a small desk

Required online discourse disclaimer: sarcastic

It also means that my dad is going to have to buy his own clothes for the first time in years🤣🤣🤣

Mum's got the everyday stuff for him for years

Aha, but that's comparing with editors. And also, my mum trained people to use Excel and gave me her training notes. Between you both, I at least know what the program can do, even if I need to look up how

The geekier analysts set up all sorts of automations

Or the one about high street banks debanking loads of people over Brexit

[Sure, Jan meme]

It was one guy who went on GB News after being repeatedly bigoted (mostly racist, iirc) to the staff at his bank. They refused service

God, I remember trying to get my head around that back when it was becoming more common. Apparently that there is the limit of my practical ability. I understand the theory, I just can't 🤯

It's also relative. Set against my editorial colleagues, I'm pretty good at Excel, with some weird blind spots around shortcuts

However, the text I edit is written by data analysts, so I'm also rubbish with Excel

Please tell me that someone in the comments took a photo of a tampon filled with water and showed him?

The profound embarrassment, more like

Honestly, given how many women are wearing the wrong size bra, you absolutely need a professional on hand

I think just adding a number to the handheld terminal is less embarrassing than writing it down for everyone to see

I would 100% take cats and wine over empty beer cans and socks

But only their own kids, so I am guessing he's perfectly fine with step dads being shit

That is honestly kinda weird

Well, sort of. But there was a till when I was a shop assistant, and I still learnt cash maths, and also the 37 times table (one item was 37 pence)

I'm not bad at mental maths, tho