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A shite song no doubt, but off that album for me it has to be the hilarious "Frantic". Total shit lyrics like "My lifestyle determines my death style" and the absurd "Frantic, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick tock" chorus.

STOP CALLING HER LIZ, HER NAME IS MARY

4 hours ago, Your Fight Site said:

Didn’t know the best thread to put this in, so here goes.

I live in an apartment block. Obviously with the recent weather I’ve had the balcony doors open but my downstairs neighbour likes smoking weed. I mean, really likes it. All day.

I’m all for people doing what they want so long as they’re not hurting anybody else but what’s the best way to broach this with my neighbour? Because it’s far too hot to have to shut my doors due to the smell.

Side-tangent: it's always odd to me how many weed smokers don't seem to consider it smoking. Like I live in a building where someone goes outside to smoke cigarettes but stays indoors to smoke weed.

On 7/7/2022 at 6:19 PM, Nostalgia Nonce said:

Today I learned that the guy who composed the classic theme tune to Thomas The Tank Engine worked at The Beatles' Apple Studios, and took inspiration from Mean Mr Mustard for the tune.

I randomly watched this video about the theme tune recently, lot of music theory type stuff but it was kind of hilarious how insane the theme is:

Weird mix of a fry-up and gammon, egg and chips.

53 minutes ago, RalphyV2 said:

Just had a 6 minute cold bath and it helped me to cool off, if you can tolerate it, I recommend it. Another discovery today is this. If you freeze half a bottle of water overnight and put another bottle of water in the fridge overnight, you pour half in the frozen one the day after and you instantly get very cold but drinkable ice water to take out with you. I took only the frozen one outside expecting it to melt quick. It didn't so I got my dad's very cold refrigerated water and poured it into my frozen one, shook it up, and presto!

Thanks for the ice cube recipe.

Why anyone would choose a tomato over beans is beyond me.

11 minutes ago, Butch2000 said:

Channel 4 fucked them all quite hard of a weekend morning. Peter Engels productions, Boy a meets World, having a wank over the one with massive tits in Malibu CA.

Very true. California Dreams was great, amazing theme song. 

No fan of Jake Paul...but he had McGregor bang to rights in that.

2 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Nah, it's close, but it's definitely not the same:

 

 

Spatz was terrible...the flashbacks of horror I had just from seeing that thumbnail

22 minutes ago, gmoney said:

That's true, also the established "serious" shows were pretty good (Grange Hill or Byker Grove etc), but you could get stuck with some adaptation of a boring book you've never wanted to read. 

Aye, those 25 minutes until Neighbours came on could be brutal.

For my age, talking 90s here, CBBC was more consistent overall. CITV had some good stuff but a lot of shite too. Could definitely get dicey at 5pm on CBBC, but as a teenager Katy Hill on Blue Peter changed the dynamic of my viewing of that show*

*talking about wanking ain't I

JRM for Prime Minister - we need a return to the times when we had House of Cards and The Demon Headmaster on tele.

Not even new really...back in the 90s Waltham Abbey town market had a baker who would do a "Linford Christie" - a wheat baguette with two rolls.

15 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Yes yes I know, dont pay their taxes, union bust their staff, but the Iced Brown Sugar Oat Shaken Espresso from Starbucks is one of the best drinks I've ever had.

I hope they keep it forever.

Same, I fucking love it and feel disgusting every time I go in and get one.

Was already thinking it was a parody and then "My Own Worst Enemy" came on and it broke me.

No more "funny" twitter posts in this thread please.

The person asking the questions has that most annoying middle class voice where they drag out the middle of every word and use words like "preposterous" and "tosh".

Yeah basically you need a company to really want you, because it will cost money and more importantly time to get you to be able to work in the country. For the temporary work visa there is also a notion of "priority" where being "highly qualified" is super useful, having a masters or phd bumps you up in priority in addition to them having to justify need to hire you - this normally means proving an inability to hire someone with those qualifications and that they cannot be trained to have them by the company.

Most people achieve work/permanent status in the US via coming over on a student visa, most often to do a 2 years masters degree because it's the shortest program having already got a bachelors in their home country. Once you graduate from that you are eligible for an "OPT" visa which allows you to work for a year (longer if you are in STEM I believe), then once you're working for someone and they obviously love you and want to keep you around they'll sponsor you for H1-B. Now the H1-B is only "temporary" and actually ties your immigration status to the company - lose the job and you gotta leave. Now the real gamble is hoping that before your H1-B is done (you can only extend it once) that the company will sponsor you for a green card so you can a) stay permanently and b) leave that fucking company.

There are other options but they tend to be things like a H-2 seasonal worker (washing the bogs at Disney), marriage (you enjoy shagging older ladies) or being so rich that you invest over a mil in a US company and they "gift" you a visa.

3 hours ago, CavemanLynn said:

Does anyone have any advice on getting a job in America from the UK? 

The missus and I have been hooked on Montana for a few years, and we've just got back from a road trip up the Midwest which confirmed it for me. I want to get things moving re: moving out there, and assume that getting work there is the best first step. I know we've got some defectors on here, so I'd really like some advice on how to go about things, what to prioritise and what to watch out for.

Extremely hard. Your best bet is to try and find a company to sponsor you for a temporary work visa (H1-B), and to be honest, unless you are like a very qualified/experienced/in-demand worker in a high demand industry (software etc) then chances of that are very low.

Cerrone is a shoe-in for unretiring IMO.

The joys of watching Strickland getting KO'd.

I've made this a couple times now, both with chicken and tofu and its damn good and incredibly easy:

I would suggest looking up "PGP basics" etc on youtube to get a basic overview. Then if you know the apps specifically you'll be using read or lookup documentation on them. I don't think you'd find a "course" for them.

1 hour ago, Tommy! said:

I need to learn about pgp and ssh encryption for files and sftp exchange, but I've been told to find my own course. However as I don't know what I don't know I don't know what I need to know, you know. 

 

So, can any one here recommend courses or key words I should be looking for to get the right content before I put some requests in. 

Well, what do you need to know about them in order to do your job? Are we talking about a job where you need to know what they are, or is this like an IT job where you need to know that PLUS how to install/configure them, or we talking about a software engineering job where someone is asking you to implement PGP/SSH?