Hey, a colleague of mine has a questionnaire for gamers and has until tonight to finish her data collection. Consider helping her out?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJeaNV7nnR0dlRDyO3cxTB1rb_CNkLjox8I0lRYnFsw/edit?usp=sharing (download it and send it to L.Muresan.19@unimail.winchester.ac.uk)
@Pondscum said in Housing UK?:
Best idea would be to go through a regulated site. https://www.spareroom.co.uk/ is one of the better ones here in the UK and very widely used by students and professionals alike. Good luck.
Yeah, we're doing that too... But sometimes all routes to an end are useful.
Hello!
I wondered if anyone here lives close to Huntingdon UK and knows someone who might be able to rent a room to a young man?
Slim chance but...
If so, email me on mail@jin-shei.co.uk
Jin
@macha Is there a local charity for vet bills? Sometimes there are also pay over time schemes? I'm sure you thought of those but... (also only checking this board when I remember it exists, which is not often because brain overheated and tired - if more often required, hit me on discord)
@macha very belatedly... I read this as though it was a human and was slightly puzzled. I hope your bestest boy is better.
RIP Dennis Waterman (Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks)
@derp said in The Work Thread:
@silverfox said in The Work Thread:
I just realized that it is probably not a sign of a healthy work environment to obsessively check the jobs board to see who has officially resigned for next year. Like, we all KNOW who is quitting, but when will they do the formal paperwork for HR to post the opening.
That sounds like a university.
We're refreshing email to see who is off sick with COVID, now we aren't wearing masks with students who are caring for COVID patients. 50% and counting...
In unrelated news I applied for a job...
The Wanted Tom Parker from brain cancer:https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tom-parker-dies-brain-cancer
Edit: can't make link work, at vet so no time to fix. Sod it
@greenflashlight said in The Work Thread:
@pyrephox said in The Work Thread:
Seconded. Being able to be constantly aware is often a symptom of some kind of unresolved trauma.
Who doesn't have unresolved trauma after the last two years? 
Doesn't make it any less frustrating that dumbshits gotta be dumbshits, though.
Dear god, no it does not.
@faraday Exactly! I'm not even hanging around with uneducated people. These are university staff with advanced degrees in medical sciences...
As covid rises in the UK, my work has removed the mask requirement. As the government removes the free tests and isolation requirements, they have decided we move to face-to-face. I feel like I am in a twilight zone or idiocracy, where nobody else understands that we are in a pandemic and standing unmasked with 100 nursing students who have not tested and are working one of the biggest horse races in the country is a STUPID idea. Is it me? Has covid finished and nobody told me?
@il-volpe Definitely get checked - it can hide for a long time. I know this because we found mine purely by chance, likely 15 years in! (you can have TB which is non-infectious as well which mine was thankfully)
@puppybreath said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My dog has been living with my parents because my partner and I have been struggling to move somewhere that allows dogs for a variety of reasons. He's been with my parents for way too long, I don't disagree with that. I have almost constant anxiety about it, honestly, and I've been desperately trying not to pass that on to my partner.
For some reason my mom picks tonight, during the holidays, in the middle of winter, right before a blizzard is expected, to be like 'since you haven't found a place you can take your dog yet, you should find him a new permanent home, take him to the shelter, or find a rescue to surrender him to.'
Happy fucking New Year to me, I guess.
If you live in the UK, we'll foster, if he likes our bitch.
Covid. I have tickets to great seats to see Bill Bailey tomorrow in Cardiff. My daughter got pinged. We are not going.
Anyone want tickets?
