What’s thanksgiving music?

Nice! How was it? First week at a new job is always so tiring!

Yeah, but not because I bear allegiance to the monarchy.

British citizens as His Majesty’s subjects bear true allegiance to His Majesty King

The vast majority of us don’t do this, no.

Damnit Melon, you could have posted this the other week!

Agree with everything about Sky. I refuse to become a customer and support their model. I do enjoy their F1 coverage but it’s a shame it’s so expensive, and it has ads! Don’t charge a fucking subscription AND show ads - ridiculous.

From what little news I’ve read since… I’ve not actually missed anything interesting.

Ehh I think there’s been more interesting seasons rather than bad ones. 2021 was absolutely insane and this year has been fantastic too in my opinion.

It’s dark… it’s grey… and it’s fucking miserable.

Totally feel this. It’s depressing isn’t it? You feel like it’s about 10pm but it’s only just turned 6pm!

What did you end up watching?

Did you know that UART serial doesn’t need a clock wire to synchronize communication in the way that I2C does?

I didn’t know this, but I’ll now sleep soundly tonight knowing this! :D

What will the presence detectors be for? Switching on and off lights?

It’s been ok ta. Only managed one run. Took my son to play badminton on Saturday though which was fun! Enjoyed the F1 this weekend, have to you managed to catch up?

I’m definitely looking forward to more sunlight and warmth!

Can confirm

Haha thanks! It’s a £90 IKEA table that we’ve had for over 10 years now. The cats doing her fair share of damage to it, second only to copious amounts of porridge that never finds its way into the children’s* mouths!

**^Maybe mine too^

Exactly what I said to them!

We’ve been using Ocado these past few weeks and ordered 7 bananas.

Turns out I forgot you can’t order individual items and this turned up:

Enjoy! You’ve got a bit unlucky with the weather though!

I had a long span of about 12 weeks earlier in the year of not working 5 days a week due to bank holidays and taking time off. Was a shock to the system to do 5 days again!

I really hate these early dark evenings, can we skip forward to spring already?

It was fine cheers, honestly pretty uneventful.

I started playing Satisfactory and have been pretty hooked (I was up till 2am Sunday morning, after the clocks had gone back) playing, I haven’t played a game like that for a loooooong time (like 15+ years). My son loves it too so it’s been great talking with him about various strategies!

I haven’t heard of the V&A museum! What’s in it? Glad the kids had fun, that’s pretty much always the metric for success as a parent!

Running is OK. I’m still carrying some kind of calf soreness that flares up after a couple of runs a week. It’s a bit demotivating and I really should see someone about it, but… I’m lazy.

So a British university in China follows and respects Chinese traditions/ ceremonies /laws and they’re called bad/evil.

I’m assuming the students aren’t Chinese due to the wording of “having to follow the same rules as homegrown students”, so yes forcing non Chinese people to pledge allegence to the political party and attend parades is bad, whether it’s tradition or not. It’s just weird.

It would be equally bad if we forced foreign students to participate in our traditions (whatever they are), especially making them pledge allegence to a political party.

But If there was a Chinese university over here and they refused to follow British traditions and ceremonies and laws they would be kicked out.

No they wouldn’t, they’d turn a blind eye and keep accepting money.

hell desk

Nice

Same! For our team we were pretty much dead in the water for a while, so was a rather calm start to the day.

It was OK ta. Mrs was away for most of the week so it was just me and the kids, it went a lot smoother than I expected!

Digging holes in the ground takes so much effort, it’s way harder than it looks!