When adults said things like “In this day and age, nobody says please and thankyou any more”, I misinterpreted “this day and age” as “The Stayan Age”, which was our current age, which obviously followed on from Bronze Age, Iron Age etc.
A lesser known UK option that may be worth checking is ebuyer.com for some of your A/V, networking and computer stuff. Nowhere near the full range of Maplin/Amazon etc, but they will deliver quickly from UK warehouses - and if you’re trying to avoid using Amazon, always worth an extra option.
Actually, now I think about it, that only covers one section of the market.
You should also release exactly the same product with with different packaging a few times:
One with an off-brand Mr T character mascot, called “I Pity The Gruel”.
One called “Bilk : Better than Milk”.
That’s a few shelves of supermarkets covered with selling the same thing. I’m sure you can cover some more with a few like “Barista Supreme: Oat-based Cream”, “Oat Water”, “Oat Juice” and simply “Oat-based Drink”. Maybe even “Oat Blood”, for Goths and “My dad was a gruelmaker” for Keir Starmer fans.
It just needs a bit of snazzy marketing.
Just call it Ultragruel or Oatfuel and write “PROTEIN” on it in big letters.
That’s what they’re saying… but… so what? Did the police waste hours and millions hunting for a lost mobile phone? Did she receive an ill-gotten temporary replacement mobile phone from work for a few weeks? I’m still struggling to see the scandal or crime.
I must be missing something. What’s actually the crime or scandal here?
Haigh: “Help, I’ve been mugged”
Police: “What did they take?”
Haigh: “I can’t remember exactly what was in the bag, I guess my money, my bank cards, my keys, my work phone”
Police: “Ok”
Haigh: “Oh, wait a minute, my work phone was at home, they only threatened me, assaulted me and took the other stuff I mentioned”
Police: “Your list was wrong? Ha! Then it is YOU who is the criminal, not them!”
Government, ten years later: “Also, you’re not allowed to fix our railways or have a job”
Tories: “Unlike all our politicians who merely do things like millions of £s of fraud, destroying the economy and endangering the lives of millions of people for their own personal profit - this horrific excuse for a human once put something in a list and then realised it shouldn’t have been on the list, so a decade later, it’s only correct that they shouldn’t be allowed to have a job”
I assume I’ve missed something key here.
Hahaha, yes, exactly this - and perhaps the same situation with “bum crack or inner-fold of a bent elbow?”.
Maybe it’s worth bearing in mind Lemmy’s older, nerdier audience?
You remember those build-a-model magazines they used to rip off grandads with?
“Build your own model Lancaster Bomber! Only £1.99! You’ll receive a large piece of the model with your first issue! Then the rest of it in pieces over future issues! (Future issues cost £9.99 a week, for 500 weeks)”
So you get your “special interest” photographs produced into jigsaws, then sell one jigsaw piece a week, eventually completing the full photograph at the end of the year.
Not common, but also not unexpected. It definitely used to be an occasional thing when I was younger (80s - 90s, Yorkshire). If you passed it back, you got a “wahey!” or a “yeah!” “And he’s in on goal!” or something suchlike. If you ignored it, you got a “boo!” or a “referee!” or a “he’s missed it” in a sort of commentators voice.
It’s quite rare to see kids playing with a football at all where I live now - though it’s probably just happening a few streets away where there’s less car traffic.
Good.
I’m not trans or an immigrant - so please feel free to ignore my thoughts on the matter.
Anyway, regardless, it’s a good question, but probably not one with an easy answer - I think in this case, the best option might be to ask the people who make some of those decisions - in theory, if you look at the webpage gov.uk Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate, there’s a few email addresses and phone numbers that may be able to answer half of the question - though separately you may need to speak to the immigration/visa people gov.uk partner/spouse visa for the other half of the question. All in all, you’ve got a few layers of complexity here.
My own experience with contacting other government departments on different things is “very slow to respond, but then surprisingly helpful in the end”.
There may be some useful advice on websites such as transactual.org.uk or transinformed.co.uk - your specific situation isn’t likely to crop up in a FAQ, but you may be able to pick up half an answer to start with - then there are contact details on there which would hopefully lead to some useful information.
Sorry there’s no clear and immediate answer I can find.
I wish you the best of luck!
What would we call it? hallo-old-chum-you-fiend? my-good-friend-the-dishonourable-sir?
Is anyone posh using British Lemmy who can help advise?
I think so - he definitely played for Leeds. He must be in his 50s now, so maybe he’s took up journalism? :)
According to the best school playground scientists of the time, opening a packet of crisps upside down (i.e. so the branding/writing is upside down, and you open the bottom of the packet, at the top) actually “made you gay”.
It wasn’t just gay if you did it, but it would literally cause a spontaneous eruption of gayness in whoever did it - who would be permanently gay from that point onwards.
In the 1990s in the UK, it was gay to wear a backpack using both shoulder straps (as opposed to using one strap over one shoulder, which was the heterosexual way to carry things to school).
I genuinely didn’t realise that! It looked like they were missing, and just had the little nubs underneath.
Would you perhaps like to imagine they were missing, if only for the sake of my previous comment? :)
How often do you write the word “wads”? I can see a potential problem.
All three of ours play fetch, but only with specific objects. They’re all brothers about 2½ years old.
The tabby cat plays fetch with fluffy toy balls with feathers on them, the grey cat plays fetch with spare cat collars and the little black cat plays fetch with menthol sweet wrappers.
Also used to make Mummy Brown Paint (wikipedia link)
What a lovely, fun little game! Thanks for sharing :)