100%. I don’t want to spend my free time scrolling past the political options of every single fuckhead in the world, these topics achieve nothing but pissing each other off. Block, block and block again.

I still remember the old-school crude internet saying of bygone days: “Arguing on the internet is like completing in the special Olympics; even if you win you’re still retarded”

Yeah, up until about 2 weeks ago I was still using a Pixel 4. It was 5 years old but never felt slow at all.

I do woodworking as a hobby. It doesn’t make money unless you invest in a full workshop and scale up production to the point where it would basically be a second job. Often the material costs alone are as much as it would cost to buy a completed item.

I’d still recommend it as a creative outlet though. There’s something satisfying about seeing that coffee table in the lounge and thinking “yeah I made that!”

I don’t know how people can rely on trains for a commute without getting sacked. Do they have to catch the train 1-2 hours earlier than they should need to?

Yeah social media just adds so much undue mental pressure, especially the non-anonymous ones.

People are constantly seeing perfectly filtered and perfectly arranged photos of influencers apparently enjoying the perfect life and then comparing their own reality and feeling inadequate.

The FOMO pressure to be always available and seek validation via DMs, comments and likes.

The bombardment of political slop and seeing the opinions of every single fucker in the world and a few million bots about some mundane shit is bad for your mood.

Sending and receiving Goatse was just a tiny bit of fun in comparison.

WhatsApp (& mobile internet in general) replaced it for me. It’s no longer a requirement for both my friends and myself to be at our computers at the same time to talk shit to each other.

I’m trying this year. My pepper plants didn’t sprout until July and didn’t mature enough to produce anything (thank you cold, cloudy, rainy UK summer!) so I’m going to keep them indoors near a window, and hopefully they’ll have enough time to produce next year.

If I had a sensitivity to smells I think I’d probably avoid shows known for people masturbating on stage

Autumn in the UK means everything has gone to sleep now! Sunflowers finished nearly a month ago and the leaves have started falling from the trees. We’ve just had our first frost too.

Canal boats were traditionally towed by horses alongside on the tow path, but the paths don’t go through tunnels so it’s feasible that this was what they did to get through

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legging_(canals)

Chuffed is slang for very pleased in the UK. More specifically it’s when something good has just happened to you that’s causing you to grin uncontrollably like a lunatic.

As my crude father would say: “I’m chuffed to buggery!”

Although buggery is a bad thing on its own, when combined with chuffed it’s like a +1 enchantment instead.

I’ve used a hand plane to flatten out a cutting board as a complete amateur. It works surprisingly well but something larger like a tabletop would take a long time