I saw a journalist complaining on Youtube. She is autistic and has a very well paid job and want to buy a house. But can't even get a credit card. And she says, something along the lines, that it's because she never gave these people any profit. Never borrowed before or paid fines. I, personally, can't get a credit card because was bankrupt in 2002. Not that I ever wanted one until now. You can't buy kitchen knives on the internet in the UK, have to prove your age, and a credit card is proof. Anyway I only tried one bank. Might try my other. I like not having credit cards though - feels like a safety net to a previously very impulsive spender. Never owed anyone money ever again.

It's not trivial to get credit cards in the UK. Say you were bankrupted even a long time ago. Or, I heard, say you never borrowed money or you never once paid late fees, surcharges, etc.

Is that the body that sticks a heart logo on kid's sugary breakfast cereals? mmmm .... ok

I've been looking everywhere and can't find pig liver or kidneys in UK Supermarkets for two years in a row. They told me it was due to lack of demand ... Bollocks!

I think this was around before AI
Boring Books Podcast

I was looking for an audio version of a book and find it amusing.
Wouldn't imagine anyway would think The Practice & Science of Drawing, by Harold Speed a suitable candidate.
One of the best books out there, a classic, on how to draw.

you forgot killing JPEG-XL despite outcries
and forcing Webmanifest V3 (that will kill adblockers)

If you get a Game, say you have the original DVD, see if it runs on default Wine.
The experience I find is often superior. Because it fires up in an instant.
With Steam, it fires up many things before, Shop, Game Collection, then you having to Log-in.
Which may take a minute or two - or feels that way.

On Steam I have those old Missing Objects games (PopCap) which I gave up playing because can't be bothered waiting for the whole Steam Portal firing up thing. Feels like an eternity for such a light game. Then your "Friends" see you online, keep inviting you to play more serious stuff ie. Left4Dead2 - which can take sometimes 10 minutes to load up "Processing Vulkan Shaders..."
BookWorm, I have it on Wine, takes all but a split second to start.

Lots of old "free" Windows games online.

So Gothic 3, Unreal Tournament 3 (I have the original DVDs) I ran locally.
Quake 1 runs on Linux.
But Quake 2 runs way better on Wine. Excellent games both 1 & 2

The advantage of Steam is that it usually solves the DLL problems with games.
Doing on your own under Wine is often pretty challenging, lots of hunting around for fixes for more complex games. But the instant play after is amazing.

man I just posted that youtube video much much earlier and nobody took notice :( never mind

Sorry I just woke up can't think properly. But just saw this yesterday until the end before bed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

oh, I never read that. I just buried mine under a pile of old documents inside a drawer. Fair point.

There is a National Insurance Card.

Nobody here is "from the Left" or "from the Right" you partisan Nonce.

Fucking die already.

Asshole.

still, light bulbs were intentionally made to blow up much sooner back then, the beginning of planned obsolescence.

Kemi and the "rumoured" pig-shagger are blood unrelated, as far as I know. He is only 13 years, her senior.