Christopher

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it’s currently US$18.99 down from $20 if you have no Spotify and are unable to wait it out.

I just noticed the middle tines of the fork are snapped off, allowing for easy insertion.

Yes, I have noticed tin particular he “animé grunt” where even a silent expression or a gasp would do.

I wouldn’t say I despise them, but the other negative emotion I have is feeling depressed at having been a burden that they decided they wanted, of their own free will, to help me. I hate it, it’s so backward. It becomes a spiral of feeling melancholic for no reason and it just becomes a depression feedback loop.

I can I can’t??

But it’s a perfectly cromulent word.

Feels weird giving stories like this an updoot.

Hire an accountant.

The definition of a ‘risky click’.

Used to use gnucash on Linux desktop for a goooood long while. I wanted nicer reports so I shopped around with homebank (one developer so slow development but very nice project!) and tried money dance (didn’t like it, though I tried really hard). Eventually tried my own spreadsheets and apsire budget but finally settled on YNAB because I need a hands-off approach as I’m so busy.

I reconcile accounts every few days and auto-sync my banks with plaid (YMMV on how much you’re into that) and it works for me. I’m happy paying the subscription but if it ever goes to US$150/yr I’m probably going to quit it.

Block out the Sun!

I think silver-haired white guy has been on-brand for professional autocue readers though. That is changing a little bit, but I think it’s the majority - at least until the grandfathered contracts run out (the likes of Huw, Eamonn Holmes etc) and the Beeb, Sky and ITV diversify. I don’t watch too much rolling news but I think the BBC at least are already doing this with their news output.

The prompt in this post reminds me of Jesse from The Fast Show (Mark Williams)

“This week, I have mostly been…”

So for the rest of this week i will mostly be bingeing every episode of the fast show on BBC iPlayer since I’m told they’re not expiring for another two more years.

And then after the final Fast Show I’ll probably watch the anniversary special. Whitehouse’s Rowley Birkin QC is phenomenal in the sketch where he’s recounting a story of his youth without presently being drunk. Incredibly delivered and written in a poignant way that only British comedy seems able to achieve; à la Blackadder Goes Over The Top/Goodbyeee.

Edit: this is the one. https://youtu.be/QlZFfXAUr2I

🔔 ding ding

Yeah, he may get turfed out then, like Clarkson did. Funny thing is I don’t think Amazon prime video have a news outfit at the moment. Maybe a times radio online-exclusive podcast. That would be unfortunate. I’m forseeing a real ‘rise and fall of’ situation here.

Valuable! Have some Lemmy gold! 🥇

If that happens, then give it a year and he’ll take up Jon Snow’s position as head anchor of Channel 4 News. Not sure if Krishnan Guru-Murthy ever got Un-suspended for his on air comments, I’m a bit out of the loop.

Or there’s always Sky or c5…

That’s just it. Nothing unlawful seems to have occurred at this stage. Maybe he got a bit of Clarkson syndrome about his power and money, that remains to be seen.

But if this all fizzles out and he’s able to professionally (and mentally) recover from it, I’d be happy to see/hear him orrsentythr present the news again (edit: keyboard went a bit psuedo-Welsh there ironically…) , when and if he is ready. It’d be like when Stephen Fry went missing and the nation was concerned for his wellbeing and return to public life.

Now it’s just a sad story about personal lives being made public. At least the ‘young person’ is not in the public eye at the moment.

Probably just in time to protect themselves against litigation. Now that it’s out, I can say that for some reason the news website in question posted that it was breakfast presenter Jon Kay (of whom I have never heard) that was suspended. Apparently he’s just on holiday though.

The only news outfit to publically name anyone before the public statement, and they got it wrong. Bravo! 👏

Be sure to invert it twice, to be extra secure. 🔐