It actually expires in a couple of years but we’ve ended it early.
2 May 2023
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I didn't know that when I went down earlier today to pick up a present on the way somewhere. I do now. Open again on the 15th, I think they said.
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That's mildly interesting. Did we pay to get out of it early then I guess? Presumably was worth doing so with the money we're getting from Adidas.
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That seems late if they aren't going to be selling the new shirt until then. Last year's was released on the 1st July, about 5 weeks before the first game.
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The online shop continues to function.
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We're probably waiting until we get a sponsor...
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With the weather and the air quality. Hot soup and now storms. The movers are trying to quit on us. It’s the most amazing thing. I have sympathy for how they are being beaten down by the fact that we have to be out the same day the other movers are coming in but come on! Super expensive and now we may have to finish the job. The cats have been moved but predictably they are very unhappy.
What a pig fuck day!
Chicago: melting.
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On Friday, I expressed to my boss my frustration at the additional workload because other staff are off sick. Suggested, jokingly, that I needed a sick day.
Today I'm going down with a cold.
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Learning about Ford 1L Ecoboost engine design (coolant loss) issues after my son broke down in Bradford on way back to Nottingham at 11pm last night. (RAC said 4pm today for ETA.)
Tired.
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This sounds like a tory wet dream. You had to take personal responsibility and drive to Bradford to recover your sons car, rather than use the recovery service that you pay for?
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Even better than that, once it got to the point where we wouldn't have been back down here until after sunrise, I paid for him to stay in a Travelodge and we're going to try to get it sorted today.
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This is the car I gave away to him to reduce my financial commitments!
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"I have social anxiety."
Fuck off. You're shy like literally billions of people before you have been, but these days it's easier to sit behind your screens and make excuses why you can't go out and work and do things like a normal human being. Sack up, you pathetic fuck.
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Spoken like an extrovert.
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A little from column A, a little from column B.
Traditionally, just like the world has been run by white men, it has been run by extroverts. It makes sense and, troublesome as it is, it’s hard to fight because the rest of us are unarmed. Now I think there is a growing understanding of different personality types and their various strengths and preferences. Also, of the damage done by gaslighting people and forcing them to do things contrary to what their brain wants to do. And, of course, whilst you can shout at an introvert or anxious person ‘hey go out and do this normie extrovert thing like the rest of us’, nobody ever demands that extroverted and socially confident people sit quietly alone and stop being good company. Because extroverted and socially confident people have established themselves as the norm, we don’t tend to try and push them to be what they are not.
On the other hand, as these new ideas spread they then serve as an excuse for people to try and live in a little bubble and refuse to engage with the world in various ways.. even though they are well capable. Functioning in society does, alas, involve sometimes doing things we would prefer not to do… and whilst some people are sufficiently afflicted by things like anxiety that they really can’t do the things (or will harm themselves by trying too hard) the number of such is probably far smaller than the number who are just looking for an easy way out.
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The word anxiety is being appropriated by parents in particular to get them out of parenting. Kids having fears over slightly challenging everyday situations isn't a que to avoid the situation, is something that is your job to sort.
