PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on Living a lie 2 days ago:
A colleague of mine used to work quite high up in UK Government, achieved all she wanted to, and came to our team. Absolute golden woman, genuinely lovely. She was from Glasgow originally but spent most of her time in London, poor soul.
When she was in “professional mode” - she had a voice that I could fall in love with. A beautifully smooth tone and a lovely rhythm, confident but gentle, in a nice heart of England accent.
As soon as she came out of a meeting or put the phone down though, she threw the voice out of the window and it was “fuck off you pure cunt” or “get tae fuck you fuckin roaster” or “no mate you can pure fuck all of the way off”.
Absolute gem. No ego, you knew where you stood, and it was highly entertaining.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 days ago:
For the modern effect, get a foldable or clamshell phone and flick it closed with some major sass.
It’s the best thing about having a foldable.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 6 days ago:
Ah nice one cheers friend!
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 6 days ago:
But how can I impress people with my competitive qualities? I had fourteen sex last night, and before that I did four sets of three sex at a time.
I’m even the speedruns any% TAS WR holder at 3.19 seconds.
Do my colleagues not need to know about this???
- Comment on Technically the truth 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 week ago:
Computerphile did a wonderful feature worth ten minutes of your time - going into surface level detailnof how some AI models out ethics to one side to achieve results.
It’s not just AI and it’s something humans can do too, but it is a bit unsettling (from both parties, in retrospect).
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
You’re right. I’m overthinking it!
- Comment on Speak American 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what the Polish, Monégasque, and Indonesian folk do when they win a flag competition?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2001
- Comment on "With all due respect" could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is given 3 weeks ago:
Another backhanded “positive action” comment is “I’m going to give that the attention it deserves” and nine times out of ten it will be absolute fucking rot so no, that’s going to the bottom of the list. Cheers though.
- Comment on One fine day at the bookstore 4 weeks ago:
nice
- Comment on Never gonna loosen them laces 4 weeks ago:
How am I going to wreck the heels of my trainers or give my fingers ungodly numbness and pain then though?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say something similar. Step One sounds like a lot of effort if you’re going to do Step Two anyway.
- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 5 weeks ago:
pentagons
plane
oh no
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 5 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat. My other half has been stuck with me for nearly twenty years now and bigger and better things have come up that have needed the money spent on it.
The bit of paper will come in handy if one of us kicks the bucket though, or even when it comes to claiming certain tax allowances in the UK. I just want to make sure they’re sorted financially when I end up brown bread, and proving their connection to me is going to me one of the last things on the list in the immediate aftermath of a bereavement.
I’m not arsed one way or another about it though.
- Comment on This is the E3 trailer of Half Life (1997) 1 month ago:
Mouse look was revolutionary.
I tried to play Half-Life Uplink with the right directions of looking mapped to 789, 4 and 6, 123. It wasn’t very intuitive.
That said, I played Quake 1 with lookup and lookdown bound to PgUp and PgDown, and Quake II on PlayStation with lookup and lookdown mapped to L1 and R1.
Looking back, that was a wild few years.
- Comment on he got himself a job working boom mic with a film crew 1 month ago:
Now that’s something I’d have expected to see a wave of now, and a comm called jesuswithajob or something. lols.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In the late 90s, there were some monitors in our library that had some serious grounding problems. You could literally touch the screen with one finger, touch your victim with the other hand, and have your pal repeatedly turn the monitor off and on rapidly at the physical spring-loaded switch - and at some point, they’d get an uncomfortable-but-not-painful shock.
Highly entertaining, guaranteed a bollocking, and after that it was back to the degaussing CHUNNNNNNNGUNGUNGUNG sound. Satisfying as fuck.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 month ago:
That’s beautiful. I love a bit of personal standards to fuck someone else’s day up.
I typically change my responses on the form to Calibri if using MS Office. It’s not enough to pique anyone’s interest, but it’s different enough to spot what I’ve added to a form rather than the usual Arial additions if you’ve been told about it.
Someone at my office tried to say I’d said something on a form when I hadn’t, and took great delight pointing out the slight difference in typeface on the field that wasn’t my edit.
It’s satisfying as fuck coming back at someone with receipts.
- Comment on The box that Doom comes in will play Doom 1 month ago:
Fuck me, that’s kinda awesome… buuuut…
For fuck’s sake, Limited Run Games? Will the discs be on CD-Rs and the floppies be of the 5.25 variety just to really fuck people off? I really like the idea of Limited Run but their attitude to consumers is fucking awful.
I’ve got a massive id collection (up as far as Quake 4 anyway), but I’m really torn on this one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A colleague of mine is a nice bloke, but proper stuck in his ways.
He’s done well for himself, lovely family, and has saved enough to treat them all to nice holidays across the world… but all he does is eat burger and chips while he’s there.
He’s been across Route 66, been to Rome, Paris, and some of the Baltic states… even been on cruises to faraway places, but trying some of the amazing local cuisine is just a step too far for him.
It’s wild. That said, he enjoys himself so good on him I guess.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
On the topic of sharpeners, those battery powered pressure sharpeners are satisfying as fuck. They’re shit and invariably snap the nib, but they’re the sharpening equivalent of shoving a Q-tip in your ear and having a good rake about.
Or if you’re all about the procrastination, spending a few minutes every lesson at the classroom sharpener like this one brings back the nostalgia:
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
Every day’s a school day.
In fairness, it’s nothing short of sheer voodoo what they managed to do with the simple copper loop. As usual though, it was the rural communities that felt the pinch (and the gains) more than most though.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
Yeah, people using mobile phones to contact businesses wasn’t really a thing, partly because mobile usage was still taking off when I was in the biz, but mainly because calls to freephone numbers weren’t actually free (or included in package minutes) at the time.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
The chances of it being the filter were stupidly low, and I don’t think I ever had a case of the filter being at fault - but it was one of those potential issues that would make a customer look stupid (and £120 lighter) if BT tipped up and declared it a customer equipment fault.
In newer homes (at the time), there were NTE faceplates that had a filter built it, with individual ports for telephone and for data telephony cables. They didn’t last long though. Maybe they were stupidly expensive in comparison, maybe BT could see the fibre future and stopped producing them.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 months ago:
When I did tech support for a UK telecoms firm, that was the easy way to fuck off an awkward customer with any kind of connectivity problem - stability, speed, whatever. Generally, people’s routers were connected to the same NTE as the landline.
“So what we’re going to do, is replace the ADSL filter, see if it’s a gubbed filter, it’s a nice cheap and easy fix. Can you remove the filter from the wall socket please?”
click
Beautiful.
- Comment on Michael Sheen buys £1m worth of people's debts 2 months ago:
Doesn’t matter which of the home nations you follow, that is two and a bit minutes of pure inspiration.
- Comment on 8-bit classic Head Over Heels is back with chickens, enhanced visuals, and a brand-new world 2 months ago:
I never got to try Head Over Heels.
That and Knight Lore were the two fucking tapes on the Atari 800 XE that wouldn’t load and run correctly for whatever reason - I was too young to seduce whether it was a compatibility issue or a tape failure. What I did know that it was my weekly treat that was pissed up the wall because it wouldn’t work 😭
I mean fuck day one patches, but I would have loved a day one POKE command back then.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ve still got my headsets from boxes with Skype For Business branding that have “Compatible with Microsoft Lync” stickers on them.
It’s probably closer in UI to Skype from the 2000s that the “real” Skype never really recaptured. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.
