>>2601
It's really easy to change the ceiling fittings to a more normal type if you can't find the bulbs. The ceiling fittings themselves are about 3 quid and are piss easy to fit/replace. Might be a better option for you.

>>2602
If there are inaccessible ballasts in the ceiling then the sockets aren't really the issue.

If there are only two wires in that cable from the rose to the holder, the ballast's in the holder and you just need to replace it with something simple.

>>7729
Umbrella company, until you start getting long term contracts and get the hang of the paperwork.

>>7734
Seconding this bit about HMRC, they are not known for their sense of humour or their laid back approach to life. For the first year you might want to get your accounts dealt with by a professional who can set you up with proper spreadsheets etc. and advise you on potential hazards and gotchas.

>>7734

Thanks, I read about this. I'm still not sure how the HMRC distinguish between being contracted for a full-time service and being employed, exactly. What puts you in one category or the other?

>>7737

There's an assessment tool at the link below; the questions asked should give you some idea of what criteria HMRC will apply. The fundamental question is whether you're providing a service for a client or supplying labour. Are you expected to keep particular hours? Could you send someone else equally qualified in your place? If you bugger something up, would you be expected to fix it at your own cost?

https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/check-employment-status-for-tax/reason-for-using-tool

>>7738

Took the questionnaire and it seems IR35 doesn't apply to me, but there's always the chance HMRC would disagree with my answers.

Appreciate the advice on this one, both, I think I'll see how these six months go with an umbrella company. If I like the work and I get an extension or another contract, I'll register myself as a limited company.

Tip the police off that the house is being used to sell drugs. Scum like that always have drugs anyway so the rozzers are bound to find something nickable.

Bear in mind that snitches get stitches and now you've screamed at them they'll probably blame you for anything like that. I know it's obvious advice but keep your head down, save what you can and fight tooth and nail for a better job that lets you move far, far away.

Is this the first time you've actually had to encounter the great unwashed? Your options are either to join in with them or do what everyone else in the country does by getting as far away from them as possible. You will not change their behaviour.

I find I'm okay with it if I just think of it as an ongoing drama that I catch snippets of.

Just plug stuff in, lol.

>>40765

I'm mates with her irl. This is surreal seeing her in a .gs seat sniffing thread.

>>40851

Ooh la de dah! Cut the high horse crap and get to the point, what does her seat smell like?

Madeline Grant

>>40857

I'd rule her with my feelings iykwim

>>26982
I don't know. Maybe I should check.

>>26986>>26982

Czech yourselves before you wrzech yourselves.

Hey lads, I'm in a similar position to OP but have procrastinated on a decision for about a year now. It's just so bloody difficult to make a choice on what you want when it comes to a new best friend. I was looking at a V-series the other-day but upon closer inspection I suspect the build-quality is absolute toffee:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-81V50004UK-V155-15API-Laptop-Windows/dp/B07HVZFSXB/ref=sr_1_1

My criteria has shifted around but generally:
>Budget is £500-£1000 depending on what it can do
>Weight isn't a problem, this is going to be an effective desktop/tv due to lack of space in the flat
>Something sturdy that will last me years and years if anything
>My benchmark was finally getting to play GTA V but a laptop able to play it in decent quality appears still out of reach

I really should make a choice now as my current laptop is starting to BSD more and more.

>>27265

>My benchmark was finally getting to play GTA V but a laptop able to play it in decent quality appears still out of reach

Not any more. At the low end of your budget, a machine with a Ryzen 5 2500U will run GTA V on medium settings at 720p at about 50fps, while still being reasonably portable. At the high end of your price range, you could have something with an i5 and a GTX 1650, which will give you decent frame rates at 1080p on very high settings.

https://www.ebuyer.com/885240-hp-probook-455-g6-15-ryzen-5-8gb-256gb-ssd-win10-pro-6eb47ea-abu

https://www.ebuyer.com/900672-asus-rog-strix-i5-9300h-8gb-512gb-ssd-gtx-1650-15-6-win-10-g531gt-al106t

>>27265
Your budget will definitely stretch to something GTAV-capable, my laptop runs that and it's only worth ~£500. I picked an Inspiron 15 7577, which doesn't look like the usual "gamer laptop" with rainbow LED and go-faster plastic tacky embarrassment. By all accounts it has a quiet cooling system by gaming laptop standards, but it's still too loud for me when it gets going. When a game like GTAV is running you'd better have headphones or some way of moving the thing into an adjacent room.

Can you really not squeeze in a decent desktop? And then grab a second-hand chromebook or something dirt cheap for when you're out and about? Gaming laptops are inherently a significant compromise, don't go there unless you really have to.

>>27255

Get the fuck off /g/

Yeah Bluetooth threads belong in /101/, surely.

>>27257
>Save yourself bother now and buy a wired keyboard and mouse.
Seconding both this advice and the sentiment. The only time I've ever had trouble with a wired connection was when I tried a stupidly long PS/2 cable, which was hilarious but entirely understandable.

>>27259
>>27262
Please, lads. I'm asking for help with one very specific fault, not general observations about bluetooth's reliability.

>>27263
You've had the best advice you're going to get. I'm not sure what else there is to say.

(A good day to you Sir!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQD9ZV9wQQ

I'm unshakable, I'm on the right road.
My goal? Writing the unbreakable code.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54X-WDpA4K8

Up up down down lef tright left right

Then B A Start - the screen goes white

It's the cracker, the YTCracker, the game genie

8 bits with the 8 inch weenie


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j9rJBXoYVg

This is for all the DnB headz. Some real culture.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xj7yXDj0o

>>12176

DnB is the pinnacle of musical expression and nobody can convince me otherwise.

>>20226
> We have some sort of IT system for midwives called Badgernet.
Prolly a reference to an old joke about a pregnancy test.

>>20226
BadgerNet is software named and written by a private sector company.

>>20224
>The goal is that they never happen.
Unlike all those other, lesser mistakes that they are perfectly OK to let happen?

>>20243
Let's hope they don't make a mistake while removing that stick from your arse, eh lad?

>>20243

How do you still not understand this?

Have you not ever had a job with a company big enough to have HR and safety reporting?

>>64088
N1 m8 bare advice

>>20216

I've heard some bizarre anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in my time, but the idea that the Jews have been plotting to replace a cartoon Welsh carpet-bagger with a boggle-eyed fire extinguisher takes the cake.

Next time don't wait a whole day for me to bait the motherfucker out.

>>20218

It's almost as if that was the point.

>>20219

Well, sorry, but you got the wrong guy. Don't pat yourself on the back so soon.

I fully expected a ban for a post like that, but steady on modlads. Can't you tell blatant facetiousness any more?

>>20221
1) A "permanent" ban is the easiest thing to click thanks to the mod UI, I asked about changing this a few times over the years but nothing came of it.
2) You got around it in minutes so who cares?

>>20222

>A "permanent" ban is the easiest thing to click thanks to the mod UI

That feels intentional.

>>12782

No problem, if I stay 2 days without taking 'prol and 'mide I am unable to walk 20 meters without gasping for air.

How long is a "month's notice"?
Is it 28 days/4 weeks or if I hand my notice in on the 5th, I'm expected to be there till the 5th the next month?

>>13283
Write the date you want to leave on your notice as 28 days from the day you hand it in. Let them argue if they want to.

>>13283

Most likely a working month, so four weeks. If they meant a calendar month everyone would just wait until February to quit.

>>64079

Sorry Redditlad, should I have ended my post with an /s?

>>64080
YOU BETTER STEP BACK OR I'LL DOWN VOTE YOU

>>64079

your mum has a stinky shredder slot.

>>64083
TOO MUCH RAPE SEED?

>>64080

no m8 you should have been funnier

>>63989

The poverty line has stayed the same. The cost of living has increased. Looking at one graph in isolation doesn't prove anything.

I'm not a hand wringing guardian type, I'm the type who fully understands darkies do the stabbing and eat fuckloads of fried chicken. But their problems are cultural as well as political and economic. It does nobody any good to try and blame one thing and one thing alone, because it makes them feel uncomfortable exploring the impact of other factors.

Left wingers don't want to admit black people might need a sitting down and telling how to raise their kids not to be thugs. Right wing people don't want to admit their economic policies are clearly and obviously worsening the situation. Politicians in general don't want to admit they've been steadfastly ignoring any and all opportunity to deal with issues like this at the core of our society for fucking decades.

>>63998
People like the "one neat trick that solves complex societal problem" rather than the nuanced incremental changes, or at least the media do because it's easier to get their heads around and report on a radical quick fix.

Politicians also love something that can be condensed into a sound bite. At the current time, unsurprisingly, most of the noise is about A Levels and university admissions; Labour want students to apply to university after they have their results because they claim that poorer students are most likely to have their grades predicted too low and will end up accepting an unconditional offer from a 'lesser' university than they would be admitted to based on their actual grades.

This appears to be a good thing but in isolation it is an oversimplification of a wider and more complex issue. We should also be asking why teachers in disadvantaged areas are much more likely to under-predict the grades of their students; the Sutton trust found that they tend to have the greatest misconceptions about Oxbridge and are far less likely to encourage pupils to study there. Are they more jaded and does this rub off into their teaching? Do they have much less belief and optimism for their students? Are they less engaged with their students, perhaps due to larger class sizes and more disruptive children, so they don't actually know them well enough to predict their grades with as much accuracy? If we want to emulate the likes of Finland then it's clear that we need to be almost halving class sizes. We should also be asking whether students from poorer backgrounds are given even support to understand how important where you study actually is and that a degree from the university of Manchester is far more valuable than a degree from Manchester met. We should be asking whether we have too many 'lesser' institutions and if some of these should be converted into polys. We should be asking why so many universities are making unconditional offers in the first place. We should be asking whether too many students are going to university. You get the idea, otherwise you're just papering over the cracks.

Targeting chicken shops was racist, they said.

>Man dies after Lewisham chicken shop fight

>A man has died after a fight at a chicken shop in London.
>The Met said two men suffered stab wounds and head injuries in a fight in Downham Way, Lewisham, at about 23:55 BST on Friday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49700338

>>64075
Wasn't someone else stabbed to death in a KFC in London the other day?

>>64075

But was this chicken shop participating in #knifefree?

It might well have saved somebody's life.

I've finally finished my first book written by a woman since starting this thread, if a collection of short stories counts.

I don't think terse gothic horror is for me. I will report back when I get around to reading something else.

>>6963
Alice Munro is a favorite of mine.

Pride and Prejudice is an easy, thoroughly enjoyable read.

>>6963

Just read books you indoctrinated wallop

>>7047
What?

Unless you can point out something the landlord does not already know, then I don't see what difference any grovelling will make.

>>7726
It's a dance. You say you want to renew, they come back with a mostly reasonable figure and you go from there - it isn't usually a hassle.

Posting like that directly affects all other readers, and breeds further disease.

Personally they should be banned for as long as it takes a person to learn how to write. Two years?

>>20172
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/contents

>>20166

So if a bird sodomises someone with a strap-on, it's not rape? If a bloke bum fucks you, it's not rape?

Blimey, you learn something new every day. I think we need a hashtag to sort this injustice out.

>>20174
Reading comprehension not your strong point, is it?

>>20174

>Blimey, you learn something new every day


With the exception of the lads who make all those bold claims in the first place.

>>20175

It should be noted that my post was intended to express shock and surprise, not disagreement or smart-arsery.

>>20176

Not sure what claims you're on about.

THAT'S SAMUEL L JACKSON U BERK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxD2n91s1k

Is there something I'm doing wrong, here?

Nothing I can see, the first story is just the fact of life these people have no prior relationship with you, I'm sure you are lovely but then I'm sure the other 50+ people who applied are lovely too. That's just life you are as mundane as the rest of us

The second is just bullshit nepotism, the last job I interview for it got into a farce by the end because they didn't want to admit I was the better candidate on paper but they wanted to hire someone else because they were the mate of the guy he'd be closely working with presumably because the likes of their bosses boss would be wholly unamused.

For my career break I came second in a job interview. I later learnt that the admin head only wanted to hire women, something I've mentioned on /job/ before, so I lost out to someone who turned out to be useless but possessed a vagina. However, I impressed other people at the interview so that when someone went off on long-term sick I was hired on a temporary contract, which was eventually made permanent.

I'm now in a managerial position so I'm responsible for recruitment in my department. There's been occasions where there's been a dearth of suitable candidates. There's been other occasions where I've had to choose one from a number of strong candidates when any one of them would have absolutely walked it at on a different occasion, some of whom I've contacted when we've had a vacancy at a later date. You can try your absolute best but you can't control who you are up against. That's life.

There's no guarantee that an employer has a decent hiring process. For some reason the recruitment for the graduate scheme at work is done by the admin head and she is as thick as pig shit, which most likely explains why four out of the last five graduates recruited have turned out to be a mistake.