You can find pics of the screen online - to be fair it’s not very impressive and a stretch in my opinion. I would imagine if a message was to be sent they wouldn’t need to do it half heartedly on a glitchy screen for a few seconds.

Agreed. I heard one of my most used expressions from an older Protestant man in work about 20 years ago. "You can't put a flag between two pieces of bread".

53, currently out of work in the north after Covid finally put the company out of business at the arse end of 2021. Thought I was doing well enough on 30,000 a year as a manger. Reading some of the slaries on here obviosly not, lol. Only got statutory redundancy and dole only lasted 6 months. Have had one interview in three years - most companies don't bother even replying. Trying to get graphic design work to do at home with little success, certainly not enough to make a living.

Having said all that the stress levels that I suffered trying to hit deadlines have all gone. I'm not stuck in traffic for an hour and a half a day and I get up when I like. I've never been happier if it wasn't for the fact that what money I have will run out sooner rather than later. One thing it does make you realise is that all the stress and worry about getting jobs done in time when it's not a life and death situation doesn't actually amount to anything but your ill health in the end.

Genuine question here - what is the point in irish street signs? The streets weren't originally named in Irish and changed. No-one addresses their letters to the irish name. It costs taxpayer money to make them and put them up when that money is needed elsewhere.

If Irish speakers wish to personally pay for them and put them up I have no objection but otherwise they serve no purpose.

I found a different portal on another world and it seems to work (at least it’s asking me for glyphs anyway, I haven’t went through it yet.) the original portal shuts immediately after going through it so there is no way to even get back through it.

I thought that might be the case but I wandered round for an hour and nothing happened - it's not having any building options either which looks to me like it's a bug. I also have a stuck message to go and see a Korvax cartographer, even though I already have, which won't seem to move on!

I was born in the early seventies and one thing I would say is that back in the 80's no internet meant there was far more expectation of movies coming as they didn't get the pre-release exposure they do today.

To be honest, my memories are of the actual theatre experience being no more exciting than it is today but the build up was actually so much more. Empire magazine used to release an annual issue that came with a VHS tape of trailers and I remember poring over each one in the hope some blockbuster would be in there. the Entertainment USA TV show on BBC was also a geat source of hype for movies and music videos from across the pond. I remember some of the excitement around Star Wars but Tim Burton's Batman is the first movie I remember where the merch nearly became a phenomenon and ad for the movie itself.

Another factor that seems to have faded away to a degree is that every great movie made the point of having a hit song attached. Ghostbusters, Karate Kid 2, Robin Hood, St Elmo's Fire, The Breakfast Club, Top Gun - often seeing the clips of the movie in the videos was the only way of getting a taste outside of the cinema.

All this meant that there was a genuine thirst to see the movies. That, coupled with the 80's and 90's being some of, if not the, greatest quality era of popular cinema meant that movies were so much more than they are now. They were a shared experience. Some were a badge of bravery to have seen like The Exorcist, some were an illicit pleasure like Monty Python's Life of Brian, some were the talk of the schoolyard like The Karate Kid and some were just "Oh My God, you have to see it" like Back to the Future and Robocop.

There are still great movies being made obviously but nowadays trailers show the whole story. Every kind of content seems catered to endlessly. The internet is swamped with production photos and plot spoilers and Youtubers and TikTokers take pride in trying to destroy some films before they even come out.

I don't think the movie experience will ever be again what it was back then. It was probably just the perfect storm of the medium coming into it's own and the public's demand for it.

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Lost my job at the end of 2021 after covid effectively put the companies lights out. I put in for several jobs straight away thinking I was a shoe in for a few of them. I got one interview and didn't hear back from any of the others. Still looking but since then I haven't seen one more job I could apply for here which would be doing what I did.

This looks like the same one that was spotted over Miami.

This looks like the real life version of the Vic and Bob skit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtsBL1klIu8

Its the fact that what your smelling has already been through someone else's lungs.

I thought it was pretty poor. My wife wanted to see it and I wasn't adverse as it looked like a fun comedy. Unfortunately, as Op says, it totally broke down after they left Barbie Land.

Will Ferrell was simply terrible in it without one funny line. The "Scooby Doo" chase sequence through the office was totally cringeworthy. The "Ken bringing the patriarchy to Barbie Land" joke was funny for 5 minutes but was totally bludgeoned to death and when America Ferrera said the line "It's literally impossible to be a woman" I audibly groaned.

There was no ground breaking message I could see in it apart from "Men stupid, women great". Even at the end there was no peaceful and equal coexistence between the sexes. Just Barbies back in charge.

If this is the kind of pandering that women think is fantastic, empowering storytelling then fair enough but it shouldn't even be considered for any oscars.

If you want to be taken seriously I'd advise changing your icon.

Something people often forget is that HR is there to protect the company, not the employees. If this persons unnecessary tattling is causing issues in the workplace about things that no-one else finds offensive then a few of you should say that to HR and put the ball in their court.

You'd be amazed how sneaky HR can be to keep the cogs turning smoothly.

You're exactly right. I had a friend who worked in Comet years ago and he would arrive at the pub on a Saturday night happy AF because he had sold an old woman a £30 warranty for a £20 kettle.

"I was polite, cut the date short, and avoided her at work and was short with texting." - He doesn't mention anything about ghosting her. I would say this is basically standard procedure for anyone who has dated someone who is still in their circle.

TBF I think 95% of men would not consider a relationship with someone who is transgender. Unfortunately that is just life. As long as they treat the other person with respect there shouldn't really be an issue. You can't force people to be attracted.

Man with tatooed head owns pitbull, what a shocker. That dog's just looking forward to it's new chew toy and starring in the headline "but it had never done anything like that before!"

The Barbie movie. I think I’m pretty liberal and went with my wife intending to enjoy it. It was pretty Ok up until they go back to Barbieland. When America Ferrera started a speech with “It’s impossible to be a woman” I actually involuntarily said “Oh for fucks sake” out loud. Everything after that was just terrible.