Hon hon hon

I more or less do the same for finding new communities but I do browse my feed by “scaled” first to try to engage posts early in Comms that I’m interested in, then move to all top twelve hours after.

I am incredibly difficult to buy gifts for because I have everything I want, which is not much at all.

Omg. Her face! I’ve never seen that before. Thank you.

Could you give me an example of a prying question you got asked?

I find most people overshare unnecessarily. I’m always telling me wife and kids not to give detail (with examples of how to avoid it) and have gotten very good at giving minimal detail.

Example: my wife has been in hospital for weeks. It’s not something she’d want people to know about.

My mother in law was all “what are you going to tell people?” and I just said “nothing”. So when I do have to bring it up I say “she’s been in hospital a few weeks and will be another few more but she’ll be fine”. That last part I add to deflect in advance.

Only one person has had the gall to ask for more information and I told them I’d tell them over a pint some time (i.e. would you ever fuck off with that).

Yeah it speaks volumes for the world we live in unfortunately.

The best gift I ever was given (so far) was a project my 11 year old daughter did in school on “the person I admire most”. She worked so hard on it. I nearly cried going through it. Apparently only one other person in the class didn’t pick a famous person and they did it on both their parents.

I work so, so, so hard to be a good dad and it was such a deeply touching affirmation.

Love Branston pickle on cheese. Nom nom nom.

Also picked silverskin onions. Crunch.

Oh that clip is brilliant. Must give the movie a watch.

Damn! He was close when he threw it. Solid work getting away.

Yep.

Oh one other idea is your local electronics recycling centre. Our one frequently has battered Chromebooks. One by the same brand might do you. The folks in our one are friendly and would definitely give it to you for free so you might get lucky there too. Maybe leave your phone number with them also.

On your question about the loose power - I’d say that’s a dry or loose solder joint. If you’re comfortable with a soldering iron it should be easily fixed. Occasionally a heavily used connector just loses grip and if that’s the case a gentle squeeze with a pliers will do you.

Good luck! If you can’t find one for sale it might be worth posting up in a local Facebook group or equivalent asking if anyone has one. Folks frequently don’t think of selling broken kit.

Must be. I’d call them an egg slice or fish slice like yourself. Spatula to me is silicone. Western Europe.

I would probably search local online markets for a broken one of your current Chromebook. The battery will likely do what you want and you’ll have it for other spares too.

The ice cream truck stopped coming to our estate about 5 years ago though there are plenty of kids about.

I do see them parked near playgrounds etc. quite a bit but not doing the rounds like they used to.

Incredible summary. 10/10.

My wife had a favourite song when she was pregnant and it was very useful for calming after the birth. It was quite a chill tune.

Looks like a solid B movie.