Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
We moved from London to Edinburgh mid 2022. We uhhhh…have a lot of shit… Turned out cheaper to rent a small Luton van and just do multiple trips ourselves. Rental and fuel came to just under £900, hiring movers was going to be £2200 for the cheapest quote we got. I did 6 roundtrips in 5 days. It was brutal.
Sorry about your dad mate. My wife’s dad is in a slow decline, dementia, and both my parents are in quite poor health. It’s tough, especially when they’re not close by.
Being a hero and being a monster aren’t mutually exclusive sadly.
Yeah, the slowest part of my last camping trip back home was getting out of Vancouver, and then the bit at the end up an old logging road.
How DARE you besmirch the good name of the GE Turboencabulator!
While it is the OG technobabble in-joke, it’s so much better than the pale imitation that is modern techbrobabble.
Why you may ask?
Because the joke was made by an actual engineering student, John H. Quick, and later got a proper datasheet made by General Electric. It’s a classy joke that points out the ridiculous over use of technical jargon, often by people who don’t have any clue what it means. It’s poking fun literally at the techbrobabble we all loath.
Thing is, in under 4 hours…you can’t even get out of Canada!
Kinda a bit of flight path shenanigans, Vancouver to London Heathrow is around 10 hours, but that’s over the top. Edinburgh to Toronto is around 7 hours.
I mean, in a way it is. But sometimes 3.5hrs doesn’t even get you from London’s ring road in the east straight through to the west side of the ring road. Bit different if you’re able to do 70mph(or the Canadian limit of 110kmph, so like…68ish?) the whole time.
Yeah, if I was living in one and working in the other then I’d fly or take the train obviously. No way I’m doing that drive daily, that’s insane. But for a few days trip, no sweat.
Economy of scale is way different. The entirety of the UK fits into British Columbia almost 4 times… https://www.comparea.org/GBR+CA_BC
I’d happily leave work at noon on Friday, get to my camp site at 8 or 9pm. Do camping stuff Saturday, wake up hung over Sunday and be home for 8 or 9pm and be fine for Monday morning.
Works better if you’ve got someone to switch out driving every few hours.
Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.
Moving to the UK from Canada was a trip. People at work losing their mind when I say my wife and I are driving to Edinburgh from London in a oner, meanwhile the time/distance from my perspective is a reasonable expectation for a weekend camping trip.
Why could they not do this same thing with fentanyl though?
In a way they do? If I’m remembering correctly there was a wave of kids ODing in Canada because of fentanyl patches going around, and they were cutting them up and sucking on them or something. The patches are like nicotine patches, and the distribution of the fentanyl was/is uneven, so enough for a dose one time could be 5× the dose the next.
The patches are for people who have long term chronic pain. They’re meant to be absorbed over a full day for pain management.
Fuck you for reminding me what day it is… that’s enough internet for me thanks
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Do you work on the train? No? Then NSFL would be a better tag…just saying.
This might just be down to the type of people who are pro-union, organised labour for collective good, Vs people who are anti-union, fuck you got mine.
That’s a fair point.
Ai assisted code might explain why it says it’s works for windows Mac Linux iOS and android, but the only download is a zip with windows version files inside 🤔
I snorfled.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Really hate when people just drop a link with nothing in the body to indicate what the thing actually is.
Uhhhhh…mind putting in a good word for me when they turn up?
Yeah, it’s rough. My dad’s been on extended medical leave, in and out of hospital, but is having to consider going back to work before he’s actually appreciably better because he’s not able to afford just living on the benefits he’s receiving. If I could send money his way I would but we’re struggling ourselves, so it’s not an option on a regular basis.