I hate

Memorable to me for becoming the cover to this classic:

Yeah, rushing to the front of the stadium and shouting 'fuck off back to France, you french bastard' sounds just like 'it is is an early shower for you'

Believe the sun were vilifying Cantona as he was Forin.

It's my last day at work on friday. Our IT contractor people that run the wifi etc are notorious for closing tickets before actually doing anything. I emailed them to ask about returning my laptop, they reply with a question - is it just the laptop or anything else too? But then immediately close the ticket so I can't actually reply. Gotta keep that 100% resolved record.

Free laptop. Yay.

Gotta do something about that pesky spyware first

Ha!

Our incident support team are a bit like this. They've got better. But I remember one user who raised a ticket before Easter, said they'd be off over Easter, provided a contact who was not off for Easter. Then when they failed to respond to a follow up question on by COB Friday support closed due to no user response 🤣

If you were that thin skinned in Oz, you'd already have had your head kicked in before you made it onto a pitch. It's soccerball, it's so dull this is STILL one of the most interesting things to have happened in hundreds of years of the silly sport.

It's not all their fault, it'll be the fuckwit management who've agreed the SLAs or KPIs and thus any and all tickets must be closed as soon as humanly possible. I've argued with my company for years about this stupid behaviour.

"We can't have tech look back to senior management so NO UNRESOLVED TICKETS!!!"
all tickets get closed
"Nothing has been fixed, we now look bad to senior management"

I've literally seen my own unresolved tickets closed by the head of the department, just to make the fucking numbers look good because she had to deliver a report or something. It's fucking stupid and then they wonder why the SD team are so fucking swamped because they've just been "auto closing" all the tickets and to get anything actually fixed we need idiot users to answers questions or time to debug the problems... but they think they can run these teams on skeleton crews because it's "just about the numbers".

I hate… how expensive the US has become. Well no that’s not quite true - I’m ambivalent about the absolutes and more accurately I hate the massive wealth inequality.

I’m currently earning a decent living, but I’d genuinely want to double it, to move to the US based on my time there last week. And it hasn’t always been this way - I’ve visited plenty of times in the past.

Nice restaurants (not Michelin Star) are extortionate. Quality, organic food is so expensive. Attractions such as museums and - specifically this time - Disneyland - are an exercise in gouging as much as possible from the punter.

London cannot hold a torch to it.

I don’t know how families on average income make it work. It’s terrible. :-(

Well let's not discuss how racist aus is.

I'm an Aston villa supporter, before you say anything it was first match I attended. But agree about football.

But good on Eric. IMO.

Also I think that stuff like that is ingrained in England from the paying people to go home in the 70s ?.

Try Alaska.

That’s also the US, tbf.

The shelter costs are what get you. Everything else is relatively cheaper than it was in the 70s, people just buy too much shit and need to eat out multiple times per week and expect to go on holiday twice or more per year.

The shelter costs are what get you

What are shelter costs?

I was just making the observation that most things are twice as expensive as London. Food I’d be willing to buy/cook/eat, the odd takeaway coffee etc, annd yes the odd meal out. And London - as you know - is bloody expensive.

All I know is, "Eric Cantona" is my answer to any pub quiz question that requires a footballer. Scored me a few points he has.

Rent/house payments.

You're missing the point that London doesn't have any quality or organic food. The UK just eats its dead, in the form of things like Soylent Green and Huel, but disguised by marketing (adverts being the only other thing the UK can produce now).

Also,

1. which part of the US?
   
2. how much does a latte, beer, hamburger, steak dinner cost there?
   

Two hoildays is hardly out there is it? Nor is two meals out. Probably with only one alcoholic drink.

Idk when we lived in NYC in 2017/18, my estimate was you'd need a household income of ~$250k to live what I'd think of as a standard UK middle class lifestyle.

Even back then the cost of non-shit food was astronomical. I'd split our shopping between 3 supermarkets* to save money and bring costs somewhere in the region of a shop at F&M. Here I tend to do a food shop at Aldi and household stuff at Tesco, but I wouldn't devote time to being militant about visiting specific shops.

I know New York is New York, but it struck me as so much more expensive on every level.

*Stop & Shop, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's. Sometimes Target too. In case anyone's curious.

but I’d genuinely want to double it, to move to the US based on my time there last week.

Have you looked at what you'd get paid? Most good jobs seem at least double, even factoring in insurance, and tax. I think what's happenend is that the lower paid jobs have now increased.

I've not been for a few years but I remember it being massively variable depending on where you are.

Yes, but a lot more expensive than main land us.

In pub quiz picture questions, I always add boutros boutros ghali for no other reason I like saying that name.

1. West Coast
   
2. $7 + tip for a latte, I don’t eat meat so can’t answer that. But without even trying to be flash, lunch was $60 and dinner $150 (for two).
   

True - $1m for a basic family home and then on top of the mortgage, 0.1% land tax per month for as long as you own the place.