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Please leave a flower for my beautiful baby sister, who departed this life much too soon. I miss her so.

Right, I suspect I'm for the chop in January and didn't want to leave anything on the table.

What actions should I take now rather than wait for redundancy?

I'm talking less about "hit the gym/LinkedIn" and more to get the most from the company while I'm still engaged.

So for example, I plan to call on the employee assistance services to work on some counselling that I suspect could help me (in case that service extends indefinitely while the case is open).

Need to replace it before it dies as being without a kettle is inhumane

I get my news via RSS. I am currently using The National (a Scottish paper) as my main source, but I'm uncertain of the quality of the writing, and the number of articles imported from USA Today irks me a little. I have also tried The Guardian, i, The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News, Sky News, and of course BBC News; however I moved away from these for various reasons.

So, in the interest if improving my feed, what papers do you all read?

Mine was dead handy for taking places with me, but it's dying.

I wake up all achey muscles and such, for sure, but the level of comfort is unparalleled

I could spend all day there

It's fucking freezing

It's too soon....

I'm looking to buy a laptop for things like browsing the internet, admin stuff like sorting out important documents, a little bit of software development, and other things that aren't easy to do on a phone.

I don't think I need a particularly powerful laptop for these things, so was hoping to get a cheap refurbished one. Can anyone recommend a reputable place to buy a refurbished laptop for a reasonable price? I'm hoping to spend around £200, but not sure if that's reasonable for what I'm looking for

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38193993

I learned a new word, and it turns out the word is a slur for a person who is working class. That seems very nasty, considering that statistically speaking, working class people are the majority of Britain. Most British people I know online are against racial slurs yet throw around the slur "chav" like it's nothing. Why?

EDIT - I FOUND THIS

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/cheap-theatre-tickets/

A bit of a longshot here, but I'm looking to buy my nephew and his girlfriend tickets to 'Elf' in London for a Christmas/early Christmas present.

https://elflondon.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17067106548

Tickets are a lot more expensive than I was expecting unless I get them tickets miles down the back. Are there any specific sites that those 'in the know' use to get better placed prices or codes for something like this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37955021

Cross-posting since this community is also of relevance to my question. To clarify, the city I visited is Wolverhampton.

I'm Greek + English, used to live in the UK years ago, and I visited again see a friend in a new city. What surprised me was how everyone (not literally, but a very large portion) seemed to have their own distinct look.

We went into a busy McDonald's and about a quarter of the people there were dressed head to toe in Nike or Adidas tracksuits, baseball caps, trainers with the bubble soles, and loads of gold jewellery, such as bracelets, rings on multiple fingers, the works. It was always in combination. They looked a bit like white gangstas, or early Eminem cosplayers. One of them was playing this kind of funky house music that had pitched-up vocals on their phone. All of these people were young, middle aged and old.

I mentioned it to my friend and she just laughed and said, "Yeah, that's just the style here." Wherever we went, up town, in a bus, in a chip shop, there were people dressed like that everywhere.

Is that actually a thing? Do different UK cities have their own fashion vibe and I just never noticed?

I finally remembered to do this on a Sunday!

Link here. It's Blackpool so it'll be cheap surely?