It wouldn’t be a shame, I’d be dead. I can’t worry or be upset about anything then. I get your point though - no point saving up money just for the sake of it. I’d like to buy a house eventually so that’s something meaningful to work towards, but I don’t think I would have any regrets about not accumulating random stuff if I died tomorrow.

This is my thinking too. I had a housemate who earned the same as me and paid the same rent, and yet every month he managed to spend all his money while I saved a good chunk. Our pay was okay - not loads, but we lived in an area with a relatively low cost of living so the money went much further than it would elsewhere, so at least saving up a safety net should’ve easily been doable. I suppose it didn’t help that he took every opportunity to go on holiday half way around the world… I don’t think I’m miserly, I just don’t buy random stuff I don’t need. I also refuse to use Amazon, which probably makes things easier.

I guess we’re doing something right then

Wait, I though that was just a joke

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but why would Kojima care about the opinion of Turkish nationalists?

Edit: or maybe a better question would be why would anyone in a position to have Kojima arrested care about the opinion of Turkish nationalists?

I mean, it was never great in a good sense

What the article fails to mention is that this is after over 300 days of protests. The Georgians have been protesting non-stop for their future in the face of a corrupt government which uses brutal measures to crack down on its own citizens. It frustrates me to no end that my own country decided to shoot itself in the foot (and hands and knees) by voting to leave the EU, only to see how hard the people of Georgia are fighting for their future alongside the rest of Europe. გაუმარჯოს საქართველოს! კი ევროპას!

Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.

The only thing we should be hosting for him is a trial

Rare Söder truth

I don’t know if that’s something to boast about, but I guess they have to find a silver lining somewhere

Where’s laïcité when you need it?

I like having my gin and tonic with a healthy dose of lemon juice and pulp, but I discovered it’s just as nice without the gin so these days I often just have tonic and lemon. Obviously it’s still a different experience so it’s not like I’d never have a g&t again

I’d rather 6 weeks over the summer and then extra weeks added to other shorter holidays

No surprises there. I live in Northern Ireland and one of my colleagues was saying this is the one place where police aren’t brutal enough. Instead we’ve got gangs masquerading as defenders of “British culture” and the most abhorrent racist loyalist scumbags who take pride in their colonial heritage while simultaneously spewing hatred towards immigrants who aren’t even coming here. This is the least diverse place I’ve ever lived in and yet somehow immigrants are supposed to be “destroying their culture” (let’s not talk about hundreds of years of British suppression of Irish culture) or taking “their jobs” (maybe if they spent less time destroying 5G towers they could actually get a job)

I- in the Hague… right?

Yeah, it was Fred. We should thank him more often.

Just a reminder that Brexit was a very close referendum and a lot of us would rather have much closer ties to the EU (or just rejoin, but I don’t see that happening any time soon). I was too young to vote at the time, while people like my grandad voted for it and then died and didn’t have to live with the consequences. If I could, I would love to be able to live and work in EU countries and have more people from the EU living here, but we were screwed over by David Cameron, the Brexiteers and of course the ignorant/misinformed voters who voted for it.

Sounds about right

You would have to pay me a lot to get me to travel to the US