PaleRider
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PaleRider@feddit.ukto
Not The Onion•Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful insteadEnglish
1·18 days agodeleted by creator
I’m getting old and my hearing isn’t what it used to be…
did you say 80’s?
I’m 53… and that was how I started playing.
It took me two years and a bit of fiddling with the controller setting to “git gud”. My K/D ratio for the first couple of years was 0.11 (prolly lower but that was the lowest it would show.) and I eventually got it up to 0.71 (approx 1.1 for the last few seasons).
Im amazed at how many people play these games without a headset. I can usually hear them before I see them.
PaleRider@feddit.ukto
LEGO@piefed.social•LEGO fans, with Christmas coming, do you have any set on your radar, to gift others or put on your wishlist?
91·22 days agoThe Wife’s a big trekkie so I’m thinking of getting her the new Enterprise NCC 1701 D (#10356).
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Not gonna lie, but I was expecting him to be charging for hand jobs.
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PaleRider@feddit.ukto
Technology•Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warnEnglish
3·1 month agoFucking hell it was Chandler all along!
That’s because you’re not American.
The thick, indoctrinated, 'Murica greatest freedumb country morons don’t have a fucking clue…
Well, given I live in the center of England it’s only going to push up my property price…
… while we live in the Mad Max future.
PaleRider@feddit.ukto
iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev•The problem is older than I thought...
5·1 month agoThis I do not know. However the first widely reported railway fatality in the UK (possibly the world) was MP William Huskisson who was run over by Stevenson Rocket…
Not relevant to the conversation but I think it’s interesting.
I’ve already been payed, so I don’t care… 😂😜😝
Saw it myself last time I was up in Scotland. First time I’d seen it since it left our factory before it was put together.

Did you like the Whale?
I bent half the steel used for the sculpture…
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PaleRider@feddit.ukto
No Stupid Questions•Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?
6·2 months agoYou sound very much like me.
When sober I’m Mr doesn’t talk a lot (but I will listen) after a beer or two I’m away with the chat.
I become become very vocal…














You old fart…
I was only 25.