The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

lol I am on a (remote) training concerning a program management method. We have got to the part of showing video explaining the role Business Owners. The video showed 5-6 different people in a work context as illustration, focusing them with the implication they are Business Owner. All were grey-haired white men. 

[Jacob]

Why would you be sad about a dead mouse?

It's called empathy.

[Caliga]

I hate killing mice too... and I won't kill the lizards in my house.  Those I catch (they're slow enough that I can) and release in the backyard.  Besides the fact that lizards are cool, they eat mice, so it'd be dumb to kill them.

[Josquius]

Pumping the water out of my moat I found a dead mouse

On the bright side I've seen no more signs of a mouse in my garage

You have a moat? Do you live in a castle?

Foundations for an extension. I finished digging them before xmas expecting the ground worker to come in and lay the concrete but.... he didn't. So they formed a long-term moat instead.
Its interesting how I don't have to get that deep before I get to clay that holds water really well. Wish I lived in a more rural area and I'd be digging a pond in the field outside.

[Threviel]

Shouldn't you build drainage before pouring concrete? And 40 cm macadam under the concrete? Or are you only extending a shed?

[Josquius]

Shouldn't you build drainage before pouring concrete? And 40 cm macadam under the concrete? Or are you only extending a shed?

The ground worker is doing drains as well.
I've no idea exactly what he'll be doing, maybe there will be a layer of stones first, though definitely not 40cm.
Its just a single story, 2 meters out from my house, so doesn't need to support a huge amount of weight. All OK according to building control.

[garbon]

Why would you be sad about a dead mouse?

It's called empathy.

Empathy for the thing I'm trying to kill?

[Jacob]

Empathy for the thing I'm trying to kill?

Yes indeed.

[garbon]

Empathy for the thing I'm trying to kill?

Yes indeed.

Too much cognitive dissonance.

[Tamas]

Once I could barely pin down a mouse against the side of some stairs with the slippers I was hunting it with, so not let it go I suffocated/crashed it as quickly as I could. It was looking at me during its last seconds. Not pleasant.

You don't have to hate an animal to kill it.

[garbon]

Once I could barely pin down a mouse against the side of some stairs with the slippers I was hunting it with, so not let it go I suffocated/crashed it as quickly as I could. It was looking at me during its last seconds. Not pleasant.

You don't have to hate an animal to kill it.

I'm glad I never said that.

[Josquius]

Thankfully garbon never got drafted.

[garbon]

Thankfully garbon never got drafted.

Not understanding why one would be sad for dead vermin = someone with a murder boner?

[Threviel]

The ground worker is doing drains as well.
I've no idea exactly what he'll be doing, maybe there will be a layer of stones first, though definitely not 40cm.
Its just a single story, 2 meters out from my house, so doesn't need to support a huge amount of weight. All OK according to building control.

Interesting. Will you build on a concrete slab or what will be inside the foundation? Shouldn't the earth/clay be dug away?

[Syt]

https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2022/01/quiz-which-class-are-you-according-to-the-great-british-public

QUIZ: Which class are you, according to the Great British public?

Take the New Statesman quiz to find out whether you're working class, middle class or upper class in the eyes of voters.

The British public's idea of what makes up social class is complicated. Does a high income make you upper class – or is it to do with your parents' wealth? What about lifestyle – what does where you shop, or whether you pay for private health insurance, say about your class?

The New Statesman recently commissioned exclusive polling from Redfield & Wilton Strategies, which ran a list of crude "class markers" past a representative sample of the British public.

For a bit of fun, the New Statesman data team thought we would turn these polling results into a quiz.

We only included questions about people's lifestyles, excluding what respondents said different careers tell them about social class. We then weighed each answer based on the proportion of people in the survey who associated each activity with each class.

So how well can the British public judge your class given only the following information?