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My nose/sinus/throat is all very sensitive to perfumes and aerosols these days, and even if it's not strong enough to close my throat up and choke me, it still tends to make me feel sick. I've not used any spray and rarely any smelly stuff for over a decade.

Most soaps and some shower gels are fine though, so there's no problem with starting a day "clean".

On the morning train, you can normally smell people who use deodorant instead of washing. It's quite hard to describe - air freshener in a festival toilet? Artificial sweeteners on a stilton cheese? Anyway, if their perfume isn't strong enough to physically harm me, I don't care.

I used spray deodorants as a teenager, and unscented roll-ons for many years after - but after stopping using it, I found, like the couple you mentioned, that I didn't sweat as much, and the sweat that was there didn't smell as bad. Oddly enough, anecdotal evidence suggests my natural smell increased my attractiveness quite significantly. Of course, all of these may have just been coincidental factor of age/hormones/circumstances etc though.

I was a bit paranoid for some years, and always asked/checked with trusted people "do I smell?". I found I can smell myself when I do.

My work is sometimes quite physically demanding, so during the ~two months a year when it's potentially warm (Northern UK), you can get a bit sweaty - but so is everyone else. If you really feel the need, a quick armpit wash in a sink at lunchtime, or a "festival shower" with a wet-wipe would sort that out.

Anyway, so the rough answer is "There is less body odour. You get used to what's there. Most of it smells quite pleasant, sometimes even to the extent of it being animalistically magnetically attractive"

Just enabled at all, or "allow proton for all games" enabled?

Maybe have a quick read through Gaming On Linux's Steam Play/Proton Guide - it covers quite a lot of stuff that might not be obvious initially.

Well, there's more BBC channels now (and many more non-BBC channels), so there's more rubbish, but also more quality stuff, there's just more, more, more of everything.

Yeah, you just have to wait it out for a few years. Can't be long before it moves back to new variants of straight, loose, baggy, bootcut and flared and that sort of thing etc. I'm stocking up next time.

No lumping intended. I don't think anyone else will play with him. He's a shitebag, playing a character who is a slightly different shitebag.

I would probably be the same, had I been born 5 years earlier or later, and hit a different part of the skintight/baggy cycle.

"Skinny" jeans, or other skintight trouser variations. Been a fad four times during my life, I think. Somehow manage to be slightly more ridiculous each time.

[Edit]Also "shellsuits", the crinkly, extremely flammable alternative to the already-vile tracksuit.

Kriss Kross will make you jump! jump!

T̶o̶m̶m̶y̶ ̶R̶o̶b̶i̶n̶s̶o̶n̶ Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

"Tommy Robinson" is his LARPing name, where he roleplays a common football hooligan who doesn't have numerous previous convictions for assault and various types of fraud.

[Edit] I had written "Steven" instead of "Stephen".

I don't think it's a bad habit - they just have a preference for how they like their dinner, and probably not a hard one to satisfy.

I deliberately give mine a meat/biscuit mix, both from dietary recommendation and also it slows them down a bit - there's three of them, and if given meat only, the quickest eater will scoff his in 5 seconds, then try and muscle in on his brother's dinners. If mixed up, they're all at their own bowls for a few minutes at least, before the inevitable swapping.

Maybe cut down on the treats, and save them for special bribery i.e. flea treatment, going to the vets, training etc.

My cats use exactly the same expression to manipulate me :)

Also worth noting OpenRA openra.net if you want a FOSS variation you can try out for free - it's a open source engine for the C&C Red Alert games.

May also be worth looking at the FOSS Warzone 2100 wz2100.net - If you're on Linux, it's likely in your distro's package manager already.

"Evri" is the new name for Hermes, isn't it? From where I live, I now refuse to order anything that uses them. At best incompetent, at worst thieves and criminals. Not had a problem with any other couriers, or the normal post. It's interesting (and surprising) to hear that it's not the case elsewhere.

You can also get Council Tax benefit, and Housing Benefit (more of a Landlord Benefit, really).

Council tax benefit saves you either some or all of the local council tax payment (~£1000 - £2500 per year in most places). Amusingly, it tends to be cheaper in wealthy areas.

Landlord benefit pays a percentage of what the Landlord asks for rent, generally compared to average rents in the area you live - so that might be £2000 - £3000 per year where I live in the North, but £10000 per year down South somewhere. You don't see any of that money personally, but it helps to make good headlines for angry "newspapers" and government policies.

There's additional bits of payment for caring for children under a particular age, disability etc, but generally, yeah, that's your lot.

Not quite sure what you're after - but on the off chance, I'll mention LMMS, as I don't think it's already been mentioned amongst the other audio software.

Website here: LMMS

Does it still so that thing where all the trees/grass etc disappears after 5 minutes (and you keep crashing into nothing), or has that been sorted?

I've got 3 of the 512GB Evo Plus ones on rotation in the Deck, for my Steam library/game-hoarding-addiction.

I got one of the first batch of UK Steam Decks, and have been running those SD cards since whenever that was. No issues so far.

Absolutely! The original focus on having a black cat day specifically included black-and-white cats.

"When the campaign was launched, statistics revealed that black and black-and-white cats took, on average, seven days longer to find a home compared to cats of other colours"

I do hope you've all been using that link instead of Rick Astley.

Not sure if it's Nimrolling, Spockrolling etc

Transport Fever 2, surely?