u/Secure-Property4926

I imagine that this is a common issue but I’m looking for advice and encouragement on my receptive skills. I regularly watch exam videos on YouTube and these vary between understanding most of it, to not really understanding much of it. I’ll get better at those, I feel. understanding my teacher, no problem. but the issues I have are watching creators on social media who use Bsl - subtle variations in handshape or speed or really small movements to signify time, say, or eliding signs together it REALLY hard to understand. when I then look at the captions i can see then what they are signing but first pass, nope. it’s making me feel quite discouraged at being able to develop an understanding of every day Bsl.

I’ve been back into the hobby after 30 years off and have been building up and painting skaven for AOS. When I started I didn’t know how many clan rats I’d have to paint 😂 as I worked towards 2000 points

.Typically I paint with traditional base colours, washes and highlights but use contrast paints for skin and fur and I’m very pleased with the results.

For my latest batch of clan rats I’ve painted some colours of robes with contrast paints and painting hoods and cowls traditionally to be more efficient by dealing with one colour across all models with contrast paints.

The trouble in my mind is that I just don’t like the way contrast paints on robes look compared to traditional painting and I’m asking myself whether I want to save the time to get the army painted and the battle line troops on the table and focus really good paint jobs on war machines and characters or to carry on with the more time consuming method for all my models.

I hear people say, aaah for the clan rats just slap the paint on and move on but I’m wondering how much do YOU tolerate a less optimal paint job when working through masses numbers of similar models?

I've just been reading some international threads on webcams and the consensus seemed to be that it is a massive affront to one's liberty if they need to have a webcam on on a work meeting, and that the default should be cameras off. This had never occurred to me and in my work environment, the default is very much cameras on for internal and external meetings. I work in a consultancy role with clients and other consultants across design teams and its rare an unusual for someone to have their camera off, and I find it a bit unsettling even. And cameras on, and putting faces to names and seeing gestures and facial expressions all helps teams to communicate and even, dare I say it, get to know each other a little bit and enrich a meeting a bit. I can't imagine a client being very chuffed if my team regularly turned up to a teams meeting without a camera, or if I was meeting with my team I want to see them. Why wouldn't you put a camera on? Are people skiving? The only times people turn them off is of the section of the meeting is wholly irrelevant to them, then its back on or subsequent agenda items. I felt like we all just worked out this is how meetings work. Is this all just reddit land where people shun human company, especially in the work place? What's the pattern in your work?

Fulham supporter here. Seems like a massive risk given his lack of senior experience and now moving to a country and club he knows nothing about. What sort of style does he play? Should we be excited about a hungry young talent or preparing for relegation? All sorts of (mis?)information flying here so wanted to hear from yous.

Is this normal? I was due a refund for FY 24-25 after I did my self assessment. I requested it online and provided my bank details 2 months ago and still not received anything. Is this normal?

I've juts gone back into my self assessment and it is still an option to claim a refund, but I;ve already done it! Does this mean they aren;t processing my original request (which I have screed granned, so I've definitely done it).