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diy·Do-It-Yourself, Repairs and Fixesbytabris

Found a BBQ on the side of the road, cleaned it up, but need some spare parts.

I was going to buy a BBQ until I saw one amongst some bins at the side of a road. Took it home and have now cleaned it up.

The only issue is these grill brackets that hold the grill in place and completely degraded. One is missing, the other two are so rusted they bend easily.

Any idea what these are called and where I might get replacements? The BBQ is a knock off Weber, no idea of the brand, and I couldn't see equivalent parts on the Weber website.

Thanks in advance.

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badmovies·Bad Moviesbytabris

Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)

Got this recently from a second hand shop, watched it with my bf and a friend. It was absolutely fantastic. Basic plot is a mad scientist wants to breathe life into a T-Rex robot for "reasons" and uses the brain of Tammy's (Demise Richards) boyfriend (Paul Walker) to do it.

What makes this a great bad movie is the T-Rex, a model from an amusement park that the production had for 2 weeks, being rolled around and filmed so you can't see it's on a rolling platform, or two rubber dino legs filmed at the feet. But nothing will prepare you for when the dino runs 🤣🤣

This film came out the same year as Jurassic Park and I'm not sure which is better (/jk)

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programming·Programmingbytabris

What now for my career?

So I've been out of work for over a year now. I'm a software engineer with 20 years experience in Java, I have experience in over a dozen other languages, I've worked for companies of around 30 employees as well as big multinationals.

Over the last year, I've applied for literally hundreds of jobs, and I've gotten one interview, got all the way to the final stage of the process but missed out to someone with more experience of that specific framework they wanted. I was told that they really liked me, that my code was good even though I was learning that framework while doing the code test, and that I would integrate with the team very well, but they needed someone with more experience with the framework they use. They did say that if another position opened up this year that they'd get in touch.

So my question is, what the fuck do I do now? I'm still applying for every programming position that comes up on the job boards, I'm emailing recruiters to try to get my foot in the door, I'm teaching myself different frameworks and languages and building small demo apps to show what I can do, but I'm getting nowhere.

Five years ago, I had absolutely no issue getting a job. I'd literally have several job offers within a month of looking. Now there's nothing. For context, I'm in the UK.

So what are my options. What can I do to get work as a programmer in today's market? What else is there for me to do? How would I get started freelance if I've never done that before, and is that even a viable option? Are other people experiencing the same at the moment?

Please help, I'm getting desperate.

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vampires·Vampiresbytabris

Just watched Slay, this deserves to become a cult classic

Four drag queens accidentally book the wrong venue, a biker bar in the middle of nowhere. During their show the bar is attacked by vampires, so the drag queens have to team up with the bikers to survive the night.

This wonderfully camp horror comedy had us laughing throughout. There's a lot of really sweet characters, tonnes of references to classic vampire films and TV, and the drag queens are played by real life drag queens.

This needs cult status.

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