I'm really very glad that I didn't have to do any of that, and depended on letters sent home with children.
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I'm really very glad that I didn't have to do any of that, and depended on letters sent home with children.
Which is why he installed the camera. FFS.
Spot. Obviously?
I corresponded by email for work purposes for probably teens of years with someone whose sex/gender/status/etc I never knew because of their name. Over the years people have similarly wondered if I might be a Samantha... I've concluded that for almost all of life, it doesn't matter.
Chicken pox?
I bought a copy from my local Waterstone's (Stirling) just this morning. I am sorry, I forgot to take a picture of it on the shelf first.
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Well... Duh...
They'll need to get round to filling in some potholes.
Reform UK infiltrated by far right? How can they tell?
When your folks are loaded, though, you get to try anything you like, again and again, until you find it. The rest of us get not-very-many shots and we need to get it pretty much right.
A so-far-untested aspect of my ignorance, then!
Not all that mute, then?
I heard a sparrowhawk yesterday! They had "mute swan" as BOTD yesterday, which presumably doesn't make any noise at all...
It's like Wall-E but with brains, huh?
Mostly, I'd just like to be able to copy the grid reference the mouse is on so that I can paste it into the OS website's search box. I can do that, via your drawing tool and a CSV file, but for a single point, it's still easier to just write the grid reference on a piece of paper.
I suggest that UK food security does not significantly depend on trawled fish.
Dunno about you, but I was talking about the sort of "fishing industry" that involves trawlers and nets.
Fish can be farmed and imported. There is no particular need to go out and catch them, and the basic insignificance of the fishing industry is a solid demonstration of that.
Morninjton Crescent.
Theresa May was given the power by Parliament to trigger Article 50. She didn't have to do it. She chose to.
Maybe the data centres can be converted into some sort of accommodation?
We were asked about buying one of these some time ago and couldn't find one. I _think_ that was the time we bought a "roller mouse" for the relevant member of staff instead.
The fishing industry could disappear overnight and no-one would starve to death.
The "etc" is doing some heavy lifting, there, but even so Warhammer is substantially above fishing, in it.
I agree it doesn't do a lot of situations justice, but when it's an aspect of a nation's GDP, it's the money that matters most.
Land fit for heroes, eh. Dreadful.
It would definitely be useful if they'd stop paying quite so much attention to the fishing industry, which is damn close to irrelevant.
But Farage is against anyone unelected having any power. Otherwise he'd've been fine with the EU. Innit?
Or some wee blonde who just happened to be in the right place at the right time?
Is the angle perhaps that they know their viewers are smarter than that, and we know they're talking outrageous rubbish? That seems to be the angle taken these days with, say, Israeli government reps, and, say, Sebastian Gorka.
Kemi Badenoch would approve.
Everyone wants out. Wonder why.
This would need to be in an environment in which they can't block me, because, like Brexiters in the 20-teens, that's all they do when you offer a point they can't answer.
Yet to fail to win, at Trivial Pursuit!
I think we just had one or two at the beginning of each term of 6th form. I remember there being a thread about "communications" in general through them, and some puzzles.
A for General Studies, D for everything else. My major contribution to the world is "headful of random shit".
Every time an MP uses the phrase "on the doorsteps"...
What with that and having to arrest 90yo little-old-lady terrorists...
Put on a crash helmet, put a white wheelie bin on its side, lie in the bin, and have people hit the bin with big sticks while "experimental electronica" plays inside the helmet. Keep completely still for an hour or so, or you'll just have to do it all again.
"What else can we do to make sure that Scotland can't achieve effective independence?"
I'd've thought the boss would approve of what was done, what with this having been standard practice for estate agents as long as there have been estate agents.
I dunno about you, but every time I've ever dumped someone, I've only known if it was the right thing to do after I've done it... And I have been wrong. I never mentioned "encouraging". I'm talking about realising mistakes I've made for myself.
People can take years to realise they made a mistake.
Or she made a mistake?
My notion is that it looked like that because there was no-one sufficiently authoritative and trustworthy from government to counteract it. We'd all been roundly shafted in many and varied ways by Blair, etc., and there was no-one much to make the other case who'd've been believed.
The only slightly dodgy one is F, which is a bit of a stretch.
To be fair there's no earthly reason why a microwave oven needs a clock, let alone why that clock should have to be set before it can be used. Microwaves need two buttons: "add 30s to cooking time" and "stop".
Because of Andrew Bloody Wakefield and governments that can't be trusted to act on our best interests and idiots who think "if I don't get my children vaccinated it'll be fine because everyone else will get theirs done".
Lisa Nandy is not very bright, though.
I didn't say that. It isn't perfect; it's unfixable from outside; it always was and still is the best idea.
In the UK it's severely class-oriented as well. Those bits of Morrisons are not like those bits of Waitrose.
And here I was told it was Quadrature wot did it.
"This is what it _could_ look like..." "...If I buy the hairdresser's as well, you mean?"
Image captured April 2025, says Google Streetview:
1500 jobs in AI dating? Whodathunkit?
Euphemisms for "died" and "killed" are rife, though. People "pass on" all the time.
Mumble-mumble helium-3 from the moon mumble-mumble...
"recently-calibrated reference dog" - outstanding! I did previously think that genuine computation had been done by these physics experiments, but now it sounds as if they're as far progressed as that other physics experiment, nuclear fusion.
There are just too many questions to which she can't give a straight answer. She's politically cornered.
This is getting actually horrific, now. How much more blatant about it can they get?
So, private school opening/closure statistics for the past year are Completely Normal.
A major problem here is the lack of pro-Rejoin parties. If everyone you could vote for is pro-Brexit, Rejoin isn't a thing you can use to choose who to vote for.
The "stop trying" advice does not work. Nothing happens. It's another rendition of "what's for you will not go by you". Accept your lot, in life; there is no way to change it".
What on earth is going on with the typeface(s) in that headline?
I wouldn't, no. But consider someone with a tendency like that, with no service and no way to move things forward, presented with someone who works for the relevant faceless organisation?
Arseholes gonna arsehole. If it were actually possible to talk to companies like Openreach and Cityfibre, that would probably help reduce frustration. FTTP cabinet 20 feet from my front door 5.5 years now, and counting; no FTTP service available yet. No-one will say why.
There are four seasons of it, but S4 has never been widely released or subtitled outside Spain, as far as I know. Truly marvellous stuff.
Ministry Of Time, anyone? ST:Enterprise? Oh. Just me, then.
WTF is Lost doing in that group?
Getting one going in a container on your phone might be a fun experiment?
Get a Pi-hole? pi-hole.net
I keep trying, and it still doesn't work. I have emailed the address provided and have had no response after a day or so.
It typically happens several times during every R4 Today show. It's part of the code. Like that declaration before every time Lyse Doucet reported from Tehran.
It's stoatally different!
The original incident was late 2023. She was ahead of her time.
Not really. It was about assisted dying. I was told I might understand her PoV as I got older. I'm just about old enough to be her father.
If only it could get my name right.
I'm so relieved. No-one ever believes me about the '76 ladybirds.
I attempted rational conversation with her hereabouts, once. It didn't go well.
How about you just conclude, as you're totally desperate to, that I'm somehow racist, and see if I care? Will that make you happy? Nothing I write will ever change your mind, and nothing you write will change mine, you Brexiter Troll.
In what racist practices is the EU engaged that are actually intentional and not part of something malfunctioning? The European Union is a single entity, so you meant "it is", not "they are". You're a writer of some sort?
"Ooh but Corbyn said 7/10 so you're just the same as he is!" Do Not Feed The Troll
You seem inordinately keen to twist a conversation into something it isn't and never was. Why is that? Is being against racism all you have? Racism is evil, and everywhere. Hence, it needs to be eliminated everywhere.
"But you wouldn't know those Labour MPs. They go to a different House of Commons"
Enough to want the country I live in to be a member of it. Ultimately, it's about Not Having Wars.
I think you've joined the wrong conversation by mistake. Do get back to your wee card game.
You are, after all, a "fantasy author", so I'll let you off.
I retired a month ago. I haven't even finished tidying up yet. You're clearly getting desperate.
And yet here you still are.
Details are for other people, huh? You just do strategy?
Brexit happened 31st Jan 2020, which is 5.5 years ago to the day. Even ten years ago isn't very long, though. Get some perspective.
Brexit didn't happen in 2016, either. Do please keep trying. You'll be learning all the time.
Eh?
You can't even write coherent English. Why are you here?
Facts aren't debatable. That's what makes them facts.
That'll be the same older white people that mostly voted Leave, will it? Ten years ago, it was 2015, and the referendum had only just been announced.
It was quite fun, really. Not my first rodeo, as they say.
What misleading post was that?
The people installing the advertising displays should be given "provide live bus times" as a requirement at each bus stop they're working on that doesn't already provide said live bus times - same as builders have to provide primary schools next to their new developments.