Posts by Fred Dibnah 666 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Oct 2008
But it's not even the best cereal - Oatibix is better.
This study is hugely flawed because it fails to distinguish between McV's milk chocolate digestives (OK if nothing else available) and dark chocolate digestives (absolutely the best biscuit in the world ever, no argument).
These are facts, not opinions.
The outrage for me is that by going into coalition instead of making an informal arrangement, the Lib Dems enabled the Tories to implement their 'austerity' programme of huge public spending cuts - loading those cuts onto local government services in order to deflect the blame off themselves and onto councils.
That was the Project 80 system. I had the stereo FM tuner, mounted on a die cast box containing the power supply. It was really hard to tune into a station using the slider, and the stereo separation was poor. It also had a tendency for the tuning to drift as it warmed up.
The EV I leased recently cost twice as much to service than my (larger) car. And it let me down completely & had to be taken away on a flatbed, something which hadn't happened to me before in 40 years of driving.
And don't get me started on the charging network.
Or how EVs will solve all our traffic problems.
The viewpoint of a satellite flying directly above the British Isles will show roughly correct shape, area, and distances. A satellite over the equator will see shape, area, and distances incorrectly, which is why it was a stupid idea for the BBC to choose that viewpoint. In any case, weather satellites are often in polar orbits.
Next time you look at a paper map of the British Isles, think about where the view is from. It's not from the equator, and for a very good reason.
IANAL but I would imagine that UK courts would count moving jobs offshore as redundancy. Happy to be corrected though.
Employers have to be very careful with who they call redundant. A former colleague was told by email he was to be redundant, and BTW could he put some notes together for the handover to his replacement? Oops...
The accommodation in industrial cities was, in many cases, worse than in rural areas. Originally people were generally able to live off the land without having to work for anyone else, but after Enclosure (essentially the landowners appropriating common land with the backing of the authorities) they were forced into cities where the only way to survive was to become a wage slave to an employer.
And so here we are today.
Of course he cultivated the buffoon image, the public fell for it and now allows him to get away with being incompetent far beyond any other politician, "because it's just Boris being Boris". If everyone ignored the Latin and the bumbling, and focussed on the actions and policies his government is enacting, he would be unmasked as the devious, lying charlatan he really is. Call me a grumpy old sod, but to me it's not remotely funny and/or clownish, it's tragic.
And I'd replace 'self-respecting' politicians with 'self-serving' ;-)
Again, I like your post but you've fallen into the same trap and called Johnson by a name which (despite you presumably intending it to be negative) only reinforces the bumbling buffoon shtick that has got him where he is today. Why not just call him by his surname, like we do for every other PM and politician?
That's neoliberal 'regulation' for you. The possible fines appease the public, whilst the light enforcement avoids upsetting the corporations and lets them carry on behaving just as they like.
See also: water, gas, electricity, phone, & train companies.
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