GoodbyeMrChips

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by GoodbyeMrChips 3y ago
Also reported on by Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/looting-with-p...
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
WOW! Comments pointing out that this is illegal in the UK and Europe under the GDPR removed! What gives?
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> the myth of the "expiration date" We (UK) have use by dates, and best before dates. They mean exactly what they say. i.e. Raw chicken will have a use by date, eat it beyond this and you risk getting the shits. On the ot
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> in the US Ah, this makes sense. I recall eating in US restaurants and being given ridiculously large portions... something we half-joked - half-seriously suggested was down to the size of some of the patrons. Presumably is it instead
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> I can't imagine wasting food from a restaurant -- I always have taken my leftovers home and eaten them later. Is this a thing where you are from? I suggest here in Blighty, the waiters would be rather confused by such a request; n
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
Why is this comment downvoted? It is perfectly legitimate. If you disagree with it, post a response, don't just lazily click downvote. This isn't Reddit. Downvoting is for replies that distract from the conversation, not for repli
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> almost chain of evidence It is, and was a chain of evidence for me. One that saved my arse. Type up your reports and spreadsheets, but raw data should always be kept in a proper hardbound paper lab notebook.... one that references
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
Question. By "Travellers" do you mean, 'new age travellers' (aka hippies) or the thieving scrotes who live a 'traditional way of life' badly tarmacing driveways? The former still attend Glastonbury for free (th
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> you had to pay ..... just to get a bottle of water. The fact that somebody even tried to do this suggests the organisers were dangerous fuckwits. The outcome was unsurprising.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> Was '99 any worse than the original? This statement implies that the two were in some way connected.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
WOW! Posts removed for saying OP's statement that "UK isn't exactly known for its food" is both outdated and prejudiced! Explanation needed methinks.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> The IRA were terrorists. Seconded. To see such a plainly factual statement being down voted on HN is deeply worrying....... I suspect the Americans doing the down voting have never been cought up in a terrorist attack and are happy bei
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
Pah Let me introduce you to the endemic Parakeets of London....... and the urban legends they were introduced to the city by Jimi Hendrix and/or Catherine Hepburn. https://londonist.com/london/great-outdoors&#x2F
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
Eh? One buys sports cars and wine for enjoyment. The idea of buying the most expensive offering for its own sake is laughable. One doesn't order an expensive claret to drink with fish!
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> No better or worse than trying to signal with..... "Signalling" ? Part of me has just died. Have you ever thought about not giving a toss what others think and just reading?
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> No matter if you made millions, unless you have pedigree, you don't belong. It works the other way also......... plenty members of our upper class aristocracy are penniless, but are, and remain, upper class. I always find the US a
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> The obsession with linking your real life to your online life is the most toxic change to internet culture since the web started. Seconded. As the saying goes; "What is the difference between posting something on the internet and
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> We have rights guaranteed to us in the United States that no other country has Good god! You really believe your own hype don't you? (I believe the American expression is "drunk the kool-aid").
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> the nuclear power plant I worked at ran mostly on LabView Jesus wept! -Signed, a physicist with 20 years LabView and Fortran experience.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
Errrrm.... That's an ordinary 24 hour clock. Rather bizarre to call it "Military" time.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> British and Irish English only? Others can correct me here. You are correct.... Unlike 'merkin English, in British English saying 'half nine' [meaning 9:30] is fine and one would only say 'half-past-nine' if th
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
>Do Europeans just not have analog clocks or watches anymore? Not in Britain we don't. Analog clocks were abolished by Henry VIII. Since then we kept time using sundials until digital watches were invented in the 1970's and Rog
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by GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago
> you generally pronounce it as military time WTF is 'military time'?
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> Are there any Metamates I can't be the only one who laughed at this!
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> How could a prison system ever really do that? It's a punishment. Reading this, I'd bet £1000 to spat out sweet you are US-American? Because elsewhere, most of the civilised world treats prison as rehabilitation.
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> eliminating large bills Surely you mean eliminating large denomination banknotes?
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
And cryptocurrencies have huge scaling issues cashing out!
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
Tracking you and storing the data without good reason and without up-front transparency is very clearly a GDPR breach. When will these idiots learn that you simply cannot go gathering personal data on the off chance you might find it usef
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> "What if F Scott Fitzgerald came up to earth, said "It's pronounced Jatsby", then left?" Oh what you don't know! Robert Louis Stevensons 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', the pronunciation
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by GoodbyeMrChips 5y ago
> being offered stock in your own company Off-topic from the thrust of this conversation, but I always considered the above extremally risky. If your company goes tits-up, you loose your job and your savings. This happened to a lot of

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