frobozz

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by frobozz 4y ago
I use(d) it a lot. Specifically for pound coins, rather than the value of £1. e.g. you would ask, "Can you swap us 5 nuggets for a Lady?" If you wanted to go and get something from a vending machine, but only had notes. Even more
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by frobozz 4y ago
£5 and its multiples: Lady, Ayrton, Commodore, Score, Pony. Sadly, I think these are dying out due to the move towards a cashless society. The most common use for any of these (for me) was to ask someone to lend me a bit of cash when I&#x27
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by frobozz 4y ago
> the infrastructure remains nationalised, Slight correction. Renationalised, rather than remains nationalised. The infrastructure was renationalised, because Railtrack preferred handing out dividends over maintaining tracks, eventually
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by frobozz 4y ago
"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community"
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by frobozz 4y ago
There has been a reasonably priced way since 1977. It currently costs £5.50
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by frobozz 4y ago
Cheap divorce? The sky is green!
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by frobozz 4y ago
> You get what you pay for I think. $40 bookshelves? Not making it through a move I'm sitting next to a Billy that's nearly 2 decades and 4 moves old.
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by frobozz 4y ago
If you are reassigned, you are not dead weight to your original division, because you aren't working for them, you are on the books of the other division. Also if you are reassigned, you don't have your original projects to get be
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by frobozz 4y ago
> on official assignment from higher management. Unless your line manager authorised the secondment (in which case, why PIP?), it wasn't on official assignment, it was just a personal request from someone who happened to be in a hig
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by frobozz 4y ago
Am I reading this right? You worked double time for months, and in that time you neglected your own job, without it being authorised by your line manager? All so that a manager in a different department wouldn't look bad for losing an
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by frobozz 4y ago
The story where emails could only be sent a certain distance is fun. I haven't read that one in a while.
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by frobozz 4y ago
Also: > The prevailing wisdom for this seafaring situation is “Don’t Stop.” The law is to render assistance. That law was based on prevailing wisdom. Apparently the author moves in different circles to the rest of seafaring folk.
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by frobozz 4y ago
Seconded! This approach has worked for me several times over the years. It takes time and patience. The companies you target aren't always hiring the roles you want. I've been lucky a few times, with opportunities arising just as
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by frobozz 4y ago
I have never seen this, and I live right by a school bus stop. The closest place a limited number of cars could wait is down a side road about 200ft from the stop, but they don't.
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by frobozz 4y ago
Many successful artists have not undertaken university-level training in their art. However, most of them will have been trained by someone who did. Reduce arts education funding at the highest level and the reduction trickles down to the l
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by frobozz 4y ago
The thing is, "stop calling me" implies a pattern of behaviour you want them to break, not a one-off. If it's the first call from someone who doesn't know your working pattern, then you're not really saying "st
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by frobozz 4y ago
> stop calling me before my workday even starts In what circumstances would you use this phrase? If they are calling you out of hours, ignore it. They'll eventually get the message.
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by frobozz 5y ago
MAD is the same concept as "an armed society is a polite society" I don't like either idea. Being civil to one another simply because the other party might respond with incredibly disproportionate violence is not a civilised
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by frobozz 5y ago
The shipping forecast is produced by the maritime and coastguard agency. The BBC just read it out. As do the coastguards.
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by frobozz 5y ago
If you look at the actual HMRC guidance, rather than some random website, you'd see that "alterations due to advancements in technology are generally treated as an allowable repair rather than an improvement, if the functionality
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by frobozz 5y ago
> the cost of energy is borne by the tenant, but the cost of renovations would be borne by the landlord In addition, as house prices are so high, owner-occupiers often don't have the means to make these improvements until they have
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by frobozz 5y ago
Absolutely. What I mean is that we can't declare something "inauthentic" just because it was invented after a certain time or event.
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by frobozz 5y ago
Yes. To suggest otherwise is to insist that cuisine (or any other tradition) must be somehow frozen at a specific point in history in order to be "authentic". Even if that is an acceptable assertion, what would be that specific po
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by frobozz 5y ago
I moved from induction to gas recently (not by choice). Anecdotally, the gas feels slower. It seems to take an age to bring things up to the boil compared to my old induction. Also, cleaning up after spills is a pain compared to a glass sur
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by frobozz 5y ago
The "sweltering heat" comment was, itself, a bad-faith "Ha! you didn't think about this edge condition" kind of comment, in response to a comment saying this: > Take the gains you can access instead of quibbling
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by frobozz 5y ago
I've normally thought of it as a retailer thing, but it does look a bit like it's brand-led in some cases. I'm currently in the market for a few big ticket household items, and the Black Friday hype is everywhere I look. Whe
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by frobozz 5y ago
The immediate point that you are obviously ignoring is that no one you are replying to has even suggested anything that you seem to be arguing against. It looks like you are responding to someone saying "ban all cars, anyone living som
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by frobozz 5y ago
3800chf is an amazing price for that. By contrast, that's roughly the same price as an annual ticket between central London and a town about 30 miles away.
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by frobozz 5y ago
I would like to have seen this explored from other directions as well. It's clear that given a choice between top and bottom, light is expected to come from the top. However, in real life, the sun crosses the sky from eastish to westis
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by frobozz 5y ago
Not really, because if they cheated, they didn't actually accomplish it. They cheat to gain the prestige of having accomplished it.

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