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This is how it happened to BA. [https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989](https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989)

>I remember every time I wake up for a wee How do you know?

Indeed the (very beige) [house](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/153505529) was on RightMove a while back.

>“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.” ― **Douglas Adams,** [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1877624)

I know an acoustics engineer in a relatively niche field of making very loud things quieter. HS2 effectively guarantees him very well paid employment until he moves into a suitably comfortable retirement. Turned out to be a decent career choice.

\^scrolls down contacts to Afghan Black

Rates have increased since the 70s/80s but not drastically. Rates tend to increase with age (rate for females in US peaks 45-65, males are more even but still broadly higher later in life) - so our cohort risk is increasing. And then in our parents' generation maybe people just didn't talk about it or even hid it. There was more of a social stigma. I remember that from the 90s when my grandfather killed himself.

Don't beat yourself up too much. Nicotine is the most addictive substance I've experienced - cocaine was a breeze in comparison. I quit smoking so many times. But millions of people have quit and so can you. For me what worked was tapering downwards over a long period. No cold turkey, for me just vaping at decreasing strengths to zero over a couple of years. I'm sure I'm still addicted but I don't use nicotine now. I hope you find an exit that works for you - and congratulate yourself on stopping the cigarettes at least.

They're slowly buying up houses in the village where I grew up.

The wonders of e-commerce

Username checks out.

Some of the current ubiquitous stuff can be seriously potent and crossing into unpleasant imho. That said, it's easier to access the strains with a profile that suits you - even here in UK. The giggly hazes that you used to have to go to Amsterdam for, mellow strains that aren't like a brick to the head. And fwiw, plenty of my GenX peers still partake.

Never been in that situation but it feels quite a British cultural thing. Mild suspicion of authority figures, personal liberty, fairness, stubbornness etc. I'll show my ID to a bouncer because I want to enter his premises. I'll tell a glorified bouncer trying to get into **my** ~~premises~~ home to jog on - it shouldn't be up to me to prove he's at the wrong address.

[This Be The Verse (Larkin)](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse)

Ah, The 'Essex Barn' template. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv6owsCvw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv6owsCvw)

And (as any confidence motion) is confidence in the government as a whole and not just the PM. So the stakes are new elections rather than just deposing the PM.

Now I'm also concerned. My barber is self-employed and sets his own prices. He cuts my hair with skill and I pay his slightly above average fee. I assumed everyone was happy with that arrangement.

There’s a country lane near me that you can sit and watch people in cars and vans. You’d have to take a torch though.

Friend was a restaurant foh manager. According to him: Rick Stein - very easy to work with. Marcus Wearing - was warned not to go there. Richard Corrigan - Did not end well. Heston - Nice guy but wasn't in a great place at the time (pre bipolar diagnosis)

The English class system as not so much about money (although it's a compenent) as much as it is about social attitudes and behaviours. We've got plenty of broke toffs and working class millionaires. This may be a slightly dates list but middle class tropes: White collar job Expects multiple foreign holidays or long-haul Would like their kids in private school BBC not ITV Broadsheet newspapers or the daily mail Kids expected to go to Uni maybe after a gap year Better car than next door Groceries from Waitrose or M&S Ski holidays Organic veg Kitchen diner with sofa Country walks Joules and Boden

Yes Mrs Levinson

He's appeared in Popbitch a couple of times for very enthusiastic public displays of affection with younger companions.

Also entering my old and grumpy phase - despite a pyromaniac streak and having done stuff with weed killer as a kid that would get you on a terrorism watchlist today I don't like banning stuff or fun police. But the real and serious negative impact on so many people and animals should outweigh a fairly underwhelming dose of pyrotechnics. Round my way it's fairly constant from Halloween to new year via Guy Fawkes and Diwali & from dusk through the early hours.

Nice. A previous employer sent an Excel file to every manager with their specific team member's pay details at salary review time. They also had a protected/hidden tab with the entire company payroll details. Password was a 4 letter dictionary word which took about 2 seconds to brute force.

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Ah, yeah I remember the 'baby listening service' via an open wired intercom in the chalet or hotel room. See also kids left in the car with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps while parent was in the pub. With hindsight pretty reckless but at the time perfectly normal.

A mate was on the catering staff for his funeral / wake. Said they served teas, coffees and a small finger buffet.

We should take them to a supermarket. I don't know why, but we'll have to start somewhere.

Was Paradise Factory for quite a while, same operators as Manto. The number of levels definitely changed over time. Hard house downstairs, more handbag in the loft. Patsy Towers an iconic door whore for a while.

Had a very similar experience many years ago with British Midland at CDG "The observant among you will have noticed we didn't land. There was another aeroplane on the runway"

Bristol. I'm from the midlands but have been heading down there increasingly often. * Generally chilled but with just enough grit and subversive undertone * Good cultural scene. * Big enough to host recognised artists/bands/tours. * Decent clubs & music scene. * LGBTQ acceptance * Great food & restaurants from street to Michelin \* * Independent shops, bars, breweries * Access to nature - eg Malverns, Wales * Access to London isn't bad * Easy to get around * Has a waterside * Turbo island. I'm sure there are downsides - and people like me contributing to gentrification is probably one of them... Easier on the eye (and more liveable?) than Birmingham, less try-hard or flashy than the newly monied Manchester, warmer than Glasgow. Elements of Brighton but with fewer healing crystals and boho trustafarians.

Fair question. The £2.8b on £69bn sales is basically trading profit (gross margin) which is the difference between what you buy the stock for and what you sell it for. *(There's other stuff going on but that's the gist)* They didn't buy all the goods up front at the start of the year so never needed £63b to invest in stock. eg. You have a shop. You sell 100 widgets per week for £100 each. Sales = £10,000 per week. Each widget costs you £70 = £7,000 pw. So your gross profit is £3,000 per week or £156,000 per year. Here's the thing - you only ever needed to hold 100 widgets at any one time - just buy one for every one you sell. So your initial outlay of £7,000 has returned you £156,000 over a year. It gets better for Tesco because they actually sell stock before they pay the supplier for it (that gets into the cash flow numbers) But they have invested billions in the infrastructure (shops, trucks, warehouses, IT systems etc) that is the machine that allows them to generate the trading profit. That's the money that has to return more than the 5% than it could if shareholders put it in the bank. That's the capital investment (or return on capital) side of the numbers. So in your widget shop that might be the money you initially spent on fitting out the shop, buying the delivery van etc. Finally there are expenses such as advertising and wages, rent, rates, electricity, interest on any borrowing etc. Tesco will have reported some of those in the Gross Margin number and probably some elsewhere but they do affect the overall profit. For the widget shop same applies. You have to pay to run the shop and that comes out of your trading profit. Does that make any sense?

Fair amount of Victorian housing stock has still got lead from the street to the stopcock. Many on a 'shared supply' too where the lead pipe has a Y join that feeds two properties.

I also work in a sector that deals with data. And my tin foil hat fear is that there is a small but non-zero\* chance that an authoritarian government comes to power - one with an ambition to cleanse the nation of groups with a particular ethnicity, genetic trait, congenital predisposition etc. How much easier would it be if there was a genetic database. Also the possibility of a less genocidal but fanatically free-market government removing all protections on genetic screening for health insurance etc. \*Happened multiple times in various regions in the last century.

Used to work near to Samworth Bros pork pie factory. When the wind was blowing from the east 🤢

I'm sure the appropriate 'taxes' are paid to the appropriate people to cover a multitude of sins in such an important part of the economy.

There's a difference between intelligence and common sense and maybe that comes into play. She'd probably beat me on the standard IQ type tests, logical reasoning etc. And yet... The cognitive dissonance must be immense.

I mean there's Christian ('identifies as', vaguely Anglican, likes the tradition, not convinced on the God bit, never seen in church), Christian (professes an actual faith, active) and Christian (batshit). I include JW in the latter. Had a very intelligent colleague once, data scientist, who let on that she thought the universe was 5,000 years old and that Satan had buried all the dinosaur bones to confuse mankind. That was a case of each to their own but what a weirdo.

https://preview.redd.it/8qpo92kttb0e1.png?width=225&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d268aecaf811317df2bcc3fe747dec9b27a00e9 [https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=smE9EqAsOMs](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=smE9EqAsOMs)

At least the days are gone now where the PE Teacher would shower with the year 6 boys

From Popbitch [https://popbitch.com/black-out/](https://popbitch.com/black-out/) >Not only would she insist upon travelling first class, she’d demand seat 1A. That was only the first of many demands too – all of which were made through her PA, as Cilla didn’t want to speak to any staff herself. The full nine yards too, not so much as a please or thank you. >One flight attendant eventually grew so tired of her behaviour, that he leaned over to speak directly to her and uttered the immortal line: “I knew you couldn’t sing, but I didn’t know you couldn’t fucking speak

In unrelated news, many characters from Viz appear to have supermarket loyalty cards registered to my address.

There's a sub with loads about home sauna projects r/Sauna

Agreed - that seems the weakest of the lot. Economic or utilitarian maybe but I struggle to see where morality fits into this. As a remorseful ex-smoker I rue the damage I have done to myself but that's on me. I regret the harms I may have caused others or the detriment to amenity in shared spaces - but that was also my decision and anyway, the problem has been substantially addressed by the workplace and indoor spaces ban. Smoking in itself is not immoral and neither is permitting another to smoke.

FWIW - UK uncontrolled aerodrome, club aircraft + CFI, wet. C152 = £219 = c.$265 C172 = £248 = c.$300

Add a zero.

Toffs need a category for morning suits.

Having a *really* nice car and a regular plate is kind of a flex imo. Like flying 1st and bringing your McDonald’s burger on to eat because that’s what you want. Not that I want to deny anyone their fun or pleasure in a personal plate. Each to their own and all that.

Harmless to you if you leave it alone - and it will stay away from you unless you start feeding it. Just make sure bin bags with food waste goes straight into your plastic dustbin - they'll go through unattended rubbish bags for food.