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40%!! The fuck! These people should be publicly executed.
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40%!! The fuck! These people should be publicly executed.
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Is it partly a result of clueless bar staff? Minimum wage in england behind the bars. Service is rubbish/non existent.
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Palestine, Ukraine, £150bn of investment so what will the BBC lead the news with regards to the Trump state visit ?
Immigration by small boats and Sadiq Khan. Do such editorial decisions have to be approved by the Daily Heil and Farage?
Immigration by small boats and Sadiq Khan. Do such editorial decisions have to be approved by the Daily Heil and Farage?
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I was in the Euston Tap last Friday (before heading back to Wolves) and the queue was out the door despite there being plenty of room at the bar. It was also pissing it down with rain outside which made it even more stupid.
They've changed the bar in there and only had two staff on but there was no reason for a practically single file queue.
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Going against my principles by pre-ordering the Airpods Pro 3 so they'd get here today... Only for the estimated ship date to get pushed all the way into mid-October.
Why the fuck did I pre-order them, then? I could probably pick some up from an Apple Store today but nooooo, I had to give my money to Amazon. Shameful.
Why the fuck did I pre-order them, then? I could probably pick some up from an Apple Store today but nooooo, I had to give my money to Amazon. Shameful.
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I need to find somewhere with stock so I can pick them up this week.
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Believe me, of the big tech oligarchs they're not close to the worst. Still a soulless corporation but at least they don't give the cops a backdoor into iPhone data (not yet, anyway) and they aren't involved in helping the IDF bomb Gaza.
Low bars but I'll take it. No ethical consumption and all that.
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iPhones are fucking waaaaaaank.
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Change your network then..?
Alan
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Name a phone that isn't!
All smartphones fucking suck and are awful, but here we are.
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Fucking depressing that we keep looking at the things we subscribe to (Amazon, Spotify, Samsung phones, YouTube etc etc) and trying to find a brand that ISN'T morally corrupt is like trying to find a positive post from Jinky in a matchday thread
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Personally I don't like having the equivalent of a parental lock on technology that as an adult, I spent my own money on. It's my phone, don't wall access off to chunks of it.Name a phone that isn't!
All smartphones fucking suck and are awful, but here we are.
It's been a long time since I had one in fairness but I'd never go back. ITunes is shocking software and always has been, and using Spotify on it was a nightmare as the cache constantly got clogged after a few hours of listening and guess what, Apple don't let you clear it (or didn't back then). Constantly uninstalling the app and re-installing it was the only "fix".
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They've loosened up on a lot of that stuff, though I can't imagine they did so out of the kindness of their hearts (more that people are finally realizing that their walled garden and the bullshit that goea along with it are pretty monopolistic).
I swapped from Android five-ish years ago, so the proper "Jobs' way or no way" era passed me by. Still, as a developer, I can appreciate some of those locks in the name of the ecosystem; there are capabilities that you're just never realistically going to implement if a third party controls the API you're integrating with.
I'd still absolutely rather give my money to Apple than Google or Samsung, but it's all lipstick on pigs.
I swapped from Android five-ish years ago, so the proper "Jobs' way or no way" era passed me by. Still, as a developer, I can appreciate some of those locks in the name of the ecosystem; there are capabilities that you're just never realistically going to implement if a third party controls the API you're integrating with.
I'd still absolutely rather give my money to Apple than Google or Samsung, but it's all lipstick on pigs.
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MoD spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh language
Military personnel receive a private education allowance to avoid lessons in Welsh in state schools.
www.bbc.co.uk
It doesn't annoy me per se, but I think the attitude of "learning the welsh language" should be embraced is crazy in this scenario. I can't imagine anyone going into a class and hearing Welsh for the first time and being expected to learn anything. They would have missed out on all the foundational learning and would render any Welsh-only lessons pointless.
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Presumably the same principle applies to families in Cyprus, Oman, Kenya, Germany, Bahrain, Norway, Estonia, Poland, etc?MoD spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh language
Military personnel receive a private education allowance to avoid lessons in Welsh in state schools.
It doesn't annoy me per se, but I think the attitude of "learning the welsh language" should be embraced is crazy in this scenario. I can't imagine anyone going into a class and hearing Welsh for the first time and being expected to learn anything. They would have missed out on all the foundational learning and would render any Welsh-only lessons pointless.
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I think so. I've skimmed this and it seems the MOD provide schooling for those based families bases in non-english speaking countries.
Again, it would be silly to expect kids to be able to be able to instantly learn something in a language they haven't been exposed to before.
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Yeah. It would make perfect sense to use a school that provides an education in the student's 'native tongue'.
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The MOD pays for service families education in the uk as well, when I was school bus driving for Lincoln’s premier private school, majority of the kids on the Sleaford, Grantham and Horncastle routes were from service families serving at RAF Cranwell, waddington and Coningsby, if it wasn’t your home base, or it was your home base but you were posted elsewhere the MOD paid
School was happy they got more money coming in, families were happy they weren’t paying school fees, I was happy because I got free VIP tickets for air shows, and base family days
School was happy they got more money coming in, families were happy they weren’t paying school fees, I was happy because I got free VIP tickets for air shows, and base family days
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Agreed.
Meanwhile, there's an ongoing issue about how connected a military community should be with the local one. I have a work colleague who lived on a base near Dortmund for about six years and he admits that his level of German is absolutely appalling. At the moment there's only a couple of hundred UK service personnel left in Germany. A few words and phrases beyond the UK's abysmal offering in language education in the national curriculum would go a long way towards building up trust and reducing antipathy in the extended community even if it's limited very little beyond 'Zwei bier bitte' and 'Scheiss Bayern'.
Meanwhile, there's an ongoing issue about how connected a military community should be with the local one. I have a work colleague who lived on a base near Dortmund for about six years and he admits that his level of German is absolutely appalling. At the moment there's only a couple of hundred UK service personnel left in Germany. A few words and phrases beyond the UK's abysmal offering in language education in the national curriculum would go a long way towards building up trust and reducing antipathy in the extended community even if it's limited very little beyond 'Zwei bier bitte' and 'Scheiss Bayern'.
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