GJim

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by GJim 3mo ago
> opened the fridge to grab a banana. A chef should know better than to keep bananas in a fridge!
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by GJim 3mo ago
> If you’re looking at win vs loss you also need to look at what you got in return for what you gave. This. Russia is suffering over 400 casualties for every square km (1036 per square mile!) of territory captured in Donetsk, screwing th
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by GJim 3mo ago
Don't spout shite. The BBC report is objectively what the defence stated in court: namely that their defendant was autistic. If you've a problem with that, take it up with the lawyers.
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by GJim 3mo ago
Presumably you get your news content from Rupert Murdoch, the Daily Mail and UK News?
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by GJim 3mo ago
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then we may have to accept the fact it is a duck.
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by GJim 3mo ago
> creators I'd argue the very expression "creating content" is a euphemism for producing shit, of which algorithm driven platforms like Youtube excel at promoting.
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by GJim 3mo ago
All empires were not created equal!
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by GJim 3mo ago
> drivers license Oi! It's a Driving Licence here in Blighty!
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by GJim 4mo ago
I'd say less pent up anger, more writing oddly in the desire to be awarded imaginary internet points.
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by GJim 4mo ago
Being redirected to an unknown website by QR code (no visible URL)? Where is the worst you could end up!
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by GJim 4mo ago
I think you will find it *did* fail to safe. (To suggest otherwise implies you do not understand what failsafe means!).
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by GJim 4mo ago
Good god! It's difficult to make out if this is ignorance, a poor attempt at satire or simply trolling.
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by GJim 4mo ago
You appear to be suggesting that fun hobbies which don't make money are a 'failure' rather than a success. Not everything is judged by how much money it makes. Have you ever wondered why kids climb trees?
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by GJim 4mo ago
> whose failing businesses they bankroll Don't confuse a hobby business with a failing business. Plenty of people with independent means run loss making businesses for fun and/or support wives/children doing just that.
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by GJim 4mo ago
> Employees were invited to invest their retirement savings in a mutual fund that contained only WorldCom stock. Investing in your own employer is an idiotic risk..... If the company goes titsup, then you lose your job and your savings
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by GJim 4mo ago
£50 to a spat out smartie says you've never ridden a motorbike in your life, let alone in city traffic.
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by GJim 4mo ago
It's hardly complicated! OP is simply describing what is common throughout government in the UK. This is known as the Revolving Door . Private Eye magazine wrote a special report on it some years back as, frankly, it is scandalous ht
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by GJim 4mo ago
We used to advocate governments turning off the internet on Friday nights and redirecting all WWW traffic to a test-card that says "Go to the pub".
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by GJim 4mo ago
Stupidly dangerous and (in my country) illegal. Please retract your comment and don't encourage such stupidity. EDIT: Since this is being misinterpreted... Earplugs that deaden sound are fine and encouraged on a motorbike, playing musi
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by GJim 4mo ago
Have you tried simply telling people you don't want to talk? "Sorry mate, I'm reading" is hardly difficult.
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by GJim 4mo ago
> Talking to strangers is a skill. You can practice it! This is HN mate! You need to design an app so people can practice it. (Alternately, rant something about "pick up artists").
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by GJim 4mo ago
> The effect on your heating bill is going to be much worse than a small amount of mould A small amount of mould? Oh you sweet summer child! You really need to see the damage it can do.
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by GJim 4mo ago
Pretty damn good; not least because each store (aside from the smallest) has their own on-site butcher and fishmonger. Not to mention a decent deli.
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by GJim 4mo ago
> most mould is caused by buildings. An honourable mention to fitting Cavity Wall Insulation , heavily sold and encouraged by UK government energy saving schemes thorough the 1990's and 2000's. Except by stuffing the wall cavi
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by GJim 4mo ago
Ummmm The GDPR also covers data portability, so preventing your data (not just personal data) from being held hostage. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
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by GJim 4mo ago
The UK is different old boy.
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by GJim 4mo ago
Yup.... And the downside is loads of reasonably successful decent small shops in the UK now have to close after 12-24 months when the rents get jacked-up from sensible to astronomical levels. None of them become permeant tenants unless they
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by GJim 4mo ago
At some point, you don't need to stand on the scales for it to be obvious you are a fat bastard. Ditto, it's obvious to all that commercial property has lost a huge amount of value. I suggest that like the dotcom/2008/A
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by GJim 4mo ago
You're not wrong. There is a particular irony about Rolex, as historically they made good quality tool watches, aimed at divers, pilots, scientists etc. These were affordable, akin to a photographer buying a good quality affordable cam
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by GJim 4mo ago
> Even Disney has had the common sense to not alter the problematic parts of its films True, Disney don't merely alter them..... they bury them! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

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