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by dazc 4y ago
You may be discounting the numbers of former users who left long ago and don't have their previous login details? This would account for a fair number of new sign-ups.
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by dazc 4y ago
Only two companies were mentioned, Atom Bank and Awin - neither of which I would describe as 'corporations'? I think it's a gimmick that some businesses will use for publicity purposes and nothing more. Anyone looking for a b
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by dazc 4y ago
I agree with all of this. I spent some time living cheaply in Spain a few years ago, in high density housing, and I would describe it best as a living hell. Slamming doors, multiple barking dogs on every balcony, conversations held at such
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by dazc 4y ago
Only anecdata but I have been homeless, ten years ago for around 4 months, and I would agree that the vast majority of other homeless people in the same area fell into this category. In the case of those pretending to be homeless for the pu
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by dazc 4y ago
No, it's all a game. Sturgeon knows it's never going to happen but the balance of politics in Scotland is such that she can remain in power for ever so long as she keeps banging the drum.
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by dazc 4y ago
The annual Which press release doing the rounds again then? At this time of year its hard to find a retailer that isn't running a Black Friday promotion for weeks on end. It started out as hype but now it is pretty much impossible to b
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by dazc 4y ago
This likely applies to most countries - there are two versions of the UK, a media-controlled whiny, everything is terrible version and another version where most people go out in the morning and just get on with it. I have lived in countrie
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by dazc 4y ago
I think this has been posted multiple times but, yeah, they are never going to succeed with a website like this.
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by dazc 4y ago
I have never been comfortable with direct eye contact but the funny thing is that I am often complemented on my eyes, which feels kind of weird but also makes me realize how other people can judge you in ways you wouldn't normally cons
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by dazc 4y ago
Driving a car is quite easy and something most people could learn in a couple of hours. The tricky part is not hitting other cars, pedestrians and random stationery objects - this is where real-world experience is much better than any simul
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by dazc 4y ago
Judging by the standard level of driving on UK roads, I think most people did the same.
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by dazc 4y ago
> 'It may be obvious to you… but believe it or not, there are people who have never seen these things spelled out in plain language and who never discovered these lessons on their own.' Indeed, good points well made, what I mea
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by dazc 4y ago
I always had a negative view of this book with such a silly title until I read 'The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life' and learned that not only did Buffet read the book but also went to great lengths in applying i
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by dazc 4y ago
'It's just too painful. He feels tormented by some of the other guys in the group. Apparently they tried this some time ago and the chat descended into bullying him like we were in school, except now we're grown up everyone t
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by dazc 4y ago
Thanks for answering. Don't do this in some parts of the UK though, where 'crash for cash' is a thing, you may well become a victim. https://www.abi.org.uk/products-and-issues/topics-and-issues...
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by dazc 4y ago
> 'Sometimes, though, I will allow the distance between myself and the next car to close, for example, if they're turning and will be gone in a second...' I often wonder what advantage in life people think they are gaining
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by dazc 4y ago
People want to buy food without all the drama that comes with the current alternatives (except, maybe, Greggs?) so, no, until your average sandwich shop/cafe ups their game, there will be no resistance at all.
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by dazc 4y ago
The default public interface for many small businesses these days seems to be facebook for the simple reason that it is free to have your page on there. They don't get much else though unless they are willing to be interacting with the
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by dazc 4y ago
This is true, you have to very persistent with the chargeback route, sometimes only a threat of legal action against the bank will move things forward.
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by dazc 4y ago
The Financial Ombudsman Service is one of the few UK organizations that is anyway effective. If only all other regulatory authorities were half as good? One problem I have found with some UK eCommerce sites though is that their payment gate
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by dazc 4y ago
You are correct, of course, but as a Northerner who has lived in in the South for over 10 years, the best advice I could give any young person would be to try and lose your regional accent as soon as you are able. Few, other than a close ci
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by dazc 4y ago
People can change but mostly the don't. If someone let you down 5 years ago they will, most likely, let you down again.
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by dazc 4y ago
> I did a lot of crazy shit when I was younger that I would never do today. Did you torture a hamster because it was funny, like throwing it hard against a wall to see if it would bounce? Did you beat the shit out of a 5 year old girl be
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by dazc 4y ago
A friend of mine lives in a building with concrete floors above and below, all his wiring runs through plastic, surface-mounted, trunking and it is aesthetically disgusting.
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by dazc 4y ago
> Someone who committed a crime at 19 is a wholly different person at 50. Not necessarily, some people are just bad or damaged to the extent that they can not live a normal life within society. I remember kids I knew as a child who were
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by dazc 4y ago
> 'I'm finally starting to understand the feelings my grandfather had for anything thing he considered superfluous or inconvenient in a car.' I drive a 12 year old Focus that has just about the right amount of modern funct
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by dazc 4y ago
Isn't this how most of the 'civilized' world operates?
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by dazc 4y ago
I know many people who are much better travelled than I am but lack any real knowledge of the countries they have visited. I lived in Spain for 3 years, not knowing a word of Spanish at first although many of my wiser friends informed me th
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by dazc 4y ago
If you work for nothing you'll always be busy.
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by dazc 4y ago
Of 3 sites hit I submitted a support request for one and did nothing for the other two. My support request was responded to after about 3 weeks with a bland generic message saying the issue had been resolved and I should see my site listed

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