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by willyt 6y ago
Not really, the TGV network makes a profit and the fares are about half the price of our shit trains. Also their most expensive line has about 50 bridges and tunnels through much more rugged landscape than the midlands and cost 5 times less
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by willyt 6y ago
It must be a minefield for French people learning English as we have incorporated a so many french words and assigned more specific meanings to them. I might have this example wrong as I don't speak much french, but there must be quite
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by willyt 6y ago
I think a native British English speaker would use maybe in both senses though you'd have to work it out from context. As in. A:'Do you want to go out with me' B:'Maybe...'.
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by willyt 6y ago
Sounds like the concept of 'propriety' in English?
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by willyt 6y ago
Sounds like it means the same things as to 'cut a good figure' in English. i.e. he cuts a good figure => he's well dressed, charming and polite.
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by willyt 6y ago
Is this the one you mean? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VWqWAi_H_9o
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by willyt 6y ago
But the proposed solution in the U.K. and Australia is worse for privacy and is only subject to the scrutiny of the citizens of that country compared to the scrutiny of the entire planet for Apple and Google. Ultimately, if you don’t trust
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by willyt 6y ago
We have this problem with both apple cables and micro usb. The kids yank on them and the cables break. Charging cables just seem to be a consumable item. The difference is that the ports in the micro usb devices also get damaged so pretty m
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by willyt 6y ago
No it is a colloquial saying in Britain, especially in the North of England. Me: "I hurt myself at work, then I lost my wallet and my girlfriend left me", Someone else: "It never rains, but it pours".
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by willyt 6y ago
Dire Straits is something that happens to you, it would be used in this context, 'He was in dire straits' meaning, in big trouble of some kind. The straits in question are not a plural of an individual living thing like a Beatle.
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by willyt 6y ago
Its not formal english though. The British informal equivalent would be 'you're having me on!' or 'you're having a laugh!' or (rude) 'you're taking the piss'
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by willyt 6y ago
Us British would say the first if the doctor has (in the past) insisted that you will (in the future) spend the night and the second if you (in the past) spent the night because the doctor insisted. Is that not the same in the US?
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by willyt 6y ago
Isn't that colloquial saying though? Trying to think of another good example... "It never rains, but it pours."
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by willyt 6y ago
Regardless of Spitfires, Alan Turing, anti-sub technology, RADAR etc, WW2 was won and lost on the Eastern front. The Normandy invasion would have been impossible without the Russians sacrificing between 8-11 million soldiers. This compares
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by willyt 7y ago
Might be an EU thing. Pretty sure there's a regulation that says new lifts need to announce floors even cheap hoists that only go one floor do it.
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by willyt 7y ago
Falling asleep to podcasts?
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by willyt 7y ago
Back then every component of a battleship, the most powerful and advanced weapon of the time could be built independently by Britain, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan etc. Today, there are very few weapons systems that do not depend on al
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by willyt 7y ago
SNP and Greens in Scotland are considering it. Its unlikely to pass the 'study' stage though until Scotland gains full control of taxation and benefits.
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by willyt 7y ago
Just to back this up with some numbers. So there's about 50000 people in the Hebridean islands off the west of Scotland, most islands have at best a couple of beds where the best you can hope for is the local GP can put you on oxygen.
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by willyt 7y ago
> Infection rates are already significant, there just aren't enough people to sustain two months' growth. This is wrong, of course there are enough people for this to grow for months even with no containment efforts. https:&#x
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“Heated” Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson to Act on Coronavirus(buzzfeed.com)
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by willyt 7y ago
Trouble is that in order to remain competitive all companies have to take the same risk as the lowest common denominator. If there is a regulation, then there is no market pressure to take the risk.
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by willyt 7y ago
I completely agree. I was shocked to hear that only people that present with symptoms that require hospital treatment are now being tested.
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by willyt 7y ago
You are wrong about South Korea. Their testing has been incredibly effective from the beginning, patient 31 in South Korea had no known contact and was told to take a CV test by her doctors, but didn't take the advice until a 2 days la
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by willyt 7y ago
On the other hand, Italy has very good food hygiene standards, as anyone who has been told off for touching the fruit and veg in the grocers can tell you. You never have a shop assistant handle money and then touch food, which you see all t
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by willyt 7y ago
The equivalent of the entire population of Glasgow passes through Kings Cross station in the morning rush hour. There are 4 other stations with similar flows. Over 20 million people live within an hour or 30 miles of Piccadilly Circus.
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by willyt 7y ago
1.0 litre 3 cyl petrol engine in my car makes 120hp and gets 50mpg extra urban. It has dynamic servicing and first service is currently shown as 550 days away. Obviously the 2.0 konigsegg makes 5 times the HP, but maybe double the cylinder
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by willyt 7y ago
No offence intended to Americans, but those guys are culturally much tougher negotiators than us. When they know they have leverage over you they don't hold back at all. We get caught out by this over and over again because we speak th
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by willyt 7y ago
Where do you get bureaucrats deciding things like that, I've never heard of that before? 60's USSR maybe?
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by willyt 7y ago
Still can do this.

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