The amount people spend on cars is insane.
The amount people spend on cars is insane.
My favorite was the secretary of the French department, where my wife used to work in. She drove a $70,000 pickup truck. Even when her son was going to prison and needed money for the bail, the truck was non-negotiable.
Panic over, society is saved.
TikTokers call for 'chubby filter' to be banned https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gmvjvv6vjo
In other news, chaos at Heathrow today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrpyk5re8o
One for Mahow.
What's the point in that? You'd need the opposite here.Originally Posted by Yevrah
Fuck me we are going to have an epidemic of women just walking into rivers.
This fire at Heathrow has got to be not at all suspicious.
Strategy of tension.
To have the whole airport (fucking Heathrow, no less) reliant on one substation is the key takeaway here. Blaming the Russians is an easy deflection to a glaring hole in our infrastructure (again). Substations fires aren't that rare.
I got told by HR to simmer down on the politics talk at work a few months ago because the "they should bring Thatcher back" crew challenged me as to why I hate her. SHIT LIKE THIS.
Have we let Benetton run our power grid or something?
My brother used to supply IT helpdesk services to Norwich airport and it was absolutely wild how held together with string it all was.
Things like they obviously had absolutely miles of cabling running round the place but literally none of it was labelled or documented anywhere. So every time something went wrong and a cable needed unplugging they'd spend hours trying to work out which one it was and when they finally unplugged it something entirely unrelated on the other side of the airport would go down.
They also once had their internet go down on all their check-in desks. My brother got assigned to investigate and it turned out some manager had just taken out a domestic broadband contract for the helpdesk internet but not set up any direct debit to pay it, so it got cut off because of like £80 of unpaid bills.
In the meantime the same manager had driven into the city and bought a sim-based router as a temporary measure and then couldn't understand why it didn't have good signal in the depths of the airport.
They also dug the whole runway up to run fibre-optic cables to their air traffic control towers. My brother was talking to the guy who ran the project and asked him how many extra lines they'd put in for redundancy and the guy looked at him like he was talking Klingon. The answer was none, so if that cable ever dies they'll have to dig the runway up again.
Whilst they were doing that project, my brother was based on their site in this shitty temporary outbuilding at the end of a track full of potholes. They asked if - whilst they had the company laying the tarmac for the runway onsite - the airport could ask them to repair their shitty road. What actually happened was they relaid the road in runway grade and thickness tarmac, so you could've literally landed a plane on it.
This was all within a few months because the airport then decided to take their IT in-house.
Completely standard fare on anything where private companies are involved. I work on billion pound projects that are the same.
On the upside at least they won't have a bunch of unlabeled cables to be trying to unplug when it goes to shit.
Not going to happen. You'd never manage to hire anyone as ground staff if they had to know 3-4 languages.Harbans Kaur Johal, 81, was flying back to Heathrow after visiting her brother in India when her flight was diverted to Munich Airport this morning.
She speaks no German and very little English and was "a bit panicked and flustered", and had wandered around the airport alone for some time, unsure where to go, her son Ajai Johal says.
Ajai says he was "really angry" at British Airways for losing her, calling the situation "outrageous".
He and his wife Jas made several phone calls to British Airways staff and passengers on the same flight who were trying to help.
Thanks to "kind-hearted" people who offered her a place to stay, Harbans is now at a hotel near the airport, waiting to find out when she can travel.
Ajai and Jas think airlines should assume some passengers don’t speak English and have policies to support them in situations like this.
I too have fond memories of the eighties, when nothing ever went wrong.
Fibre optic cables are always a good one. Usual practice is to just load up the cores and run redundancy off the same cable (because the assumption is that the devices fail and not the cable), but the number one cause of failure is some half-wit putting his tools through the full cable.
Even BT are the same. They sell you a backup line and then route it all back to the node through the same ducting as the primary line.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...cambridgeshire
We are so fucking back.
Surprised 'Dawn French' hasn't yet entered the water.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ication-church
Does this make Shinzo Abe's killer literally the most successful politicial assassin of all time. The guy built his own gun and killed the President of Japan because he was a part of the religious cult that bankrupted his family which launched an investigation into ties between this cult and the government that led to the complete dissolution and banning of the cult before his trials even started.
It's sad The Guardian has gone down the give us your data business model.
The Ronaldo/Messi afterlife is going to ruin all the good memories.
I see another of those rogue tsunamis has popped up in the Red Sea and taken down a sub this time.
Helicopters, caves, and submarines. Not even once.
Don't forget the balloons.
https://news.sky.com/story/wh-smith-...r-76m-13337092
WH Smith is no more.
It will become TGJones.
You'd have thought WH Smith could sustain a nationwide business from the prices they charge in airports and train stations alone.
Lol private equity.
My mate miraculously survived a helicopter crash in LA years ago, got a handsome pay out in the following lawsuit too but admitted to me it probably wasn't worth the recurring dreams.
It's a strange one. Frankly, I don't see much activity in the high street stores unless they're attached to a Post Office. Even then, it's maybe 3 blokes popping in for a chat and their morning paper.
One of the main reasons I have no interest in working offshore or doing emergency response. If it goes wrong, if you survive or have had to deal with consequences, it will never leave you.
Apparently there was an earthquake a couple of hours ago.
Could have fooled me.
EDIT: Just seen the news :/
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Oh dam. This is Thailand.
Isn't it that they probably could, but don't want to, preferring instead to just keep the profitable 'travel' side of the business?
Have you been in one of their high street shops recently? They have literally just been left to wither a die and all the ones near me have just had a dogshit Post Office which takes up a huge amount of space but only ever has one till open stuck in them.
Im not sure my local WHSmith even has employees. Just a timed lock that opens and closes the door.
Apparently the sale doesn't include the train and airport ones.
Just the high street stores which are dead as fuck.
Yeah that's a typical PE commercial landlord job, isn't it. They'll all be booted out and filled with franchises shortly. I woudn't be surprised if we never see a TG JONES sign anywhere.
The way that modern companies think, I'm not sure any high street business will ever be 'profitable' again, unless society undergoes some sort of sea change. I have lived all my life near what has been a pretty prosperous high street as it goes, in an affluent area, and recently even there it's just become filled up with Deliveroo placeholders and cash-only people trafficking fronts. No one wants to leave the house or spend time out anymore, and high streets take the hit from that.
Vintage.
https://www.dailynews.com/2008/06/15...icopter-crash/
I was in Lymington today, which is consistently rated as one of the best (oldest and whitest) places to live, and the other half said that 'it looks like everywhere in the UK... charity [shop], small Tesco, rubbish pub, sausage rolls'. Somebody should put that to music.
The Beeb coming in hot with this
Because I'm a scruffy scrote and I want to keep are Tyler-Tyler and Jayden-Kayden safe, despite them being at far more danger from me and my cunt dog than anyone in wider society. Or - at least - that's what I pretend, it's really just a mongy fashion accessory. Plus, yano... they're soooo misunderstood. XoxoxMy daughter was bitten by an XL bully. I met an owner to ask why they'd have one
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vw04wvq9yo
Obviously the article doesn't say any of that, but I look forward to reading about Lily's mutilated face in a year or so.
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