LemmyInThePub
What a truly, utterly bizarre thing to say!
Why on earth do you object to horses pulling carriages? Do you object to horse riding also? If so, why?
One can only suspect you are used to living in a city and somewhat divorced from nature, though I'd be interested to hear your response.
Bollocks man!
In early Victorian London, like most cites of the time, ones shit was directed into a cesspool. These were regularly emptied by 'nightsoil' men who took the waste away as fertiliser. (The drains in the streets were only for rainwater).
What caused the Great Stink was, paradoxically, the invention of the water closet (the flushing bog to you and me) which massively increased the volume of liquid waste, which was then discharged into the Thames and caused the famous Great Stink.
I can assure you, our Victorian ancestors were not animals that regularly shat in the streets.
A piss artist isn't a drunk. They are somebody who elevates drinking to an art form.
If you travel on the Eurostar train from Paris to London...... before boarding at Gare du Nord station you will pass a French bloke by the escalators employed to hold a placard with a sign in English saying not to take unexploded ordnance on the train.
This is because a few years back, some fuckwit did just that, shutting down the channel tunnel for several hours.
You do realise that in the (admittedly unlikely) event of that needing to be cut off, you won't stand a chance?
It's sad this type of trolling is becoming tolerated on HN.
God no!
On Reddit (and lately HN) cretins will up/downvote depending on whether or not they agree or disagree with a post, not because of the quality of the writing. This leads to groupthink and prevents popular ideas being challenged.
Allowing posts to be downvoted simply because somebody disagrees with them (rather than because the post detracts from the discussion) is both pathetic and eventually leads to stagnation.
No offense, but have you ever tried politely telling such people to fuck off?....
...something rather common in the UK, though part of me suspects this would offend American sensibilities.
I find this mind boggling.
Here in Blighty, I've never had a job where taking time to research and read up wasn't expected. Personally, every employer I've had has also allocated several days a year to staff training; either classroom training or self-study as needed.
It is when you consider many people simply don't know how to cook simple, healthy food. Our schools no longer teach basic cookery (and many parents neglected to pass on the skills).
I do agree the implementation of the scheme was very poor.....
....the reasons for which are down to our current governments unfortunate mix of poor competence and fruity ideology (thank $Deity Liss Truss wasn't around for too long!)
No.
The government stepped in because poor people (and many not so poor) could not afford to heat their homes over winter.
It is (was) an emergency measure. The transition to green energy is well under way in the UK, regardless of temporary subsidies.
The only people objecting to the GDPR are scummy businesses who haven't yet understood that harvesting and/or selling personal data without consent is both not ethical and no longer a legal business model.
I suggest a balloon payload would be better aimed at monitoring (and establishing patterns of) RF traffic rather than visual data.
A very honourable mention to Alexander Korda.
Particularly 'Things To Come', his 1936 film warning of the rise of fascism in Europe, global war and the dangers of air bombardment (thereby bringing mechanised warfare to civilian populations for the first time).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come
And yes, it is based on the HG Wells story.
Don't be daft!
Any new Russian leader, no matter how hawkish they currently talk, knows full well that Russian forces are depleted and will be incapable of waging a "major" war for many years to come.......
In North England and Scotland, we pronounce words using short vowel sounds (bath, castle) whereas in the South, they use long vowel sounds (b-are-th, c-are-stle).
Not being able to easily pick out the vowel sounds makes it much harder for a non-native speaker to understand.
The so called "BBC English" that you probably learnt is based on a Southern England 'home counties' pronunciation.
No.
The ISW consider Russia using nuclear weapons to be extremally unlikely; the Russian rhetoric around them simply being to provoke western fear (and thus delay the sending of western weapons), as you so aptly demonstrate.
The ISW publish daily reports on the Ukraine war that are well worth reading
https://www.understandingwar.org/
A recent assessment by ISW of Putins nuclear threats are here:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/special-report...
Any half decent accountant will probably be able to SAVE you more than this; mainly by optimising your tax affairs (assuming you have a modest turnover).
It's money well spent.