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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:44AM (#23273298)
had similar encounters with people asking how much longer it will take to get to Ashford as their Eurostar train leaves soon while on a train that stops at Ashford (Middlesex) instead of Ashford International, in Kent
Re:British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:40AM (#22888749)
that is a huge generalisation!

London has the largest fish, meat, and veg markets in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_markets_in_London#Whol...) sourcing fresh every day

you don't need to right be next to a field to have fresh produce every day and yes, there are plenty of farms near London

Full title "What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorcycle? Core-js just found out"
Re:My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:15AM (#21004507)
Re:My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:14AM (#21004488)
Exactly that - my partner's company constantly get negative GlassDoor reviews because there is a different company with a similar name in India
Re:The rare ingredient that's healthier than meat on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:09PM (#20942378)
ah I see, yeah that annoys me too

it just seems to be the way the bbc do things, the "Rare ingredient..." title is on the main page http://www.bbc.com/travel/columns/food-hospitality, in fact that whole page is massively click-baity compared to the actual article titles

Re:I Won’t Buy My Teenagers Smartphones on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:36AM (#20941263)
it's a shame we don't hear the kids side in the article

people I know who have done this have eventually changed and allowed/bought a phone as the in school peer pressure was huge and the kids ended up feeling excluded from their social groups as not fitting in (nothing wrong with kids finding their own path btw)

Re:The rare ingredient that's healthier than meat on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:09AM (#20940975)
on the side note it looks like that is the deputy editor of the bbc.com travel section https://twitter.com/collectingmiles nothing wrong with promoting your teams work I guess, even if you do so silently

looking down the list of submissions interesting to see which articles pick up comments and which don't

Re:Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:52AM (#20885016)
also it seems they thrive on their focus on price - I'm sure a fair part of that is in the licencing of the tie-ins - but you never see them in a race to the bottom
decriminalized only
there is a similar thing in Brighton where there is a whole block of flats built above (presumably at the same time) as a multistory car park

when you park there it does look like they were just dropped on top

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Brighton/@50.8225466,-0...

exactly - I had a similar learning curve (and no CS degree) where I could never remember what certain methods did but I knew exactly what to google for the answer
same for "name-of-movie streaming release date" will give you a lot of seo filled long articles that often just end with "we don't know"
they pay a lot more than that, couldn't find a Spain cost but examples for the UK they pay on average £20,000 per year[1] - the cost varies on the rateable value of the pub

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-set-pieces-blog/201...

FB have already been fined over that "When Facebook took over the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014, it told the [EU] commission it would not be able to match user accounts on both platforms, but went on to do exactly that." https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...

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