Pete Verdon
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@MoneySavingExp I’m no fan of phones in the classroom, but this is something for schools to decide for themselves. The government proposing it as national law is attention-grabbing silliness.
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A new law could introduce a ban on smartphones in schools in England, aiming to tackle the problem of children doomscrolling. ❌📱
Where do you stand on this?
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@ask_aubry What’s wrong with these people? Why would you extend credit to someone who’s gleefully notorious for not paying his bills?
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@AnuDrum @seektruthfromfx @LevinsLaw @BarristerSecret This is where we came in - this trivial issue being prosecuted as a criminal offence because of outdated railway-specific law, instead of a normal payment dispute between an individual and a private company.
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This is absurd. If the train operating companies can't put their house in order, the power to prosecute should be taken away from them.
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So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from @northernassist telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵
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@seektruthfromfx @AnuDrum @LevinsLaw @BarristerSecret Expecting consumers to have read and remembered an entire Ts&Cs document to make a routine transaction is not reasonable; in normal contract law you have to specifically draw their attention to any “surprising” terms.
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@seektruthfromfx @AnuDrum @LevinsLaw @BarristerSecret That doesn’t help but to me the name isn’t the most important point. If you specify where and when you want to travel, you should be sold a ticket valid for that journey. If it isn’t, the fault is with the seller, not the traveller.
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@cryptod84009175 @fesshole Lovely. Didn’t previously know of the quasi-standardised header but I imagine this is what the fess refers to.
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@jrlikeswhisky @oxymoronassoc @oldenoughtosay Why’s a lawyer trying to connect an agricultural scale system to an iPad?
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@oxymoronassoc @oldenoughtosay Your employer can be heavily fined for such actions.
Source: I work in law.
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@jrlikeswhisky @oldenoughtosay You can absolutely be fired for not showing up to your scheduled shift if your place of work is open, even if it's open in the aforementioned weather situation.
Source: I work in HR.
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Still the greatest Public Information Film ever made. “And to think he’d just come FROM the hospital” twitter.com/liveuk/status/…
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@DJSnM Even into the age of domestic Internet connections, my mum would use teletext to keep an eye on flight arrivals to pick my dad up from the airport. The TV could be left on all morning in a way we didn’t do with the family PC back then.
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Before the internet, before dial up, this was my primary source of digital content. Data was encoded into scanlines just offscreen and content would be transmitted in a loop, select a page number and then wait for it to be sent.
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#OnThisDay 1974: CEEFAX - the world's first teletext service - went live, with a whopping 30 pages of information at your fingertips. In 1972, David Wilson chatted to project lead Stanley Edwardson about this newfangled service, and got a sneak peak at a CEEFAX prototype.
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@WritingLife75 @drivelcast @garybrannan A friend of mine was sent for the classic “long weight” from Stores, went to the canteen instead and had a very pleasant long wait with a cup of tea and a paper until they came looking for him 😁
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@drivelcast @garybrannan I was so fortunate as an apprentice mechanic, because my father was one before me and clued me into all the japes (glass hammer*, skyhook, tartan paint)
My father as a 14 year old apprentice steam engine mechanic was sent for a bucket of "blast" for cleaning the steam pipes
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Watching a video of a traditional cobbler at work and couldn’t help but notice the products used.
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@MoneySavingExp Last visited a bank in 2014, at their insistence (probably an excuse to try to sell me stuff).
The job I need of them is to run a secure and reliable database with the right links to other finance and payment systems. They don’t need a shop in town to do that.
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Over 6,000 bank branches have shut up shop since 2015, with new closures seemingly announced each week. ❌
So we're wondering when was the last time you visited your local bank branch?
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@whippletom I’m not a Londoner, but every time I visit Soho it feels mad that cars are allowed through those little streets filled with people.
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@whippletom Those of us who operate in Portsmouth Harbour have had to switch everything from QHM to KHM, though 🙂
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@TheRealRevK @AmazonHelp Failing that, one of the “online store” platforms designed to be integrated into your own website, like Shopify or Square? No personal experience on the seller side, just where I’d expect to buy a widget like this.
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@TheRealRevK @AmazonHelp I’d expect to find that kind of thing on eBay, if that helps? Alternatively maybe Etsy - that’s more for arts and crafts so I wouldn’t look for electronics modules there but perhaps the platform might work for you?
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