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I use(d) it a lot. Specifically for pound coins, rather than the value of £1. e.g. you would ask, "Can you swap us 5 nuggets for a Lady?" If you wanted to go and get something from…

£5 and its multiples: Lady, Ayrton, Commodore, Score, Pony. Sadly, I think these are dying out due to the move towards a cashless society. The most common use for any of these (for…

> the infrastructure remains nationalised, Slight correction. Renationalised, rather than remains nationalised. The infrastructure was renationalised, because Railtrack preferred h…

"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the commu…

There has been a reasonably priced way since 1977. It currently costs £5.50

Cheap divorce? The sky is green!

> You get what you pay for I think. $40 bookshelves? Not making it through a move I'm sitting next to a Billy that's nearly 2 decades and 4 moves old.

If you are reassigned, you are not dead weight to your original division, because you aren't working for them, you are on the books of the other division. Also if you are reassigne…

> on official assignment from higher management. Unless your line manager authorised the secondment (in which case, why PIP?), it wasn't on official assignment, it was just a perso…

Am I reading this right? You worked double time for months, and in that time you neglected your own job, without it being authorised by your line manager? All so that a manager in …

The story where emails could only be sent a certain distance is fun. I haven't read that one in a while.

Also: > The prevailing wisdom for this seafaring situation is “Don’t Stop.” The law is to render assistance. That law was based on prevailing wisdom. Apparently the author moves in…

Seconded! This approach has worked for me several times over the years. It takes time and patience. The companies you target aren't always hiring the roles you want. I've been luck…

I have never seen this, and I live right by a school bus stop. The closest place a limited number of cars could wait is down a side road about 200ft from the stop, but they don't.

Many successful artists have not undertaken university-level training in their art. However, most of them will have been trained by someone who did. Reduce arts education funding a…

The thing is, "stop calling me" implies a pattern of behaviour you want them to break, not a one-off. If it's the first call from someone who doesn't know your working pattern, the…

> stop calling me before my workday even starts In what circumstances would you use this phrase? If they are calling you out of hours, ignore it. They'll eventually get the message…

MAD is the same concept as "an armed society is a polite society" I don't like either idea. Being civil to one another simply because the other party might respond with incredibly …

The shipping forecast is produced by the maritime and coastguard agency. The BBC just read it out. As do the coastguards.

If you look at the actual HMRC guidance, rather than some random website, you'd see that "alterations due to advancements in technology are generally treated as an allowable repair…

> the cost of energy is borne by the tenant, but the cost of renovations would be borne by the landlord In addition, as house prices are so high, owner-occupiers often don't have t…

Absolutely. What I mean is that we can't declare something "inauthentic" just because it was invented after a certain time or event.

Yes. To suggest otherwise is to insist that cuisine (or any other tradition) must be somehow frozen at a specific point in history in order to be "authentic". Even if that is an ac…

I moved from induction to gas recently (not by choice). Anecdotally, the gas feels slower. It seems to take an age to bring things up to the boil compared to my old induction. Also…