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shmmeee

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #17,641
chiefdave said:
Does that not highlight a problem though? What you're describing there is improvements in automation leading to better conditions for the masses. If you go back far enough you can trace a move from 12 hour shifts 7 days a week to 9-5 Monday-Friday. Thats a clear benefit to the population at large.

If you look more recently automation seems to target reducing the workforce and pushing those remaining workers to do more.

What you describe, and many others have pushed for this, is a version of automation where the money in the economy is evenly distributed. There's very little to indicate that's what we're getting in this country or are likely to get in the future.
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Sounds to me like you’ve got a concern with who owns the means of production. Having high productivity is a requirement of high wages but not the only thing. I think the god awful economy the last 15 years is also a thing, it’s not like companies are recording record profits. We’re just wet and poor here.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #17,642
chiefdave said:
And if we're looking at AI being annoying then the now daily phone calls from managers saying 'I need you to implement AI' with zero clue what it is or what they want to use it for.
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Sounds like a perfect case for an AI auto phone call answering service
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #17,643
Just say “I’m assessing foundational models as they release but generally so far I agree with the Apple paper” if they ask which Apple paper just scoff and walk off mumbling “filthy casual”. That should put a stop to it, or get you a job as Head of AI.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #17,644
shmmeee said:
Sounds to me like you’ve got a concern with who owns the means of production. Having high productivity is a requirement of high wages but not the only thing. I think the god awful economy the last 15 years is also a thing, it’s not like companies are recording record profits. We’re just wet and poor here.
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Well yes but I don't think anyone really considers who owns the means of production until they're sat at home unemployed firing out hundreds of job applications and not getting a response.

We may not be seeing record profits but my experience across three employers in the last 15 years is that those at the very top are doing very well indeed while everyone else is being told there's no money for pay rises and efficiency savings (ie: sacking people and making those who remain cover the extra work) are needed.

Does make you wonder at what point enough people will have lost their jobs, and not be able to find new ones, that we will stop being so passive and see a response more in line with our continental neighbours. But that's probably for the politics thread.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #17,645
Why do people in big expensive cars have to take calls holding their phone up to their face. Is there not hands free?
 

torchomatic

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  • Jul 6, 2025
  • #17,646
Don't think this is a new thing, but just something I've noticed more recently.

As a bad sleeper I'm up early and out walking. Usually do aroun 20-25K steps a day. I have noticed more and more households dumping their unwanted stuff outside their house on the street with a note saying something "help yourself" or "free to a good home". Basically they can't be arsed to take their old shit to the tip; they want someone to take it away for them. Seen all sorts. Fucking ridiculous.
 
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Robinshio

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  • Jul 6, 2025
  • #17,647
people driving in the middle of the road in local streets, which is an issue when they come to sharp bends and have no idea what is around the corner
Usually women aged 30-50 in massively oversized cars, that they can neither handle nor see over the steering wheel of
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 6, 2025
  • #17,648
Robinshio said:
people driving in the middle of the road in local streets, which is an issue when they come to sharp bends and have no idea what is around the corner
Usually women aged 30-50 in massively oversized cars, that they can neither handle nor see over the steering wheel of
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Could be a man you never know!
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jul 6, 2025
  • #17,649
- Middle lane drivers
- Laws to penalise middle lane drivers not being followed
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 6, 2025
  • #17,650
torchomatic said:
Don't think this is a new thing, but just something I've noticed more recently.

As a bad sleeper I'm up early and out walking. Usually do aroun 20-25K steps a day. I have noticed more and more households dumping their unwanted stuff outside their house on the street with a note saying something "help yourself" or "free to a good home". Basically they can't be arsed to take their old shit to the tip; they want someone to take it away for them. Seen all sorts. Fucking ridiculous.
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Around here you see it but generally limited to kids' toys. TBF I had looked at it a lot less cynically than that.
 

Robinshio

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,651
Robinshio said:
people driving in the middle of the road in local streets, which is an issue when they come to sharp bends and have no idea what is around the corner
Usually women aged 30-50 in massively oversized cars, that they can neither handle nor see over the steering wheel of
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added to that, people turning right between side streets and cutting the corner with no idea what is coming the other way
 
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SBT

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,652
ccfc922 said:
Jesus

Never even played on the same pitch if I'm correct?
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I think Akinfenwa is a big Liverpool fan, hence the post
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,653
- Cyclists and e-scooters going against traffic on one way streets.
- Cyclists not stopping at lights or zebra crossings.
-Cyclists riding on pavements and thinking they have priority over pedestrians on pavements.
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,654
Sick Boy said:
- Cyclists and e-scooters going against traffic on one way streets.
- Cyclists not stopping at lights or zebra crossings.
-Cyclists riding on pavements and thinking they have priority over pedestrians on pavements.
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Someone should build them their own infrastructure, I’m sure it would get universal support.
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,655
Google feed, Thieves target wind farm for copper cable, police appeal for witnesses.
Hmm,now that's an act of terrorism right there, clown's.
 

chiefdave

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,656
shmmeee said:
Someone should build them their own infrastructure, I’m sure it would get universal support.
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Cyclists who refuse to use the cycle lanes built for them and block the now narrowed road instead
 
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Marty

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,657
torchomatic said:
Don't think this is a new thing, but just something I've noticed more recently.

As a bad sleeper I'm up early and out walking. Usually do aroun 20-25K steps a day. I have noticed more and more households dumping their unwanted stuff outside their house on the street with a note saying something "help yourself" or "free to a good home". Basically they can't be arsed to take their old shit to the tip; they want someone to take it away for them. Seen all sorts. Fucking ridiculous.
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Me neighbour does this, annoys me as it seems to collect all the local simpletons outside the house.
 
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Marty

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,658
Since when did doing basic stuff cost so much?

Went for a couple of games of bowling after work and it cost over £30 for 2 of us. Absolutely ludicrous pricing. No wonder the place was dead.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,659
Marty said:
Since when did doing basic stuff cost so much?

Went for a couple of games of bowling after work and it cost over £30 for 2 of us. Absolutely ludicrous pricing. No wonder the place was dead.
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I’m not sure if I’ve just reached the ‘how much?’ stage or things have got really fucking expensive post Covid.

Just going to a regular club gig at somewhere like the Institute or Academy is £100+

More than I used to spend going to 2 or 3 gigs a week. Arena show prices are insane, a ticket below £100 is considered cheap now.

Just makes it completely unaffordable.
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,660
Marty said:
Me neighbour does this, annoys me as it seems to collect all the local simpletons outside the house.
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Nothing as civil as a note around here I'm afraid.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,661
chiefdave said:
I’m not sure if I’ve just reached the ‘how much?’ stage or things have got really fucking expensive post Covid.

Just going to a regular club gig at somewhere like the Institute or Academy is £100+

More than I used to spend going to 2 or 3 gigs a week. Arena show prices are insane, a ticket below £100 is considered cheap now.

Just makes it completely unaffordable.
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Notice it a lot when we go out to eat. Places charging £7 or £8 for starters and desserts just seems to be absolutely taking the piss. We went somewhere in Kenilworth a month ago that was charging £8 for a bowl of soup, both laughed out loud. Likewise the same place charged over £5 for 3 scoops of ice cream.

No surprise so many places are offering half price or other big discounts because more people are presumably baulking at the full prices.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,662
chiefdave said:
Cyclists who refuse to use the cycle lanes built for them and block the now narrowed road instead
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This. I refuse to move for them and they don’t like it.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • #17,663
chiefdave said:
Cyclists who refuse to use the cycle lanes built for them and block the now narrowed road instead
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If those lanes are continuous and segregated then I agree. If you’re asking them to weave in and out of traffic as you can’t be arsed to build a network then sure.

There’s a reason you’d get stopped by police cycling on most roads in the Netherlands and not here. Until there’s a network you have to allow them to choose.
 

Sbarcher

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  • Jul 8, 2025
  • #17,664
chiefdave said:
Cyclists who refuse to use the cycle lanes built for them and block the now narrowed road instead
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Exactly!
Council spent a fortune and disrupted traffic for months creating one near me.
Some slower cyclists use it but the boys on racers think it's not for them and create long tailbacks on the already busy road.
If I'm in a bit of a mood, I'll have the window down and bollock them for not using it. Of course it depends on the size of the rider!
 

ccfctommy

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  • Jul 8, 2025
  • #17,665
Marty said:
Since when did doing basic stuff cost so much?

Went for a couple of games of bowling after work and it cost over £30 for 2 of us. Absolutely ludicrous pricing. No wonder the place was dead.
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Everything is expensive. Went for lunch yesterday and a can of lemonade was £2.50. Went to boots to buy a few essentials and almost spent thirty quid!
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 8, 2025
  • #17,666
Experienced people being unable to use any Microsoft Word formatting
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 8, 2025
  • #17,667
Builders Part 2: Locksmiths.

So having given up on my last builders - see previous posts - I’ve noticed that they’ve managed to lose my back door key. The only one I have.
I’ve phoned a locksmith today who said he’d be here before 2pm…I’ve got to be elsewhere at 4pm. Guess what…
 
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Nick

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  • Jul 8, 2025
  • #17,668
Terry_dactyl said:
Builders Part 2: Locksmiths.

So having given up on my last builders - see previous posts - I’ve noticed that they’ve managed to lose my back door key. The only one I have.
I’ve phoned a locksmith today who said he’d be here before 2pm…I’ve got to be elsewhere at 4pm. Guess what…
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Is it locked or open? Surely if you can access both sides you can just change the lock easily enough?
 

Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 8, 2025
  • #17,669
Nick said:
Is it locked or open? Surely if you can access both sides you can just change the lock easily enough?
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Locked. And I cant.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • #17,670

Smash burger business pauses Coventry operations after M40 collision

The street food truck collided on the M40 on June 20
www.coventrytelegraph.net

I mean it's a shame but surely that's what insurance is for? A go fund me? WTF?

Firing burgers out for a tenner as well
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • #17,671
Terry_dactyl said:
Builders Part 2: Locksmiths.

So having given up on my last builders - see previous posts - I’ve noticed that they’ve managed to lose my back door key. The only one I have.
I’ve phoned a locksmith today who said he’d be here before 2pm…I’ve got to be elsewhere at 4pm. Guess what…
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If your stuck for a reliable builder who isn't retired I can recommend one
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • #17,672
People who don't know how to use was and were.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jul 9, 2025
  • #17,673
Nick said:

Smash burger business pauses Coventry operations after M40 collision

The street food truck collided on the M40 on June 20
www.coventrytelegraph.net

I mean it's a shame but surely that's what insurance is for? A go fund me? WTF?

Firing burgers out for a tenner as well
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Everything has a gofundme now. Sometimes feel like I'm the only one actually paying for stuff myself!

Bit misleading as well. Asking for 20K to replace a truck but when you look at the pictures its actually a trailer, not one of their trucks. Plus, as you say, surely it would have been insured?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • #17,674
chiefdave said:
Everything has a gofundme now. Sometimes feel like I'm the only one actually paying for stuff myself!

Bit misleading as well. Asking for 20K to replace a truck but when you look at the pictures its actually a trailer, not one of their trucks. Plus, as you say, surely it would have been insured?
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It's effectively give them money so they can get a better van to make loads of money. Surely if they wanted to do that they should do a crowd funded investment to get a return?

It's weird that the Telegraph promote it as well.
 
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RegTheDonk

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  • Jul 9, 2025
  • #17,675
Terry_dactyl said:
Locked. And I cant.
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Had similar years ago with a deadlock, managed to get a thin hacksaw blade through the gap, took forever but cut through and then could unscrew and replace the lock.

Sorry Terry, I found the "...guess what" bit funny as always happens when I wait for a tradesman.
 
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