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- Comment on GMB union says urgent action needed to tackle safety concerns at Sellafield 11 months ago:
any chance the grown ups are listening? i find this horrifying
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 11 months ago:
i can expand a little but you dont know who’s reading this now or in the future, so cant give many more details. The idea was, as the ‘mark’ leaves the building with the couple who are in on the gag the house collapses behind him. Unfortunately the company used explosives and fire rigs to make the thing fall to bits so it looked like it just blew up and just missed him. There’s more to it as well but the upshot is, its a terrible thing and ruined a guys life for some stupid tv show.
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 11 months ago:
the rule is, the production company has to have your express permission if you directly talk to the camera or are featured in the footage. If you are in public and part of the crowd you cant ask for removal unless theres a good reason like court cases or something. You have to sign a form if you are more than just a person passing.
heathrow in particular is interesting because nearly all large airports are public owned and heathrow is private. This is important because the production company has permission to film from the owners, and so as a customer you are on their premises and subject to their terms of entry, one of which is being filmed as a member of the public. If the production company does interview you or features you (not just a passing person) and do not have permission there have been many cases where the program has been held from broadcast until the matter is resolved. If you think you need to ask them the company and names of production staff are on the credits of the show.
I know of one case with a prank tv show where the company pranked an estate agent by blowing up the house, and he got PTSD. The episode was never broadcast because he refused to sign the release, and sued the company for a serious amount of money. But the basic release form meant the company couldnt pass through the broadcast regulations.
In public there are a few restrictions but basically its public land like a street and not expected to be empty of people. You cant film wembley arch because its licenced to the FA rather than the local council.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 11 months ago:
alot of UK product sugar content has been lowered and replaced with flavour enhancers since the sugar tax came in a few years ago. Coke Zero is another one, its got sugar in but below the amount required to register it on the label and they boost the taste with enhancers.
The other thing is ingredients change flavour depending on the year. Tea for example is always changing slightly back and forward depending on how much rain and sun during growing, but its blended so nobody really notices except the labs importing the tea leaves.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 11 months ago:
right so it dosnt end when they apologise and change behaviour. I agree! I think you can have a rule of thumb which says 2 years for hosing down a homeless person. Its more for the transgessor than the person getting the hosing, so there is a basic decent contract which says they wont be seeing a chunk of people for two whole years.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 11 months ago:
blimey thats an answer!
So, if mcdonalds apologised, that means its over? Im not sure thats right, that means theres no consequences.
- Submitted 11 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Comment on Ex-minister David Davis intervenes in street attack near Parliament 11 months ago:
fair play to him. attacks on homeless people is a dirty hidden secret of this country - visit Crisis and see if you can donate a few quid
- Comment on Sainsbury’s boss defends decision to sell customers’ Nectar card data 11 months ago:
its good that they mention facebook at the end, the largest data selling company on earth. Whatsapp, Insta and FB already have you nailed down. I wonder what the story really is here, a hit job on Nectar by the guardian dosnt really ring anyones bells
- Submitted 11 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 14 comments
- Comment on Brexit backer Dyson says hypocrisy claim over HQ move to Singapore 'incredibly harmful' 11 months ago:
hello actions? this is consequences. we need a word
- Comment on Truss-supporting economists call for minimum wage to be frozen, then cut 11 months ago:
not just leave the country- leave the towns in the UK that need to catch up to retain their talent. The brain drain is real, young people leave their small towns because theres no progress or future, most go where the better paid work is. If they want to level up, cutting minimum wage is the opposite of what needs to happen
- Comment on Today is the 75th Birthday of His Majesty The King. 1 year ago:
its ok, hes head of the Church. God approved
- Comment on Today is the 75th Birthday of His Majesty The King. 1 year ago:
i seem to remember the Queen had 4 birthdays a year or something. Is this the official one or one of the made up ones?
- Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Comment on BBC licence fee is ‘regressive tax’, broadcaster’s former chair says 1 year ago:
oh its one of those rare optional taxes which you dont have to pay. Not a tax, its a choice.
probably should be a subscription model. that way you can choose to not pay it just as you can already. Itll just take away a perfectly good world class production company which makes a flipping fortune for UK Plc, into the hands of private companies. You think its expensive but it brings a stupid amount in through sales and worldwide syndication. It makes far more than it costs, its a superb company which should be protected.
- Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on ‘A calm and gentle individual’: Yampil the bear becomes first Ukrainian animal rehomed in UK 1 year ago:
look at his little face, hes doing ok man
- Comment on Key Boris Johnson aide set key WhatsApp group to auto-delete 1 year ago:
i see what youre saying but we do actually need to know exactly, thats why theres a full public enquiry to stop people making accusations that are not true, just as much as the accusations that are. Once there is a full public record, we dont need to rely on this person or that to tell us. We know that Boris went on holiday for no reason at the start and refused to answer his phone. This was not disclosed before, nor was the Chancellors restaurant scheme which killed 65k people. Its very easy in the political cycle to forget alot of this went on even if you did remember it.
Also, if you really dont care you can pretend its not happening but you are likely to be outside the big kids room when something does require your attention
- Comment on Key Boris Johnson aide set key WhatsApp group to auto-delete 1 year ago:
nothing to see here! dont look at this! look over there! its the goodyear blimp!
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:
The Wolf: Just because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
horse tranquilliser
- Comment on British Police are Using Period Tracker Data and Blood Tests To Investigate Patients Who Miscarry 1 year ago:
i guess its similar to arresting people for attempting suicide? like compounding trauma with a criminal record is helping society
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
by smugness I take it you come from a place where they dont also elect complete roadkill? I hope youre not american. Canadian perhaps
- Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 42 comments
- Comment on There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’ 1 year ago:
christ that is a badly written article. Oh wait its novara, the pound shop of journalism
- Comment on Ulez expansion: 45% fewer ‘dirty’ vehicles now on London’s roads, says TfL 1 year ago:
theres a churn of car ownership which has a natural beat to it. brand new cars get passed down after 3-4 years into the 2nd hand market and so on, and the proportion of new cars is now significantly more clean - either through new engines being far more efficient or through complete moves to BEV. So the process of becoming cleaner over a decade is well under way. These old cars may have been moved out of london, where the pollution is worst because of all the factors (oxford streets’ strange ecosystem airflow for example because of the height of the stone building, creates a strange envelope which traps pollution in and circulates it) but they will soon be replaced by cleaner and greener cars regardless of where they were moved from because the overall mix of engine type is rapidly changing. Overall, the same filthy 2006 vehicle is less polluting in a different setting, with a different use case and if its older than 2006 probably about to have its wheels fall off in any case.
- Comment on Chris Packham’s ‘instinctive’ bird sniffing is not a crime, police say 1 year ago:
Packham is a popular environmentalist and animal lover who has presented loads of fantastic shows over the years. Someone’s made a complaint about him having a sniff of a chick when checking them, but they appear to have had little else to do that day
- Comment on Chris Packham’s ‘instinctive’ bird sniffing is not a crime, police say 1 year ago:
sniffing birds sounds like an 80s night out in swindon
- Comment on Braverman faces new court case over asylum seekers’ ‘prison’ 1 year ago:
The light catches her fangs just enough
