deadcatbounce
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- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 2 days ago:
Quite so. There is an optimum time to renew as given by Money Saving Expert amongst others.
My point was to draw the mal insurance company practice within the realms of subscriptions so that it will be caught by the enquiry and anything that emerges from it.
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 2 days ago:
With car insurance almost invariably automatically set to annually renew by the insurance company whether you want that or not, car insurance is a (disguised) subscription service.
Every money advice place esp Money Saving Expert dating look around annually, auto annual renewal should be illegal.
I f#@king hate that car insurance companies do that.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 3 days ago:
Because everyone knows who the mother is through birth and following months/years if they’re lucky, and the only connection a father has with his children is a last name.
It’s quite reasonable that mums want the same surname as their children so …
The trouble with that is that between twenty and thirty percent of children, depending on source, call the wrong person ‘dad’.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 1 week ago:
John Wick.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
The poor should pay the taxes because “only the little people pay taxes”.
- Comment on Since when does a clock need a privacy policy? 3 weeks ago:
I also have no reflection.
- Comment on Mail addressed to Mr. and Mrs. (husbands name) 3 weeks ago:
Traditions take time to evolve; and also to dissolve.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 1 month ago:
On the surface. You might want to look a little closer.
The whole of London especially the East end, was a cesspool supported by the aristocracy. Jack the Ripper is still believed by many to have been a prince or someone of similar breeding.
- Comment on Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state 1 month ago:
The whole idea behind PFI (or whatever is called now) is to move state debt off balance sheet.
There’s no way there isn’t going to be a PFI shitty (for the tax payer) deal involved. Probably with the same shareholders as the former Thames Water.
- Comment on Is it worth fresh installing Fedora 40 or just upgrading my existing installation? 1 month ago:
Don’t forget the inst.sdboot .
Fedora f41 is right around the corner, hang on a few days/couple weeks?!
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 4 months ago:
One in three is not one-in-ten one might expect. And it’s not hundreds it’s thousands of women making false claims for money against male victims.
We don’t have population (in the statistical sense) data to know for sure. Maybe the passport biometric data will eventually let us know for sure.
However, there are other individuals involved, usually in the act of conception, not just women.
“I’m on the pill/implant/coil … you don’t have to wear a condom. Take the condom off.”. A female paedophile teacher has just been jailed here because the baby made it kind-of obvious she was lying. Apparently she got pregnant whilst she was on bail with the same child.
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 4 months ago:
My mom was like that. 🤣😂
- Comment on Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents 5 months ago:
Well they’ve proved themselves more interested in low hanging fruit, rather than criminality.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 6 months ago:
Everyone does it. Every year of so we gather everyone we know together to commemorate.
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 6 months ago:
My bad!
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 6 months ago:
They’ve got another Tory leading the Labour party advised by Tony Blair (himself a Thatcherite).
Guido where are you now?!
In reality, he’s probably trying to save himself from the dole queue.
- Comment on Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system 6 months ago:
The Tories have gone out of their way to make working beneficial for people other than those actually doing the working. Some offshore toting moron called Dave decided that austerity was the way to go. So we did.
Everything I see around me reminds me of 1970s Britain when we were forced to join the EU because the country was bankrupt. They’re even advertising those chairs that are suspended from the ceiling, and everything is coloured brown again. “Abigail’s Party” will be coming to Netflix next week.
I write as one of Thatcher’s children who loved the 1980s.
I currently advocate Anarchy (using the formal definition of anarchy not what you imagine it is), or our mate Guido with a decent level of follow through.
- Comment on How do genocides happen? 7 months ago:
Someone who is quite persuasive gets wedded to an idea quite thoroughly. Others disagree with the idea but only after the first person gains enough supporters to make it happen.
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 7 months ago:
Because he could be king far far sooner than he thinks.
- Comment on Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ 10 months ago:
It’s just a recent example instance of one of the search results.
You’re better off trying the same search and picking a few links to follow.
- Comment on Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ 10 months ago:
Thank you kind netizen!
- Comment on Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ 10 months ago:
Just run yourself a query “FoI uk police with criminal convictions”. FoI stands for “freedom of information”.
Eg. met.police.uk/…/serving-police-officers-criminal-…
You won’t be surprised to learn, from clicking a few of the results, that high ranking officers are convicted of serious crimes but are still great police officers.
Then, try the same query again with rape and sexual assault.
- Comment on Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock 11 months ago:
Hopefully they’ll be some output from opentofu (name still?) soon.
- Comment on Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle 1 year ago:
Liking your style, Derek.
- Comment on Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails 1 year ago:
If there are multiple fucks, the apostrophe is after the ‘s’.
There usually are multiple fucks.
- Comment on Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle 1 year ago:
He wasn’t even a good PM, and now …
I’m still pissed that they/he screwed over the Alternative Vote referendum - a path to the Proportion Representation.
Looks like we’re heading to a zealous two party system, like the States to me. That’s never a good idea. The two parties are both trying to claim the middle ground but both are incompetent.
That doesn’t matter to them: in a two party system, not-the-other-one is a legitimate voting basis.
- Comment on I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries 1 year ago:
And that’s just the cars.
- Comment on An Overview of Nix in Practice 1 year ago:
Thank-you!
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
Don’t call me Shirley! 🙄
- Comment on U.S. net saving as a percentage of gross national income 1 year ago:
I’m a Brit but sadly view that chart as oddly justifying.
FML.