blackn1ght
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- Comment on Why this school will ditch a shirt, tie and blazer from its uniform 59 minutes ago:
I’m still in favour of ditching school uniforms entirely and just mandating that they can’t have any branding on their clothes.
If schools want to have a uniform, they should pay for it and not charge the parents.
- Comment on North of England launch bid to host Olympic Games 3 days ago:
Gold medalists receive a butter pie barm.
- Comment on One in 14 children who die in England have closely related parents, study finds 3 days ago:
Yeah. I was like “errrr no fucking shit they’re closely related?”
- Comment on One in 14 children who die in England have closely related parents, study finds 4 days ago:
The title confused me, I thought it meant that the parents were closely related to the child. Turns out it means where the two parents are closely related to each other, i.e. cousins.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 4 days ago:
What about coconut milk?
- Comment on Government on track to lower minimum age for train drivers to 18 in Great Britain 1 week ago:
I’m surprised there’s shortages, I thought loads of people apply to be train drivers?
- Comment on Government on track to lower minimum age for train drivers to 18 in Great Britain 1 week ago:
I think there’s a lot to it in stopping the train smoothly and accurately and applying the correct amount of power for any given conditions. The drivers also seem to have to require extensive route knowledge to the point they can drive the train safely in poor visiblity.
- Comment on Coventry's light rail technology a 'game-changer' 1 week ago:
It’s a tram.
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- Comment on Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax 1 week ago:
To be fair if it’s on a flood plain then it should be unsellable, mortgage providers and insurers might not want to deal with it.
- Comment on Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say they’re small constraints because they’re not necessarily easy to fix. They could ease the load on the local authorities planning offices by hiring more staff or easing regulations, which will always drag on and take time. There’s the fighting with NIMBY’s in courts. And there’s also only so many builders in the country that can be on projects at any given time.
- Comment on Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax 1 week ago:
There are huge house building projects going on, at least there are in my area. However there’s constraints as to how fast you can actually start these projects as you need to find suitable land, go through all the red tape and have enough resources (materials, people) to build them. So if demand keeps outpacing supply, the prices will still continue to rise.
Interestingly, I saw an article recently that average rents actually started to decrease, so maybe the increased supply is very slowly having an impact on the rental market.
Slightly off-tangent, but it frustrates me when sellers complain that they can’t sell their house and then take it off the market. No, you can’t sell it at the price you want, it’s obviously over-priced. If you were to knock off £50k or £100k, I’d guarantee that you’d be able to sell the house.
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- Comment on Alton Towers bans people with anxiety from using disability pass 1 week ago:
I’m not seeing any comments on the article, but I can imagine what they’re like.
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- Comment on Coastal road swept away into the sea in Devon 1 week ago:
I think I’ve seen worse potholes than that.
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- Comment on One in seven food delivery businesses in England are ‘dark kitchens’, study shows 2 weeks ago:
Same. The guardian seem to have a bee in their bonnet about dark kitchens but I don’t see the problem. As a takeaway customer I don’t care that it came from a dark kitchen, as a customer of a restaurant I don’t want to have to wait 2 hours because the kitchen is dealing with take away orders!
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- Comment on Why Do We Keep Fretting About the Future of the Full English? 3 weeks ago:
Where the fuck are the beans and garlic and herb mushrooms and the rest of the sausages and bacon?