Re: I'm shocked that someone has found Capita wanting. Shocked, I tells ya.
He hasn't really been catholic and neither has the Roman Church since the Reformation
And it isn't particularly Christian either - and hasn't been for a long, long time..
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Conservative party is viewed as the cause of this chaos (as in fact it was) this might make them unelectable
And my private opinion is that quite a few moderate Conservatives and Labour types will end up either forming a new centrist party or joining the Lib Dems.
Then we joined the EC and it’s transformed our country for the better.
Shh.. don't blow their minds with actual facts from actual history. Admittedly, it would be a small explosion..
(I'm convinced most brexiteers have forgotten the 1970's and, in their minds, we go directly from 1940 to 2018..)
At least we don't have to disband the Royal Navy, armed forced and RAF under the one-state one-army plan officially announced
Ah yes - the old "unofficially announced" ploy. As in "I ate too much cheese one night and dreamed it"..
(And the UK has a veto in the EU - so anything that *we* don't want isn't going to happen..)
Those of us who voted in favour wanted a clean break
And really, really, really didn't understand international finance, treaties and trade.
Here's a hint: Treaties and agreements that we have signed up to for the last 40 years don't magically disappear just because you want them too - any more than the mobile contract that you agreed to a month ago (and now want to cancel) will cease without you paying a leaving fee.
It's not a difficult concept and only someone with either something to sell or very little brain indeed would realise it.
UK retailer specialising in handmade cosmetics ranging from soaps, shampoos, body creams
..and providing me with the inability to breathe unless I hold my breath when walking past the always-open Lush door..
Feeling your airways slam shut at the stench of mixed smells coming from Lush isn't fun.
And more than once I've left the oven on after cooking
Repeat after me - your incompetence does not constitute my emergency..
(Harsh - maybe a bit. But forgetting to turn off the oven after cooking has an easy fix - a small poster tacked/bluetacked above saying "Have you turned off the oven?" might help..)
Hence the Toyota Pious
I have a Toyota C-HR (uses the same Hybrid mechanism as the Prius). It's cut my petrol usage down to less than 1/3 of what it used to be..
(Yes, I'm aware that there's an argument that says the resources used to make a car are sufficiently enormous so as to make it a bad idea.. But since the expected replacement time for a car in my possession is 10-15 years[1] I reckon that I'll get my moneys-worth)
[1] Apart from the Morris Minor (made in 1966) - we've had it almost 25 years. If they did a hybrid system upgrade for it, we'd get that done too)
Perhaps the Gov should be walking the walk on the old 'no amount is healthy' lines that have been spewed out of late
Amusingly, the British Heart Foundation (and the NHS) recommend that a glass[1] of red wine a day is really good for your heart.. They do, annoyingly, suggest that a daily limit of 3 units (and at least two days a weeks with no alcohol) is in order as well.
[1] Does a bottle count as a glass?
I hear the Adrian Wall is not the absolute north limit for winemaking anymore
Amusingly, some of the English white sparking wines (don't call them Champagne even though the Champagne method was invented here..) scored higher than Champagne in a blind taste test. By French judges..
British red wine isn't really there yet - despite our summers getting warmer, we still don't get the degrees of time and intensity of sunlight needed to really generate a full-bodied red wine. Some of the vineyard in Kent make perfectly quaffable light reds though. And very, very good white wines, sparking or otherwise.
There are wines you like and ones you don't. There are times and moods, and wines to go with
This is so true. One persons fine wine is anothers vinegar.. (my wife, for example, doesn't like light, acidic reds. Sometimes I do..). But we agree on a number of wines - two of them are even French (Cabalie and Rex Mundi[1] - both full reds from the Cathar region of France)
[1] Given my beliefs, I probably shouldn't like a wine named after a belief from the Cathar version of Gnosticism.. but I do
from where it WAS invented, namely the Thracian valley
Pretty sure that various other countries were making wine before Thrace was even a thing.. Pikiwedia seems to suggest[1] that the oldest archological evidence of wine is China, followed by Georgia, followed by Iran..
None of which are Thracia.
[1] If you trust 'the encyclopedia that any nutter can edit'..
never buy for the ticket buy for your palate
Many years ago I had a (very, very good) American boss. He always used to order Chateauneuf Du Pape (on the basis that our French colleagues had recommended it). I like CNP but it is a tad expensive..
So, one day, I steered him in the direction of Rioja. He switched to drinking that thereafter. Pick a good one and they have easily the quality of CNP.
My wine taste varies - sometimes I fancy a good Portugese wine, sometimes a fairly cheap French one. Other times, a rough-and-ready Italian chianti.
Hallowe'en was invented in Scotland as a Pagan festival thousands of years ago
It's been part of European culture for thousands of years - most pagan cultures have an equivalent of the day of the dead. So not necessarily invented in Scotland.. (Unlike brochs)
The US version comes primarily (and I could be wrong here) from the Germanic strain.
Same as Halloween (do you get that stupidity in the UK as well?)
Yes. Of course, we've had it in one form or another for several thousand years (as has most of Europe) but lately[1] it's become the tacky US version of trick or treat[2].
[1] As in 'during my lifetime'. Which (I suspect) is a bit longer than some commentards.
[2] And we don't even do it right (and neither does the US now) - look up the original meaning of 'trick or treat'. It didn't automatically involve handing over lots of diabetes-causing sweets to kids..
You'd think they don't know the meaning of "FriDAY"
Last day of the working[1] week, following which there is alcohol[2] and curries/Chinese/Thai/[insert takeaway food of choice here]?
[1] I use that work with a deep sense of irony. After all, we work in IT and that's not really working hard is it boys and girls?
[2] Or not, as your choice may be. For me, still alcohol, just less than there used to be.
27.79% of Britons are stupid. That is the percentage of voters who didn't vote in the brexit poll
Some of us don't vote for other reasons[1]. Admitedly a very small number (probably less than .0001) but still don't because of our beliefs rather than being stupid.
[1] Long and complicated but down to my religious beliefs.
The default position of any cat is 'I am hungry, give me food'. This is just a test, however, to see how mallable your mind is
I think I've failed that test - many, many, many times. That's probably why we have seven cats (age range - 12 years to 1 year. Youngest cat was (at this time last year) a two-month old stray living in a friends garden. Now spends a lot of time sleeping next to the radiator..)
They aren't stupid. Just self absorbed
Cat intelligence varies enormously according to the subject matter. Food happens to be a subject that they have PhD-level intelligence in.
I don't have a bloody cat, never had and never clicked on anything cat-like
It's the universe telling you that you are missing something essential from your life..
(Almost was late for work this morning - $YoungestCat decided that my lap was an appropriate place to curl up as I was eating breakfast..)
Unfortunately, marketing departments have ensured that 'legitimate' emails are full of full page banners
Some time ago, our marketing team wanted a whole slew of twitter/FB/LinkedIn/etc etc buttons added to the bottom of every outgoing email. Even if we were willing to do that (email is a 7-bit ASCII mechanism dammit!) we managed to come up with a (cough) valid technical reason why not - the increase in file size.
The average email size (without attachments) was about 6K bytes. Once the buttons and associated JS were added, it balooned up to 200K.
We pointed this out to Marketing and let them know that increased costs in bandwidth and storage would be charged to them. Mysteriously, the request was withdrawn thereafter.
How hard it to understand this disctinction
About as difficult as you being incapable of understanding that Oracle will have to defend their actions in court and, if (as expected) she was fired simply for the crime of having an additional X gene, then they'll be shown for the serial mysoginists that they are..
Sounds like you'd fit in there well.
I was going to go for a OP6 but got put off by the price (I had a OP3 before). I ended up getting an Honor 10 - I use Nova Launcher so don't really care about the look and feel of EMUI.
The one thing that does bug me about the H10 is that it keeps popping up notification about the Huawei Cloud. The date I get an account there[1] is about the same as the heat-death of the universe..
[1] Needing an account on one mass-intrusive entity (Google) is bad enough. If the iPhones were more reasonable in price for a new-ish one I'd go back to Apple.
a special team of fur-work experts can spirit the cat to a secret location
So, theoretically speaking, would the contact details of an elite squad of former military felines who escaped from unjust imprisonment and now roam the country solving crimes be of any interest?
Not that I know about such a team though. Obviously not!
(I have no wish to face weaponised hairballs being aimed at me)
It can't be any surprise that the USA have an interest in him. He made it his job to annoy them
And then made the tactical error of supplying information to Trump (probably thinking that it would make him one of Trumps friends). Trouble is, Trump friendship is about as reliable as going to sea in a sieve..