That quip doesn't really work like it does for its more usual target, the Eiffel Tower, because unlike the tower you also can't see the Pompidou Centre from pretty much everywhere in Paris, except right next to the Pompidou Centre
That would never have flown in our (UK) class, where we grew up drinking Dandelion and Burdock pop
It was however playground lore that touching them and licking your fingers would make you wet the bed. Indeed the French name for them is literally that, pissenlit, which they must have had good reason to choose over the perfectly fine English name for them, dent de lion.
Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? Shouldn't it be personally identifying information?
How would it be less likely to induce confusion? What is it even supposed to mean in that form? I had no idea what you were talking about until someone explained your error.
Your high latitude health service must be better than mine. I can hardly imagine my GP's receptionist's reaction if I tried to book an appointment to check my baseline vitamin D levels!
No, it was law. Immoral law which deserved to be broken, but that is no consolation to the millions who suffered greatly by going along with it.
To hear one of the most shameful periods in our legal history being brushed off as couple of months of half hearted barely observed lockdown is pretty disturbing.
You broke the law and got away with it. That doesn't mean millions of people weren't having a thoroughly miserable time of it observing the law, and for a lot longer than "a couple of months in 2020".
If I wanted to have a conversation about it, and you wanted to charge me a flat fee per utterance on the basis that you had to reread the text anew every time, I wouldn't be paying you at all.
"Just build more houses", yet alone when framed as "it's up to you to convince your neighbors to let you to build more houses" just doesn't cut the mustard any more.
We need serious changes that are actually going to make a difference, along the lines of (for residential property):
Fair point. It's a sorry state of afairs when you have to speculatively reverse engineer the algorithms run by a state-sanctioned oligopoly of private firms holding your own data gathered with, at best, coerced consent, and artificially structure your affairs in an attempt to present yourself as a dependable and unadventurous cash cow
That doesn't make sense. A credit card provider may profit more from a customer who carries a balance and maybe makes the odd late payment, but a mortgage provider inherently has a customer who carries a balance, and the ideal is a customer who makes payments on time every time, for the life of the mortgage.
Why are these even remotely necessary? I've got a fair sized garden, surrounded by deciduous trees, and half an hour with a rake on a few weekends in Autumn is all it takes to keep on top of things. What am I missing?
I'm no linguist but it seems to me that that word doesn't really work for that definition. It sounds like it should pertain to hidden form, not hidden similar form, like say, cryptoisomorphic.
All around the western world, money printing to prop up the house price bubble is finally reaching breaking point, with housing costs completely decoupling from fundamentals, and inflation breaching the banks and flooding into consumer pricing.
At the other extreme you have the medical profession where the first thing you learn in medical school is that left/right always refer to the patient's perspective.
Didn't know that! So how pervasive is this principal? Would it apply to a descriptive reference to a diagram in a book for example?
It's exactly the people keeping the wheels turning, the working class and lower middle class, who can't afford to have children at the moment. The spongers above and below are the ones able to breed with abandon. Doesn't seem sustainable.
Yes, the thing that has happened, as mentioned in the article, is the treating of ones neighbors, and indeed ones own people, as criminals at the border.
I've always thought railway journeys would be a nice subject for a podcast, in the vein of an audio equivalent of the slow TV genre. Some ponderous commentary about the carriage and passing scenery, with the soothing train track sounds in the background. Would be great to fall to sleep to.
I'm not sure how anything beyond your opening accusation is supposed to contradict what I've said. The party that was unable to reconcile its position with respect to the new border and the Good Friday agreement was the EU, not the UK.