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Yeahbbut fibre optics spread Covidrick_chasey said:Round here it seems to be bizarrely unpopular that they’re digging up the pavement to install hyper fast broadband for the whole neighbourhood. I mean, the option for a gigabit connection is 👌🏻👌🏻
People losing their minds over a few days of inconvenience.left the forum March 20230 -
Standard isn't it? The very same people who moan about potholes on the roads and demand action complain about roadworks when the potholes are being repaired. People object to planning applications because there aren't enough schools, the same people then complain about a planning application for a new school. People are tw@ts.rick_chasey said:Round here it seems to be bizarrely unpopular that they’re digging up the pavement to install hyper fast broadband for the whole neighbourhood. I mean, the option for a gigabit connection is 👌🏻👌🏻
People losing their minds over a few days of inconvenience.0 -
The academic sector is hardly representative of the rest of the world, is it? Even in Victorian times, ratty tweed and elbow patches were de rigueur. Looking in any way smart puts a real brake on your academic career.ugo.santalucia said:
I teach chemistry at UniFirst.Aspect said:
What do you do for a living?ugo.santalucia said:Not sure why anyone would want to spend money on a suit...
Last interview in 2015 I wasn't even wearing one, I got the job anyway
We would frown upon a prospective trainee turning up in only smart trousers, shirt and a sports jacket (in American terms).0 -
You just have a lot of stereotypical nonsense in your head... this idea that "the real world" is somewhat different is flawed. I've collaborated with many people in science and engineering private settings and nobody really wear suits anymore.First.Aspect said:
The academic sector is hardly representative of the rest of the world, is it? Even in Victorian times, ratty tweed and elbow patches were de rigueur. Looking in any way smart puts a real brake on your academic career.
Most academics would wear a suit for an interview, I just decided not to on that occasion, because I didn't have one, the interview was at short notice and as I said above, I didn't want to join an organisation that cares about the way I dress.
Broadly speaking, if you wear a suit is because you are trying to sell me something...left the forum March 20231 -
Or trying to tell you something. Sometimes at an expensive hourly rate.ugo.santalucia said:
You just have a lot of stereotypical nonsense in your head... this idea that "the real world" is somewhat different is flawed. I've collaborated with many people in science and engineering private settings and nobody really wear suits anymore.First.Aspect said:
The academic sector is hardly representative of the rest of the world, is it? Even in Victorian times, ratty tweed and elbow patches were de rigueur. Looking in any way smart puts a real brake on your academic career.
Most academics would wear a suit for an interview, I just decided not to on that occasion, because I didn't have one, the interview was at short notice and as I said above, I didn't want to join an organisation that cares about the way I dress.
Broadly speaking, if you wear a suit is because you are trying to sell me something...
The R&D people you will be meeting never wore suits. You just haven't met the people important enough to need to wear suits.0 -
So when I go out with the wife tonight and wear one of my suits. Just what will I be trying to sell you.ugo.santalucia said:
You just have a lot of stereotypical nonsense in your head... this idea that "the real world" is somewhat different is flawed. I've collaborated with many people in science and engineering private settings and nobody really wear suits anymore.First.Aspect said:
The academic sector is hardly representative of the rest of the world, is it? Even in Victorian times, ratty tweed and elbow patches were de rigueur. Looking in any way smart puts a real brake on your academic career.
Most academics would wear a suit for an interview, I just decided not to on that occasion, because I didn't have one, the interview was at short notice and as I said above, I didn't want to join an organisation that cares about the way I dress.
Broadly speaking, if you wear a suit is because you are trying to sell me something...0 -
Yeah, like the guy standing at the door at Barclays, showing customers how to use a cash machine... or the bouncer at a Spearmint Rhino branch... or a floor manager at Tesco...First.Aspect said:
The R&D people you will be meeting never wore suits. You just haven't met the people important enough to need to wear suits.
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...Or a solicitor, barrister or patent attorney advising a university, or perhaps the CEO, CFO or any other actual decision maker at the companies you collaborate with.ugo.santalucia said:
Yeah, like the guy standing at the door at Barclays, showing customers how to use a cash machine... or the bouncer at a Spearmint Rhino branch... or a floor manager at Tesco...First.Aspect said:
The R&D people you will be meeting never wore suits. You just haven't met the people important enough to need to wear suits.0 -
Damn, you are right... my cousin is the director of the European Patent Office in Munich and he is depicted with a suit on Linkedin...
Anyway... my plan is to never need one again...
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We haven't even got 'cable'.rick_chasey said:Round here it seems to be bizarrely unpopular that they’re digging up the pavement to install hyper fast broadband for the whole neighbourhood. I mean, the option for a gigabit connection is 👌🏻👌🏻
People losing their minds over a few days of inconvenience.
It stopped about 200m to the east of me, and about 5km to the west.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
WAG should add England to the list of countries having to 14 day quarantine before they can pack like sardines into holiday towns, pubs and beaches in Wales.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
I know, right?capt_slog said:
We haven't even got 'cable'.rick_chasey said:Round here it seems to be bizarrely unpopular that they’re digging up the pavement to install hyper fast broadband for the whole neighbourhood. I mean, the option for a gigabit connection is 👌🏻👌🏻
People losing their minds over a few days of inconvenience.
It stopped about 200m to the east of me, and about 5km to the west.
To be honest if they were given £1m each they’d find something to complain about.
The local bridge has been shut to private cars and taxis (but not cyclists or buses or peds so a total result) and they have been going bananas about it.
I think it’s all caught up in gentrification anxieties issues.
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Our little Cornish village finally got what used to be called superfast BB this week...rick_chasey said:
I know, right?capt_slog said:
We haven't even got 'cable'.rick_chasey said:Round here it seems to be bizarrely unpopular that they’re digging up the pavement to install hyper fast broadband for the whole neighbourhood. I mean, the option for a gigabit connection is 👌🏻👌🏻
People losing their minds over a few days of inconvenience.
It stopped about 200m to the east of me, and about 5km to the west.
To be honest if they were given £1m each they’d find something to complain about.
The local bridge has been shut to private cars and taxis (but not cyclists or buses or peds so a total result) and they have been going bananas about it.
I think it’s all caught up in gentrification anxieties issues.
Anyway.
We've finally joined the HD World 🙄We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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If I didn’t have a toddler I’d be very excited about a gigabit connection for gaming reasons but alas.0
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I am not convinced that makes any senserick_chasey said:0 -
I have 6 Mbps and we don't quite get 4G. I live 11 miles due south of the Scottish parliament building and I can actually see it from my house. But we are too "remote" to be part of the 100% superfast roll out.
We will get "vouchers" instead for some other option. Seeing as the only other option would be a satellite dish, for about 128kb of very expensive data a month, it will need to be a hell of a voucher.
Got to love SNP policies. Using tax payer money to fund private companies to finish what the private companies they've already paid to do the same thing.
Shambles.0 -
Still not relevant as still mid outbreak.rick_chasey said:
If (and I acknowledge it is an if) Sweden are through this a year before comparable economies and functioning close to 100% whilst others see further economic suppression, they could fare much better.
They may not, I don’t know what will happen, but I will keep calling out the declaring of winners and losers part way through the process.
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Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.0
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All economies currently suffering regardless of the degree of lockdown as the entire global economy has slowed.
You are reading causes and effects (as is the tweet) that simply can’t be supported as proven. Possibly they could be in the future but not now.
If the lockdown outcome is simply delayed mortality and the economic impacts are worse under long term suppression, the tweet will be wrong.1 -
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
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That's not evidence.surrey_commuter said:
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I'd argue that the Swede's version of no "lockdown" but remaining socially distant could have been fairly equivalent to our "lockdown".surrey_commuter said:
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
Trouble for us is that we needed a lockdown as we (as a nation) are incapable of abiding by simple inconvenient guidelines without our hands being forced.
For example - "We advise not to go to the pub but pubs can remain open". Pubs rammed.
The bold part is my opinion and I'm sure it will be an unpopular one.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.2 -
Honestly, I'm not sure telling people that they shouldn't go to the pubs, but that pubs should remain open, makes any sense.
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Someone once posted on here that if lack of common sense was a risk factor in contracting and dying of covid, we would be facing a near extinction event.pblakeney said:
I'd argue that the Swede's version of no "lockdown" but remaining socially distant could have been fairly equivalent to our "lockdown".surrey_commuter said:
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
Trouble for us is that we needed a lockdown as we (as a nation) are incapable of abiding by simple inconvenient guidelines without our hands being forced.
For example - "We advise not to go to the pub but pubs can remain open". Pubs rammed.
The bold part is my opinion and I'm sure it will be an unpopular one.
Witness how people behave when they are out. In the supermarkets people were content to queue outside, but once inside it was like Wacky Races. They couldn't even follow one way arrows properly.
Now people seem to regard the masks as some sort of hazmat suit which makes them invulnerable. Madness
As for people going to the pub.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/07/29/dozens-queue-to-be-tested-for-coronavirus-after-outbreak-at-stone-pub/
Vast numbers of people deserve to catch it for their stupidity. Unfortunately, it won't necessarily be the criminally stupid that are taken out of the gene pool.1 -
Just a remarkable coincidence.Stevo_666 said:
That's not evidence.surrey_commuter said:
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
How is the US or Brazilian economy doing?0 -
I can’t find the chart but Swedish activity levels remained materially higher than the rest of Europe, even if they still had a big drop off.pblakeney said:
I'd argue that the Swede's version of no "lockdown" but remaining socially distant could have been fairly equivalent to our "lockdown".surrey_commuter said:
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
Trouble for us is that we needed a lockdown as we (as a nation) are incapable of abiding by simple inconvenient guidelines without our hands being forced.
For example - "We advise not to go to the pub but pubs can remain open". Pubs rammed.
The bold part is my opinion and I'm sure it will be an unpopular one.0 -
So could ours if people could actually abide by a sensible instruction to maintain social distancing. They can't and there is plenty evidence if that.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I'm still waiting for evidence to back up the statement above before we move onto another point.surrey_commuter said:
Just a remarkable coincidence.Stevo_666 said:
That's not evidence.surrey_commuter said:
Sweden has gained very little economically, so far, from no lockdown.Stevo_666 said:
You state that as if it is fact. Got some evidence that lockdowns don't have negative economic implications? As recent experience suggests otherwise.rick_chasey said:Not sure you’ve understood the “public health interventions don’t hurt economies, viruses do” bit of that argument.
How is the US or Brazilian economy doing?"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
