Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I might discover that my skill in anything other than fairly humdrum landscape photography would make staying in education the more lucrative of the two.
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There are 1.2 million middle aged French women interested in you, and all of them have credit cards.
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Only Fanfares?
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The flimsiness of French scaffolding. This is on a neighbour's house, and it's not attached to anything.
It's not H&S gone mad.
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If you post a video of you riding along that you could get mega views on Facebook.
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Ooh yeah, go full Danny MacAskill.
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That's fine though because of it falls over it will just hit the building opposite.
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Even better if playing a trumpet at the same time.
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Saved a few quid by only using 20% of the components, boss will be delighted (until it collapses)
The post with the foot at the bottom should attach under the vertical legs rather than being loosely attached to the side of it as well, I can't even really see how they have attached it.
I wouldnt fancy walking past it, let alone working on it.
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I'm almost surprised they didn't use the electric cables to loosely tie it back (maybe checking first if they are live or not). Also notice the excellent trip hazard between the boards in the middle.
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You read a lot about how over regulation is stifling growth, and then you see stuff like this and remember how many times you've heard " Steve's off this week. He fell off a scaffold."
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Being French, when it collapses the boss will just shrug his shoulders.
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Listening to a Radio 4 Extra program on Ravi Shankar. What an amazing musician. Though it troubles me that I can't decide if I love it or it annoys the Hell out of me? Or maybe both?
Might have to listen to some on the stereo rather than the Echo Spot to evaluate fairly.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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Not to go all Peter Kay, but does anyone remember ITV's Day of Promise from 2000?
It came up on my bluesky feed and this seems utterly mental and the most Partidge thing ever but has left no impression on me at all.
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Simple answer, no.
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 -
They had a bank of phones for people to ring in and say they promised to do something. Bradley from S Club 7 took a call from Rebecca Turner from Stourbridge in Kent who promised to stop bullying people.
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Byrne is known for his activism in support of increased cycling and for having used a bike as his main means of transport throughout his life, especially cycling around New York.[77] In Los Angeles, Byrne drives a Citroën DS, but in New York, he does not drive a car.[78][79]
A bike rack designed by Byrne outside the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
He says that he began cycling while he was in high school and returned to it as an adult in the late 1970s. He likes the freedom and exhilaration cycling gives him. He has written widely on cycling, including a 2009 book, Bicycle Diaries.[80] In August 2009, Byrne auctioned his Montague folding bike to raise money for the London Cycling Campaign.
In 2008, Byrne designed a series of bicycle parking racks in the form of image outlines corresponding to the areas in which they were located, such as a dollar sign for Wall Street and an electric guitar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Byrne worked with a manufacturer who constructed the racks in exchange for the right to sell them later as art. The racks remained on the streets for about a year.[81]
Two bike racks constructed from the Byrne Bike Rack Alphabet, a system of modular letter segments that can be combined to form various words, remain installed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[82]
Cracking tune that.
NotTerry will appreciate the DS ownership.
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^^^^^^^
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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FWIW, I'm up to $15 after three days, so should clear the $25 minimum at the end of the month. All for being a photo bore. I'll not give up all the day jobs yet though.
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$300 for doing something you were doing anyway is not to be sniffed at. 😃
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 going to push my luck and see if the local tourist office might sponsor a new camera if I visit all 50 communes (villages) in a year, but if not, I might use this fund to get something appropriate, a step up from the Sony, perhaps.
BTW, your maffs is out, that'd be $150 for the month. A pity I didn't start at the beginning of my stay, as I've missed 20 good days of traffic. It'll fall off quite a bit once I'm back in Devon, though if the sun comes out, and my legs do so as well, that'll give a boost 🤣
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My $300 was based on the minimum, and for a year. Pays to be pessimistic about income instead of spending what you haven't got yet. I know a few contractors who lived that way. BT, influencer. 😉
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Ah, ok. Indeed. But reckon with about 18 weeks here this year, if things go to plan, I'll be some way above that based on this initial toe-in-water. Whatever, as you say, won't complain, all for no extra effort at all.
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So will we need to start paying to look at the photography thread?
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No, I'm sure that BR will monetise the millions of views.
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When intentions are at odds with proposals. The government and A.I.
Also, that is a whole lot of money for so few jobs.
"The AI Opportunities Action Plan being announced on Monday will be backed by leading tech firms, which are said to have committed £14bn towards various projects, creating 13,250 jobs, the government said."
Parts in bold italics are my conclusions.
- AI will be used by the public sector to enable its workers to spend less time doing admin and more time delivering services. People having more time to do jobs means less people required.
- Several "AI Growth Zones" around the UK will be created, involving big building projects and new jobs. Building project jobs are temporary unless there are follow up projects.
- AI will be fed through cameras around the country to inspect roads and spot potholes that need fixing. Cameras replacing people means less people required.
- Teachers and small business owners were highlighted as two groups that could start using AI for things like faster planning and record-keeping. A.I doing people's jobs means less people required.
- AI is already being used in UK hospitals for important tasks such as diagnosing cancer more quickly and it will continue to be used to support the NHS. Less doctors required.
Of course my conclusions could be wrong and we could keep all those employees simply becoming more efficient and quicker but evidence in the past shows companies choose the bottom line first.
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 -
Totally wrong: it's fewer people and fewer doctors not less. 😉
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Whatever. Pedants still get the point. 😉
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 -
Linguistically that's not supportable: the distinction is an invented one peddled by pedants. If you need convincing, two points: firstly, we don't have a word for a countable 'more', it's just 'more' in both cases and nobody gets confused; secondly, no other languages have a distinction between 'fewer' and 'less', yet they cope perfectly well.
Lastly, look up 'fewer' in the OED, and one of its definitions is 'less' (whilst recognising that some people get het up about it).
I appreciate that it's hard to let go of 'rules' we've been taught, but this is a silly one, and not a rule at all, just an affectation, in effect.
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