I was watching Australian Masterchef, and the audience applauded when someone made a meringue. It took me by surprise; usually Australians boo meringue.
@toxy I passed a bakery and saw a sign in the window "Today! All cakes £1". I pointed to a particularly tempting one and said "that one please". "That's £2, please" said the Baker. "But the sign said they're all £1!" I protested. She replied, "Ah, that's Madeira cake".
Now the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act has finally passed, and the UK monopoly regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority has new powers to smack piss-taking Big Tech, they are consulting on its draft guidance for the digital markets competition regime. Have your say (unless you're Big Tech, in which case, retain 7000 lawyers to argue about the process until the sun goes nova) https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-digital-markets-competition-regime-guidance
I had filed Sunak as fundamentally decent, but occasionally mouthfarting nonsense to appease the brexitty loons. I didn't expect full fat fascism. Fuck this gang. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo
@brucelawson His voting pattern and attitude is fundamentally libertarian. He was anti boosters due to cost alone. He fought again a furlough for the self employed. So not exactly Mr Nice Guy.
My son went to a really lovely school for kids with learning difficulties. They cut the school day by 30 mins (so 2.5 hours a week) because they couldn't afford to pay for teaching assistants. Fuck these Tories.
In UK (where I am) Facebook is going to start using my data to train its AI. I apparently "have the right" to object. And if my objection is honoured, they won't use my data any more. Honest!
@brucelawson even if the UK is no longer in the EU, they copied the GDPR into their data protection law. Have they changed it recently? Because if not, they still have to ask for explicit consent for a new use of your data.
Of course, if the UK data protection officer has signaled that it will do nothing, that clears it up…
WHAT?! Vennells has been shown a doc that she saw in 2011 which says Fujitsu staff have unrestricted access to the Oracle database. She now says she didn't realise that it meant that the system wasn't 100% secure from remote transactions not done by the subpostmasters. FFS. She wasn't fit to run a fucking village post office let alone the whole operation.
I'm an agnostic, but I wouldn't bet against Paula Vennells, former Post Office CEO and Anglican priest, suddenly being struck down by a thunderbolt when she goes into the witness stand today.
@brucelawson so even the invisible sky friend only really cares about when people get caught and publicly called out. otherwise he'd have thunderbolted her at the time. what a hypocrite!
The Great Big Dialect Hunt https://dialectandheritage.org.uk/the-great-big-dialect-hunt-2/ For folks who grew up in England:
"Welcome to our dialect survey. Whoever you are and wherever you come from, we can't wait to find out how you use language in everyday life." This was good fun to do (took 5 mins)
@brucelawson
There was a similar thing many many years ago online, I think early 2000's, where they would ask about 40 questions and then pinpoint which town you came from. Highly impressive it was, as i got me bang on and we had a right mix of dialects because of the coal mines in Kent! In the chip shop we would order Rig but up the coast a bit it was Rock Salmon and down the coast a bit it was Huss.