can he even procreate? if he pollutes the gene pool everyones IQ goes down

any chance the grown ups are listening? i find this horrifying

I’m happy for tom gray, the album Bring It On which they won a mercury prize for is excellent

why is she not lying now after admitting lying to investigators for years?

should be in prison. why is she even allowed to defend herself on tv? bizarre

i can expand a little but you dont know who’s reading this now or in the future, so cant give many more details. The idea was, as the ‘mark’ leaves the building with the couple who are in on the gag the house collapses behind him. Unfortunately the company used explosives and fire rigs to make the thing fall to bits so it looked like it just blew up and just missed him. There’s more to it as well but the upshot is, its a terrible thing and ruined a guys life for some stupid tv show.

the rule is, the production company has to have your express permission if you directly talk to the camera or are featured in the footage. If you are in public and part of the crowd you cant ask for removal unless theres a good reason like court cases or something. You have to sign a form if you are more than just a person passing.

heathrow in particular is interesting because nearly all large airports are public owned and heathrow is private. This is important because the production company has permission to film from the owners, and so as a customer you are on their premises and subject to their terms of entry, one of which is being filmed as a member of the public. If the production company does interview you or features you (not just a passing person) and do not have permission there have been many cases where the program has been held from broadcast until the matter is resolved. If you think you need to ask them the company and names of production staff are on the credits of the show.

I know of one case with a prank tv show where the company pranked an estate agent by blowing up the house, and he got PTSD. The episode was never broadcast because he refused to sign the release, and sued the company for a serious amount of money. But the basic release form meant the company couldnt pass through the broadcast regulations.

In public there are a few restrictions but basically its public land like a street and not expected to be empty of people. You cant film wembley arch because its licenced to the FA rather than the local council.

right but thats not how blackmail works. anything, literally anything is blackmail if the person being blackmailed dosnt want anyone to know about it. Its about machinery of power

it makes you wonder what it was like before the new recall laws came in. The threat of actual consequences means people are getting punished, rather than what happened before where the Whips kept a black book of things to leverage people with. Oh you had an affair? Well you better vote this way. Oh theres a lobby paying you to ask questions and support a law? you better vote that way.

Whips generally had a rule to burn their notebooks on leaving office.

alot of UK product sugar content has been lowered and replaced with flavour enhancers since the sugar tax came in a few years ago. Coke Zero is another one, its got sugar in but below the amount required to register it on the label and they boost the taste with enhancers.

The other thing is ingredients change flavour depending on the year. Tea for example is always changing slightly back and forward depending on how much rain and sun during growing, but its blended so nobody really notices except the labs importing the tea leaves.

hes a little bitch, probably wasnt breast fed as a baby

No worries. Also worth noting, this week the 2nd hand market is looking really great for EVs. You can get a decent EV like a fiat500e for £12k which is about half price… the big trick is having home charging on a driveway or private space. If you do a certain amount of rapid charging a week, ie, live in a flat or something there are subscriptions which can make it really worthwhile. Tesla offer one for non-tesla now, but on my routes there’s only one option so I’m still sticking with my VW version which has contracts with chargers near me.

The casino lobby has been trying since we lived in the north west fifteen years ago to get a proper foothold. There was a two or three way battle with Manchester to get the casino restrictions altered to build casinos at city of Manchester stadium and Blackpool and another site. Eventually they all got shelved. This plum duff must have known they would be sniffing around and now his career is over

theres different ways and different data to work out the cost which is where alot of costing falls over and gets annoying/confusing.

if you have an efficient EV you should get 4kw per mile and theres two prices for 1kw: home charging is about 8p and rapid/high st whatever is about 70p today. So, assuming a tank of fuel is £1.50 a litre and you have a 45 litre tank, £67.5. Now in miles per gallon the Uk average is about 40, and theres 4.5 litres in a gallon. Luckily that means 10 gallons in a tank, so you should get 400 miles but mostly people get 350 miles from the £67.50.

Now, going back to the comparison, £10 at a public rapid in my efficient car is getting me, in winter, about 120 miles. So the equivalent mileage is roughly £30. In summer its about 20% more miles/less cost as the battery dosnt need heating to reach optimal output and roads are dry, no rain or snow etc. If I charge at home its about £3, using the cheapest tariff overnight etc the total cost for 360 miles is about £10.

The big problem people cant generally get their heads around is change in efficiency in seasonal weather. This does happen with petrol, engines run richer and hotter in winter to get the same output and a big loss in un-noticed efficiency because you can top up in under 5 minutes at any petrol station.

The other thing is maintenance cost and cost to run. EV motors have 2 moving parts and a solenoid, ICE have hundreds. Because EVs use engine braking properly theres no manual brake pad wear and tear but because EVs have zero or instant torque there is much higher tyre wear as the engine braking will use the rubber to slow the car as well as grip the road off the lights. The other big difference in cost is super efficient air conditioning which dosnt use petrol. You still need to re-gas but its a different ball game.

Theres no ulez, no c-charge and no road tax on EVs, at least until 2025 but probably longer as they need to work out a road tax system not based on emissions which is still being discussed rather than implemented. So you will save thousands a year in London, and hundreds in the UK generally, just on taxes and charges.

right so it dosnt end when they apologise and change behaviour. I agree! I think you can have a rule of thumb which says 2 years for hosing down a homeless person. Its more for the transgessor than the person getting the hosing, so there is a basic decent contract which says they wont be seeing a chunk of people for two whole years.

blimey thats an answer!

So, if mcdonalds apologised, that means its over? Im not sure thats right, that means theres no consequences.

fair play to him. attacks on homeless people is a dirty hidden secret of this country - visit Crisis and see if you can donate a few quid

https://www.crisis.org.uk/

I totally agree on the prices. I was just listening to PMQs and the PM avoided answering the question on public/private VAT on electricity. If we can have prices closer to 50p by reducing vat, it will cost about the same as petrol in an efficient 4.0kw vehicle. A big problem is people who drive really inefficient EVs like the ipace, also use them as company cars and so dont pay the price themselves. theres no pressure to lower prices from the business side, and the consumer side hasnt got its voice together in quite the same way sadly. Although I suppose asking the PM about it, must mean theres something going on

its good that they mention facebook at the end, the largest data selling company on earth. Whatsapp, Insta and FB already have you nailed down. I wonder what the story really is here, a hit job on Nectar by the guardian dosnt really ring anyones bells

pretty good news, its the one truly indispensable app for an EV driver new or old.

got pat springleaf ready to listen