Coohoolin posted:

We wanted to, a comparison with other European systems was on the list, but we had to scrap it for time.

Angepain posted:

e: 211 is a 2018 American action film directed by York Shackleton and written by Shackleton and John Rebus. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Cory Hardrict, Michael Rainey Jr., Ori Pfeffer and Weston Cage. The film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes rates it 5% positive based on 17 reviews with an overall rating of 2.5/10.

Bobstar posted:

Angepain posted:

e: 211 is a 2018 American action film directed by York Shackleton

Oh dear me posted:

I've started learning Welsh with Duolingo (because Cornish and Breton weren't options). I don't know how good it is as a way to learn - I rather wish they'd give some explanations instead of hoping I'll pick it all up naturally - but it is something to do on the bus etc.

bessantj posted:

Howl's Moving castle is based on a Welsh children's book.

Latitude Ocotpus posted:

I am also doing Welsh duolingo (along with greek and Italian - I actually like languages) and it definitely helps that I got the base of the sounds and letters for pronunciation purposes.
I work in an office with two English ladies one of which has two Welsh speaking daughters ( went to Welsh language schools) but doesn't speak it herself and one who lived most of her life in Wrexham and neither of them can pronounce the most Welsh of the addresses (we are a contractor for the local council).
I did however manage to get a c in my short course GCSE and we weren't actually taught for those two years our teacher would just stick us in front of Pam fi dyw and leave it at that .

Latitude Ocotpus posted:

I am also doing Welsh duolingo

big scary monsters posted:

It's fun how bigger companies offer a lot of the benefits you'd like to see available to all in society: childcare, food, gym membership, health insurance, out-of-work and sickness insurance, financial services, education, pensions, travel & transport, sometimes even housing are all stuff that you commonly see provided either free or heavily subsidised in good, well-paying jobs, as well as things like more paid time off, flexible working hours and stable, long-term contracts. So if you're making say £50k a year you will quite likely be in a job where a whole bunch of your day-to-day costs are either reduced or entirely paid for by your company. On the other hand with a minimum wage position, not only are you getting a lot less cash, but probably your job security is low and you are having to pay for all the same stuff at full whack. It really is a lot more expensive to be poor, and it really, really sucks.

Barry Foster posted:

Stone cold classic, that

big scary monsters posted:

It's fun how bigger companies offer a lot of the benefits you'd like to see available to all in society: childcare, food, gym membership, health insurance, out-of-work and sickness insurance, financial services, education, pensions, travel & transport, sometimes even housing are all stuff that you commonly see provided either free or heavily subsidised in good, well-paying jobs, as well as things like more paid time off, flexible working hours and stable, long-term contracts. So if you're making say £50k a year you will quite likely be in a job where a whole bunch of your day-to-day costs are either reduced or entirely paid for by your company. On the other hand with a minimum wage position, not only are you getting a lot less cash, but probably your job security is low and you are having to pay for all the same stuff at full whack. It really is a lot more expensive to be poor, and it really, really sucks.

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Transport: €0 (I cycle everywhere and have a travel allowance from work)
Rent: €1,380 in mortgage payments
Household bills: €98 on electricity and gas, €158 on car payments, €125 on car insurance, €39 on life insurance payments, €31.50 on house insurance
Phone bill: €0 (paid for by work)
Health insurance: €155
Groceries: €240
Subscriptions: €2.50 per month for Spotify (I’m on a family plan), €11.85 for Netflix

happyhippy posted:

With this welsh chat you reminded me of Twin Town.
Now I have to watch it again.

mehall posted:

Sarah Bellum posted:

I read this article last week about a single 32 year old in Dublin on €93K per annum and how she spends her money.


She only spends €240 a month on groceries because her work canteen is subsidised, as well as her phone and travel.

big scary monsters posted:

I'm not sure it's allowed to talk about friction with the Welsh language in Wales without recalling this sign:

Julio Cruz posted:

€1500 sounds like a lot for car insurance if she doesn't actually drive it anywhere

thespaceinvader posted:

That is still genuinely hilarious, but in retrospect it does seem like kind of a dick move for someone whose job is literally to take stuff from people who don't speak a language, and put it in that language, to have that language be the only one on their communication.

Equally, for the person who got that autoreply they really should have noticed the bit where the email presumably had autoreply in the title.

Or just checked it through google translate first. I think it is new enough that that would have worked.

Borrovan posted:

I have never watched that film despite having lived at the bottom of Constitution Hill for 2 years & walking my dog up it every morning

It's covered in bollards to stop people from recreating the famous scene I haven't seen

OwlFancier posted:

If I go somewhere called the Doctor Who Experience I expect a lot more than a tardis set tbqh.

Borrovan posted:

I have never watched that film despite having lived at the bottom of Constitution Hill for 2 years & walking my dog up it every morning

It's covered in bollards to stop people from recreating the famous scene I haven't seen

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mehall posted:

I'm hearing the Canterbury Labour MP, first time Labour had ever won that constituency, may be defecting to the Lib Dems, though there's a chance it's a remain alliance style deal.


I hear the MP is popular with constituents, but not with the CLP itself, and the Lib Dems have cancelled their planned hustings for candidate selection.

Sarah Bellum posted:

I read this article last week about a single 32 year old in Dublin on €93K per annum and how she spends her money.


She only spends €240 a month on groceries because her work canteen is subsidised, as well as her phone and travel.

CGI Stardust posted:

sean10mm posted:

Welshie was the greatest Futurama character.