UKMT February 2022 - Khan pulls Dick, Patel miffed

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goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

That's probably why they're reasonably cheap! They've been around for decades. I used to use the one in Bloomsbury when I lived/worked around there so at least 30 years.

They do online as well: https://www.richersounds.com/

There used to be a computer store near there to, can't recall the name, but was similar in terms of looking like poo poo but actually being really good with knowledgeable staff etc.

There were loads around there but you're probably thinking of either Computacenter (still extant as a large-scale supplier to corporates) or Silica Shop, a name that will cause a massive burst of nostalgia for anyone who ever owned an Atari 8- or 16-bit. They were about 10 doors either side of Richer Sounds on New Oxford Street.

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# ? May 25, 2024 11:29

Endjinneer: Aug 17, 2005; Fallen Rib

Guavanaut posted:

Related to one of the other big chats itt

https://twitter.com/open_sketchbook/status/1490158093900165121

The latest Folding Ideas video on youtube is a really well written investigation into the history of crypto if you can stomach 138 minutes of raw Canadian. TL;DR is that Non Frangible Tolkiens are the latest attempt to bring money into crypto so the bitcoin "billionaires" can liquidate their holdings and become actual billionaires, without crashing the price.

Having watched it google now recommends endless crypto-news, which is fine because on other platforms I've trained the advertising to give me things I think are silly (such as Kickstarter attempts to reinvent the raincoat) rather than anything I'm actually interested in buying. This beaut came up today:
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-cryptocurrencies-with-potential-for-high-returns-in-2022/
Number 4 in the list is Tether. The returns are unimaginable. If you spent $1 on Tether, in a year, you'd be able to cash it out for... $1*
*Holdings are not guaranteed and vulnerable to catastrophic collapse in value.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:13

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

There were loads around there but you're probably thinking of either Computacenter (still extant as a large-scale supplier to corporates) or Silica Shop, a name that will cause a massive burst of nostalgia for anyone who ever owned an Atari 8- or 16-bit. They were about 10 doors either side of Richer Sounds on New Oxford Street.

Those names don't ring a bell. I'm sure it began with an M - they used to do fliers with all their bargains on. We're talking late 70s early 80s here.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:15

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Endjinneer posted:

Number 4 in the list is Tether. The returns are unimaginable. If you spent $1 on Tether, in a year, you'd be able to cash it out for... $1*
*Holdings are not guaranteed and vulnerable to catastrophic collapse in value.

Only slightly better than GBP then. :v:

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:17

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I am now imagining the UK mass producing tokens, blockchain, frangible, and handing them out to the home guard to throw at people in a desperate attempt to keep the economy going.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:18

SixFigureSandwich: Oct 30, 2004; Exciting Lemon

My wife got a payment from her insurer and they sent her a loving cheque. I had to check whether this was really the 21st century or if the past decades were all a dream and it was actually 1996.

I mean her banking app had an easy way of cashing it but lmao

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:20

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

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quote:

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(Sorry I can't give a link to the application form as it is all coded with trackers and stuff ).

There's a twit about it here:

https://twitter.com/UniteWales/status/1489920268869021704

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:29

Angrymog: Jan 30, 2012; Really Madcats

SixFigureSandwich posted:

My wife got a payment from her insurer and they sent her a loving cheque. I had to check whether this was really the 21st century or if the past decades were all a dream and it was actually 1996.

I mean her banking app had an easy way of cashing it but lmao

When I got my PPI refunds they were cheques.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:30

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

I've had a couple of motability rebates come in cheque form, and yeah, lol. It inspired me to hunt down my cheque book and find out when I last wrote a cheque, and it was in 2006.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:32

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Those names don't ring a bell. I'm sure it began with an M - they used to do fliers with all their bargains on. We're talking late 70s early 80s here.

Morgans? They were a bit further down New Oxford Street, in an absolutely hideous brutalist office block (now a hideous pomo office block with a Pret on the ground floor).

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:35

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

Insurers often send cheques as a first option, partly because it's cheaper and less admin to use an automated process than gathering someone's account details, partly because there's a chance they just won't be cashed for whatever reason.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:36

Skarsnik: Oct 21, 2008; I...AM...RUUUDE!

Are tax refunds still a cheque? Not had one for years but they always used to be

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:37

HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Angrymog posted:

When I got my PPI refunds they were cheques.

Mine were just deposited into my bank account but then they both came from that same account, so

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:42

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Angrymog posted:

When I got my PPI refunds they were cheques.

Ditto, and I made sure I went to the counter to pay them in rather than just putting them in the machines, because I knew how much they'd be impressed by it.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:43

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Morgans? They were a bit further down New Oxford Street, in an absolutely hideous brutalist office block (now a hideous pomo office block with a Pret on the ground floor).

Yes, that's it!
Bought my first computer from there - 40MB - wow HUGEEEEEEEEEEEE) hard drive, MSDos 3.3. B&W monitor

(For comparison, the work computer which each department was allowed to book 1 hour a week on and had Symphony Suite for spreadsheets used two 5.25" floppy drives - no hard drive.)

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:51

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Skarsnik posted:

Are tax refunds still a cheque? Not had one for years but they always used to be

Used to be.
When I moved abroad, I was due a tax rebate of over �700. They posted it to my sister's address which I was using but it never arrived (according to sis). I wrote and phoned but they insisted cheque only. After 6 months they finally relented and paid it into my bank account. Then my sis found it under a pile of papers on her husband's desk. :bahgawd:

(obviously HMRC had cancelled it by then!)
Since then any rebates have been direct to bank.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:53

Endjinneer: Aug 17, 2005; Fallen Rib

goddamnedtwisto posted:

a hideous pomo office block

A what now?
Oh, it's just the keming.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:54

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Some of those buildings bum quite easily.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 22:05

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Skarsnik posted:

Are tax refunds still a cheque? Not had one for years but they always used to be

Got mine as a cheque from HMRC last year, into my bank account it went.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 22:30

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Endjinneer posted:

A what now?
Oh, it's just the keming.

pomo for pyros would be a pro-tier username

# ? Feb 6, 2022 22:35

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Independent phone shops have a way of looking shady as hell that no other kind establishment I've ever been in has ever been able to match and I'll never know why

# ? Feb 6, 2022 22:53

Soylent Yellow: Nov 5, 2010; yospos

I had a cheque for a road tax refund early last year after changing cars. It's still sat in a drawer somewhere. No way in hell can I be bothered driving 12 miles to the nearest bank and paying it in for the princely sum of �3.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 22:58

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

ThomasPaine posted:

Independent phone shops have a way of looking shady as hell that no other kind establishment I've ever been in has ever been able to match and I'll never know why

Cause they fence stolen phones and do money laundering

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:00

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

So do business banks but they have classy waiting areas.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:02

kingturnip: Apr 18, 2008

Spotted in the Schadenfreude thread:

https://www.ft.com/content/d8489e04-3e46-465b-9caf-e9f26b770384 posted:

Spain�s Socialist-led government has achieved one of its biggest policy goals after a single vote cast in error secured parliamentary approval for labour reforms that are a condition for aid from the EU�s �800bn coronavirus recovery fund.
The measures are intended to cut the proportion of the Spanish workforce on temporary contracts, currently around 25 per cent � by far the highest level in the bloc.

While the labour reform was agreed with business and union organisations in December following months of negotiations, the government was unable to build a stable parliamentary majority for Thursday�s vote.
Instead, the uneasy constellation of parties that has backed prime minister Pedro S�nchez over the past two years splintered, leading the government to appeal to centrist votes to pull together the thinnest of majorities.

In scenes of confusion, the measure was approved by 175 votes to 174 after the president of the chamber of deputies had initially declared it defeated. The legislation only went through because a member of the People�s party, the centre-right opposition, appeared to mistakenly back the measure and was not permitted to change his vote.

The PP accused the president of the chamber, the Socialist Meritxell Batet, of rigging the vote, blamed parliament�s IT system for the error, and said it �would make all the necessary complaints so that justice is done�.
Failure of the bill would have been devastating to the S�nchez administration.
�This is the most important structural reform of this parliament,� said Pablo Sim�n, professor of politics at Madrid�s Carlos III University. He added that the reform was more likely to endure because of the compact with business and unions and because it ultimately sought to tweak, rather than overturn, labour market changes enacted by a previous centre-right government a decade ago.

Spain�s labour market remains the country�s biggest economic black spot. Although the number of people in work has reached an all-time high of 20m and joblessness has fallen to its lowest since before the financial crisis, the unemployment rate of 13 per cent and youth unemployment of 30 per cent are both twice the EU average.

Supporters of the 2012 measures � which reduced redundancy pay and gave company-specific negotiations precedence over sector-wide deals � say they added much needed flexibility to Spain�s dysfunctional labour market. Critics say they made inequality worse. A pledge to repeal those rules was a feature of the 2019 pact that established the minority leftwing coalition government.
Instead of scrapping the old rules outright, the new labour reform largely focuses on the drive against temporary contracts, which will be limited in many cases.

TLDR: ostensibly progressive economic plan passes only because a right-wing politician is too stupid to use his computer. I also appreciate the "You rigged the vote" histrionics from the neoliberals.

There's some quality 'left-wing splitters' in there too, if that's your drink of choice on a Sunday evening or you feel like filling out your Bingo card.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:05

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Guavanaut posted:

So do business banks but they have classy waiting areas.

I didn't know about the phones part but the rest checks out.

I suppose the phone shops are signalling "everyday crimes for everyday people" and Deutsche Bank are more like "when you simply have to commit the largest and finest financial crimes in the world"

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:06

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Soylent Yellow posted:

I had a cheque for a road tax refund early last year after changing cars. It's still sat in a drawer somewhere. No way in hell can I be bothered driving 12 miles to the nearest bank and paying it in for the princely sum of �3.

With Natwest you can pay in by just taking photos of the front and back in the banking app.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:09

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

kingturnip posted:

Spotted in the Schadenfreude thread:

TLDR: ostensibly progressive economic plan passes only because a right-wing politician is too stupid to use his computer. I also appreciate the "You rigged the vote" histrionics from the neoliberals.

There's some quality 'left-wing splitters' in there too, if that's your drink of choice on a Sunday evening or you feel like filling out your Bingo card.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:09

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Phone shops have the same vibe as independent takeaway places to me, maybe you get food poisoning, maybe you get something quite good, who knows, enter and roll the dice.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:10

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

I think that's also why they look the way they do. You have a person who fixes phone, you need phone fixed. Don't need much more. Add on top of that 20 years back it was still a matter of legal ambiguity whether you were even allowed to fix/root/unlock your phone what with all the contracts and device ownership, so it'd be the guy on the market who sold fake leather phone cases and Nokia face plates with the cannabis leaf on who did all the unlocking with an IBM thinkpad and a bunch of obscure cables, and that's what the phone shops grew out of.

Failed Imagineer posted:

I didn't know about the phones part but the rest checks out.

I think in their case it's more very specific people's phones, but yeah if you have a big enough decor budget you can do enormous crimes with impunity.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:25

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Angrymog posted:

When I got my PPI refunds they were cheques.

I seem to remember a bunch of people getting cheques from that, posting them online to boast, and finding someone else had cashed them before they got to the bank using the numbers.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:32

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/DailyDorries/status/1490275393923948546

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:50

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/DailyDorries/status/1490275393923948546

hahahahaha holy gently caress

These are the scrawlings of an infant

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:55

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Barry Foster posted:

hahahahaha holy gently caress

These are the scrawlings of an infant

I thought it was 100% satire at first, but loving hell, it's real. It's a new twitter account that just appeared on my radar, and one worth keeping an eye on.

https://twitter.com/DailyDorries/status/1490106262327025668

# ? Feb 6, 2022 23:57

Julio Cruz: May 19, 2006

"hmm, how do I make it clear to the readers that this character is no fool? something about tell, don't show, isn't it?"

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:00

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Could have done without reading nadine dorries wank fic, could have conceivably gone my whole life without reading it in fact. Would have died happier.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:02

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Stanley took off his cap and bells and harlequin pattern unitard and stick with a small version of his head on the end.

"Ah, sex," he pounded.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:07

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:07

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

fuctifino posted:

I thought it was 100% satire at first, but loving hell, it's real. It's a new twitter account that just appeared on my radar, and one worth keeping an eye on.

https://twitter.com/DailyDorries/status/1490106262327025668

She was probably sobbing because of the cramps in her back with all that arching.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:08

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# ? May 25, 2024 11:29

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Her response was to arch against him as she shuddered violently and gasped while he finished scraping the Whiskas into her bowl.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:13

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