Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Way back when unlimited never applied to non-geographic numbers, I used to use this page a lot to find the regular UK numbers for services: https://www.saynoto0870.com/

ThomasPaine posted:

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Why can't we just have BT running the whole thing with all the masts and near 100% coverage? gently caress you, that's why.

big scary monsters posted:

Failed Imagineer posted:

Just had to check the difference for myself and my home wifi is 50x faster than my LTE sim connection in an area with good reception.

Agreed that a hotspot is pretty decent in a pinch if you have reasonable expectations about what kind of speeds you're gonna get

jaete posted:

Hey friends, asking for advice again. A friend of mine has been living in London for many years. Some five years ago he didn't have much money, so he asked the council for some mercy on the council tax. As I understand it the council reduced his council tax to zero temporarily (I think?) and also even paid him some living support or whatever it was, a bit of money each month straight to his bank account, for a couple years.

Of course now they are saying he has to pay back every penny, because gently caress you. The bill is around five grand. He can pay in installments and whatnot but still... I'm not sure on what grounds they're asking for the money back, there was no fraud he was really penniless, and it was several years ago.

Friend called the council and they said that, apparently, HMRC had sent them a letter saying this guy is some kinda moocher or whatever, and that's the basis for the council demanding the money back.

I don't know anything at all about this stuff, as usual, but the whole thing just seems like bullshit to me. So my question is: is there some kind of charity advice thing that could help my friend here? At the very least he should try to file some kind of complaint or something against the council, rather than just succumb and pay them. Like, at least find out the real reason and real details about why he's being asked to pay this back, based on what kind of calculation.

Super glad I am myself a rich wanker who has never needed to ask any public body here for anything, loving hell.

Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:

Cameron era government made an ammendment to legislation concerning Possession of Indecent Image/s of a Child to include "Pseudo Images" which covers drawings of said material.

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

If this guy really exists and was convicted would it be possible to look that up somewhere?

quote:

District Judge Zoe Passfield told him said there were “some points of concern” highlighted in a pre-sentence report commissioned into his behaviour.

But she said they could be addressed via a 12-month community order, containing 20 days of rehabilitative work with the Probation Service – and she did not place him on the sex offender register.

Drinkslinger posted:

https://twitter.com/labourlewis/status/1664719250412515328?s=20

Kaveman posted:

And?

This isn't the bloody reason is it. He's being barred bc he's a socialist and didn't join the anti-Corbyn bandwagon (which is why they cancelled Ken Loach too).

The new stage version of I, Daniel Blake is currently sold out in Newcastle now. Tickets are like rocking horse poo poo. The average person doesn't care about labour party drama.

Plus the people who are actually on the list are unpopular party sycophants.

Trin Tragula posted:

Just picking up on this: a very similar culture was responsible for the wiring error during the Waterloo Area Resignalling project which was the direct cause of the Clapham Junction crash*.

A few years ago I read a RAIB report which, among many other things, noted something along the lines of "We are concerned that the lessons of Clapham Junction are starting to fade from the collective memory..."

It's going to happen again.

*A brutally overworked electrician wired a signal so that it showed green when the track ahead was occupied, causing trains to run into each other; it turned out he'd been working a ludicrous number of days without a break and also hadn't been taught to do basic things like "when you finish work, check to make sure you haven't hosed anything up", nor had anyone who was supposed to be checking his work bothered to check his work.

Gorn Myson posted:

If you've ever spent significant time in the UK then you should know that once you hit 60 you are given the legal right to claim that you lived through WW2. Phillip Schofield for instance was born in 1962 but is legally allowed to say that the media attention he has aimed at him right now is exactly the same as the Holocaust.

Guavanaut posted:

e: Seven segment displays have 7 segments but they only use 3 or 4 to display the number 7. When all 7 segments are illuminated, it displays the number 8.

Guavanaut posted:

More diverse migration, more trade union power, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment at lowest levels since records began.

Nigel Farage and Laurence Fox's Brexit has failed. Mick Lynch and Dennis Skinner's hasn't yet.

History Comes Inside! posted:

The spice girls, specifically

Z the IVth posted:

Have you seen the works of Masamune Shirow?



(The design comes from Shirow but it proved extraordinarily difficult to get s piece of original art from the artist that didn't have a scantily clad woman erupting from the robot).

fuctifino posted:

It's a shoop. This is the original, which still looks ridiculous

keep punching joe posted:

Goon project, let's buy the Spectator and force Fraser Nelson to only write warhammer fanfic.

bessantj posted:

Wait, is that normal for a council? To invest in things? I'm just realising now I haven't thought about how councils get all their money.

Jedit posted:

In your 60s, probably.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1667153421382590464

Any idea what this is about?

quote:

One of actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s older brothers has been expelled from the Labour Party over his involvement with a proscribed organisation.

Amnon Baron Cohen confirmed to Jewish News he had been ousted from Labour over his involvement with the Trotskyist Socialist Party, who were previously better known as Militant.

Amnon, a computer scientist, was spotted attempting to sell copies of the far-left political party’s newspaper The Socialist in Parliament Square on Monday.

Guavanaut posted:

Just clearing out some cupboards and found all my old ones, they're all of this type.


What's the best thing to do with old CFLs now? I know WEEE says don't put them in the bin because they have mercury in, but everywhere seems to be "we will collect them if you buy new bulbs from us" or "specialist lamp recycling (55 miles away)"

kecske posted:

just the bin men getting exposed to the mercury as they break then

Eddy-Baby posted:

Hello lovely people!

My partner recently met a homeless person living in our town that she would like to help. Not knowing much about how this sort of thing works I've come here to ask for advice.

This homeless person seems to be in their 20s and originally comes from Moldova, possibly they are not a legal immigrant. We are considering that we could provide them with clothes and toiletries, they do not have a phone so we might be able to help them with that... it seems that they are just generally in need of help in many ways, they have poor English so they could be struggling to access assistance, but we don't know much about their situation or what they would accept.

A quick google lead us to the council homeless helpline (we are in Cheshire East) but we are not sure how useful this is.

If anyone has experience in this area and can point the way to charities, helplines etc that are useful in this kind of situation please let us know; or any advice would be welcome.

Camrath posted:

Holy loving poo poo.

Wife took me out to the cinema to stop me walking around the house fretting so I’ve been offline for the past three hours.

Just turned my phone back on and it nearly crashed from all the notifications of people viewing my website and placing orders. Rest assured my bills will be paid, the kitties will continue to be fed the enormous amount the little gannets demand and the fudge will continue to flow that bit longer.

I really am quite overwhelmed, to the point of tears.

The post office are going to loving /hate/ me tomorrow lol

Kin posted:

I think my life insurance provider directed me towards a trust recently.

The policy I've got doesn't name the kids as beneficiaries so if my wife and I pop it at the same time then I'm not sure if the policy pays out to them.

Is a trust basically just a family bank account?

I figured if I set this high interest account up, I'd eventually just add the kids to it in time and then we all make contributions to it to live off of when we retire

I didn't know about that 7 year rule but figured Iif they spent 20 odd years contributing to an account before I die, it should be considered theirs too.

Just wish my parents had been so forward thinking so it didn't have to start with me. My mum even worked in the Bank of Scotland for 30 years before retiring early at 55 or so, but didn't set anything like this up.

The idea of being able to retire in 15 years time and live comfortably sounds like a fantasy to me right now.