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Game of numbers for the scammers, out of the thousands of messages they send there will be those that blindly follows what the link says and as such nets a payday for them.

Microsoft Office 365 gets a special mention. Constant shoving of updates and copilot down your throat, yet on my work pc the copy and paste function 9/10 times doesn't work in Word or Excel after some arbitrary update.

I'm no chancellor, however , close the loopholes for the wealthy and corporates to enable them to get away with tax reduction. Place the restriction back in for child benefits, but make it a window, so 2-3 children max. Presently with it lifted, it's a recipe for people to pretty much lie back...

I voted for abolishing peak fares. Purely from a slightly biased point of view being a commuter to London 5 days a week and having a fairly eye watering sum come out of my salary for just purely getting to work during normal office hours. I would also extend the NSE railcard to be nationwide to...

When the CIS used to be a proprietary Windows application split across multiple monitor outputs when the computer went wrong you'd see a slice of Windows application error box on each. I recall it used to be a fairly frequent occurence in Portsmouth & Southsea, and exposed how old the computer...

Speaking as a passenger who travels on these daily it's a definite improvement over the older red 455s. Especially during the summer, the air conditioning (when it is working properly) makes the experience more bearable to travel in, whereas in the 455s it would be an oven at normal summer...

Payment cards on mobile phones, it's encouraged people to faff more at the underground gatelines, either they do not have their phone ready or for some reason it's not reading it, or the thing is so overloaded with whatever they're doing on said phone and have open it takes a while for it to...

I wonder what part of it is actually increased costs (from food, energy etc) and and what part is just greed disguised?

Numbers are universal in any language and even if English isn't your first language it's easier to direct someone to get bus 44 to Pontypandy. Also from a passenger's point of view, I'd rather they spend that money meant for painting the bus pretty colours, and devising the brand on actually...

Probably would need a big redesign of the foil wrap and require a large wrap around barcode like they would do on certain products in Aldi/Lidl. Also I think scanners would also have a time trying to scan the barcode due to the odd shape. Speaking of supermarket annoyances, I wish more would...

Thanks for letting me know this is standard practice, as usual all of those of us that do live on suburban lines get shafted. Least they're consistent with their daylight robbery, I suppose. :D Does SWR in effect get the same amount of money for running less services, out of interest?

On the surface a slightly sceptical but very realistic view of the benefits system and one I can attest to after having been made redundant within the past few years. Contribution based JSA (also called New Style JSA) is for 6 months and then it stops. One thing that doesn't get mentioned a...

I found this out too this week when I was back at work, SWR having a Saturday service timetable all week and charging for Monday-Friday peak fare. Cheeky swines.

I always think the UK are very strange in receipts being optional or people just not taking them where they are given, in Italy it is mandatory to give a receipt for taxation purposes. Whatever the client does with it is up to them - most dispose of it responsibly or take it with them. Sure, the...

I have never understood why the guards always interrupt the automated pre-recorded waffle on-board a train (such as station calling points etc) to replace it with exactly the same of their own, plus all the other rubbish they have to say about safety posters in the carriage, BTP 61016 etc. Why...

Surely the technology must already be there in some shape or form in the backend, given that you can set discounts on oyster cards for railcards? Obviously you can't write to the EMV card in the same way you can as with the oyster, but the concept of having a flag against the card cannot be...

Complete stab in the dark: I've always thought it is from a sensor mounted on the ceiling or something, and in my experience it only works with certain types of trains mainly the Desiro series. I've not seen it active on the 701s or 455s.

I don't think I'm feeling that aventurous (!) but it could be an idea since one has to hang around for 55 mins on a Sunday for a connection but needs must. I have to say that the Avanti website is very annoying, it tries to force you towards Avanti options (naturally) and I had to end up...

If anyone wants a 455 with some beans underfoot the last few times I've caught the 08:47 from Surbiton fast to Waterloo it has been a 455.

My mistake, I thought it was a split specific but it seems to just be an itinerary suggestion and the ticket is a through one from London to Liverpool. Checked the forum ticketing site and it's come with the same one (and other more expensive options), but with some help in the other thread I...