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    Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old

    Sounds like someone's trying to login "on your behalf" ;) - if you've had the account that long no doubt it's on plenty of dark web account leaks. www.haveibeenpwned.com can be instructive viewing. My main email is in 17 data breeches apparently and that's just ones that site knows about...
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    BBC: UK's third-biggest taxpayer to leave for Greece

    No, but given he was happy to stay here before we ought to be happy to try to come up with some decent deal. IDK what though. Mind you I'm more interested in giving ultra-rich investors deals than ultra-rich "generic hedge fund". Hedge fund is such a vague term and I've no idea what he was doing...
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    Ease of walking off without paying by accident at self checkouts?

    It can take 10 seconds or more for the payment to be authorised, if you've no reason to think it won't be then I can totally see how someone will get into habit of walking off especially with Applepay/Googlepay where there's no reason to expect to enter a subsequent PIN. I do tend to stay but I...
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    "X for Y" - stations that should perhaps have another name added to them but don't have at present

    Aldgate East for Whitechapel West Monkseaton for Whitley Bay Whitley Bat for Monkseaton
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    Offal - why are less-desirable cuts of meat more expensive?

    Sounds like andouillette, absolutely delicious things I was first exposed to at about ten years old by a father that was constantly trying to push my gourmet boundaries for no particularly good reason at that point...
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    Altnabreac station and the various legal disputes around it

    Well even if he does so what? This is more about protecting third world women from being treated as commodities, something that isn't so much of a problem with Irish ones in that they're far less vulnerable and just as importantly have more or less as much of a recourse if they are exploited as...
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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    AIUI (correct me if wrong?) the railway industry through psychometric testing now really tries to "discriminate" against calculated risk takers (as you don't want a risk taker, calculated or otherwise, in most of the safety critical roles) so I would imagine that this is an unusual path there...
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    The ideal money no object station pub (fantasy)

    Sliding into drunken rambles (which I consider to be fine in the context of this thread) but it's weird what people miss out on. My school had a weird policy of the tuckshop working through a "cheque" system which you had to use just like a real cheque. I'm not sure if I've ever signed a cheque...
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    The ideal money no object station pub (fantasy)

    I don't think I entered a polling booth until I was 18 and I found the instructions pretty easy :lol: Made a difference in my first general election too. Someone came joint last because of me, instead of last.
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    The ideal money no object station pub (fantasy)

    Not sure that many kids have had a lot of fun in a polling booth:lol:
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    Should car accidents have more prominent reporting?

    Sure, but watching the video it makes sense to me (making - yet another assumption :lol: - about what the driver was seeing i.e. an opening sweeping left/right hander with gradual revalement of the future road). But yes anyone can make a poor decision, it is what is.If you keep it secret I might...
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    Should car accidents have more prominent reporting?

    It's literally a video of highly trained police driver* doing it. Reg always used to be highly approachable although he doesn't seem to be online so much these days. I'd be much more interested in what he thinks than random uncredentialed posters (or possibly credentialed but hiding it, which...
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    Should car accidents have more prominent reporting?

    Well that's fine for "driving test" but it goes to show the difference between basic driving and advanced driving. No indication both as no one would benefit from it and it may give a misleading impression to the driver behind (perhaps correctly sussed as someone who has no clue) who may have...
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    Unpopular opinion: IETs are perfectly fine, for the most part.

    Show me a better place to sit in first class on a domestic service train in the UK than the four around the two single tables either side in the centre of a Mk4 coach.
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    Should car accidents have more prominent reporting?

    No one's going to do this hypothetical scheme so that they can legally drive at 80mph (they may do it to improve their driving with no intention of going quicker than the limits, but that's a different thing)! The point would be to be doing 150mph+ where appropriate. It is of course true that...
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    Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old

    I quite like QR code ordering, if only cause I don't have to tip :D - haven't really seen it at a proper restaurant though, more nandos or spoons type place. Who is insisting on it though, I've not seen that?
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    Products and services where the new version is not as good or has significant disadvantages as the old

    *Most* of the Britannia Group, with exceptions like their airport ones, used to be incredible hotels - it's what they do, buy up beautiful old hotels that are about to need a maintenance refresh or other refurb and then... not bother. Quite often as the second negligent owner. Stuff like the...
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    What should the punishment be for leaving user worked level crossing gates open

    I hadn't considered this, and I guess Altnabrec proves they exist, so fair enough. I'm still instinctively against further criminalising things though (I appreciate it is criminal but no one is prosecuted afaik). The actual problem is crossing misuse anyway. Despite this country's rather...
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    The 'fraud letters' process

    Of course they have different views! But if they want us to give advice that suits the TOC best then they need to pay us consultancy fees at a minimum :D My suspicion, and it's only that, is that in truth no one genuinely cares due to the size and nature of the TOCs. Everyone is a replaceable...

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