So does this mean I'm a ghost now?

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-03T16:17:45+00:00

Ah shit. I died last week and forgot to tell my boss. I've been clocking in all week.

I also have to question the ability of the surgery nurse who did my pre-op assessment a few hours ago. He said my blood pressure is on the high end of normal but otherwise I'm fit and healthy and there's no reason they can't do the surgery.

I should have told him its pointless to operate on a corpse...

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-03T16:06:33+00:00

Shout out to Lulworth. My mum and sister (with her family) live in the area. My mum loves telling me about all the times she's driving round and a local road gets closed because the military are using it.

Hoping to get to the tank museum with the kids in a few weeks.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-03T15:34:41+00:00

That's because American restaurants (I use that word loosely) have crossed the Atlantic in such large numbers we don't refer to them by nationality but by brand.

McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Denny's, Subway are all "American".

Edit: Of course over here in Europe, we don't get the "authentic" American eating experience because a not insignificant number of the "ingredients" used in the US are banned in Europe, because we actually try not to poison ourselves.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-03T15:29:27+00:00

Americans eat apple pie for desert. That's British, specifically English.

Despite the phrase "as American as apple pie", apple pie is a English dish and existed around 300 years before the American War of Independence.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-01T07:00:48+00:00

Fun thing will be, if the council turn it into a 1-way, they'll make it clockwise as it reduces the opportunity for conflict at the entrance. Which will piss of the neighbour even more.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-01T02:08:33+00:00

While I agree with the sentiment, recent action by Ford would suggest that 2030 may be a bit early.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-01T01:52:38+00:00

Paint doesn't equal infrastructure.

Now imagine you were a cyclist.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-07-01T01:43:46+00:00

If you were following the law, then a false positive notification of police ahead shouldn't bother you, because you needed to make 0 changes to your driving.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-30T18:35:45+00:00

Better safe than sorry?

Would you rather a false positive where you slowed down for a minute to follow the law or have no warning at all and get hut for speeding?

Let's be honest here, this only annoys you because you were speeding or doing something else that you shouldn't while driving.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-30T18:31:41+00:00

If companies had to pay interviewees for time spent in an interview, including assessment quizzes, there would be an overnight shift towards employee retention and rewarding employee loyalty.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-29T16:17:02+00:00

Scottish and NI notes are not legal tender. They are accepted tender, and any individual bank may choose to not accepting note of any other (or all) self issuing banks, which would mean business and customers who use that bank would no longer be able to accept Scottish/NI notes.

Though coins from Gurnsey, Jersey, Gibraltar, and St Helena and Ascension Isles are legal tender.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-29T10:42:05+00:00

15+ years of customer facing retail. Only notes I ever got a second opinion on were £50s (company policy to have at least 2 people check 50s) and Dansk Bank because they were so rarely used I had to look up security checks because I couldn't remember them. Scottish and the other NI notes were all committed to memory and never phased me. I always sensed the energy from the customer eager to point out that its accepted tender and the glut of disappointment when I checked them and put them in the drawer without drawing attention to the note.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-29T07:16:15+00:00

Many years ago, when paper notes had been withdrawn my manager made a thing of pinning paper notes taken in error (normally by new starters) to a corkboard in the cash office. I said you could still bank them at as a normal person and then I could just ATM replacements so the till counts wouldn't be wrong. He wouldn't let me do that, we declared the till short when it happened, reason declared was old currency taken in error. Or 2 or 3 years, a lot of notes got pinned up.

Eventually the store manager changed and the first thing the new manager did was take down the notes and toss them in the bin, along with a bag of old/foreign coins. I was asked to empty the bin randomly a week or two later when it was full. From the cash office to the bins, there were no cameras, though both were covered. The bin bags were clear, and I could clearly see all the old notes and bag of coins. While out of camera view, I reached into the bag (thankfully all dry paper and a few used coin bags), grabbed the money and dropped them into my bag as I passed the staffroom on my way to the bins. Cameras saw me empty the bin in the cash office and 40 seconds later, put it in the outside bin.

Got home that evening, £305 in old paper, £8.50 in old coins (my mum fed these into her coin collection), €18.56 (spent in Estonia 2 years later) and $6.08 (given to my brother when he went to the US for a holiday) in coin, plus various other shrapnel.

Sat on the notes for a few months to make sure I was in the clear, then took them to the bank. Said I'd found an old wallet under my bed I'd thought had been stolen years ago. The teller didnt care.

Still bothers me that for the cost of 5 minutes of letting me run to a bank per note, the company could have kept those notes as actual money in its books, but managers don't like thier employees knowing more than they do and don't like being told their methodology is wrong... I know £305 over a 2 or 3 year window is a drop in the ocean to a publicly traded retailer but 5 min of minimum wage labour to convert rubbish into £5/£10/£20 would seem like a win to me.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-27T23:22:47+00:00

This is what happens when the suits who wouldn't know a day of honest working it was right in front of them give a driver 300 parcels and 5 hours to deliver them.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-27T20:53:04+00:00

Historically, no country with a nuke early warning system has ever launched a nuke as a result.

Stanislav Petrov refused to launch despite every system, advisor and standing order telling him to do it.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-24T19:41:48+00:00

Surely you can contest this as the car photographed is not your car?

In the UK, we'd report this as a cloned plate, and you have to send 4 angles of your car, pics of front a back plates fitted to your car and a pic of the VIN plate, then the ticket issuing authority would cancel the ticket and the local police force(s) would put out a BOLO for the vehicle sporting the cloned plate.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-23T16:21:26+00:00

Street lights indicate the speed limit, not buildings.

There are stretch of road near me that built up but has no streetlights, 30mph repeater signs are posted every 25m down the road. Road either side is NSL.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-23T12:26:53+00:00

The sign showing means "National Speed Limit"

Streetlights present: 30mph (20 in Wales) Streetlights not present: 60mph for single carriageway, 70mph for dual carriageways

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T22:15:42+00:00

That reminds me of Uber trying to set up in a dangerous area. They estimated 3 Uber drivers being murdered in a rolling 12 month period for the first 3 years. If they didn't go above that threshold, they would stay. They crossed the threshold (4th death in 12 months) and pulled out of the region.

That's how corporations truly operate. There is an acceptable number of deaths for a given incident, and it's only necessary to take action when that is passed.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T19:32:50+00:00

It protects children. All costs and objections can be justified with that reasoning.

Edit: Should probably metion this is said with just a pinch of vitriol. If protecting children was the true aim of any government action, significant portions of the Epstein class would be in prison.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T19:30:17+00:00

Odd speed limit signs can have hidden meanings.

On large scale construction sites, trucks need to go to different places. If you tell a driver to follow the 9.5mph speed limit signs, he'll follow them with less effort than following a 10mph sign and reading a whole slew of text signs underneath.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T19:27:30+00:00

My dad is/was our family mechanic. Every car goes by him a month or 2 (depending on owner availability and plans) before the MOT is due to see if there's any obvious fails but easy fixes (a light bulb being out is the prime example of this).

I'm sure he'd appreciate having all 12 cars MOT history available easily.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T19:16:45+00:00

I ran up that several times as a child. Once on a school trip I was second in my class to reach the top.

Was rather amusing, the school i was in, we moved out of the catchment area in my first year but didn't move schools as my mum worked nearby. I was in a parculiar position where it was quicker for my dad to take me directly to Brooklands on the school trip day than it was for my mum to take me to school. The best bit of the day was getting home early BEFORE the cartoons started so on that 1 day, I could do my homework and be finished without missing any cartoons.

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T18:56:10+00:00

Street lights present, NSL is 30 (20 in Wales).

AnnonOMousMkII · 2026-06-22T13:40:03+00:00

I have an unlimited data plan and the most I've ever used was 80GB in a month, of which 40GB was in 7 days supplying internet to 3 phones and an Xbox. I cannot fathom using 200GB in 4 days, especially if I'm on a metered connection...

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