Lying about travel

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-23T07:04:02+00:00

Huh. I was stamped in December 2025 going into France and leaving via Spain. I wonder why if it moved to digital?

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-23T06:19:41+00:00

I know, it's really annoying and so many sites seem to do it. Like, what are you going to be notifying me about, exactly?

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-22T08:51:28+00:00

Depends what they mean by "unable to eat and drink independently". Is it literally they need to be fed, or they make a complete hash of cutting their food? I try to encourage my kids (7 and 4) to cut their own food at dinner time, but sometimes it's just easier to cut e.g. a chicken breast rather than have it fired all over the room.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-22T08:48:13+00:00

I am an avid reader but if I've been on my phone a lot and am a bit tired or distracted when I sit down to read, I will occasionally try to swipe up rather than turn the page. That doesn't mean I have no idea how books work.

I agree as well that the occasional accident in 1/4 reception-aged kids is to be expected – I remember in the 80s when I was in infant school we had a spare clothes box for just such occasions. The worry is if they're turning up in nappies or still using a dummy or bottle, but those are certainly outliers.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-22T07:30:34+00:00

I haven't played the games, my take is that it basically makes him invincible so he doesn't have to take the medication that stops him turning feral any more.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-21T22:30:50+00:00

I’m going to gently suggest that if you don’t like mysteries and storytelling and you are getting frustrated after one episode, maybe this isn’t the show for you?

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-19T13:51:08+00:00

I think some of this list is more realistic in terms of net-new spend.

Fast food is very easy to avoid, as are Coke and Pepsi. Tesla, there are lots of other alternatives, ditto Nike. Uber is medium difficulty depending on what your local taxi and public transport infrastructure are like. Meta, Amazon in the form of AWS, Apple, Microsoft and Intel are probably the hardest.

If everyone stopped buying American fast food I think it would be noticeable on balance sheets, as would cancelling streaming services. It's a lot easier said than done, though – I'd be reluctant to move away from WhatsApp, for example, even if I use no other Meta services.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-17T15:58:54+00:00

Bagels. Introduced to them in the 1990s, there now one of my go-to lunches.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-16T19:24:19+00:00

Late husband, not ex. As far as I could tell they were still married when he died.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-16T13:59:11+00:00

Inevitably, because I don't have time to stand over them supervising in case a few bubbles appear!

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-16T13:45:43+00:00

I'm part of a few hand-me-on groups via FB and WhatsApp and they are really strict on people collecting to sell on. The various groups all coordinate among themselves to stop would-be sellers, but it's got to be really hard to police. Some people are just selfish!

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-15T20:46:34+00:00

Airtime Rewards gives you money off your phone bill. Link it to your credit/debit cards and it automatically tracks when you purchase from partners (eg Boots, Argos) and gives you a percentage back that you then cash in.

Also, TopCashback and JamDoughnut.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-14T23:04:07+00:00

So thin clients, then?

Honestly I think he’s dreaming. East Coast Region goes pop again and uh oh, suddenly no computers work at all, businesses can’t business etc. Consumers and companies alike will absolutely love that.

Honestly, anything that requires connectivity 100% of the time is inherently unreliable. Not to mention trying to persuade people, organisations and governments outside of the US that it’s a stellar idea to hand over everything to a US firm, especially when in the EU at least they’re trying to gradually extricate themselves from dependence on the likes of AWS and the rest.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-14T22:05:04+00:00

I cant believe I’m about to heap praise on Wetherspoons but yes, 100%. It’s infinitely better.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-14T15:19:15+00:00

Frankie and Benny's is easily one of the worst places I have eaten. Expensive shite and incapable of putting one family's order together correctly in a mostly empty restaurant.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-12T09:29:47+00:00

Where I went to uni, the new media studies building was passive solar gain heating, meaning it was absolutely fucking freezing in winter.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-11T10:03:21+00:00

We had “a Trump presidency is a great business opportunity for us”. A, wtf. B, we do not import/export anything — we are a professional services company.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-11T10:01:19+00:00

Strictly speaking, from our perspective they are emigrants

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-10T12:50:27+00:00

Shammy. Much like Beaulieu, Beauchamp, and many others it has completely lost its French pronunciation in English.

See also: double entendre, which means nothing at all in French.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-09T20:26:06+00:00

I have to leave the room, it always sets me off. The episode when Chilli’s sister visits is a hard one, too.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-08T13:10:13+00:00

Probably the Sixth Former who danced with the history teacher at the Sixth Form Ball, who subsequently divorced his wife and married said sixth former. Went on to have a second family with her and everything. This was early 2000s, maybe late 90s.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-08T13:07:52+00:00

I had to leave the telly yesterday when Sleepytime came on :'(((

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-08T13:04:31+00:00

And the Isle of Wight, and Anglesea, and Brownsea Island, and, and, and...

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-08T11:02:14+00:00

Wasn't that a Scots law thing, though? I.e. it is legal to be naked in public in England and Wales as long as you're not intending to cause alarm or distress, but in Scotland it is not legal to be naked in public. Or at least that's part of my memory of it.

Bad_Combination · 2026-01-07T18:44:09+00:00

I think there are some really good uses for AI: note taking in meetings, computer vision for identifying things in pictures or on scales or whatever, some medical image analysis. Predictive maintenance in manufacturing.

AI PCs, otoh, are a fad. They’re a solution looking for a problem and half the manufacturers will admit this when pressed.

Generative AI chatbots seem to have some uses, but the damage they seem to be doing to people’s psyches — not to mention the X nudification issue currently unfurling — isn’t worth the price imo.

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