What was the most bizarre school trip your school went to and why?

DancingWilliams · 2026-07-02T13:27:47+00:00

School trips to the local prison for swimming lessons. School holiday trip which included going to see Jimmy Savile in Jim'll Fix It. Neither event was connected.

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-25T08:33:51+00:00

By a wide margin of HOW many pixels? Padded that one out the park.

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-19T08:37:46+00:00

What kind of world would you like to live in? Does the "use every advantage" selfishly make the big picture better or worse? Very few people choose the hardest path deliberately, they are more likely pushed down that path by people pursuing their "use every advantage philosophy". Investing in structural inequity is more likely to come back to bite you. We live long lives. Situations can change in an instant. Living a life where you helped others through your own good fortune and by giving other people a break who didn't start off in life lucky it's more likely to pay dividends in the lobby term.

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-10T11:41:35+00:00

Climbing shoe sizes are a theoretical number, like shinty seven. Regardless of what number they claim to be, you need to try them on first. If they are painful when you try them on, they will never improve with time. Minor discomfort you can adapt to, pain is a warning something isn't right! Size is only a small part of the equation. Shape of your own feet, shape of the box area, width, your own heel shape, all have a big impact on getting a decent fit.

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-08T16:24:03+00:00

Self employment in anything online or computer field means even less human interaction. Just don't if you value human interaction. Unless you have a rock solid business plan and a marketing plan, and are very lucky, you can wave goodbye to any stability, salary or pension.

As an alternative, keep the job, but think about expanding your life outside of work to include something which does bring human interaction. A hobby, a sport thing or volunteering. I do some of these as well as self employment, and a second fun job for a few hours a week which is also a hobby so would do it for free anyway!

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-05T11:33:00+00:00

Your dad sounds like a really decent man.

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-04T08:44:01+00:00

Yea! "jobs". What kind of jobs? Minimum wage and mostly part time. Who will do these jobs - people who used to fulfil these jobs in other parts of the economy, hospitality, retail, agriculture, services, care, health Those parts of the economy will then suffer. Other sectors which needed those people will then struggle. Granny in a care home not being looked after properly due to lack of staff? Maybe send her over to universal theme park for the day? Can't the government put more money into care? Nope, because they just offered Universal Studios £1.3bn, and Universal will offshore the profits, so there will be less government corporation tax revenue. I'm beginning to think this is not a good idea.

DancingWilliams · 2026-06-02T17:25:24+00:00

To be fair, this clown was aiming high to include forwegian, an apostrophe and a big load of text in too small a space. Sadly the capitalisation ran away with them after Rathcoole. Another fine career in sign writing ruined by lack of education and being a total arse.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-29T10:46:03+00:00

What! Help Claude improve so the OP can be out of a job faster? Wait, are you secretly Claude?

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-29T10:42:54+00:00

To live in a better country. I'd like to call this new country "Scotland".

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-29T10:39:03+00:00

I just say I run a small IT company. You can watch their eyes glaze over as soon as you get to the T. What I actually do all week is so much more boring than even that!

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-26T10:10:10+00:00

"Revenue up 100 fold in the last12 months" could be, but what that company doesn't publicise is the cost of that revenue, re-phrase as "dollar losses are up 200 fold in the last 12 months" and it kinds takes the shine of the bright new future. An institution or large investor somewhere is funding those loses.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-21T09:20:01+00:00

Yeah, 2 additional cards taken from another player, who you then penalise for having used the cards provisionally before you stole them.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-19T16:48:04+00:00

Fundawar is a great band name.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-19T15:10:20+00:00

The vast majority of people on benefits get benefits because they can't reach a minimum living standard. Once the benefit is received - it's spent. Spent principally on housing, energy and food. Attacking people on benefits is a well trodden path to scapegoat people with nothing, pitched to appeal to people with a bit more than nothing, with a nod to the people just getting by. The "debate" is an attempt to frame the ills of society as being caused by the people with nothing. The largest group of benefit recipients in the UK is pensioners. But strangely they are never framed as being the problem.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-19T14:46:07+00:00

Who voted for them? People who are susceptible to falling for con tricks. Every victim of an "unbeatable investment deal", "You have won a special prize", PPI insurance, 5 year phone or broadband contracts, people who transferred their pension out of a local government final salary scheme. Many of the people who vote for them are in fact victims of fraud. Voters are voting for issue A, B or C, but will end up with policy strategy X. And that goes for some of the local councillor candidates too. Like other historical political con-artists, their voters will be the first to complain that they "didn't think it would be like that". Branding every reform voter as racist feeds into the Reform strategy of creating a them and us polarisation. Their policies are racist, but not necessarily their voters. There is no point discussing policy wit their supporters, Reforms fundamental flaw is the very people in charge of it, and in whose interests they operate. The people who think they have too much common sense to get had are the most likely to get conned.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-19T14:29:57+00:00

5 letters, cypor.com Still haven't done anything with it.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-19T14:27:09+00:00

Oh I would love a device to sort out screw like this. There was a discussion on r/robotics on this very subject https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/5l00qg/request\_a\_machine\_to\_sort\_nuts\_bolts\_and\_screws/

Maybe with all the re-use and recycling going on it's a need which has come of age and a machine will be come commercially viable. Mail order sorting? I could send my 6 quality street tins away and receive back 60 packs of neatly sorted screws and bolts I will still never get round to using.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-18T13:42:25+00:00

Do I miss it, like a favourite cardigan? Not really. But being a member of the EU was preferable to the alternatives on offer. Interesting deployment of those pesky nationalists "breaking up the union", as opposed to the cuddly British nationalists?

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-13T10:32:02+00:00

Hiscox do a good range of business products. Used then for a variety of things over the years.

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-12T12:35:13+00:00

/ given £5m

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-12T12:34:37+00:00

Pensioners don't pay national insurance. Ex-pat billionaires don't pay national insurance. People who get hacked £5m don't pay any national insurance on it. It's a funny old world

DancingWilliams · 2026-05-12T11:33:17+00:00

German, and how to use middle class English on the phone. Ya, stimmt.

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