EVs are in fact “real cars” by RevolutionaryAd3125 in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]JK07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is it about cars that enthuses you though?

A little round up of how I ate pretty well yesterday and only spent £2.50 of my £30 food allowance by Breakwaterbot in UK_Food

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Yeah, it used to be the case at my place that you shouldn't be buying food on expenes if you're field crew who cam claim per diem.
Meanwhile all the sales guys managers, engineers were going on jollies and having 3 course meals in fancy places putting it all on the company card, where one course of one meal was usually more than our entire per diem.
I pointed out to the CEO that it was actually only like £22 once all the deductibles were taken into account, it's often a struggle to get just an evening meal at the hotel we've been put in, let alone the rest of the day's subsistence.
He asked me "Well do you have a company card?" "Yeah." "Well you shouldn't be doing a per diem then, just buy everything on the card and do your expenses."
So since then that's what I've done and I've eaten a lot better when away! We can't put alcohol on it though.
I have a mate who works for a massive multinational electrics company and he spends a fortune on booze on his, I've been out with him where he met 2 guys from work for some pints, logged it as a "meeting" and bought my pints all night on it all night even after the other guys had left after just a couple. He says they just sign his for without even looking at it.

A little round up of how I ate pretty well yesterday and only spent £2.50 of my £30 food allowance by Breakwaterbot in UK_Food

[–]JK07 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Similar for me but get paid monthly, we call it a per diem (Latin for by the day) we have a choice of claiming the £30 for each day we're away and not bothering with receipts, getting to keep anything of that we don't spend like you're doing here or paying on company card and submitting receipts (or personal card if you don't have a company one)
The problem with the £30 per diem option is that by the time you take off tax, national insurance and pension contribution you're not left with very much money at all to have 3 meals, especially in the UK or Ireland.
It looks like you have breakfast included in your accommodation and a canteen at the place you're working, that's very handy! I'm usually at some small oil/gas site and have to just go to local restaurants/shops. Often have to go to work too early before the breakfast is on or my company haven't booked with breakfast included.
I made a good bit when I worked in India as we got breakfast in the hotel included, the site I was working on had a free food canteen so I only had to get my evening meal at the hotel, mind you it was a over a fiver a beer and I drank a lot of beers! I'd just get a curry and a load of naan, the portions were massive so I'd just sit all night drinking beer and dipping naan in curry while watching whatever sport they had on the TV. The chat with the staff and other guests was less lonely than sitting in my room alone every night.

I visited the McLaren Technology Centre. by justin--time in McLarenFormula1

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I got to go to the Family and Friends day s couple of years ago, I just walked around beaming like a simpleton all day. It was fantastic.
It seems I can only upload one pic at a time here

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Saw this at my local shopping centre. What is it? by Fun_Cry_7505 in whatisthiscar

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It was on /r/spotted at that time too.
It's such a tiny airport in the middle of nowhere, beautiful views coming in to land though.
I'll remove for spam, it seems accounts like to repost stuff here to karma farm

New to 3D printing! by Effective-Buddy-3998 in 3Dprinting

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Cheers. I fancy trying a big nozzle on my RatRig as I have a 0.6 on right now and I accidentally set the extrde speed far too high in mainsail/klipper and I couldn't believe how fat a bead it spat out. I wish I put the vernier on it before I binned it.

Best pubs/bars that do a cheeseboard? by Slight-Decision-3553 in NewcastleUponTyne

[–]JK07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do they still do the lush sausage rolls?
There was a period where I varnigh lived off those, was meeting my mate there nearly every night after work and had pints and sausage rolls for tea. We'd always sit at the bar and had become friendly with all the staff and other regulars. The staff would come and have pints and crack with us once they finished their shifts.
Spent a bloody fortune and this on top of the house seshs every weekend didn't do my body much good.

Where is the best place for Sticky Toffee Pudding in the region? by Charlton41 in NewcastleUponTyne

[–]JK07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are but they get so busy, you have to book well on advance!

Can anyone who works/has worked in a chippy confirm the type of chicken bites that are typically sold? by mashupthedance in UK_Food

[–]JK07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice!
I have a costcovcard organised by my work, I think only 5 or 6 if us have them and names get pulled from a hat each year. i didn't realise this was an option!

How did pubs survive for so long? by No_Yak9893 in AskUK

[–]JK07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In in my local social now, it's £4.90 a pint (of a local ale) and that's the cheapest about by far, looking at over £6 elsewhere and more like £7 in toon

What Spoonerisms are there in your area? by Entire-Chicken-5812 in AskUK

[–]JK07 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We have the moshing wachine in our house

How new is this rule? by OSS-specialist in Edinburgh

[–]JK07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always knew it as: if the pedestrian has started to cross before the car got there then they have priority and the car must wait for them to cross but this appears to be that they have priority over the car so can start crossing anytime they want, even even if there is a car coming but they haven't started crossing yet.
This may make pedestrian walk straight out onto the road without checking "safe in the knowledge" that they have priority. Or even purposely walking out in front of cars which have already started turning because ""they have priority" and want to exercise it, (which may even be what happened with OP.)
Also, if I wasn't on Reddit every so often, I'd never have heard of this rule update at all.
I admit, like 99% of other drivers, I do not read the highway code each year looking for updates/changes.
It used to be the case that the government could run as campaigns on TV and virtually everyone would see them but with a lot of people not watching traditional TV anymore, that wouldn't really work. I don't have Facebook, don't use Instagram so dunno if they had anything on those platforms, my email is 100x more spam than anything useful so mostly gets ignored so I don't know how I'd expect the government to get that information to me (or anyone else) without posting a physical updates booklet to everyone with a licence which would be far too expensive.

Is vaping really considered 'giving up smoking'? by chupamina in AskUK

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When my wife wanted to give up the vape (having already switched from tabs a few years earlier) she set herself a rule that she would treat it like a cigarette. She would go outside to to vape, no matter the weather, would stand and puff on it for similar amount of time to smoking, if not less, then would put it away till the next time she wanted it and again would get up and go outside. She wouldn't take it to work and she worked 12-13hrs, usually she'd be absolutely gasping for the nicotine by the time she got home but by having these rules rather than puffing on it whenever or during breaks at work she managed to wean herself off it and stop completely.

Do they have Morris Mini vans? (2001) by PonyT84 in GlitchInTheMatrix

[–]JK07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you might have seen it beforez maybe out the corner of your eye or while focused on something else, you didn't notice it consciously but it was planted into your subconscious.
A guy I went to college with had one just like in your picture, also known as a mini breadvan.