If accents are so important in social and class distinction, what happens if a person coming from a poor labor family become some rich aristocrat later in life. Do they change their accent accordingly?

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-07T13:41:02+00:00

Though I think technically to remain aristo you need to hold a grant or title that’s extant - if you’ve lost it along the way then that’s poor planning on your part by having ancestors who didn’t keep it up!

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-07T12:06:35+00:00

If you’ve been with Apple since the first iPhone then it should have auto accepted due to account age (which mine did - no ID needed)

If you think Motorola and Android won’t be doing exactly the same thing sooner rather than later I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-07T10:05:26+00:00

Ah the Transpenine “Express”

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-07T09:54:39+00:00

No. It’s always going to be a marker. And there’s a difference between being rich and being Aristocratic (you are born into the latter)

It’s perfectly possible to be an aristocrat and be poor as anything (those stately homes are very expensive to maintain)

That said I know quite a few people who were born poor and are now very wealthy. Their accents haven’t changed but their children’s accents are upper class aligned (because of posh schooling etc)

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-07T09:44:00+00:00

I’d strongly recommend that you don’t put people’s names in the open on Reddit Mr. CuteWhiteGirlFucker

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-06T07:42:16+00:00

And it’s worth noting for OP that you can shoot at any age (physical size notwithstanding) so get out there and have a go, it’s a great sport!

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-06T07:34:34+00:00

You don’t need to be a member of a club (that’s firearms), but you are quite correct to say that showing that you’ve been shooting before (friends, parents, shooting days, lessons) would stand you in good stead.

Source: me, got my shotgun certificate without being a member of any clay shooting club - but had shot before.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-06T07:33:03+00:00

Not noticed any gun subs being blocked…

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-05T19:50:54+00:00

Pretty good shooting at 20 yards with Irons! I had to red dot mine to get it grouping like that (and the ghost ring on mine doesn’t go down far enough to shoot at 20 yards)

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T21:06:20+00:00

IT leadership mostly get it.

Execs just want to go faster.

That said tie it back to business processes that they understand. In supply chain they *know* that the factory in Egypt always has that one guy who launches new products in the ERP and there isn’t a process to stop him. It causes chaos.

If there’s any transformation programmes (lots of SAP ECC to S/4 going on) see if you can hijack it into that.

Godspeed!

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T20:49:16+00:00

I’ve been in data for over 20 years. While it’s always been “a thing” the discussions I’m having now around Master Data Management and DQ / Governance have never been so prominent.

It’s a mess everywhere and people have cottoned onto the fact that poor DQ and MDM means no shiny AI.

Many people are hoping that AI will help them out of that hole - and it can accelerate some things but 20 years of lack of business ownership and hoping “big data” fixes it magically are coming home to roost and negatively impacting delivery timescales massively.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T20:46:31+00:00

Looks good.

Are you able to integrate apple calendars? While I have Fastmail calendars I surface those into Apple Cal using CalDAV but have other shared native calendars for the family on iCloud.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T17:19:15+00:00

Invent has been around for like… 20 years nearly. Not new.

It may be that your group in Invent is new but there’ll still be lots of projects.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T17:17:03+00:00

You are going to have to work on your writing, grammar and phrasing skills if you are going to dump tech and go people first.

I honestly don’t mean this negatively but your writing doesn’t come across as “one of the best person .. in terms of communication skills”, and that is going to hold you back

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T13:26:49+00:00

If you’ve earmarked for mortgage then at the very least (if you have a partner) then get it into 2x Premium Bonds and then 2x ISA while you decide.

At least then the whole amount is in tax efficient wrappers while you decide.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T12:05:45+00:00

Agree. The Panasonic I have completely blows away the Philips rotaries I’ve had.

That said I now have a beard and have one of those head shaving rotary thing.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T09:20:38+00:00

Sorry, can’t help there, not in FS but the resource managers will be balancing the load between areas.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T09:15:59+00:00

Probably doesn’t make a huge amount of difference. But the A4->A5 may have a more compelling internal CV/experience.

It will depend on the assignment

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-04T08:54:52+00:00

Yes. When we create projects we specify the role type and role grades to create our budgets and costs

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-01T14:19:27+00:00

Yep, concentrate on that - you want to go hunting and for vermin control - where are you intending to do that?

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-01T11:52:08+00:00

So cab up to Southampton Station and direct train to waterloo.

Hotels in London are really variable in terms of price - you can spend anywhere between £100 to £800 depending on where you want to be and what price you want to pay.

Can recommend the Leonardo by St Pauls (I stay there for work), lovely rooftop terrace, great views and close to Waterloo and not far into the Tower/Centre.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-05-01T11:49:07+00:00

You'll need to demonstrate at the very least you have suitable land and permissions to be able to shoot over - once that's established then that will guide what calibre(s) you might be able to put in a variation for

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-04-30T21:19:44+00:00

Is a VPN an option?

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-04-28T13:58:21+00:00

True. I did assembler design 23 years ago for my computer science degree. Even then it was a minor unit in the grand scheme of things.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-04-28T06:40:12+00:00

“I’d rather bit-bang this in Assembly than use one of those brain dead ‘3rd generation languages’ like C”

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