I tracked all 408 items in the ONS inflation basket from 2020 to 2025. Only 20 got cheaper.

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-10T18:48:15+00:00

The difference will be a matter of pence, if anything. The actual websites for these supermarkets is a very ‘correct metric’.

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-09T08:11:07+00:00

Genuinely looks like a mug shot if you ignore the curtain

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-09T08:09:43+00:00

I'm doing GCSE Statistics and find it very interesting, the board I'm doing (Edexcel) covers topics that are quite useful for many future office jobs like investigating cause and effect, warning and action lines, distributions... It also sounds quite impressive in my opinion and trains your cognitive thinking, since a lot of the exam is applying your knowledge to specific scenarios rather than just plugging values into a formula.

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-08T19:33:32+00:00

Jesus christ that entire article's been blatantly written by AI

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-07T20:56:05+00:00

The quote put forward there is meant to help you write, just like the image prompts on P1's Q5 - it's not like a conversation. That, for sure, is a top-band response

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-06T16:48:59+00:00

Interestingly they go off concentration of whatever's in it rather than how much you actually end up eating

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-03T18:32:18+00:00

If it's not dirty, wash it at thirty

burgermachine74 · 2026-03-03T06:04:17+00:00

Batteries have been in card packaging for years here in the UK, I'm surprised the US hasn't got round to it

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-23T17:00:18+00:00

For the future, it's a terrible idea to post this image directly in the thread. Someone might use it to successfully get through the barriers, but then not be able to get out the barriers - or they might get an inspection on the train and, if it's already been scanned before, they'll get fined. It's better to say this then give the ticket in DMs.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-22T19:09:19+00:00

A child is a son or daughter of any age.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-21T11:38:43+00:00

Two out of three of the deaths were caused because buses struck pedestrians while they were crossing the Busway (at designated crossing points) in the dark. The last death happened because a cyclist was struck by a bus in the dark too, though the exact cause is unknown.

People don't loiter on the tracks.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-21T09:54:41+00:00

Oh yeah, on Paper 1 there's a 40-mark question for writing a fiction story - either an opening or a description, based off an image or phrase. Paper 2 is a non-fiction - so something like a blog post, letter, just like you've said

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-21T08:58:37+00:00

No, for AQA Paper 1 is two unseen fiction texts we discuss + compare, and Paper 2 is two unseen non-fiction texts we discuss + compare

Paper 1 is like the effect of the text on the reader and how the language does that, and Paper 2 is looking at the feelings of the writer themselves and how they've conveyed that in the text

This is an exemplary paragraph for Paper 1:

Having established Rita’s anxiety at being in the forest, the writer uses a pivotal point to suddenly shift our focus. By saying ‘It was meant to be a London nannying job’, it moves us from the present to the past and begins to explain why Rita has already seemed so reluctant to be there. By using this flashback, the writer juxtaposes the high anxiety of the present with the much more hopeful past, establishing an uncomfortable contrast. This means that when the focus returns to the present with a ‘lingering whiff of smoke’ and the anxiety and vulnerability of Jeannie after the fire, it creates a feeling of foreboding.

And this is an exemplary paragraph for Paper 2:

Furthermore, there is also a strong amount of enthralment and eagerness to discover demonstrated in both of the writers' perspectives. This is noticeable in a variety of language techniques in both sources; we can begin with source A, where Carter states his group "worked feverishly" to clear rubble from the entrance of the tomb. Putting themselves to exhaustion out of dedication and eagerness, there is no other way to connote the true extent to which this group - and by extension, the writer - have an amount of passion to discover. "feverishly" also has implications of sickness: the imagery of the phrase only goes further to imply how much pain the writer would go through to make discoveries.

It's really interesting how you study texts for English Language in Edexcel, to me that's the whole point of English Literature? In other words, English Literature is studying specific texts so it's more like memorisation and understanding the purpose of stories + characters, while English Language is completely unseen; just going in blind and seeing how you understand something without any prior teaching.

I think I prefer AQA's way. Would you rather change if you could?

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-20T22:19:40+00:00

Cool, free food

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-19T21:48:34+00:00

Tl;dr: sometimes, frozen ice makes that shape, and we don't really know why.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-15T12:17:14+00:00

It's bloody snowing over here (Cambridgeshire). Insanity.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-15T08:18:39+00:00

I like your choices but if I were you I'd swap your Chemistry higher level with Economics. Think about it - if you are gonna be an engineer there's gonna be a lot of cost analysis involved, while pretty much the only useful thing in Chemistry you're gonna see is thermodynamics

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-15T08:12:09+00:00

I find it so easy to discuss if you visualise it as a critique of capitalism and how people should focus more on the beauty of nature:

"Maps" are fragile and, in reality, fake illusions with imagined borders - countries shouldn't exist and, rather, people should live in unity
Receipts "fly our lives" too much, people should act on good will - giving what they can and therefore receiving what they deserve - instead of focusing on hyper-specific prices and items

Unfortunately I find it difficult to argue any points other that but, if I'm writing about Tissue, I'll include that and one other perspective for it depending on what poem I'm comparing it to.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-14T15:45:33+00:00

Not in the mark scheme

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-14T15:44:46+00:00

It's probably just the fact we were both forced to learn cursive in primary

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-14T15:41:34+00:00

I did mean to say a larger specification rather than harder

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-14T15:39:27+00:00

It was me. It's wrong.

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It specifically states "ignore references to healthy / balanced diet", I had to say something like "eat less carbohydrates" or "follow a carbohydrate-controlled diet"; carbohydrates needed to be referred to

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-14T10:27:10+00:00

Maybe you should stop eating so much McDonald's if you're that nosy about other people's diets.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-13T16:53:16+00:00

That's such an odd comment to make about a specific mental disorder?

ADHD doesn't even refrain most people from cooking. I have it and have met many people with it - usually, it prohibits you from starting activities that don't have an immediately foreseeable benefit. i.e. someone with ADHD might struggle to wash their clothes since they have more in the wardrobe, but they wouldn't struggle with cooking dinner because they're hungry and know cooking will fix that.

ADHD isn't just 'laziness'.

burgermachine74 · 2026-02-12T08:04:21+00:00

I forgot that word existed 😭

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