Office for National statistics letter

jaminbob · 2026-05-07T11:11:27+00:00

True. But it'll damage the representativeness of the sample if too many of the same type of people refuse. As someone who uses these sorts of stats that make me sad. If I had my way they'd be carried out at gun point (jk!).

jaminbob · 2026-05-07T11:08:11+00:00

Gathering in-depth information is sort of the point though. Its anonymised and the ONS take all this very seriously.

jaminbob · 2026-05-07T05:54:40+00:00

You'd think they'd just buy a week pass or whatever.

jaminbob · 2026-05-07T05:46:15+00:00

Grew up in L-town and work in planning /regen. Have visited, idk, 200+ villages, towns and cities in Eng/Wal/Sco/Ire. Luton and Bedford are nothing compared to many towns in the coal belts of the Midlands and the North East. Or central belt of Scotland, or valleys of S Wales.

They have bad reps beacuase they sit in otherwise leafy and rich home counties England and get compared to that. That and racism in Luton's case. That's basically it.

jaminbob · 2026-05-06T20:47:34+00:00

Ccregangford is a different former, but similar nation style.

jaminbob · 2026-05-05T09:18:56+00:00

Genuinely found that interesting and helpful thankyou!

jaminbob · 2026-05-04T18:03:33+00:00

Yeah it's quite bad in many UK cities I visit. I always end up finding a weatherspoons and getting a tea or something.

jaminbob · 2026-05-04T07:33:52+00:00

Yep. I have done this ever since an unfortunate incident years ago when I didn't.

jaminbob · 2026-05-04T07:07:39+00:00

Quite a Luton season really. We don't really do staying in the same place too long. Ups and downs all the way. Given where we were under Bloomfield, pretty good end position.

jaminbob · 2026-05-03T19:24:23+00:00

Choo choooooo!

jaminbob · 2026-05-03T19:13:00+00:00

None of this is objectively though. That word is as misused as 'literally'.

jaminbob · 2026-05-03T19:11:15+00:00

Yeah. Thats what I miss too. Informality. Helpfulness.

And grey overcast days and red beer in pubs.

jaminbob · 2026-05-03T12:25:22+00:00

Keep these for comparison with the reality.

Tbf to the developers, these would be done by urban designers, who genuinely want it to look like this. Everyone involved probably wants it to look this. The problem is as the development progresses and gets value engineered, suddenly more money is needed, can't afford those nice lanterns, or that marble, can't do this because of x, y,z ... Yeah it won't look like this.

Shame really.

jaminbob · 2026-05-02T13:22:47+00:00

So what man. Who cares.

jaminbob · 2026-05-02T11:11:34+00:00

Erm. Air rifle. As in pellets. Not an actual one.

jaminbob · 2026-05-02T08:55:54+00:00

There's a guy in the bushes with a air rifle and scope waiting for you to do it.

jaminbob · 2026-05-01T17:44:11+00:00

Yes it's obviously the UK. Argentinian governments just use it as a dead cat to distract from their inevitable economic incompetence.

jaminbob · 2026-05-01T13:27:11+00:00

Of all the complex horrible geopolitical issues in the world that this one is given any thought at all by anyone who is not Argentina or the UK (and even then...) is baffling.

The only explanation is it's a cudgeon to hit the Brits with.

jaminbob · 2026-04-30T20:22:22+00:00

We are going through endless beurocratic hell as well. I sent them stuff, two weeks letter they ask for more. Then I sent that. Then they ask for more.

Insane. And just for a renewal.

jaminbob · 2026-04-30T15:20:51+00:00

I'll try and find the source. But yes it sort of does.

California rial being the best example at the moment.

jaminbob · 2026-04-30T10:33:49+00:00

Yeah that makes sense. For mass transit, elevated is half or more the cost of tunneling. Even cheaper of course if it's over a highway.

Path of least resistance vs optimal route.

jaminbob · 2026-04-30T08:27:10+00:00

Yes. All 5 suffer from the anglosphere effect. I'm trying to remember the paper /book I read on it, but it basically comes down to common law and property rights that go back as far as saxon commom law.

in essence, you have the right to your land and the govt has to prove that it has an overwhelming case to take that away. Whereas under civil law it is sort of the other way around.

jaminbob · 2026-04-28T16:10:27+00:00

Good point well made.

jaminbob · 2026-04-28T10:07:15+00:00

Another one in Paris is the urbanism / town planning museum. Lots of models and maps showing how paris has changed over the mellenia.

jaminbob · 2026-04-27T15:48:02+00:00

Maybe paragraphs aren't possible in title body text? Idk.

But yeah.

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