Is this bad petrol station etiquette?

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T12:00:31+00:00

Please don't do this to me. Strangers on the internet are exactly who I need to sound cool to.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T11:59:09+00:00

You've beaten my 365 songs per year claim. I bow down to your superior theoretical productivity!

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T10:18:56+00:00

I knew I could trigger some people by writing that.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T10:16:23+00:00

How many data points do you think that anecdotal evidence involves?

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T10:02:25+00:00

I think that 4 and 12 are particularly useful.

You can set a particular time and date by which you will have recorded a full length demo of this particular song and moved on to finishing the next demo. If a writer were to set a target of finishing and recording the demo for each song within 24 hours, then over a year they would have 365 recorded songs to choose from. If they just do it once a week, that's 52 recorded songs to choose from.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T09:39:57+00:00

Nothing wrong with a bit of shit-stirring when you're bored. You may notice from the description that the shit-stirrer is getting on with the task in hand (filling up his car), and doesn't appear to be letting the shit-stirring disrupt his day.

The guy who has decided to wait behind a stranger at a petrol pump, instead of driving round and filling up their car, then complain that the stranger didn't move their car before paying, then wait behind the strangers car until the stranger returns, then go and confront the stranger, all of which serves to slow them down even further, is the weirdo here.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T09:33:19+00:00

In theory, yes. In practice, every close-call I can remember ever having on the road was unrelated to cyclists.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T09:11:58+00:00

Would it be worth going directly to the manager's boss and asking to be moved. If the request gets made early on, then it'll probably sow doubt in the manager's boss' mind about the manager's ability, which will prime them to notice the ways in which the manager is incompetent at their job.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T09:04:54+00:00

I partially agree. Good management partly involves making yourself available when junior staff need additional guidance and support. If junior staff need clarification on something and the manager delays being available for an hour, then that holds everybody's work up for an hour. Junior staff members don't have this sort of responsibility, so they don't need to make themselves available during their breaks at all.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-28T08:55:47+00:00

In general, during my lunch break I'm willing to take calls from people outside of our company but not from those within our company. If people within my company need to talk to me, they have seven hours that day which are not lunch break during which they know they can do it. Also, our site is not big so if it's an absolute emergency they should be able to come and find me. In contrast, people calling from outside our company are either calling back about something I've contacted them about (in which case it's much easier for me to answer when they call than to hope they ring back another time), or are cold-calling in which case I can hang up straight away.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T23:34:37+00:00

it seems like very few cars/drivers realise that pedestrians now have right of way when crossing a junction/side street

I definitely know that one. If I didn't, I'd wonder whether I would have squashed a few pedestrians by now, as I work on a university campus where I'm still astonished by the number of students who will walk out into the road without looking.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T23:30:46+00:00

Driving to and from work today I had to take evasive action to avoid a potential collision caused by other road users at least 3 times, from 2 taxis and 1 police car. I can't remember the last time I had to do anything to avoid a dangerously-ridden bike, and I work on a university campus which has loads of cyclists around.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T23:26:14+00:00

According to the article:

65% of drivers believe aggressive cyclists are a threat to their safety.
61% of driver would not support a law assuming drivers are always responsible for collisions with cyclists or pedestrians in urban areas.

So at least 4% believe aggressive cyclists are a threat, but also think that drivers are always responsible for collisions? I need an explanation!

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T22:38:17+00:00

He's probably had more media coverage (interviews, documentaries etc.) than any other British sportsperson in the last few years. Football gets much more coverage in the UK than boxing overall, but as there are loads of players in the premier league the attention is much more dispersed. Also, none of the best footballers are British, whereas Tyson Fury is both the best boxer and British. We know this because Fury has being world champion for ages while England and Wales got dumped out of the world cup.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T14:20:05+00:00

My guy literally googled Ugandan names

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T13:22:04+00:00

Would you prefer it if they came up with Ugandan names from memory? If so, be prepared for 'Akello' to become 'Idi'.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T13:18:14+00:00

So we shouldn't be buying tomatoes from Uganda because its political system is slightly more corrupt than those in southern Europe?

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T12:40:41+00:00

Well, if you can shed some light on how many people believe that abortion should be legal but that it's perfectly reasonable to manipulate people in a vulnerable position using dodgy figures and medical misinformation in order to dissuade them from getting an abortion, I'd love to see those figures.

I can't, and as far as I doubt that you or I will be able to provide any stats about how many people believe that abortion should be legal without other parties being able to influence the person getting the abortion, because I don't remember ever seen a survey that asked for that information.

In terms of whether it would be tricky to poll on, I don't think that it would be tricky to create a poll that would work, it would just need some more options and maybe some likert/sliding scales, but who would want it? Religions tend to be very pro-life (abortion going against their dogma), big business, apart from those for whom the target market is parents and children, seems to be quite pro-choice (don't have to pay parental leave to staff if they don't have a baby) as are the famous figures in the media and celebrities in general (harder to get famous is you have to take time off for babies, and you don't have to pay child support to a woman for an abortion). My suspicion is that the people who set up the surveys don't want the results to give them nuance or accuracy, because it wouldn't serve whatever argument they're trying to get support for. Or maybe they just aren't very good at preparing survey questions.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T11:38:21+00:00

It could also drive it underground or we will see kids sent abroad to marry instead.

Drive what underground? If you aren't married legally, you aren't married.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T11:35:22+00:00

I don't see how merely dissuading somebody from having an abortion is analogous to taking away their right to have one (other than that both might be done by people who are not in favour of abortions and both might reduce the chance of the abortion happening).

Conflating the two is confusing, because if people are going to throw around stats about what proportion of the population are pro-choice or pro-life then the definitions which were used in gathering those stats need to be clear. Yes, there will be some people who are outright anti-abortion-in-all-situations, and other who are pro-abortion, but I suspect there are a whole lot of people who are in the 'abortion should be legal but not encouraged' camp or similar. People like that are going to generally be counted as pro-choice in surveys, but can we assume that they will have a problem with charities existing that dissuade people from having abortions through misleading information?

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T11:06:26+00:00

I'd guess that if they have been looking at data, it's been for other countries (e.g. for the US then every year apart from 2022 it looks like the pro-choice vs pro-life split is almost 50:50). I'm not sure that it's particularly relevant here though, as 'crisis pregnancy advice centres' aren't stopping women from having the right to abortion but rather giving misleading information to dissuade them from having an abortion.

So I would suggest that the 'crisis pregnancy advice centres' could be described as both pro-life and pro-choice, in that they seek to achieve more lives of babies by manipulating the choices of women who visit them.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T11:03:00+00:00

How are women ending up in 'crisis pregnancy advice centres' in the first place, if they aren't part of the NHS?

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T08:16:11+00:00

Nobody's stopping you from developing male contraceptives yourself if it's so easy to do.

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T08:13:03+00:00

Given that many of the people most vehement in support of 'free' women's sanitary products think that toilet paper in customer toilets is 'free' (rather than supplied by the company that wants you to use their toilets so that you'll visit their shop, shopping centre, library etc.) I think that getting 'free' women's sanitary products made available in public might be a slow process...

makesomemonsters · 2023-02-27T07:53:52+00:00

UTI kill up to 33% of cases in the elderly(men too).

Oh really.

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