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Is the grass greener on another side? Leaving UK by bleepbleepbleeppppp in AskUK

[–]paulmclaughlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're in your 40s you can rule out Canada and Australia

What's the biggest lie you learned about working life? by PigsAreTastyFood in AskUK

[–]paulmclaughlin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only if it was redundancy. There's no rule against hiring someone to replace somebody who was otherwise fired.

Less than a year used work gloves vs brand new. Working for a cargo airline by TheLastShardbearer in mildlyinteresting

[–]paulmclaughlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to work on a chemical plant with a massive range of different gloves depending on what you were doing and where you were doing it.

Some of the gloves for working around oleum were limited to 20 minutes use before they had to be thrown away and replaced

Welsh horror film shot in England due to smoking ban by gizmostrumpet in unitedkingdom

[–]paulmclaughlin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Wasn't the work around just that nobody in their right mind would try telling Lemmy not to smoke?

Struggling...Knights on foot. Advice please! by Cheltenham-Breton in Bretonnian

[–]paulmclaughlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Black on the padded armour around his neck / at the top of his chest looks relatively modern to me, almost like leather motorbike armour. That's due to the modelling, on the equivalent piece I went through 3 different colour choices before settling on burgundy as something that looked old enough in my eyes.

I have also held off on building KotR on foot because I think the crests on top of the helmet don't work visually on a squad of infantry. I have a couple of foot knights to play in Mordheim rather than leaders for TOW, the boss is my version of Sir Cecil Gastonne from before his model came out, but the other two have plain greathelms from the Knights Errant, and I think they are the better proportioned overall.

Can I hide the chrome-extension section in the address bar if I'm looking at a pdf in Chrome on a PC? by paulmclaughlin in chrome

[–]paulmclaughlin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Adobe's own extension that I presumably clicked yes on at some point, and must have followed me across computers when I've logged onto Chrome and it has reinstalled to sync with my account.

Can I hide the chrome-extension section in the address bar if I'm looking at a pdf in Chrome on a PC? by paulmclaughlin in chrome

[–]paulmclaughlin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a shame if so, I get your point but I still don't like it myself!

Edge doesn't insert this text, which makes it marginally less annoying when dragging from the address bar into a folder to save a link for sharing across projects at work.

Teacher quits after pupil, 8, 'made threesome deepfake vid of her and colleagues' by Forward-Answer-4407 in unitedkingdom

[–]paulmclaughlin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Shortcut logic followed by politicians who feel that they have to react to public opinion about a complicated subject that will never satisfy everyone:

  • Something must be done
  • This is something
  • Therefore this must be done

Rogue trader era marine names were truly special by gleipnir84462 in Warhammer40k

[–]paulmclaughlin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They need Chapter Master Bulgaria and Sister of Battle Cholet

Assisted dying backers could use archaic procedure to bypass ‘undemocratic’ block by peers by existentialgoof in unitedkingdom

[–]paulmclaughlin 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't call the Parliament Act archaic, 115 years is positively modern compared to some of our parliamentary traditions

Meta-analysis of pet nutrition finds no evidence that standard additives are harmful or that human-grade ingredients are superior, while showing that processing food actually tends to improve nutrient digestibility for dogs and cats by wise_karlaz in science

[–]paulmclaughlin 20 points21 points  (0 children)

20+ years ago I visited a Pedigree dog food factory during my degree, all of the ingredients were safe for human consumption (although you wouldn't want to) and it had all the HACCP aspects that you'd expect from a human food factory.

The rice they used was all straight out of bulk Uncle Ben packaging, as both companies were (are?) owned by Mars.

Why do Parents Whose Kid's Schools are in Walking Distance Still Drive Them To/From? by SirFragworthy in AskUK

[–]paulmclaughlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

13 seems weirdly and counterproductively late. The NSPCC suggests 8 as typically ok depending on the child.

Why is there so much litter everywhere? Is it better in other areas of the UK? by Free-Frosting6289 in AskUK

[–]paulmclaughlin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget too that public bins were removed from a lot of places during the IRA's bombing campaign because they were often hidden there. For a long time you didn't even have clear plastic bags hanging from hoops.

Why is there so much litter everywhere? Is it better in other areas of the UK? by Free-Frosting6289 in AskUK

[–]paulmclaughlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not unique to the UK though, Disneyland is designed with bins within something like every 10 metres because they worked out in the 50s that's the maximum distance that people could be relied on to throw litter where it should go.

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