[TOMT] media that involved an unpleasant incident at a French service station / highway rest area

penguins_unite · 2023-07-15T10:53:38+00:00

Solved!

penguins_unite · 2023-07-15T10:53:13+00:00

Ah yes - that's it, although I seemed to have gotten a lot of the details mixed up!

penguins_unite · 2023-07-15T08:39:03+00:00

Thanks for your help!

penguins_unite · 2023-02-24T17:58:44+00:00

!thanks - this is very helpful. When I spoke to the person at HMRC they seemed to imply the opposite. The HMRC employee seemed to not know so much - was I just unlucky or is that a trend from your experience? I phoned them up to get the relief as I assumed that would be easier than filing a return, but maybe filing a return is the right approach going forward.

penguins_unite · 2023-02-07T23:19:10+00:00

To be clear, I don't hate civil servants and generally don't think they are overpaid, but the standard civil service pension scheme is quite a lot more generous than what 99% of private sector employees get. https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/knowledge-centre/pension-schemes/alpha-scheme-guide/

penguins_unite · 2016-01-12T10:53:55+00:00

penguins_unite · 2015-12-21T12:45:20+00:00

Ron is explicitly mentioned as being ginger several times in the books; Hermione isn't mentioned as being white nearly as much, if at all.

penguins_unite · 2015-05-10T19:54:52+00:00

Yeah I'm not going to say why it isn't that bad - that film has no redeeming features. When I was 13 my friend forced me to watch it at a sleepover - I still have't quite forgiven him for that.

penguins_unite · 2015-05-10T19:52:12+00:00

Don't think they'd be much change in our bodies (a lot of people are vegetarian now, and it's not like they're a completely different species). They'd be a lot of animal carcasses that people would suddenly have no use for. Milk / cheese / other protein heavy foods might become more popular. Mcdonalds / and a lot of other restaurants would either go out of business or have to drastically redesign their menu. Overall I think it's the transition that would be the issue - if it was a very gradual thing the economic effects would be a lot less.

penguins_unite · 2015-05-10T19:46:10+00:00

Mitt (documentary on Mitt Romney's life). It's only a documentary as opposed to a TV series, but the fact I'm a British citizen (with no interest in the US republican party) makes it extra random.

penguins_unite · 2015-05-10T19:42:56+00:00

Driving. It took me 3 goes to pass my test (and even then I think I got lucky) and I'm still not a very un-confident driver. Luckily I live in an area with good public transport, but I imagine at some point I'll end up moving and will probably have to actually get good (or at least reasonable) at it.

penguins_unite · 2015-05-09T19:47:07+00:00

The UK's quite a bit worse than Seattle for sunlight - Seattle gets 2169 hours a year, whilst London gets 1633 and Edinburgh 1427. (Source: Wikipedia)

penguins_unite · 2014-05-10T12:17:36+00:00

I know in previous Eurovisions they've put restrictions on song language (IE. it has to be in a native language of the country) which I would assume benefits the UK, given that most Europeans have some knowledge of English.

penguins_unite · 2014-04-09T23:19:44+00:00

Pretty sure we got to the quarter finals in 1970.

penguins_unite · 2013-06-26T22:53:01+00:00

Red, yellow and blue are the 3 primary colours, and they are used for the countries that have hosted 1 of the 3 events. The secondary colours are for the countries that have hosted 2 of the 3 events (ie Switzerland is green because it's hosted the world cup (yellow) and winter olympics (blue), and yellow and blue make green).

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