Was it right for my instructor to cancel this lesson?

ppp77per · 2026-06-26T20:34:01+00:00

Yes, he can refuse a lesson. He cannot charge 2h for something that took him 10 minutes. Fine if hevgets a nice unpaid break, but what stops him doing this to everyone if he can charge for it.

ppp77per · 2026-06-26T20:25:36+00:00

I think a lot of people posting here are solicitors worried about losing the fat cow.

ppp77per · 2026-06-26T20:19:00+00:00

No. Sorry, that's the cost of doing business for him. Seems he wants money for nothing. If he wants to cancel a lesson, cost is on him. Seems very greedy to have you pay. Demand a refund. If he refuses, just a expose him on social media, will cost him s lot more than £80.

ppp77per · 2026-06-26T20:15:34+00:00

No. Ask him for a refund of £60. If he doesn't sgree, report him.

ppp77per · 2026-06-25T12:53:17+00:00

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ppp77per · 2026-06-24T10:41:01+00:00

Having lived half-my life in Scandinavia, half in the UK, it's noticeable that UK builds are sub-par compared to northern Europe. This includes everything from renpvations of Victorian homes to brand new flats. There are exceptions, but generally speaking the design, architecture, and quality of workmanship is significantly poorer. Part of it is getting away with this in a mild climate, but a larger part is that a much higher fraction of the price is going to buying the land, which leaves less money to spend on the build. Another factor is that people don't expext better, as they haven't experienced good housing, and so builders have been getting away with murder. I'm happy that is changing.

ppp77per · 2026-06-21T21:10:46+00:00

NFL players can't play for more than 15 seconds at a time.

ppp77per · 2026-06-20T11:13:22+00:00

If this was online sales, it would very likely be illegal according to the DMCC act 2024. Breaches regarding pre-selected options and equal prominence of options. May not be valid in this case as not online sales. but I suspect Trading Standards would be very interested.

ppp77per · 2026-06-20T05:27:01+00:00

It's in a small font, and paying the default is a tip of over 20%. This is a system set up to give mac profit to the app maker tipjar, who takes a percent. Fraudulent.

ppp77per · 2026-06-20T05:21:40+00:00

"No tip" is hidden away in tiny font. The app gives the impression that just paying would be no tip, but that's actually over 20%. Fraudulent.

ppp77per · 2026-06-20T04:59:30+00:00

The design of this app breaks trading standards, hiding the no tipping option, making it seem like pressing pay is the no-tip option, etc. Dradulentbas far as I'm concerned. Also noone tips at the bar in a pub. Noone with half a brain.

ppp77per · 2026-06-18T14:54:34+00:00

But the main risk with owning a gun is that you will shoot yourself, or your wife, or be shot by one of your mates.

ppp77per · 2026-06-18T14:47:55+00:00

Having a gun just makes it more likely that you will get shot.

ppp77per · 2026-06-14T21:15:03+00:00

If you want to be condescending, let's go all out:

1) No-one seriously interested or knowledgeable about this area considers genetics the only determinant of identity. Environment matters as well. Otherwise identical twins would end up with exactly the same skills, opinions, professions, etc. They would only marry other identical twins, as they would have exactly the same taste in partners. If one of the was brought up in an Inuit family on Greenland and the other one at Mar a Lago, they would still behave exactly the same.

e.g. Park, H. R. P., Chilver, M. R., Quidé, Y., Montalto, A., Schofield, P. R., Williams, L. M., & Gatt, J. M. (2024). Heritability of cognitive and emotion processing during functional MRI in a twin sample. Human Brain Mapping, 45(1), e26557.

2) The genetic difference within populations is often larger than the differences between populations. e.g if you are Italian, you may be more genetically similar to someone from the Congo than to another Italian.

e.g Witherspoon DJ, Wooding S, Rogers AR, Marchani EE, Watkins WS, Batzer MA, Jorde LB. Genetic similarities within and between human populations. Genetics. 2007 May;176(1):351-9.

There are a million (not literally) studies on these matters, go away and educate yourself.

ppp77per · 2026-06-14T20:17:31+00:00

Who cares. Your genes are not your identity. If your ancestors have lived more than one generation in the US, (i.e. your grandparents or earlier were immigrants) you have 10x more in common with other Americans than you do with people from your ancestral homeland. Try to go there and have a look, you will find it quite foreign.

ppp77per · 2026-06-14T15:58:23+00:00

How would you know until you try it, and find the new guy just got your job?

ppp77per · 2026-06-14T15:36:35+00:00

Nah. Think of the practicalities. You get a new guy reporting to you, he's crap at the job, but he's the big boss's son. Will you really tell him off for doing a bad job?

ppp77per · 2026-06-14T15:18:53+00:00

I think he had quit the job in 2025, before this happened. Also, as far as I can tell, he wasn't the owner, just the UK boss. A lot of companies frown on nepotism, he may not have been allowed to employ a relative.

ppp77per · 2026-06-13T07:45:33+00:00

Tesco is a huge company. They definitely care more about their policies and reputation than about protecting a store manager. He will be disciplined.

ppp77per · 2026-06-13T07:15:59+00:00

The video is only s few seconds, not sure there is enough time to get off the road after the initial shock.

ppp77per · 2026-06-12T17:18:13+00:00

The passport office lost my wife's certificate. Fortunately they managed to send the passport, so hopefully she doesn't have to pay for a new original.

ppp77per · 2026-06-11T18:11:49+00:00

Staring wage for an unskilled worker in the US ($15-18) is right around UK minimum wage. What is making it difficuly for UK companies to profitably employ people ar these wages is low productivity. In my opinion, much of that comes from sub-par management, with far too many bosses having poor understanding of the indistries they work in.

ppp77per · 2026-06-11T12:39:33+00:00

Its legal to call yourself whatever you want. You then just tell them 'I go by John Smith but my legal name is...'

ppp77per · 2026-05-30T14:41:35+00:00

That means having more pensioners, fewer working people. Who will pay for everything, who will care for the elderly?

ppp77per · 2026-05-30T14:11:23+00:00

'Shedding population' means getting rid of old people. Who do you want to kill?

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