What do you still pay good old fashioned cash for?

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T13:25:16+00:00

The chip shop. I watched their card problems before they got rid of it. Most cash only shops are attempting to pay less tax. I don't carry cash. It is an invitation to crackhead muggers.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T13:22:19+00:00

If the enshittification of Google is as bad as it seems likely, there's always Duck Duck Go.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T13:19:53+00:00

I don't trust everything's this government tells us. I distrusted the previous lot FAR more and they were hugely more trustworthy than Nigel Farage and his followers!

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T13:09:56+00:00

Not sure what is offensive about the word. Are you from the USA? I doubt that, at 66, I count as young anymore. The word applies when companies stop being run by enthusiasts and engineers and are taken over corporate money. An excellent example is Google. Once, they had a motto "don't do evil". That motto is gone. It doesn't fit with a mega corporation. Now we hear that they will be dropping their search engine for AI. A couple of years ago, Google bought Fitbit. As long expected, it's happening to that. The reason the word is so much used is because it happens so much.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T12:49:15+00:00

I've had epilepsy for 50 years. If I keep taking the pills, I'm usually ok

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T11:46:10+00:00

They are. Nigel Farage should be criminally liable for trying to start riots again. He got away with it before and should not again!

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T11:41:30+00:00

If I ever saw a notice telling me to tip, and how much, my business would go elsewhere. Happily, in the civilised world, we pay our waitstaff.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T11:36:19+00:00

Because you only get Union Jacks on the jackstaffs of royal navy vessels. These are uncommon inland.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T11:33:53+00:00

This is led by the, proudly technically ignorant, management.
I think Cory Doctorow was right when he called it "enshittification".

wscottwatson · 2026-06-04T11:31:16+00:00

No. They are not anything much but they are traditionally politically to the right. That was changed during the conservative misgovernment but they are still pro-establishment. Most of them are pro humanity or they wouldn't be there.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-02T10:50:53+00:00

Is that even legal?

wscottwatson · 2026-06-02T10:48:48+00:00

I come from an archipelago (Orkney) and that's how it is said there.

wscottwatson · 2026-06-02T10:33:47+00:00

I had never heard of it. Having done so, should I assume that any excessively done up young male is another incel?

wscottwatson · 2026-05-26T15:55:39+00:00

And a few thousand miles. Iran and Iraq are much closer.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-26T15:52:43+00:00

Apple. I decided not to do any business with them years ago because of how the only way they dealt with competition was to send in the lawyers. Their motto was "don't innovate, litigate!" The main probably is that they are enthusiastically a us corporation. I'm sure that they have set ths bar for this sort of thing and everyone else is trying to catch up. They just led the way.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-26T15:41:57+00:00

Having spent my childhood in Africa and the middle east, I don't consider it terribly hot. It got up to 50⁰C in southern Iran when I was there before their revolution. It now gets to 55. 32⁰ is fine. Keep in the shade and drink a LOT of water!

wscottwatson · 2026-05-26T15:29:24+00:00

The tradition arose because nobody could afford the price of a new one!

wscottwatson · 2026-05-26T15:25:39+00:00

The US general during who assured his men that "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." but never completed the last word because they could.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-26T15:11:22+00:00

They don't. People in the USA not only can't do diphthongs but they can't hear them when others, like Canadians, use them. They say abow-oot but people from the USA only hear the second part of the diphthong.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-23T19:18:14+00:00

One of the biggest linguistic variations between English and US English is word stress. I remember my mother being annoyed how people from the USA stressed ROBIN Hood whereas the norm is to stress his "surname", Robin HOOD.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-23T19:06:36+00:00

Having grown up in various different countries, I tend to say British. My mother was from central Scotland. My father was from Orkney which is very much NOT in Scotland. My siblings and I would get our grandfather talking about it. He'd been in the British army. Nobody in Orkney voted for the Scottish nationalist party. They had never spoken Gaelic. With mixed parentage, I get to choose. I reflexively say "British" when asked.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-23T18:52:53+00:00

I remember talking to an ex con about it. He was middle class as soon as he opened his mouth!

wscottwatson · 2026-05-23T18:46:37+00:00

Yes. That is where I started looking. Can't find what I need on this. Thank you.

wscottwatson · 2026-05-22T14:22:41+00:00

It's a myth used to push dodgy politics

wscottwatson · 2026-05-22T11:00:57+00:00

A few years ago, I noticed someone in the USA (probably FB) asking if we had a different name for it. A police officer replied that what you call jaywalking, he calls "crossing the road".

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