Griff9of13
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And its cone if anyone wondered...
The map would suggest it's "gone". I agree with the map.
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People who stop dead in shop doorways. Either move in or out but don't "park" right in everybody else's way.
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Nope, we have to use a year's old and compromised version of Java to make sure that our NHS England web apps work. They were hard coded to check for certain versions and won't work outside of that range.
A fairly common problem across a range of, so called, modern web based systems. It can get really complicated when you have a number of systems deployed across an organisation each with its own specific needs.
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I bought a new wallet style cover for my phone today in Tesco. It cost me 18p. The packaging it came in must have cost more than that.
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Would someone please take that Orla Guerin off the telly out for a night? Del Boy style with a steak meal if needed. Christ, she spends all her life in warzones looking bloody miserable.
Someone dead sophisticated like Bob8 maybe. Failing that, Gurner.
Not just me then? I find her voice grating.
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Over the past couple of days I've made 450 packets of sausages. I worked out that on Thursday I had lifted in excess of one and a half tonnes of meat / sausage mix. On Friday it took me the best part of half an hour to get out of bed and put my socks on.
Might be time for a career change (again).
Maybe you should consume less of your wonderful produce?
I'd be exactly the same.
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Walliams and Friend. Just not funny.
Gave it a go, lasted about 5 minutes. Doesn't help that it's straight after HIGNFY.
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betrayed by labour???
Since 1979 labour had 13 years during which much regeneration of manvers and surrounding coal fields took place. In 37 years labour only had 13 yrs in power. Yet you swipe away everything thatch did and blame labour????
Bug ger me wi t'curly end of a Raja's slipper..... tha takes t'biscuit thee owd lad.
If you want to apportion blame look no further than per capita spending between the "north" and London and the south east. Out spent year, after year, after year.
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£7 million is nowhere near enough to put right the mess of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. Nor is £70 billion. The people of the area have been betrayed by Labour big time over many years. And discuss mining with you. Lol! Hardly the impartial observer.
And neither are you.
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Had another, or rather a continuation of the same argument today but this time the person I was arguing with asked me if I'd like to "step outside" to sort it out
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Relative to the two posts above. I've just started a new job and it is one of the most relaxed and convivial places I've ever worked. Makes a pleasant change.
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Recruiters are largely parasites. Some are good but the majority are pustulent boils on the backside of humanity.
Unfortunately for us IT whores they are near impossible to circumvent.
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Glad to here. I used it a while back and only last week a recruiter said to me nobody uses it anymore. What do they know ?
Someone better tell IBM that they blew $7bn acquiring something "nobody uses anymore" plus millions a year on new developments. But that brings me back to one of my previous rants, recruiters!
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You have my deepest sympathy.
Nowt wrong with it; it's been paying my bills for the last 15 years.
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That's what I use. Most rail providers also have their own tools that do the job. I use the Greater Anglia one and it's quite good, plus the e-tickets are very useful.
They all use the same underlying platform, the same one that is used by all ticketing outlets and the TOCs. The next time you buy a ticket on the train you will see the Atos (yes, that Atos) logo on the ticket machine.
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No, Cognos a business intelligence product.
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I'd forgotten you were a "fan" John.
I don't use it for fun, believe me, they supply the software I specialise in. Unfortunately.
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Same here with the travel. My former employer went through three different suppliers while I was there. The worst, by a long way, was American Express who they moved to a year or so before I left. Their web based booking tool was impenetrable; it would add about an extra half an hour to your process of trying to make a booking because it was so badly designed and slow.
Going off on a tangent; what is it with large American cooperations and really useless web design? In addition to the above mentioned AMEX travel tool the absolute worst web experience you will ever "enjoy" is IBM. It must have been designed by people who spend all their spare time playing Dungeons and Dragons - it's a labyrinth. I've lost count of the number of times I've clicked through a few links to try to reach the information I need only to end up back where I started.
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A hugely unfair spending balance , while living costs are more it's a ridiculous state. While cross rail is ongoing and future cross rails we have the oddball pacer trains that nobody wanted that are decades old. Manchester and Sheffield have pre victorian travel times and a motorway link that has been put off for 50 years.
But I thought these things were all the fault of the nasty EU.
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I wonder how much of the said £369m will flow down into the general economy in the form of construction jobs, supply chain etc ? The royal family aren't the only ones who will benefit from a project like this.
There's already a shortage of builders in London. They rely heavily on workers from Eastern Europe.
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Absolutely. A modern, purpose built building, preferably outside London with a hostel attached to house the MPs who have to stay overnight.Last I heard the figure being bandied casually about was £7bn.
Which, incidentally, I also wouldn't expect the country to pay. Move Parliament somewhere more modern - hand over the costly relics to the preservers.
I would suggest it be hosted in the most economically deprived area of the country and be moved on every 20 years or so. If the area is where MPs have to spend their working life it won't remain deprived and starved of funds for long. You rejuvenate the whole north west economy for £7bn
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Watched DIY SOS Big Build, Children in Need Special this morning. The perfect antidote when you think all there is is hate and selfishness in the world. So much to admire from all; the child carers, the young staff looking after them and all those who volunteer their time to help on the build.
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Shadow in agreement with Saintslass shocker
You'ii be agreeing with the ideas of your former school chum next. It's a slippery slope.
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The last few posts arent rants. They are the febrile meanderings of the TRL republican massive. Clearly the issues are above their heads....like those for Brexit.
I see you're still responding to what you think people are saying rather than what they actually said.
Rant thread
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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I just stick these in and listen to some music.