Chris

It's always the ones you most suspect etc.

Canal towpaths being 100% the worst place for forcing conflict

Also, uni's used until very recently to be able to be part of delivering apprenticeships, that's just been stopped.

We used to offer a rail apprenticeship that was very popular with people wanting to step up a bit in their rail career and it seemed to work well for all involved

Yes! That was my youthful internet. And the buffy swears keyboard. All sorts of flash based nonsense, when a)flash was a thing and b) youtube wasn't.

Also chats like this were conducted in random fora, rather than subreddits or microblogging sites.

Going big damnit

Indeed, the only trouble I ever had here was when I lived in woeley Castle, an area which has shocked no one by going bug on the flags.

Regular Expressions

I can't believe none of you have linked to the relevant xkcd yet: xkcd.com/208/

At least *some* people on here get it, all twitter has is wooshing noises.

Have you ever heard of a sparks saying "Yes the last guy did that brilliantly, it's exactly how I'd have done it"?

Nope. It's a feature.

Excuse me, I live in Birmingham to near all the facilities of a city .....that I don't use

You'd struggle to find an academic who was in favour of the current academic publishing model.

The need to knock out a certain number of papers to be promoted does also result in complete drivel getting published, and expecting people to review it for free is equally unpopular

Italy for example has mandatory to carry on you at all times ID cards and has just experienced a very noticeable wave of irregular migration.

Migration is the excuse, it's a weird new-labour fixation.

Organic Fuel This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.

He at least made the trains run on thyme: xkcd.com/282/

Firstly, obviously this kind of cruelty is awful.
Secondly, based purely on that picture, why don't more people punch Nigel Farage in the face?

Again? Already? It comes round so quickly

... And the only reason they want to build it is that's what they think they can sell.

Make changes such that there are buyers for smaller homes and no one needs to force them to build anything

She's talking nonce-sense!

It'd be very expensive, even by our already very expensive standards, because you don't get as many people in, but it'd be a cool first class arrangement for those with super generous expense accounts (who probably don't want to even share a compartment)

I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.

It's important to preserve Rome's historic sites too. #supportPalatineAction

I mean, it would be if anyone read it
This is more just screaming into the uncaring void

And Birmingham has had an outbreak of flags

I fear this may lead to some misuse of magic

...which would be awesome.

I don't think Badenoch being elected was ever a consideration. I guess the only thing keeping her there is that at this point the job looks so awful no one else thinks they'd gain by taking it.
I assume it'll be someone else who leads them to a solid spanking at the next election, but not willingly

Their Birmingham title does this constantly. It's entirely unusable

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

Well yes, much of this is convention: the land mass is Eurasia, the entire border is imaginary. I know some people use the Urals, but that's mostly convention too

:q

If ever there was an editor that attracts... enthusiasm vim would be it.
Never actually used neovim mind

IDE's

I distinctly recall typing number lines into a terminal on a BBC basic.
Visual studio compares to that better than a chainsaw to a handsaw saw

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.

I don't know: As someone who, when very young, had the misfortune to do IT support approximately everyman and his mad aunt Jane uses porn. People will definitely notice.

Whether they consider a good thing is though, I agree, the British people are all for hanging and flogging (possibly for fun)