I’ll disagree, personally I’d have bought a Mondeo over a VAG wagon in a heartbeat if they still made them. I got talking to a salesman at my local dealership and the sentiment is basically “no-one really understands what they’re doing, they’ve stopped making all the cars that sold well”

Who’s getting employed to do nothing? What are you basing this on?

Define need. Companies will happily cut staff they need to save costs. Staff that remain then get the workload dumped upon them. Now everyone is running around half-assing everything at peak stress to try and keep the ship afloat, doing jobs they’re not good at and don’t enjoy poorly because someone didn’t understand someone else’s contribution.

Coupon rate is paid on the principal - assuming the hundo is accurate then it’s $5/yr. If you think Motorola will be around in 14 years then you’d have your investment back. If you think they’ll be around in another 70 years you get $350 + $100 because when it matures they need to repay the bond.

Neither of those make sense in this context.

That’s how I started using “lol.” If I wanted to be formal - but honestly on the internet it’s really not necessary.

Yeah, that’s how I started with lol

I’m my experience it’s about a ten to one ratio of people who shit on vegans because they “never shut up about it” vs vegans who actually never shut up about it.

A true testament to how many people they annoy.

Because statistically most pole dancers are ladies.

There’s no way they could reasonably force us to use an inferior plug.

One of those snooker bats could take an eye out

What?

What in the everloving fuck. I had some kinda specific symptoms one weekend, I called the doc on Monday, he said come in this afternoon (must’ve been a bit worried, getting an appointment normally takes longer, I don’t want to misrepresent this).

I went in, we had a chat, he said come back tomorrow for a blood test. I dutifully went in for the test and went home. 8PM that night I got a call from an out of hours doctor, they said get yourself to A&E (emergency room). More bloods taken, I was triaged and admitted (which took about 36hrs - was a heavy time, I wasn’t super urgent).

Spent the next 5 weeks in hospital, I now have a life long condition which necessitates a lot of pills that I’ve been taking for a few years now.

Total out of pocket cost £0.

People still try to claim the US system is superior.

I’m not really trying to argue the point on the level of achievement - that will always be subjective. More to address the point on why local heroes don’t get above OBE and to raise the absurdity of the dual use of peerages.

I think we should, to a degree, separate peerages from KBE/CBE/MBE/OBE/BM - they’re not political and there are (so far as I know) specific criteria that need to be met to achieve the various levels (for instance someone doing something locally will by definition never get anything higher than an OBE, because a CBE requires significant achievement at a regional or national level).

Peerages are a bit weird, senior politicians/lawyers/academics etc getting appointments makes sense because they’re the upper legislative house and to a degree we want some level of political nous in the parliamentary body. However they’re also given to the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber presumably as a reward for his achievements, which may or may not be deserved, but also mean he can be shipped in if required to vote on legislation.

Separation of “honours like” and “legislative like” peerages would be a good idea.

Exactement!

Has he?

Tbh I don’t think anyone ever thought Mandleson was good, his nickname was The Prince of Darkness.

Oh yeah! Dammit.

You’ve convinced me, I’m going vegan + meat + dairy + animal fat.

What are you trying to model? It’s far from unusable.