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Awful miss

What on earth was Vards doing there?

What an effing save

Tried making your own? We always have a tub we've made in the freezer and it's delicious. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/no-churn-ice-cream

The word "heating" did get it's first airing of the season. Just pretend to not hear and hide the thermostat.

Argh, had to do better there

Lovely stuff Kel

Stonewall

Case study complete, evidence proves the population as a whole are less effective at home, everyone claims to be more effective at home.

I'd highly recommended diving in. The difficulty settings can be amended at any time so if it becomes too overwhelming you can dial it down a bit. Have you played any games like this before? Old Neverwinter Nights, Divinity Original Sin etc?

Get some lawn sand down. Kind of the bees to aerate your lawn for you!

It's also a ban on new non-hybrids which comes in at a later date too. Never let the truth get in the way of a nice headline.

It's such a challenging situation to manage when looking at the needs of the individual and that of the organisation. Before I'm labelled as the Dickensian workhouse owner, I want to state I run a small business (~25 staff, it varies as they're all zero-hour (not as wicked as it sounds)) and we've gone fully remote. Following the WFH period of the pandemic, we undertook a business review which identified clearly that, compared to pre-pandemic office working, bookable hours increased 22% (makes sense as flexi working enable earlier/later working) whilst measurable output of our services declined 17%. I didn't expect the reduction in productivity to be as significant as it was. Due to us being a services organisation, the increase in bookable hours is, perversely, beneficial from a turnover perspective, but not everyone is as fortunate. Combined with not having to pay office rent anymore it's made a massive increase in business performance so I'm loving it. I am a paid-up member of several technical and business research institutes that share performance data. The similarities between my drop in productivity and thousands, including many multi-nationals, of other organisations is extremely strong and is frankly beyond arguing against. For organisations that don't have the luxury of getting away with charging by the hour, which is most, the reduction in productivity is crippling for them. Given the grim financial state of the economy and the end of cheap debt, clawing back productivity is companies number one priority. This will be the forever argument between needs of the individual and business. Most people's contracts state where they're expected to work and if people decided to unilaterally move far away, I'm afraid I don't have a great deal of sympathy. One of my customers, based in Oxford coincidentally, said he'd had staff members move back home to Scotland in some instances causing some fairly major conflict when they were expected to return. There are too many examples of people thinking COVID ways of working will continue and its plain ignorance. We all love the flexible nature of remote working, but unfortunately the data is in that it makes organisations less productive. Everyone you speak to will say "I'm more productive at home), which is the case for some people, but across the demographic the evidence sadly points to the contrary. Hybrid is the dream for me as it's so hard to engage and develop staff, particularly new staff, when fully remote. Sadly, I'm a miser and won't be paying office rents ever again if I can help it! Like it or loathe it, the data is in on remote working and it's not landing in favour of employees unfortunately. There are clearly instances, as above re: US contacts, where companies are just being belligerent, but people need to get used to going back to the old ways.

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Same, probably my favourite game for a few years, let alone this one!

One of the problems (amongst many) with this government is that they think the general public are thick as pig sh*t. They're happy to ditch policies that they had in their manifesto and current policy in the hope of stiring up a non exists t culture war. People will see this as a government (bar a few single digit IQ folk who read the Express) with zero principles. In an usual situation where I agree with JRM, when he said the public could see through their gerrymandering about voter ID he acknowledged that backfired. This will be the same. They live in this mental bubble that fortunately isn't representative of the majority of this country. Most of the measures they're dropping will make bills cheaper which is what people want and it can be turned against them so easily.

Now it's been introduced I can't see it ever being rolled back. One of the problems they have is that pre-VAR, MOTD and Sky Sports basically did the same forensic analysis of decisions and lambasted officials for getting stuff wrong. It's infuriating when it's someone's laces offside, but if a time limit is introduced, all that will happen is analysts will say "well if they just had an extra 10 seconds they'd have spotted that". It's still for me the lesser of two evils when applied to offside. For the judgemental stuff I agree it's gone beyond the pale. Really need to limit to absolute howlers like off the ball violent conduct and dangerous tackles. Yesterday's handball was a joke, after seeing it a few times I couldn't say 100% it was handled. So much for benefit of the doubt to the striker.

Yes they have

Had quite a leak following the AB trial... Also some emails about an attempt to squire Nintendo (Ha!, good luck)... New controller with swappable batteries (remember them..?) And most interestingly the Bethesda roadmap (obviously a bit dated). Oblivion remaster 2028 for next gen of consoles

How do they know he was called Barry?

Superb book. If you enjoy The Dispossessed, I'd consider giving The Left Hand of Darkness a go too. She's more known for Earthsea, but those two books are her greatest works for me.

What a prat

Remember seeing Brand at De Montfort many years ago. He ended his show saying "many of you think I'm unobtainable, I can assure you I'm not." He then basically gave out the address of his hotel and room number. Obviously at the time we all assumed he was taking the p**s but appears a true word was said in jest. Desperate.