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That says much more about you than it does Radiohead

I'd love being part of France and not the UK TBF

Yeah but if Ukraine relents and plays ball it will offset the coming -1 of Venezuela in the wars stopped space

Because it's not close

Should have been daka

Without a doubt, and by a country mile, the worst player I've ever seen in a city shirt.

We're playing with ten men with Daka jogging around nowhere near the ball

Is that really all you can see in their choice of passes and movement? If so, you're watching the wrong game.

Bristol are really imaginative in how they use the ball

Looks like we might have a team forming here

I'm not sure anybody disagrees with that. What that means is perhaps more open to interpretation. But I'll bow out of the rest of this conversation as I don't want to give the impression that I think the scumbags that did it are anything other than scumbags.

It was only in 1929 that the British made 16 the age for marriage in Britain - and 14 for girls in British India. Previously in Britain the age for girls was 12. From 1275 until the late 19th century that was also the age of consent. In London in 1895 a bylaw finally forbid beating women - but only between the hours of 10om and 7am so as not to wake the neighbours. My point isn't that immigrants are perfect. It's that Britain itself is imperfect. Pretending we've got universal beliefs we've always had that make us better after simply untrue. Which makes it all the more maddening that people on the right kept voting in the Tories who stopped processing claims and intentionally created a huge backlog of people. They did that thinking it would help them electorally because they don't give a stuff about actually doing anything with power. I'd rather we just talked about scumbag young men and the penalties they should pay. We need to sort the other issues but those making the most noise about them also did nothing to stop the problem building.

I'm sorry, it's awful.

You sound like a head case. What has the origin of the men got to do with the appalling crime committed? It's an awful, heinous, disgraceful crime. But the men's origin is not relevant to that.

What are these Western values that you say they don't represent?

It's a shame that the almighty 'told you so' that's coming won't be very funny. We still have to try but tbh, we're kinda tucked with a different first letter. Big oil has been incredibly successful at muddying the waters but I've no idea what their execs think they'll get out of it. We're going to see massive problems in the next 15+ years.

Half the US follow him. We have our own idiot version over here. They exist elsewhere. I can understand not believing in left wing politics. I can't understand falling for the likes of trump or farage, both very obviously grifters.

I feel like this. Less drunk and drugged up kids in the world, they're all far better behaved and body conscious. I don't think you see anywhere near as much violence now. Probably more shop lifting how much that's social media I don't know.

I don't know the answer so this isn't a loaded question, but is there any research showing this either way? I thought the studies I'd seen had shown improvements, though I'm not sure if they were unbiased, fair and transparent assessments.

There wasn't a non-existent baseline, the figures were there, they just weren't previously reported as focus higher up was on other things. Once I got them reported we could then respond.

So it's an unusual place in the sense that I work in an arms-length public sector body that operates in competition with private sector organisations. So we don't make a profit as such but we do need to bring in additional income, win new business, build business relationships, tender for contracts against the private sector. I'm not going to give much away about the sector but all those elements come into it, as well as delivering the actual service we deliver. The service itself does a whole range of things including training provision, building audience facing platforms, risk management and governance of projects, lots of other streams. There is a diversity of opinion amongst management re WFH. I am pretty strong on the pro-WFH end of things. The results for my team have been hugely improved and for the geography we cover it's far easier. There are some things done better in person. Some training via teams/e-learning etc can work well, but it is better in person quite often. Teaching new staff I'm 50/50 on. I can see them having more direct access to staff can help, but for much of what we do it isn't really much different. You can shadow online easily these days. Results wise, our return on investment is something like 15x greater than before, though I must caveat that by saying we didn't have proper figures for that before and did focus on improving ROI during recent years.

You're very black and white aren't you?

That's interesting. The direct opposite of what we've found. What line of work are you in and what do you think explains the difference?

I've been working in, recruiting staff to and training staff for a 95% WFH environment. Since moving to this, as my team is very geographically spread, we feel much closer together, it's easier to work across areas, we are far more productive, everybody is happier. Why on earth would I want to drag everybody into an office to then hold teams meetings with clients? Some people like the office, fair play of that's you, others work better away. I think the push to get back there is really poor management based on fear. Put in place proper metrics, performance and quality processes and stop worrying.