Trav Le Bleu

I know. Talk about hypocrisy!

The world can thank Leicestershire then. Attenborough at 100: The region where Sir David 'learned to love wildlife' - BBC News https://share.google/oY716SxmdGrc7g0XW

Have you ever tried traveling in convoy following someone who doesn't indicate? It's an adventure!

To counteract your inability to keep up with modern digital media communications you have opened a meat shop, in the possibility it could make you feel better? I'll have 32lbs of rump please!

Sorry to hear that. Try not to think too much and what might have been done differently, because it's past, can't be changed and no amount of "what if" will do anything except drive you crazy. But if you want to let vent, feel free to DM me.

Not so sure. I'm a long time video game (ie, quite old) player, but outside of Hideo Kojima I'd be hard pressed to name an individual game developer. Companies, yes ... Rockstar, Naughty Dog, Bethsaida, Square Enix... or video game voice actors... Troy Baker, Nolan North. Mind you that should tell you the kind of games I play. Story driven solo games. I guess this is maybe online FPS games?

Who from what now? Probably why there's no big news.

Too many of these things are considered necessities too, and they really aren't. Plus there's some much pressure to have new stuff. The people I deliver most to are young families in new houses. They've had to have a new house, with everything in it being new. When myself and Mrs Le Bleu (La Bleu?) got our first place (rented) I think the only new thing we had was our bed. Everything else was gifted or bought second hand. Then again there's the things you have to have that shouldn't be, things like a computer or a mobile phone. You shouldn't NEED either, but big corporations and government have effectively forced us down that road to save them money by not paying meatbags. There's also a lot of pressure to have the latest tech. Phones take the mick. I see people with phones costing £1000 or more, who wouldn't notice the difference using a £200 phone, possibly less. Ah, but my phone has 200 megapixel camera! Really? Cos you're not going to notice the difference between that and a 20 mp camera unless you're printing a massive poster. One of the weirdest adverts I've seen on TV is for the Google pixel, which is advertised as coming equipped with Gemini AI... you know, just like every other android phone. Increasingly people don't do any research any more, it's scary the amount of students who use AI (and I recently had a teaching assistant who told me she uses AI to mark it - wonder what she'll do when AI takes her job). An over reliance on tech will destroy humanity. I say this as someone who loves video games and high fidelity sound and vision. I think though that it's very much a case of this and always has been... You have a pristine white sheet and there's a tiny wine stain on it. What are you thinking? You're not thinking, "that's a really clean sheet," which it is for the most part. You're thinking, "how did that wine stain get there and what should be done about it?"

Right...

We could have a dog and call him @Daggers

When either Bob or Paul inevitably pops their clogs, we could take over. I have no interest in fishing either, but I can sit on a river bank doing old bloke banter.

Aye Obadiah...

So it is. Actually on this page

I have the perfect manager for us next season. We need to be at the forefront again, pioneering new and daring methods of achieving long-term success on the pitch. And so I give you... Robogaffer! AI is all the rage now, so we could create a robot that has all the best traits of our previous managers The grit of Jock Wallace, the tactical nous of Martin O'Neill, the determination of Nigel Pearson, the man management of Claudio Ranieri, and the on-pitch dancing skills of David Pleat (for when we narrowly avoid relegation).

Thomas Cook? Triumph? Next? Caterpillar? Actually, getting Next to venture into sportswear and sponsor us could be a good move.

Or, if you hadn't been to the game, waiting eagerly for the "buff" sports mercury, which incredibly could turn up at the newsagents within an hour of the game finishing.

Redneck.

Interesting... The future of drones and robots in the Russia-Ukraine war and beyond - BBC News https://share.google/vDbBLDHiUjYwCRirC Putting AI into weapons, the ultimate "fire and forget". Can't help but think this might not end well.

It was probably better then, but money was wasted in other ways. In the private sector there's far more accountability. It just gets kicked down the line until some poor sap with practically no involvement is seen to take the fall. CEOs rarely feel the stress of accountability.

It'll be hilarious to see, no doubt, Bedanoch calling on Starmer to resign due to his poor performance, even though she fared little better. 5 way coalition anyone?

Royal Mail isn't public sector. I've also worked for one of the UK's major banks and again, same thing. It just seems public sector because the largest institutions are public sector.

I think you'll find any large organisation is. Royal Mail is too. We can't even change a bulb on a van, it has to go into the workshop and might not be seen again for weeks, to do a 5 min job. It's got to the point that drivers don't report small problems, because you invariably get a reserve van that's in worse condition than yours.

My #1 tip to anyone right now would be