DanSö

Part-time superstar.

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@HMRCcustomers Hi, when I go to that link I’m chatting with a computerised chat bot. How do I get through to a human via web chat?

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@HMRCcustomers Hi HMRC, I stopped receiving child benefit in September 2023 but the high income child benefit charge is still on my tax code for 2024-25 and 2025-26. Should it have been removed by now? Why would I still be paying it if benefit ended halfway through 2023-24?

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@depthsofwiki Ngl that does look exactly like the Geocities page I had in 1996

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@kylascan The collapse of Northern Ireland government because they gave out so money in clean energy subsidies that farmers built new buildings just so they could heat them and get free money

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@lapprentiessage @LanguageCrawler I'm guessing it comes from a 'fit' being another word for a seizure!

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@MartinSLewis Thanks! It’s happened on a Mac and an iPhone so might be specific to those browsers

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@InspGadgetBlogs Article with details below. Note unfortunate Google translate of ‘death message’ to ‘death sentence’ 😬 https://t.co/UcvQpYl0qq

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@InspGadgetBlogs Similar debate in Sweden; an officer recently posted a video of her crying after delivering a death message. Polarised response; some praised showing human side, some criticised and said police should be professional at all times in uniform. I’d welcome your thoughts?

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@TheDreadShips I was fascinated by hearing in Brighton that the traces of WWII huts, demolished in the 1950s, can still be seen in very dry conditions on the grass in a city centre park: https://t.co/Pdovkal7vi

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@jameshannah Tree Gump

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@TheDreadShips For those of a certain generation... Hackers. Prodigy, Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield. A who's who of 90s electronic music. Oh, and Stereo MCs.

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@SCP_Hughes @rorysutherland I did enjoy a recent @planetmoney episode about how bricks spent a brief period as a preferred currency in post-Soviet Russia, given their utility and scarcity compared to the highly unstable Ruble at the time. Weirdly the practicality was a secondary concern

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@Michaelrennick @timothypeel1 As an aside, I love the idea that the Enterprise gets all its Starfleet orders by fax machine

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@timothypeel1 Curious thought - ever since I had the TNG Enterprise-D books and blueprints in the 90s, I found the all uppercase text difficult to read. Would love to know the thought behind not having lowercase characters in signs and UIs 250 years from now!

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@YB_Sodermalm Jag bor/jobbar i Storbritannien. Här kryllar det med poliser på twitter som alla berättar vad de gör men de är riktigt tråkiga och får inte säga som de tycker. Fint att nån får göra det och jag önskar att mina kollegor gick samma frihet.

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@ArrantPedantry I've heard it a lot on technology products, like when Apple announce a new laptop with 'Three [ex] the performance of the 2020 model'. They've been doing it for a while and other trendy tech sales people do similar. It's weird, what's wrong with 'three times'?

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@lynneguist Or ‘wall plugs’ because it sounds similar and you use them in walls. Nobody seems to quite know which one is the right name, a bit like duck/duct tape.

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@lamw @MSFTExchange You can get Cortana to do the work for you, but it’s quite pricey… https://t.co/zfUo0YZOD9

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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R We have the first five letters of the surname followed by the initials, so one Robert S. Burgess was ‘[email protected]’ (we are not in the burger industry)