Pete Verdon

I build robot boats.

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@fesshole Coincidence that this was next to a @JamesBlunt tweet?

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@MoneySavingExp I’m no fan of phones in the classroom, but this is something for schools to decide for themselves. The government proposing it as national law is attention-grabbing silliness.

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@ask_aubry What’s wrong with these people? Why would you extend credit to someone who’s gleefully notorious for not paying his bills?

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@AnuDrum @seektruthfromfx @LevinsLaw @BarristerSecret This is where we came in - this trivial issue being prosecuted as a criminal offence because of outdated railway-specific law, instead of a normal payment dispute between an individual and a private company.

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@seektruthfromfx @AnuDrum @LevinsLaw @BarristerSecret Expecting consumers to have read and remembered an entire Ts&Cs document to make a routine transaction is not reasonable; in normal contract law you have to specifically draw their attention to any “surprising” terms.

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@seektruthfromfx @AnuDrum @LevinsLaw @BarristerSecret That doesn’t help but to me the name isn’t the most important point. If you specify where and when you want to travel, you should be sold a ticket valid for that journey. If it isn’t, the fault is with the seller, not the traveller.

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@cryptod84009175 @fesshole Lovely. Didn’t previously know of the quasi-standardised header but I imagine this is what the fess refers to.

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@fesshole Like you wouldn’t spot a 1980s cctv camera in the cubicle with you…

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@jrlikeswhisky @oxymoronassoc @oldenoughtosay Why’s a lawyer trying to connect an agricultural scale system to an iPad?

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@garybrannan What about the train sports day one?

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@DJSnM Even into the age of domestic Internet connections, my mum would use teletext to keep an eye on flight arrivals to pick my dad up from the airport. The TV could be left on all morning in a way we didn’t do with the family PC back then.

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@WritingLife75 @drivelcast @garybrannan A friend of mine was sent for the classic “long weight” from Stores, went to the canteen instead and had a very pleasant long wait with a cup of tea and a paper until they came looking for him 😁

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@MoneySavingExp Last visited a bank in 2014, at their insistence (probably an excuse to try to sell me stuff).

The job I need of them is to run a secure and reliable database with the right links to other finance and payment systems. They don’t need a shop in town to do that.

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@whippletom I’m not a Londoner, but every time I visit Soho it feels mad that cars are allowed through those little streets filled with people.

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@whippletom Those of us who operate in Portsmouth Harbour have had to switch everything from QHM to KHM, though 🙂

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@TheRealRevK @AmazonHelp Failing that, one of the “online store” platforms designed to be integrated into your own website, like Shopify or Square? No personal experience on the seller side, just where I’d expect to buy a widget like this.

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@TheRealRevK @AmazonHelp I’d expect to find that kind of thing on eBay, if that helps? Alternatively maybe Etsy - that’s more for arts and crafts so I wouldn’t look for electronics modules there but perhaps the platform might work for you?