Has anyone got any science to back up this perceived risk to children who are outside, with small periods of exposure?

Is the cancer risk statistically significant over that from the general levels of air pollution in this country?

Or is this just a love-in?

The cynic in me wondered if the perceived drop in SD quality was to make their HD channels appear more attractive.

Do the BBC get a cut of HDTV sales then?

What’s that got to do with salary?
Average teacher salary for Scotland & England: 40846.17 USD (ranked 6th in Table)
Average teacher salary for Finland: 37925.44 USD (ranked 1st in Table)
:wink:

It is still open

It’s psychological warfare and he’s winning.

In the middle of the earth in the land of the Shire lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire. With his long wooden pipe, fuzzy, woolly toes, he lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him

Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins He’s only three feet tall Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins The bravest little hobbit of them all

Now hobbits are peace-lovin’ folks you know They don’t like to hurry and they take things slow They don’t like to travel away from home They just want to eat and be left alone But one day Bilbo was asked to go on a big adventure to the caves below, to help some dwarves get back their gold that was stolen by a dragon in the days of old.

Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins He’s only three feet tall Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins The bravest little hobbit of them all

Well, he fought with the goblins He battled a troll!! He riddled with Gollum!!! A magic ring he stole!!! He was chased by wolves, Lost in the forest, Escaped in a barrel from the elf-king’s halls!!!!!!!

Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins The bravest little hobbit of them all

Now he’s back in his home in the land of the Shire, that brave little hobbit whom we all admire, just sittin’ on a treasure of silver and gold puffin’ on his pipe in his hobbit-hole.

Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins He’s only three feet tall Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins The bravest little hobbit of them all

Camus – The Outsider
Life has no meaning so why not just be content? Being pissy just makes you miserable.

With reference to the ‘You can’t expect a companies to have consciences’ remark, I came across Benefit Corporations, which in the US are required by law to create general benefit to society as well as shareholders – useful for when your successful organic hippy ice cream company doesn’t want to be bought by Unilever but you can’t get enough money per share with your counter offer. Allegedly.

They receive tax breaks in many states. Are these tax breaks OK?

I often enjoy reading between the lines of posts to insult people too, but I try and keep it to threads where it isn’t tasteless.

Good to hear you’ve turned a corner, OP! Keep it up and keep venting all you want :)

Save them, Tony!

Look after yourself, you need to combat that depression.
Get a good constructive routine sorted.
Eat well.
Sleep well.
Even if it all seems a bit pointless and you feel like an empty shell, this will ensure you have the strength to get through this.

MrWoppit, do you work for them or something?

They’d have to get past the hounds to put an envelope on my desk

I have a guy who manages my social media presence – it’s all about cultivating my personal brand.
I’d link you to it, but that’s what I pay him for.

Scuzz, I may be incorrect, but it does sound a bit like you don’t like them because they didn’t give you the job you applied for ?

Not me, a student :)
The process he went through did open my eyes, I’m not one for bitterness

maccruiskeen, sorry smilies had been adblocked for some reason! :D

Electric fan heaters are 100% efficient.

Grin

A barres are just a bit pointless, name a decent tune that uses them?

In addition to what others have said any song which has any combination of I, IV, V, VI will benefit (it’s easier finding a song that doesn’t use one of these progressions!)
Google ‘four chord songs’ and I’m sure there’ll be at least one decent song for you!

As for Skype, good idea! I would encourage additional jamming sessions though – the latency with Skype would prevent doing the things I remember most from my old guitar lessons!

You may not like their stuff but at least they are different and trying to innovate. If it keeps some clever jobs in Blighty (I know Mfg has moved) all to the good.

I like (some of) their products. I don’t like how they are marketed. (Although it’s impressive). Their marketing strategy is based around ‘the way Dyson do things’, which is so at odds with the reality of their operation that [for me, at least] it detracts from their appeal.

In writing this post I realised that I hate this kind of marketing. I don’t mind companies telling me that their product will enable me to ‘be X’ or ‘feel Y’ or ‘do Z’.

I don’t like companies telling me that they (or their approach) are great, with reasoning based on lies.

Don’t forget that they also have a design office with clever jobs in Malaysia :)

His thirst for hoovers is great you apply for a job for him as a cleaner, turns out he’s never done a days janitorial work in his life.

Not really my point – to clarify, his company makes a song and dance about needing engineering talent, but really they’re asking for product designers.

5127 Failed Prototypes.
Engineering talent.
These are a couple of Dyson’s favourite tag lines.

If he had a basic engineering background instead of his background in Art and Interior design, he would’ve designed his vacuum using CAD, Matlab, FEA and CFD. There would’ve been a couple of prototypes, and they would’ve worked.

His thirst for Engineering talent is great until you apply for a job with him; they ask for far more product designers than engineers. Your complex computer model you created in your final year of Mech. Eng at a top uni is worthless, unless you can show them something you made out of cardboard.

It’s an impellor with a heating element, not a Trent 1000.

Keep it up guys.

Not sure that I’ve got as far as i’d like with playing actual tunes, just yet…

That’s a goal for you right there!

Barre chords, do the E shapes, don’t bother with A shapes

I don’t really agree with this, as long as you know the difference between the E and A shapes (Both major, root on 6th and 5th respectively) then it won’t hurt. Well, it’ll stop hurting after a while ;)

Do you have a song you really want to play? Is there a song that made you want to pick up the guitar? Learn the chords and try and play along – you can imagine you’re playing the awesome lead parts if you want! You’ll progress, being able to play the chords, then you can learn a couple of easy licks from it, before you know it you can play the whole song!

Yummy yummy aerodynamics

Smug smug smug smug smug

Kinda ruined it for me
:)

I’m a bit cynical about the things you like, because I am better than you…

We’re geeky and we know it. ;)

Anyone else managed to get IanMunro’s yet? That was the trickiest. The rest are too easy.

Hi, Mr. Ball.

IHN yeah I did, and yeah it was. Got a whole sob story about unhappy marriage.

Obviously you referred her to Relate, in true STW fashion?

We push the limits of sadness yes.

Wahay!
With the full ‘No one will bother with that’ QR code pre-edit!
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Iain Ferguson, Former CEO Tate & Lyle:
MS Mehta, CEO Vendanta Resources:
Mick Davis, CEO Xstrata

That’s 6/100!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you mustachioed and bearded CEOs of FTSE100 companies!

Ravi Jagannathan, CEO 3i
Tom McKillop, Former CEO AstraZeneva
Micky Arison, CEO of Carnival Corporation,

[Obama] has a social conscience for humanity,

Tell that to the increasing number of civilian deaths from UAV strikes.

I think you mean “timely”

Your comment was still irrelevant.
Serious business, this forum lark.

I’d like to believe that some folk do have a “gift”.

There’s no need to be coy; I’m a fantastic lover

What network and tariff is it?

It is a very reasonable price for a new phone which is what the OP will get.

His phone will be sent off and refurbished. He will receive either a brand new or refurbished phone.
If it’s a new phone, he (and every other Apple customer) have already paid for it, with his £140 covering some of the cost.
If it’s a refurbished phone, he’s paid Apple £140 to repair someone else’s phone, and someone else will pay the £140 to repair his phone.
Is any repair really worth £140?

They’ve managed to charge an arm and a leg for a ten minute job in a way that customers think is reasonable.

like forgetting who you are in favour of outside pressures and influences??

Sorry, but that’s who you are now.
Even then, your current mental image of your ‘former self’ isn’t very reliable. Even then, it doesn’t matter: stop wasting mental energy looking back. There’s only one thing you can control, and you’re wasting it reading this post.
Don’t pressure yourself to remember who you used to be, or the things you used to enjoy. Any pressure you put upon yourself will have nothing but negative consequences.

Relax, let go, move forward.

Be a real man and get a tailor!
Failing that, TM Lewin do three fits – standard, fitted and ‘fully fitted’. Fully fitted are the only highstreet shirts that give me the edge I need.™

Romney: Corporations are people.
This is bad.
I’m not sure why – I wish corporations were treated in the same was as people in some respects (mainly legal accountability).

Does anyone here think a £140 charge is reasonable for the repair?