PhobosAnomaly

Scotland-specific, but the first one is pure dead Glesga so it is but, and the second one is proper Edinburgh ken

apology for poor english

when were you when svenska calculator post drop?

i was sat at home eating IKEA meatballs when notification ring

‘Calculator switch set to K’

‘no’

32-bit FIFA 98, best FIFA.

I never did beat Lode Runner on my Atari 800. What an absolute banger of a game though. Speaking of which, I remember playing Encounter on the Atari 800 and Mercenary III on the Atari ST, and realising “this is the direction of video games”. Incredible stuff.

That one took me a minute.

It should win a gong.

It kept me ticking over, anyway.

Do you have a reference for this?

I’m not questioning that it happens - it’s a common thing in high volume hotels or high value airline routes after all - but I’d be interested in what sort of margins they oversell at.

That said, most of the documents would likely be commercially sensitive I should imagine.

I suppose it’s irritating that you pay (a likely large amount of money as it’s probably a UK ticket) for a ticket with a seat reservation, the least they could do is actually assign you a seat.

If it’s a free for all and - as you likely correctly say - they don’t oversell the number of tickets against the number of seats, then the reservation card of the ticket is a little pointless really.

Maybe you need 350 carbon monoxide alarms!

I was going to say that it had prioritised the most uses combination of letters… but I have a unique name that I’ve saved to the custom dictionary and it still reverts back to the anglicised name, like “stop autocorrecting my own damn name to something else”.

At least we know AI is fucked for a few years yet.

You misunderstand.

Keep the payment, take the goods.

😂 I should have known…!

Even if I want to get rid of something for nothing, I’ll put it up for a fiver.

The number of fucking idiots that come out of the woodwork rises exponentially when you list it for free, proper unreasonable or a ludicrous false sense of entitlement.

I’ll wait until someone wants it, offers to pay, and tell them to keep it and put it in a charity box on their way home or some shit. Saves a lot of hassle.

I agree - there’s some large accesibility-like issues with communication, which causes issues for people where it isn’t their first language, the neurodiverse, or in safety critical applications. The /s is a fine early example of that.

That said, if everyone stuck to basic facts and focussed on clarity rather than content, the world would be a mega boring place.

What they mean does not matter.

Nearly every internet comment section for the last thirty years summed up in one line.

Hi American friend!

I absolutely get it - “too good to be true” is definitely a thing in the English speaking world.

I absolutely get the apprehension - if I was jumping on to a Bee Bus or the Edinburgh Trams with a ticket that some rando was trying to offload, then my Spidey senses would be tingling too.

In this instance though, we’re probably looking at a value of US$10ish, so in my own perfectly subjective opinion, I’d be happy to give it a bash. If it doesnt work, the the ticket gets yeeted and the contactless card gets used instead.

I absolutely understand settling in to the “normal” of buying your own ticket though and I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience.

Nah that’s fair enough, I get it. It’s a reasonably common thing in the UK - either the person who takes it is a local rogue who’ll flog the travelcard for a quid, or it’ll be used by someone away out on the piss for the night.

I just found it odd is all. Like, if you take it and it works, happy days - you’ve saved yourself a bit of cash. If the ticket gate spits it back at you, then oh well, back to plan A.

It’s cool to hear your take on it though, thank you.

Hey thanks for your insight.

Maybe in the UK we’re super used to fast fashion shite like Primark or Asda George. I mean, the designs are cool but the quality rivals that of the Looney Tunes ACME products.

Maybe you’re right though, maybe I’m looking at them through rose tinted specs. I rather like the Old Navy stuff or American Eagle. The material just seems to last a tad longer than the supermarket pish in the UK.

Oh man, I forgot the ESTA. A travel plan for your travel plan for your travel plan.

We’ll have the ETIAS to do soon as well. Won’t be long before the dude at the border in Gibraltar will be like “¿que tal bruv, where’s Travelling With Authority Treaty form?”.

Oh well. We did it to ourselves 🙁

edit: forgot to say, thanks for the addition.

Definitely worth calling your mobile provider beforehand - I think I had an add-on where I could pay £2 per day and use my contract allowance as usual. It worked nicely.

quality burn

Though I would still like to go. That architecture looks fantastic.

Cheers for the added advice.

It was a bit over 18 months ago I was last in a CVS, but as has already been pointed out, the US is a huge place so there’s bound to be regional differences. Glad contactless payments (or is it tap-to-pay in the US?) has become the norm.