More accurately, the law (which is about the same as the EU law and large parts of EU consumer law were actually modelled on our consumer law) has to have clearly defined edges. IIRC it stipulates that the “real” price advertised during a sale must have been the price for a minimum of X months (not sure what exactly, I think it’s six).

That’s why we’re currently seeing toothpaste for £7 - so they can do the price drop promo in 6 or so month’s time without breaking advertising law while at the same time raising the baseline price in our psyches.

Brit here. I have never been asked for my address pre-offer.

…not everyone gets circumcised at birth. I got circumcised in my 30s due to phymosis. No one undergoes FMG at any age for any medical reason. Conflating the two is deeply unhelpful to both the stigma around medical circumcision and to protect people from the brutality of FMG. Not every country is America.

Video game worker here. I used to get 5-15 inMails a week offering me an interview. This year? 2. In total. The industry is brutal right now.

This is a false comparison. Circumcision has actual medical uses (e.g. phymosis, cancer, balanitis). FGM does not.

My joint account with my partner is with a local building society, but branches are shutting left and right in the UK…

Yep. Monzo implemented an emergency-use website about 5 years ago, Revolut shortly after (and I think they have a desktop app now). I’m with neither (though I can SEE my accounts online, I cannot DO anything with them).

Nope, it is FCA/Prudential registered bank. These fintech solutions are very common in the UK.

I’ve discovered I can access my account online, but cannot send money from there (Zopa).

Monzo and Revolut now have some barebones web implimentation (over a decade after launched).

Atom has no web access at all.

Chase UK doesn’t have web access as far as I can tell.

All of the above are registered banks.

It’s literally ONLY got an app. No web, no branches. They’ve become quite common and popular in the UK (like Revolut).

So true. I’m loathed to lose the interest rate, but needs must when the devil drives, and boy is he driving right now.

If 10 people are sitting at a table being civil to 1 Nazi, there are 11 Nazis at the table and all that.

This is what I’m struggling with. I use an app-only challenger bank, so I feel a bit stuck unless I change everything…

Nah, let’s not. Dicking on the unhoused is the very definition of punching down.

So…no retirement. Die at your desks, pleb! And this is why when I caught my company doing illegal shit, I took the money and used it to get a little garden to grow my own food…

I like to get some scratchies every now and then - it’s one of the major funding sources for museums and sports in the UK, so I see it as a little donation with a dopamine hit rather than an attempt at winning big!

And people always forget. “Why do vegans go on and on about it?” Because we want to be able to eat? For my stag do, my brother forgot THREE times to get me vegan products. THREE. And then complained because I “mention it too much”…I just wanna eat!

There are LOADS of modern classics. If you’re into sci-fi, try the Ancillary Justice trilogy by Anne Lecke. If you’re into contemporary fiction, check out Against the Loveless World. If you like historical fiction, Bernard Cornwell has been going strong for a long time.

What genre do you enjoy? I always recommend checking out the relevant awards and go through the shortlist for the last few years. You are sure to find something spellbinding.

Booker - Contemporary literature

Assimov/Philip K. Dick/Hugo/Nebula - Speculative Fiction

Nobel Prize - Contemporary literature

And then you have the Xiaomi Ultra range which is basically a bridge camera with a phone attached!

Oo not heard of this one! Thanks for the rec.

I didn’t mind BNW, though Huxley didn’t appear to be particularly well versed in political theory. It felt very “everything is socialism (even Ford) and thus bad”. However, the actual story itself with the boy? Amazing. Plus, we totally ARE controlled by our vice and pleasure far more so than information restriction.

F451 I really, really enjoyed when I was younger…right up until the last scenes! Then it felt very…masturbatory.