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by cdd
Wed 04 Dec, 2024 17.38
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Replies: 2192
Views: 1010457

Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake

I stumbled across this screenshot of mine (upload date: 2012) as the voucher offers on some credit card, and it looks like a who's who of failed or failing stores. What are the chances the number of closed options is >50% before the end of next year? Frasers, HMV and Homebase have to be the ones mos...
by cdd
Wed 04 Dec, 2024 15.29
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Pour Bill gates down the sink... Or is that milk?
Replies: 6
Views: 331

Re: Pour Bill gates down the sink... Or is that milk?

Betteridge's law of headlines never fails.
by cdd
Sun 24 Nov, 2024 02.27
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Twitter eXodus
Replies: 19
Views: 1222

Re: The Twitter eXodus

I still find X useful for certian niche interests, but it has become a version of #DontReadTheComments because if you do they'll just be a combination of hate speech, people with blue ticks outputting AI slop, and porn. (Sometimes all at the same time!). Of the three, I find the LLM slop to be the m...
by cdd
Sun 22 Sep, 2024 03.02
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: building site supervisor
Replies: 4
Views: 3187

Re: building site supervisor

all new Phil wrote: Tue 17 Sep, 2024 13.41Kay.
Kay Alexander has a new job? Not sure being a building site supervisor is playing to her strengths.
by cdd
Tue 25 Jun, 2024 14.05
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: There an election this year.....
Replies: 122
Views: 75645

Re: There an election this year.....

I’ve figured out the tories’ election strategy:
  1. Become as disliked as possible
  2. ???
  3. Profit
by cdd
Thu 16 May, 2024 23.42
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: There an election this year.....
Replies: 122
Views: 75645

Re: There an election this year.....

Martin Phillp wrote: Wed 15 May, 2024 03.39Disenfranchised voters who see Labour and the Conservatives as both sides of the same coin
They may not be exactly two sides of the same coin, but they are certainly two sides of the same hairstyle.
by cdd
Thu 16 May, 2024 23.14
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Baffling local news stories
Replies: 336
Views: 288467

Re: Baffling local news stories

I discovered to my delight recently that there is a subreddit devoted to these:

https://www.reddit.com/r/compoface
by cdd
Tue 07 May, 2024 03.53
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Old supermarket signage
Replies: 39
Views: 46627

Re: Old supermarket signage

This thread was done 15 years ago so I guess it’s due a recycle :)

The rather wonderful Brent Park Tesco — then stuck in a time warp since 1985 — was heavily modernised a year later and is now called Tesco Wembley, to the irritation of locals.
by cdd
Wed 14 Feb, 2024 10.06
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: With all the recent inflationary price rises, is there stuff you just won’t pay for now?
Replies: 22
Views: 30001

Re: With all the recent inflationary price rises, is there stuff you just won’t pay for now?

I can never find anything on Netflix I want to watch, so it's gone in the bin. The signal to noise ratio is ridiculous. It might even have good stuff, but it's such a faff to find that I'll just teef the odd show as and when someone recommends it to me. Disney+ is worth it and this thread has remind...
by cdd
Tue 06 Feb, 2024 07.39
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Pres Cafe Watch News and Information Board
Replies: 555
Views: 229207

Re: Pres Cafe Watch News and Information Board

The new logo looks like someone in mock designs recreated the old one from memory with bad padding and Calibri instead of Gill Sans, so I don’t know why people are in a rush for it to change.
by cdd
Thu 25 Jan, 2024 23.54
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Another High Street Rebrand
Replies: 2583
Views: 1353687

Re: Another High Street Rebrand

This reminds me that Jelly Belly used to have their own pick and mix concessions in Sainsbury's.

They disappeared, possibly because certain people kept putting premium jelly beans into the crappo pick and mix bags.