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He already got arrested prior to this, and continued to engage in the activity?

First off, apologies. I mean more of a rigid, defensiveness in general among British people? Do you know what I mean? No offense meant and I withdraw that.

> Are missed appointments such a issue for GPs?

"Patients who miss GP appointments are costing NHS England £216m a year, officials have said." - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46732626

And the incident I described what started due to one of the girls, a receptionist in a GP, bemoaning how many missed appointments they have and what a backlog it begets. People agreed. Just now I checked my doctor's online portal and I can't get an appointment for over two weeks (they advise to ring up at 8 on the morning if it#s an emergency and they'll try to fit you in). Unfortunately recently I had cause to have 6 appointments over a two week period, I saw a lot of names being called and no-one attending.

> If someone doesn't show they move onto the next person.

This presumes that people without an appointment, just hang around the waiting area... As said the backlog grows.

I've literally heard all of this before.

I'll say "Well they shouldn't miss the appointment, they can cancel if they can't make it"

To which you'll reply something about people and last minute, completely unavoidable things which prevent appointments being made.

To which, I'll reply that blah blah and on and on.

I've learned there's no point. I don't think fees for that are abnormal (have seen them and their handling of scenarios in operation in other countries to no big alarm) but it's against NHS dogma! Don't get me wrong, I like the NHS but there's seriously zealot-esque thinking towards it from many corners. It's not a case of "totally free" or the USA.

But as said, I'm an immigrant and have learned to keep quite on such matters.

[Immigrant in UK] I'll never forget at one party/gathering where in a conversation I proposed that some base charge should be applied to those who book appointments with their GP and don't show up. I suggested a fiver (which I think is very low tbh). I was then subject to the most unexpected arguments, accusations and outrage! I truly got it then that the NHS is the real state religion in Britain.

I'd be willing to bet his business failed and Brexit is a handy scapegoat.

Amazing that this was even published mind, there's so little here.

Why? It's the same information.

The water in my country is fantastic. That being said we have to buy all bottled (in plastic) water for my Mother for the past ten years or so. Why? She had many cancers over the years and it was dcotor's advice to avoid tapwater due to the possibility of pipes introducing germs etc which her immune system could not handle.

Avoid sleeping around, find a partner to have a monogamous relationship with. Sorted.

Interested to hear about your solution?

To be social? That's what I like about it most.

How are they harmful?

How about building up? There's a huge lack of any sizable flat developments in Dublin, it's all housing sprawl out into Meath and Kildare.

It's a fine place to visit but no way I'd live there (again). Traffic woes, housing woes etc. I dunno how the Dubs do it tbh.

Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap. Fire and forget for 20 years.

When I was much younger I thought the Greens were onto something and that they were the future. Then they started campaigning against vaccines and spreading lies about same in the media. That led me off them. As I've grown up and lived since then, I've seen them be consistently on the wrong side of issues to which they seem utterly beholden to an ill informed base. No nuclear, no GM, no nothing.

I'm thankful that

- I found my wife and she agreed to spend the rest of her life with me. - I was lucky to born into a loving family in a relatively stable part of the world - that I earn money (decent money) doing something I enjoy

> treasonous Supreme Court

How is it treasonous?

> One would hope they had military experience

Really? Why so?

I've seen ministers put in place with expertise in the actual area (doctor becoming minister of health for example) and it makes no difference. They're just managers after all, the "real work" is done by the civil servants.

Does a defence minister need to have used a gun?

> microbes that originated someplace other than Earth

Well we could never be sure of that without real samples. Who's to say it's not all the result of panspermia?

> I think that most people, be them scientists, religious leaders, politicians, or even laymen, will have their lives changed forever.

Scientists yes, the rest won't care that much. It'll make the news sure but it'll be out of the headlines within a week. Maybe I'm a cynic but I'd put money on that being the case.

Additionally speaking as a religious person, it wouldn't change any of my beliefs. And I'm struggling to see how it would for others of my faith really.

As someone eager to start (properly) learning C#, is doing so on Mac actually viable? It sounds like it from your post but would be eager to hear your thoughts (I only have a Mac at home to practice on).

There's a recruiter on LinkedIn I saw has taken to put the following into every job post "Only looking for the best of the best. No time wasters please." Reminds me of a dating site.

How did I know it was George Monbiot before even opening it... Just watch the last episode of Planet Earth season 2 ffs and stop whining.

"Country looks out for its interest, more on page 2"

1 - it wouldn't be suitable for me now (nor for the past few years).

2 - I remember there being a big differential in equivalently priced machines back then. One of my current work Dell workstations is a much cheaper option than this Mac, much better specced and I've had no issues with it for over two years.

3 - It's £800 for the thing, seems way out of line with inflation compared to what I bought then.

I bought a mac mini ten years ago (for about E400?). It still lives on today as my parent's desktop. I passed to them many years ago and not one problem. Fantastic machine.

However I cannot justify the prices they're asking for these ones. I'm looking for a new machine for myself now, but no way will these be considered.

If someone did this, they wouldn't be my friend anymore.

> Agitate and vote for the most left-wing party you can

What's that got to do with the price of fish? The main left parties in my area still harp on about the coalmines. Then you have the Greens who are anti-nuclear, anti-Gm, anti-everything who seem to spend most of their time now involved in infighting over trans nonsense.

Yep, pretty much. I live not-in-London and during one of the heightened periods of security last year (armed police everywhere) all clear bag bins were removed from the metro and bus stations. This of course led to littering. It didn't make any sense.

The Doomsday clock is a meaningless PR piece.

> Either people like your stuff and want to share it, or they don't.

Eh not really. Consider my use case. I don't tweet, retweet or anything. My profile is set to private. I mainly use Twitter for updates on the local public transport (and sport scores). Last week for instance the metro system had a really bad failure. At the end of the day, their Twitter account posted a big apology and you could see whoever was manning it had played a blinder by helping as many people as they could. So I "liked" it as a form of appreciation. I do that a lot.

I don't think I'm alone on this either. I know lots of people who use Twitter for practical things (traffic updates etc.), I honestly can't think of anyone who actually tweets though.

If like goes, I'll just use retweet as a replacement to show the same emotion. Except I'll be retweeting to an empty audience deliberately.