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Naughty and nice. Who is on Santa’s list? – politicalbetting.com
Naughty and nice. Who is on Santa’s list? – politicalbetting.com
Which public figures do Britons believe have earned a place on Santa's naughty or nice list? ??Trump, Musk and Farage top the naughty list, whilst NHS workers and the Prince and Princess of Wales top the nice list. For the full poll, click here https://t.co/dfZdBc0vga pic.twitter.com/VxEgOLo8E0
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EDIT: Second on the nice list
Plus Bonar Law was a Maple Leaf.
Two of our last four PMs have had non-British grandparents.
ETA scooped by TSE on ABL.
So, quickly off topic and my picture quota for the day of an absolute bugbear of mine. The girls are off Christmas shopping for the day and plans have worked out such to say it's a train job.
Advertised return second class fares on National Rail as below. The family will actually get the standard off peak walk up fare for around £20 each.
I know it's a clumsy attempt at demand management and Manchester will be rammed today with everything, but why, why, why are they being quite such completely stupid buggers with their online pricing. Are they catching the younger generation to whom it wouldn't even occur to visit a ticket office and get a paper ticket:
On the TPE app it is £18.20 return plebian class.
And it only tends to occur when there are notices on the services - busy weekend, strikes, engineering with fewer trains running. Typically, on a normal day, you will see the proper fare.
No, this has a human hand behind it - someone, somewhere is doing this for a reason.
Casino Royale is on his watch list.
What a very odd behaviour though, even for an old app version.
Wild conspiracy theory: but has someone written an app that looks like a legit ticketing app but just fronts the real app while creaming off a rather greedy 300% 'commission'?
(If not, I'm on to it this afternoon.)
The app I'm sure is authentic, originally loaded some years ago, and showing as v.9.6.5.2.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/dec/14/primary-school-children-left-in-tears-after-vicar-tells-them-santa-isnt-real
Can anyone confirm there really are 10-11 year olds who haven't worked this out?
1) he collects data on children without any over sight or authorisation.
2) he breaks into children’s bedrooms on an epic scale, in addition to mass B&E of homes.
3) his factory employs illegal aliens. In unknown, unmonitored conditions. Its remoteness is highly suggestive of poor working conditions. None of his employees are seen outside the factory. No paperwork for the factory.
4) he flies all over the planet without a flight plan.
5) analysis of his travel suggest travels at near rentry velocities. This violate a further tranche of laws.
6) no welfare details on his reindeer
7) he gives expensive presents to rich kids, nothing to really poor children.
So you have a reactionary, safe guarding risk, habitual lawbreaker, animal abuser, who runs an illegal factory and probably abuses the staff.
And Good Morning to everyone. Not sunny here today, but only a very light grey sky.
She caught on immediately.
Discussed here previously.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627zp5d0qeo
In any case, telling 11 year olds - including many who know - that there is no Father Christmas us just brutal. There is a period in which they know, but wish they didn't.
How would he feel if I told his kids there is no God?
“Switzerland greenlights use of self-driving cars on motorways from March 2025”
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/switzerland-greenlights-use-of-self-driving-cars-on-motorways-from-march-2025/88587606
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1867876168982302986.html
The pricing data and algorithm is not going to be in the app - it's going to be held centrally. So why two versions of the app accessing the same central data should come up with two different answers is puzzling at best.
If this story gets picked up, it won't do the industry's reputation any good after all the stuff about people buying tickets and then being fined because the tickets don't have the validity that they were sold as having.
"Your train's 5 minutes late - that's an extra £1900 please."
I am an utter arse.
I had a retained setting for 4 adults and one child from another search months ago, not cleared by reloading the app this morning.
Although without specifically clearing those settings any further, I jumped back on a little later and got the correct fare for one adult.
Once I set back to 4 adults / 1 child, I got the elevated numbers back.
So, any oddity in the app is merely in how/when the planner applies and resets to default on the fare options, which is a much lesser thing.
Stand down. Nothing to see.
What's the out and out wrongest, on a point of fact, you've ever been on PB?
Obviously that has been the defining political event of the year.
There's a Leon trip right there - 1500 year old building cut into the rock, with notorious prison of mass murder nearby.
What their children will do or think in years to come beggars belief. Two late teenage girls, one of who has a boyfriend so presumably there'll be some great-grandchildren at some point in time. Whether or not we'll see them is somewhat unlikely.
Example: I was travelling from Glasgow to Crewe.
I saved £20 by going Glasgow to Preston, then got off, waited twenty minutes for the train that had come from Edinburgh and continued to Crewe.
I am sure he is much happier being Co-President of the United States.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/32309413/gareth-southgate-knighthood-new-years-honours/
As this is PB, has anyone checked what variety of pizza he advertised?
For that to happen, Hezbollah needs to give up, Israel needs to stop messing around in the South and the Kurds and HTS need to come to an agreement that Erdogan will respect.
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/journey-planner/?type=return&origin=HUD&destination=115&leavingType=departing&leavingDate=151224&leavingHour=11&leavingMin=30&returnType=departing&returnDate=151224&returnHour=16&returnMin=30&adults=1&extraTime=0#O
Not the majority, but there are a few.
Since every third party app HAS to use their data, I suspect there was another way to boost revenues.
If only Ukraine were part of Russia then Putin could properly weaponise global food supplies.
But the bottom line is the vicar was being a complete arse. Particularly for someone who believes in another non existent mythical being.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzP50zl-6_g
A brief but important note was that women are likelier in the West to get higher education but relationships/marriage/fertility seem to work best when the man is slightly higher status than the woman. In short, women like moving slightly 'up' with a man and don't like moving down, yet women are doing better than men at education, which is a significant part of that.
Also interesting to note that the UK, as far as I could tell, is forecast to have the lowest population decline in Europe, just 4% to 2100.
(Your previous iterations have been very helpful on vaccuum cleaners and food processors).
Or welcome back if you're one of those.
If a plane crashes on the Ukraine/Republic of China border, which side do you bury the survivors?
If you talk to women as people, you will find that a major concern with having children is housing space. That’s on top of all the expenses of bringing up children.
Living in a 1 bed flat doesn’t exactly encourage 2 child families….
If you want to use a site that offers split ticketing, and much greater flexibility in specifying journey requirements, try:
https://tickets.railforums.co.uk