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I'm OK with you thinking that. More cheeseburgers for me.
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a) Probably the person whose job it is to make breakfast had not started their shift. It's easier to take the top of a bottle of beer than cook bacon and eggs.
b) Something changed and people finally came to their senses, allowing them to stay open later. But even in 1999 there were always places to drink that stayed open later than 23:00. You just had to know where they were.
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The licencing laws were changed so they can open as long as the local licencing authority will allow. It hasn't actually made a huge amount of difference, the rarely stay open much later.
In part because very few authorities give out licences which let them let them open until the early hours of the morning and also in part because a lot of landlords don't actually want to stay open all night.
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FTFY, YSC
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You know, I had something similar happen to me at my old workplace. The desk where I sat was positioned so that a spotlight shone almost directly into my face. It was really hard to work there. I sent around memos about it, I asked my boss to do something, I wore sunglasses for over two weeks to try and mitigate it, nothing helped. Then after six months I decided I'd had enough, and WALKED OVER AND SWITCHED THE LIGHT OFF!!. Sometimes you just gotta fix sh*t yourself.
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Aww come on. Have you ever worked in France? Wait... the weather is good here.
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People WORK in France?
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Apparently you don't work in a union shop. If someone who is not a licensed electrician turns off a light, that would start a major grievance procedure and you'd probably be fired for violating union work rules. If just ANYBODY can go around turning lights on and off, not only does this create a major safety hazard, but the union electrician's job would be in danger.
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You sir will be receiving a bill for a new keyboard shortly.
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Yes. After all, Peri had far more than just two positive attributes. It wasn't her fault the scriptwriters seemed to think they were writing for Jo Grant. (And I cannot forgive Pip and Jane Baker, or JNT, or whoever it was that made the decision to write her out by inexplicably marrying her to a shouty warlord whom she barely tolerated. I'm still not really sure that's preferable to being killed off during a brain transplant project. Notably, Elizabeth Sladen had said when she left that she just wanted Sarah Jane Smith to not be married off or killed off. So it's interesting they managed to do BOTH with Peri. And badly.)
"The Trial of a Time Lord" and "Time Lash" were, honestly, terrible. I liked bits of "Trial of a Time Lord", but the overall arc had some serious problems. "Time Lash" was simply ridiculous. And though I kind of liked "The Twin Dilemma", I know that is not a very popular opinion. Otherwise, Colin Baker was fine as the Doctor, and another good season (i.e. not TOFATL) would've really shown that, I think. There was too much playing for laughs and stories not really being taken seriously (sort of like Tom Baker's next-to-last season; I admire the late Douglas Adams greatly, but he honestly bit off more than he could chew when he agreed to become script editor). "Two Doctors" was nice (great to see Patrick Troughton back, and Jamie's always nice), and I liked "Mark of the Rani" (hated "Time and the Rani", though), and both "Revelation of the Daleks" and "Attack of the Cybermen" managed to revive some of the basic horror of those monsters that had for too long been forgotten -- the horror that we could become them, that they're not quite as alien as we'd like to think.
So, I think The Real WTF is "The Trial of a Time Lord" and the series' subsequent hiatus.
:-P
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Whoa, wait. Why did you want to block that off? Are you some weird-ass southerner who actually thinks room temperature is in the 70s? A cool blast of 68 degrees would be nice, imo - that's roughly three degrees above room temperature, where I'm from.
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lucidfox is getting me all horny.
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FTFY
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Only for 30 hours a week, and not between mid-day and 3pm.
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Hahahaha!! The work ethic in England sucks? Wow... I worked in the USA for a long period... The guy I worked with learned pretty quickly the way it's done in England - long hours and beaten deadlines, the REST of the time (once the work was done) could be spent in the Pub! (the 'Pub' was the Pacific Coast Brewery in Oakland). We had about 2 weeks remaining to do minor changes, fixes and drinking.
The weather on the other hand does suck in England. Stifling hot for 2 days then rain for 3... Great....
Anyway - this guy probably worked for that terrible company - NTL..... I spent some time there. Awful. You needed a nearby pub to get through the day!!!
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It is a cheque and not a check in the UK
In addition it is a loo, WC or lavatory not restroom or bathroom.
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If this is Anarchy, I want to be it.
Oh, and God Save the Queen.
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I think Poe's Law applies here: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of an Englishman that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
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Yet our government believes we are grown up and responsible enough to be allowed to buy a Kinder Surprise without being a deadly hazzard to ourselves or other people. ;)
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I thought that was the definition of work in the UK.
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QFT
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I thought that was the definition of arguing on the internet during business hours.
(a bunch of handwaving for self-gratification, which is intentionally ignored by everyone else)
--Joe
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wait, what ?!?
captcha: venio - venio get to my place, drop the money