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24 Jul 2013 14:38:57
By Obtuse | Permalink | On 24 July 2013 - 15:06 PM
There is nothing wrong with the word pop in this context, Ninja is just bent out of shape for some bizarre reason and is attacking people due to this shortcoming.


I'm not bent out of shape.

My comment at you was clearly a joke and pop's just a rubbish word.
ianbaker
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By Rick87 | Permalink | On 24 July 2013 - 14:44 PM
I think my company is a bit dodgy with pricing, we've just started selling bottles of pop for 60p, not cheap brands either but Pepsi, 7-up, Sprite etc, these drinks were £1.45 just a few weeks ago, I could understand if they were on offer or short dated but their not.
None of the other shops in the area have done the same, not even the supermarkets, isn't there rules about undercutting the competition in such a way?

Fell off the back of the truck.
Franck
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24 Jul 2013 14:42:41
By Rick87 | Permalink | On 24 July 2013 - 15:44 PM
I think my company is a bit dodgy with pricing, we've just started selling bottles of pop for 60p, not cheap brands either but Pepsi, 7-up, Sprite etc, these drinks were £1.45 just a few weeks ago, I could understand if they were on offer or short dated but their not.
None of the other shops in the area have done the same, not even the supermarkets, isn't there rules about undercutting the competition in such a way?

Why would there be?
Mr Willy
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24 Jul 2013 14:46:48
Sorry to moan about work, again, but the thing that gets me about my company is our upselling strategy. As a minimum expectation, you've got to offer the latest special item placed on the counter to every customer, usually a chocolate bar for £1.50. If you fail to do so, even if you've served the same goddamn customer earlier that day, you're summoned to a meeting with your area manager. Usually though, these "meetings" are held the next day in some store a hundred miles away and you don't get transported arranged, so they sack you for not showing up. It's just a trick to get you sacked.
Franck
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24 Jul 2013 14:50:07
English employment laws must truly suck if they can do that.
Mr Willy
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24 Jul 2013 14:53:02
I doubt that you can, but it's unlikely that a minimum wage sales assistant will know the law on unfair dismissal, or probably lack the wherewithal to go for it. I do agree though that English employment law is pretty screwed. If only trade unions existed to represent the interests of their members, not campaign against the government all the time, and co-operate with employers more. A more of a social democratic/social market approach, that's beneficial to both the employee and employer.
Obtuse
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24 Jul 2013 15:32:37
even if the person did know the law I doubt they would get legal aid to challenge it with counsel due to the major changes from the Tories.
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24 Jul 2013 17:36:09
By bluemoon. | Permalink | On 24 July 2013 - 08:32 AM
Do you haggle when you go to the supermarket?


Maybe he just goes into a mega rant and the shop assistant just gives up
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24 Jul 2013 17:40:05
I used to have a customer who everyone used to do their all to avoid, an old man who went by the name of 'Mr Mothballs' who used to come in with an ancient breifcase that seemed to be full of little else than dust, he would spend twenty minutes ranting about god knows what, how modern politicians are heading for riots in the streets and the end of the world.
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24 Jul 2013 17:48:44
By Rick87 | Permalink | On 24 July 2013 - 18:40 PM
I used to have a customer who everyone used to do their all to avoid, an old man who went by the name of 'Mr Mothballs' who used to come in with an ancient breifcase that seemed to be full of little else than dust, he would spend twenty minutes ranting about god knows what, how modern politicians are heading for riots in the streets and the end of the world.


I must meet him. Sounds awesome and someone to strive to be.
Franck
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24 Jul 2013 18:06:37
Mr. Mothballs is clearly old KM who has travelled back from the future.
bluemoon.
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24 Jul 2013 18:35:08
By Franck | Permalink | On 24 July 2013 - 19:06 PM
Mr. Mothballs is clearly old KM who has travelled back from the future.

Or alternatively, Mr. Mothballs is the 'real' KM and this version is young KM who's travelled to the future.
Mr Willy
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24 Jul 2013 22:34:43
Or perhaps Mr Mothballs is just KM.

I get this old bastard, comes in about once a week. He can't walk properly, so I offer to fetch a couple of papers for him. He doesn't say thank-you, and has a go if we're out of a particular paper. Miserable cunt. Then he tries to pay for his fags with a cheque. I don't think convenience stores have ever accepted cheque.
Franck
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24 Jul 2013 23:07:54
MASSIVE thunderstorm going on outside for the last 15 minutes.
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Marc.
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Bored out my fucking tree. Resorted to trolling Hibee and Jonas.
Deleted Account #151676
26 Jul 2013 09:26:14
Two postmen have died in my village after they lost control of their van and plunged off a bridge onto a railway line.
Franck
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26 Jul 2013 10:59:08
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/79iF9yyRe5htQLNrlmmA7tZNk21zHJOlehsnwjsk.jpg
bluemoon.
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26 Jul 2013 11:31:38
Space is big.
Ninja
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26 Jul 2013 11:40:46
I've always wondered how come we're not at the centre of the universe in these pictures.

I mean I know, objectively, we aren't (or if we are it's a coincedence of the highest unlikelihood) but surely relatively we can see as far in every direction equally?
Fantastic
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26 Jul 2013 12:07:55
Ask Franck, he's the most intelligent person on the internet.
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26 Jul 2013 12:54:53
By Fantastic | Permalink | On 26 July 2013 - 14:07 PM
Ask Franck, he's the most intelligent person on the internet.

Naaaw, that's sweet!
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26 Jul 2013 15:54:06
Presumably the central point of the map is the location the big bang occured at. We can estimate that from the velocities of galaxies/stars.
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26 Jul 2013 16:28:04
By Pippadoc | Permalink | On 26 July 2013 - 16:54 PM
Presumably the central point of the map is the location the big bang occured at. We can estimate that from the velocities of galaxies/stars.


Ninja
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26 Jul 2013 16:47:55
By Pippadoc | Permalink | On 26 July 2013 - 16:54 PM
Presumably the central point of the map is the location the big bang occured at. We can estimate that from the velocities of galaxies/stars.

Actually I think I knew that.

Something like the further away it gets from the centre the quicker it accelerates.

Is it called something like red or blue shift?
Blaze
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26 Jul 2013 19:23:21
By bluemoon. | Permalink | On 26 July 2013 - 12:31 PM
Space is big.


Space Jam is bigger
Phoenix Arrow
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26 Jul 2013 19:28:47
Redshift. Blueshift would mean shrinkage.
Basically, everything is moving away from everything else. Due to how acceleration works and how there's obviously no friction in space, the parts that started moving fastest at the start will always continue to move after than the other parts. As such, every part of the universe is moving away from every other part of the universe. So, wherever you look in space, you get redshift.
But the thing is there is no centre of the universe. I mean, what is it relative to? What's the universe expanding into? How can you tell which part is moving away from which part if everything is moving away at the same rate no matter where you look? All they can go by is deep space photography.
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26 Jul 2013 22:52:40
By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 26 July 2013 - 20:28 PM
Redshift. Blueshift would mean shrinkage.
Basically, everything is moving away from everything else. Due to how acceleration works and how there's obviously no friction in space, the parts that started moving fastest at the start will always continue to move after than the other parts. As such, every part of the universe is moving away from every other part of the universe. So, wherever you look in space, you get redshift.
But the thing is there is no centre of the universe. I mean, what is it relative to? What's the universe expanding into? How can you tell which part is moving away from which part if everything is moving away at the same rate no matter where you look? All they can go by is deep space photography.


That's the type of question that makes my heart race and become really uneasy, if that makes sense.
Blaze
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27 Jul 2013 00:07:41
It sounds like those ads ages ago for teachers
Justicar
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27 Jul 2013 00:17:35
Now I want to go and watch a video where Brian Cox enthuses while shouting inordinately large numbers, with increasingly elaborate backdrops.

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