TomRad85
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Honestly all young kids have a billion toys anyway. Obviously we are buying our son some bits but we're not going nuts, he's 2, there's no point.
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shmmeee
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My fucking 8 year old. Boxes full of toys she’s barely touched. We actually regifted one thing she hasn’t even opened once and she didn’t notice.
Tonight she goes “I wish I had a fidget toy” literally plunged my hand into her toy box and pulled out five
fernandopartridge
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My missus insists on getting the kids numerous presents, I don't think they could remember even half of what they had last year. Not only presents but a Christmas eve box, stocking fillers etc. It's too much imo.
Personally, I think it is best to build all the anticipation about what's under the tree, nothing else is necessary.
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"Apologies if you may have been offended by any language that you may just have heard."
Flemish? Swahili? Gaelic? Urdu? What language would offend me?
Flemish? Swahili? Gaelic? Urdu? What language would offend me?
shmmeee
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TBF Twitter is full of people offended at hearing anything but English…
OffenhamSkyBlue
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Trigger warnings: I'm also heartily sick to death of the "if you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this item, there is a range of organisations which can provide help and advice, listed on the BBC Action Line (or C4, or whatever) website".
The latest was an interview of a woman who had set up a group for women who had given up drinking. She didn't even mention how much she drank before quitting 5 years ago. I thought it was all quite positive. If you are triggered by that level of content, i really don't know how you get out of bed in the morning. What is the world coming to?
Robinshio
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Really you must have missed France on your travels. Worked extensively in both countries and know which I prefer. One country are arrogant and so far up their own backsides and the other are belgian
eastwoodsdustman
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You'd better delete that in case O'hare sees it and refuses to sign a new contract in protest.
shmmeee
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Being better than the French is faint praise.
DrPoolittle
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Things that annoy you: people who claim that the NHS is the envy of the world.
ccfctommy
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Are you from the Congo by any chance?
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Dont know if it already on here but loyaly cards can't stand them.Went into a shop in my one horse town the 1 that matches a rival before Chrismas (wifes chose not mine) .Sure enough they were matching them on veg if you had 1 of their know everything cards and wanted potatoes 15p a bag without a card six times the cost of with 1.
shmmeee
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Tesco then.
If you don’t want to trade pretty meaningless data for discounts, don’t do it
Introduced when we were experiencing shortages, they can FO!
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It was pretty sad when Sainsburys proudly declared me their second biggest buyer of breakfast biscuits in the area, mind you!
shmmeee
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You should use it to negotiate a bulk discount or you’ll take your breakfast biscuit business elsewhere.
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It was only because one month they were on offer, so I stocked up!
Begs the question who came top mind you, and what I needed to do to overtake them...
chiefdave
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Think it's just a lack of trust. Plenty of people, myself included, thought the same way about their data in general with things like Facebook but then you have things like Cambridge Analytica and you start second guessing what is 'safe'.
Nick
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But then again it depends what data you're giving them.
My Tesco shopping habits are pretty boring.
chiefdave
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indeed, I don't really give a shit if Tesco know what I buy.
tbh I probably fall into a gap between people who are completely oblivious to what happens with their data and people who fully understand data science.
Know enough to be slightly suspicious that someone is up to no good
shmmeee
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indeed, I don't really give a shit if Tesco know what I buy.
tbh I probably fall into a gap between people who are completely oblivious to what happens with their data and people who fully understand data science.
Know enough to be slightly suspicious that someone is up to no good
All the data you should care about is taken by the govt without your permission. That horse has well and truly bolted and is collected at ISP level.
Commercial data like search and shopping is literally only used by companies to try and make better products and make advertising more relevant. You’re only giving yourself worse products and advert recommendations by stopping people using it.
I was a data scientist (now data engineer) and this is the view of all the data people I’ve met.
shmmeee
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I mean they absolutely are. Anyone who has been through GCHQ clearance can tell you that. But they’ve been doing that for decades and aren’t going to stop, so unless you’re doing something to get yourself on a watchlist or want to work for the security services it’s not really a worry.
Nick
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I have been, they still need ripa requests for a lot of it.
Like you say, a lot is at isp levels.
shmmeee
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Yeah officially, but the Snowden stuff showed they just collect everything and only get signed off when they want to query and even then probably could without.
I mean it’s the spooks, they’ll do what they want. My point was really that moaning about Tesco knowing your shopping data is silly when the real juicy stuff is on a server at MI5 (or more likely the NSA to get around rules about spying on your own population).
Stocking levels should be what it's used for but I used to get plenty of choice at Tesco cannon park with me mum, absolutely rammed both shoppers and shelves in70-80's,take about an hour all told, how has it changed we've taken the guesswork out of it with definite numbers and no people interactions, how is it a benifit?
