Andrew Donnellan

Puffing a vape is too convenient compared to cigarettes

I mean, I have no idea about the health implications but what I do know is that it's really, really annoying

After visiting Europe I am now in full support of the Singaporean government's approach to vaping enforcement

The European restaurant thing of offering you water and, if you're too hungry to have the presence of mind to say the right magic words, coming back with a bottle of water that costs €7, makes me feel way more scammed than Americans adding a service charge or having to add a tip tbh

I'm the opposite, pubs are too noisy and I tolerate them purely because we don't have enough late night cafes

Anyway not sure why I've wasted all this money coming to Europe when I got the authentic London experience in WA

I'm sure the Burra Charter has opinions on whether you're allowed to heritage list this which the WA Heritage Council differs with

what's with European online credit card fraud detection and being the most painful e-commerce experiences I've ever had on the internet

@drdrehistorian.bsky.social please explain your city's heritage to me

They told me Parisians liked higher-density living, it's true in the downtown bit but I've just gone out to the western suburbs and run into the biggest single family home I've seen in my life

Indeed

Now that I think about it most of the times I've met @darmurp.bsky.social have also been in pubs

It definitely seems to me that's what's happened here, and their new options for eg direct debit billing (which alas I cannot use) are them finally starting to wake up to this

And of course they have stored value cards, but from what I can tell they aren't storing a euro balance, they store... individual tickets and passes?

Here in Paris, they let you take monthly invoices, if you have a local bank account to direct debit, which seems considerably harder than debiting a euro-denominated stored value card balance immediately, or a credit card nightly

Can someone explain what's with cities having ridiculous PT ticketing systems that aren't just stored value or credit/debit cards? If I install enough apps, I can use my credit card to buy Paris PT tickets a single trip at a time, or various passes, but not just tap my credit card at the gate

Wandering the streets of Paris imagining how many fines the Quebec language cops would be able to hand out to local businesses

Today I walked from one end of a shire to the other

Please

Part of my issue here is that I don't believe most of the actors pushing for radical free speech are in fact free speech absolutists

Quick, time to double down on Irish heritage and specifically blaming the English for all ills in the world

White people in not-South-Australia

Might be tricky to fit in, but there's a chance I might at least pass through while I go to southern France...

Heading to Europe/UK for a month later this week, and I still haven't decided what countries I'm going to

The proliferation of American right wing free speech advocacy motivated primarily by the worst possible reasons is making me reflexively pro-eSafety Commissioner, which I'm not sure is the best way for me to be thinking about this but anyway

Please

emptying out the savings account I have had for many years in order to take advantage of a good introductory bonus rate on a no hoops account, which I will close as soon as 4 months is up

problems with being unemployed: managing your bank accounts to get the maximum online savings interest rate gets harder when you can't consistently grow the account balance by $1 at the end of the month

having a refusal of entry on his record will also make life painful for all his future international travel, so he's probably sticking around Australia even more than before

yes I doubt your field will be so keen to experiment with this approach to conferences