David Freedman

So, both teams in white.
Who the hell thinks these things up?
#FRAvENG

So, both teams in white.
Who the hell the minks these things up?
#FRAvENG

I go to Essex weekly (and indeed weakly). It’s a peculiar county. The London overspill bit is fairly horrid. The properly East Anglian bit lovely. The estuary/coastal part is underrated and unfairly ridiculed. But nobody, as far as I am aware, has ever “over-hyped” it. Quite the opposite in fact.

London used to be full of great sandwich bars, owned mainly by Anglo-Italians. Queues out of the door at lunchtime (probably why the self-service, ready-made factories displaced them) but worth the wait.

The ceding of sandwich-making territory by independent sandwich bars to corporate chains like Pret is one of the clearest instances yet of what is now known as enshitification, and was once (inaccurately) characterised as “neoliberalism”.

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Sack for the first two options.
Sack for playing Robbie Williams.

Any radio presenter who talks over any of the music they’re playing should be sacked.

I date it to the withdrawal of the Topic chocolate bar.

Ah yes, late arrivals at the poorly educated restaurateurs’ ball.

I have now, and it is interesting. Not my area of expertise but I’ve family members who teach at primary level with whom I’ll share this.

I didn’t read it. But it’s a fascinating read.

Correct. I thought I was alone in this practice.
Also: frozen and reheated chippy chips (assuming they are high quality in the first place) are far better than any commercially available oven chips.

It was popularised by Leonard Cohen.

Studied the Tales for ‘A’ Level and had chunks of the prologue and the Merchant’s Tale in my head for years thereafter. Your post had me spewing the bits I could remember (in my approximation of Old English voice) much to my wife’s derision. It’s wonderful, wonderful stuff.

Samuel Pepys has joined Fesshole.

We need to go further. Political parties are an anachronistic way of formulating, communicating and executing public policy. Technology (eg. electronic hustings) makes a far purer and more subtle approach to democracy possible. Inflexible one-size-fits-all parties shouldn’t be part of the future.

Worse still, as we’re constantly reminded on here and on @fesshole.bsky.social, they don’t all wear capes.

Employing more staff is good. Training them is even better. Long run: the extra investment pays off. Short term: I agree it’s expensive.

Mind you, the OP is right about the app. In any place of social refreshment (so not a cafeteria for example) if I can’t converse with the hosts I’m not going in.

Bakewell Tart contains marzipan and is therefore, by definition, worse than all the other things on planet earth.

Yes to the first proposition.
No to the second.
Political parties are an anachronistic way of formulating, communicating and executing public policy. Technology makes a far purer and more subtle approach to democracy possible. Inflexible one-size-fits-all parties shouldn’t be part of the future.

Agreed. Ordering at the bar is a relatively recent trend within the grand historical sweep of pubs, inns, taverns, etc etc. And of course, in most other countries table service is the norm except for the regulars perched at the bar/zinc itself.

I do a lot of assessment work for senior professional development at a large global corporation. Men tend to outnumber women there. So, not based on a complete scientific sample, but from a statistically significant empirical observation in one company, the answer is: perhaps.

Unless, of course, you’re serving it to someone in revenge for something.

My point, precisely.

Showers with heads immediately above the user, and only there, are in any case evidence of the human race’s inability to derive accurate conclusions from millions of empirical data points.

I don’t think it’s the touch screens that make those the places the perfect example.

You are very, very far from alone. I think every orange I’ve eaten for the last 50 years has had some leg spin imparted to it before peeling and eating. (See also: cover drives on station platforms with rolled umbrellas).

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