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Comment Re:Switched to paper bags? (Score 1) 197

As a UK resident, in my experience people have most generally got into the habit of taking reusable bags with them. The supermarkets are certainly NOT issuing paper bags. They sometimes put out used cardboard boxes which goods originally came in, which can be handy if you came unprepared.

Comment Re:So they want us to be as poor as back before (Score 1) 166

I never really stopped being a thing in the UK, except that a lot of local dairies could not compete with supermarkets & went bust. There's a new breed of of door-to-door milk deliveries in my area now, and their USP is re-usable glass milk bottles. A few pence more expensive per pint. The sound of setting a glass milk bottle on the front step for the milkman to collect sends me back to my childhood every time I do it.

Comment Re:In before ... (Score 4, Informative) 109

I live in the south of England. It's certainly not for Harrods! It's not even a very good shop for 'ordinary' folk. Proximity for London is important, for employment, culture, airports. Access to the south coast which has a great mixture of seaside towns, stunning coastline and great history. Probably the weather is also an important factor. The north is a few degrees cooler on average and has more rain. Some parts of the north are beautiful, more rugged, mountainous. Some of the cities declined with the end of manufacturing. England, like many countries is in a state of flux. The south is more affluent. There are many factors behind this, it would take a lifetime to understand them all. YMMV

Comment Re:Robocalls (Score 1) 338

We do. I get ~ 1 a month purporting to be from BT. The number is always a spoofed local number. He wants my to install TeamViewer so he can fix my 'virus problem'. If I have time, i play dumb and play along awhile. I don't run Windows, and I'm not even with BT, so I'm never in any danger. I try to follow the instructions he gives me and read back what I see on the screen. I once got as far as the supervisor's supervisor trying to 'solve my problem'. Eventually he cottoned on and called me a motherfucker. So nice. I reported the number to actionfraud - and noticed many others had done the same, and most calls had ended with the same epithet, so the guy's not exactly original with his insults. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his arsehole.

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