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The realistic attitude to relationships
Jul. 17th, 2009 09:19 amWith thanks to my brother Mike.
Jul. 17th, 2009
With thanks to my brother Mike.
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Jul. 17th, 2009 12:01 pm-
If you want people to recognise that a substance is dangerous - give it a complicated, hard-to-pronounce name. That's the implication of a new study that suggests we use a simple rule-of-thumb when judging risk. If something is easy to process and digest - for example, by virtue of being easy to pronounce - we tend to assume that it's familiar and safe.
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The results of a study into how kids react when put in refrigerators.
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Specialisterne was started by a Danish man whose own son has autism.
Thorkil Sonne now employs more than 40 people with autism.
He is finalising plans to set up a branch in Glasgow in the coming months.
He hopes to hire 50 workers in the first three years of operating in Scotland. -
Bets a million dollars that nobody can do what his client is alleged to have done. Someone proves him wrong - and he's refusing to pay up. To the courts!
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So, Julie and I are flying down to Derby with BMIBaby (the low cost arm of British Midland). And we go to check in online - and are told we can choose to pay an extra £4 to choose our seats, or take what we're given.
No problem, we think, we'll take what we're given - we don't care if we're at the front or the back.
But no - they assign one of us seats at the front of the aircraft and one at the back.
But we can still choose to pay - and looking at the system, we can choose two seats that are handily right next to each other.
So, despite there being pairs of seats, and despite us checking in online on a single form, they allocate the pair of us different seats, just so they can charge us an extra £4?
Oh - and to cap it all, there's no way to leave feedback online, or to email them. The only way to talk to them is via a phone number that costs 65p/minute (i.e. $1/minute).
Fuck them. I'm never flying with them again. There's a certain amount of dickery I'm just not prepared to put up with.
No problem, we think, we'll take what we're given - we don't care if we're at the front or the back.
But no - they assign one of us seats at the front of the aircraft and one at the back.
But we can still choose to pay - and looking at the system, we can choose two seats that are handily right next to each other.
So, despite there being pairs of seats, and despite us checking in online on a single form, they allocate the pair of us different seats, just so they can charge us an extra £4?
Oh - and to cap it all, there's no way to leave feedback online, or to email them. The only way to talk to them is via a phone number that costs 65p/minute (i.e. $1/minute).
Fuck them. I'm never flying with them again. There's a certain amount of dickery I'm just not prepared to put up with.
