Interesting Links for 30-11-2021
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andrewducker- 83% of English people support mask wearing in shops and on public transport
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- Nicola Sturgeon: The first minister's conference speech fact-checked
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- Northern Ireland economy has outperformed rest of UK
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- If you think punter forums are grim you should see how this parenting website talks about sex workers
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- I am not quite this dad. I do aspire to this level of ridiculousness though
- (tags:fun fatherhood video dancing viaClare )
- How do people cope with death in the age of social media?
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- The $5 billion hoard of metal the world wants but can't have
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- Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does
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- Are humans good or bad?
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- Richard Dawkins Doesn't Know What a Woman Is
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Date: 2021-12-01 08:54 am (UTC)In my experience, people refer to their customers as Punters in situations where what they are selling is an experience, rather than an item, and the customers are taking their expected enjoyment on trust, gambling that the experience will be worth the cost. So customers of sex workers, visitor attractions, bars and cafes/takeaways and similar businesses - but not shops. Usually used in a context where there is little or no personalisation, the customers are interchangeable rather than individuals, and between the staff rather than to the customers themselves.