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Dominos Meltdown Revenge Pizza
The Calabrese pizza at Pizza Express turned my mouth into a furnace. Tomato, mozzerella, pesto, watercress, Italian piccante sausage and a tonne of freshly chopped chilli + seeds. It hurts. -
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Dispatches: Behind Enemy Lines
It was an interesting documentary I thought. While detonating the roadside bomb whilst testing the remote was comedy gold the programme did highlight a number of things. The fighters seemed to be bored boys\men with nothing better to do than fight guerrilla warfare. Some seemed to believe in... -
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Inglorious Basterds
I preferred Reservoir Dogs. However if you like Tarantino then Inglorious Basterds is well worth watching. Personally I felt the acting was good, especially Christoph Waltz. He's brilliant at building tension and there are some fine examples in this flick, his imagery in some parts was... -
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Gordon Brown to announce a cut to the UK nuclear fleet
We don't have those anymore as we scrapped them in our agreement to have Trident. As for Trident, we can't launch any of them without prior US approval. Our nuclear independence has been a myth for some time. -
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Can someone please give me one!!!!
Try this..... Try to get out of the room -
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New Week - New Danger- Extinction in Four Years
I watched a program on this and its effects in the States - it was quite sad to see. I had not appreciated the extent of the industry and how certain crops were absolutely dependent on bees - apples for example, would disappear from supermarkets (apparently). One particular part of the program... -
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Please put more jokes here
Hank, an American, from Florida, is on holiday in London. He's in Trafalgar Square and it's absolutely p*****g it down with rain. Proper torrential rain. He's huddled in a doorway and an English gentleman in a bowler hat walks past under his umbrella and says, "Morning! Lovely weather!!" The...- M_B
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- Forum: Light Relief
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Expensive contractors, take responsibility for your work!
Well there you are then. Pressure translates to tight time lines which means quality control is missed.......... then people wonder why things dont work and ofcourse it takes longer to find the problems. Unit test scripts, code reviews and quality control exist for a reason. -
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Expensive contractors, take responsibility for your work!
As DEV lead, does your team sign off unit test scripts and does your team undertake peer code reviews ? -
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IT jobs 'lost to cheap labour' -
I agree that BT are clearly exploiting things and are 'not breaking any rules', but thats what public profit oriented companies do isn't it ? Would their shareholders approve of this ? Probably. -
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IT jobs 'lost to cheap labour' -
They didnt sack them though - they terminated their contract. If permanent employees were sacked to make room for non-EU staff there would be an employment law issue but I dont see how this could apply to contractors. As I understand it a permanent position has to be advertised and if it isnt... -
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IT jobs 'lost to cheap labour' -
They werent sacked so I can't see how any labour rules may have been broken. -
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10 mins until PMQ
Good exchange between Brown and Cameron there. Their argument - Brown would not guarantee Darling would remain as Chancellor and his leadership had collapsed. - Cameron has no policy to deal with the recession.
