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Post by Lizard on Mar 21, 2024 1:34:59 GMT
Just received an email from Tracey, a Transactional Services Officer in our finance department.
We literally have a Tracey from accounts.
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Post by dangerousdave on Mar 21, 2024 5:25:59 GMT
One of the students I was working with has applied to have their DOB moved to make themselves 9 years ‘younger’. I don’t know what their motivation is but considering they’re in their early 30s according to their original DOB I’m assuming it can’t be to correct an error. Like it’d have been pretty obvious to everyone if we’d had a tween doing an undergrad degree after A-levels at primary school. There is something very disingenuous about that. I couldn’t trust somebody who wanted to do something like that.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Mar 21, 2024 5:41:25 GMT
That is very cool. If I had the time I'd love to dot that sort of thing. There hasn't been anything of that nature reported where I live in Ireland though. The closest I'll get is looking for cool rocks and shells when we go to the beach. I have an Irish friend who came back from a holiday back home with some massive ammonites for my boy. Says there is a great beach or cliff or rock somewhere for hunting. I’ll ask him where it was. Thank you very much, that would be great!
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Post by grey_matters on Mar 21, 2024 6:52:39 GMT
I have an Irish friend who came back from a holiday back home with some massive ammonites for my boy. Says there is a great beach or cliff or rock somewhere for hunting. I’ll ask him where it was. Thank you very much, that would be great! Antrim is good for it. We don't have many dinosaur fossils because apparently a filthy great glacier scraped away a couple of hundred years of records on its travels. Plenty of the older stuff though, including really rare trackways of the earliest animals to try out walking on land (Valentia Island) nearly 400 million years ago.
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Post by otto on Mar 21, 2024 7:10:05 GMT
I learnt yesterday that its possible to apply to officially change your date of birth. I assume its to correct errors or fill in blanks if you’re from somewhere with bad record keeping. One of the students I was working with has applied to have their DOB moved to make themselves 9 years ‘younger’. I don’t know what their motivation is but considering they’re in their early 30s according to their original DOB I’m assuming it can’t be to correct an error. Like it’d have been pretty obvious to everyone if we’d had a tween doing an undergrad degree after A-levels at primary school. I'm having trouble believing that it would be legal anywhere to alter bureaucratic reality like this. Presumably there are special circumstances where there are problematic official records or something and it's about fixing a hole? But I can't just go to the Council and ask them to amend my birth certificate because I want to be Gen Z and get off with 24 year olds on Tinder, can I. Can I??
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Post by elstoof on Mar 21, 2024 7:32:15 GMT
A quick Google and the home office says no, only when there’s credible evidence that their records are incorrect
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 21, 2024 7:42:15 GMT
I kinda want to alter one of my kids birthdays by a month or so, so they can get into the next school year. Government was talking about allowing parents to pick a school year when the kids are born in August, but I don't think they ever actually implemented it.
Maybe they won't notice...
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Post by cubby on Mar 21, 2024 7:49:53 GMT
I learnt yesterday that its possible to apply to officially change your date of birth. I assume its to correct errors or fill in blanks if you’re from somewhere with bad record keeping. One of the students I was working with has applied to have their DOB moved to make themselves 9 years ‘younger’. I don’t know what their motivation is but considering they’re in their early 30s according to their original DOB I’m assuming it can’t be to correct an error. Like it’d have been pretty obvious to everyone if we’d had a tween doing an undergrad degree after A-levels at primary school. Does this student have a lot of mates?
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Post by otto on Mar 21, 2024 7:59:15 GMT
I kinda want to alter one of my kids birthdays by a month or so, so they can get into the next school year. Government was talking about allowing parents to pick a school year when the kids are born in August, but I don't think they ever actually implemented it. Maybe they won't notice... Ugh, my youngest was born right at the end of July and we really agonised over whether to hold him back a year. We didn't in the end but it's fair to say he's been finding it tough.
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Post by simple on Mar 21, 2024 7:59:56 GMT
A quick Google and the home office says no, only when there’s credible evidence that their records are incorrect Yeah, she can’t possibly stand a chance. This isn’t a correction of someone accidentally entering it MM/DD/YYYY its to alter it by years and the month to switch from September to July with a new day as well. I have no idea what they’re thinking. It feels very fraudulent.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 21, 2024 8:08:05 GMT
The only time I’ve seen someone do it was some idiot on the news trying to make a ‘trans’ point and saying they were a transteenager or something stupid
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Post by simple on Mar 21, 2024 8:12:41 GMT
Well obviously if you’re identifying as an attack helicopter you need to change it to your date of manufacture, that’s just common sense
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Post by elstoof on Mar 21, 2024 8:17:35 GMT
My birth certificate has a different spelling of my middle name to what’s written on my passport and all other documents. I’m keeping that one up my sleeve form when the feds finally cotton on to the things I’ve done
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 21, 2024 8:22:23 GMT
My driving license had the wrong birth date on it for like 10 years. Some data entry person had fat fingered ‘01’ as ‘10’ and made me a few days younger. It was only spotted when an eagle eyed person at the post office spotted it was different to my passport when I was changing money.
Apparently, in extremis, it would have invalidated my insurance so it’s lucky I’m such an amazing driver or I could have been quite fucked.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Mar 21, 2024 10:19:33 GMT
Thank you very much, that would be great! Antrim is good for it. We don't have many dinosaur fossils because apparently a filthy great glacier scraped away a couple of hundred years of records on its travels. Plenty of the older stuff though, including really rare trackways of the earliest animals to try out walking on land (Valentia Island) nearly 400 million years ago. Nice, thanks for the info! Valentia is near enough to me, must do some further investigation
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Post by otto on Mar 22, 2024 13:38:11 GMT
Honestly I swear I would have owned it if the results had been disappointing but they really weren’t. Brown on the outside, pink on the inside, just spot on. In the interests of balance, I just did a ribeye also in the air fryer to see if the first one was a one-off. This second one was… not great.
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Post by cubby on Mar 22, 2024 13:48:42 GMT
Seems bone cuts not good fry air
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Post by dmukgr on Mar 22, 2024 14:41:29 GMT
One of the students I was working with has applied to have their DOB moved to make themselves 9 years ‘younger’. I don’t know what their motivation is but considering they’re in their early 30s according to their original DOB I’m assuming it can’t be to correct an error. Like it’d have been pretty obvious to everyone if we’d had a tween doing an undergrad degree after A-levels at primary school. There is something very disingenuous about that. I couldn’t trust somebody who wanted to do something like that. Personally I get it - people often confuse me for an adult, purely on account of my age.
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Post by loto on Mar 22, 2024 17:22:50 GMT
Not sure where to put this, but if anyone’s interested in Podcasts, there’s a really excellent one on the workings of television shows and sort of celeb stuff. It’s a two handed with Marina Hyde (journalist) and Richard Osman and it’s called The Rest is Entertainment
Really, really good
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Post by drakesmoke on Mar 24, 2024 9:13:30 GMT
Facebook - my sis just sent me a message (not via FB) about another embarrassing faux pas by my dad on it (trolling her employer). I can see why she’s annoyed by it but it honestly isn’t that unusual there - it’s become a place for primarily an older generation than it was ever intended for IMO who all seem to behave in this slightly odd way.
It got me thinking about it a bit. I remember in the early years when I’d have been in my late teens to early twenties and it had just supplanted MySpace, and it really was this huge thing in people’s lives.
A couple of years in I think it took off with people’s parents, aunties, grandparents etc who liked to follow family and spy on old friends they had no intention of seeing IRL again.
Then at some point the original generation of users have either stopped using it or only do so out of habit, and it’s now full of older generations spouting mostly inappropriate or downright not on right wing viewpoints (that would get me talked to in any job I’ve personally ever had). Then there’s the rise in scam profiles that target this less savvy user base.
The kids are not interested in it at all and think it’s for boomers - I think they are largely right, although they label anybody over 30 with that label and don’t actually know the demarcation.
I’d be interested in seeing when these changes started. I can’t help but think a lot of it started with Brexit/MAGA and I think a lot of the typical FB user hot take behaviours are emboldened/enabled/learned from the activities of bad faith Russian infiltration which I genuinely think was a big part in the toxic politicisation of the platform.
I only use it to see music news now and it’s become increasingly useless at that. Should bin it really but then I have issues because I’m in a band that needs to use it.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Mar 24, 2024 10:48:14 GMT
I still get email alerts when 'friends' post on Facebook, though i very rarely click on any of them to see what it is. In this case the 'friends' are people I haven't seen for 20 years, or more often their wives, posting pics of their kids or dogs. That seems to be exclusively what it's used for.
Mind you, I haven't posted anything on there or browsed it since about 2007
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Post by elstoof on Mar 24, 2024 11:00:18 GMT
Marketplace is massive though
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Post by drakesmoke on Mar 24, 2024 11:21:06 GMT
Marketplace is massive though Don’t get me started! Had some real ‘moments’ with Marketplace sales. Especially with guitars - the buyers are always slightly strange lonely people that want to talk to you for hours. Sold a Switch and the guy was obviously a complete scally. Kept messaging me over and over to get me to confirm I would hold the sale, wouldn’t try anything funny and wouldn’t let him be gazumped. A really intense and slightly threatening person that now knew my address. When a woman turned up (he said his brother was coming) I rang to confirm he was happy for me to hand it over (as he’d displayed such paranoia and knew my address) and it was OK’d - I then got DM’d by the brother ten mins later, saying I was racist for this check (she was slightly tanned whoever this relative was - may have been of mixed ethnicity, not obviously). Blocked and determined I’d never sell on Marketplace again.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Mar 24, 2024 12:37:20 GMT
Marketplace is massive though Don’t get me started! Had some real ‘moments’ with Marketplace sales. Especially with guitars - the buyers are always slightly strange lonely people that want to talk to you for hours. Sold a Switch and the guy was obviously a complete scally. Kept messaging me over and over to get me to confirm I would hold the sale, wouldn’t try anything funny and wouldn’t let him be gazumped. A really intense and slightly threatening person that now knew my address. When a woman turned up (he said his brother was coming) I rang to confirm he was happy for me to hand it over (as he’d displayed such paranoia and knew my address) and it was OK’d - I then got DM’d by the brother ten mins later, saying I was racist for this check (she was slightly tanned whoever this relative was - may have been of mixed ethnicity, not obviously). Blocked and determined I’d never sell on Marketplace again. And that's why I always meet people in a public place!
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Post by cubby on Mar 24, 2024 13:09:36 GMT
For big items we've sold we've taken it out onto the street, just so they don't know for sure where we live.
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Post by RumMonkey on Mar 24, 2024 13:18:43 GMT
Only really have it for the local village group as it's a good place for what's happening. But usually just people warning about "dodgy looking Asian man driving around in a white van. BE VIGILANT". And it's the Amazon Prime delivery man.
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Post by sport✅ on Mar 24, 2024 13:24:21 GMT
cubby just casually fly tipping right outside his own place. Major flex.
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Post by rhaegyr on Mar 27, 2024 14:51:25 GMT
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Mar 27, 2024 15:18:10 GMT
I'm having M&S Decaf tea. It's quite nice.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 27, 2024 16:20:41 GMT
And Geefe. He wasn't that bad at all in the slightest.
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