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Lmfao.

Ube always sees the bigger picture!

Cool. As long as you don't see the point of something, then the person doing it is a twat. I get it now.

to me the risk of someone nicking my arm from me has everything to do with it. Opal probably just don't want the weird PR or blowback if more people start doing it and poison themselves then sue because the cards dont say you shouldn't do this on them. Weirder things have happened... They own the chip, they can do whatever they want essentially, including not having some self designated cyborg using their stuff to publicise his surgical modifications.

It's only a matter of time before people get selfie sticks implanted on their foreheads too and walk around like narcissistic unicorns I suppose. I'm planning on being an interplanetary colonist so NASA will surely equip me with my own chips gratis and maintain them.

Ugh. No.
If you think you can do what you want, when clearly you cant and dont like the consequences then you are a monumental twat.

We are still talking bout meow ludo disco gamma meow meow right?

So just say, "don't fucking do it." There's probably some total geniuses stuffing their opal cards up their shitters, are they going to turn off anyone's card who publically declares that?

My issue is with the fact some guy's first response was, "I don't like the look of that, this'll teach him a lesson".

I feel like the jump from implant a chip to > think you can do what you want is a monumental fucking leap.

We can agree to disagree, I wouldn't implant a chip in my hand, but if this guy wants to do it and the company's only response is for someone who works there to take it personally as an affront and try and teach the guy a lesson, personally I think the guy at Opal is the bigger twat.

As long as you don't see the point of something, then the person doing it is a twat.

Seems like a big jump too.

company's only response is for someone who works there to take it personally as an affront and try and teach the guy a lesson,

You know it was personal?
Or maybe falls under "card will be subject to cancellation/replacement if damaged/modified in any way."
I dont know if thats in the t&c but could be likely.

The article had it right at the start.
Open and shut case.

Instead of reading into the journalistic spin of " individuals vision gets squashed by the man" take it for face value. "Twat tries to make big deal over dumb thing he did and cry victim cos it didnt go as planned"

probably. It's the public declaration bit that is problematic for most companies. Indeed, if someone said to me 'hey I shoved my oyster up my ass last night, want to borrow it?' I'd decline, and Oyster would probably have an issue if someone appeared in the news talking about shoving their card up their ass too, even if it's just a hygiene thing. Sometimes its better to keep schtum about your own private practices.

The guy at Opal probably just did it for a lol as he's bored at work and wanted something to entertain himself. So yes, an asshole, but an entertained asshole.

It's only a matter of time before people get selfie sticks implanted on their foreheads too and walk around like narcissistic unicorns

So will we be better off ?

https://www.theguardian.com/money/ng-interactive/2017/nov/22/what-2017-autumn-budget-means-for-you

McDonnell not answering the "how much will this cost?" answer earlier as its dull "HE DOESN'T KNOW!!" trap questioning, and him pointing it out as trite.

I like that.

Que media "HE DIDN'T KNOW!!" statements from the other parties and headlines.

Sigh.

it's such a basic bitch tactic common amongst lazy arse journos who think catching people out on some numbers makes them Bob sodding Woodward. Radio 4 presenters are some of the worst offenders.

Yep. McDonnell at least said "that's why I have an ipad, advisers". He should have added "ya dipshit" and been done with it.

An entertaining story on the influence of Murdoch

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/ken-clarke-says-david-cameron-did-some-sort-of-deal-to-win

Good god. I think we all had suspicions but that is bonkers.

Mug Shopping Day* all over the news today - colleague has been monitoring Asos over the past few weeks, and prices have been drifting upwards by, oooh, as much as 20%. Can you guess how much they're cutting today?

*they won't tell me when to buy my mugs, etc and so on

https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ is a good site to check if amazon is up to similar shenanigans

I bought a beanie for £8 ten days ago, lost it the other night. Gone to rebuy and it's now £10... not sure why i feel so outraged by this.

Radio Ldn talking about cyclists wearing hi-vis and helmets, didn't know where else to post

Seems to have started with https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/compulsory-helmets-plan-for-all-cyclists-on-british-roads-jesse-norman-cycling-uk-rb7c026l0

Cyclists could be made to wear helmets for the first time in a review
of bike safety.

A government consultation in the new year will consider whether
helmets and high-visibility vests should be mandatory on British
roads, the transport minister Jesse Norman said.

But it is denied elsewhere - https://twitter.com/Jesse_Norman/status/933941460117975040

To be clear: there is no “plan” re: compulsory helmets or hi-vis for
cyclists as suggested in @thetimes. As @BikeBizOnline reported, I
don’t take a position on this. It’s sure to be raised in the
consultation, and we will consider it based on the evidence.

This "issue" comes around at parliamentary level every 7-8 years. This time it is going to be really bad because of all the politicians desperate to draw attention away from the breakdown in parliamentary polity. It is also fired up by the Charlie Alliston legacy of media seeing cyclists as targets for abuse.
As always the complexity of the issues will be lost under indignant ignorance. There are 6487 other comments here https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/128549/

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Seeing as the police have said they don't have the resources to attend to lower level crimes, good luck enforcing it on a large scale. Waste of time really.

Anyone else spot the middle-aged Zimbabwean guy celebrating Mugabe being deposed by dancing around with a laptop bag balanced vertically on his head on BBC breakfast this morning?

What’s happening at oxford circus right now. Gun shots or something?