The problem is, the Daily Mail has proven many times over that you don't need a story to be true for it to work. It just needs to be true enough that they can get away with it, and then they can stir up as much outrage as they like...

It all makes sense
I just didn't realise any of this until now 🙂

Ohhh - so ISBNs became 13 digits purely so they would work with EAN-13 barcodes?
I had always assumed it was just to allow significant room for future expansion, and that we've just not needed it yet...

979 is already being used quite a lot by some publishers. I've not seen any other prefixes actively used - though I have seen bad catalogue records that have them by mistake. (e.g. 678 instead of 978)

They were looking to see if he had a heart, because his actions would suggest otherwise...

Plus, if it wasn't set at Christmas you couldn't have the iconic "ho ho ho" scene...

At a push you could use Thanksgiving or Hanukkah, but how often do you have entire company parties, including family members, for those occasions? Certainly not as often as for Christmas.

And it needs to be winter because it needs to be cold and dark. Certain bits just wouldn't work in summer...

Do you mean an Owen like Owen Wilson? Or like Clive Owen?

It's not just being white.

From what I've seen, he - and others - think that if you're not a cis, straight, white Christian male then you're inferior.

And they're semi-ok with cis, straight, white, Christian females - as long as they know their place - because they're necessary for procreation.

Any reason not to post them in DMs on here? Or even in public skeets?

These are the people who don't understand why AI "Art" isn't really art.
Because they just fundamentally don't understand creativity.

I just despair ☹️

Are you really justified though? 😛
/Me runs

(And thank you so much for the annoying earworm 😛)

True, but some of that will be offset by the (claimed) £150/yr saving on energy bills. Though I'll believe that one when I see it...

And a bunch of things might actually help people - things like the two-child cap, the free training for apprenticeships, and funding for school libraries and playgrounds. (Imagine that, a government that's actually trying to help people out!)

So, after all that, I dont actually hate it for the most part.

The longer freeze on income tax brackets, and the cap on pension salary sacrifice, sucks, and will hurt a lot of people :(

But the mansion tax actually seems like a good thing to me - its a start towards actually taxing the super-rich.

To be a complex bitch you need a real and an imaginary component.

By that logic though, there'd be no taxes on anything you can buy.
Instead they just tax us plebs so they can give tax breaks to the super rich...

Bold of you to assume that they pay for those lattes themselves...