Electronics engineer, muso, cruciverbalist, pedant, leftie, catman, ale drinking cricket badger and Linux-using northern oik. Sweary.
Our band is here:
https://riggwelter.bandcamp.com/album/on-our-tod
Genuine question, is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? Was having a discussion with family about this at the weekend as a packet of oatcakes mentioned it used sustainable palm oil. I know how often people use claims like this that are paper thin in its honestly, but maybe I'm being unfair in this instance.
@peterbroks I was on a train into Manchester yesterday and a load of British Asian kids came on and started talking excitedly about how much they wanted to visit America.
I think many people have no idea what's going on out there and the stadia will be packed out.
As for prices, that doesn't seem to put people off, football is like a drug to some people.
Anyway, this is just a polite reply, am not really trying to change your mind or say you're plain wrong, just wanted to give a thought and a counter-argument on a post that I couldn't get out of my head.
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In terms of the Beatles, they are a staggeringly important band in this history of rock music. Before they came along, writers wrote songs and record companies told the artists which song they were going to perform.
They influenced and shaped untold bands over the years, were an unbelievable phenomenon all over the world and especially in America and are still listened-to and bought in huge numbers.
I like them a lot, but I think the White Album is a mess!
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I keep thinking about this post and whether or not it's even possible for the Beatles to be overrated.
As much as I would defend anyone's right to not like an artist, I think sometimes you have to acknowledge their brilliance. (There are artists I have no time for but realise their place in rock music is well deserved.)
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Where I live, Royal Mail are excellent. They are conscientious and almost never fail to turn up when they say they will. I always try and make sure they are the carrier used when I buy stuff on line. Amazon are high on my boycott list, so irrelevant to me and the rest are utterly dire. I used to think no-one could be as bad Yodel but DPD are very close.
UPS are, generally, one of the better ones, but can still be poor occasionally.
To an extent we get a say. I am so fed up with DPD now that I refuse to buy from people who use them as the sole courier option, and I let the vendor know.
The near monopoly one is interesting. For letters, yes, but for parcels I would say few people use them, even as an option, these days.
I would argue that the private companies are underfunded in their own way. They don't charge enough and massively underpay their [often] zero-hour contract drivers.
I wish they could fine the likes of DPD, Evri, Yodal etc, they'd go out of business if they were held up to the standard of Royal Mail which stand head and shoulders above all other delivery companies round here.