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Like the bit at the end of Hot Fuzz when the whole office puts on riot gear.

For those unaware, despite the awesome sounding acronym, a COBRA is a slightly dull meeting in the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.

They generally involve people at the top of the decision tree for the involved parties. The meetings for the foot-and-mouth outbreak for example brought in the highest levels of MAFF.

My first integration is going to be putting my standard "going out" dashboard by the front door.
Being able to glance and see UV index, temperature, rain probability is dead useful.

Or just the one king.

That's where it gets into the super-mega-tricky politics.
You've got to advocate for helping to reform someone doing something harmful (diddling kids).
While also defending not doing a similar thing to other people who are not causing harm (being gay).
While a third group is trying to conflate the two, because they want them both to suffer.
And a fourth group (unrepentant diddlers) try to conflate in the opposite direction to normalise their diddling.

Absolute fucking minefield, so the upshot is people who could be helped, don't get helped.

It's very politically difficult to express sympathy in cases like this.
For every person suggesting how the systems could have helped him avoid this situation, or treat the issues, there are 100 facebook groups ready to hang the pediatricians.
Which means that people with similar issues who genuinely could be helped don't step forward, because they know it'll be tar and feathers. So they spiral until they're far far worse, and eventually get caught.

When I read that comment the first time, I misunderstood, and thought they were saying espresso was over-extracted after 10s, dead after 90.

I know starbucks isn't amazing, but 90s extractions would be a whole other ballgame!

When your coffee tasting notes are "burned, charcoal, ash", and you make up for it by offering £7 worth of sugar, it's not surprising when people only shop there for so long.

Ah, it was a little joke about how if they were planning to knock down a cherished location, the people responsible for The Crooked House would be ideal candidates.

I mean, the people who destroyed The Crooked House are now out and about again...

I can hear Connor in this image saying "I hate that bro"

Exactly that.
There is a reason we don't have any direct rewards to donating, and there is a reason we aren't aiming to grow as big as possible come what may.

I was in support of this, but with the way finances are looking for the country, I understand why this has gone down the priority list.

While dualing that section would only move traffic to the next choke point (chicklade/blackdown hills I'm guessing, where it will never get dualed), it's worth remembering the A303 is the spine road for the whole central section of Dorset/Somerset. And it's 50 miles in each direction to the north M5, or the A35.
Funneling the traffic via existing large routes is going to be a massive detour. And it's mostly local traffic.

I also personally feel that not having a trunk road thundering past a world heritage site would be preferable, even if it does take the form of a £2 billion tunnel.

It's nice when the refuing-bullshit boot is on the other foot.

Bear in mind that the US' main parties do not define the extent of Left and Right.

imho, not dissimilar to model planes>drones.

To operate a model plane, there was a not-small amount of effort you needed to work through (building, specialist components, local club, access to a proper field, etc.).
This meant that by the time you were flying, you probably had a pretty good understanding of being responsible with the new skill.

In the era of self-stabilising GPS guided UAVs delivered next-day ready-to-fly, the barrier to entry flew down.
And it took a little while for the legislation to catch up from "the clubs are usually sensible" to "don't fly a 2KG drone over a crowd of people at head height with no experience or training"

I like Towcester.
Excellent for breakfast crumpets.

I won't defend McDonald's, but you'll struggle to get fish for under £7-8 now, and the chips are £2-3.

In the south, at least.

UK Taco Bell is somehow worse.

They seem to be trying to trade on the novelty/name, because there is no chance I'm paying £8 for a taco the size of a hamburger.