Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
Don't the legislators in Florida have anything better to do - worthless fcüking tossers!!!
I flatly refuse to use any recipe that measures oven temperature in °F or that uses 'cups' as a measuring device (I live in a country where overs are resolutely marked ONLY in Celsius.
I'm a mere 173cm tall and I weigh 81 Kg (on a good day); I have absolutely no idea what that is in stones or lbs and I can no longer relate to vehicle consumption in MPG (whose gallon anyway; the Brit one is bigger than the inferior, feeble US one), I have to calculate what fuel consumption is in a unit that whole world understands: litres per 100 Km
Paul Brownjohn
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One of the issues here that there are two schools in the village; both are heavy internet users which degrades the ADSL service during the day. They don't use the service we have had installed today.
Where are you based?
This is 1Gbps/100Mbps service. We are are in a small village in rural Luxembourg (350 inhabitants) so it's surprisingly fast for that sort of location. The engineer who installed it said the company were already testing a 2.5Gbps service prior to rolling it out!
4G out here in the stix delivers a creditable 40Mbps/16Mbps. So far, 5G has only made it into the large tows.
@TimWardCam
There's always one but it's actually as rare or rarer than rocking horse shit!
Well now, we had the choice between the existing service at a nominal 100 Mbps but which actually delivers about 55 Mbps on a good day, downhill with a following wind, or a competitor's service at a nominal 1 Gbps which it turns out, delivers around 700 Mbps. We probably don't need that monster download speed but as it's half the price of the existing "100 Mbps" service, we'll have it anyway!
Just had a new internet service installed at the moment it's delivering about 730 Mbps downstream and 100 Mbps upstream. How does that compare with what other people are getting. Surprisingly, it's not fibre direct to my desk like my ultra-fast service in Thailand - this is coax.
I have asked a similar question on another site that shall be nameless but for the sake of example, we'll call it Twatter!
I noticed that on that site, a good many feathers seemed to be ruffled by me even suggesting that the change of name is a little demeaning for the woman; after all, men never adopt their wife's surname on marriage and stop using their own, do they?
Those with the most ruffled feathers seemed to be women who had just accepted that that's the way it is and didn't like being reminded that it is not an obligation, but most of all men, who believed it was right and proper to force their surname on to their womenfolk! The "we've always done it so don't you dare go questioning what is an appalling skeleton in our misogynist cupboard" brigade!
Too much of a cop out!
India has traditionally sourced the overwhelming bulk of its arms from Russia. This may be one reason why they are "sucking up" to Russia. It will be a great inconvenience to India if they are unable to source spare parts for their weapons systems because they have fallen out with Putin's regime. However, the question still remains whether they will continue to source weapons from Russia as Russian weapons systems have proven to be woefully inadequate in combat in Ukraine.
The absolute worst thing from the Russian point of view about Putin's ridiculous war is that the reputation of Russia as a world class supplier of arms as good as those from the west (but significantly cheaper) has been irreparably damaged.
Just a reminder - you haven't actually provided any evidence whatsoever whereas I have. Anecdotes are not evidence of any sort whatsoever.
Do I believe your story about your cousin - no, in the absence of proof, I don't - there you go I have said it!
@TimWardCam
I believe hitching the two surnames together is growing in popularity; particularly amongst showbiz types (e.g. Victoria Coren Mitchell), but so far as I can make out, the tradition persists in the UK without very many people questioning it!
I was born in 1950 and I was under the impression that my generation generally disparaged marriage as an institution, as I do and that therefore the problem didn't arise. However, I see little evidence of marriage dying out.
Another aspect of the same general area of cultural tradition is the use of Miss and Mrs for single and married women respectively. Why do we or did we change the term of address from Miss to Mrs upon marriage when no such change is made to the term of address for a man? The use of Ms is a welcome update of that tradition but it is still far from universal.
@jamesmb
I'm right you're wrong and/or anecdotal evidence is not proof of any kind other than of your "I cannot be proven wrong" massive ego.
I have provided you with a direct quote from the NHS.uk site whereas your saga of your cousin provides no proof, no detail and no evidence whatever to back it up! Maybe he underwent treatment that was not within the normal scope of treatment in A+E. However, as everyone in A+E is fully aware that all treatment delivered there is completely free, I doubt very much if anyone would even have thought of invoicing as even a possibility!
Yes, I believe it is pretty general. Certainly every woman I know changed their name on marriage and, as I asked them, I can say with some certainty that the idea of keeping their own names never even occurred to them; so accepted is the concept of name change upon marriage!
I was very surprised as my female friends are generally quite feisty characters not people to bow to tradition or to the will of their husbands!
In France it seems to be embedded in the culture, in the law and in the administrative software. Friends of mine from Belgium went down to southern France to live and had some difficulties with the local administration because the wife insisted that she wished to retain her maiden name which is, of course, what all her Belgian identity documents showed. Eventually, with typical French ingenuity, the local 'mairie' put them down as living in 'concubinage' rather than as a married couple! Only that way would their software accept them having different surnames. Problem solved!
If anecdotal evidence from your cousin trumps written proof from the NHS website itself, I am so very, very glad that I'm not one of your students!
You are clearly one those poor unfortunates whose ego is so enormous that they cannot bear to be proven wrong and as such, I pity you and those close to you!
Jeeez you are hard work!
An EHIC is needed only for treatment that is chargeable; i.e. that is not already free! All treatment in A+E is completely free to all comers whether they have an EHIC or not - there is no charge made for it! Moreover, I believe it has always been like that from the inception of the NHS.
In the UK and in many other countries, a woman who marries generally takes her husband's surname, losing in the process, the identity she has had since birth.
I find this extremely odd; why in an age of emancipation do we continue with this practice. I guess it had some validity in the back in the days when a wife was just part of her husband's goods and chattels and had no legal rights of her own, but today?
Moving to Belgium some years back brought this home to me as, there, woman do not, as a rule, change their name upon marriage nor do they do so in many other European countries.
Do any of my Prehistoric Elephant friends have a strong view on this?
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
