Microsoft is just bad at branding (amongst other things)

I think rebranding Office365 to Microsoft 365 as an act of utter stupidity- you’ve got the trademark for the word “Office”, everybody in business knows that means the Microsoft productivity suite, then they bung it into something much more ...

I put TG Jones on the endangered list, just down to the fact that it's the not particularly profitable part of what was WH Smith and the fact the rebrand as a result of the divestment was just so naff.

WH Smith had some provenance in the name, this was just made up by a bunch of people in a ...

It is funny how local councils can find the money to paint over a few red crosses on the mini roundabouts, but not fix all the potholes around them


I've always thought this to be quite a weak retort when it comes to this issue - the cost of repainting white lines etc must be less than that of ...

It is funny how local councils can find the money to paint over a few red crosses on the mini roundabouts, but not fix all the potholes around them

This probably belongs in the other thread, but the Claire's shop in Chesterfield is seriously stuck in the late 90's.

But seriously though, it just seems like they sell overpriced tat to me. I understand they are targeting a certain demographic but I am not exactly sure whom. I highly doubt kids ...

At work we’ll need to pay for extended support, probably just for a year on a few machines as they will be complicated to migrate, no pricing yet last time I checked though.

At home, I’ve had Win11 pretty much since it came out, find it annoying, but largely ok. I’ve moved over to MacOS now for ...

What has helped the Gender Critical movement substantially is that they have a major ally in author J.K. Rowling who was believed to have bankrolled For Women Scotland's appeal against the Scottish Government.


The other thing which has helped, that can't be understated is what constitutes ...

Philip wrote: Thu 10 Apr, 2025 22.45 Looks like the police are waking up to this problem

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

The shop near me which I think has been raided twice now is still open, so....

Not only in reality, but in law, we now know that transgender women are not women.


No, just in law. The rest is your belief, so regardless of how politely you put it, it’s still an unkind and disrespectful thing to say.


It is not intended to be unkind, or disrespectful, and I've said ...

It’s been interesting reading back through this thread.

So, today of course, the Supreme Court provided some much needed clarity over some of the very questions and challenges I proposed.

Not only in reality, but in law, we now know that transgender women are not women.

The practical problems of ...

Yeah, my view on it has shifted over the years:

Was shooting Fred Barras justified? I wasn’t there, but probably not.

Was Fred Barras responsible for his own death? He was 16. My eldest child is 16, it seems likely that he would have lacked the maturity and insight to really rationalise what he ...