grahamel
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Comment · 6 years ago
had similar encounters with people asking how much longer it will take to get to Ashford as their Eurostar train leaves soon while on a train that stops at Ashford (Middlesex) instead of Ashford International, in Kent
Comment · 6 years ago
that is a huge generalisation!
London has the largest fish, meat, and veg markets in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_markets_in_London#Whol...) sourcing fresh every day
you don't need to right be next to a field to have fresh produce every day and yes, there are plenty of farms near London
Comment · 6 years ago
Full title "What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorcycle? Core-js just found out"
Comment · 7 years ago
hn comments on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136
Comment · 7 years ago
Exactly that - my partner's company constantly get negative GlassDoor reviews because there is a different company with a similar name in India
Comment · 7 years ago
ah I see, yeah that annoys me too
it just seems to be the way the bbc do things, the "Rare ingredient..." title is on the main page http://www.bbc.com/travel/columns/food-hospitality, in fact that whole page is massively click-baity compared to the actual article titles
Comment · 7 years ago
it's a shame we don't hear the kids side in the article
people I know who have done this have eventually changed and allowed/bought a phone as the in school peer pressure was huge and the kids ended up feeling excluded from their social groups as not fitting in (nothing wrong with kids finding their own path btw)
Comment · 7 years ago
on the side note it looks like that is the deputy editor of the bbc.com travel section https://twitter.com/collectingmiles nothing wrong with promoting your teams work I guess, even if you do so silently
looking down the list of submissions interesting to see which articles pick up comments and which don't