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- Comment on GMB union says urgent action needed to tackle safety concerns at Sellafield 11 months ago:
any chance the grown ups are listening? i find this horrifying
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 11 months ago:
i can expand a little but you dont know who’s reading this now or in the future, so cant give many more details. The idea was, as the ‘mark’ leaves the building with the couple who are in on the gag the house collapses behind him. Unfortunately the company used explosives and fire rigs to make the thing fall to bits so it looked like it just blew up and just missed him. There’s more to it as well but the upshot is, its a terrible thing and ruined a guys life for some stupid tv show.
- Comment on can my image be recorded in British airports by tv camera crews even if I don't consent? 11 months ago:
the rule is, the production company has to have your express permission if you directly talk to the camera or are featured in the footage. If you are in public and part of the crowd you cant ask for removal unless theres a good reason like court cases or something. You have to sign a form if you are more than just a person passing.
heathrow in particular is interesting because nearly all large airports are public owned and heathrow is private. This is important because the production company has permission to film from the owners, and so as a customer you are on their premises and subject to their terms of entry, one of which is being filmed as a member of the public. If the production company does interview you or features you (not just a passing person) and do not have permission there have been many cases where the program has been held from broadcast until the matter is resolved. If you think you need to ask them the company and names of production staff are on the credits of the show.
I know of one case with a prank tv show where the company pranked an estate agent by blowing up the house, and he got PTSD. The episode was never broadcast because he refused to sign the release, and sued the company for a serious amount of money. But the basic release form meant the company couldnt pass through the broadcast regulations.
In public there are a few restrictions but basically its public land like a street and not expected to be empty of people. You cant film wembley arch because its licenced to the FA rather than the local council.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 11 months ago:
alot of UK product sugar content has been lowered and replaced with flavour enhancers since the sugar tax came in a few years ago. Coke Zero is another one, its got sugar in but below the amount required to register it on the label and they boost the taste with enhancers.
The other thing is ingredients change flavour depending on the year. Tea for example is always changing slightly back and forward depending on how much rain and sun during growing, but its blended so nobody really notices except the labs importing the tea leaves.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 11 months ago:
right so it dosnt end when they apologise and change behaviour. I agree! I think you can have a rule of thumb which says 2 years for hosing down a homeless person. Its more for the transgessor than the person getting the hosing, so there is a basic decent contract which says they wont be seeing a chunk of people for two whole years.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 11 months ago:
blimey thats an answer!
So, if mcdonalds apologised, that means its over? Im not sure thats right, that means theres no consequences.
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- Comment on Ex-minister David Davis intervenes in street attack near Parliament 11 months ago:
fair play to him. attacks on homeless people is a dirty hidden secret of this country - visit Crisis and see if you can donate a few quid
- Comment on Sainsbury’s boss defends decision to sell customers’ Nectar card data 11 months ago:
its good that they mention facebook at the end, the largest data selling company on earth. Whatsapp, Insta and FB already have you nailed down. I wonder what the story really is here, a hit job on Nectar by the guardian dosnt really ring anyones bells
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- Comment on Esther McVey mocked for trying to explain what ‘Minister for Common Sense’ is on Question Time 11 months ago:
id imagine shes there to offer views on things, and possibly part of a numbers game of political power for specific issues. She could be there as a fluffer or as a person to whip little idiots into line. Thats what that job is.
- Comment on Esther McVey mocked for trying to explain what ‘Minister for Common Sense’ is on Question Time 11 months ago:
i think its a waste of time, its playing the same tabloid game it was invented for. What shall we call this hire? Minister for Common Sense. Is that a real title/do we need to spend any time making it a real title? no, its common sense that her actual title is something much more boring and usual
- Comment on Esther McVey mocked for trying to explain what ‘Minister for Common Sense’ is on Question Time 11 months ago:
i have to defend her, although she is a massive bell. Minister Without Portfolio is a perfectly reasonable position in the cabinet, its just that calling it Minister for Common Sense is for the tabloid morons Sunak and Co are trying to win back. Shes been brought in to provide some extra eyes on different things, which is fine. The theory and the practice are often different and being rinsed by antiques roadshow hosts on live tv is cruel and inhumane treatment which we should be proud of opposing.
- Comment on James Dyson loses libel claim against Daily Mirror publisher 11 months ago:
youll take my french made blue passport from my cold dead hands
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- Comment on ‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England 11 months ago:
but there is no uncontaminated blood, its in everyone. Im just saying dont kid yourself
- Comment on London Mayoral Candidate Susan Hall gets wallet returned after she left it on a tube seat 11 months ago:
there used to be a big office at baker street with all the lost property. they had all sorts of stuff in there, medical students in euston used to steal body parts and leave them as pranks. Theres probably a few films on it. The upside to this story is ive been reminded of the existence of lost property rooms. Perhaps the Tory central office has been looking for a failed experiment called susan hall in the wrong places and shes been running about on the tube all along. By the time they arrive shes run away because of all the black people in her head trying to nick her oyster card
- Comment on ‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England 11 months ago:
something wrong with the logic. Donating blood might remove it from you but its going in somone else?
im also not convinced donating blood removes anything if its in your pancreas.
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- Comment on ‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England 11 months ago:
invented by Teflon as a water proofing coating for ww2 tanks, PFAS was repackaged and sold as kitchen utensil coating since the 1950s and featured in the 2019 film Dark Water. Teflon knew about its carcinogenic nature as its own employees died or had deformed children. The chemical is present in every human on the planet and its passed through reproductive systems.
cheerful stuff
- Comment on Tommy Robinson sprayed by police during arrest at march against antisemitism 11 months ago:
bad smells need fabreeze
- Comment on Brexit backer Dyson says hypocrisy claim over HQ move to Singapore 'incredibly harmful' 11 months ago:
hello actions? this is consequences. we need a word
- Comment on Truss-supporting economists call for minimum wage to be frozen, then cut 11 months ago:
not just leave the country- leave the towns in the UK that need to catch up to retain their talent. The brain drain is real, young people leave their small towns because theres no progress or future, most go where the better paid work is. If they want to level up, cutting minimum wage is the opposite of what needs to happen
- Comment on Today is the 75th Birthday of His Majesty The King. 1 year ago:
its ok, hes head of the Church. God approved
- Comment on Today is the 75th Birthday of His Majesty The King. 1 year ago:
i seem to remember the Queen had 4 birthdays a year or something. Is this the official one or one of the made up ones?
- Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on BBC licence fee is ‘regressive tax’, broadcaster’s former chair says 1 year ago:
oh its one of those rare optional taxes which you dont have to pay. Not a tax, its a choice.
probably should be a subscription model. that way you can choose to not pay it just as you can already. Itll just take away a perfectly good world class production company which makes a flipping fortune for UK Plc, into the hands of private companies. You think its expensive but it brings a stupid amount in through sales and worldwide syndication. It makes far more than it costs, its a superb company which should be protected.
- Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
