Yes. And 'to death' elevates it to capital punishment.

You mean capital punishment. Corporal punishment could be a literal slap on the wrist.

Sausage, fried egg, and Reggae Reggae Sauce sarnie. The name of it is also the recipe.

You might think the decision is dumb. But for them the decision to reduce staff headcount probably improved the company's bottom line at a crucial moment when their performance-related bonus was being calculated. And it also opens the door to sideways promotion.

e.g. Twatty McBallbag Ltd:
profit with loss prevention staff = 10 million
profit the first month after all loss prevention staff were fired = 12 million
profit the sixth month after all loss prevention staff were fired = 6 million

After the first month, they claim responsibility for the increased profit of 2 million (as a result of reducing staff costs) and get their performance related bonus. They also get to write "While CEO at Twatty McBallbag Ltd, I increased profit by 20%", on their CV/resume and move on to a new, bigger company with profits in the 100s of millions.

Confidence is 99% of the solution!

I've worked with some of these guys and it's absolutely all about them, their targets, their bonuses.

One of the Goldman Sachs bosses once came up with the term 'long term greedy', and had his staff apply it as a principle. Basically it means 'do the right thing by your clients and don't screw them over'. Better to have a 20 million dollar a year client for 10 years than to screw them out of 50 million in the first year and lose them. That sounds great, but then he could afford to think that way because he knew he'd still be there, with his stock/share options, in 10 years, profiting from that long term greed.

The younger guys are absolutely, 100% motivated to make as much as possible on day one and not give a shit about the long term view. How else are they going to afford the Porsche, Rolex, summer house in the Hamptons, etc. So they're much more interested in screwing a client over for a fast buck, or shitting on the company's long term well-being for this year's bonus.

Ski jump, obv.

Português, filho da puta, dizes isso?

I ran away from home to live in the woods when I was five. My mum packed me sandwiches. I didn't get very far because I wasn't allowed to cross the road on my own.

Came here looking for this. Insane that someone thought of it, someone agreed with it, and someone approved it.

“Some of you will remember my jokes from last time, please don’t spoil them for the first timers.”

I’m from a different generation, I guess. I just don’t find the bolt-on titties and filler duck-pout look at all attractive.

Edit to add: I don’t find the Bentley Bentayga at all attractive either.

My two main hobbies are amassing wealth and being bad at finance so it probably gets me about 500€.

Musk also told staff that he would ask for the resignation of any executive "who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test."

Pssst. Elon. You're not any of those three things.

HTTP is a stateless medium.

Which means a website doesn’t (can’t) remember what you did before on it. Each time you click a link it’s like the first time the website has ever seen you.

This makes it impossible to ‘sign in’ to a website.

The way they get around this is by dumping a small piece of code on your computer that says ‘hi website, it’s me and I have a proper account and am logged in’. That’s a cookie. And yes, websites need them to operate any kind of user experience.

So instead of a page that says ‘who the fuck are you?’ It can now retrieve the info from the cookie and show you the page that says ‘hi, KuromiGirl04, what’s happening? You’re all logged in and can access your account details or carry on from where you were before’.

Originally cookies could only be created, and then read back, by one website. So, eg, if you logged into your account on foobar.com, only foobar.com could read that cookie back.

But someone came up with the brilliant idea of third party cookies. So now, if you visit foobar.com you also (if you agree to it) get cookies created by facebork, grabble, aggressive-advertiser, the nra, the nsa, the kkk, and whoever else has convinced foobar.com that they get some value out of the deal.

That’s where the hundreds of cookies you need to scroll down and deny come from. Mostly advertisers or analytics, or advertisers, web optimisers, or advertisers…. And these third party cookies can be read anywhere by the company that sets them.

That way, when you visit shoefuckeringfreak.com facebork knows you’ve visited it and suddenly starts showing you sexy, sexy shoes on your facebork feed. And so forth.

She's an idiot. When I have a fever I tie an onion to my belt, which is still the style.

Instead of:
I am a sociopath
Say:
I am excellent CEO material

You’re supposed to wait until the pets are dead.

“For $1000 I will ensure you live as long as you want and die in the manner of your choosing.”

After you’ve helped a couple of terminal cancer patients cheat death for a few years, word will spread.

At fifteen seconds I could comfortably do one a minute for an hour or so a day and rake in $60k.

This is not a full English due to the following issues or errors:

• Fried eggs are ideal, poached acceptable, and some oddballs like scrambled. Boiled egg is not acceptable. There should be two eggs as standard, more if the breakfast is a 'large'.
• It's missing baked beans, which should have been simmered until the sauce thickens into a syrup.
• While cafes love to serve this kind of tomato that's only because it's easy to keep a pot of chopped, tinned tomatoes warm. If you're going tinned, they should be good quality whole plum tomatoes. But well-grilled fresh tomatoes are preferable. No cherries. No vine attached. Definitely no raw tomato.
• It's missing the black pudding which elevates the humble fry-up into the glory that is a proper full English.
• Experienced afficionados of the full English almost all prefer cooked sausages over raw ones.
• The mushrooms look like they came in a tin. Ideally whole field or chestnut mushrooms shoud be used.
• There seems to be a lack of hot buttered toast (with optional marmelade).

There is hearty debate amongst the governing body of the full English about whether or not hash browns are acceptable on a breakfast. Many declare them to be unwanted compared to, for example, bubble and squeak or a tattie scone, or even fried potatoes, or a fried slice for that matter. They go further and label them 'trash browns', 'American nonsense', or just 'shite'. Personally I don't mind them, and consider them to be an optional addition, but not a core requirement of the full English. There are many other optional additions, not to mention regional specialities which render an Ulster fry very different to a full Welsh or a full Scottish. Hogs pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, haggis, Lorne sausage, potato farl, soda bread, laverbread, kidneys, etc.

There is also a hugely spirited disagreement over the serving of baked beans. There are, by-and-large, three schools of thought with regards the beans (not counting those poor,deluded fools who don't like them). Firstly there's the 'put the beans in a pot' faction who are scared of bean juice contaminating other ingredients. Secondly there are those who eschew the ramekin, considering them to be one of the ultimate signs of pretention. They insist that the beans should be on the plate, but segregated from the other ingredients by a barrier of sausages. Lastly, there is the sane and balanced group who believe that the beans should be put on the plate with no barrier, ideally in the middle. This group of illuminated Full Monty enjoyers recognise that the mixing of bean juice, tomato juice, and egg yolk forms the most perfect gravy of the gods. I, myself, am in the latter camp.

I am available for for keynote speeches on the subject should anyone be organising a full English conference.