It's a serious improvement, because it prevents drip pricing, which exploits human psychology to charge people more than they would have paid had they been allowed to judge the price from the beginning.

It still leads to price uncertainty which is inefficient for renters.

In spite of that, it will bring rents down, because advertising a massive rent will put a lot of people off - especially those who are primarily looking on rightmove and filtering. So landlords who do this will have a smaller pool of potential tenants, and so won't be able to charge quite as much.

At the end of the day, the rental property market is still a market. The point of it is that landlords try to get the highest price and renters try to pay the lowest price for something they accept. We need to realise while criticising the rental market or measures aimed at making it work better that this legislation was never intended to dismantle it and replace it with Soviet-style social housing for everyone, and how big of a change it would be to prevent landlords from charging what they think they can get away with one way or another.

Even if you think that the country would be improved by a change on that scale, I think it's good to acknowledge the very significant improvement the Labour government made to renters with this sorely-needed change to the rules. It puts on the path to being a country more like our peers where renters aren't second-class citizens and, even though renting may be expensive, at least it provides a more secure home.

1. Make eye contact. No eye contact is creepy. It's best to err on the side of more, rather than less, eye contact, because you probably don't make enough.
2. Pick up the pace. If you're walking slowly, it's going to look like you're trying to prolong the encounter, so go at least at a trot.
3. Hands are threatening, so keep one or both behind your back to prevent spooking her.
4. Smile! You look prettier that way. Two birds with one stone here: if you keep a smile on your face, you'll look less threatening, and you can tell her to smile to inform her that you want her to be happy.
5. Pay her a compliment to put her at ease. Something non-sexual like, "you have beautiful teeth."
6. It will be clear you're not a threat if she knows you've got something else. You could communicate that you're going home to eat by licking your lips. Make some smacking noises too, if it's dark.
7. Clothes conceal threats, so take yours off.

HTH

Calling the police is normal, as it helps her to feel safer. Don't worry, this is a synergistic response to the situation.

HTH

Wut.

Calling F1 as a whole "greenwashing" (as the person above did) is just nuts. Thanks for explaining what bits are greenwashing, but I don't think you're telling me anything that shows how that comment really made sense.

So... those examples were not used in ground vehicles before F1? I genuinely don't know but it doesn't sound like you're really disagreeing.

Ah yeah, people always prefer the soulful stuff, like reality TV and fast food.

How much time do you think someone eating a McDonald's burger spends appreciating the real human effort that goes into it? Do you think they never choose it over "the good shit" as you describe it?

Conveniently we can measure just how much people prefer things by observing what they give up their time and earnings to have and to consume. Time after time, people go for slop - the old fashioned kind, that is. And that's fine. It's only snobs who think everything you consume has to be gourmet, artisinal, hand-crafted bollocks. We have a number of fantastic pizzerias here, but that doesn't stop me from every so often enjoying some monstrosity from domino's or the freezer.

I bet you're not actually as snobby as your stance implies.

OK... I think this is a bit of a non-sequitur for this thread.

Anal beads with only three beads doesn't sound very satisfying

Kinda annoying but also, just because it's for sale doesn't mean it has to be that season..

Wow I didn't know the ancient Egyptians had gramophones

Where's the joy in reading a comic that someone else has drawn? Where's the thrill of learning something new? The joy of getting new puzzle pieces etc etc.

(Hopefully) obviously, not every bit of human life is about learning something new, some of it is about just enjoying nice things, whether that's a picture or a cake or whatever. Some of that enjoyment might come from the knowledge that a human being was exercising their skills in creating it, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think that's a necessary component for a lot of people.

Some do, some don't

Halloween is one day, not a season, and I will die on this hill, and then I'll be a spooky skeleton but I won't come out except on Halloween

😮

I'd say a hobby doesn't need to develop any skill, it just needs to have some kind of achievement and progress. Video games are absolutely hobbies, but it's the difference between one with a story that you progress through, and candy crush. (Which doesn't exclude that some people play candy crush to "make progress" on their high score, but most don't)

Greenwashing?? How?

Normal way to show that would be, I think, one or both ends going off the side of the icon to imply it continues :)

Oh. That's a disappointing lack of shenanigans.

Like, to sell it, or to decorate the store?

What if she doesn't want other people going out of their way to protect their perceived feelings, and crosses the road at the same time? What then, huh???