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We use to have Summer now we have Heatwaves. We use to have Storms and now we have Weather Bombs*.
*That one really gets on my tits. It's only something I've heard in the past year or two also. Anyone know where it originates? I'm guessing the Yanks have something to do with it.
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"The term is often misused in North America,[19]"
Needs modifying to include Britain now.
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At last the bloody sun is out, so I don't really care.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I don't really care
Well, you wouldn't - you're Hungarian! 
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P0mpey3 wrote: I'm guessing the Yanks have something to do with it.
Could be but I've never heard the term Weather Bombs before. Sounds juvenile.
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Weather Bombs
Never heard the term before.
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'Heatwave' is as old as the hills. Were you not around in 1976?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Were you not around in 1976?
No I wasn't Grandad.
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Great Grand Uncle only, I'm afraid. (Mind you I haven't heard from Great Grand Niece in a while so I could be even Greater!)
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It cranked up about 10 years ago by my reckoning. Subtly at first: instead of saying a day would be rainy when there was 60% chance of rain, it went to 50%, now 40%. Then they started reporting the most extreme figures from their models, knowing that models aren't accurate past a few short days. So they'd be able to say it would be 48C with 100cm of snow in 14 days time, and run that sound bite over and over, until closer to the day it's be 20C with a gentle breeze, possibly with butterflies.
Storms have been more frequent, but the sensationalist reporting is well and truly overtaken it.
At least in Australia they now admit we get tornadoes. For years they would call them "mini tornadoes" or mini-hurricanes or microbursts (which some storm damage is actually caused by). Thanks to American style sensationalism and the power of the advertising dollar demanding eyeballs on that TV screen, we have actual tornadoes. Tiny ones, possibly poisonous, but tornadoes nonetheless.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I remember someone complaining about weather bombs and there recent arrival last year.
Turns out they've been around for ages but weather reporters have only recently learnt of it.
Like when footballers started fracturing metatarsals instead of breaking toes, or having hip flexor injuries instead of groin strains.
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80% chance of raining death, followed by 2 days of black fog disease.
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When did weather sensationalize?
About the same time as we started getting "the storm of the century", 3 times during the same winter.
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In our Office cafeteria, Full Pizza costs 4 Euro and half Pizza cost 2.50 Euro. So is it ethically wrong with two guys who want half pizza come together and buy whole pizza and divide it later?
So Cafeteria earns only 4 instead of 5?
cheers,
Super
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No it's ethically perfectly correct because basically you pay less due to higher buy amount (mass is cheaper) 
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Nothing wrong at all. Free market economics, you could make some money with a simple service here...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Eating anything less than a full pizza is very unethical! 
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Unethical would be standing outside the canteen selling 1/2 a Pizza for 2.25 Euro...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Unethical would be standing outside the canteen selling 1/2 a Pizza for 2.25 Euro...
I disagree. It may be illegal (he would be selling food without a licence, sanitary premises, etc.), but not necessarily unethical.
We have two cases:
1. The seller buys whole pizzas from the cafeteria at 4 Euro, cuts them in two, and sells each half for 2.25 Euro, making a profit of 0.50 Euro per pizza.
2. The seller brings in pizzas from elsewhere, selling them in halves.
In case (1), he is simply exploiting his ability to buy wholesale and sell retail. He is charging each customer 0.25 Euro to cut the pizza in two rather than the 0.50 Euro charged by the cafeteria, but is also providing a lesser service (no seating, etc.).
Case (2) is problematic. He is directly competing against the cafeteria, but on an unfair basis. He does not have to provide any of the amenities provided by the cafeteria, and can therefore provide the same goods at a lower cost.
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Either way, he is running a business using his employers premises... 
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I assumed that he was selling the pizzas on the pavement outside the office. I concede your point if he was actually selling the pizzas in his employer's premises.
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I beg to differ with some of the other posters.
Assuming that you eat the pizza in the cafeteria, they are charging you an extra 1 Euro for cutting the pizza in two, for using an extra chair, and for providing you with (and subsequently washing) an extra set of cutlery and a plate. Comparing the price (in other locations) of a takeaway pizza to the price of eating in the restaurant should tell you whether this is a fair price. Whether or not the price is fair, evading the payment is ethically iffy IMAO.
Of course, if you take the pizza and eat it elsewhere, you are not evading the payment of any of the above costs so my argument is irrelevant.
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--Winston Churchill
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What if they both buy drinks? I've seen the margin on fountain drinks.
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The second person is still using extra cutlery and crockery. The cost to the cafeteria may be less, but it is not zero.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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