The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

On the topic of stereotyping....
I'm currently doing that most exciting of things and renewing my car insurance (oh for the day when I can dump that pile of evil metal).
It's one of the weird things about it that different jobs give different premiums. And not just expected stuff like travelling salesmen pay more. There's tools online where you compare your job title with other titles you could claim to be your job and pick the cheapest.


https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/car-insurance-job-picker/

I notice if I put it costs me £400 with a job title vaguely close to mine (actual job isn't included) then as a 'VDU Operator' I would only pay £314. Does this seem legit? VDU just means a computer monitor right?...

[Tamas]

I am sure if you ever have to make a substantial claim, the insurance company will be all over this piece of info to show how you lied and therefore they don't owe you a thing.

[Tamas]

Reading the Guardian's Sutherland obituary I came across this: "For Bertolucci in his Italian epic 1900, he played an actual fascist, the gruesomely named Attila"

Attila is a common Hungarian first name. 

[Josquius]

Reading the Guardian's Sutherland obituary I came across this: "For Bertolucci in his Italian epic 1900, he played an actual fascist, the gruesomely named Attila"

Attila is a common Hungarian first name. 

Yes.
And?
They're gruesome right?

I am sure if you ever have to make a substantial claim, the insurance company will be all over this piece of info to show how you lied and therefore they don't owe you a thing.

It isn't lying though. Legally its apparently defined as someone who spends more than 2 hours of their workday using a monitor. i.e. basically any office worker.

[Tamas]

Well just be sure that's actually correct.


And I could totally be offended about the Attila thing, I bet it's only Eastern European culture and names you can write like that without getting into trouble.

But I know it stemmed from ignorance of our culture, not hatred of it.

[grumbler]

Grumbler:
Try this link:
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I copy pasted the full text.

(snip)

Very much appreciated!  I didn't see anything truly new, but was unaware of the total number of red flags Rush was ignoring.  The bit about the whistleblower getting successfully sued by OceanGate was new and interesting, even if not directly related to the disaster.  It would be interesting to see details about that case, given the normal protections for whistleblowers.

[grumbler]

Reading the Guardian's Sutherland obituary I came across this: "For Bertolucci in his Italian epic 1900, he played an actual fascist, the gruesomely named Attila"

Attila is a common Hungarian first name. 

And gruelosh is a national dish, correct?

[HVC]

I find it odd that Attila is still popular. He wasn't magyar so I assume it's not a pre settlement name common to magyar?

Is Attila a folk hero in hungary?

[Tamas]

Reading the Guardian's Sutherland obituary I came across this: "For Bertolucci in his Italian epic 1900, he played an actual fascist, the gruesomely named Attila"

Attila is a common Hungarian first name. 

And gruelosh is a national dish, correct?

[Tamas]

I find it odd that Attila is still popular. He wasn't magyar so I assume it's not a pre settlement name common to magyar?

Is Attila a folk hero in hungary?

IDK about the cultural history of the name (and to be fair nowadays boys who are not named Dominik seem to be named Oliver and other such nonsense), but the popular "foundation myth" for Hungarians is that we are related to/descendants of, the Huns.

[HVC]

Viktor not a popular new born name?

[Syt]

And gruelosh is a national dish, correct?

[Tamas]

Viktor not a popular new born name?

Here's the top 10 back to 2016:



Big switch since I was a kid. With the partial exceptions of Adam David and Daniel these names were super rare. Whereas, an elementary class of 36 we had 5 Tamases 

[Syt]

No Gary? I assumed the country was named after the Hun, Gary.

[Tamas]