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There are many thousands of jobs like that, even high production volume fish fingers are manually cut from frozen blocks of fish. That could easily be automated of course, but the makers find it an unnecessary expense, considering how efficiently its already being done. But it's in manual...

And you dare mention "reductio ad absurdum"! For decades virtually everyone in the UK has been able to read at a basic level sufficient for such purposes. .

I haven't mentioned any of these things, and as remarked above, even those with minimal literacy can and do get driving licences. The simple and irrefutable fact is that there are large numbers of jobs requiring scarcely any education which will never be automated for cost and/or practical...

Utter nonsense, showing once again how out of touch you are with the realities: The man who dug out our deep narrow drain by hand wasn't driving the van that brought him, manual workers rarely work singly. The man who drove, who in your fantasy world presumably had an honours degree to do...

I prefer to be polite and minimise criticism. .

Absolutely no rose tinted spectacles, I often annoy those with them when I insist on the facts from the past from my partially eidetic memory. Of course there are those who insist there is no such thing as an eidetic memory, even when proven to them beyond doubt. Once again the religion that...

It's said that we and the Americans are, but that simply isn't true. They mostly speak correct English, we speak a modernised and often incorrect form, but we still fully understand each other. .

My primary classes at around 35 didn't quite reach that size and failings were promptly and painfully dealt with via a strong wack with a ruler. Whether in London or Devon, everyone in the classes was sufficiently literate and spelling standards far surpassed those with today's modern...

I very strongly disagree. Language is the one thing the human race should absolutely have in common in a globalised world of high level communications. .

The fact that those most supportive about dyslexia run schools that successfully teach dyslexia out of people is proof enough of my case. I'm not saying there is no such thing as many children having much greater difficulty with words. I know at first hand there are. I am saying it is almost...

I have to disagree with that since the "word blindness" is most obvious in seeing the written word, any phonetic interpretive element being minor. The attempts in recent decades to teach English phonetically are demonstrably very unsuccessful as today's texting shows. All it's achieving is...

Indeed, we have to communicate in English anyway in many key areas. I've noticed in snatches of video how the MEPs of various countries in Brussels so often speak with each other in English, simply because they cannot know all of each other's languages. Even the famously multi-lingual Jean...

I've long taken this point of view with all languages, almost all belong only in a historic world. The world has been increasingly global for centuries and is now almost entirely a single global unit so needs and should have a global language. The internet has produced that de facto global...

The victims of the bad commercial decisions, as ever. But probably only temporarily, since the need for them and their specialised knowledge still exists and will probably be increasing with our purchases of the F35. .

In the days when the Natural History Museum ran a website for the public wanting to know what something was, I was one of a small group of their volunteer species identifier experts. However my specialities were among small arthropods, particularly many classes of small insects, arachnids and...

Apparently they had to be sold to rescue them from bankruptcy. As good as they were technically, they made some very poor commercial decisions in buying a number of other companies. The asset stripper who is buying them will sell those off of course. .

Superb photos OG, as OJ says, you definitely have an eye for a good shot. If it's of any interest to you, the tight cluster of fungi on the dry side of a tree are Shaggy Scalycaps, Pholiota squarrosa; the cluster of tall mushrooms by the cyclepath are Shaggy Inkcaps, aka Lawyers Wig, Coprinus...

He's probably got a taste for holidays after his days walking in the Cairngorms. .

To save OG time I'll set the ball rolling for his list: 1) Arguing with OJ. .

We charge non EU patients in exactly the same way in the UK as your niece would be in New Zealand. Our hospitals have admin staff members whose duty it is to pursue payment and they can get quite bullying at times in enforcing that. The one I witnessed doing that with a middle eastern patient...