Rarity posted:

Oh yeah, someone asked about doing admin for Labour? Whoever it was, are you in Bristol? If so I'll email the organiser, if not I'll see if they fan put you in touch with your local team.

HorseLord posted:

European wiring standards are completely poo poo. The only rooms in the house that have to have an earth are the kitchen and bathroom, but it doesn't matter because the plugs can go in upside down and reverse live and neutral anyway. Lighting and sockets in a room are on the same radial. The sockets themselves take up the same amount of room but are more difficult to wire because they're made up of more parts, which are also somewhat fragile, so half of them get bent inside and you have to slam plugs into them with your palm or sometimes a hammer. You can't hammer the little two pin ones, so if the socket is like this you just have to go find another place to plug it in.

They also had the genius idea that every socket on an extension lead should be at 45 degree angles, and where the wire comes out of a plug is 50/50 the top or the side. So if you've got to plug in a computer and a lamp and something that uses a wall wart you have to spend ages figuring out the correct order and position to plug them in. It's a really really boring and annoying version of the cube that makes the hellraiser guy show up.

Also for some reason they think it's acceptable to backfeed power from a solar panel into the wall sockets.

ThisBunkCannotSwim posted:

That was me, thank you! I am, Bristol West to be exact. Not sure what the best why to pass on details is without getting doxxed? If you have PMs, I guess I could maybe bite the bullet and throw Lowtax some spine coins...

Guavanaut posted:

And yet they still haven't managed to stumble on the brain genius scheme that you can have wiring where one of the neutrals falls out and the whole thing keeps going as normal, untestable from the socket, but with 30A going over a 20A rated cable.

(This was the case with my ring main, the first socket from the consumer unit only had one neutral attached, I had no idea until I redid some of the wiring and had it off the wall.)

Europlugs have their faults, the new Type N plugs being introduced into Brazil and South Africa are better than both Europlugs and UKplugs, but anything that cares that you're reversing live and neutral should have three pins in a configuration with no rotational symmetry, and anything that doesn't doesn't matter, and the ring main system is just an overly elaborate joke.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1190674950853742592

Eschenique posted:

This can't possibly be real.

Eschenique posted:

They're tree kittens

Braggart posted:

Lib Dems in being shortsighted and greedy and taking their support for granted shocker

RockyB posted:

Also, again, if you ever manage to catch one it's actually illegal to NOT kill it.

HorseLord posted:

Is there anything I can look at on Type N? Just from a photo it looks to have the same bendy pin troubles as european stuff. In general I'll say that UK spec stuff wired up radially is massively better and safer than any of the horrors I've found in europe. I mean seriously, they put power into the house by plugging the solar panels into a normal wall socket. It's a loving nightmare place when you have to do DIY.

They also like using what's basically garden hosepipe for permanent indoor plumbing.

RockyB posted:

This is your monthly reminder that grey squirrels are a pestilence, a pox, a horde of ravening parasites that devastate local woodlands and bird populations. Just like actual kittens, I guess.

Also, again, if you ever manage to catch one it's actually illegal to NOT kill it.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot/status/1190674950853742592

RockyB posted:

Also, again, if you ever manage to catch one it's actually illegal to NOT kill it.

Borrovan posted:

Ague Proof posted:

MikeCrotch posted:

Also my local Lib Dems have been forced to step aside for Anna Soubry because ***remain alliance***

They are, uh, not happy about this

Borrovan posted:

gently caress the police

quote:

The grey squirrel is regarded as an invasive non-native species following its inclusion under Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Country Act 1981. Under Schedule 9 of the WCA, it is illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild, or allow one to escape, without a license granted by Natural England. This means if you trap one, you are obliged to humanely dispatch it.

Offences under section 14 carry a maximum penalty of a £5,000 fine and/or 6 months imprisonment on summary conviction (i.e. at Magistrates’ Court) and an unlimited fine (i.e. whatever the court feels to be commensurate with the offence) and/or 2 years imprisonment on indictment (i.e. at Crown Court).

Firos posted:

WINNING HERE.

Guavanaut posted:

Hey twisto, I have a weird question. Do you know if it's possible to get UK extension leads with both BS 1363 square 3 pin sockets and BS 4573 two pin shaver sockets? I can't see any reason why you couldn't, because they're both legal socket types, but all I can find are the old BS 546 style ones

which as I'm neither in South Africa nor India nor the 1930s aren't very useful even though they're still allowed here, or the Chinese 'universal socket' style ones

which fit all major worldwide plugs and most good paper clips and lol no thanks.

ThomasPaine posted:

please don't demean romania like this tia

Braggart posted:

Jaeluni Asjil for Bus Commissar. They have good and practical ideas, and a wealth of experience to draw on.

Alctel posted:

The common factor among all these is first past the post, it's a garbage electoral system that worked fine when you had two parties but breaks down with anything more ana makes it virtually impossible to get a new party off the ground

In Canada we had 6 major parties running, all under fptp and as a result the equivalent of the lib dems keeps winning cos everyone's terrified of the conservatives and 'strategic votes'

Over 30% of people strategically voted last time, it's really depressing

OwlFancier posted:

I'm also not really sure that adopting the opposition's policies during an election campaign is necessarily the most effective way to sell yourself as a party.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Probably not because until recently you weren't allowed to combine the two on the same circuit, and even though you can now (I think the change was some point in the late 90s - whenever RCDs became mandatory) there's not really a lot of applications for such a thing.

You're probably better off just buying a conventional block and a handful of adapters for whatever you want to plug in. This also lets you put an appropriate fuse for the device in, too - anything with a two-pin socket really shouldn't be drawing more than a couple of amps and the 13A fuse most blocks are fitted with is more than enough juice to let the magic smoke out of whatever you want to plug in.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Bus Absolute Dictator of the Universe, please.

I have billions of bus ideas (well general public transport ideas).

Robodog posted:

Just FYI Australia doesn't use FPTP, we have preferential voting in the lower house and proportional voting in the upper house. We're just terrible racists and assholes and vote for the same while democracy steadily erodes around us.

Borrovan posted:

Well I can't think of any other unifying common factor that would explain why the UK, USA, Canada & Australia are so universally terrible

feedmegin posted:

If you emigrated there from the UK less than 15 years ago you are entitled to a vote in your old constituency.

Munin posted:

Definitely. I live in the US after passing through a couple of other places but make sure I get my vote in. One of the things which make it awkward is that postal votes can take ages to get out (and can be to late). Since you have a sister in London though you can appoint her as your proxy and she can vote on your behalf.

The application is quick, easy, and electronic these days:
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Guavanaut posted:

drat, that's a shame. Power cubes and bodged Europlug adapters with 1A fuses it is I guess.

What's your thoughts on battery trolleybuses?

OwlFancier posted:

I'm also not really sure that adopting the opposition's policies during an election campaign is necessarily the most effective way to sell yourself as a party.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Do you mean the ones that use overhead cables or the ones that don't?

Vitamin P posted:

Wait could you explain more? I thought CUK just sort of stopped surely Lib Dems aren't stepping down for CUKs.

Vitamin P posted:

We literally already did, the swing we achieved in the last election was bigger than 'the Blair effect' swing was, the difference was we were starting from the lovely position Blairism left us in.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Do you mean the ones that use overhead cables or the ones that don't?

I guess I prefer the ones that don't use overhead cables probably mostly for aesthetic reasons (strangely, because normally I am 'function over form' while my arty sister is 'form over function'). But I do remember some major incidents when I worked for a large popular national transport infrastructure company when overhead lines got wrecked in various ways.

I don't know too much about the batteries in these buses and how they're charged though.

I like this one:



source: https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/battery-powered-electric-buses-hit-streets-northwest

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Bus Absolute Dictator of the Universe, please.

I have billions of bus ideas (well general public transport ideas).

Scikar posted:

That looks, uh, rather unsafe for the legs of any poor pedestrian who gets hit by it. At least it's already saying sorry.