Jippa posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24305230


"Japan is probably the only other place that has similarities to the UK when it comes to weather," says Chivers.

oh but seriously I posted:

i don't care if the market freezes
as long as i got mate's rates on cheeses

cormac posted:

Jesus Christ Ireland is even in the loving illustration!! loving tans.

Guavanaut posted:

Fumble posted:

Can they do that? how long have you been on it?
I dread to think what would happen if i got cut off from my antidepressants because ive been on them for well over a decade and would probably enter what is known as "The Cool Zone".

mrpwase posted:

I'm gonna give Red Leicester a knife to even the odds

bessantj posted:

UKMT I need your opinions. I was talking with my mother who was unhappy that "the blacks" were at it again. Apparently someone complained that there was a pair of tights sold by Marks & Spencer which had the colour described as tobacco.

Anyway after poking around I found this story in a couple fo news outlets about a woman named Kusi Kimani, 29, from East Sussex who complained about the colour of a padded bra being called 'tobacco' as "carrying negative connotations, while more positive words were used for lighter colours." which is fair enough really. But something seemed off as all the reports used the same two pictures of the very photogenic Kusi and despite being 29 she seems to have no online presence at all. It all comes off as an advert for M&S padded bras

Am I just not good enough at searching? Is she just one of the few 29 year olds living in the UK that doesn't have some online prescence?

bessantj posted:

UKMT I need your opinions. I was talking with my mother who was unhappy that "the blacks" were at it again. Apparently someone complained that there was a pair of tights sold by Marks & Spencer which had the colour described as tobacco.

Anyway after poking around I found this story in a couple fo news outlets about a woman named Kusi Kimani, 29, from East Sussex who complained about the colour of a padded bra being called 'tobacco' as "carrying negative connotations, while more positive words were used for lighter colours." which is fair enough really. But something seemed off as all the reports used the same two pictures of the very photogenic Kusi and despite being 29 she seems to have no online presence at all. It all comes off as an advert for M&S padded bras

Am I just not good enough at searching? Is she just one of the few 29 year olds living in the UK that doesn't have some online prescence?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

There is someone of the same name and similar age based in Brighton (which is East Sussex) who looks similar on LinkedIn.
She's not an actor or in advertising, she works in a US-based health company.
I'll not link to her as that is a bit like stalking!

blunt posted:

Normalising stalking strangers online is worse for society than a newspaper making up a story about the colour of a bra.

kingturnip posted:

Do you think anyone told Liz Truss that after Brexit, literally anyone outside the UK can produce and market Blue Stilton?
I really, really hope that some enterprising sods in the RoI are setting up factories to produce all those wonderfully Designated Protection of Origin products that conservative types wank themselves senseless in appreciation for. And then sell them over the border at undercutting prices.

kingturnip posted:

Do you think anyone told Liz Truss that after Brexit, literally anyone outside the UK can produce and market Blue Stilton?
I really, really hope that some enterprising sods in the RoI are setting up factories to produce all those wonderfully Designated Protection of Origin products that conservative types wank themselves senseless in appreciation for. And then sell them over the border at undercutting prices.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Finally got some thunder and heavy rain. Looks like it might be a hot muggy night - thunderstorms and temperatures of 20C promised for our town.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I read only 12 people on board the train, 2 have died. So dunno why they need 30 emergency vehicles? Something not adding up.

keep punching joe posted:

Hot take : unis should operate distance learning due to the pandemic allowing them to increase places / lower fees. Everyone eaving school this year should be guaranteed a place.

Jel Shaker posted:

We’re going to find out in a few years that if you eat too much Stilton the blue veins work their way into your brain like toxoplasmosis and control your every thought, with their only aim to infect the world

Lady Demelza posted:

Publishers are notorious for subscription packages that limit the number of simultaenous users per licence and for charging each time a book or journal article is accessed, and funnily enough they jacked the prices up at the start of the pandemic. The library pays for this, but it means that an ebook can easily cost more over the lifetime of the licence than the physical copy.

crispix posted:

I have sometimes wondered if the British Isles TV weather maps that show NI like GB but show the south as just a dark outline with no weather are doing it out of a spiteful tradition lol

Jippa posted:

I am officially hot.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

This diagram is potentially the only technically accurate Venn diagram posted in this thread thus far. I congratulate you.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It's getting very hard to be an independent researcher these days.

Every pdf you find demands either an institutional login or something like £30-£40 to have access to a document for 24 hours that might not even be what you need because all you can see is the abstract.

Ms Adequate posted:

I had sort of assumed it was because there's some Big Lads what would make A Fuss if they did that because it could be inferred by said Big Lads as suggesting the Free State was still under the auspices of the UK but your idea makes just as much sense tbh

Always wound me up though. Surely to God there's enough people going to and from on any given day/weekend/etc.* to warrant a look at their weather

Guavanaut posted:

Especially the Ceefax Irish weird sperm that haunted my childhood.


I assumed it was something to do with the Met Office jurisdiction.

Not sure at all what's going on with this one but it looks like they have abandoned half of Ulster to the Nationalists.

Guavanaut posted:

Sanford posted:

THE STORM IS HERE.

Bedroom just dropped from 26.6 to 20 point nothing in under five minutes.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

Ah "Green", my favourite of all the weathers.

Lobster God posted:

Sheffield is Too Hot

Guavanaut posted:

Seriously, in a lot of cases (triply so for social science researchers and researchers in the Global South) they prefer that over someone paying the subscription that they never see a penny of.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

(Note: This is a massive oversimplification because I already hate telephone networks, which exist purely to keep the kind of people who understand them safely out of the way of the public, and mobile also throws in RF, which is basically witchcraft)

4G was always a bit of a marketing push rather than any actual improvement in the underlying tech. Unlike 3G, which was a massive rewrite from GSM (itself an even more complete break from older analogue and hybrid networks) 4G is a lashed-together bunch of stepwise upgrades from 3G which not every provider actually uses.

The stuff we think of as defining 4G - higher data speeds, mostly - are actually just squeezing the 3G standard until it squeaks, mostly by using higher frequencies which by definition are less reliable, and by cranking back the error-correction and other reliability bits of 3G. Now this isn't as bad as it sounds - 3G was actually a pretty conservative standard even if it did offer order-of-magnitude increases in speed over GPRS, and 4G is mostly the providers going "Hey we can run this poo poo a *lot* hotter without any problems". Optimising it for throughput (and dumping a lot more work onto increasingly-powerful handsets) meant the rollout could be done far more quickly and easily than 3G, often using the same or only mildly-upgraded provider kit.

Because the existing 3G network is still there (and still intended to be there for a long time) and, as I say, often sharing the same equipment, it was easy to make part of the standard "gently caress it, use 3G instead" to crank up the speed of 4G even further - a 4G-only network would make the old brick phones look like a landline, reliability-wise.

bustin keaton posted:

3G is able to travel and penetrate further than 4G due to it using lower frequency wavelengths. You therefore need fewer base stations to provide an area with stable coverage than 4G. There's also the benefit of most other users now being on 4G networks, which reduces the load on 3G. In urban areas, there's also the benefit of 3G dealing better with glass, which most of central London is now built out of.

ItsDisposable posted:

I've been mashing refresh on the BBC weather all day and there was a little lightning bolt and 22% chance of rain scheduled in for London at 2300. It's just disappeared