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Sanford posted:My pharmacist has just told me to go and book my first vaccine "because I'm acting as a carer so I should get it ASAP". I've followed the link he gave me but it is covered with warning saying IF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH AND DON'T HAVE AN INVITE LETTER WE WILL SEND YOU AWAY. He says it will "be fine" but I'm worried about being thrown in Covid jail. Does anyone have any advice/experience on this point? This vaccine centre (in Chesterfield) seems to have hundreds of availabke appointments over the next few days so it doesn't seem they're overwhelmed. Get in touch with your GP and explain that you're a carer and they should sort you out. At least back in the distant days of February when we were booking ours, the GP was the Source of All Jab Invitations. E: whoops top of page, teach me to post so much lately, here's a pic of Ish enjoying the stack of beanbags behind the sofa 
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Noxville posted:EVs don’t! When my car is in electric mode it still uses gears. I don’t know why a different source of power would obviate the need for gearing. One great thing about EVs is that you get full torque instantly. Plus they gliiiiide.
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I think the point is that electric motors do not require gears because they are normally very high torque anyway, and can't stall, because they are not contingent on operating at a minimum speed like a combustion engine. A stationary electric motor will still output a lot of force if you supply electricity to it, whereas an ICE needs to be running all the time and you draw off power using a clutch (but not so much as to actually stop the engine) If you have a hybrid car it will need a gearbox anyway so you might as well use it, and also your electric engine might be smaller than a pure electric car. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 11:31
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learnincurve posted:It’s not a hatred of London, it’s a hatred of the fact that they get a nationalised and awesome public transport system, when the rest of the country is told how impossible it is to even get a combination bus and train weekly ticket.  The most correct post in history. National spending per head on London: 12% more than the North or the Midlands. And that doesn’t even include arts or transport infrastructure. Crossrail 2: £40+ billion and counting. Total spending on mass transit and tram projects in all other UK cities put together, in the same period... less. 6 of the top 10 biggest cities in the UK have no mass transit at all. Birmingham is trying to build a tram network, but only gets funding to build about an extra mile of track every 5 years. Maugrim posted:Yeah good point. When I chose automatic I had half an eye on the fully-electric future but the cost prevented me from actually buying an EV. I'm hoping by the time I'm next looking to buy a car there will be some good electrics on the second hand market. Don’t. The only sane way to have one is to lease, no one knows how well they age, and the batteries, which wear out, are 1/2 the cost of the car.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:35
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The near future (10 years) is 100% EV now. This view is conventional for 1) energy majors 2) auto manufacturers 3) consumers ICE is done.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Settlements in Europe are generally tiny AF, the systems my company had classified anywhere with <5 million population as a “Town” and they had to create a new code fork to deal with our baby size populations. So it had a max of like 10-20 cities in the whole world? I think one of the problems is also maybe the exact terminology here. How exactly is a city defined? What exactly is "London"? e.g. only the "City of London" (and Westminster) or the whole greater metro of London?
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I want electric cars but unless ultra as-fast-as-petrol-stations charging happens everyone seems to head in the sand about cities and street parking. The idea of London as it is now replacing ICE with electric is not an even slightly viable proposition.
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Mano posted:So it had a max of like 10-20 cities in the whole world? Yeah good question. So: In China the touchstone is the big 4: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Tianjin. To be honest I don’t trust this; Tianjin should probably be aggregated with Beijing. Anyway, for greater urban areas... Shanghai 27M Beijing 20M Chongqing 16M London 9M —-cutoff line—- Birmingham 3M
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Noxville posted:Yeah mean she’s right but why Easter eggs and not virtually every other food item? Because she's a Lib Dem.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:46
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Noxville posted:Yeah mean she’s right but why Easter eggs and not virtually every other food item? I suspect there's an element of "sneering at the wasteful poors", but I may be biased by my general opinion of the Lib Dems.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:50
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Isn't that the nutcase who wanted to nuke squirrels
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Isn't that the nutcase who wanted to nuke squirrels
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Noxville posted:Yeah mean she’s right but why Easter eggs and not virtually every other food item? Because they literally hate fun. Libdems are those who did all their work, did as they're told, tided their room and licked the boots and so if things are still not good then it must be the other people who were at fault. The ones who didn't do what they were told. Therefore if a solution isn't hurting or punishing someone then it isn't the right one. A solution which does not punish or hurt means all their hard work was for nothing and the undeserving who did not tidy their rooms will get away with it. It's why they luuuuuurve austerity and means testing. They will kill us all before they'll accept that they've been had.
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Mar 25, 2021 12:11
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DickEmery posted:Because they literally hate fun. School prefects manifested into a political party.
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Surprise T Rex posted:School prefects manifested into a political party. Hey we got a trip to Disneyland for being prefects, we didn't give a poo poo about the rules (except the head prefect who was on a genuine power trip).
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Mar 25, 2021 12:20
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His Divine Shadow posted:That german stuff really vibes with me and a lot of the culture here too.
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LibDems hate Easter eggs because they recognize themselves - all wasteful packaging and bright colours disguising a thin shell of substandard product and a completely hollow centre.stev posted:Hey we got a trip to Disneyland for being prefects, we didn't give a poo poo about the rules (except the head prefect who was on a genuine power trip). Time to update the UKMT.xlsx again
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kecske posted:what's the point of this vaccine certificate for pubs when all the bar staff are <40 and won't have been vaccinated anyway? It's to reinforce that people working in the service/hospitality industries need to suck it up and be at work if people older than them want a pint.
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Surprise T Rex posted:School prefects manifested into a political party. Not unique to the Lib Dems though, Tory wets and Labour wet eggs all have it too. Dry Tories are more 'we're getting away with it, gently caress you.' therattle posted:I don’t know why a different source of power would obviate the need for gearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA36jWvYCnA It might still have gears in the 'metal wheels with teeth' sense but it doesn't have what I'd call a gearbox in any conventional sense, plus it has the advantage of being a drop-in replacement while getting rid of a bunch of bulk that you can replace with more battery space. That kind of thing will probably make automatic the default option and 'manual' where you can mess about with the drive ratio with a little joystick a luxury option.
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Guavanaut posted:A powerful sense of the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be getting away with it. They're getting away with it Henry, they're getting away with it and nobody is doing anything about it! Thanks, interesting. I am wondering if there is a market for aftermarket electric car batteries. Instead of buying the factory model from Toyota you could buy a model from Acme Car Battery Co that could be more modern and efficient, and cheaper
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Pubs aren't actually gonna do vaccine certificates are they? They want customers. 12 April is gonna be mega mega. In Wetherspoons at the opening bell for national get the cans in day.
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So I've just read that Avon and Somerset Police have just confirmed the reports of officers with broken bones and punctured lungs were incorrect i.e. lies. I don't expect any of the local media to pick this up at all, after the VERY chummy interviews with police all week.
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wooger posted:As though that wasn’t the sole reason to hire her. pardon me if i'm reading this wrong but are you implying there's some kind of trans conspiracy going on both on Reddit and within Lib Dems of all people lmao like this is going beyond your bog standard terfy poo poo and jumping head-first into some qanon territory right here
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JoylessJester posted:So I've just read that Avon and Somerset Police have just confirmed the reports of officers with broken bones and punctured lungs were incorrect i.e. lies. Define 'any of the local media'. It was the Bristol Post that broke the story of the mysterious vanishing injuries, and the Bristol Cable's coverage of the protests has been solid. It's the national news who have been an abject shitshow.
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Darth Walrus posted:Define 'any of the local media'. It was the Bristol Post that broke the story of the mysterious vanishing injuries, and the Bristol Cable's coverage of the protests has been solid. It's the national news who have been an abject shitshow. Hands up, Fair shout. I didn't know the post broke the story, I meant Local TV news. EDIT: Althought I've just looked and I can't find the posts story, but I can find the several 'collapsed lung' and 'broken bone' stories. JoylessJester fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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bessantj posted:She looks so angry in all those photos as if she's genuinely pissed off she has to be there. Without context I would have assumed she'd just barged in on some kind of Easter charity event, deeply concerned that the families receiving free chocolate hadn't been sufficiently means-tested. Borrovan posted:Extremely same. I still drive my girlfriend's every once in a while just to keep in practice, but I actually enjoy mine more. Ditto. When it snowed a couple of months back I used my wife's manual Fiesta, and it was like learning to drive all over again. My current car is an automatic with manual paddles on the steering wheel, and I don't use them anywhere near as much as I expected to. Automatics with enough horsepower work fine. Big difference from the first time I drove an automatic, which was a rental car with about five horsepower and I nearly died multiple times while joining a highway.
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Butternubs posted:On a serious note it's probably because of their more relaxed stance on drink driving. Err are you kidding? Most US states are murder on drink driving. Having an opened bottle of alcohol in your back seat can get you arrested. Getting drunk and sleeping in the back of your turned-off car can get you arrested. What might make a difference is that you can get a driving licence a lot more easily there than here, which in turn implies a lot more bad, inexperienced drivers on the roads.
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stev posted:Hey we got a trip to Disneyland for being prefects, we didn't give a poo poo about the rules (except the head prefect who was on a genuine power trip). nurmie posted:pardon me if i'm reading this wrong but are you implying there's some kind of trans conspiracy going on both on Reddit and within Lib Dems of all people lmao
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feedmegin posted:Err are you kidding? Most US states are murder on drink driving. Having an opened bottle of alcohol in your back seat can get you arrested. Getting drunk and sleeping in the back of your turned-off car can get you arrested. I'm assuming they were thinking of Wisconsin, a state that is in the pocket of the bar lobby and where drunk driving is basically decriminilised
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nurmie posted:pardon me if i'm reading this wrong but are you implying there's some kind of trans conspiracy going on both on Reddit and within Lib Dems of all people lmao Seconding this, wooger get hosed. @ therattle re: London. Yeah I think it didn’t help I moved around London quite a lot - during covid one street I lived on did actually get a nice WhatsApp group going. I don’t know, I guess I just never warmed to it the same way i have other places. Different strokes and all that I guess
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stev posted:Hey we got a trip to Disneyland for being prefects, we didn't give a poo poo about the rules (except the head prefect who was on a genuine power trip). There was a guy in my year who became a prefect purely because they got out of class 5 minutes early to get to the front of the lunch queue every day because I dunno, they were meant to help first years or summat The only prefect I admired.
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wooger posted:Are you sure you’re not thinking about all the feminist / Lesbian/ Women’s Health subs that were straight up deleted, or else had the mods forcibly replaced by Reddit insiders, who are all oddly enough transwomen? 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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The school I was at for sixth form, we didn't have prefects. All the Upper Sixth (Yr 13 in the new money) had 'prefect duties'. I was stationery cupboard minder. My best mate was lost property cupboard minder. And at lunchtime (which was 'table service') each table in the dining room had to be headed up by a member of the Upper Sixth to keep the littlies under control.
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Convex posted:loving hell food prices seem to be going up a bit. Popped into Tesco after the school run and a standard pack of Lurpak was £4.50?! Some store brand stuff seems to have disappeared, too. Can't get Sainsbury's own Rooibos tea, have had to upgrade slightly to TickTock. The expense will ruin me.
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Automatics have the same issues that motorway driving has for manuals. Not constantly doing something means your mind can drift. Also lots of little habits like always looking in your mirror when you change gear disappear too. Nothing wrong with them though, just need to be more aware.
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Convex posted:loving hell food prices seem to be going up a bit. Popped into Tesco after the school run and a standard pack of Lurpak was £4.50?! It should be 3.75. and Iceland do it for 2.75.
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Convex posted:loving hell food prices seem to be going up a bit. Popped into Tesco after the school run and a standard pack of Lurpak was £4.50?! Where the gently caress are you shopping? https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254263339
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