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yeah this is some huge cognitive dissonance the likes of which hasn't been seen for... well, months but that's a long time for the government we have. the hospital trust i work for actually put out a notice today saying they are provided upgraded masks for us and cloth ones can no longer be worn by staff and that everyone needs to keep up social distancing measures because of the rise in cases
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Xeno posted:I'm renovating a house at the moment, and have learned that if you start from a position of "every tradesperson is a cheating rat" you will not be disappointed. You defrauded students. You don't get to take the high road on anyone.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:12
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I've had pretty good luck with mybuilder.com (new floor, new front door, fireplace replacement, plasterer). You post a job then people reply through the website, which works quite well for those of us with social anxiety because you don't actually have to do any human interaction until they've given you an estimate and you've read their reviews, so you are pretty sure you might actually want them to do the job.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:12
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:So, what, vulnerable people have to isolate for the rest of their lives, or hope the moment they inevitably catch this extremely transmittable disease doesn't happen for a few more years?
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Jul 5, 2021 19:12
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just turn the country into a big petri dish to create a super variant wooooooooo!!!!!!!!! 
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Jul 5, 2021 19:13
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Theres been a few people who've posted that they've got some issues with their homes but are too anxious to do anything about it. Please post about whatever needs fixing and the UKMT hivemind will be able to give you a vague diagnosis to at least point you in the right direction. If anyone is too worried about calling a tradesperson or their landlord I am more than happy to do it for you. Either by writing you a template e-mail or calling them.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:16
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crispix posted:just turn the country into a big petri dish to create a super variant wooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Stongest varient ever
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Jul 5, 2021 19:16
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Don't need to pay disability benefits if all the disabled are dead from Covid *guy breaks 4th wall doing head tap to the camera dot gif*
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Jul 5, 2021 19:18
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crispix posted:yeah this is some huge cognitive dissonance the likes of which hasn't been seen for... well, months but that's a long time for the government we have. the hospital trust i work for actually put out a notice today saying they are provided upgraded masks for us and cloth ones can no longer be worn by staff and that everyone needs to keep up social distancing measures because of the rise in cases on the bright side if that's the FFP3s, the data from Addenbrooks looks the same as it would if they completely eradicated at-work transmission so now if you get sick you'll only spread it to friends, family, and potentially anyone that walks within 1m of you for more than 5 seconds, but not colleagues. Back to work!  keep punching joe posted:Don't need to pay disability benefits if all the disabled are dead from Covid *guy breaks 4th wall doing head tap to the camera dot gif* I don't think it's deliberate, not even tories are that evil (and competent), but it is interesting that they got pretty much every last tory voter vaccinated and are now letting schools, teachers, hospitals and anyone under 30 go straight to hell Spangly A fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 19:24
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They are absolutely that evil but this is even stupider, the scientists had presumably finally gotten through to Hancock that every time he put his hand on the red hot "remove restrictions" button he got burned, so they've replaced him with someone willing to give it another go. There's a faction that literally haven't moved position since the start of the pandemic and they're back for another round.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:36
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Boris' thirst for blood simply cannot be slaked.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:37
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Jul 5, 2021 19:42
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What he mostly said was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPiGJBHVadA
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josh04 posted:They are absolutely that evil but this is even stupider, the scientists had presumably finally gotten through to Hancock that every time he put his hand on the red hot "remove restrictions" button he got burned, so they've replaced him with someone willing to give it another go. There's a faction that literally haven't moved position since the start of the pandemic and they're back for another round. yeah it's the competency that's the issue. If they were that evil to be planning it, we'd know from leaks. And we do, we know that the explicit plan has always been to kill everyone and ignore the consequences. If they were competent they'd know that what they're doing shrinks the workforce at the same time as pissing it off and giving nearly everyone a sick relative, with no economic benefit. Historically, these are the peak conditions for socialism and social democracy. Their protection will run out as people realise that long-term health consequences can't just be ignored. Hancock wasn't any smarter than that, he just fluked a win with the vaccines because he watched a film, then got himself too compromised to threaten SAGE members with the neil fergusson treatment
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Jul 5, 2021 19:56
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Spangly you continue to be a boundless font of optimism and while I am garbage at sharing it I just want to say I do appreciate you posting it. It is nice to see people less pessimistic than me sometimes.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:00
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Jul 5, 2021 20:01
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serious gaylord posted:Theres been a few people who've posted that they've got some issues with their homes but are too anxious to do anything about it. This is a picture of my velux window - https://imgur.com/gallery/ibzmvr0 - it doesn't look like much but the frame on the left hand side has warped and it won't close completely, in the winter I seal it around the edges with black bags, I am terrified that the entire window will need replacing and it will cost ££££'s, dumb thing is its might be the most minor 10 minute job to straighten out the frame but i just don't know and other than a slight bit of damage on the wallpaper from when i left the window too far open on a rainy day it doesn't really cause any problems
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Jul 5, 2021 20:25
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How do you warp a window... it's got glass in it, surely the glass would crack? Is it warped or is it like, not set in the frame properly?
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Jul 5, 2021 20:27
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JollyBoyJohn posted:This is a picture of my velux window - https://imgur.com/gallery/ibzmvr0 - it doesn't look like much but the frame on the left hand side has warped and it won't close completely, in the winter I seal it around the edges with black bags, I am terrified that the entire window will need replacing and it will cost ££££'s, How does that window normally open? Because that looks more like it's jumped the track rather than a warp in the frame.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:30
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keep punching joe posted:What's a realistic way to earn an income working fully remote/self-employed. Really tempted to just buy a cheap flat in Campletown and gently caress off out the city permanently. The only thing holding me back from this is how I pay the mortgage. Computer touching is pretty much the perfect way of doing this. Alternatively, a lot of customer service/support roles were moving to working from home even before the covid stuff - but pay varies wildly.
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edit: quoted myself rather than editing my post. im a dumbdumb.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:36
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Spangly A posted:Hancock wasn't any smarter than that, he just fluked a win with the vaccines because he watched a film, then got himself too compromised to threaten SAGE members with the neil fergusson treatment Definitely not accusing Hancock of being smart, yeah.
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If you call out a plumber and he can't figure out how to shut off your water, he's the one that should feel stupid. They've also dealt with ten customers dumber than you in the last week, guaranteed. And yeah, the occasional tradesman seems to take delight in knowing more about their niche speciality than you idiot commoner, but the vast majority are happy to chat about what they're doing if you take an interest. And if that was my Velux window, I would get the manual for that model online , and read that to see if it showed me how to disassemble it, then look at a few YouTube videos of friendly fat bloke called like VeluxGuyBrighton or something showing you how to mess with a Velux in minute detail, then I would give it a lash. If it turned out it required a tool that I didn't have (but might conceivably use more than twice(, I would buy that tool Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Okay assuming this is a centre-pivot window like this: there does seem to be some separation at the bottom left but I think that's symptom, not cause. I think the pivot itself has failed - looking at the manual it seems like they've got a solid lock on the right but a latch to lock in on the left (so you install it by putting the pivot into the right side then clicking it into place on the left), which suggests it might be able to work itself free.
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I'll be building some decking out the back in a couple weeks, which will really be a trial of how bad my DIY skills are, given that it's going over uneven poo poo ground and will be in multiple sections, so framing it out to be a level plane and anchoring it to the garden wall will be an ordeal. Wood is something I can probably do without calling in The Man tho
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It does look to me like it's out of square consistently, in the same way, at both the top and the bottom so yeah I would have guessed falling out of the mechanism rather than the actual window going out of true.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:45
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Also while I know it makes sense the idea of a window coming with a manual is very funny to me. I also like to imagine it comes with some mid 80's copy protection scheme that barely works and if you don't activate it you aren't allowed to look through it. Also also re: stopcocks my grandmother's was out in the yard in a tiny adorable manhole.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay assuming this is a centre-pivot window like this: that lady really appreciates a good mechanism, look how satisfied she is
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OwlFancier posted:Also while I know it makes sense the idea of a window coming with a manual is very funny to me. https://weshare.velux.com/A/We%20Share/63944?encoding=UTF-8&a=0 The manual is somehow even less comprehensible than the average Ikea assembly manual.
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OwlFancier posted:Also while I know it makes sense the idea of a window coming with a manual is very funny to me. Windows with future hellword DRM: If you don't pay the subscription in the summer, the temperature in your house increases every hour.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://weshare.velux.com/A/We%20Share/63944?encoding=UTF-8&a=0 2010-era political commentary here 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://weshare.velux.com/A/We%20Share/63944?encoding=UTF-8&a=0  ED?🟥 ED?🟦 If you find the edstone in your house I don't think it will make a good window.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://weshare.velux.com/A/We%20Share/63944?encoding=UTF-8&a=0 Though it's a common trope, IKEA manuals really are incredibly straightforward, even if you are illiterate as hell. It's just that the product QC is usually so crap that any big flatpack piece will have a few steps that require some extra shimming or drilling a new hole or something or else it sits a bit wobbly. Usually not a big deal either way though, and our corner sofa/pull out bed did well for years and is now our guestroom bed
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Ikea manuals are good yeah, easier than the display manuals I use at work most of the time.
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crispix posted:that lady really appreciates a good mechanism, look how satisfied she is I have to admit that *does* look like a satisfying handle to pull - good thickness, I have to assume a decent heft to it to stop the window just flying open and braining you - if it has a nice solid "clunk" when closing and locking I'd be extremely happy with my purchase. I have the two-way windows (pivot either from the side or the bottom) and - when properly greased and adjusted - they're great to close, like a nicely-made safe, but a bit underwhelming to open because of the lack of balance. crispix posted:that lady goes around ikea of a saturday afternoon just pulling out the drawers in the kitchens to see which has the best mechanism Listen if that's not a major factor in your purchasing decisions of everything from cupboards to houses I'm not sure we'll ever see eye to eye.
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crispix posted:seeing how well they can polish their shoes on the brushes on the sides of escalators, like the rest of us 
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JollyBoyJohn posted:This is a picture of my velux window - https://imgur.com/gallery/ibzmvr0 - it doesn't look like much but the frame on the left hand side has warped and it won't close completely, in the winter I seal it around the edges with black bags, I am terrified that the entire window will need replacing and it will cost ££££'s, Twistos got it I think. Looks like the mechanism has come free. It may be repairable depending on the damage that caused it to come out as it is, and if that has been exacerbated by being left exposed to the elements for so long. A replacement window is not that expensive in the grand scheme of things even if it does need to be fixed. You've probably paid for it in heating costs over the course its been broken like this already. Failed Imagineer posted:I'll be building some decking out the back in a couple weeks, which will really be a trial of how bad my DIY skills are, given that it's going over uneven poo poo ground and will be in multiple sections, so framing it out to be a level plane and anchoring it to the garden wall will be an ordeal. Wood is something I can probably do without calling in The Man tho Decking is actually very difficult to do correctly and also incredibly expensive right now due to the soaring cost and scarcity of pressure treated timber. I would seriously be putting considerable thought into any outdoor project this year.
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