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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Hedges and kids. e: The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 BCE, and stolen by the British in 1801. Albinator fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Albinator posted:I've had young kids, but it was a while ago. Is it just a gut feeling this is the reason it's not selling, or has anyone actually said anything? It seems a bit of a stretch to me if it's not the second. If there are more obvious things that can be improved I'd look at those first, and if there's not, then dropping the price a bit or just waiting might be a better strategy. The two things that have been mentioned are (1) the kitchen (it seems too small - it's quite large actually - so we've taken out a quite large table and put in a smaller one and taken out the large fridge freezer and put in a smaller one, and (2) the road. But that said, it's just not getting that many viewings, which given the property market was supposed to be boiling hot for the past 4-5 months, doesn't seem to round mum's way (or round my way, 2 flats in my block on the market here for several months with barely a peep, my boss's parents in a 16th century country home - not a sausage). These are all in the apparently desirable 'rural but with good connections' areas. Just wondering if this 'hot property market' is a manufactured media thing and doesn't really exist except in a few locations such as Cornwall. At least now the place she had put an offer on has dropped out of the equation she can be more flexible with price (which she has dropped quite a bit since the estate agents put it on the market at an extremely optimistic price). Until then she had to achieve at least purchase price of the other place + stamp duty, estate agents fees, moving costs etc. (No mortgages for 83 year olds!)
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Jul 15, 2021 01:25
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:most appropriate hedge-stuff (or even 'definitely not' hedge stuff). Oh hey I do hedgerows. Main question is how tall you want it to grow maximum, and then whether you want it evergreen, semi, or not But unless you are planting already established bushes (expensive) then it's going to be a few years before there's a proper hedge. Something really simple like hawthorn with a bit of dogrose tangled in is very cheap, especially in bulk, great for wildlife and won't require much maintenance. buckingham nurseries is my provider of plants -they have a good selection but more importantly they will talk your arm off about what's suitable for what soil/sun/kids/farm animals or not. Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I was a kid we had yew trees and all sorts of poisonous plants around the place and just told not to eat the berries or flycap toadstools or whatever. The british countryside has a surprising amount of murder/mayhem plants and don't eat things/touch leaves/smear the sap on you is just as relevant a lesson for kids as it was then Might as well spam a bunch of pictures from the farm while I'm here I suppose                        
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Jul 15, 2021 06:50
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https://twitter.com/Chinchillazllla/status/1415419617502187521
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Jul 15, 2021 07:31
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OwlFancier posted:Is it one of those walls you can put a small wooden fence on top of perhaps? Like some old stone walls originally had iron railings between stone pillars and then a stone wall below that, and then at some point they take the iron out and leave a weird looking wall. I have An Fact They were ripped out in WW2 because they did a big metal collection to build spitfires thing. Scouts would come round with trollies and collect pots and pans and everyone was in it together. Only it was pointless because you can’t recycle railings or someone’s tin bath to make a airplane so the majority of it got sent to scrapyard and the whole silly scheme is seen now as a universal failure thought up by a posh idiot. (< care worker, pissed off a anti-vaxer, wear a mask)
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Jul 15, 2021 07:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:
The property market has really been insane pretty much nationwide for the past few months. People were making offers on properties without even viewing them. So the main issues that you are going to have are location, price and how will maintained the property is. Is it a place where there are jobs and people can commute? Is there a driveway/garage or good public transport on the road? How does the inside look? It's it looking fresh and clean, or like there is going to be work needed for any new occupant? Finally, and this is always the key, are they simply asking to much for the property? Any property will sell if the price is right. Estate agents love to overestimate how much a property is worth by about 5-10%. It's just that over the past 6 months, they've actually managed to do that, probably down to stamp duty holiday.
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Jul 15, 2021 07:40
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learnincurve posted:I have An Fact It all got a bit out of hand because Lord Beaverbrook discovered that some people had aluminium cookware and cutlery (there was a fashion for it in the 30s) and as there was a genuine massive shortage of aluminium for aircraft production they started trying to collect it, but everyone was so gung-ho to be able to do *something* that everyone threw in their stuff from stainless steel to sterling silver. They could have stopped it at any point but after Dunkirk it was raising everybody's morale, so they just rolled with it. It wasn't a *complete* failure - the vast majority was ferrous metals so very easily recycled into war materiel even if a bunch of armour plate isn't as glamourous as a new Spitfire, and the glut of scrap iron let them redeploy iron miners into the coal mines which in turn relieved some pressure on the Atlantic convoys - but yeah probably not one actual plane got built for all the mania.
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Red Oktober posted:Not just the bones, but the cushion made out of skin with, I think the belly button for a button? I can't quite remember that detail. Regarding the two 'halves' of the book being different, I believe Banks' original plan was to have the split happen exactly half way through the book, with the page numbers and even the layout of paragraphs exactly reflect each other, but it proved far too difficult. See now I'm going to have to read it again because I don't remember the "split" part even if I do remember the twist at the end.
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Jul 15, 2021 08:08
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Looks like he misread and thought the phrase was "make an enema for life"
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Jul 15, 2021 08:09
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Isn't puking up your own poo poo one of the end stage symptoms of hardcore opiate abuse
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Jul 15, 2021 08:29
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:See now I'm going to have to read it again because I don't remember the "split" part even if I do remember the twist at the end. This was before he decided to intersperse the chapters (if you remember half go forward and are numbered 1,2,3 and the other half go backwards X,IX,VIII etc). Another part of the problem is it gave the climax/twist in the middle of the book, of course. So you would have all of the Diziet chapters, then the climax/twist, then the Zakalwe chapters in reverse. There’s an interview archived here. Red Oktober fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jul 15, 2021 08:30
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Isn't puking up your own poo poo one of the end stage symptoms of hardcore opiate abuse I don't know, but fascism definitely is.
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Jul 15, 2021 08:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:We're wondering if one of the reason's mum's house won't sell is Ask the agent to contact the people who viewed it and get some feedback. It’s in the agent’s interest to sell so they should be fine with doing it.
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Jul 15, 2021 08:34
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 god the internet is really loving weird sometimes isn't it. like really loving weird. i love it
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Jul 15, 2021 08:55
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Jul 15, 2021 08:59
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I've no kids, but buying a house in the last couple years I can say I wouldn't have cared at all about a lack of hedge, and actually would probably be slightly baffled if they has just installed a brand new hedge that needed a few years to mature, because I'd probably want to take it out and start over with something else. I'd be more interested to see how much work needed doing in terms of double/triple-glazing, new boiler, gun-barrel pipework, wiring, old wallpaper/chipboard vs new paint/plaster, and maybe knocking walls to interconnect rooms
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Jul 15, 2021 09:01
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https://twitter.com/GuardianHeather/status/1414923610595241984 Just the Guardian political editor going all "GIRLBOSS!!!  " over Theresa May doing "But what about the spending?" like it's 2010.
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Jul 15, 2021 09:22
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It's the price I would say. It's a kind of equation : how much do I care about the downsides versus how much can I get it for. If someone absolutely hates a busy road in front of the house - why are they looking at yours/ no price is a good price. If they see it as something they can live with in exchange for (insert good schools, character features etc) then there is a price that offsets the good and the bad. If no-one is making even vague sounding "ooh, I'm interested" then the price is probably too high. (Not always but it's likely)
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Jul 15, 2021 09:25
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've no kids, but buying a house in the last couple years I can say I wouldn't have cared at all about a lack of hedge, and actually would probably be slightly baffled if they has just installed a brand new hedge that needed a few years to mature, because I'd probably want to take it out and start over with something else. If you're not getting a lot of viewings, my guess would be that it's nothing specific to the house: personally all I was looking at to just give a place a viewing was price range, location & not totally looking like poo poo, so my guess would be either it's overvalued or the estate agent has done a shite job of marketing it. I'd say that if you're happy that the pictures &c on the listing paint the place in a good light, talk to the agent about what they think is up, and think about the minimum you'd accept & if you'd be happy to knock some off the price (bearing in mind that chancers are gonna chance whatever the list price is, so getting more people in the door might be as simple as knocking 5k off the asking price & telling people who offer 5k less than that to do one, rather than keeping it the same & telling people who offer 10k less the same).
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Jul 15, 2021 09:29
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a lot of people are really dumb and are put off a house by e.g. it having woodchip on the walls. admittedly the removal of woodchip could very well be used as a form of torture but like it's a few days of graft and heavy swearing and bloodied fingernails set against however long you're going to be living in a house, although i'd hazard a guess that the kind of people put off by woodchip are unlikely to remove it themselves
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Jul 15, 2021 09:45
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Zakalwe also turns up in Surface Detail, which was also a fantastic (and extremely dark) book.
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Jul 15, 2021 10:03
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crispix posted:a lot of people are really dumb and are put off a house by e.g. it having woodchip on the walls. admittedly the removal of woodchip could very well be used as a form of torture but like it's a few days of graft and heavy swearing and bloodied fingernails set against however long you're going to be living in a house, although i'd hazard a guess that the kind of people put off by woodchip are unlikely to remove it themselves I think this sort of thing goes two ways: people are either put off because they've done the work before and go "never again" or they are basically gonna pay someone else to do it all and don't care, with the difference mainly being what kind of property it is and how likely it is to get a buyer who wants to/can afford to just pay to do it. Or you get someone that sees through it and is gonna do the work themselves because they think "how hard can it be?". Or of course someone that unaccountably still likes woodchip. Communist Bear posted:Zakalwe also turns up in Surface Detail, which was also a fantastic (and extremely dark) book. I think that was the one where I was a bit "woah ok this is like some online gore fanfic here". I never re-read the last few actually, I probably should.
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Jul 15, 2021 10:16
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crispix posted:e.g. it having woodchip on the walls 
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crispix posted:a lot of people are really dumb and are put off a house by e.g. it having woodchip on the walls. admittedly the removal of woodchip could very well be used as a form of torture but like it's a few days of graft and heavy swearing and bloodied fingernails set against however long you're going to be living in a house, although i'd hazard a guess that the kind of people put off by woodchip are unlikely to remove it themselves
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've no kids, but buying a house in the last couple years I can say I wouldn't have cared at all about a lack of hedge, and actually would probably be slightly baffled if they has just installed a brand new hedge that needed a few years to mature, because I'd probably want to take it out and start over with something else. It doesn't need anything like that doing. New boiler last year, etc., mum's had tons of repairs, renewals and so on done. It is an old stone cottage with a modern (well 20 years old) extension, so 'knocking through' isn't an option (which is what put one viewer off, they thought they could knock out the wall between the kitchen and dining room - not with 2ft thick stone walls anyway). I think she'll have to drop the price considerably - and now she's not tied into the offer on the other place, it won't matter so much if she can find somewhere cheaper to move to in town. But she'll have to sell first and try and rent temporarily. Like I said, no mortgages for over 80s (or over 60s for that matter or even as I found out over 55s!), so she'll have to have the money in the bank to be a cash buyer. I also think the estate agents are shite but that's another matter. Mum needs 'the personal touch' none of this new-fangled internet stuff, and this particular agent also does almost all the similar properties in the locality. Thanks for all your input folks! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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the only things i would give a toss about are location (as isolated as possible), size (building small, grounds big) and structural integrity. i wouldn't care if it was wallpapered with woodchip with a layer of every page 3 that's ever been printed pasted on top. i do encounter some lonely old men in rural parts here who i reckon look the sort who would do just that tbh - what with the questionable moustaches and furtive demeanours - and in that case i would most probably get the walls stripped before i showed my mum and aunties inside
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Jul 15, 2021 10:43
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Antarctica currently green 'in danger of moving to amber' - say what? Didnt one of the US bases catch a few cases? Given that if you're in Antarctica you're going to be on one of the bases not in just like the wilderness in a tent, one can see the concern.
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Jul 15, 2021 10:51
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crispix posted:the only things i would give a toss about are location (as isolated as possible), size (building small, grounds big) and structural integrity. i wouldn't care if it was wallpapered with woodchip with a layer of every page 3 that's ever been printed pasted on top. i do encounter some lonely old men in rural parts here who i reckon look the sort who would do just that tbh - what with the questionable moustaches and furtive demeanours - and in that case i would most probably get the walls stripped before i showed my mum and aunties inside
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crispix posted:a layer of every page 3 that's ever been printed pasted on top
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Jul 15, 2021 10:53
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Borrovan posted:Once went to a pub in Torquay that had the men's room decked out like this See also the Victoria in Swindon. Decent gig venue though.
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Jul 15, 2021 11:06
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I've definitely been in a few pub's mens' rooms decorated like that in the past. I presume they've all been redecorated by now!
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Jul 15, 2021 11:11
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How it started: https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1160191888185540609?s=20
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Jul 15, 2021 11:18
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Isn't puking up your own poo poo one of the end stage symptoms of hardcore opiate abuse I went 5days without a crap when I was deep in the habit, so it's not unimaginable. 3 days of that I didn't eat as I felt so bad though. Good times
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Jul 15, 2021 11:23
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This man is a KGB sleeper cell designed to give bad health advice to people with Spanish first names and German last names.
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Jul 15, 2021 11:44
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Has anyone else had their surgery call them and ask if they have their "biometric residency permit" to hand? Apparently this is something NHS England is doing now, and it has the stink of Home Office all over it. My wife got such a call. She's got a British passport though after coming here from Hong Kong 30 years ago. So she told them that and they said "OK!" and hung up 
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Jul 15, 2021 11:47
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Guavanaut posted:Jairdon Pooperson One rule for life
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Anyone know if walk-in vaccination clinics are area specific? Just discovered my GP surgery has stopped doing vaccinations and my only other option is a centre out in the sticks that is a huge pain in the arse to get to without a car. It's literally easier for me to get the train to Plymouth and back, and they have a walk-in clinic this Saturday. Are they going to turn me away? EDIT I'm really miffed that there aren't clinics in town (Exeter, in this case) at all. I guess the thinking is "only people who don't drive can't get to the out of town centre, and only old people don't drive, and they're all already jabbed, so whatever" but that still means people like me fall through the cracks. And also I'd have thought they'd want to make it easy as possible for teenagers to get jabbed, and not just rely on one day walk-in clinics like they seem to be now. Although I guess it makes sense in that who in this country gives a solitary gently caress about young people anyway Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jul 15, 2021 11:57
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Barry Foster posted:Anyone know if walk-in vaccination clinics are area specific? Just discovered my GP surgery has stopped doing vaccinations and my only other option is a centre out in the sticks that is a huge pain in the arse to get to without a car. It's literally easier for me to get the train to Plymouth and back, and they have a walk-in clinic this Saturday. Are they not doing any walk ins this weekend? I know they've done it last wekend in the center (they had a mobile vaccination centre at the Quay , although I agree expecting everyone to hoof it out to Greendale to get a jab is redicous even with the extra buses, I don't drive either. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Are they not doing any walk ins this weekend? I know they've done it last wekend in the center, although I agree expecting everyone to hoof it out to greendale to get a jab is redicious even with the extra buses. Narp, not that I'm aware of anyway. I wasn't in town for last weekend. I would've made the effort if I'd known, but only found out after the fact  Another Exeter goon?! PM me if you ever wanna hang out (safely and outside, of course). We have a small contingent going already! E - I mean I'm sure they'll hold another walk-in in a month or whatever, but I'm not willing to wait that long at this point, not with Freedom Day incoming. I've booked a Greendale one for the 26th just in case, but I'm going for absolute ASAP at this point Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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