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kecske posted:we're going to run out of Greek letters at this rate, looking forward to adopting the street fighter naming convention and getting Super Covid-19 EX2 Plus. They name discoveries in most other professions after the person who first found it. Same should be with variants. After all its their body that mutated it to the new variant.
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Nov 27, 2021 16:50
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A hundred quid or so on a solid little dehumidifier is an excellent investment imo. Ceiling mould disappears, less clothes moths, laundry dries indoors in a day or so. Easily saves you that much money on maintenance, plus your quality of life is a tad better.
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Nov 27, 2021 16:50
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I've generally found that the compressor dehumidifiers are better for very warm damp air, like a bathroom or shower, and the desiccant dehumidifiers are better for the kind of low grade cold damp that is  The latter are usually cheaper and less energy efficient on paper, but in autumn/winter the extra heat is welcome.
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Nov 27, 2021 16:59
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Walkers crisp shortage: Girl reliant on crisps to live gets special deliveryquote:A family have said they are overwhelmed by the public help they have received after sharing the story of their daughter's dependency on a variety of crisps. You know it's bad when England runs out of crisps
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Nov 27, 2021 18:04
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Private Speech posted:Our landlord thinks our heating should be turned off overnight (he has remote control over it - but we can override it, which he doesn't like - and it's his first winter as a landlord). Also seconding the 'are you not paying the heating anyway' questions.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:06
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Convex posted:Walkers crisp shortage: Girl reliant on crisps to live gets special delivery I feel like that's something you'd learn to make yourself if your child depended on it to survive.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:07
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Convex posted:Walkers crisp shortage: Girl reliant on crisps to live gets special delivery Wonder if they can just make the crisps for her, salted crisps should be a doddle.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:17
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Convex posted:Walkers crisp shortage: Girl reliant on crisps to live gets special delivery Eat Tayto or die! 
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Nov 27, 2021 18:19
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Was reading about a proposed HS2 alternative, a Maglev proposal going from London to Glasgow. Was dismissed because the (Labour) government decided that it'd cost twice as much as was proposed (£60bn. Of course, nevermind that HS2 is now at £98bn & will only go as far north as loving Manchester). Genius country
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Nov 27, 2021 18:22
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stev posted:I feel like that's something you'd learn to make yourself if your child depended on it to survive. home made crisps are the best & piss easy to make.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Just point out that if it gets below 5° he risks frost damage to his precious property. Sorry a bit late, but yes the bills are included - I mean yes we are paying them in the rent (6*700 or so) but it's not completely unreasonable. Also definitely true about zero insulation, one window in my room has about a quarter-inch gap in the middle when the 2 panes are closed. e: actually it's 700 average not 600, either way Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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Nov 27, 2021 18:32
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's obviously insane, but the fact that you'd even need heating on overnight implies the place has absolutely zero insulation - my 1940s hovel doesn't need any heating between 10pm and 8am even when it's below zero outside, and it stays about a comfy 16C, perfect for sleeping. Maybe drops a little lower by morning time but not much Your place probably doesn't have much insulation but I bet it has tons (probably literally) of thermal mass. Was the same in my parents' 1900 house. single skin external walls with no insulation but because the interior walls were also made of brick, once you heated that up, you could leave the heating off overnight and it'd stay warm. Works wonders for keeping cool in the summer too. This is something modern housing lacks - all the internal walls are made of cardboard (no, not literally) so there's nothing to heat up/cool down and stay cool/warm through the day/night cycle. If you have enough thermal mass (which to get to this point, probably requires you to have a large water tank or something - some people in the US fill their basements with barrels of water) then it can hold or absorb enough heat to act as a buffer between winter and summer, meaning that it takes in heat energy through the summer, then releases it through the winter. With an average (1900) home it'll just be enough to (somewhat) buffer and average out the hot/cold through the day and night.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:32
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Trainee PornStar posted:home made crisps are the best & piss easy to make. Do you have a recipe that I can follow without burning my house down please?
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Nov 27, 2021 18:38
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Looks like masks are back in fashion https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1464647103871913989?s=20
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Nov 27, 2021 18:48
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sinky posted:Looks like masks are back in fashion You're still supposed to on TFL and barely anyone does.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:51
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Mask restrictions in Scotland already stricter than new English guidelines, cases here are still bad.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:52
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https://twitter.com/malaiseforever/status/1464649175866523669?s=19 Take me back to the Alligator pub.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:55
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Happy thanksgiving. https://twitter.com/hulllive/status/1464621284843671557
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Nov 27, 2021 19:08
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Like I ever stopped wearing a mask. You ever noticed how it's only ugly people who don't mask up in public?
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Nov 27, 2021 19:08
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Congrats to Essex and Nottingham for having the first Omicron cases! Also it looks like Javid broke the news of where the cases were via Twitter, once again using the Trump technique of using social media as an official channel of government communication.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:10
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Ronnie posted:Like I ever stopped wearing a mask. It's the people who have their nose sticking out the top of the mask that really gross me out. Like under normal circumstances a nose wouldn't bother me but the idea of it firing out its nose contents while a mask is covering the face is disgusting.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:11
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WhatEvil posted:Your place probably doesn't have much insulation but I bet it has tons (probably literally) of thermal mass. Yeah fair point, my house is solid poured concrete lol
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Nov 27, 2021 19:13
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Like the difference between swimming naked and swimming wearing a pouch that only covers your balls and has straps around each thigh. e: masks, not Imagineer's house.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:13
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a standard facemask doubles up for that use too of course
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Nov 27, 2021 19:16
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 Looks like they've picked a new one. Get Gibbo on the line.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:29
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I didn't know they did the cremation on the roof
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Nov 27, 2021 19:32
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Guavanaut posted:swimming wearing a pouch that only covers your balls and has straps around each thigh. thought I was still on the Fetlife tab for a second
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Nov 27, 2021 19:32
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Ronnie posted:Like I ever stopped wearing a mask. What? No.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:38
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Convex posted:Do you have a recipe that I can follow without burning my house down please? All I do is slice a potato really thin & soak the slices in salt water for about 30mins. Then I just deep fry the slices for a couple mins until they look like crisps. Beats the piss out of a bag of walkers 
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Nov 27, 2021 19:40
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forkboy84 posted:Was reading about a proposed HS2 alternative, a Maglev proposal going from London to Glasgow. Was dismissed because the (Labour) government decided that it'd cost twice as much as was proposed (£60bn. Of course, nevermind that HS2 is now at £98bn & will only go as far north as loving Manchester). Genius country The Advanced Passenger Train is a good one: As part of the second phase of the Beeching reforms, British Rail wanted to dramatically increase intercity passenger speeds to provide an alternative to both motorway and internal air travel. BR was inspired by the first Japanese Shinkansen line but knew they were never going to get the £billions needed to build a dedicated high speed line. So they settled on running trains at 145mph on the existing infrastructure. Because no other country was trying to run trains at 150mph on infrastructure from the 1830s, BR not only had to develop swathes of new technology from scratch, but do loads of pioneering research into aerodynamics, brake systems, suspension design, pantographs and wheel/rail interface - research which forms the basis of modern high speed rail engineering to this day - to work out what sort of technology it had to develop in the first place. Most famously this resulted in the 'tilting train' design of the APT. The project, on money-down-the-back-of-the-sofa budgets by global standards, ground on through the 1970s, becoming first a political football within BR as the bold new flagship that represented the future of the industry, then started attracting the attention of Whitehall, then Westminster, then Fleet Street. That meant that the project came under scrutiny for failing to deliver after a decade (despite the objectively tiny budget) so the pilot production APTs were rushed into service by BR management before they were ready, which meant they became a massive public embarrassment and were quickly withdrawn. Testing continued and the initial problems were pretty much solved. A 'squadron service' version of the APT was ready to go when the project was cancelled. Over 15 years the APT programme (which, remember, had to virtually develop an entire field of rail engineering from scratch) had cost £50 million. That was about half the amount that British Leyland was given to develop the Austin Metro, which amounted to putting a hatchback body on the Mini and was also a paltry budget by auto industry standards. The tilting technology was sold to Fiat, which later sold it back to the UK in the form of the Pendolinos, and much of the other technology went into the IC225s and was then lost when BR's engineering branch was privatised. And the west coast main line remained overcrowded and Britain still lacked a comparable intercity passenger rail service to most of Europe. Which is what HS2 is supposed to solve at... significantly greater cost than £50 million.
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Supermarkets have been selling their masks 50% off for weeks now and can't hift them. I bet some poor worker is now being ordered to re-sticker them at full price in anticipation of a rush that won't come.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:58
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BalloonFish posted:And the west coast main line remained overcrowded and Britain still lacked a comparable intercity passenger rail service to most of Europe. Which is what HS2 is supposed to solve at... significantly greater cost than £50 million. I know this isn't mainly what your post was about, and I'm sure you're aware of this but for others: a reminder HS2 isn't even primarily about speed. It's about capacity. The West Coast Main Line is at capacity. AIUI they can't run any more trains on it because they have to keep minimum separation between trains, and the trains that do run on it are full. Lots of what you'll see with people objecting to HS2 is like "We're spending all this money and destroying the countryside just to get from Birmingham to London 30 minutes quicker!"... and yes, that is going to be one outcome. But the main thing they're doing it for is this:  Total peak hour capacity at Euston will triple, which is a good thing if we're trying to take climate goals seriously.
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Nov 27, 2021 20:15
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BalloonFish posted:The Advanced Passenger Train is a good one: Much as I love the APT, it's not fixing the same problem as HS2. Even if you could wave a magic wand and make us have trains capable of doing 300mph on the WCML, it still wouldn't much improve travel times because the line itself, despite being quad-track for almost all of the way, has no more capacity. Our magic trains would still be stuck behind stopping services and freight trains (a huge amount of freight is moved up that line, given it connects the capital (and Europe) to almost all of our manufacturing industries). So the *main* point of HS2 is to get express inter-city service entirely off the WCML, which will massively increase both freight and stopping passenger capacity and reliability because they won't have to keep getting out of the way of the expresses. The high-speed bit is just a happy side-effect - the cost difference between laying it out as high-speed and as conventional main-line is pretty small - and also a handy marketing tool because nobody's interested in increasing freight capacity to the West Midlands by 30% but everyone's interested in SHINY FAST TRAIN. efb, shouldn't have let eating dinner get in the way of  ing.
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Nov 27, 2021 20:53
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stev posted:I feel like that's something you'd learn to make yourself if your child depended on it to survive. Some of the children I've worked with have sensory/behavioural feeding difficulties and... nope. Some of them can taste differences neurotypical people can only imagine. One kid would only eat McDonalds from one particular restaurant in the area and could tell if parents had got the takeaway from somewhere else. I'm not really familiar with ARFID, but if it's anything like that, then... yeah, you better get your supply lines secured.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Much as I love the APT, it's not fixing the same problem as HS2. Even if you could wave a magic wand and make us have trains capable of doing 300mph on the WCML, it still wouldn't much improve travel times because the line itself, despite being quad-track for almost all of the way, has no more capacity. Our magic trains would still be stuck behind stopping services and freight trains (a huge amount of freight is moved up that line, given it connects the capital (and Europe) to almost all of our manufacturing industries). Reminds me of the thing I saw ages ago, about how if everyone stood on both sides of the escalator on the tube, it would increase throughput so everyone's time from platform to street would be faster. But good luck convincing the walkers of that, since the time from escalator bottom to top would feel much slower.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:03
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WhatEvil posted:I know this isn't mainly what your post was about, and I'm sure you're aware of this but for others: a reminder HS2 isn't even primarily about speed. It's about capacity. The West Coast Main Line is at capacity. AIUI they can't run any more trains on it because they have to keep minimum separation between trains, and the trains that do run on it are full. It frees up all the other lines and speeds up turnarounds, i watched a YT vid on it last week but that's the main bits i remember. edit: goddamnedtwisto explained it better.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:09
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kingturnip posted:Some of the children I've worked with have sensory/behavioural feeding difficulties and... nope. My niece's 5 yrs old daughter has apparently got that.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:14
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Guavanaut posted:Or people wondering when we became such a snowflake society that you can't even name an instrument of infernal wrath after the morning star any more. I've just watched the documentary about the Mary Rose, and I'm wondering why we can't name a fleet of warships after grandmas any more. Frustratingly, The Terror isn't on Netflix any more. What else am I supposed to watch as I freeze in my poorly insulated, over priced British house?
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Just got a lovely letter from my local NHS trust, advising me that the referral made by my GP has been delivered, but they’re currently working to book in people from Jan 2019, so it might be a while. Does anyone have the details for the ADHD specialist resource that I think was posted in this thread before?
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