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Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Khan has been pretty melty but has also done some good things. Better him mayor of London than the other candidates with a chance of winning.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:19

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# ? May 24, 2024 03:45

Flux Wildly: Dec 20, 2004; Welkum t� Zanydu!

Big fan of the bus one hour �hopper� fare too

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:21

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Guavanaut posted:

Yeah I'd be cautious about salts like calcium chloride in that case just because of the presence of rubber seals, although I suppose if you've ever driven on salted roads you'll have plenty all over the vehicle anyway, so a concentrated solution of calc chloride and lukewarm water would work and isn't any worse than what's all over the roads.

Isopropyl alcohol and water also works as a deicer in that case, and is much gentler on synthetic rubbers than meths spirits or grain alcohol or salts.

If it's just for the windshield surely just using a lot of water of any temperature should work? Unless the temperature stresses cause the windshield to crack or something.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:23

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Yeah using salted water (especially calcium salts) is better than using hot water that can cause temperature stress, but can rot the seals. Isopropyl and water is a fast way, but dumping a lot of cool water also works, it just refreezes depending on outside temperature.

Always using the washer with antifreeze in straight after is probably the best advice regardless of what you're rubbing all over your car glass.

Flux Wildly posted:

Big fan of the bus one hour �hopper� fare too

But does it make the frog noises (I hope it does)
https://twitter.com/JMarshUoL/status/1642958758421602325

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:27

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

The danger of just water is it will re-freeze while driving and your windscreen effectively clouds up on you.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:28

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

My least favorite thing is when it's so cold out your undiluted, "-18c safe" washer fluid is just warm enough to splatter your windshield, but it freezes on contact with your windshield and covers it with a rank sheet of poison

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:30

Aipsh: Feb 17, 2006; GLUPP SHITTO FAN CLUB PRESIDENT

All this talk of cold weather and I am loving sweltering here in London it is genuinely hot today

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:31

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

a rank sheet of poison

Ah, the 2024 ballot papers

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:34

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Aipsh posted:

All this talk of cold weather and I am loving sweltering here in London it is genuinely hot today

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:35

Calico Heart: Mar 22, 2012; "wich the worst part was what troll face did to sonic's corpse after words wich was rape it. at that point i looked away"

Yeah my understanding was Sadiq capitulated to Tories a lot and had a big role in shafting TfL/not bailing them out, but it seems the situation was more complicated. I don't like his �151m to the Met Police paid for by a �40 council tax increase + the stop and search stuff previously mentioned - but that might be it in terms of policy. He's also against txing big tech but tbh I don't know if anyone with a chance of getting elected would be different.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:38

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

If it's just for the windshield surely just using a lot of water of any temperature should work? Unless the temperature stresses cause the windshield to crack or something.

Hot water can crack a windscreen, yeah. When I worked in insurance claims handling we�d be inundated with calls for windscreen claims where people had emptied a kettle over it trying to de-ice them every winter.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:40

Jakabite: Jul 31, 2010

Sadiq is hardly the socialist firebrand we all want, need and deserve but he�s probably the best politician with any actual power in the UK right now which is extremely depressing.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:45

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Aipsh posted:

All this talk of cold weather and I am loving sweltering here in London it is genuinely hot today

I mean yeah this is me asking in advance. It's actually quite warm today. Hell the sun is actually loving shining outside my window.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:48

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Install an electric cabin heater in your car, set it to run an hour before leaving, get into cozy warm car with ice free windows.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:50

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Khan boils the gammons piss which is more than enough to vote for him imo. He's gotta be doing something right

(fr tho, the hopper fare is enough to make me vote for him)

# ? Feb 16, 2024 11:51

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Jobcentres told to stop referring benefit claimants to food banks

The Guardian posted:

Jobcentre officials have been ordered to stop referring penniless benefit claimants to food banks because it breaches data privacy law, in a move charities have warned will cause delays in crisis help for thousands of hungry households.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:22

kingturnip: Apr 18, 2008

Calico Heart posted:

Yeah my understanding was Sadiq capitulated to Tories a lot and had a big role in shafting TfL/not bailing them out, but it seems the situation was more complicated. I don't like his �151m to the Met Police paid for by a �40 council tax increase + the stop and search stuff previously mentioned - but that might be it in terms of policy. He's also against txing big tech but tbh I don't know if anyone with a chance of getting elected would be different.

TfL were in a pretty bad financial situation coming out of covid and the Tories basically said "cut the services you offer, or we won't bail you out". Given that London doesn't function without public transport, Khan didn't really have a choice. It was absolutely a political play by the Tories, though, hoping that they could point to a reduction in services when the next mayoral election came around and say "see, the muslim communist can't even do that right". (And then the Tories chose yet another headbanger as their mayoral candidate, making the whole thing rather moot.)
He could have tried to call their bluff, but I'm pretty sure the Tories would have let London grind to a halt and just blamed Khan for the whole thing, given the whole thing was just a way to make him look bad.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:22

Doctor_Fruitbat: Jun 2, 2013

Tale as old as time - he's loved by liberals, criticised by the left for good reasons, and hated by right wingers for ballistically stupid reasons.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:26

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

Jakabite posted:

Sadiq is hardly the socialist firebrand we all want, need and deserve but he�s probably the best politician with any actual power in the UK right now which is extremely depressing.

Mark Drakeford is still in post

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:27

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Tesseraction posted:

The danger of just water is it will re-freeze while driving and your windscreen effectively clouds up on you.

What if you just climb onto your bonnet & piss on the windscreen?

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:29

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Or lie on it and piss hard enough that it flies over your head and hits the windscreen.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Tale as old as time - he's loved by liberals, criticised by the left for good reasons, and hated by right wingers for ballistically stupid reasons.

White boomers in Felixstowe when they hear about a bus name change that doesn't affect them in the slightest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA0ykZJCOKg

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:33

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Man found dead on Bibby Stockholm was �tricked� on to barge, says support worker

quote:

The family of Leonard Farruku is calling for an independent inquiry into his death on the Bibby Stockholm barge, the Guardian has learned.

The Albanian asylum seeker, 27, was found dead on the barge, moored in Portland, Dorset, on 12 December last year, after a suspected suicide.

Lawyers for the family have written to the justice minister, Alex Chalk, asking for the prisons and probation ombudsman (PPO) to investigate the death. The request has been passed to the Home Office.

While it is mandatory for the PPO to investigate deaths in immigration detention, the barge is not classified as a detention centre even though men are placed there against their will and describe it as �prison-like�.

According to the letter from the law firm Bhatt Murphy the �closed, quasi-detention conditions� cannot be meaningfully distinguished from detention and require an independent body like the PPO to examine the circumstances surrounding the death.

Little is known about the circumstances leading up to Farruku�s death but a support worker has told the Guardian he repeatedly raised concerns with Home Office contractors about his mental health before he was placed on the barge, but was ignored.

He said everyone called him �Faruk� and that he suffered from severe mood swings. �He had been let down for a long time from pretty much every direction,� said the support worker. �I was always really concerned about him and sometimes he went into mental health crisis.

�There are so many important parts of his story that need to be told as I am convinced this will happen again if pressure is not put on those who hold duty of care to support these people and who are consistently failing to meet their duty.�

The support worker claimed Farruku was terrified of being taken to the barge and refused to go there but was �tricked� into getting into the car to go there by contractors who told him he was going to be taken to a hotel in Swindon.

�When a car came to collect him to take him to the barge he became hysterical and refused to go. He agreed to get into the car when he was told he would be taken to the Swindon hotel instead. He was tricked.�
...

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:34

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

IIRC, the other thing Khan has been pretty crap on is housing (both in terms of general housebuilding and in terms of social housing provision). As others have mentioned, though, he's just a somewhat disappointing centrist rather than one of the far-right weirdos higher up in New New Labour. Not unlike Andy Burnham.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:39

Aipsh: Feb 17, 2006; GLUPP SHITTO FAN CLUB PRESIDENT

Darth Walrus posted:

IIRC, the other thing Khan has been pretty crap on is housing (both in terms of general housebuilding and in terms of social housing provision). As others have mentioned, though, he's just a somewhat disappointing centrist rather than one of the far-right weirdos higher up in New New Labour. Not unlike Andy Burnham.

We should gone for Brian Rose. 100,000 houses in central london in six months he promised us, but we just didn't deserve him

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:43

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Dead Goon posted:

Jobcentres told to stop referring benefit claimants to food banks

A friend of mine who runs a local foodbank was part of a committee that lobbied against this change. They visited Westminster in person last year and explained clearly and in great detail how this change would cause greater hardship and hunger. So the government know the damage this will cause, and I guess performative cruelty is the main focus

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:44

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Dead Goon posted:

Jobcentres told to stop referring benefit claimants to food banks

The loving audacity of this. This is absolutely covered under GDPR lawful basis.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 12:54

The Question IRL: Jun 8, 2013; Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

History Comes Inside! posted:

Hot water can crack a windscreen, yeah. When I worked in insurance claims handling we’d be inundated with calls for windscreen claims where people had emptied a kettle over it trying to de-ice them every winter.

I think the difference is that's people pouring boiling water onto freezing cold windshields. In that case the change in temperature is so rapid it can cause the windshield to crack.

I just use tap water (like lukewarm water) and that's enough to melt the ice. It will refreeze if its cold enough but if you put your wipers on, it'll stop it from icing over.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:00

sinky: Feb 22, 2011; Slippery Tilde

Rarity posted:

The loving audacity of this. This is absolutely covered under GDPR lawful basis.

While the DWP wants to see claimants bank accounts to make sure they aren't buying widescreen TVs every week :wankah:

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:01

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

sinky posted:

While the DWP wants to see claimants bank accounts to make sure they aren't buying widescreen TVs every week

They don't buy them. The day after signing on, a large box arrives containing a 55" flat screen plasma tv, the latest iphone, and a box of 200 marlboros. And if they're under 40, a box of avocados too.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:10

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

It�s not classified as a prison because they don�t consider the prisoners to be people

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:10

Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

Apraxin posted:

starming ever onward to the glorious future...

edit: wellingborough is a tory majority of 18k becoming a labour majority of 6.5k, jesus christ

Looking at the number of people who voted it's not a huge gain of Labour voters so much as just the complete collapse of Tory votes. Labour gained 107 votes in Wellingborough. The Tories lost 24,869. It's not a huge gain of democracy, it's a huge number of people being completely turned off after the media decided it was safe to notice the Tories are poo poo.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:13

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Hello, dear

smellmycheese posted:

�marriage lessons� in order to marry in a Catholic Church

UP BUM NO BABY

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:25

Grey Hunter: Oct 17, 2007; Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Gonzo McFee posted:

Looking at the number of people who voted it's not a huge gain of Labour voters so much as just the complete collapse of Tory votes. Labour gained 107 votes in Wellingborough. The Tories lost 24,869. It's not a huge gain of democracy, it's a huge number of people being completely turned off after the media decided it was safe to notice the Tories are poo poo.

I guess you could say, what's the point in voting in a bi election with a general election coming so soon.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:27

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Aipsh posted:

All this talk of cold weather and I am loving sweltering here in London it is genuinely hot today

I just drove back from a barracks in northumbria and yeah it was nice and sunny and warm. I am hopeful for a sunny spring, might cheer me up a little.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:29

JoylessJester: Sep 13, 2012

Grey Hunter posted:

I guess you could say, what's the point in voting in a bi election with a general election coming so soon.

Kingswood is being redrawn/abolished in the next election. I'm not actually sure what the corresponding new seat is. I think a decent chunk is going into Moggs seat and another portion is going to the Bristol Central (currently Bristol West Thangam's seat).

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:31

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I would vote in a bi election, I might even stand in a bi election.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:32

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lol liz loving kendal on tv just now saying we need to get people off long-term sickness

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:42

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

better get the king out driving down the M1 with his hands out both windows high fiving as many people as possible then, unless you've got a direct line to jesus.

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:43

EvilHawk: Sep 15, 2009; LIVARPOOL!

Klopp's 13pts clear thanks to video ref

crispix posted:

lol liz loving kendal on tv just now saying we need to get people off long-term sickness

I assume by massively increasing the mental health budget so people can get the help they desperately need, increasing childcare support so parents are able to work instead of looking after their need, and public transport so you don't need a care to get to anywhere hiring

Right?

...right?

# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:44

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# ? Feb 16, 2024 13:44

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