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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I posted on the old thread at the exact moment you killed it so my words of wisdom have disappeared into the ether. Boo hoo. I got a lot done in march. I'm mostly a homebody and most of my free time is spent in my garage or around the yard. Even my job keeps on going as usual. In april I hope to fell some trees, which I will then debark and dry, they will become the new roof beams for a 5x5m shed.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Why are we using the US spelling of metre in the thread title? Pls fix. goddamnedtwisto posted:We GOT BREXIT DONE and so will not be using filthy French spellings any more.
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Once we get brexit done we can return to buying artisanal goods in guineas and paying the underlings the spare shilling on the company pound.
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Bardeh posted:I resubbed the other day on Omega too, but I'm at the end of ARR and I'm faced with 100 boring fetch quests before the first expansion and I just...can't. I'm considering paying for the skip - is Heavenward that much better that's it's worth it? Personally I wouldn't pay for the skip - the story pays off in spades as it builds towards HW, so if you've made it this far you might as well power through. HW has the same basic mechanics, but it is structured a lot better - far more expansive maps to explore, a much more focused story, new single player dungeons that mean a lot less 4 and 8 player encounters to queue for, just a lot more focus and interest everywhere. I'm not an MMO person, and a lot of ARR was... fine, I guess, but I'm genuinely invested now. I did pay for the machinist level skip way back though, so I've been able to power though absolutely everything.
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Guavanaut posted:That's how the original post spelled it. We still measure fuel economy in MPG but sell fuel in litres/liters, measure small distances in metric but long ones in imperial, and measure drugs and other injectables in mg/ml but blood in pints. What I'm saying is Britain is a dumb country that fully deserves to crash into Mars because of a conversion error.
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I don't mind Imperial units. They seem complicated at first but the idea seems to be that they base their system on numbers that are divisible by many smaller numbers. You divide by 3 or 6 in decimal and you're going to end up with an infinite decimal point. Do it in Imperial and the number has an end. Seeing as we're not going to change our road signage ever I wouldn't mind if we sold fuel in gallons.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We still measure fuel economy in MPG but sell fuel in litres/liters, measure small distances in metric but long ones in imperial, and measure drugs and other injectables in mg/ml but blood in pints. What I'm saying is Britain is a dumb country that fully deserves to crash into Mars because of a conversion error. Or at the very least, glide into a disused airfield full of terrified children.
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Looks like I'm getting furloughed next week  My allotment isn't going to know what hit it.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:measure drugs and other injectables in mg/ml but blood in pints.  But pubs can sell beer by the pint or half pint. And also sell coca cola by the 15fl oz (although I'm not sure if they should and I've no idea why, 426.2ml isn't even a can size). Azza Bamboo posted:Seeing as we're not going to change our road signage ever I wouldn't mind if we sold fuel in gallons. We will have phased out the internal combustion engine before that gets sorted though. And even then we'll be selling household electricity in kWh and measuring cars in kcal/mile or some poo poo.
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Bobstar posted:Or at the very least, glide into a disused airfield full of terrified children. "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We GOT BREXIT DONE and so will not be using filthy French spellings any more. The Germans spell it "meter". There is no escape from the EU.
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I guarantee once you point this out to the gammons they will start a campaign to change our spelling of it to meetr.
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sebzilla posted:Looks like I'm getting furloughed next week I was very excited to spent all my weekends tidying up the garden. Then my council stopped the garden waste collection. 
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Oodles posted:I was very excited to spent all my weekends tidying up the garden. Then my council stopped the garden waste collection. This is what fire is for.
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Burn your garden waste. Mix the ash in your flower beds as fertiliser.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:This is what fire is for.
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I'm grabbing my hoe and I'm off to the back garden to get utterly filthy
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A Rake's Progress.
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Azza Bamboo posted:I don't mind Imperial units. a rod being five and a half yards is bullshit though
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goddamnedtwisto posted:blood in pints. I was going to say this isn't true but realise I don't actually know, despite working in (white) blood cell collection for a long time. Pretty sure they are just 500ml +/- 25ml (plus anticoagulant). Some years ago I worked on a therapy made from whole blood but I can't remember the specifics of the collection :-/
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Apr 1, 2020 10:30
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A UK unit of blood is 525ml +/- just enough to make it actually a pint.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:This is what fire is for. Can’t burn soil, I’m digging out cat poop filled raised beds.
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You can burn cat poo poo if you have enough accelerant.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Burn your garden waste. Mix the ash in your flower beds as fertiliser. Burn the rich, mix the ash in your hair and ululate towards the night sky.
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Guavanaut posted:Do not arson your council.
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DesperateDan posted:I'm grabbing my hoe and I'm off to the back garden to get utterly filthy I have a question for you Dan and other green fingered people: my house is new and there are no plants or trees in the small area around it. How easy is it to make tree seedlings from cuttings? Buying tree seedlings seems to be megabucks.
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Throw all waste in a pile and let it rot- the bugs will love it, if you want to keep cats/foxes/gammons away from your vegetable beds then sprinkle some extra hot chilli powder down once every week or two
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I posted on the old thread at the exact moment you killed it so my words of wisdom have disappeared into the ether. Boo hoo. March, February, and the 12 months prior. I'd been waiting a year for therapy appointments with a charity I'd found that do an open ended number of sessions, because the anxiety I get from knowing I only have a few sessions left undoes most of the work. I was due to have my first appointment last Wednesday, now cancelled indefinitely because of corona, and because of the backlog they're now introducing a 25 session limit with a 6 month wait to refer back again. In summary, gently caress everything
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Who is ready for the April fool's prank during today's coronavirus briefing?
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knox_harrington posted:I have a question for you Dan and other green fingered people: my house is new and there are no plants or trees in the small area around it. How easy is it to make tree seedlings from cuttings? Buying tree seedlings seems to be megabucks. It depends a lot on the tree, some are quite easy some are really hard- the way I was looking at you essentially clamp a plastic ball around a tree branch (with some bark peeled away) with some wet moss inside and it roots the sapling while still attached to the main tree. I was gonna try it this year, as well as cloning a bunch of currant and gooseberry but 'rona kind of changed priorities. Buying trees from most garden places is absolutely ludicrous money, this year I bought lots of bare root transplants from a firm (hedging.co.uk) and sorted them myself and it was a lot cheaper. It's right towards the end of buying season (twice a year) but you might find a few deals left and you still have a month or so of good planting time
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Oodles posted:Can’t burn soil, I’m digging out cat poop filled raised beds. Pretty sure your not supposed to put soil in the green waste bins. Especially if it has cat poo poo in it.
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Guavanaut posted:A UK unit of blood is 525ml +/- just enough to make it actually a pint. I admire your confidence about this and various other things, but I think you are wrong. 450ml collected and packed into 280ml units - which happily is half a pint.
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knox_harrington posted:I was going to say this isn't true but realise I don't actually know, despite working in (white) blood cell collection for a long time. Pretty sure they are just 500ml +/- 25ml (plus anticoagulant). https://www.blood.co.uk/the-donation-process/after-your-donation/ quote:During a blood donation we take 470ml of blood, which is just under a pint. Turns out it's neither, and is in fact nearer a US pint (473ml) instead of a UK one (568ml)
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knox_harrington posted:I have a question for you Dan and other green fingered people: my house is new and there are no plants or trees in the small area around it. How easy is it to make tree seedlings from cuttings? Buying tree seedlings seems to be megabucks. it sucks loving rear end unless you're pretty good at it. buy the tree sapling imo
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Oodles posted:I was very excited to spent all my weekends tidying up the garden. Then my council stopped the garden waste collection. Right on schedule! quote:More than a third of English councils have suspended collections of garden waste as they struggle to pick up rubbish amid staff shortages, analysis by the PA news agency has found.
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Bardeh posted:I resubbed the other day on Omega too, but I'm at the end of ARR and I'm faced with 100 boring fetch quests before the first expansion and I just...can't. I'm considering paying for the skip - is Heavenward that much better that's it's worth it?
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