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Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

My sister has to keep the tap in the basin in the upstairs bathroom dripping slightly because her kitty (who looks like your kitty) will only drink water from that tap and jumps in the basin to do so. (Of course, when sister &co are away kitty will drink from an official water bowl.)

You can buy cat fountains for >�10 that do the same without having to leave a tap on.

https://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/...htlight-3-litre

Pets at home linked but there are copycats on Amazon dependent on your love of Bezos etc.

Vitamin P posted:

"a plastic bag from a halal takeaway" is such wierd loving prose it's a sentence where dogwhistling has taken precedence over sounding like a human

Even in its world building and scene setting she couldn�t be arsed, just copy and pasted the Britain First post and let the editor rename things.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2020 23:40

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 07:00

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

kingturnip posted:

Well that's certainly one way to take control of our borders

Everything on the south coast between Southampton, Portsmouth and Winchester is hosed in that scenario. Joy

# ¿ Sep 15, 2020 09:10

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Isomermaid posted:

You're just not seeing the genius of it. Erect hard borders a county inland then do nothing on climate change and wait for them to become the new coastline.

I don�t know whether anyone would go to Guildford as a new beach resort.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2020 09:39

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

The Mail got told to gently caress off with their brigading by someone with a modicum of sense at Ofcom so now they�ve readjusted their sights and are after a black comedian for making a sarcastic comment on a satirical news programme headlined by Frankie Boyle.

It�s so blatant it warps into being comedy itself.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2020 14:37

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

If only there was some way to work out who Persimmon - Block 4566060 Ltd ultimately had as a controlling company when it wound up taking all its legal obligations with it.

Oh well

# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 08:50

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Guavanaut posted:

She felt safe to be that racist in the first place on something that she knew would be made public, and also lied repeatedly about the police death.

And felt safe to say all that to Jewish community leaders, and claimed that this was not racist because 'travellers' are different to Gypsies and Roma.

Tory party policy is to attack the T in any acronym

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 14:39

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Catered halls are a feature at loads of universities and it�s definitely not a posh thing.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2020 19:47

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Is that a default Visio template

# ¿ Sep 27, 2020 09:47

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Guavanaut posted:

Does that mean we get two days off for Hogmanay and the disestablishment of the church?

You get to ask where people went to school though so swings and roundabouts.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 09:17

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

WhatEvil posted:

Do you mean like, big big ones? Like a Tesco Extra or an ASDA Supercentre? Those are so huge because they have clothes, homewares, electronics etc. but I don't think Waitrose does any of that stuff because John Lewis handles it.

I know there�s at least one in Horsham that has both attached so it functions as one.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 16:51

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Red Oktober posted:

Solid 'trending with' here.

I found out today that my local rip-off convenience store (which I avoid at all costs because the owners are awful is now inflating the cost of loving stamps. Charging 90p X 6 for a book of first class. loving chancers.

Aren�t stamps something that have to be sold at a fixed price?

# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 16:58

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

OwlFancier posted:

The weird thing is that, like, jersey exists if you want an island to build your death camps on?

Or the isle of wight, which would hopefully at least spare SMGT some grief.

Isle of Wight is close enough that people on the mainland (�real people�) would hear the screams and see the flags waving.

I mean it happens now and people ignore it, but that�s just islanders.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2020 08:34

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Guavanaut posted:

I hope you don't mean some kind of local lockdowns at entry points with some kind of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment activation from February with some hypothetical PPE advice and widely developed tracing system appearing in March, because that sounds wildly unreasonable.

You know they�d set noise limits to 60dB, why torture yourself with the pipe dream of competence?

# ¿ Oct 3, 2020 09:15

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Backwards compatibility on Excel spreadsheets is, at this point, a government level requirement. Can understand them being hesitant to change things too much.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2020 13:24

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

I think he took on board a lot of the criticisms people levelled at him, and now he�s much better. Didn�t he apologise for the Jordan stuff as well recently?

# ¿ Oct 8, 2020 22:36

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

This is the series being run because they�ve got the rights, not because anyone involved with Pterry wanted it made. Show runner did a massive thank you and acknowledgment post recently that pointedly didn�t reference anyone involved in writing the loving thing.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2020 23:40

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Now let me explain how if we'd only kept the Brunel 7 foot gauge we'd now be able to travel from London to Birmingham in 30 minutes.

Bet you can�t whip up a �Hyerloop is a knockoff of a Brunel design� post

# ¿ Oct 10, 2020 23:13

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Gonna get the polestar because it sounds rude and isn�t.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 11:59

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Some of the new electric cars are really great but none of them can match the charging infrastructure that Tesla has invested in so at present they don't offer the competition they would seem to unless you have a particularly suited limited usage scenario.

You don�t need the manufacturer to invest in charging infrastructure, your cars got a CCS or CHADEMO socket, it can fast charge anywhere. Not like there�s a Ford petrol station.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 13:22

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

If you want your car to be subsidised by the french government you can sign up for an EV lease deal with EDF at the moment that�s attached to one of their cheap tariffs.

Bobstar posted:

I love my new induction (that prompted electricity chat last time). On the aforementioned 7.2kW bizarro Dutch connection, but could also be normal 32A single phase. It's as quick and precise as gas (once I switched from regular 9-level mode to Expanded Mode with 17 levels) and so much easier to clean.

I'm still wary of the enforced gas-free-ness of the future regarding my air and water heating systems, unless they can be equally good and not stupidly more expensive per unit heat.

In my ideal world we�d be ragging so much money into insulating houses and bringing them up towards passive heating capability.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 15:19

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Private Speech posted:

I regret to inform you that is acting rationally in the public interest and hence socialism.

And socialism is not allowed.

To live in a country where there wasn�t a pensioner popsicles policy

# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 15:28

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

The problem with gutting social care, housing, mental health provision, and community programmes, and turning schools into centralised hubs to run your MASH teams from, is that when there�s a pandemic, you�re poo poo out of luck.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 12:33

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

I feel like I mention it every so often but there�s a good to decent chance that Brexit effectively cripples all
transport in one of the largest urban areas in the country. And this is known about but nothing has been done to mitigate it, bar building a car park for twenty trailers next to a ferry port.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2020 19:11

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Nutapii posted:

Kung Flu only affects the taigs, why should we suffer, open 'er up
Half of Cork is in the Crown Bar, Armagh looks like New Vegas
We made an error

Can you elaborate?

Portsmouth and Southampton form one continuous urban area with minor satellite towns between them, that covers a population of about 1m people.

The motorway (M27) is currently being upgraded to become a smart motorway along its length, but is nominally 3 lanes. It joins the M3 to London at the Southampton end, and the A3 to London at the Portsmouth end.

Portsmouth is mainly situated on Portsea Island, and there are three road bridges that lead onto it. Southampton is on the mainland proper. Both have commercial ports, Portsmouth also has the main naval port for the UK. Southampton is the 2nd or 3rd biggest commercially and Portsmouths is smaller.

The risks are that;

quote:

Traffic disruption arising from delays at the Port of Portsmouth and extending along the strategic road network

 The Local Resilience Forum (LRF) has identified traffic disruption linked to delays at the Port of Portsmouth as a high risk. This is on the basis that, like the Port of Dover, it is a roll-on roll-off port. HGV exports from Portsmouth could be delayed because of additional checks required if the UK is treated as a �third country� in the case of a no-deal. In combination with potential delays in ferry turnaround at EU ports causing delays to scheduled departures, this could lead to severe congestion. In addition, HGVs may opt to use Portsmouth due to the expected severe disruption at the Port of Dover, further compounding any congestion problems.
 It is possible that traffic for the Port of Portsmouth could be seen queuing along the M275, and onto the M27 if significant disruption is experienced, affecting critical routes for the city of Southampton.
Mitigation
 Portsmouth City Council is working closely with the Local Resilience Forum to identify locations that can be used as holding areas for HGVs waiting to enter the Port.
 In line with the Port of Dover�s planning assumptions, the LRF is aiming to identify contingency holding areas capable of accommodating up to one-days� worth of port freight transport (currently 500 lorries a day), but uncertainties regarding the scale of additional traffic that may attempt to use Portsmouth, options to accommodate up to 1000 lorries a day are being sought.
 It is not currently seen as necessary to identify a stacking site further west around Southampton due to the distance from Portsmouth Port and lower risk to disruption at the Port of Southampton as it does not operate as a roll on- roll off port.
 The position of the Department for Transport (which is responsible for ports and strategic roads) is that there is no risk to the Port of Portsmouth and that there will be no closure of motorways, or use of motorways for HGV stacking, outside Kent.
 Guidance from the Cabinet Office (which is responsible for UK emergency planning) to LRFs is to consider and mitigate risks at roll-on roll-off ports like Portsmouth, which could experience disruption in the reasonable worst case scenario of the UK leaving the EU without a deal

Any delays at Portsmouth in terms of freight traffic will inevitably kill the throughput on one of the bridges, increasing congestion on the other two. Portsea island has a population of 200k, who would be reliant on three lanes on and off it. The main accident and emergency for Portsmouth is off the island on the mainland.

It will be a shitshow.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2020 20:45

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

I know I�m probably missing something, but the reaction to the new French laws on child identification are ... good? Universality, ensuring provision, no religious schools at all?

# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 01:29

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Nilbop posted:

Yes, it was linked by a couple of Twitter accounts that implied that the measures would only apply to Muslim families, when there's no such evidence in the text.

EVERY CHILD A NUMBER is a really annoying bit of hyperbole as well.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 21:14

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Talking of threats from companies:

I just got a letter from my electricity provider saying I have to get a smart meter because they're turning off the radio network that 'it' uses (my existing meter is not smart but is digital).
I don't need a smart meter, I can read numbers and have a spreadsheet and know that anything that does heating in my flat (heaters, kettle, hot water, cooker that I have never used) uses a lot of electricity so I only use those when I have to and I enter my readings online every month, so for me, there is nothing to be gained.

I don't want a smart meter and two of the flats in the block had them installed but they mucked up their storage heating so the company had to put old ones back.

Is this letter ignorable blx?

Please don�t ignore this, it�s really important that you engage with your supplier on this and get the SMETS2 meter installed.

You are in an are using a Radio Teleswitched Meter. These are used to ensure demand on the local network around your area doesn�t exceed capacity. Historically the signal that switched meters across to economy 7 or to other behaviours was embedded in the long wave signal for Radio 4, but the BBC are switching the transmitter off entirely, so there needs to be a new way of updating and talking to meters.

Resiliency in local networks is really important and especially when it comes to increasing levels of electrification in cooking, heating and transport.

https://www.energy-uk.org.uk/files/docs/Policies/Smart%20Meters/TheFutureofRTSFebruary2020.pdf

Total Meatlove fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Nov 30, 2020

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 16:21

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

China has invested heavily in the upgrading of infrastructure across east Africa to benefit from the drift of manufacturing capacity across from India when it inevitably happens mind.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 16:26

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

OwlFancier posted:

The new method of regulating electricity demand when they switch off the radio 4 transmitter is going to be the Vanguards detonating their missiles in response and obliterating the densest electrical consumers in the country.

Would raise the mean average temperature of the Hebrides to a balmy 4 degrees.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 16:28

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Guavanaut posted:

Germany seems to be doing similar with West Africa (well, the parts that aren't still subject to French theft) but in a much more subtle/liberal manner

Colonialism and I don�t have to bring a ruler? Sign me up.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 16:34

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

OzyMandrill posted:

They do rely on a mobile signal tho, and I'm in rural south wales too, with absolutely no mobile signal whatsoever. A lone figure standing on top of the nearest hill, folornly waving one arm in the air trying to receive a security code is a common sight round these parts.

After the 3rd or so time explaining this over the phone, they stopped bothering me, and noone has bothered me for a couple of years now.

I don�t know if you would be on a radio tele-switched meter. If you are it�ll be WPD who are dealing with the transition across. If not, then you�re likely fine. If you�ve got no signal then you�ve got no signal, and the utility of a smart meter is nowt until that�s sorted.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I see. Thanks for the info.

No bother. The way that responsibility for, and the rollout of, smart meters was managed has been a nightmare.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 16:47

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

My mother has no mobile signal for a radius of 2-3 miles around her home. She has infinite problems explaining this to companies who insist she must be able to get texts or whathaveyou on her mobile (which in any case is never charged and lives in a drawer in case anyone wants to talk to the knives and forks*).

*not original - pinched from someone else with elderly parents!

One of the big reasons that a full coverage of the country is so important.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 16:59

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

StarkingBarfish posted:

Out of interest, are you involved in or well-versed in the smart meter rollout at some level? UKMT is usually great for effortposts from experts on different subjects and I'd really love an insider's view of what is going on there. Don't want to put you on the spot though! That document you linked is full of barely disguised panic which amazes me since the SMETS and SMETS2 rollout have been on the horizon for quite a while.

I had the dumb meters in my place swapped out for SMETS2 when I moved in, and the IHD stopped acquiring readings within a week. It then intermittently picked up either gas or electricity but never both for another wee while until I changed provider and it died completely for 3 months. It recently woke back up and has realised it's on a new provider but they aren't taking smart reads yet and still want me to submit them manually. It looks like an absolute catastrofuck from where I'm sitting so I'd love an insder's opinion both on the tech and on why providers are struggling to roll it out.

I work in a connected capacity, but not on the dedicated smart meters side The barely disguised panic comes from the interconnected and incestuous nature of the utility industry in the UK.

The history of the Data Communications Company and the network being created is the history of poor decisions though. (yay capita). To get agreement across a lot of the longer term objectives of any project, you�re looking at at least fourteen to twenty distinct companies and entities agreeing and being able to agree on standards and interoperability for legacy sets going back to the 60�s. I can see if anyone at work wants to do a tell all on how hosed it was, but to give you an idea, the current work being done to get energy data to anything approaching the open banking standards is to take til �23.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 17:48

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Please get a smart meter. I know that in the initial rollout people got some poo poo ones and that damaged the usefulness of the programme overall but it really will make things better long term and does gently caress all to you in the short term. The new ones are fine.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 22:28

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 07:00

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Convex posted:

Sometimes I wonder who would be the more principled and pragmatic leader; keith stammer or a single sheet of A4 paper

The A4 paper has a limited capacity for reflection and is therefore the winner.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 22:34

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