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The Question IRL posted:I started my car a good five minutes before I was going to leave the house to defrost it. The future is now
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Dec 1, 2023 11:47
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It's not good for cars to be started cold, also bad for fuel economy and the environment to leave them running while cold. A block heater is an electric heater, perhaps with a pump, that heats the engines coolant. I'm always surprised at how rare they seem to be outside Norway-Sweden-Finland where it's standard equipment unless the car has it's own webasto.
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Dec 1, 2023 11:51
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The Question IRL posted:5 minutes of searching Google I find that with Kia Sportages you can use the car key to pry off a part of the door handle to get access to the key hole and manually unlock the car.
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Dec 1, 2023 11:52
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Smartcars have the keyhole hidden in a door handle too. And a special sequence of things to do to lock the car if you don't have a key with a working beeper.
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Dec 1, 2023 12:01
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Allegedly, spruce and pine needles are all toxic to cats. My cats are absolute idiots and will eat anything green and then throw it up on the nearest non easy to clean surface so I figured plastic tree. I'm now off work til January! Now I can catch up on the news and try to not drink myself into a coma.
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Dec 1, 2023 12:03
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I enjoy the juxtaposition of "my cats are stupid and will consume things toxic to them" and "I am going to take in British news and alcohol" (I am also an idiot animal and will consume the UK news and whiskey)
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Dec 1, 2023 12:07
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Precondition the car to whatever temperature you want in the app. If you share your calendar with it it'll know when you want to leave and do this anyway without you having to ask.
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Dec 1, 2023 12:27
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mediaphage posted:if it’s not below freezing i can’t imagine the car is so burdened with ice that it needs so much defrosting. personally i think that’s a bad habit to get into Well, warm water or screen wash, one or the other is fine. As long as I'm not standing in the cold scraping anything. I'm cautious when it's below 0 remembering an incident - probably 30 years ago now  - where my mum, rushing to take me to school, poured water over the windscreen that froze into a sheet by the time we got round the corner.
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Dec 1, 2023 12:43
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Enjoying this era of cars as escape rooms, where there's no idling motor to wake up the neighbours in the morning but they still get bothered by Richard O Brien playing his harmonica while your keyhole defrosts
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Dec 1, 2023 12:43
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Guavanaut posted:There was a whole moral panic alleging that TikTok was teaching kids how to steal Kia Sportages, so it's good to know that the actual truth is that they're just annoying to unlock and not that today's youth can steal cars by twerking at them or whatever the tabloids were claiming. They were selling cars without immobilizers, in the 21st century lmbo
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Dec 1, 2023 12:53
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Guavanaut posted:I enjoy the juxtaposition of "my cats are stupid and will consume things toxic to them" and "I am going to take in British news and alcohol" Fair point... My wife excitedly shouted at me while I was in the shower yesterday "have you seen the news???" I opened up the BBC because she's American and still occasionally checks them for news, Kissenger wasn't on the front page at all. I asked "the RMT thing? the covid inquiry fuckery? the football abuse thing? The royal scandal or the weather?" Speaking of, which were the actual named racist royals? (Other than all of them...) Every paper has said "we will not be naming them"
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Dec 1, 2023 13:01
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The one who was concerned about skin pigmentation is on the stamps and has bright pink sausage fingers.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:06
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Mebh posted:Fair point... According to the radio, the book specifically mentioned Charles and Kate.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:07
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Hope this cold spell doesn't last! Forecast to warm up round here after next Tuesday inshallah. My electric bill for this week is nearly £29 (very small 1 bed flat - heater in bedroom & living room + towel rail in bathroom that oscillates between 17 & about 18 C). Last week it was £16 and before that around £12-£14 (after the tariff change). We've also put all the storage heaters on in the corridors, so wretchedly cold and supposed to be -5C tonight! Last winter we were quite stingy with the communal heating but definitely noticed some deterioration in the building so we'll just have to suck it up. (Common parts is SSE non-domestic & on a tariff we fixed 18 months ago).
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Dec 1, 2023 13:08
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Mebh posted:Speaking of, which were the actual named racist royals? (Other than all of them...) Every paper has said "we will not be naming them" Every paper seems to have decided today that the new approach is to offhandedly name them in the body of the article, describe their alleged comments as 'discussing the baby's skin colour' and then start furiously monstering the translator and biographer for defaming our King Charles and beloved Kate. It's all a bit berserk.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:09
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grobbo posted:It's all a bit berserk. That seems to be the way the British people and media handle the royals. Sort of a frantic, frenzied obsession.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:25
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killerwhat posted:Well, warm water or screen wash, one or the other is fine. As long as I'm not standing in the cold scraping anything. I'm cautious when it's below 0 remembering an incident - probably 30 years ago now Better that than thermal shock shattering the window, don't know if windows nowadays can survive thermal shock but not intending to try it.
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Dec 1, 2023 13:27
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warm water out of the hot tap has always worked for me
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Dec 1, 2023 13:39
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Cheers for the new thread Guavanaut. My sleep issue is I get a twitchy leg. It’s always the same leg, and it starts in my hip muscle (as you can tell, I am a medical man who knows all the right medical words). Currently my only solutions are a) cursing my own existence and b) guzzling Rescue Night like a stressed teacher. Stupid bastard leg.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:00
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Guavanaut posted:There was a whole moral panic alleging that TikTok was teaching kids how to steal Kia Sportages, so it's good to know that the actual truth is that they're just annoying to unlock and not that today's youth can steal cars by twerking at them or whatever the tabloids were claiming. It even says in that wikipedia article that you could unlock them by inserting a random USB. Not everything is a moral panic.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:15
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:You people with sleep issues, have you tried CBD? If you have and it hasn't worked, have you tried taking more CBD? It stops me waking up at 3AM and my body thinking it's time to get up then. Over time I've built up a tolerance so I make my own oil now from isolate and MCT oil. mediaphage posted:as an aside i’m glad melatonin works for so many of you. for me it’s always been practically homeopathy as it doesn’t absolutely nothing.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:18
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:You people with sleep issues, have you tried CBD? If you have and it hasn't worked, have you tried taking more CBD? It stops me waking up at 3AM and my body thinking it's time to get up then. Over time I've built up a tolerance so I make my own oil now from isolate and MCT oil. NotJustANumber99 posted:Precondition the car to whatever temperature you want in the app. If you share your calendar with it it'll know when you want to leave and do this anyway without you having to ask. Do Teslas know when it's icy for adjusting self drive, or is this another thing where if it crashes you get told off for using the self drive thing to drive itself because you're not supposed to let it self drive?
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Dec 1, 2023 14:19
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Cool, my Coccyx is hosed and now I need a butt injection. Happy Christmas all! I am weirdly still very comfortable in hospitals. I really hope that we can actually unfuck the NHS soon. It's just so depressing.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:19
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Mebh posted:and now I need a butt injection. 
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Dec 1, 2023 14:21
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The Question IRL posted:I started my car a good five minutes before I was going to leave the house to defrost it. lmao please crosspost this in the Scadenfreude thread and/or the Tech Nightmares thread
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Dec 1, 2023 14:23
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The two avatars are like a before and after. 
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Dec 1, 2023 14:23
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Brendan Rodgers posted:It even says in that wikipedia article that you could unlock them by inserting a random USB. Not everything is a moral panic.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:34
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Cheers for the new thread Guavanaut. I have restless legs a lot, have you thought of a hitatchi or something? You can stick it up your arse if it doesn't help the leg.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:41
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TACD posted:lmao please crosspost this in the Scadenfreude thread and/or the Tech Nightmares thread Sure, I'll get on that. Brendan Rodgers posted:It even says in that wikipedia article that you could unlock them by inserting a random USB. Not everything is a moral panic. The thing is, even if this is true (I'm not sure. I guess I'll have to check if my car has an immobiliser or not.) you have to be able get access to the inside of the car and insert the USB. Which if the car is locked, is pretty much a big stopping block. (I mean I had a spare key to the car. And it was pretty hard to get it open.) I'm not saying it's perfectly secure, but equally, it's not some trivial "you can hold a phone up and haxxor any car you want." Mebh posted:That seems to be the way the British people and media handle the royals. Sort of a frantic, frenzied obsession. The mad thing about the Royal Racisim Row is when Piers Morgan named the Royals on his show it was "I want to investigate the whole thing. Find out if they said it, in what context they said it and did they have a malicious intention in mind." Which pretty much translates into "I want to give them multiple defences for why what they said wasn't so bad. Including a defence that we don't know what was in their heart, so it's fine." Very normal.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:41
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Can report that a sleep study is about as much fun as a kidney stone. I don't remember having a less comfortable night with about a mile of wire going from me to a box hooked to the bed. Seemed incredibly low tech. I also don't remember sleeping a wink, but the tech says I did for a bit. Hopefully long enough that they have some data to work with.
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Dec 1, 2023 14:42
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The Question IRL posted:The mad thing about the Royal Racisim Row is when Piers Morgan named the Royals on his show it was "I want to investigate the whole thing. Find out if they said it, in what context they said it and did they have a malicious intention in mind."
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Dec 1, 2023 14:45
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Piers Morgan, transformed into a nightmarish visage by the nesting racism wasps: "we can't actually prove anything from this"
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Dec 1, 2023 14:50
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Stupid bastard leg. I have a small patch on the front of my left shin which 'triggers' that Im being touched there as if its a spider or insect crawling over it. Used to hate it a lot as a kid, and can ignore it at will now. But sometimes it wakes me up, instantly thinking there is something in the bed with me. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 14:56
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The Question IRL posted:The mad thing about the Royal Racisim Row is when Piers Morgan named the Royals on his show it was "I want to investigate the whole thing. Find out if they said it, in what context they said it and did they have a malicious intention in mind." 'this BLACK person says there's NOTHING racist about talking about a baby's skin colour - THEY do it ALL THE TIME'
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Dec 1, 2023 15:15
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I would love to but it's £60 a bottle, unless you get it online in which case jesus christ do not buy medicines from online. This is why I get isolate from online and make my own. I was paying near £80 for 0.25g/ml, now paying £20 for 0.5g/ml. There are lab test results on the product page for the isolate from this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rieux_NutriSciences
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Dec 1, 2023 15:18
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2.30 on Dec 1st and I’m already tucking into the Orange Matchmakers
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Dec 1, 2023 15:41
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Cheers for the new thread Guavanaut. Do you sleep in a specific position? You could try sleeping on your side with a pillow between your knees. This takes the weight of your legs off your spine and generally relaxes you. Give it a go for a few days at least. 
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Dec 1, 2023 15:46
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Jippa posted:Do you sleep in a specific position? This is the pro sleeping strat, minimises snoring and makes my dodgy knee feel much nicer after a long run
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Dec 1, 2023 16:11
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I'm convinced I'd somehow manage to smother myself if I tried it.
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Dec 1, 2023 16:13
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This is what Maternity Pillows are for. And best of all, you don't have to produce any Ultrasound scans to get a Maternity Pillow. Anyone can buy one.
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Dec 1, 2023 16:24
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