In that video up there ⬆️ She doesn’t move much does she?

The word that springs to mind on first listen is…. turgid.

Depends what drugs are being used to wrap my salad and/or cucumbers, unlikely I’d be throwing the wrapping away 😉

Control – gaining it, keeping it, maintaining it. Even more difficult when kids or animals are involved. It’s a **** tightrope, one slip and…. whooooooooosh!

Thank **** neither the kids or animals know how tenuous our grasp of control really is.

Or, we learn to roll with it 😁

Simple enforcement of the two existing rules of the road:

Keep left unless overtaking.

Give way to the right.

The rules already exist, they’re simple, straightforward and yet carried out with minimal compliance.

I would say it very much depends upon which of the two generated sounds you prefer, given your eclectic listening choices. Bose are quite distinctive, I would imagine Sony have their ‘brand’ of sound too.

I like the Bose ‘sound’ some/many others do not and we can luxuriate with the choices presented to us 😁

Happy birthday!

I feel it’s a case of we each do what we can. I wash out all my recycling, yet my ex-neighbours would have no regard for which of the two bins to use, let alone rinse it beforehand. People are lazy and generally ignorant and I’m not sure education would help. Nor would penalties or fines and I’m not sure what the answer is. I live along a rural lane that is constantly being littered with everything from fast food bags, general rubbish, drinks cans, wet wipes, fridges, tyres. It’s a joke quite frankly.

I remember being in Thailand in 1989 and seeing the piles and piles of general rubbish, everywhere, at a time where the UK had been wising up to recycling and my thoughts were then, as they are now. Humans don’t deserve this planet, the sooner we’re done and dusted the better the planet will be.

windy.com is my go to for working out a forecast. There’s a choice of circa 5 met agencies and an amalgam of those will generally be good.

TL:DR

Has anyone mentioned or asked how we mainly generate electricity in this country?

As both ground and air source require electricity to help them along in the absence of geo thermal assistance or plentiful warm sunshine in winter.

Coal, or worse still imported wood pellet biomass i.e. Drax are used in significant quantities to generate and sate our unquenchable thirst for electricity, including charging the EV’s, lets not talk about how to deal with spent lithium ion cells.

Happy days.

I’m unable to join in the viewing fun as I don’t do/have Sky, however it strikes me a bit odd that a TV series entitled “End of the **** world” has a second series..

Clearly, it wasn’t.

So you wouldn’t feel a little bit peeved if your parents were sitting on a big pile of cash and left it all to the Three Legged Blind Donkey Charity? Rather than helping you and your family have a better future?

At least you’ll know you weren’t their favourite.

The WHO have just changed the coloured lightbulb.

Or maybe they no longer need to do that and use Hue?

Imagine my dismay to not find more Airfix.

Maybe it’s a PR thing? Justifying the defence budget and make the populous feel safe at the same time. Win win.

A bit like the USAF bases on the Norfolk/Suffolk border who play airborne war above the rural East Anglian idyll with their extremely loud engines, just to remind us of our special relationship and how lucky we are to have them here. I’d prefer them to **** off and practise their dog fights over the North Sea.

I bloody love a bit of consistency. 😉

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/look-at-what-mcdonalds-has-done-to-this-country/

And before I’m ‘modded’ with “irony”… 🤣

Anxiety is fear of the future. Depression is fear of the past. The two are not mutually exclusive.

It sounds like you’ve been trying to please people too, which adds another burden.

A visit to the GP is one option, as is going down the pharmaceutical sticking plaster route, of which, I’m not a fan but for some short term assistance to help you deal with the real issue/s can help some people.

This may sound a tad harsh but to me it sounds like you need to have a very honest, frank and full conversation with your wife. Which will require you to fully state your case, your needs, wants and desires and if she chooses to belittle or ignore what you have to say, there my man, is your answer.

Good luck.

Or a fuse.

I found it the funniest Top Gear I’ve watched for years and years. Brilliant entertainment and it felt as though the three of them enjoyed each other’s company and contributions.

Wayyyyyyy better than what has become the turgid three of Clarkson et al and significantly better than the previous Le Blanc era. I didn’t watch the first series of this lot as like others not a fan of Paddy, however, I thought he was very good in this.

10/10

The pint with the beer bottles

I see what you did there… 😉

Surely the electrical network is one of the simplest ways of moving energy

No very efficient though, unless we develop ambient temperature superconductors.

I always saw the issue with hydrogen was more of the mass storage.

Zeppelin anyone?

Oh and I’ll vote Kashmir if anyone wants to embed 😉

Going to see the Dutty Moonshine Big Band in April in Cambridge, very excited about that as I’ve been wanting to experience them live since listening to their first album Most Wanted a couple of years ago. They’re different, eclectic and I’m sure their new album, Sin City will not disappoint.

Aside from that, it’ll be the annual pilgrimage to the Hants/Berks border in June for 36 hours or so of Psy Trance and leaping around, throwing shapes and ‘aving it large to banging beats! 😎

Go old Skool and use Petroleum Jelly. Worked for decades 😁

If you also ran a query asking how many times the clutch was used, would that tell you if it was nearly due for replacement, or that the dual mass centrifugal flywheel was about to kark it?

Probably not.

I’m not sure any of the information would be of any use in reality. A good old fashioned compression check, smell the oil off the dipstick and check it’s colour and level, along with looking at how worn the pedals and seat are and shut lines/gaps are still likely to be the best units of measure.

I don’t think my two Merc 6hp Sail outboards, both new a couple of years ago are going to give any of the info above, so maybe only applies to the big jobbies

Jacob Hawley: On Drugs. 8 episode podcast on the Sounds app.

Did they put a 3.5l V8 in an mg?

Yes. MGB V8

It was the same American V8 that Rover put into the P6 and SD1’s. Along with Triumph into the TR8. Morgan too IIRC.

I would say that an etch primer would be the better approach, it’s what I’ve used for non ferrous metals on boats. Sanding/abrading could potentially give rise to the scratches showing through the finish coat, so I would avoid that.

I’d also avoid using a water based exterior paint, even if it is Little Green. IME, water based exterior paints do not cope with UV light and tend to fade and lose their depth of colour. Which is fine if you like painting.

Have you gone to a trade paint store? They may well know of some specialist products that you can use.

Not only an extremely pleasing result but when glancing at the Premier table, it’s not difficult to notice that Man U have played 23 with a tally of 34 points. Liverpool have a game in hand, having played 22 games and amassed a points total of 64.

IF they win their game in hand, they will have near as dammit double the points of ManYooooo….

Happy days.

Not sure if 31 counts as old enough for a mid life crisis…

😂😂 No chap, you’re still a pup with real actual testosterone flowing through you 😁

Loving your Elise 😎

About 35 years ago I used to scrape lead based and TBT antifouling off boat hulls. Masks were never considered and frequently bits of paint caught in eyes. All thoroughly unpleasant but, for the time being, I’m still alive. Sanding dust is finer although surface area of skirtings and picture rails isn’t a great deal.

If you feel you will be best served by getting a test done, to confirm or deny your concerns, then go get one.

Now paint manufacturers have had to remove all the useful bits from their coatings (which, I will add, is a good thing) modern antifoulings in particular are not anywhere near as effective as the lead filled chemical cocktails of old.

You’d be surprised at how indignant white middle class women get if a bloke in the friendship group marries a non-white foreign introduces a girl from outside the friendship group.

Something something stealing our men.

I’ll let your original racist comment go… 😉

Reference the abs and traction control in racing cars, I seem to remember the FIA banning such driving aids in F1 because they were deemed to aid the driver too much. Or am I thinking about something else?

Either way, moderate engine braking in slippy conditions enables speed control whilst maintaining drive through the driven wheels. Also using 2nd gear to start moving in icy conditions reduces the chance of wheel spin that is more easily achieved in 1st gear.

Pygmalion.

Oh please @cougar, instead of conventional medicine? The example above suggests very strongly that she was benefitting from her efforts, more than likely gaining a sense of inner peace, where what and how does conventional medicine enable that?

Please refer to:

No, it was my own cockiness and desire to be clever and right, nothing more. I don’t have to read the books or join in the spiritualism, but I don’t need to lay into her for it. If she wants a discussion on it I’ll have one and take a different position, but I’ll treat the subject with respect because I care about her feelings.

All we’re saying is don’t be a dick, and discuss things carefully and with respect, where it’s appropriate.

A blanket approach of complete denial to anything away from your own comfort zone is really quite a narrow minded approach to life, do you not feel?

@tjagain thank you for your response, I’m with you. As @miketually experience, it’s ridiculous that people are made to suffer when they have made their ultimate choice.

I’ve said before, the one human right we need only have, we are denied.

So I’m left to arranging my own exit strategy, so far I’m looking at overdosing on insulin, or possibly going out on a bit of a high (which I would prefer tbh) and considering a desert spoonful of ghb (or gbl). Not just yet, but I like to be prepared 😁

Dib dib dib an all that.

Catching up here, so excuse dragging this back to page 5…

I believe in dignity in death. I believe its a human right to chose the time and place of my death. Organised religous objections to this deny me this right. Thats them imposing their moral code on me. Thats a very personal and strongly held belief that I cannot exercise because of religious objections.

Do what????!!! Try going to your GP and asking to book your own Death Day and enquiring what substances they offer to facilitate your own death. Are you saying that the Hippocratic Oath is fundamentally determined by religious dogma and doctrine?

Bang goes my exit strategy.

That is very well put @Cougar. Couldn’t have said it even close to as well.

I’m not sure it is really. It’s just a lot of words not really going anywhere. It started well , at some point, I forget where, with the Abrahamic God and denying the existence of that. The rest of it… I confess to getting bored. Define God and not the creator of the frikking Universe because that’s a bit too two dimensional.

Not even three dimensions will really adequately be able to define whatever “God” is. Personally, I feel that @Tomd got pretty close way back up there ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Edit: Anyway, it doesn’t really matter because leaving aside the bollox and dogma of the religious doctrines, which let’s face it, are pretty easy to usurp and deny, actual “God”, we’ll that’s a personal thing, open to personal definition and acceptance or denial, whatever floats your jolly old boat. And for those who then, after having a new set of guidelines to perhaps follow, a good suggestion would be to search within, rather than without, if you really want to look.

Or not.

I’m a step parent Kryton. From when he was 4 to now at nearly 17.

My prognosis is that SIL is using the extremist religious stuff as a smoke screen for what is really going on for her. Which, in all likelihood, she has no conscious idea as to what is really going on for her because it’s all part of her denial process.

It could be that something has recently come into her knowledge that is very difficult for her to resolve. Or perhaps she’s told herself repeatedly that her responsibilities as a parent are overwhelming, a delayed post natal depression except the delay, borne from denial and ignoring the issue, has exacerbated and magnified her feelings of fear, inadequacy and possibly more importantly, her growing lack of control over the care and development of her young children.

If so, suggest she does not read the current “Creating Little Ones” thread.

Fight or flight being a natural response to any threat and she’s chosen flight with extreme mental anguish and behaviour. She needs help but unless she’s prepared to be completely honest with everyone, any help will be limited.

I’ve lost count due to the comedic value of some of these posts, however IIRC, defensive parent posts are outnumbering the miserable childless eco warrior posts.

“Best thing I/we ever did…” Oh yeah?…. Say it often enough… 😉

No, however I received a video on WhatsApp the other day where someone was using a magic wand. Seemed not to make particularly good music but I could be tone deaf

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Rising damp is a myth made up by builders so they can charge loads of money for work that isn’t needed.

(That should do it 😆 )

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