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No religion, no politics and no axe grinding please.
We said a while ago that we would allow the "Neverendum" thread to act as a repository for discussion of Brexit so long as people were...

Accoring to the government - so it must be true - the burning of wet wood & coal in houses is, and I quote, "... the biggest source of the most harmful pollutant that is affecting people in the UK."

I really, really, really struggle...

...but this evening:
- I had no idea who any of the participants were
- they weren't funny
- most of the time I didn't understand what they were saying anyway
- the topics were obvious and (even to me) politically chosen rather than amusing

I like...

Computer scientist Larry Tesler has passed away. I had never heard his name and chances are most forumites haven't either. His claim to fame is as "inventor" of cut/copy/paste, so something that everyone who uses a computer does several...

So, what with the weather today and all that, Mrs.K decided we should clear out the cupboard under the stairs...in amongst all the old shopping bags, squash rackets and random bits of detritus I discovered a roll of Ektachrome slide film, already...

I have just used the sh itty weather to finish off a newly published book 'The Crew' by David Price -published by Head of Zeus.

It was published last month so is in hardback only at present but greatly reduced on Amazon.

It is broadly based on...

This from the Londonist

Not till 2021 but another pointer to the way domestic rail services are developing.

There have been various news stories about healthcare data being shared outside the NHS to Google and to researchers for example.

Ut's always said that this data is anonymised (or pseudonymised), but I have always been concerned that this data may...

Cue spooky music!
Built in 1976, the Alta was flagged in Tanzania, changed owner in 2017 and was sailing from Greece to Haiti in September 2018 when it become disabled about 1,380 miles (2,220km) south-east of Bermuda.

Unable to make repairs, the...

This forum knows everything, so...

Is there anybody here who would be willing to discuss by PM how a person (previously a Member of RICS but who has not practised for some years and so lost the 'MRICS' post-nominals) might go about getting the...

There’s virtually nothing that someone here doesn’t know something about.

So.... there’s a man apparently called Todrick on the TV at the moment. He’s dressed in a blue suit with a gold coloured puppet fox (I think it’s a fox) over his right...

The police in the states haven’t got it right by any means but I find this display of solidarity just awesome.
In December 2017 Officer O’Connor was transporting a handcuffed suspect who pulled out a hidden gun and shot the Officer in the back of...

What a gent!

BBC News - Jurgen Klopp's letter to young Man Utd fan goes viral

Rob P

.......stop future payments.
Recover any monies owing.
Move on.

There's just been an item on the news about a town that is likely to be flooded for the 4th time in 8 years over the weekend.

Who (if anybody) is responsible for providing flood defences?

Hebden Bridge

Where?

How is it possible that our 1st World status, and H&S mania that ended up with plumbers being fined for smoking a cig in their own van alone - ended up with the mess we are now watching on TV.

I try generally to remain a-political.

I have to...

Just saw a news item about a department store closing its store in a provincial town and expanding its presence in a nearby out of town retail park.

Presumably there are business reasons for this - perhaps cheaper rent and rates out of town, but...

Daughter #1 is convinced an eBay buyer of a food processor has stolen her MacBook Pro when they were left on their own in her kitchen for 2 minutes last Thursday. (She's been away for a few days and this only came to light last night).

She called...

Excellent levels of awareness of a global issue, but shocking levels of local prioritisation since the UK is 1% of global emissions.

IIRC China has an embassy in London, but of course China is the one nation that tried to tackle the actual cause...

I am sitting watching waves being driven circa 70-80ft up cliffs with the wash going clear over when a mid sized gull apparently effortlessly glides on through the picture in to wind. It is not an unusual occurrence.

Based on observations over a...

…deserving of a thread of its own.

Tesla shows $300m profit in quarter ending Sept. and shares jump 10%.

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

I know quite a few on here are bikers but the general business aspect, and the pension fraud element, will probably interest some others as well.

Norton - was it a fraud from the start?

How do these people get away with it? If I conducted my...

So after a break of nearly a year I have found another Nissan leaf to soothe my needs to drive an EV.

But things have changed a bit on the charging front !

No longer does my Ecotricity electric highway card work in the machines at the motorway...

With the demise of Boris's garden bridge in London and the loss of his scheme for an island airport Boris now hopes to garner the votes of NI and Scotland by joining them with his latest bridge venture:

I do love an adventurous idea.

Looking for advice on cloud storage options for photo’s. I’ve got a new camera that has WiFi and boasts that you can upload holiday snaps directly from the camera to a cloud storage (reducing the risk of losing them if the camera is lost).

I’m not...

According to MP's on the Public Accounts Committee HS2 Ltd, the company running the HS2 project, stands accused of "a shocking waste of taxpayers money", the comment has been made in relation to redundancy payments paid by HS2 when they...

I have a diddly squat defined benefits pension from 2yrs employment. Unfortunately the transfer value is a little above the no advice required limit of £30k. It seems the rules allegedly introduced to safeguard folks have the opposite effect with...

This is quite something.

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People often slag Apple off for various reasons... one of those being price. It got me wondering.... I have a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac here. All are over 6 years old with zero upgrades (although there have been a couple of SSDs replaced.)...

Cambridge University Students’ Union has said that having military personnel at freshers’ fair is “alarming” for attendees and could “detrimentally affect” their mental health.

Students voted to ban any societies from bringing firearms along to the...

OK so we all want to be clean and green, but apart from direct use of wind energy for sailing ships, pretty much everything else will have to come via electricity.

Taken off the first graph in the document above, broad brush figures for annual...

I might be pushing my luck with this one, but I'll ask anyway :wink:

I have followed various "tutorials" on YouTube, and have done the following ...

Within my router > Services
Created a RADIUS user, with a name & a...

I could have tacked this onto one of the other threads but I reckon it's worth one in its own right. A particular bugbear of mine is being held up by unnecessary red traffic lights (surely it is possible to make more of them them 'smart' and allow...

Ladies and Gents

I was wondering who could perhaps help me with a very frightening and lonely position I have been put in at work.

To cut a long story short, I recently had serious concerns regarding safety, competence, behaviours, attitude and...

Come on petrolheads, I watched the first episode and spent most of the time wondering what that gorgeous drophead the hero (?) drives was.

My best guess was some form of Armstrong Siddeley, but an image Google has been no help.

Anyone?

Rob P

Any photographers, genealogists or followers of male fashion & facial hair?

This is a fairly large ~24" x ~18" image of someone who is almost certainly a relative, but can't be sure who. Areas of it (lapels, 'tash & tie) have a...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me understand the meaning of this message that is popping up on my laptop.

I'm connected to a hotel wifi here in Jeddah. Access requires name and room number so I presume it is not really secure. I am connected...

I have been quoted £4K (£2.5k materials, £1.5k Labour) to fit a new fibreglass roof to a carport (5mx3m) and the top of a bay window (1mx3m). Includes new boards to lay the fibreglass on, various trims and finishing the underneath (of the car port)...

So they were flown back on a 20(?) hour flight with any one or more of them already possibly infected.
Then they are relieved to be out in the fresh British air.
Then they are put up in apartments where they, in some cases, are sharing apartments...

Interesting chain of events. Tesla sells car at auction and it is bought by a reseller. Car has full autopilot and self-driving features; it is advertised as such. Sold to third party. At some point unknown, Tesla had performed a software audit of...

I suppose there will be another couple of days hand-wringing about free access to deadly weapons in the USA. Ultimately the NRA will roll out some aged film star bearing his automatic rifle, someone else will quote the Bill of Rights and everyone...

This 71 year old fella just got for two and a half years and for the life of me I can't see why. I'd wager that 90% of people in prisons are there for pointless Victorian style retribution, not discouragement of others or rehabilitation.

Today is the first palindromic date since 01/01/1010.

The next one is 03/03/3030. Can't wait.

Just saw my first 2 of the year, cheers me up it does :)

Off on a last minute boys skiing trip for a few days and want some insurance recommendations or advice.

Not bothered by trip costs. Just medical rescue and repatriation should the need arise :shock:

Any positives or avoids useful :)

So, we’ve had “dogs”, “cats” - we pretty much all know what l’il airplanes we all have/like....

I don’t want anyone fixating on who owns (or doesn’t) an MX5 please...

I have a Vauxhall Royale Coupé, 2.8L straight 6 money pit. I haven’t actually...

I've been enjoying multi-room music with several bits of Sonos hardware for many years - since 2010 in fact. They came in for quite a bit of flak on the blogosphere a few weeks ago for bricking devices that were offered up by users who wanted to...

My mum refuses to have an internet connection. So she can’t do catch-up TV via Virgin or Sky et al. Does anyone know of a simple to you use box that can be used to record programmes so at least she isn’t stuck with just live TV?

She has a new smart...

...in one news story. Flyer forum heaven ;)