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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...

Lot of talk about a 2nd Brexit vote.

...just like there was a lot of talk about a 2nd Scottish IndyRef vote.

I remember like yesterday the 2nd Irish Lisbon Treaty vote.

I have many philosophical reservations about democracy overall - but having a...

Really sorry to see Simon Mayo departing from his evening show. A year ago it was one of the better shows on R2. Jo Whiley's going to be doing a 7pm - 9pm programme. I wonder who they'll get on at 5pm on weekdays.

Sent from my K6000 Pro using...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Had to post this as a stereotypical BMW driver does what they do best

Language definitely NSFW

Rob P

Had a little issue with my (out of warranty) car last night. Google suggests that the lights that have appeared on the dash mean that either the turbo actuator has failed or that the whole turbo has failed.

I'm guessing that the former of those...

My wife runs a small (sole trader) business, but doesn't know what her "earnings"(/profit) is until after the end of the Tax Year.

I understand that she can make a voluntary contribution up to but not more than her earnings, but that it...

Lifted from Twitter, the Bomber Command Memorial today. With family connections to Bomber Command in WW2, this makes me sad and disappointed...

How do contributions for state pension work these days? It used to be that you needed 35 years of NI contributions to receive state pension, but all that seems to have changed as pension age has inexorably move into the future.

I have tried looking...

I've recently been trying to de-clutter the house which is easier said than done. (This was the reason for the "scanning photos" thread a while back.) It's gone OK(ish) but I've now got to the sentimental/personal stuff, which is proving...

The country is likely to have an overnight temperature of less than 0C. Apparently this means that water might freeze and therefore there may be some ice. Ice is a bit slippery (who'd have guessed?) so the met office have issued a yellow warning!...

Spelling is a bit suspect ! :D :D

Interesting discussion the other day about these wood stove ventilators.

On the web not really been able to find much, other than ads for them, to find out if they are any good.

Anyone use them and wishing to comment or a paper on their usefulness?

Thread intended as a heads up .

Here's hoping it holds through the night.

Hi folks,

I'm sure one or more of our esteemed forumites either owns, or has something to do with a data recovery operation.

Please make yourself known :)

Cheers,

Steve

If Blue Monday is getting you down, this will either cheer you up or depress you a bit more.

Lived to a fair age; enjoyed by millions, including me as a youngster.

I do wonder if there will be repeats on the BBC of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum"; but somehow I doubt it.

The pukka-whallas would prohibit it.

That's a phrase I used to hear a lot.
:P
Not any more...

This is one for the medics here. I'm in no way being critical and am largely just curious.....

As I understand it (and I could be wrong @kanga will be along soon to give the background (please!)) the title "Doctor" is applied to the...

BBC tonight has Prince Philip walking away from rolling a Range Rover (Pensioner, aged 97, has car accident).

But the reason for posting was the BBC's sideways comment on flying:

"Some years ago he gave up flying planes long before he needed...

Does anyone have any recommendations for home control systems?

I'm currently using an ancient x10 based system. Controlling:
4 x lights (mostly timers, but ability to override- currently plug-in adapters)
Heating (timer + override + conditional...

A few years back I got into “raised bed” gardening-mainly to keep the sprogs out my veg and also do something with the 2-3m3 of grass cuttings the previous house owner left me.

Boxes need replaced, and via various random googling I found some...

Again, I hope there’s no paywall. This article from Time Magazine highlights a Psychologist whose quest is catalogue foreign words with no direct English translation. “Schadenfreude” is I guess a well known example.

Tim Lomas, a lecturer in...

Since 5th anniversary of opening, which was August Bank Holiday, Museum has received:

- accreditation by VisitEngland, which involved incognito visits
- accreditation by English Heritage, which involved a lot of checking ' behind the scenes', eg...

In the letter writing thread ,

One of the greatest effects of the move from quill to dip to fountain to ballpoint to word processor may have been not the reducing physical skill and effort, but the increasing eas e and effort of correction,...

It would appear one of our number has been a bit naughty

'Mr Big' Paul Massey murder: Hitman gets life in jail

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...

Our aged Canon scanner printer packed up and has been replaced with another model from Canon. The old one worked on Wifi OK but the new one is driving me potty.

I can print and scan happily from WIN 10 desk top but the wife's WIN7 laptop which used...

British Nutrition Foundation suggested quantity is that one portion is two handsful of dried rice/pasta.

That looks like a lot to me.

Perhaps their adviser has Trump-like tiny hands.

I’m aware that when I’ve posted links from FT.com links in the past it has generated a paywall when I didn’t see one, so this time I’ll add the Tweet that I saw the link in, in the hope that this gets round the paywall for those that are interested...

I DO NOT CONDONE MURDER FOR ANY REASON!
This kid who was recently murdered after being 'knocked off his moped' then stabbed by the occupants of the car which hit him is quoted as being 14 years old, but the minimum age in the UK for riding a moped...

.........twice in the last two weeks at local Tesco after something on my person set off the alarm: Very embarrassing.

I think it's our burglar alarm quick setting tag on my keyring which I guess is a kind of chip which setting off the mechanism....

I do hope this recent article from “Vox” isn’t behind a paywall.....

It seems like a reasonable analysis of why we all need to sometimes think the unthinkable and that we may be wrong about something. It’s especially pertinent to the whole country...

Does anyone know of any definitive sources of companies that are in administration?

Context: Rumours all week that a competitor has gone into administration, but haven't actually seen evidence of the fact.

For a while now my network (Draytek Vigor 130 connected to a Time Capsule) has been incredibly slow. Having changed over to the BT supplied router normal service has been resumed. Given the incredibly slow time backing up to the Time Capsule takes I...

There has been some press recently over the use of plastic for magazine packaging. According to Ms. M the WI (that's the Women's Institute) has been in a bit of a tizz over it and there appear to be a desire to use another material.

Of course,...

just a technical issue on the discussion of guns chaps, please either call them airguns, guns, firearms or whatever suits, but please do not call them "weapons", this is actually quite offensive to those that shoot legally for sport. A gun...

I just booked a weeks car hire from Milan with Expedia.com for £17 total. I’ve gone through all the details thoroughly I can’t see anything to suggest this isn’t the genuine price. The car hire is with Goldcar.
Anyone got any experience with this ?...

We upgraded from ADSL to FTTC a while ago and have been using the supplied PlusNet router (sadly the one that @stevelup kindly donated doesn't work with fibre). I have intermittent problems with wifi reception particularly at the front of the house...

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.

BBC7 just broadcasting an episode of this about flying. Very good. It will be repeated later today (2100 if my arithmetic based on the Radio Times listing is correct) and I guess available for download if you don't mind the BBC Sounds registration...

...that three threads have been locked today and I’ve not been responsible for any of them. I’m really rather chuffed.

Just saying...

PS It’s all rather vegan here these days isn’t it?! :pig:

What is the collective take on whether the new .uk (as opposed to .co.uk) will become the New Normal?

I have a few .co.uk domains and I understand that I can also have the .uk versions so long as I register them before 25th June 2019.

Have to say...

Just got shiny new laptop. It runs Windows 10 which I understand has antivirus as standard. I have an existing McAfee sub, but do I need it now?I am aware it slowed down my old PC and Laptop quite a bit.

I want to transfer files from my old PC, but...

As ever, I’m just curious because I don’t know how these things work.

The other day I was driving happily listening to BBC R2 on my car’s FM radio when it started crackling as if it was losing reception. (With RDS this doesn’t happen much...

My garden seems different this year.

I haven't had to mow the lawn since May, which is wonderful.

There are very few wasps, which is wonderful.

There are very few bees and butterflies, which is not wonderful.

There are absolute bucket-loads of...

With several long haul flights coming up I am thinking of investing in a set of good noise cancelling headphones. Does anybody have any recommendations.
(Just to be clear this is for sitting in the back of an A380/ B777 etc rather than for pilot use...

Can anyone advise on mobile phone signal boosters for domestic use?

My elderly folks live near the N/S border in NI and suffer from very moderate O2 signal (which is the best of them locally) in the house. Phones are hunting for signal and roam on...

Whatever your views on MPs and journalists, is there any need for the kind of behaviour that was shown yesterday to Anna Soubry, the Conservative MP for Broxtowe and others?

Surely no-one can condone this sort of thuggish behaviour? The above is...