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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...

Just had my statement including "non-sterling transaction fees" ouch :oops: :shock:

Any advice from our well informed community on a suitable credit card for use in foreign parts ??

Gorgeous wall to wall sunshine all day today :sunny: so this afternoon I gave the lawn its first cut. It badly needed it, the warmish weather has really made it grow.
I then remembered that I did a thread last year so looked it up

A year and a day...

It's the time of year when Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert starts emailing about fuel bills and the companies start raising prices. Are there any recommendations (or otherwise) about switching. There are companies that come up in his list that...

I’m just being nosey, but RightMove seems to have far fewer properties than it used to do. (This means that I’m just as nosey, but my nosiness is less satisfied!)

A couple of years ago, there were loads of properties, and almost every house you saw...

My rules:

1. I don't pay up-front for handsets
2. I don't do Apple
3. I don't pay more than £20 a month for a contract/handset tie-in
4. I don't like big phones
5. I don't need much data, 1GB month absolute tops. At the moment I manage fine with...

…deserving of a thread of its own.

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

Why did that Boeing crash? Yet again we don't get an 'ex plane' ation.

#ConsiderThis: In all heavier-than-air jet planes (like Jumbo Jets), if one or multiple jet engines fail, only one jet engine is required stay in the air! There is no...

One of today's headline - and apparently within the next 25 years in the SE.

The Government encourages more and more homes to be built and yet in the SE I am not aware of a single new reservoir.

Should we be surprised. Should we not make the...

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

Surfing the net and following a post from a friend from Plymouth I note that our own @waveflyer is responsible for getting the UK's largest bronze to the right place!

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...

We have 2 x Macbooks and an iMac which has a large but nowhere near full disk. Currently I use Time machine with a separate disk for each machine. One of these disks has failed this morning in that the computers can't even see it despite the light...

Let's hear it for those labiodental fricatives. And the last paragraph of this is wonderful:

Contemporary surnames are really rather dull in comparison …

(I did once discuss with a City Councillor the prospect of getting Oxford's Magpie Lane...

Many of us are hobby pilots (I certainly am) and people are often surprised to hear it (I'm surprised too!!) as it's not the usual sort of hobby. So what other unusual hobbies are there out there, either your own or that you've heard of?

Yesterday...

A driver who swerved "to avoid an octopus" before crashing has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.

Police were called to the A381 between Malborough and South Milton in Devon, where they found a vehicle upside-down in a ditch on...

OK, I know no politics allowed, but this one popped into my inbox earlier and was too good not to share -

Gavin Williamson: Drone 'swarm squadrons' to be deployed by military

The defence secretary has said the specially-adapted drones could be in...

Well, what a second half in a game of rugby. We claim the moral victory as England should have had a man sent off, we got man of the match, and we retained the Calcutta Cup. :-D :cheers: :cheers: :clap:

Apologies in advance for only communicating...

It’s just been stated on whatever’s on the telly at the moment that just one seat in a transatlantic flight pretty much uses up your carbon allocation for a year.

It’s also been said that meat, and beef in particular, has a massive carbon cost when...

Ha ha!

So, there I was being driven through the streets of Jeddah this afternoon. I'm one of a team of three working here this week training staff who will be operating a new facility in the area, we're working in a hotel this week on theoretical training...

So if I half fill my kettle and make my first cup of Yorkshire tea, should I put more tap water in now, or in an hour when I have my next coup of Yorkshire Tea? What method of kettle filling will save the most energy?

New build gas boiler bans are...

No reference to @Paul_Sengupta :D , but being 3/14 (US date format), it's happy 3.14 Pi day. Celebrated with a new world record of the number of digits calculated. Now, I'm off for some pi.

Iceman 8)

We needed to empty the fuel tanks of 100LL on the RV today and our collection of fuel containers fell short by about 40 litres.

Rather than pour it down the drain (patently we wouldn't) it found a home in the fuel tank of my car.

Given that there...

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...

BT OpenReach (or a contractor contracted by them) have been laying fibre down my street... they've been digging holes near the telegraph pole and now, new "kit" has appeared at the top of it.

So, I guess that this will require testing...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Sky news reporting that an Ethiopian Airlines 737 with 157 people on board, brand new to the fleet last November, has been lost. The Ethiopian government has already issued a message of condolence suggest there is little hope of survivors.

I'm sure...

My 8 y.o. granddaughter visits regularly and has rather taken over my elderly iPad 2, which I use solely for redundant SD and flying ICAO charts back up so it doesn't get much use.

She downloads (free-I'm not stupid) princessy and housey games and...

I bet this footballer wishes he'd revised them before the match!

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...

I had a drained 12v battery on the PHEV this morning so it refused to start (instead giving all sorts of errors and things). I couldn’t jump it with leads as both cars were nose to tail on the drive, the leads weren’t long enough and the steering...

Whatever hipsters are, (and they must be a thing because this laptop hasn't objected to the spelling of the word) they apparently all non-conform in similar ways, as this story demonstrates.

Gideon Lichfield, editor-in-Chief of MIT Technology...

We all know the horrors of travelling as SLF particularly when there's a harp on the fin, so I'll just gloss over most of the irritating and stress inducing carp of yesterday but...

Being one who is prepared I decanted four or five items of sub...

Some great advertising for the magazine at yesterday's Crufts heelwork to music!

Bottom line (at the top) : if I want to watch a movie download / stream of a specific movie, which are the best/reputable sources from which one can do this in 2019?

Context : In his book “Talking to my Daughter”, Yanis Varoufakis uses allegory to...

I have a couple of domain names that I have had registered for several years. I use email on both of them on hosted (?) exchange servers which are provided by a different service provider.

The domain hosting company has changed hands a couple of...

This one's been puzzling my feeblish grey matter for a while....a friend of mine in France has been unable to send me photos using her mobile, and I find the same when trying from the UK. We've not had problems in the past, and with the arrival of...

Oh dear, another historic name in British motoring history is moving into the hands of overseas control.

Morgan cars have sold a majority stake to an Italian venture capital company which specializes in automotive brands.

Morgan has 110 years 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...

Always struggle with the GA / Non Aviation forum choice... as this is very much aviation, but very much not GA.

Anyway, enough rambling. Great compilation video of antics at the Mach Loop

Don't watch it inline, click the title to switch to...

Just see this tweet with a couple of Vimeo videos that may be of interest (No mention of GA, so don't get too excited!!)

The videos are here for those who don't Tweet.

How we got here

The move to PBN

She has been jailed for three months after a re-trial at the Old Bailey.

Her brother Festus was jailed for 10 months for his involvement, after pleading guilty to the same charge.

Is it just me that thinks these sentences are overly harsh...

Volvo has announced today that from 2020 all their cars will be limited to a top speed of 180kph (112mph).

The company has a vision that from 2020 no one traveling in an (edit - NEW) Volvo will be killed or seriously injured and this limitation on...

Eh?

Before we go any further: I cannot change the structure of the customer table that I am dealing with.

For each customer we have a column for the number of users, a column for the type of package, a columns for the price of each type of package....

I want to discuss the psychology and Science surrounding conspiracy theories and will do so by citing some examples some of which are political or Brexit related. However, they are used merely as a springboard.... Please can we try not to get this...

I am trying to log in to the LAA Forums, but keep getting an error:
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Anybody else seeing that?

I have...

Our current front garden is very good for wildlife. There's a small area of woodland across the road and another behind the house across the street. We see a lovely fox just outside several times a week, a deer ran past my office window a while back...