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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...

Very much aware of the horror there must have been to people around and dealing with this fatal incident at the time, and for the family and friends, but... with reference to the death of the railway enthusiast leaning out of a fairly small...

Any suggestions for an alternative to TeamViewer for controlling an attended remote Mac; most ideally free for both ends. I'm finding TeamViewer more and more flakey; they keep insisting I am using it for commercial purposes - which I am not, nor I...

The treadmill desk, a notch up from holding meetings while having a massage. :)

Advert comes to life:
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Anybody see the latest Richard Noble project - an attempt at the 1,000mph land speed barrier?

Mind boggling: at terminal velocity without the brakes or 'chute it would take eight miles to slow down!

With one hundred times the poke of an F1 car the...

I have used these for years and never needed to claim (and hope never to do so) but I only have experience of paying in, which, unsurprisingly, is extremely easy, quick, and snag free. Has anyone here ever had experience of a pay out after claiming...

... or Prof Brian Cox :lol:
The new £50 note will feature a prominent British scientist, the Bank of England has announced, with the public being asked for nominations.

In addition to the Queen, the note will include the portrait of an eminent...

20:20 Sunday 14/07/19, BBC4 has just stopped transmitting an interesting and planned and expected documentary on the Space Shuttle, and started showing tennis doubles at Wimbledon. No notice; no "we're sorry this is more interesting".

I'm...

Of all the military/aviation etc books I’ve read over the years, I’ve only ever read one “sub” book, and that was a WWI era piece of fiction.

I don’t mind if they are fact or fiction tbh, just “a good read”.

family holiday last week was near...

Not seen anything on here about this and I thought it would be of interest to forumites.

The BBC World Service are running a series on the Apollo programme, the starting point and series title is the last thirteen minutes before Apollo 11 land on...

Perhaps it will have a niche appeal north of Watford.

I rarely go to London but when I last did it was almost like being in a different country - one with a very different economic cycle.

I've read a couple of things recently that make me wonder what we can do as a country to balance things out a bit...

So, I had a conversation last night with a friend who mentioned a live performance recording of lynyrd skynyrd Freebird. We didn’t listen to it, search for it, just talked about it.

Today FaceTwit has “suggested for me” to watch that performance on...

Have to say that I found this video very unpleasant to watch. Hopefully just a case of dehydration, but time will tell.

I currently have an ageing Drayton LP722 programmer; it is designed to control CH & HW, but I have bodged it to control two HW tanks independently (& no CH) instead. It is losing time badly (hours a day), but I can't find a replaceable...

I haven't done it yet, but I just know that when I log in to HMRC to file my Q2 VAT return I am going to be faced with their new MTD requirements.

As I understand it, some accounting packages have this built in, but for the last 8 years I have run...

I just wrote "ffs" in a text to Mrs L
Her reply?
"What are ffs?"

Aah sweet!

Anybody got any other examples?

The new Pan Towers ticks all the boxes for Mrs Pan (gardens, view, gardens and did I mention the view?) and mostly me (for the kitchen) but sadly compromised in that I have no garage now. I do however have a large workshop /shed at the bottom of the...

I find this rather concerning on a number of levels. :shock:

“A Swiss aerial display team has performed a fly-by over the wrong town, surprising people at a yodelling festival taking place nearby.”

Not strictly Non Aviation, I know, but it tickled me.

Bill H

Hi all.
My brother, Peter pan, passed away a year ago tomorrow, AKA Peter Mcartney, He was an avid reader and contributor on this site and any tales /reminiscences would be kindly appreciated.
He loved his flying and although we lived hundreds of...

The Information commissioner’s office is showing its muscle by stating that it intends to fine BA more than £183M formthe consquences of a cyber incident in 2018

More here....

…deserving of a thread of its own.

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

Looks like there is a similar issue in the sea off Worthing :shock:

Now's the time of year when our allotment comes into its own and we start to reap the rewards of tilling, weeding and planting...the first tomatoes have just been harvested and one of the great things about growing your own produce is being able to...

Just seen a post on Insta where the photo didn't appear. There was a little "file not found" type icon and test suggesting that the photo "may contain: dog"

A page refresh shoed that it did indeed contain a "dog"

A...

In the thread I started about a possible new/re-opened airfield in Kent, I mentioned going to St Marys Bay for school summer camp.
I went there in 1958 at the age of 8 along with some of my school chums and a couple of teachers, the first time any...

Did anyone catch this programme on BBC2 last night. I don't know if it had been on before but I hadn't seen it.

Interesting stuff about the Monetary Policy Committee and also a scene with the Chief Cashier with some £100 million bank notes...

This one's been bugging me for a long time, and I've run out of ideas.

Host machine is a MacBook Pro running 10.14.5 (although the problem was there with previous OS versions)
VirtualBox is version 5.2.30
Guest machine is W10 Pro, V1903
Wifi...

It happened to me this morning - a gent on my commuter train, who I always notice as he has a nice folding bike - was looking at me, as if he knew me.

I smiled back at him, and he asked if I’d been on TV the other night. When I said “no”, he seemed...

I can't immediately see how to do this... I've just received 2 new credit cards to replace two expired ones. They have the same numbers as the old cards but obviously new expiry dates and new CVC numbers.

Is there a way (I've had a mooch and a...

“Text to switch” starts today. Now you can get the PAC Code required to change mobile providers with a simple text message rather than having to call your current provider and being kept on hold, forced through tortuous menus and subject to a hard...

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...

Has anyone any experience or good references on writing a book - not a technical manual type, but specifically I have an idea for a aviation history book on a particular topic. I have in mind a number of chapters interspersed with photos. Wouldn’t...

The pair each received 15 months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months.

Seems harsh but they were explicitly told not to do it.

So how long will it take for some Millennial snowflake to object to this ?

But enough about my abdominal issues... :mrgreen: Our ten year-old Peugeot has a problem with the aircon, we've had it looked at a couple of times but it seems to have a leak as it works for a few days after being tested and regassed, and then it's...

I'd be interested in views on this piece from those with knowledge of such areas...

Germany’s biggest landlord urged Berlin’s government to use its rent-freeze plan as an opportunity to find long-term solutions to its housing crisis and avoid...

deliberately knocking toe-rag mobile phone snatchers off their mopeds, using specially trained and authorised police drivers and motor cyclists.

I haven't seen such an uplifting video for ages

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Result: in London moped phone...

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I found this stuff on the airstrip last week.

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I tried a new app called iNaturalist and the first response from another user was just as hard to understand as the thing itself...

The Physarales are an order of Amoebozoa in the...

I've had an iPhone 7S for a coupla years and all has been well till the last week, when, suddenly and unannounced my incoming ring tone goes off spontaneously mimicking an incoming call:
It happens when an incoming event happens to my phone, like I...

Finnish radio is ending its long-running weekly news bulletin in Latin.

The Yle public broadcaster has told its 'carissimi auditores' (dear listeners) that "everything passes, and even the best programmes reach the end of the road.

On the grounds that someone on this forum knows about everything, can anyone advise whether an RCD plug should get hot in use.

I have one of these

in my conservatory providing power to an extension lead with a waterproof socket in the garden...

Several news outlets reporting this evening the 33 hour weather warning for thunderstorms and quoting from the Met Office's advice:

Unplug all non-essential appliances, including the television, as lightning can cause power surges.
I thought...

Some nice flying - and photography- in this recent Airbus promo. Best bits from time ~01:55

.........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....

The book of faces has at last homed in on adverts for things I'm actually interested in. This, it turns out, is MUCH worse than when they got it wrong. It's costing me a fortune.