u/auntie-matter

I used to work with a guy around that age who wouldn't eat anything red or green. Sandwiches with lettuce in? Nope. Too green. Apples? No chance. Salad? Fuck off.

He never said why he ate like that and I have no idea how he managed to stay alive given how many fruits and vegetables are red or green. Maybe lots of bananas and corn?

How does that work?

If I'm walking down the street and I see your bepampas'd lawn, do I just.. ring the doorbell? Cock out or in?

"Ringing parts not fitted yet" was a very obvious answer to my question that I didn't think of.

Thanks! Hope the rest of the fitting out goes well :)

How do they ring?

The only belfries I've been in (admittedly that is just two) have the bells on a sort of wheel thing that spins the entire bell round vertically when the bellringer hauls on a rope down below, and the clapper does the ringing as it falls.

I've seen videos of carillons which have static bells with moving hammers, like a piano, but they didn't look like this.

You can buy most bits from elsewhere. Ikea don't, in my experience with a house full of their furniture, use weird custom connectors, they're all off the shelf bits, albeit things slightly less common than you'd find in B&Q. You're usually looking for camlock connectors of one size or another.

Well, first off you're assuming these are state-purchased crutches. You can buy these things at Argos. I bought some myself years ago after an ankle injury not quite bad enough for hospital but bad enough I needed to keep weight off it for a few days.

But let's say they are all NHS supplied. My guess, and admittedly it is just a guess, would be that it's almost certainly more expensive for the NHS to chase down every pair of crutches which people didn't bother returning than to just replace them. These things are £30 a pair, retail. No way the NHS is paying that much though - so let's say it costs them £15, although it's probably less. Even paying someone minimum wage to do the job that means each pair has to be tracked down and retrieved in under an hour and ten minutes for it to be worth doing (that's purely based on wages, there are other costs associated with having an employee so the real time is even lower). And every pair has to be reusable, which won't be true. How likely do you think it is that someone achieve that kind of rate, consistently? For minimum wage?

So I'd say some simple maths suggests that letting them go is good management. I don't want public services wasting money on things that cost more than other ways to solve the same problem.

On top of all that, we are assuming that this bin isn't simply taken to the NHS once it's full. Which seems reasonably likely, why else would they be kept separate from the other recycling metal?

I am. However, the most expensive I can find right now is a mere eight quid but Rococo are amazing. Absolutely worth it. I'd rather have a bar of theirs once a month than a bar of brown chocolate flavoured sugar paste shite once a week.

Most high end chocolate houses don't make bars though. You can spend plenty on top quality couture chocolates if you like (and you should, those chocolates are some of the best things I've ever put in my mouth!)

Fancy chocolate is totally worth the money. Not only is it far less likely to be made by slaves, it's also way tastier.

Picture books! I love picture books even though my kid is far too "big" for them now (they will come back around).

It seems a bit strange to me how we 'rehabilitated' graphic novels/comics as something for adults rather then teenagers, but don't seem to have done the same for picture books (don't get me wrong, I love comics but they're not the same).

Just because they're short doesn't mean they can't be wonderful, scary, profound, beautiful. I challenge anyone to find a better ten minute meditation on mortality than Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch, a better "you're working too hard" reality check than Much Too Busy by John Bond, a creepier tale than Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett's Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (or any Klassen, frankly), a more beautiful exploration of friendship than Oliver Jeffers' Lost and Found and so on. Yes, there's plenty of junk too but what medium doesn't have trash?

A book you can read in 5-10 minutes is still a book. Nobody says poetry is too short. Nobody would argue that you can't tell a story with pictures. So why not picture books? Go and read some today in your local library. Nobody will mind!

Naa, this is an emergency. I called 101 to report a faulty traffic light a few months ago and the call handler was like "dude no, you totally need to call 999" and immediately put me through.

If a cop needs to do something about a thing right now because people are in danger, it's a 999 call.

Tried to break into politics and failed, thankfully.

He has said that his (failed) run for PCC was a warmup for shooting for mayor of whatever authority there was going to be a mayor of but I have no idea if that's even happening now.

They shouldn't say anything. Napoleon may not have actually said "when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him" but it's still a good strategy.

If Sutton is out hawking his AI-written slop nonsense, he's not in his office where he can do actual harm. Let him be.

The Cinnamon Trust are always looking for volunteers to walk the dogs of the sick and elderly.

Cycle path up Prince of Wales road, bus/taxi/no-cars lanes to Chapelfield, Vauxhall street/Trinity street/Park lane is road but quiet, The Avenues are bike lanes.

Easy peasy (although that route doesn't seem to want to go up Prince of Wales Road but just go up Prince of Wales road anyway)

The word "handmade" is a tricky one. I know people who insist the things I make and sell mostly using my hands don't count as handmade because I also use machines along the way. Because I don't want to spend hours with a file when I can spend minutes with a grinder. Which is bullshit, but it's also the kind of thing people get arsey about and go into shops and make a loud fuss about, so I can see how Jarrolds would want to avoid that.

But what about if I'd designed some jewellery in 3D modelling software, then had it 3D printed (in metal) by a commercial printing service and then finished the details by hand. That's really not very handmade by almost anyone's definition. The print service might be in Germany or China, but the design work was done by me in Norfolk, as was the final finishing and all the profits stay here too. I feel like that still qualifies as valid for Store Folk's ethos though.

If they're removing people reselling AliExpress crap that's mostly all I want. I wish fuckin' Etsy would do that.

Faster is better when you have lots of screws to drive or when time matters. But most DIY jobs neither is important, I guess.

However drills are more easily controllable, which is better when you're putting a screw in to hang a picture from. I've never owned a drill which kicks back when the clutch is set correctly but in most DIY jobs you need a more controlled drive anyway. If you're slamming screws at full speed into your shelf brackets or your plastic doorbell frame you're going to make a right mess.

Also I don't have to wear hearing protection when I use a drill, but not everyone's ears are as fucked as mine.

Naa unless you really need a shitload of torque because you're putting massive timber screws into structural beams, a drill is better than an impact driver at driving screws.

I have built several buildings using nothing more than two drills - one for drilling pilot holes and the other for driving screws in so I don't have to change bits. I guarantee that in almost all DIY situations my cheap little 12V Makita drill can drive screws faster, and with more control, than a big expensive high power impact driver.

I can say this for sure because I used to have a massive impact driver and I almost never used the stupid heavy noisy thing, except for the case of the aforementioned massive timber screws. Which is not really "DIY"

I agree, I think that's one of the better parts of the whole mess. Dragon is giving the building a little hug! Also dragon BIG.

I hate that bloody AI typeface which it always uses though.

Don't forget they're also stuck up cunts!

Don't play dumb. Calling a colleague a wanker is nowhere near being gross misconduct. It's a minor disciplinary situation at worst.

Worth checking water quality before getting in any rivers these days. It hasn't rained for a while so there's probably not much sewage floating around right now but many of the locations mentioned have at various times in the past been fairly nasty. There are sewage discharge points on both the Yare and the Tud just upstream of Norwich, for example. So Ringland, Bawburgh, Bowthorpe, Earlham etc will all get that shit if they're pumping.

The thing I feel towards Reform is not hate. It's mostly pity to see them being played by Farage and the other crypto-fascist grifters running the party. It's disappointment that they're not trying harder to be compassionate and kind to their fellow humans. It's sadness that someone could get so twisted up and angry that they'd support an organisation based on such division and cruelty.

Some of Reform - certainly not all - probably hate me, but I don't hate them. That way all sorts of darkness lies.

Whenever I mention Manchester my Brummie friends always bring up how ACKTUALLY Birmingham is the UK's second city to which I say I don't disagree but London isn't going to be happy being third. Not that anyone cares what they think.

You wouldn't use unprotected wood in a damp environment so I'm not sure why you would use unprotected MDF either. Moisture-resistant MDF is a little more expensive than standard but perfectly safe for use in damp environments. A bunch of my bathroom was built using MR-MDF over ten years ago and it's doing great. I left some offcuts outside my workshop for a few years just to see what happened and it was absolutely fine once I scraped the moss off it.

Also if you paint it with a decent furniture paint it'll hold up well to everyday wear. The cabinets and kickboards in my kitchen are MDF, well over 20 years old, get bumps and bangs constantly but look as good as new. They did get repainted a few years back but only because we fancied a change. I've built a few occasional tables and stuff from offcuts that are holding up to the kind of abuse than only an enthusiastic seven year old can dish out and also absolutely fine.

There's grades of MDF just like any timber product and if you don't buy the absolute cheapest crappiest stuff then it can be perfectly good at being in a house. Except looking nice unpainted. Naked MDF is ugly. Natural wood really has that "looking great" thing down.

Well, yes. That's exactly my point. If this was about "neutrality" then they'd want to ban all the displays. No celebrating of anything is a truly neutral stance (as is celebrating everything).

But it's nothing to do with "neutrality". It's about homophobia and transphobia.

So libraries shouldn't have displays for Christmas, Easter, St George's Day, Remembrance Day, the World Cup or anything else? Neutrality is fine, but that either means doing nothing, or it means doing everything equally. Include everyone, or no-one.

If you're just excluding one group that's not neutrality, that's a political stance. Which I'm sure none of us want libraries to be forced into.