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[Aoami]

Dog ripping off one of his pads and getting blood all over the shop

 

[Tom]

It's not a fucking farm. It's a nature reserve and mountain pass in a national park.

I'm the one that owns a farm.

Honestly Tom, if you can't manage to put yourself in other people's shoes sometimes, why do you expect anyone to bother seeing your (important) cycling issues from your POV?

How do you justify a mile long road, where twenty feet of stepping stones was all that was required?

Your objections are aesthetic, nothing more. And in a couple of years when it's bedded in and grown over, you'll probably wonder what the fuss was about.

I'm more concerned about the fence and the buildings in the background. They're far more damaging than gravel.

 

[Scouse]

Your objections are aesthetic, nothing more.

Not at all. It's habitat loss in a SSSI that they are legally obliged to mitigate.

A few stepping stones over boggy areas vs five feet of trashing ecology over a mile?

If you know anything about ecology you'll know that the edges of paths are particularly important because they offer growing opportunities to flora that are otherwise outcompeted by dense vegitation. They're often literally "golden strips".

I've not measured it but what is the environmental impact of (assuming a mile) of bulldozing 2500 square meters of a SSSI?

You bet your balls that they've NOT fulfilled their legal obligations and duty of care on a sensitive site.

I'm more concerned about the fence and the buildings in the background. They're far more damaging than gravel.

Already told you - I couldn't take a picture of the path in the place I'm talking about because it's no longer there.

So that pic is, as I typed when I posted it (and have since repeated) is illustrative of the nature of the path through the bog.

Environmental vandalism does NOT just mean how it looks.

It not only looks bad, it's utility is reduced and it will absolutely have destroyed rare flora and fauna in a SSSI.

 

[JBP|]

Mrs JBP| and I had an overnight stay in a hotel just outside Stratford Upon Avon this weekend. 3 course meal and a bottle of wine came in at £153.00. You might think that's reasonable, but I think I've eaten better food at the local Toby carvery for a tenner.

 

[Tom]

Having to replace the toilet pan connector to the soil pipe. Trust me, that is not a job you ever want to do.

 

[Aoami]

Having to replace the toilet pan connector to the soil pipe. Trust me, that is not a job you ever want to do.

We might have to move our soil pipe soon to make our kitchen and dining room open plan. Definitely paying someone to do that.

 

[Raven]

There is certain "shit" that I always throw money at someone else to deal with, anything to do with the shit throne is one of them.

 

[Overdriven]

Thousands could soon get weight-loss jabs on NHS in bid to cut obesity | ITV News

People on the weekly injections saw their weight drop by 12% on average after 68 weeks | ITV National News

www.itv.com

Sigh. People would rather get a jab to lose weight than put down the cookies.

68 weeks, 68 injections.. Or you know.. Lower your kcal intake by 10% and not get stabbed?

 

[Gwadien]

Thousands could soon get weight-loss jabs on NHS in bid to cut obesity | ITV News

People on the weekly injections saw their weight drop by 12% on average after 68 weeks | ITV National News

www.itv.com

Sigh. People would rather get a jab to lose weight than put down the cookies.

68 weeks, 68 injections.. Or you know.. Lower your kcal intake by 10% and not get stabbed?

I mean, if you do this surely you save money in the long run?

If that's the reason for your opposition

 

[Overdriven]

I mean, if you do this surely you save money in the long run?

If that's the reason for your opposition

It's not a money issue. It's that people would rather turn to a medical solution than change their ways.

 

[Scouse]

Sitrep: I've worked 63 hours since Sunday night. Shagged. OMW - back in the office now.

 

[Aoami]

It's not a money issue. It's that people would rather turn to a medical solution than change their ways.

My sister in law is one of these. She is 34, massively obese and smokes. She is an intelligent woman, she is a mental health nurse and a very high NHS banding. She has been trying to get pregnant for years with no luck, but refuses to blame the weight or smoking. She now has a chronic stomach problem (not sure of the name, but its an inflammation of the intestines I think), and is STILL smoking. She is at least eating a bit less now as she physically cant eat loads. She has a rash on her toe that looks suspiciously like diabetes. Anyway... she is looking at getting the injections now because apparently she has "Tried everything else". Has she fuck. She diets for two weeks, and then gives up because its too hard. Does zero exercise. It's always someone/somethings elses' fault.

Fucks me off beyond belief.

 

[Wij]

My sister in law is one of these. She is 34, massively obese and smokes. She is an intelligent woman, she is a mental health nurse and a very high NHS banding. She has been trying to get pregnant for years with no luck, but refuses to blame the weight or smoking. She now has a chronic stomach problem (not sure of the name, but its an inflammation of the intestines I think), and is STILL smoking. She is at least eating a bit less now as she physically cant eat loads. She has a rash on her toe that looks suspiciously like diabetes. Anyway... she is looking at getting the injections now because apparently she has "Tried everything else". Has she fuck. She diets for two weeks, and then gives up because its too hard. Does zero exercise. It's always someone/somethings elses' fault.

Fucks me off beyond belief.

*fap*

 

[Tom]

The trick is not to "do exercise", it's to incorporate physical activity in your daily life. While having a small calorie deficit. Even 200 calories a day would be barely noticeable.

Unfortunately we live in a country where incorporating said physical activity has been made difficult by the way we've designed our towns and cities to be beholden to cars.

 

[Gwadien]

Unfortunately we live in a country where incorporating said physical activity has been made difficult by the way we've designed our towns and cities to be beholden to cars.

Fuck me, it's the new VAR.

 

[Ormorof]

Well, unlike Scouse, hes not wrong, towns and cities have been built for vehicles rather than people.

 

[Gwadien]

Well, unlike Scouse, hes not wrong, towns and cities have been built for vehicles rather than people.

I do feel like most cities are adapting to people though.

You could drive down every street pretty much in Leicester city centre say 20 years ago, now it's all pedestrianised.

 

[Tom]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xE7rieXU0&t=42s

 

[Scouse]

That is why I'm growing and will dispatch my own chickens @Tom.

I don't trust our food manufacturing processes. The only way I can ensure ethical food it to control the whole thing myself.

 

[Wij]

EE380 Talk

I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker in Stanford's EE380 course who had to cancel. Below the fold is a hastily updated vers...

blog.dshr.org

 

[Wij]

View: https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1493603634780725252

 

[DaGaffer]

View: https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1493603634780725252

He's hardly "palling around" with them. He was there to pick up an award for some work production company did in Serbia. Man Bites Dog this ain't.

 

[Wij]

He's hardly "palling around" with them. He was there to pick up an award for some work production company did in Serbia. Man Bites Dog this ain't.

Maybe. He just seems to be full-on ego-krank now.

 

[Bodhi]

Landlords. Honestly thought we had a good one in the old place - never came round unexpectedly and was happy to leave us in peace, and usually got stuff fixed in decent time when it needed fixing. At one point he was even pitching to sell us the house until the market went crazy and his valuation went with it.

Handed our notice in 30 days ago and all was well. We went above and beyond in getting the place ready to hand over, spent a couple of days sorting the place out, had carpets and appliances professionally cleaned out of our own pockets and thought everything was good. He showed some new tenants round and came back with another list of stuff we'd "broken", then it started getting a bit nasty. He claimed the extractor fan was broken - they don't tend to work when you isolate them at the wall - and we'd broken a blind - they don't pull up straight unless you pull both cords - and a couple of bits of spot painting we hadn't got round to. However he then claimed that we hadn't told him about a badly fitted door to the bathroom downstairs, that was dragging on the flooring and scratching the (17 year old) laminate underneath, and was expecting us to stump up to replace the floor.

He then started going off on one, suggesting we hadn't told him about it so he could take action, and this was unlike us as we were usually such good tenants. We pointed out he mentioned it last time he was round - along with a sticky door handle on the back patio that we resolved - to which he denied all knowledge. OK, sounds like we'll need some arbitration on this - can you tell us what deposit scheme you secured our deposit with?

Answer comes back - not sure how this has happened, but it appears your deposit hasn't been protected.

Wifey works in insurance so went full legal, pointing out that we were know entitled to compensation of 3x our deposit plus any fees if it went to court, and we wouldn't hesitate to go down this road if he didn't return our deposit.

15 mins later we got an email saying "I'm sorry you feel that way, we will refund your deposit in full later today, and we hope you enjoy the new house as much as this one". Money in account 10 mins later.

Bit of a shame as we'd had a perfectly decent business relationship until he started trying to charge us for 17 year old dodgy workmanship (you can tell the door wasn't levelled off properly) - we were even going to pay for a lampshade we broke.

 

[Tom]

Fuck him, report him anyway and get compensation.

 

[Bodhi]

Nah we've already settled for what we wanted which was our deposit back, hopefully lessons have been learned. Just seemed fairly unnecessary tbh.

 

[Tom]

Santander bank. Fuck right off. I can't use my debit card (rarely use it but occasionally need to) because of a security issue. Only I can't speak to the security people because without fail, every single time I call, there's massive queues on the call system. And I can't wait 40 minutes (minimum) and listen to their god-awful call hold music because I'd rather shoot myself in the head. Their version of the music sounds like it's arrived down a 56k phoneline over Realplayer, in a kitchen, with children screaming.

Unfortunately this is a business account so changing is a lot of work. The business phone app is utter dogshit, it won't let you use password managers, and when you try to log in, it expects a long security code. Which I can't memorise, so I have to switch screens to type it in. And when you switch screens, it deletes what you've entered. And the business banking side of the website has no secure messaging, despite the website telling me it does.

FUCK THEM.

 

[Raven]

The fact my 8m old cat comes in to the house to take a shit. In the cat flap, turd in the litter tray, unburied, straight back out again. It's like a bear visited too, humongous.

 

[Scouse]

Time to put the litter tray at the bottom of the garden.

If you've a flap, there's no need for one in the house any more.

 

[Overdriven]

The fact my 8m old cat comes in to the house to take a shit. In the cat flap, turd in the litter tray, unburied, straight back out again. It's like a bear visited too, humongous.

Took mine about a year to stop being a cunt and doing the same thing.