SPAM random annoying things

[Edmond]

Ok you got me. Been wondering if @Tom opened the window first as I know in the past some members of my family have launched remote controls at doors only to leave a crater in the wall as their aim is shit.

Though saying that, knowing the strength of double glazing units (source: Die Hard) the keyboard would bounce back. Don't worry @Edmond will be along to correct me if I am wrong.

I have a PS3 controller shaped hole in my lounge wall to this day. As for throwing your keyboard at the window, you'd probably miss and put it through the TV

 

[Raven]

Potholes on less than 6 months old tyres at £200 a pop

 

[Deebs]

I have a PS3 controller shaped hole in my lounge wall to this day. As for throwing your keyboard at the window, you'd probably miss and put it through the TV

Hehe, I luckily have never had the urge to launch stuff in recent years, just leave that to others so my TV is safe for the time being.

 

[Deebs]

Fucking football tv presenters apologising just in case the mic picked up any bad language.

I say to you "Fuckoff you dimwitted fucking cunt of a wanker bastard, it is a fucking football match where swearing will always be heard as long as my arsehole points down when I walk, stupid cunt"

 

[Bodhi]

Potholes on less than 6 months old tyres at £200 a pop

Feel your pain on that one - I'm £2k down over the last 6 months fixing pothole damage. Somehow I haven't popped a tyre yet, just a suspension strut, the cup that holds it in place, one of the bolts that holds the suspension on the hub and 3 buckled wheels.

 

[Deebs]

Feel your pain on that one - I'm £2k down over the last 6 months fixing pothole damage. Somehow I haven't popped a tyre yet, just a suspension strut, the cup that holds it in place, one of the bolts that holds the suspension on the hub and 3 buckled wheels.

Are councils liable? If so surely it must be cheaper to fix the holes?

 

[Bodhi]

Are councils liable? If so surely it must be cheaper to fix the holes?

They are, but they are spectacularly good at avoiding it. There are a few of us claiming for the lady pothole I hit, as it took out 5 or 6 cars that evening.

Latest getout for them is we need a picture and measurements of the pothole. This pothole is on a country lane where National Speed Limit applies, just after a blind bend and was filled with water....

 

[Deebs]

They are, but they are spectacularly good at avoiding it. There are a few of us claiming for the lady pothole I hit, as it took out 5 or 6 cars that evening.

Latest getout for them is we need a picture and measurements of the pothole. This pothole is on a country lane where National Speed Limit applies, just after a blind bend and was filled with water....

Saying that I was out in the car a couple of weeks ago and I was in shock at the state of the roads. I know where all the money is going though, A3/M25 junction. It's a massive road expansion project and I am sure someone said over £700 million. On one junction.

 

[Raven]

They are, but they are spectacularly good at avoiding it. There are a few of us claiming for the lady pothole I hit, as it took out 5 or 6 cars that evening.

Latest getout for them is we need a picture and measurements of the pothole. This pothole is on a country lane where National Speed Limit applies, just after a blind bend and was filled with water....

Going to put a claim in, they were only 6 months old. Got photos of the damage, photos of the pothole and dash cam footage, that has the sound of the bang, and me swearing about potholes.

 

[Tom]

Saying that I was out in the car a couple of weeks ago and I was in shock at the state of the roads. I know where all the money is going though, A3/M25 junction. It's a massive road expansion project and I am sure someone said over £700 million. On one junction.

That's Highways England, they have a separate, almost untouchable budget. And they don't care about the local road network. They only care about building more trunk roads.

Blame 14 years of Tory twats for starving your local council of funds for potholes. That, and the enormous increase in the number of vehicles on the road. 40 million now - up from 20 million in the early 90s.

 

[Raven]

Long arse teams calls between our network guy and our external software dev's network guy, as they swing dicks at each other, when I am on holiday tomorrow and already stated that I wanted to wrap up on time.

 

[Scouse]

My shepherd's hut is a faraday cage.

I put an access point 6 feet from it - just outside I get amazing signal. Just inside? None

 

[Tom]

Radio isn't particularly difficult to work with. Think of it as low-frequency light, and the receiving antenna as a camera that can only see that light and nothing else. Can the 'light' get out? Also, does the 'light' have any reflective surfaces it can bounce off to reach your hut? And are there any big bags of watery things in the way?

 

[Scouse]

Radio isn't particularly difficult to work with. Think of it as low-frequency light, and the receiving antenna as a camera that can only see that light and nothing else. Can the 'light' get out? Also, does the 'light' have any reflective surfaces it can bounce off to reach your hut? And are there any big bags of watery things in the way?

It's a tin hut.

One side of the tin hut up adjacent to it? 100% signal (bloody well should be - 8 feet from the access point). 6 inches from that position inside the hut? Nada

Ah well. Off-grid living for anyone we ever rent the fucker out to

 

[Tom]

Corrugated sides?

 

[Deebs]

Corrugated sides?

Oooh, is that another term for love handles?

 

[Scouse]

Corrugated sides?

Yip. I'll send a pic as soon as I've got time. I've been spending the day moving everything out of the house into the barn. We're about to pull all the floors and remaining ceilings down and dig up the floor slab, so getting this hut finished needs to get done quick. It's fecking freezing in this house with no tiles on my roof, never mind insulation!

 

[TdC]

I've been watching some youtuber play this for the past couple of days. Beautiful game, interesting premise, and now Steam wants me to buy it. Buuuuut I kinda want to watch the youtuber play it. Do I like the game cos its awesome, or because of some fella's witty banter?

 

[Deebs]

Yip. I'll send a pic as soon as I've got time. I've been spending the day moving everything out of the house into the barn. We're about to pull all the floors and remaining ceilings down and dig up the floor slab, so getting this hut finished needs to get done quick. It's fecking freezing in this house with no tiles on my roof, never mind insulation!

Wow, so you are literally gutting your house down to the walls and joists? I can see you now as a nuclear survivor complete with underground bunker, water and food recycling (read that as piss and shit) facilities, solar panels keeping 100 car batteries charged.

In other words, Will Smith from I am Legend (but you are not a legend but a scouser )

 

[Zarjazz]

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I've been watching some youtuber play this for the past couple of days. Beautiful game, interesting premise, and now Steam wants me to buy it. Buuuuut I kinda want to watch the youtuber play it. Do I like the game cos its awesome, or because of some fella's witty banter?

Both?

As for the game, good but maybe not great IMO. Interesting premise and setting but maybe a bit too on-rails to be called a true open-world survival game. You're basically locked to where you can travel (the road). Subnautica and Ground as still the top 2 in the genre for me.

 

[Tom]

Yip. I'll send a pic as soon as I've got time. I've been spending the day moving everything out of the house into the barn. We're about to pull all the floors and remaining ceilings down and dig up the floor slab, so getting this hut finished needs to get done quick. It's fecking freezing in this house with no tiles on my roof, never mind insulation!

yeah corrugated sides won't do signal strength any favours. Like light, radio waves like to bounce off surfaces. That can be really handy in a building. Think of a pitch black building, no light whatsoever, you're upstairs, and someone downstairs turns a red light on. You'll see that light, very faintly, on a wall somewhere. Radio propagates in exactly the same way. But signals modulated over RF are also timing dependent. If you have corrugated surfaces, the receiver will see the signal coming to it dozens of times, all at very slightly different times. So it'll just get confused and be unable to decode anything.

 

[Overdriven]

Microsoft need to stop moving features which stop tenant to tenant migrations.

Thanks for causing me a 5 hours of grunt work because you don't understand the value of exporting and importing.

Also fuck the Power Platform teams not communicating.

 

[Overdriven]

Also fuck Microsoft Teams.

 

[Raven]

Also fuck Microsoft Teams.

Teams was awful, then they changed it. It's still awful, but looks different.

 

[MYstIC G]

Teams was awful, then they changed it. It's still awful, but looks different.

Pick the old theme, then you get regular awful back.

 

[Overdriven]

Pick the old theme, then you get regular awful back.

The minimised look of the new teams is the only thing I like. Also the Loop integration.

Other than that.. Bah.

 

[MYstIC G]

The minimised look of the new teams is the only thing I like. Also the Loop integration.

Other than that.. Bah.

I hate that you can't @ message in the search bar anymore, extra steps for nothing

 

[Scouse]

Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests

Owner Drax continues to burn timber from Canadian trees while taking environmental subsidies, BBC finds.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

And related:

Did a marine heatwave cause 7,000 humpback whales to starve to death?

Populations were recovering, but a new study reveals that numbers dropped by 20% coinciding with a period of record temperatures in the North Pacific

www.theguardian.com

😭

 

[Embattle]

The council telling you the land on which you saw a whole load of rubbish on is private land and that you should contact the land owner, even though it was clearly thrown from the layby.