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[Gwadien]

Yes, rescue but easy mode, my last 2 were feral, lost them both over the last year or so. He is 5 months and came from a house full of children and other animals and couldn't cope. He is settling in nicely.

I think you'll find he's starting to accept you in his new territory.

 

[Raven]

I think you'll find he's starting to accept you in his new territory.

Pretty much, he is currently demanding that I let him out of the kitchen by meowing at the top of his voice.

 

[dysfunction]

This looks amazing:

AT-AT™ 75313 | Star Wars™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB

Spectacular LEGO® Star Wars™ AT-AT build-and-display model

www.lego.com

Pity it's £700!

 

[Gwadien]

All I see here is the council doing something so they can get tax revenue from 'legitimate' businesses, so them taxes can be spent on conducting such 'raids'.

During economic hardship too.

Oxford Street: 'Astonishing' haul of fake items seized by police

More than 17,500 fakes and illegal goods are confiscated in a pre-Christmas police operation.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Embattle]

All I see here is the council doing something so they can get tax revenue from 'legitimate' businesses, so them taxes can be spent on conducting such 'raids'.

During economic hardship too.

Oxford Street: 'Astonishing' haul of fake items seized by police

More than 17,500 fakes and illegal goods are confiscated in a pre-Christmas police operation.

www.bbc.co.uk

Kind of a odd and silly statement and I think even if it was about local and national tax revenues that would be a perfectly valid reason to raid them, but it is also about trying to defraud customers and most importantly health and safety and no doubt many other reasons.

 

[Raven]

All I see here is the council doing something so they can get tax revenue from 'legitimate' businesses, so them taxes can be spent on conducting such 'raids'.

During economic hardship too.

Oxford Street: 'Astonishing' haul of fake items seized by police

More than 17,500 fakes and illegal goods are confiscated in a pre-Christmas police operation.

www.bbc.co.uk

They were selling knock off tat and outright dangerous toys. Fuck'um.

 

[DaGaffer]

All I see here is the council doing something so they can get tax revenue from 'legitimate' businesses, so them taxes can be spent on conducting such 'raids'.

During economic hardship too.

Oxford Street: 'Astonishing' haul of fake items seized by police

More than 17,500 fakes and illegal goods are confiscated in a pre-Christmas police operation.

www.bbc.co.uk

I've had to deal with fake sellers more than once when I worked in retail, they can fuck right off.

 

[Tom]

Insulating my front room floor. I was going to do this a few years back but Grenfell happened and I hesitated. The blanket I've bought (that's just the first part, and it's still rolled up there - I rolled it to make it easier getting it into place) is fireproof though. And speaking with builders I'm happy the other insulation in the other room is safe. So I'm starting up again. It took about an hour to get that down there, it's a fucking nightmare. In the trapdoor in the downstairs landing, drag it through to the backroom, turn 180, through a small hole in the wall into the front room. The hole is behind this photo. There are loads of cables, a gas pipe, and several heating pipes to get past. I've got a staple gun to staple it to the joists, I'll do that tomorrow. Just getting that there was knackering and utterly filthy. And I have lots more to come.

Oh and the vertical pieces of wood are there because if you look closely, some cunt who had the house before me chopped a couple of joists in two. So the floor was bouncy.

 

[BloodOmen]

Nah. Above the law, On deadly ground, Under Siege (At least the first one) were all good films.

Edit: I enjoyed Fire Down Below and The Glimmer Man as well.

Fire Down Below prob my fav Seagal movie of all time tbh.

 

[dysfunction]

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Insulating my front room floor. I was going to do this a few years back but Grenfell happened and I hesitated. The blanket I've bought (that's just the first part, and it's still rolled up there - I rolled it to make it easier getting it into place) is fireproof though. And speaking with builders I'm happy the other insulation in the other room is safe. So I'm starting up again. It took about an hour to get that down there, it's a fucking nightmare. In the trapdoor in the downstairs landing, drag it through to the backroom, turn 180, through a small hole in the wall into the front room. The hole is behind this photo. There are loads of cables, a gas pipe, and several heating pipes to get past. I've got a staple gun to staple it to the joists, I'll do that tomorrow. Just getting that there was knackering and utterly filthy. And I have lots more to come.

Oh and the vertical pieces of wood are there because if you look closely, some cunt who had the house before me chopped a couple of joists in two. So the floor was bouncy.

I thought you had buried a body under your floorboards

 

[Tom]

That too.

 

[Raven]

Are those floorboards on your ground floor?

 

[Tom]

Yes.

 

[Raven]

Yes.

Not seen that before. Are those bits of wood holding up your floor? What's stopping them from getting damp/rotten and failing?

This is from someone that lives in a 400 year old house that has an essentially brick floor with nothing but earth underneath.

Edit. When we moved in, we had a corner cupboard, kind of built in, by my great grandad, perhaps 30s or so. It had literally turned to soil at the bottom.

 

[Tom]

Someone before me cut some joists in two for some reason (you can see it), and the floor was bouncy so I fixed it that way. They won't rot, it never gets wet in there, the house has a permanent breeze running beneath it and I'm on top of a hill. The ground here is bone dry.

 

[Jupitus]

'Gosforth Handyman' on youtube covers alot of this stuff in his recent renovation series...

 

[Tom]

Very hard job this, the lack of space to work and the dust makes it not very nice. I got nauseous after about 30 minutes so that's enough for now. I'll do a bit each day, will probably take me a week or two overall. Lots of staples required to keep it up, and I have to work out a way to divert the air brick (you can't see it here) so cold air goes below the blanket, not above it. I'm thinking a small bit of polystyrene insulation will do that.

 

[Lamp]

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator and genocidal maniac, awarded himself an interesting set of titles

"His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular, and the Uncrowned King of Scotland"

 

[Embattle]

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator and genocidal maniac, awarded himself an interesting set of titles

"His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular, and the Uncrowned King of Scotland"

I always like how tinpot regime leaders add as many medals/titles as they can.

 

[Embattle]

More than 5,000 homes in England approved to be built in flood zones

Insurers raise alarm but builders say housing crisis leaves them with no choice

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scouse]

Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator and genocidal maniac, awarded himself an interesting set of titles

"His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular, and the Uncrowned King of Scotland"

Was a film about it.

The Last King of Scotland (2006) ⭐ 7.6 | Biography, Drama, History

2h 3m | 15

m.imdb.com

but to be fair, I think Idi Amin calling himself King Of Scotland is just as legitimate as Elizabeth calling herself Queen Of England.

The cunt.

 

[Tom]

More than 5,000 homes in England approved to be built in flood zones

Insurers raise alarm but builders say housing crisis leaves them with no choice

www.theguardian.com

They need to stop building out, and start more building up. Not everyone wants or needs a driveway and front/rear garden. And building small, dense neighbourhoods correctly (not like Hulme of old) into 15-minute neighbourhoods has many, many advantages over the typical "let's stick 200 houses in a field off a motorway junction" approach.

For example:

This new Dutch neighbourhood is completely car-free — and looks UTOPIAN | DutchReview

Utrecht recently unveiled its latest plans for a completely car-free neighbourhood. The Merwede neighbourhood will be home to 12,000 residents.

dutchreview.com

 

[Scouse]

Yep. And this:

builders said that the need for new homes meant even flood-risk areas would have to be used

Developers are sat on a lot of land. LOTS of land.

We should legislate their decades-old purchase of floodplains that they've held on their portfolios out of existence. One fell swoop - "you can't build on flood-risk land, you cunts, and you've got plenty of land to build on that you're holding back because you want to rid yourselves of flood-risk land first, before building on the other".

Private companies can take the hit instead of taxpayers (who end up bailing out).

But: Tories.

 

[DaGaffer]

They need to stop building out, and start more building up. Not everyone wants or needs a driveway and front/rear garden. And building small, dense neighbourhoods correctly (not like Hulme of old) into 15-minute neighbourhoods has many, many advantages over the typical "let's stick 200 houses in a field off a motorway junction" approach.

For example:

This new Dutch neighbourhood is completely car-free — and looks UTOPIAN | DutchReview

Utrecht recently unveiled its latest plans for a completely car-free neighbourhood. The Merwede neighbourhood will be home to 12,000 residents.

dutchreview.com

Already happening over here, which is a bit weird looking on occasion (three story town houses very much not in towns) and everyone is getting used to having gardens the size of a postage stamp. Ironically however, Ireland probably doesn't need this approach in most places, and its mainly a function of developer greed (land is more expensive than bricks).

 

[Ormorof]

They need to stop building out, and start more building up. Not everyone wants or needs a driveway and front/rear garden. And building small, dense neighbourhoods correctly (not like Hulme of old) into 15-minute neighbourhoods has many, many advantages over the typical "let's stick 200 houses in a field off a motorway junction" approach.

For example:

This new Dutch neighbourhood is completely car-free — and looks UTOPIAN | DutchReview

Utrecht recently unveiled its latest plans for a completely car-free neighbourhood. The Merwede neighbourhood will be home to 12,000 residents.

dutchreview.com

They did that in Denmark years ago. The problem being who ends up living in government owned, cheap properties with limited car access? Immigrants for the most part. doesnt help the gov dumped refugees there with every crisis that came up, whwt could possibly go wrong dropping greeks, turks, kurds, arabs, bosnians, serbs, and croats all in the same neighborhood Ishøj Municipality - Wikipedia

Was fun place to live though no need for a car at all could walk or bike everywhere safely, ever half a block was a different playground with space for football/basketball, big parks in centre between the buildings. they even had shopping cart collection points on each blocks corner so you could just roll your cart to the front door from the supermarket

 

[Bodhi]

Personally I like the idea of choice - if you want to be crammed into a development with loads of other people and no garden or space to put a car you crack on, however after 6 years living in a "high density neighbourhood" I'd rather not tbh.

 

[DaGaffer]

They did that in Denmark years ago. The problem being who ends up living in government owned, cheap properties with limited car access? Immigrants for the most part. doesnt help the gov dumped refugees there with every crisis that came up, whwt could possibly go wrong dropping greeks, turks, kurds, arabs, bosnians, serbs, and croats all in the same neighborhood Ishøj Municipality - Wikipedia

Was fun place to live though no need for a car at all could walk or bike everywhere safely, ever half a block was a different playground with space for football/basketball, big parks in centre between the buildings. they even had shopping cart collection points on each blocks corner so you could just roll your cart to the front door from the supermarket

Tom's Utrecht example fixes that problem by making each property eye-wateringly expensive. No danger of poor brown people messing up the place when flats start at €500,000.

 

[Scouse]

Tom's Utrecht example fixes that problem by making each property eye-wateringly expensive. No danger of poor brown people messing up the place when flats start at €500,000.

As a model for wider rollout though. The reason it's eye-watering is limited supply and desirability, so rich people will rock up.

 

[Raven]

Who wants to live in a flat tho?

 

[Ormorof]

Who wants to live in a flat tho?

🙋‍♂️i do, god i fucking hate gardening and dealing with gardens and all that outside shit. Moving back to an apartment next week cant wait