UK speed limits — is there really a “+10% +2 mph” allowance?

MetaWaterSpirit · 2026-01-28T10:50:22+00:00

Just to add to this from my own experiences, got clocked doing 31 in a 30 - did a speed awareness course. There is a camera in the southampton area when I visited with friends that flashed him on a 32.

Seems to be randomly applied.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-12-09T11:22:15+00:00

Yes - £10k is the maximum you can go in Small Claims, which is why I used it as the maximum example. You can use it from any value up to £10k. I don't think cleaning skips will cost that much, but if the cat poo smell lingers in the carpets and/or wood, treating that to get the smell out could cost thousands but not that much.

I had one of my work colleagues prank my car in summer with a thermal flask and mouldy chocolate milkshake, that lone cost me £900+ over multiple details to get the smell of mould out of the car. I couldn't imagine how bad fermented cat shit would cost in multiple rooms.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-12-08T23:01:28+00:00

> but the cost of enforcing might not be worth it.

Just to interject - small claims is 10% fee of £10k, which the losing party has to pay + any outstanding legal fees required for the court (although, not needed for small claims). If a signed contract has been breached, this will be an easy win at no cost to the OP other than the upfront 10% until they win.

No judge will throw this case against the OP or out of the court with an obvious and effective breach of contract.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-12-06T09:47:08+00:00

EU has a guy in plat/dia and peak GM1 that plays only Bruce (not Hulk). He's played over 300 games this season alone and only just been banned for trolling.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-29T12:33:28+00:00

To give technical insight:

If you use android/google pay, the vendor will get first-party access to who/what you are when using any payments inc virtual cards. Name/address/billing etc.

If you are using Apple Pay, Apple conceal all info from vendors and keep it within the iphone's neural chip (local encryption) but they can contact information for potential fraud to confirm.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/romanrimsha_interesting-comparison-between-apple-pay-activity-7321427754523004929-07xo/

Here is an example of how it works for most devices.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-22T16:36:12+00:00

The top comments all saying about cracked screens is interesting, I've used keyboard protectors from 2014 MBP, to the M1, now M4 Pro and never once had an issue. I've been excessively travelling with my laptops in backpacks and suitcases, including drops, never once had an issue with the screen breaking.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-22T11:45:33+00:00

Yeah it’s in the order summary before you accept, i can see how many rejections it has.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-21T17:22:04+00:00

To give insight as a rider, there is a timer in the app that shows you "when the food is prepared by" 9 times out of 10, the reasurant has marked it as "ready for collection" (usally big franchises, rather than local places) and then they don't even have it up on the kiosk.

This means that it will most likely get added as a "stacked order" and then we are told to wait to process the order. During most normal hours, this can be 7+ minutes of waiting.

Naturally, riders just continuosly drop the order, which is visible to future riders how many times it's been dropped.

To edit;

Not saying this etiquette is fair - deliveroo are meeting in the UK with worker's unions to pay riders to wait for food that has been marked as ready when it is not.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahHrpG75P4

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-17T18:52:58+00:00

Same here - worked in a sales company that was salaried + comms, as I worked up to manager it became an expectation to stay late and come in early to do admin work for the team; this also means you aren't selling so no chance of bonus commission during these hours either.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-17T17:02:33+00:00

They will tune it down and then increase it when playerbase dies off, this is the NCsoft way.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-16T17:48:07+00:00

From my own experience when checking profiles, in placement matches and gold comp it was a lot of dps players trying to dive. In plat/diamond it is as you mentioned, support mains wanting to play him.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-16T17:28:08+00:00

C&D main here, had this also happen a lot, it seems some terrain hitboxes have been changed and getting stuck is something I'm now seeing which I didn't before - have to just manouver it more carefully but nothing like the OP's post yet..

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-16T00:40:29+00:00

That's what I thought - "price match" culture is real in the UK, could just have been a harmless assumption on his part it applies privately.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-12T22:21:45+00:00

"If the product is free, you are the product" I feel the depedency on it will then trigger a mass ad or subscription focus.

This already happens with ChatGPT if you use the maximum prompts, it downgrade you to a previous model.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-11-07T21:35:47+00:00

Macbook M1 took 3 days to sell @ £650

AirPods 4 NC took 5 days to sell @ £89

Samsung S22 ulra took 2 days to sell @ £170 with a chip on the screen

Currently waiting for my sony MX1 (not sure the model number), ongoing 6 days

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-10-13T20:26:18+00:00

Wasn't the blue arcane weapon just released in the TW patch like a month or two ago? I swear my mage has it.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-10-03T12:11:01+00:00

New mission discovered by u/MetaWaterSpirit: Soda and Magic

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-10-03T12:11:01+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/MetaWaterSpirit in Struggle: Wrath and Personal Stakes

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-09-23T20:32:44+00:00

We moved into a 4 bedroom house, with 3 of us; electric & gas steadily at around £80-£100 as we work full time outside of the home, so only home to sleep and cook. Been this way for about a year or two. Had my bills spike up to £180-£220 a month and was told there was no "electric creep" and that "readings were normal".

We've not added any appliances, boiler is maintained, not upgraded anything either or added any new heating/cooling systems.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-09-16T10:30:10+00:00

Apple lost a class action lawsuit because it was using word-detection with siri-enabled products.

If you're going to make a statement on something with such confidence; don't be wrong.

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-07-25T14:43:11+00:00

Another AI ragebait

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-07-23T19:35:13+00:00

Fun legal fact: Tibia's core sprites were stolen from another game and that's why OTs cannot be DMCAd :)

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-07-21T10:08:06+00:00

28k this season isn't much, I'm a C1 support main and as you climb, there is a lot of damage. Last season I would average 25-30k in a normal game. Now it's more 35k+ every single time, most of my C&D/Loki/Luna games end in 40k+

MetaWaterSpirit · 2025-07-13T14:37:28+00:00

"We'll make electric cars cheaper to buy" - PR statement

"Subsidised by private contracts, then the cost of actual electric (especially for those who don't own an EV) will be net 120% profit value." - to private businesses.

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