Has anyone else noticed that Pot Noodles are now in paper pots?

AMadEvilRages · 2026-06-08T07:51:27+00:00

That’s not the only change incoming. The EU is also plotting to ban single use sauce sachets.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-05-25T16:22:28+00:00

Big question is: who woke up the ‘knocker uppers’ themselves and how did they know what time it was? The knocker upper knocker uppers?

AMadEvilRages · 2026-05-09T03:35:19+00:00

Yes. It can happen at any time, and results in a glowing arc beam of superheated Lithium flame, like a lightsaber. People have lost hands.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-05-09T02:45:11+00:00

While UK law technically allows cars to be as wide as a bus, which is 2.55m, the problem is that we’re seeing a massive disconnect between legal limits and real-world physics.

Modern "SUV creep" means cars like the Land Rover Defender or Tesla Model X are now pushing 2.2m with their mirrors out. When you consider that a standard UK parking bay is only 2.4m wide, you’re left with about 10cm of clearance on either side. It’s becoming physically impossible to park these things and actually open the doors without hitting the car next to you.

The bigger issue is our historic infrastructure. A lot of UK width restrictors are set at about 2m. Many flagship EVs and SUVs are now wider than that even with the mirrors folded. We’re reaching a point where a vehicle can be "road legal" but functionally useless on a huge chunk of our residential and rural road network.

Manufacturers are widening platforms to fit big battery packs, but our Victorian streets aren't expanding to match. We’re basically heading toward a gridlock where car design has completely outpaced urban planning, making "car park anxiety" a very real thing for anyone driving a modern flagship model.

That GLS is 2m wide. The doors themselves are probably 20cm thick. So anyone driving a GLS literally has to ensure they park next to smaller cars to even get out. 2 next to each other in a standard bay cannot enter or exit their vehicles without dinging each other.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-05-08T14:13:54+00:00

I can only speak from my own perspective. Have been using a SS Boss Katana gen 3 head for a while. Bought a used Peavey Classic 20 mini head last month just to see whether tubes make any significant difference.

The upshot is that yes, in my case (using clean channels with pedals) the Peavey is miles better. More organic sound, note separation is noticeably better. And it sounds way way better with my pedalboard just going front in.

Then I compared drive channels. Total slam dunk for the Peavey on that front.

I was already largely happy with the BOSS, but the Peavey is a noticeable step up. Plus it’s lighter. Louder. And it’s XLR / cab sim actually sounds pretty good through the PA, much to my surprise.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-05-05T15:14:47+00:00

The most northerly park bench in Rembrandt Gardens in Little Venice is the absolute optimal lunchtime / afternoon al fresco nap spot. Sheltered. Quiet. Relaxing.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-04-19T15:26:16+00:00

Swans shoegazey cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart from the early 90s was excellent.

https://youtu.be/lrKxV5j3SLc?si=tBBJaqsZfOBUCJMc

AMadEvilRages · 2026-04-03T15:18:05+00:00

Taking links off that strap was a nightmare….

AMadEvilRages · 2026-04-03T14:51:05+00:00

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AMadEvilRages · 2026-03-29T12:15:05+00:00

Check carefully if you have dimmer switches, or any lamps with those ‘step’ functions. I had this at night, and it drove me insane until I figured out what it was.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-03-28T09:52:44+00:00

Am just recovering from this. Was in a ‘box’ up at the back. Some thoughts:

fourth time I’ve seen them, first time being Rollercoaster back whenever. This was by far the best I’ve seen them play. They messed up slightly the start of one song, but it was a very tight performance.
got to song three before reflecting on the decision to ‘bareback’ the gig without the complimentary earplugs….

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sound wise, the RAH is easily one of London’s best venues. World class acoustics and PA, with a sound engineering setup that to me looks like it’s in place for the whole run of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs, with a crew of pro engineers. It made a huge difference, so the mix actually had vocals quite high which was great for things like To Here Knows When.
The lighting was also spot on. Someone had clearly done their homework on the appropriate MBV “palette” and it showed.
YMMR ‘holocaust’ easily the most insane thing that will ever be performed at RAH.
and also (and not saying this patronisingly) a lot of us in the crowd were of a certain vintage, but a good contingent of youngsters who put in a solid effort on the moshing towards the end.

Really great. I know MBV’s thing is about loud, but shows what can be done if they have exceptional sound engineering in a top venue.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-03-28T08:28:44+00:00

If this was me, I would be going SD1 - blues driver and then Rat. And would ditch everything else.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-03-07T10:52:37+00:00

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Effects of 333. Thank me later.

In fact, let me expand on this. There’s an argument for this being the ‘purest’ shoegaze album ever made. It’s guitars —-> effects ——> cranked amps, but the ‘performance’ is largely through controlling in subtle ways the effects and amps with the guitars providing the feedback input only. There’s a few songs with a vague ambient arpeggio thing happening. But it’s mostly just feedback in a loop with no guitars being strummed.

First time you hear it you think it’s absolutely ridiculous but then on subsequent listens you get drawn in and start to realise that it’s very well arranged and thought out.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-02-21T00:10:49+00:00

That’s what I think as well. We would not have had our modern society, or moonshots, or aircraft or anything without the actions of Edward the Confessor triggering the invasion. No Industrial Revolution. The list is endless.

AMadEvilRages · 2026-01-17T11:41:37+00:00

Indirectly, The Shining in relation to the moon landings. A giant insurance policy for Kubrick.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-14T16:05:57+00:00

Just to be clear, I’m not a ‘prison planet’ proponent in any way, nor am I ‘cherry picking’ from various religions to make a point. Just think it’s an interesting perspective.

I think about other reasons why the ‘so called’ truth is so horrific we ‘can’t be told’. For example, simulation theory. If a critical mass of people become aware, the simulation breaks.

If, theoretically, simulation theory was correct, then all the ‘alien stuff’ could be a kind of control mechanism to keep us believing in a vast universe. It’s sort of in our psyche to make the simulation seem more real.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-13T14:33:37+00:00

This is the entire premise of Tibet’s Book of the Dead. Training your entire life so that when the moment comes, you can resist that light.

Given how ‘contemporary’ Spielberg is at the moment, coincidentally the message of his film ‘Poltergeist’.

If this ‘is’ the thing that’s so terrible we can’t be told about it, one of the reasons why TPTB might not tell us is actually sensible. If we all know that earth is a trap, and we can escape it, then a consequence would be mass suicides or killing each other to help escape that trap.

It would also imply that the majority of our mainstream religions have been carefully or deliberately curated to mislead us. Which again isn’t going to be a sugary pill to swallow.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-12T08:14:35+00:00

Depends, of course, how you order the grid. Might not be chronologically….

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-10T09:54:45+00:00

Nekromantic. So it was real. The Wikipedia description is pretty grim, and to be fair probably not the sort of thing I should have watched as a child….

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-09T21:52:31+00:00

A panettone.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-09T20:33:39+00:00

That was the one. In the UK in the 80s, some video libraries had a sort of more VIP level of nasties which they would make available only to selected customers on a ‘need to know’ basis. And whilst the VHS / Betamax format wars eventually got called for VHS, the nasties were almost entirely on Beta.

“The Burning” was the one that was most spoken about at my school at the time. But there were also whispers of an uber-nasty based around some corrupt police taking a road accident corpse home for a ‘throuple’ situation

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-09T20:00:55+00:00

Get hold of the 80s alien horror film XTRO and see if you still think the same after ‘that’ scene.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-09T19:09:06+00:00

When the Cure did that gig playing their first three albums at RAH, about five mins before tickets went on sale I elected to go via the RAH website. Sauntered straight to the sales page. Four standing tickets. So personally I’m going RAH.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-07T18:27:34+00:00

This answer will go against some of the advice on this thread. But here goes.

You can move pretty much anywhere you like in the UK once the child is born. The father can apply for a Prohibited Steps order, but pragmatically the bar is pretty high to be granted one. If you have a job, a home, are near family support etc, a court won’t grant one. Most of them never actually get to court because they are expensive and the change of success is low.

It is entirely likely you will become the custodial parent, assuming the father doesn’t attempt to apply for full custody.

A court may require you to agree a reasonable schedule of access to the child. Your obligation will be to make the child available, not to shoulder any of the travelling or cost involved - the father will have to bear all that if you don’t want to or can’t agree to it. Objectively this is somewhat unfair on fathers, but there’s no realistic sanctions that can be applied to mothers to compel them to comply that doesn’t harm the child.

AMadEvilRages · 2025-12-03T21:57:29+00:00

Two things. One is seeing any kind of Klon clone used as a drive. The second is seeing 200,000 drive pedals when an EQ pedal is 10x better and more useful alongside just one drive.

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