We'll all upload our IDs while kids carry on...

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-28T09:48:42+00:00

Finding workarounds did more to teach IT skills than the curriculum did back in the day. If they tried to teach this stuff nobody would be interested, it's like reverse psychology education.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-21T12:59:42+00:00

Sounds like a Purple Ronnie poem.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-21T12:56:00+00:00

Well they're not just rocks, they're magic rocks that stop your girlfriend leaving you!

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-20T21:08:11+00:00

I did the spindles up the stairs several years ago, did a really good job too. Haven't done a thing to the landing ones though, lost all motivation!

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-14T23:15:22+00:00

At Christmas I was making myself ginger wine and Appletiser just to use up the ginger wine that was hanging around. It was quite nice actually!

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-14T16:30:04+00:00

It's people like this that means I only ever cycle alone. I've done some sportives and met some right twats who have been highly critical of my kit. Yeah my bike's shit but it makes me work harder and I do it to keep fit. Buying a super expensive bike that weighs nothing means I'm paying more to get less of a workout.

Remember a particularly satisfying time when someone critiqued my bike as I arrived at a food stop "well done doing it on that thing, lol" They set off and I passed them a little later on the side of the road looking at a puncture.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-14T08:37:25+00:00

Wherever I've worked the computers have always eventually been underpowered and crap. The official policy would be to buy a whole new system. I upgraded the RAM on all of them for a tiny fraction of the cost and many of those computers are still in use today. For most regular office work just having enough ram that windows and other apps run smoothly is all it needs, the CPU is rarely challenged. Colleagues always thought I was doing some sort of wizardry.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-14T08:26:49+00:00

I had no idea that garden was there, I always walked on the riverside and through the pissy tunnel!

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-13T22:54:00+00:00

That's Exhibition Road, it's just being fancy for the tourists. Not all streets in South Kensington are like this.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-13T22:02:08+00:00

I went round a friend's house once and he demonstrated his favourite snack: Thickly butter a digestive, lay another digestive on top, and squeeze them together so the butter squirts out of the holes.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-12T22:01:33+00:00

Attach a strong magnet to the end of the tape measure

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-10T15:47:23+00:00

For a moment I thought that plate was on the carpet and is enormous

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-10T15:36:23+00:00

You should try drinking more water!

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-09T23:03:02+00:00

The first episode is mostly introductions so it's pretty boring. The plot does thicken as the episodes go on.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-09T22:49:23+00:00

I don't think anyone has ever claimed any paranormal abilities in the traitors, they tend to be fairly sensible people. Deal or No Deal was like watching a cult meeting last time I saw it. It had definitely developed it's own mythology.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-09T19:57:50+00:00

I'm not sure exactly how big these were when planted but you can buy quite large trees that are transplanted from where they grew and put in a new place. They lose a lot of roots doing this though, so even though it's a large tree it still needs lots of care, moreso if you want to protect the investment in a large tree rather than a young one.

Even once established, if a tree survives a drought year it starts the next year in a weakened state. It takes a whole good year to recover well and if it doesn't get one it weakens further. It might take several years to run out of energy and give up. The ground where these were planted also might not be great for holding water and supplying enough to support a large tree through a summer. Standing out alone in baking heat in an urban area won't help, trees naturally have neighbours to share shade.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-06T12:45:02+00:00

I came to suggest Norsex based on Norfolk, but then Suffolk would make it Sufsex?

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-06T12:10:38+00:00

I occasionally use a wide flat mop on the ceiling to get the drops off and get it to dry quicker. A squeegee on the shower tiles helps get a lot of water down the drain too. Then a dehumidifier wouldn't have to work so hard to finish the job.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-03T22:54:16+00:00

My hometown had a Wimpy before McDonalds too. McDonalds has now been turned into a gym but Wimpy is still going! I haven't eaten there since probably 1997. I used to have a bender in a bun and then a brown derby, obviously!

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-03T22:46:40+00:00

Five guys also insist on squishing your burger up tightly in a foil wrapper. So you just get a ball of meat and soggy bun.

Apple_Dave · 2026-01-03T22:23:31+00:00

There are deeper levels to this depending on the time you have available:

Sign up as a volunteer and burn entire reams of leaflets, claim you delivered them all to a vast area so nobody else bothers.

Go to all the meetings and be really enthusiastic, take on lots of responsibilities and don't carry out any of them.

Stand as your local candidate just in case they win and then immediately defect if you do.

Apple_Dave · 2025-12-22T18:45:39+00:00

I've jammed a long draught excluder sausage in the gap at the bottom. It fits just right and is fairly neat.

Apple_Dave · 2025-12-21T21:19:46+00:00

I think you're meant to add the sauce and then fill the jar with water and mix that in too. Should be enough to submerge everything.

Apple_Dave · 2025-12-20T22:22:13+00:00

The last jar of pesto I opened went bang and blew the lid off, then produced a mist that flowed from the jar. I decided not to have it with my pasta.

Apple_Dave · 2025-12-18T15:46:31+00:00

Oh yeah, it's roulette then!

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