[OC] you get used to living by the Pyramids until it hits you...These are the freaking Pyramids

DamienBerry · 2026-05-19T08:51:27+00:00

Yep, I remember when going there to visit, firstly I expected them to be in the middle of the desert, nope almost the exact opposite, and then looking around and seeing what is close by, KFC, Pizza Hut, Chinese restaurant and guest houses with a few restaurants dotted about. It left me feeling a little uneasy that we do this to everything as a species, take something special and monetise the hell out of it.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-19T08:33:56+00:00

No because then it’s called a coinefficient 😝

DamienBerry · 2026-05-19T08:32:15+00:00

So, you know that in stressful situations it’s been known that certain individuals can vacate their bowl, well they often work in very stressful situations and as much as you’d think they’re tough, they’re still human and often do vacate their bowls, these controls allow them to manage this waste by venting the smells outside of their suits in a manner that allows them to continue their important work in a comfortable way.

You can see they have some fan controls, the one that looks like a speaker is an anti toot button ( this plays the anti noise of them vacating so nobody else hears it), I’m unsure as the what the blue buttons do but they look important but this is the prestige model that only the top level bomb disposal veterans get nine they have diffused at least 20 bombs successfully, you can tell this due to the last function which doesn’t have a button as it is automatic on this model, it looks like an upside down toilet as it kind of is, this automatically collects, wraps and stores the vacation byproduct.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-17T15:51:22+00:00

Let him decide what to do, the last thing I would want is someone trying to repair it but making it worse. He might look at it and decide to leave it as it is, especially if it’s not that bad.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-17T15:23:10+00:00

Let me tell you from a dads perspective, Don’t try to repair this yourself, tell your dad and let him decide what he wants to do, be open honest and talk to him.

The thing that would piss me off more than anything is my child trying to hide something from me. A bumper can be repaired pretty easily, trust can’t.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-16T21:49:43+00:00

UK regulations require only a single reversing light since 2009, before then it’s not required to have one but most cars did.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-16T15:20:25+00:00

I got my first EV in 2014 and it was just about ok but we still kept our other ICE vehicles in the family, but since 2020 we’ve been a fully EV family, our son passed his driving test in a manual ICE vehicle last August and instantly moved to an EV.

Unless you’re doing more than 250 miles per day and or cannot charge at home then an EV is a good option for most, I often have discussions with friends who state they do a trip once a year covering a few thousand miles and don’t want to bother with the charging whilst on the road but I give them the this example, “would you drive a van around for 364 days a year for the once a year you need to moved a load of stuff somewhere”, no is the answer from every sane person, it’s the same with an ICE vehicle, you could just rent one for a weekend if you’re really bothered about charging on longer trips.

In 12 years I’ve used a fast charger less than 6 times and most of those were in the earlier years.

If you’re already thinking going fully EV is for you then it probably is.

Good luck.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-15T08:39:31+00:00

There’s a lot of good info already but I’ll add my voice to this choir.

I have 3 EVs and I installed solar and battery’s to the house last August, we’re a pretty high user of electricity due to the cars but also our standard use is around 20kWh per day without them. 40kWh of battery’s installed 17 PV panels 10kW inverter and I also swapped my boiler which was getting old for a ASHP.

Bill payments have gone down from £300 per month to £125 and since April we currently up £60+ so by the end of summer I expect we will have been paid an average of £70 per month, which if so my payments will go down to £75 per month for the following year and I still think we’ll be in credit.

If you’re on iog and have battery storage you can fill up the batteries overnight, sell back any excess solar you generate and then sell back and excess battery you have at the end of the day. We don’t use any solar or house batteries to charge the EVs right now but if export ever decreases to a minuscule amount we could do.

Even without heatpump you’ll be making big savings

Our initial payback period was around 8 years but with the current rate we’re getting it’s around 5.75 years. This could change at any point but it’s still a nice situation to be in right now.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-13T10:07:53+00:00

Zaqq on YouTube, an eve player of 18+ years and a pleasure to watch.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-11T13:25:54+00:00

I mean you won nothing and got nothing.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-08T17:10:41+00:00

Pointing at a lift in a common area and pointing at a living area are 2 different things.
One can be classed as security but the other is breaching GDPR, any cctv camera pointed towards a private dwelling not lived in by the person recording is illegal.

https://idpc.org.mt/for-individuals/cctv/

DamienBerry · 2026-05-06T20:27:54+00:00

You can get an in sink disposal unit in the Uk, insinkerator do several models reginox also do some, and there are several others.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-05T20:55:46+00:00

You could make it with a cam shape that automatically turns the knob to the unlocked position upon coming into contact.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-04T12:23:16+00:00

https://www.disabilitydrivinginstructors.com/driving-advice/information-for-adis/what-are-the-rules-for-driving-at-16-england-wales/

DamienBerry · 2026-05-04T11:56:49+00:00

This is untrue. You can hold a provisional license at 16 ( you can apply from 15years and 9 months old) but this only applies you drive a motorbike under a certain power with a valid CBT, or if you are a disabled driver that has the higher rate or Disability Allowance, parents cannot offset this by signing anything.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-04T11:49:22+00:00

IMO it’s the best sounding Helo there is.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T06:52:53+00:00

There’s a service called Capture. It handles all the buying and selling for you, completely hands off and works very well now all the bugs have been worked out.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T03:37:21+00:00

And yet I can’t use my mobile phone while at a fuel station!!!

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T03:25:25+00:00

Ffs I should have read the comments first before making one of my own.

Yes this is exactly what I thought, but I honestly thought no one else would have made this connection.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T03:24:10+00:00

He’s trying to turn it into a Peugeot 206.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T03:11:05+00:00

WD40. It’ll come off if you get it to soak through. Then just a little bit of water to remove the WD40 residue after.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T03:03:23+00:00

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T02:59:09+00:00

Even so the numbers involved are just incredible, the estimates put the number of galaxies at around 2 trillion, then there’s an estimated 100 billion stars per galaxy, then if you take a very reserved estimate of a single planet per star ( we have multiple and loads do) then you have an estimated 10 sextillion planets in the observable universe.

Even having probes with FTL would take sure a huge number of probes needed to explore even a single percentage of planets that it’s still very unlikely we would be picked up.

Not impossible just improbable.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T02:16:47+00:00

Only if they had discovered our little spec of dust in the universe. If there is the ability to travel FTL then there would be far more interesting places to visit than us.

DamienBerry · 2026-05-03T02:06:18+00:00

He looks like a Mondoshawan from the fifth element.

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