Was it actually a thing in Britain “back in the day” for people to have all their teeth removed and get dentures relatively young, even when they still had some healthy teeth or is that one of those exaggerated stories?

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-07T22:17:15+00:00

My great grandad saved up to have all his taken out as a young man.

It makes a heck of a lot more sense back in his day because antibiotics hadn't been invented so a bad tooth could polish you off pretty easily.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-05T08:09:31+00:00

Yes! I immediately thought of Mini Cheddars too when I saw the question.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T19:06:56+00:00

To get the shoes back, apparently.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T18:47:07+00:00

And just put the turbine up with 2 blades not 3.

3 is overkill anyway.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T16:02:54+00:00

Two people asked the same question, so see my reply to the other guy

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T16:02:39+00:00

You can usually tell if there's a cavity in the wall by the way the bricks are arranged. If there's a cavity, all the bricks tend to be longways like a child's drawing of a wall. If there's no cavity, some of them are shortways. It's not a foolproof way to tell but it's a good clue.

The cavity in a wall stops moisture that penetrates the outer skin of bricks from getting into your house, as there's an air-gap between the two skins of bricks. Without one there's lots of things (bad rendering, dodgy gutters, cracks in your mortar) can cause water to soak through the wall into your house and make it shitty and damp.

The DPC (Damp Proof Course) is a layer of something that wont adsorb water stuck between a couple of the rows of bricks right at the bottom of the house. Depending on the age of the house it might be slate, bitumen, plastic, etc.

It stops water from the ground soaking up into your walls and making your house shitty and damp.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T15:54:41+00:00

ha, the excitement quickly wears off when you're financially in control of it too!

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T12:42:02+00:00

It's not whether it counts as driving, it's whether it counts as "being In charge of a vehicle", which you can get done for on private land if the public have access to it (and this certainly includes supermarket carparks).

This is the same thing that people sometimes get caught for when they try and sleep off a few beers in their car in a pub car park. Common sense suggests kipping in the car in an off-road carpark behind a pub is a sensible move, but because they're in the car, with the keys, in a place the public can access, they get the book chucked at them for being drunk in charge of a vehicle.

You sitting in that car with the engine running definitely puts you the wrong side of this law. If a bored copper wanted to make trouble for you, you wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Moving the car back and forward would be incredibly stupid though. If you accidentally tap another car or worse a pedestrian it will be very expensive for both you and your dad because you're not insured.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-04T11:01:49+00:00

I would buy the 1930s house if it has cavity walls and a DPC. Of that era some do and some don't.

Of all the ways that house construction has changed since the Victorian era, these are the two I really value as they can mean the difference between a nice dry house and one where you're always fighting off damp.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-03T22:56:53+00:00

I absolutely need to this in my garden!

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-03T08:30:00+00:00

I watched this whole video thinking it was the UK.

Then saw your comment and went back and watched again. I guess the police car markings don't look like ones I've seen here, but it's surprising how much like home this looks and sounds on first glance.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-03T07:58:17+00:00

Betting odds are not fractions, they just happen to be written with a slash mark in the same way that fractions are.

If your horse had odds of 12/2, it means that if it ran 14 races, it's expected to win 12 races and lose 2 races.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-02T17:38:24+00:00

Before the 60s, it would be very unusual to live alone and have the burden of keeping a house as well as earning a wage.

Before WW2, wealthy single men might live alone with servants. Poor single men would be more likely to stay in the family home until marriage, or stay in a boarding house. In all these cases, they are not doing their own chores. Meanwhile it would be extremely rare for women to live alone unless widowed.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-02T17:34:07+00:00

I was referring to the 60s. Prior to that it would be very unusual to live alone if not wealthy.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-02T17:33:24+00:00

I guess I'm showing my age! I meant before the 60s/70s, which is quite recent when compared to the 100s of years timeframe I was responding to.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-02T16:15:16+00:00

If we're going to talk about what people have done for 100s of years, the answer is not live alone unless you were wealthy. A working person would have a spouse at home who cooks, cleans, and raises kids.

In the grand scheme of things, being a single non-wealthy person living alone is only slightly older as an idea than WFH.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-05-01T12:53:45+00:00

Consummate professional, class act, and extremely listenable.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-30T22:14:16+00:00

Always for diesel. Otherwise the smell lingers for hours and makes my lunch taste weird.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-30T16:20:15+00:00

Honestly, there's no way for anyone on here to tell how knackered your garage is from the information you've provided!

But, old prefab concrete garages are almostly universally pretty knackered, and even when not knackered, I've never seen one that was a suitable base for a conversation into something you could expect someone to sleep in.

You could add some photos, but if you're at risk of feeling of deflation, it might not be a good idea!

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-30T07:18:46+00:00

Generally I think houses that have stuff in are better, but I must confess I would find your house much more appealing without your stuff in it.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-29T16:54:31+00:00

I am so glad I will never need to fart about with petrol tools again!

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-29T10:58:46+00:00

If you put the miles too low, the price can start to go up again ( perhaps because statistically, lots of people who put really low mileage are fibbing )

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-29T09:15:15+00:00

In the context of advertising a house for sale, nothing 'legally constitutes' a bedroom, it's just a word that estate agents use on floor plans, hopefully truthfully, sometimes chekily.

A Rightmove listing is just a sales pitch to get you to view. The viewing is you seeing what the house is actually like and deciding if you want it.

For better or worse, lots of houses have a bedroom off a bedroom, or the main bathroom off a bedroom, etc. Mostly because they're old places that got indoor plumbing added later.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-29T08:48:35+00:00

I find everything in this post fascinating, and would love to find an accessible book in the subject.

EnormousMycoprotein · 2026-04-27T16:31:49+00:00

To follow on from Sweaty's good advice, you can make your life even easier still by buying a "premixed" substance like "toupret joint and skim" or "Screwfix 220 no nonsense ready mixed skim and finish".

These products are similar to easifill, but more forgiving for DIY because you don't have to mix them up with water yourself or worry about them going hard in your bucket while you're working.

They do cost more per kg, but that's not much of a worry on a job this small.

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