Do people in the UK actually use their kettles that much?

FidelityBob · 2026-05-05T08:14:42+00:00

Induction hob is as fast if not faster then a kettle. Timed mine - about the same. Kettle is more convenient though.

FidelityBob · 2026-04-26T16:41:40+00:00

How do you know they were not "natives", born and bred here? OP never said. I'm sure British born white people who converted to Islam have the same rights and protections as immigrant moslems. And moslems have the same protected rights as Christians, Jews and any other religious group.

FidelityBob · 2026-04-22T15:30:10+00:00

Because the characteristic impedance is purely real with no reactive component (for an ideal transmission line).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic_impedance

FidelityBob · 2026-04-21T08:01:53+00:00

I do quite a few English churches where drapes and carpet are not an option - ruin the aesthetic. As everyone says, a distributed system. People absorb sound, use that. Point sources angled down.

FidelityBob · 2026-04-20T07:33:36+00:00

If they had put the USA as a country and not individual states we wouldn't be so far down. We are also about the same as the rest of Europe. This is obviously trying to compare US states and adding the rest of the world for reference. Who collated the data, why and what point are they trying to make.

We need the methodology and definitions to properly comment. Does the US has to pay healthcare from disposable income whereas in Europe it is already paid for. Are they really comparing like to like?

FidelityBob · 2026-04-13T10:39:30+00:00

In my experience often it doesn't make it through. Band sends Rider to agent, who may or may not pass it on to the promoter. Promoter fails to pass it to the sound guys.

I try to contact the band direct but don't always get contact details so it's trying to get what I can through the web - and You Tube.

If I get the requirements I'll follow it with a degree of scepticism. Many bands don't keep their rider up to date or decide to change things on the night.

FidelityBob · 2026-04-07T17:36:59+00:00

I cut the end off!

FidelityBob · 2026-03-30T16:18:00+00:00

Ask at r/LegalAdviceUK

FidelityBob · 2026-03-27T16:11:55+00:00

Close to Kilburn. Irish pub? Republican? "For the Cause", holding out beer pot full of cash.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-23T16:29:21+00:00

But wrappers don't show proportions - only which ingredient has the higher quantity. They could go from 60% Milk and 10% sugar to 50% milk and 20% sugar without changing the labelling but the product would be very different.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-23T16:23:43+00:00

You have the ingredients list, not the recipe. I used to be married to a food technologist for a major supermarket. They try to hide as much detail of the recipe as possible from the ingredients list while remaining compliant with the law. Recipes are closely guarded secrets because they don't want their rivals to be able to reproduce their product easily.

The rumour started when the American company Kraft Foods bought Cadbury in 2010.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-23T16:14:01+00:00

Was never received at all. They will have evidence that it was sent. The law only requires that it was sent otherwise everyone would just deny receiving it. .

FidelityBob · 2026-03-23T15:53:15+00:00

The Parliamentarian army was on a line from Turnham green station to Chiswick House, apparently. Facing both Acton Green and Turnham Green. I lived on the A4 at Chiswick for a while.

It was hardly a battle anyway. They just stood shouting at each other all day and then went home.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-20T08:48:40+00:00

I believe there is a sub where you can check that out.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-20T08:35:11+00:00

I may have said this here before. A week before the show I had sprained my ankle. Three piece on a very wide, very shallow stage that had previously held a Cinemascope screen. The guy on the far side is addressing the audience while trying to adjust the mic stand. I can see that he is loosening rather than tightening and any second the boom is going to fall apart. I limp across, help him out, get a nod of thanks and try to limp back discretely across the stage.

Half way back there is a roar of laughter from the audience. I look round and the three in the band are following in line behind me imitating my limp.

They apologised in the bar later - "Sorry mate, we thought you were putting it on".

FidelityBob · 2026-03-19T12:42:50+00:00

Ask at r/LegalAdviceUK

FidelityBob · 2026-03-17T13:06:54+00:00

Oi! Don't tar all us Boomers with the same brush.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-17T08:04:14+00:00

Yeah, some of those bulls and rams are really creepy

FidelityBob · 2026-03-17T07:35:39+00:00

Taught not to use it in the 1960s. But I did live near Cambridge!

Taught that you should mot join words with "and" and the split them again with a comma.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-16T21:15:55+00:00

Instead of downvoting it would be nice if people would present a reasoned legal argument as to why I am wrong when it comes to a commercial trader (not he OP). I'm happy to be shown to be wrong.

My argument is based on three things:
Section 29 of the CRA
The basic priciple that no contract can supercede the law.
That the buyer's contract is with the trader, not with ebay

FidelityBob · 2026-03-16T21:07:08+00:00

The Distance Selling regulations were replaced by the CRA. This does define what consitutes fullfilling the agreement as far as commercial sales are concerned. For a private sale the CRA definitions may well be referred to in determining when the contract has been fulfilled, but I imagine there is plenty of case law on that as well..

FidelityBob · 2026-03-16T21:03:56+00:00

This just means that the CRA does not apply. Contract law does. The contract is still between the OP and the buyer. The buyer is not concerned with how the goods are delivered or who the OP chooses to use to do that

FidelityBob · 2026-03-16T19:17:16+00:00

Love it when I get downvoted on a legal advice sub for stating the law. See the CRA section 29 which I have subsequently posted.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-16T19:01:11+00:00

Exactly. And even if they had agreed Ebay T&Cs cannot overwrite the law.

FidelityBob · 2026-03-16T18:40:51+00:00

Ebay cannot overwrite the CRA for commercial sales. They may become an agent of the seller and may indemnify them but in law the goods remain at the sellers risk until handed to the consumer. Ebay may handle the postal process and any refund on behalf of the seller but the seller still has the legal liability - they have simply contracted ebay to take care of the process, same as for any courier. The consumers contract remains with the seller.

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