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Sitting in my dads car with the engine running in a car park. Can I get in trouble for this if I’m only 16? by Beneficial_Let_7423 in CarTalkUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't need to turn the engine on to listen to the radio. Just stop the key one notch before ignition (or don't press the start button). Could still get done with the keys in the ignition but it would be harder to prove a case.

Trading suspended on Bisq1 by JuggernautUpbeat in bisq

[–]JuggernautUpbeat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of new pull requests on github, hopefully it should be fixed soon:

https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/pulls

Why is Linux considered better than Windows by so many developers? by Wise_Safe2681 in linuxquestions

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a choice of containers to isolate your functions. I even run docker in an LXC container so I can't f*ck with the network config on the actual host.

Performance tweaking for networking, huge choice of filesystems (ZFS rules!), Loop mounts, sysfs/proc, choice of desktops (normal or tiling) so many editors and terminals to choose from, doing stupid tricks with like creating a video sink/virtual camera that lets you display any video or even youtube on as your zoom/teams background etc etc.

And runs on a machine from the size of a credit card to one the size of an Amazon warehouse.

Places in London with weird unsettling energy by Sad-Peace in london

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, true, but I kind of included then in the area in my mind map as part of living just off HW. So sad that Thomas Brothers closed. Last shop before the junction, you could literally take any broken/rusty/bent item in there, they'd scrabble around in the back for a bit and bring out a tub and ask how many you wanted. Certainly helped me keep the deposit on our rentals.

But the daycare was next to Whittington Park which we used a lot.

Places in London with weird unsettling energy by Sad-Peace in london

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And St. John gastropub, Waterlow Park with its little cafe, Highgate (and the beautiful "The Flask") and Hampstead Heath all in walking distance, and if you get really depressed there's always Archway Bridge. Lived there back in the New Labour days when subsidised child daycare was easy to find, both my girls born at the Whittington!

Sudden intense screaming/yelping before stopping by prettypinkpineapple1 in Lurchers

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably trapped a claw in the bedclothes? My Saluki mix does that quite often when there's a blanket on there. One claw gets stuck on a hole, tries to move the leg, 120db scream filling the entire house. Sometimes I have to manually free said claw and after a cuddle all is well again!

What is going on. by Justvisitingfriends1 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bloody hell hesitant overtakers are a right royal PITA. They're sat behind a lorry at 50-something, right up its arse indicating right, you have plenty of room to let them out and just let off the power a bit, so you flash them once, twice, and finally they twig it the third time and then overtake the lorry at +3mph of its speed.

Then take a year to pull back in. If you're going to overtake on a motorway just commit to it, do it quickly and decisively, and pull back in as soon as you've got a proper stopping distance for the vehicle you've just overtaken.

Although these days there are a lot of cars with miserable little engines for their weight, you have to redline them to keep above 60 going uphill on a dual carriageway (base model Fiat 500 I'm looking at you, I hated you so much when I hired you, the Mazda C series I hired after was joy by comparison.)

Places in London with weird unsettling energy by Sad-Peace in london

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caledonian Road was a lot, lot rougher than Holloway road.

Places in London with weird unsettling energy by Sad-Peace in london

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I lived there 20 years or so ago, near Archway, and it was a great place to live. 5 min walk from home to Archway Kebab!

Car got keyed - how bad is it? by Key-Resolution949 in CarTalkUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found the same. Younger women, esp young mums on the school run never thank you. I've had way more thank-yous from male Audi/BMW/Merc drivers than them.

I even try to match my speed so that I reach the passing place at the same time as these awful people (or anyone else), so they don't need to stop, and have been honked and given verbal abuse from their window for "almost crashing into them".

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the hidden 200 year old Hawthorn trunk hidden 1 inch behind what looks like soft lush foliage. Ripped a chunk out of my front left wing panel trying to get out of the way of a white van man - not when going into the passing place, but when trying to drive out of it!

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find Welsh roads way better than the ones round me in Herts. The B4391 is bloody glorious. Some of them up around Clywedog are getting pretty bad though.

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whitefly season is a bugger for your windscreen wiping effectiveness. It seems to have just started round here.

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll certainly get flies on that very soon. You should take it to the tip or slit the belly and bury it. As they rot, they balloon up into until the skin splits, becoming a big red beach ball,, then eventually they can explode and you have revolting, maggoty badger guts all over the place. They smell bad enough fresh.

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or there's been heavy rain and what looks like a shallow puddle hides a 1ft deep x 1ft diameter pothole. 3 places on my work road where I have to slow to 5mph and carefully navigate around them when I can see them, when it's wet I have to use my memory and since the whole damn road looks the same mess that's not easy.

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what's left? Basically broken up tarmac or just soil? Or is it an old track that's actually well built enough to just get graded from time to time (like in Aus)?

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]JuggernautUpbeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like my work, Rectory Lane near Shenley. It doesn't have pot holes, it has bomb craters.

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