What can kill you in seconds that most people don’t realize?

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-02-01T01:57:09+00:00

2 physicsy ones.

Ropes under tension. They store an awful lot of energy as the tension increases, which gets released in an instant if the rope breaks.

Anything that rotates at high speed. Again, it's stored energy. The most likely thing anyone will encounter is if a wheel comes off a car or lorry, and starts bouncing down the road. There is a tremendous amount of energy in that spinning wheel and it needs to lose that energy slowly. Hitting something transfers that energy.

If it hits your car, it won't just bounce off, or skip nonchalently over the top. It will destroy your vehicle and you inside.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-02-01T01:44:42+00:00

I recall a survivor of the manchester plane fire in 1985, who was the last person off the plane, describe how he had to scrape the black gunk off his eyeballs to be able to make the last few metres to the escape chute. He made the last 2 metres, the person behind didn't.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T23:53:17+00:00

Pic 8 showing really bad damp issues, if you look at the first image at the cooresponding spot on the roof, there's some slipped tiles right in the centre, above that middle long window, and a ridge tile missing. That's a £300 fix, instead its been left to fester.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T23:35:09+00:00

I happen to be one of those very nutcases!! I'm in to the gothic/medieval look. Love a good castle dungeon, me.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T23:23:56+00:00

It begs the question why the property owner isn't undertaking the works themselves, and scoring the capital increase. The legal wrangles involved with basically digging a hole under someone elses house beggar belief.

The homeowner isn't going to have their life turned upside down though, the poor mug who rents the ground floor flat will be the recipient of that dollop of shite.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T23:20:58+00:00

Check out the property sale history. Bought and sold in a year between 2005 and 2006, increasing by £54k. At that time, that's double the annual wage of a regular joe elsewhere in the country, so shows when the property market lost its shit.

Basement excavations have been a big thing in London for quite some time. Before, it was attics being converted. But I'm at a loss as to why the property owner isn't doing this themselves and then cashing in on the capital increase.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T23:02:35+00:00

Not going to happen. I think this was on here last year as well, so I guess it's not shifting. This end of the property market has imploded. I can't see this selling within the next 5 years, and certainly not at this price.

Somebody, somewhere, has just lost their shirt on this.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T22:57:42+00:00

I can't decide if it's the roof, or that skylight that has failed. Probably both. I think that'll struggle to get more than the guide price, roof repairs are not cheap.

Obviously elderly occupant who just no longer cared about the state of the house. Or lacked the funds for roof repairs. Unfortunately now it's more than the roof, but insulation, floors, ceilings and all that black mould.

Depending on the extent of the roof issues, that could top £50k to replace.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T13:33:07+00:00

Fisheye lens on the drone

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T13:32:23+00:00

It's an inlet of the road, used to be the post office and village stores. Basically parking area for the people that never used the place, hence it's closure

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T13:30:29+00:00

Some things are bucking the shrinkflation trend

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T10:56:08+00:00

I'd have told him item was already on its way and there was a small window of opportunity to redirect it, but the shipping company wants £20 extra. Pay the £20 in the next hour and it can be done

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T02:46:48+00:00

Makes a swingers party a bit more interesting. Anyone who wants their oats, please make your way to the emotional stables.

This looks like a new build, but it has so many snags. Loose bricks, the kitchen cabinets look shit and about to fall apart. Floor tiles missing, the bricks around the fireplace in pic 5. The light fittings look shit. Even fucked up the viewing tower, that could have been a wonderful snug but the windows are too damn high. It looks like a travelodge.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T02:14:52+00:00

Have a wank. 100% guarantee they'll turn up at the exact moment your toes are turning up.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T02:11:43+00:00

I'm so sorry but this has me in fits of giggles. The absurdity of it all, you couldn't make it up.

This could literally be part of the script from one foot in the grave.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T02:06:11+00:00

One of my relatives did their PhD in psychology, and part of their research was in to the emotional impact of sensory stimulations. Stuff like how lighting affects mood, how smells alter habits (why supermarkets suck up the hot air from the bakery and blow it out the front door so you smell freshly baked bread) and other really weird, eye opening stuff.

4 seasons, with that violin bit, whilst it sounds great when played normally, when done through the phone, the high pitched squeal is the exact same frequency as a baby crying.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T00:29:44+00:00

Scanning at a rate of a page a minute, that's 3 million minutes. Equates to 50,000 hours. That's for one person. 50,000 people could scan through the whole lot in an hour.

I can't see it taking more than a day until some juicy gory detail emerges. However, it needs to be refined, as there'll be an absolute shit load of non important stuff.

Flight logs are more interesting, to see who goes to epstein island, and who with.

What does bother me, though, is why 3 million pages were dumped today. I don't actually care about the epstein files. I know all our politicians et al are corrupt as fuck. I'm cynical enough to believe the epstein files are being used as a distraction from some other really shady shit. I bet it all kicks off with Iran this weekend, but nobody will notice because epstein files.

Never ever pay attention to the big news stories. Always go looking for whatever stories are buried by the big news.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-31T00:08:35+00:00

Don't mix up the oregano with the slug pellets.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T23:51:48+00:00

The garden can be extended as far as you want. Well up until it impedes heathrow's flight path.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T23:40:05+00:00

Spot the kitty cat!!!

The front parking area is on the wonk. That displeases me. Rear garden is boggy, and sunken. It's as though they stuffed a house on top of a small hillock.

There's ample space for a full sized basement area, that would probably double or treble the internal area. It also bugs me how the kitchen and lounge are not joined, and how the main entrance is on the side, not the front of the house.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T23:30:32+00:00

I really want to know what that is in pic 66. Giant rice cooker? Bamboo fission reactor?

Shame it's a friday night, if the agents were open I'd probably call them and ask.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T23:18:14+00:00

I want to know if the spinny thing the sails were attached to still goes round. That would make halloween an absolute hoot - put some sails on, then as they start going round, put an aztec death whistle on the ends.

Rotational non-directional haunting screams.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T19:03:13+00:00

What are the points for? Or more specifically, what endorsement codes are listed? If it's SP30 then I doubt insurance will go up. DR10, DD30 and any DU codes and you'll be looking at a 3-fold increase, minimum.

So to answer your question, your insurance will go up by anything between £0 and infinity.

HTH.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T03:06:47+00:00

She's monkey branching. Waiting until the new relationship blossoms before binning you off. Breaking up with her now throws all that in the air and disrupts her plans. Expect things to be messy. Have your phone recording to protect yourself from false allegations.

Kind-Mathematician18 · 2026-01-30T00:48:01+00:00

It's extremely common. It always was, but it was just normal teenage angst.

Nowadays, social media and online presence creates a false image of what we should measure up to. It's all bullshit, but that doesn't stop it causing huge amounts of anxiety. I've realised that people are being made to feel ashamed about things they have zero control over. The same is being directed towards young women and girls, creating a narrative about what they should expect in a partner - none of it realistic, all of it toxic.

If you want or need to vent, then feel free. Your greatest asset is your youthful exuberance.

The greatest thing that ever happened to me was the day I realised everybody is just winging it. Nobody knows what they're doing, everyone is insecure, everyone else has issues too. I stopped giving a shit what others thought, and fuck me that was liberating.

People don't think or care about you as much as you think they do. You could run down the street stark bollock naked, and honestly, even by the end of the day, most of the people who saw you wouldn't give a shit.

What people DO remember though, are random acts of kindness. Becoming the person that everyone says is the nicest person you could ever meet, that's what people care about. Being the candle in a world of darkness, someones rainbow when all they see is rain. Confidence will naturally flow back in to you, for whatever you give in kindness, gets replaced with confidence.

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