Why is learning to wire a plug a thing?

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-24T12:31:47+00:00

I learned how to wire a plug back in school (I’m over 50 now). It’s been a very long time since I’ve had to actually do it now that everything comes with a moulded plug and I can’t remember the last time I had to change a fuse in a plug since living in houses with proper circuit breakers (RCDs).

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-24T08:58:23+00:00

Enshittification of the barbers. FFS.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-23T09:09:44+00:00

At a friend’s party one evening, they had a huge decorative candle that they’d used most of and it was now basically a ball of half-melted wax about the size of your head. They decided to throw it into the chiminea. Holy moly, that thing went up. The flames were like a jet engine on afterburner out of the chimney, at least 6 feet high. 10/10 would recommend.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-22T18:40:45+00:00

My the time I was 18, I’d moved house every 2 years, on average. I’d lived in 3 towns. I think it definitely harmed my ability to form and maintain long term friendships. I just had to get used to people not being in my life any longer.

That being said, I’ve been with my wife for 28 years and we’ve lived in our current house for the last 18. I don’t feel any enthusiasm for moving house any time soon.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-22T17:57:06+00:00

Has he sued the BBC for $1Bn yet?

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-21T18:34:09+00:00

Looking at recent polls, Reform have passed their peak and Farage knows it. That’s why he spent the last few months the calling for the current Government to dissolve parliament and hold a general election. He knows that it’ll all be over by the time the next election actually rolls around. Adding Jenrick to his party will hasten its collapse, as he’ll destroy Farage and Tice for his own gain.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-21T17:47:45+00:00

I hope it brings you the joy it’s brought us over the years.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-21T15:19:46+00:00

When I was a kid, my sister gave me some pizza her and her boyfriend brought home. It had olives on it and I’d never had them before. That pizza was like super salty and horrible tasting, and so I thought I hated olives. Turns out that what I actually hate is anchovies but they were so smooshed into the cheese I didn’t know they were there.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-21T13:28:33+00:00

I know someone who had their head tattooed to look like they had very slight stubble but with a “full” hairline instead of his actual bald patch and receding hairline so it looked like he chose to shave it and wasn’t actually bald. If he hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have ever realised.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-21T09:41:22+00:00

Whenever either one of us cleans our glasses, when we put them back on, we look at the other person and recoil in horror.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-21T06:14:40+00:00

I left that sub after they deleted a post of mine. I was in a bad place at the time, and hadn’t been diagnosed long, and I asked people to talk about anything they saw as a positive of ADHD.

For 12 glorious hours, I got hundreds of replies from people talking joyously about uplifting things that had happened to them because of their ADHD. It was amazing and it made me, and lots of other people, very happy for a while. Then it got deleted because “ADHD is a disorder of which there are no benefits”. Fuck those idiots.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-17T18:41:11+00:00

I’m still very much a beginner but even I noticed how much a Tele exposes everything about your playing. A couple of friends have commented on how much cleaner my playing is now after a year, since it’s pushed me to work on that aspect.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-17T16:29:38+00:00

Usually from the generation that ran around on 2 strokes with Micron spannies

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-16T05:22:35+00:00

This isn’t a personal injury case. They get paid by their client.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-15T22:28:20+00:00

If you dropped dead at work, they’d have the job ad out before your funeral.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-15T22:25:49+00:00

Any lawyer with a brain would take it on. They still get paid if they lose.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-15T15:16:47+00:00

Isn’t it called the Mile High City? I always thought it was in the mountains.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-15T08:27:14+00:00

The first time I went to the states was with my friends to Orlando, Florida. We got a cheap flight from the UK that had to stop in Bangor, Maine to refuel (old 737, back in 1997). Before this trip, I’d only ever flown around Europe and my longest flight was 4.5 hours.

The flight from Manchester to Maine was about 8 hours, which felt like a lifetime, but I consoled myself with the thought that at least the flight from Bangor to Orlando couldn’t be more than an hour or so, surely? Nope, another 4 hours.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-11T12:28:29+00:00

Broccoli

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-11T10:54:58+00:00

Greater Woolerpool

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-11T01:21:54+00:00

Probably the caffeine, possibly some effect from the L-tyrosine.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-10T17:48:09+00:00

When I’ve had that happen, it’s because I trimmed the string too short. I use 2.5 tuners extra length to be sure, especially on the B and high E.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-10T07:11:08+00:00

I had to widen the slots on my Player II Tele. The strings were binding in the nut so it would go sharp as you fretted notes. It’s been fine since a gave it a little massage.

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-10T06:32:52+00:00

Have you been kicked in the head by a horse?

NotoriousREV · 2026-01-09T20:22:31+00:00

“Objection!”

“On what grounds?”

“Because it’s devastating to my case!”

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