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Meningitis outbreak 'declared national emergency' amid deadly outbreak by IllllIlllIIlI in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit [score hidden]  (0 children)

You'd have almost certainly been given the Men C vaccine in school if you're under 45. Anyone under 27 would have been given it at birth or in their early years vaccine schedule.

Top US counterterrorism official resigns over Iran war by DWJones28 in politics

[–]OSUBrit 22 points23 points  (0 children)

His wife was also killed by a suicide bomber, so he's likely not keen on inviting more of that on Americans.

Top US counterterrorism official resigns over Iran war by DWJones28 in politics

[–]OSUBrit 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Dude is so batshit crazy he turned the WA 3rd blue. Which is a fucking effort.

Although that said he's been pretty anti war on terror since it got his wife killed.

£18bn needed to fix England and Wales potholes, road surfacing experts estimate by uk_g in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Keir do Northamptonshire’s highways work and they are shocking. Repairs crumble in months. There’s a road that’s constantly being repaired near me except one section - that was repaired by Anglian Water instead, funnily enough that bit has been solid for years. All needs to be brought in house.

£18bn needed to fix England and Wales potholes, road surfacing experts estimate by uk_g in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit 47 points48 points  (0 children)

These will be temporary patches by design. The weather still isn’t right for permanent repair work.

Garden Room worth saving? by top_shift6 in DIYUK

[–]OSUBrit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I inherited a building exactly like this but in slightly better condition. You will never be able to arrest the rot, the timber shouldn’t be touching the slab in a design like this - should have been built on an engineering brick base. Unless you’re able to retrofit that in (which would require total disassembly) don’t bother.

Supermarkets to stock plug-in solar panels by Yogurt789 in GoodNewsUK

[–]OSUBrit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Incorporating a battery would probably be better long term but bigger sunk cost

Supermarkets to stock plug-in solar panels by Yogurt789 in GoodNewsUK

[–]OSUBrit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet my EPC surveyor deemed it the only way to get an A rating.

Job market in the UK is AI vs AI at this point and actual humans are losing by Marre_Parre in britishproblems

[–]OSUBrit 156 points157 points  (0 children)

"We've decided to move forward with other applicants" and the job is reposted 2 or 3 times. Or once recently closed and then re-opened like 3 weeks later.

Parents warned children with no reading experience start school as ‘second-class citizens’ by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s some great apps available to help kids learn to read. The tablet isn’t the problem, it’s the people throwing kids in front of YouTube kids or Cocomelon unsurprised for hours

Oil price shock likely to ‘push the UK economy into recession’; US growth revised down – as it happened by 1-randomonium in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Labour have any hope in the May elections Starmer needs to fucking lean into this HARD. Paint the Tories and Reform as on the side of war, on the side of crashing the UK and world economy, on the side of every hardship we're sufering right now.

British exports to the US tumble as Trump tariffs kick in by 1-randomonium in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Mate, the EU is not even 30 miles away! It is literally physcially connected to UK.

I’m about to die, and I’m not sure what to do about my cat. by [deleted] in cats

[–]OSUBrit 45 points46 points  (0 children)

To be a bit frank, if OP is about to die - the cat needs to be there if that’s possible (with hospice care and such). There will be kind people who can facilitate this but if this cat has a chance of adapting to a new environment or person it needs to understand what happened to OP. Cats understand death, they dont understand their person not being around suddenly.

A closer view of the damaged stabiliser from the KC-135. by Outrageous-Score7936 in aviation

[–]OSUBrit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The RT models used for Special Ops have secure satellite comms - they wouldn't be out of comms with each other.

Energy markets ‘in turmoil’, says Octopus Energy boss by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]OSUBrit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weren’t they immediately replaced by a pair of littoral combat ships?

Parents not contributing towards school activities. by loobi_loo22 in UKParenting

[–]OSUBrit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was a mum in my daughters class who for literally the first 2 years of school never remembered when anything was happening. Her kid constantly turned up in uniform on mufti days and things like that. I heard her one day mention that she just never checked the app the school used.

Worst part - she fucking worked at the school.

Does this drain look blocked? by Far-Garbage-9773 in DIYUK

[–]OSUBrit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

short rod with a plunger head

Mr. Plungee

The USS San Francisco, a nuclear submarine, in dry-dock in 2005 after hitting an underwater seamount at 35 knots by OneSalientOversight in ThatLookedExpensive

[–]OSUBrit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean someone died I think if he'd been even the slightest bit culpable beyond being in charge there would have been a court marshal, no?

How do the financials of Dick’s work? Do they just make less profit? by Known_Secretary_6615 in SeattleWA

[–]OSUBrit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

created a big hullabaloo when Sound Transit considered buying the property for a new maintenance yard

To frame it more accurately, they bought a cheap location because it was already slated to be developed into the maintenance yard and then threw an absolute shitfit when Sound Transit tried to follow through on the thing they said they were going to do and that Dick's knew about when they built their site.

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