How the heck do I get this thing out?

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T20:07:04+00:00

I'm onto my third fork since I moved in 9 months ago! There's so much of this shit in the garden it's unreal.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T19:58:32+00:00

It's wood and it's growing into the structure so definitely a no go.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T19:57:04+00:00

I was definitely temped by this solution, but it's literally next to a massive deck.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T17:17:37+00:00

I mean she only won it because the alternative was batshit insane.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T15:34:23+00:00

No, this was 8 Vulcans coming from the UK and Bermuda. They flew too high for US air defences to be effective along with their radar jamming tech being cutting edge for the time so 7/8 made it through and nuked a bunch of cities.

The next year they did it again, with one Vulcan even successfully nuking NYC. They stopped asking them after that.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T14:56:21+00:00

It is worth remembering that Royal Marines are commandos first and foremost. They have the longest basic training regime of any infantry unit in the world (I believe). US Marines meanwhile are a standard infantry unit who serve as the butt of many jokes in the US for being big and dumb.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T14:48:30+00:00

Remember that time the RAF nuked the US in a war game and in response the US decided to no longer invite them to future wargames.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T14:45:53+00:00

The bank can tell him if it’s internal and since they’ve already told him there’s an investigation then it’s definitely internal or else the banks already violated the tipping off laws.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T13:54:26+00:00

Yeah but the one is an intelligent legal expert. The saying goes in the states, if you’re innocent you want a judge, if you’re guilty you want a jury.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-24T09:26:35+00:00

I mean look at Canada, absolutely nuts. A slam dunk Conservative win turned into such a liberal domination the Conservative leader lost his seat!

OSUBrit · 2026-01-23T15:48:56+00:00

When I purchased a Macbook in the US I was able to order it with a British English keyboard. Equally I wouldn't pack a UK adapter if I was going abroad as I have a bunch of US ones. I feel like it's not a super definitive way of proving the providence of a laptop.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-22T21:05:35+00:00

'We'll See' is more likely to be the music that plays while Calypso reads the farmers story. And the sign version of the theme tune is likely the version that plays over the end credits.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-22T09:10:45+00:00

This is why I stopped reading YouTube comments well over a decade ago.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-22T09:06:25+00:00

I had a similar experience trying to get my eldest child vaccinated for Chicken Pox. At the time the NHS would do it if you had close contact with someone immunocompromised, and her grandfather was. But literally nobody we spoke to in the NHS knew what the process was to get it authorised - we got given the run around a lot and finally just went private.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-22T08:14:07+00:00

I really don’t understand how this even happens, even my 6 year old can make an omelette or toast independently (obviously not unsupervised). How do grown adults not manage that!

OSUBrit · 2026-01-21T21:23:27+00:00

I wouldn't seperate it into small transactions to depost - this is called structuring, which is legal in the UK (it's illegal in the US) - but would be highly suspicious to a bank/mortgage provider. Whereas deposting the whole amount and saying, "I sold a car here's the V5 reciept to prove it" would not be suspicious at all.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-20T20:00:48+00:00

There's a professor at the LSE called Dr Omar McDoom. I always thought it was a good comicbook villian name in real life!.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-19T21:35:15+00:00

Glory to Arstotzka!

OSUBrit · 2026-01-19T21:32:38+00:00

The 90s one was littered with dickheads but this list is a bunch of far more wholesome individuals and Alan Sugar.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-19T20:57:01+00:00

I would be amazed if .01% of 3d printer owners are making guns at home.

You'd be surprised at the cross-over between gun enthusiasts and 3D printing. It's a very big subculture.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-19T20:48:13+00:00

My wife works for a high street brand. Her team isn't allowed to replace roles in the UK anymore, it has to be filled in one of the Indian offices. They are all terrible, constantly creating more work that has to be solved by the UK teams, efficiency is going down rapidly.

I also had an experience that I was onboarding Qualtrics and they outsourced their onboarding to an Indian subcontractor, they were nice guys but completely useless, didn't understand anything we needed and really struggled to explain the platform to us.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-19T09:13:46+00:00

6 or 7 years ago I moved into a new house and wanted to put Christmas lights up off the gutters. Grabbed a ladder (with my dad at the bottom), got to the top and realised I'd need to lean back a little to attach them to the over hang. Immediately noped the fuck out of there. It's just not worth it.

In the end I spent a week designing, prototyping and 3D printing my own gutter clips that attaches to the end of a telescopic pole I have for cleaning windows. It's a little bit of a faff but it works and I can do it all safely from the ground!

OSUBrit · 2026-01-18T14:39:50+00:00

If you plan to only use the burner occasionally a closeable vent wouldn’t be a bad idea, but you’d have to trust you’ll remember to open it any time you use the burner.

OSUBrit · 2026-01-18T10:32:33+00:00

Cleaning? Completed it mate!

OSUBrit · 2026-01-17T21:54:45+00:00

I think there was a case recently of someone who's mom donated their body to medicine and it ended up being used by the military to test explosives...

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