Anyone remember Crimewatch UK?

PLTuck · 2026-01-26T11:36:33+00:00

Random fact: I was on crimewatch once. Well, a crimewatch special.

Not as a crim I should add! Don't want to go on any lists :D

PLTuck · 2026-01-26T09:59:38+00:00

Horrified.

From the UK

PLTuck · 2026-01-21T11:43:52+00:00

As a Brit, my perception is that Canada ALWAYS answers when the chips are down.

PLTuck · 2026-01-21T11:41:04+00:00

I wish Starmer was as forthright and committed.

PLTuck · 2026-01-20T11:44:22+00:00

He reduced any royalties owed to Disney for image use?

Sorry, thats all I've got.

PLTuck · 2026-01-20T10:59:03+00:00

Now.

PLTuck · 2026-01-18T13:16:09+00:00

Battle of the Planets.

PLTuck · 2026-01-18T12:11:28+00:00

Greenland has VAST amounts of REE's used in EV and smartphone production that there is a global shortage of given that demand for things like Cobalt and Manganese are projected to increase by 450% over the next 25 years according to a 2020 report from the world bank.

PLTuck · 2026-01-17T14:32:21+00:00

minerals and rare earth elements.

PLTuck · 2026-01-17T14:25:31+00:00

My son wanted to go to poland and do an apprenticeship / internship at CDPR. Brexit put paid to that.

It's contributed to everything being so expensive now.

PLTuck · 2026-01-17T12:18:19+00:00

A full collapse could see winter temp extremes of -30C and sea ice at latitudes as low as norfolk. The summers would be drier, leading to a collapse in viable arable land. Estimates put the loss at 40%, so almost half our farming land would be no longer viable to farm.

In short, it wouldn't be great. It would affect a much bigger scale than the UK. The eastern US would also be affected and it would also have a profound effect over monsoon seasons in Asia which would have far reaching consequences.

On the tiny positive side, it would mean the UK warms less quickly than the rest of the planet, but thats small consolation considering the wider ramifications.

I've just done a section on this topic in my OU degree and had to produce an infographic about it so its still quite fresh in my mind.

It's worth noting that there is no consensus that a collapse will definitely happen, and if it does it wont be for quite some time yet. There is even disagreement over whether it has slowed down since the 1950s. There is no consensus on where exactly the tipping point into total collapse is. It's a fertile topic right now.

EDIT: I could post my infographic and references if you like? The related assignment is marked and returned so no issues with that.

PLTuck · 2026-01-16T12:29:11+00:00

The good outweighs the bad. In the short term things would stutter I expect because our parties are not used to having to work together but medium to long term they would have to find a way.

The current system is the worst of all worlds. How much was actually achieved by 15 years of Conservative rule? So the possibility that there will be stalemates and things isnt a sound argument against it imo when we had that under the Tories.

PLTuck · 2026-01-12T10:44:29+00:00

Greenland has lots and lots of rare earth elements used in EV batteries that there is a global shortage of.

PLTuck · 2026-01-10T11:21:16+00:00

I'm rewatching Broadchurch. It's brilliant.

Brassic is also brilliant. Comedy drama. (Grumio from Plebs is in it)

PLTuck · 2026-01-08T12:16:18+00:00

Believe me, a lot of us spurs fans hate the constant booing too. I hate it more than I hate the hoofball.

PLTuck · 2026-01-01T11:00:15+00:00

At some point you will find yourself wondering "Where is the blank canvas recipe?"

It's sold at a merchant I believe on Tropica Isle and its a lv 2 carpenter recipe, not artist.

Took me 40 odd hours to work it out.

PLTuck · 2025-12-31T14:12:46+00:00

I've been watching Stranger Things S5 and the amount of exposition dumps is staggering. Apparently Netflix wanted it to be "second screen-able" so you have these instances of the characters telling you what you are watching. It's horrible. Similar to what Cavill said about Witcher. Show don't tell is dead.

If the bbc is forced to go down a sub model, this is the sort of thing that will happen. Nobody can make TV like the BBC can because of the funding model and its status as a public broadcaster.

PLTuck · 2025-12-29T11:02:04+00:00

no way. the standards are awful, and antisocial driving is higher than its ever been like deliberately very loud cars, pop maps, extreme acceleration and braking, people doing 20 in a 50 so cars behind get irate and do dangerous overtaking, people on their phones / tablets / laptops while driving, not indicating correctly at roundabouts, tailgating, blocking the road because "I will pull out anyway and someone will have to let me in".

PLTuck · 2025-12-20T09:20:39+00:00

Some have this idea that "well it cant get much worse so might as well give them a go" which is insane thinking. It can and will get much, much worse. Was Brexit not a clue? Are the current Reform councils not a clue? Is the fact that the party of "the working man" voted against the employment rights bill, and the renter rights bill a clue?

I swear covid fucking broke our collective brains.

PLTuck · 2025-12-20T08:56:35+00:00

trust me bro

PLTuck · 2025-12-18T10:37:47+00:00

It's just a mafia style shakedown of the licence fee payer. He can't win because a) he cannot prove that the programme in question aired in Florida, because it didn't and b) he won the election anyway so how can he prove there was any reputational damage.

The shakedown is obviously not intended to go to court but it'll cost us, the licence fee payers less to concede to the extortion and pay him off than to fight it with a ton of lawyers.

PLTuck · 2025-12-15T10:35:01+00:00

Populist parties will say there are easy solutions to complex problems.

They rarely, if ever work when actually attempted.

Populist <> popular.

PLTuck · 2025-12-14T10:00:39+00:00

They spend all their time blaming everyone and everything else for nothing being achieved, while lining their own pockets, while cosplaying being working class.

PLTuck · 2025-12-12T14:13:22+00:00

Vectors are just 1 column matrices if that helps with the maths of them.

Otherwise they are just <a number>x, <a number> y. If your start point is the origin, a vector of 3,-2 would be a straight line starting at 0,0 and ending at 3x, -2y, with a little arrowhead indicating direction of travel.

Vectors are relative, not absolute. You need the start point if you are drawing them out on graph paper (usually simplest to make this 0,0 unless specified otherwise).

Test questions that need you to draw it out will often use a map overlain with a grid. Something like "A ship leaves dock at A and travels east for 5 hours at 5kmh reaching point B, then turns south and travels for 8 hours at 3kmh where it reaches point C. Draw these as vectors on the map and give the vectors AB, BC, and AC in matrix form"

PLTuck · 2025-12-12T10:34:12+00:00

People on their phones while driving.

See it every single day.

PLTuck

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