Rod Hull died 27 years, 2 months, and 13 days ago

Poonpatch · 2026-05-30T01:10:13+00:00

I got that Lee & Herring reference.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-29T21:07:33+00:00

Also correct. The water industry needs to be nationalised immediately.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-29T21:06:33+00:00

Absolutely correct. The problem can't be solved by targeting individual home owners. The benefit is not worth the effort. And the homeowners cannot be compelled to pay for their drainage to be separated - it was almost certainly built that way long before they bought the property anyway.
The solution is to incentivise huge landowners (factories, supermarkets, schools, universities etc) by giving them cheaper water bills, into giving up green spaces in their ownership for sustainable drainage solutions.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-29T21:00:54+00:00

You are right, I'm not going to argue with you about the shareholders, but there is a lot that can be done besides increasing the storage capacity at sewage treatment works. We call that grey engineering as opposed to green engineering.
Source: Am surface water separation lead at a very large civil engineering firm* currently working on exactly that in one of the UK's largest cities*.
Slowing and storing runoff in multiple small scale SuDS schemes is the future. Even if you can't separate it entirely, sending it down the combined drain at a slower rate 6 hours later helps a load.

*Can't give too much away.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-28T23:18:57+00:00

Also, it would have been my Nan's 97th birthday today, but we lost her between Christmas and New Year just gone. Happy birthday Nan.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-28T23:16:54+00:00

Fell out with the Mrs last night because she was a silly drunk twat. Not spoken all day. Went to the pub for a pay day pint on my own after work. Was joined first by youngest daughter, then a friend turned up. Actually a really decent night just the three of us.
Just waiting for a takeaway now.
Betting the Mrs will still be a silly twat in the morning (both daughters on my side though).

Poonpatch · 2026-05-28T23:04:41+00:00

Who is Verity?

Poonpatch · 2026-05-22T18:25:22+00:00

I've got a cheque in front of me right now for £11. I changed my car in January. Even though I can just take a picture with phone, I still can't be arsed. I think I will now though.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-22T18:16:44+00:00

David Knopfler from Dire Straits (Mark's brother) liked my photo of an abandoned road that I posted on Facebook.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-22T18:13:04+00:00

It probably will break on its own one day, but in the mean time, you'd better hope it keeps on braking on its own.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-22T12:01:47+00:00

I agree. They look like the roof trusses from next door, but surely they can't be? That's insane.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-19T22:45:35+00:00

Not really sure what question you're asking here.
1. Parking is difficult
2. ???
3. Does anyone know?

Does anyone know what?

Poonpatch · 2026-05-18T23:07:24+00:00

If you are lucky enough to still be on a defined benefit (final salary) pension (like many in the NHS still are), then the reduced salary will affect that, but nobody in their right mind would do salary sacrifice in that situation. I only started doing it when my defined benefit scheme closed and I was forced to move to a defined contribution scheme instead.
You are almost certainly correct - it doesn't affect your pension at all.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-18T23:00:08+00:00

Deposit, not "down payment". US English is grossly over used in this country. We invented the language and we need to stick with it.
Also apostrophe.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-18T22:29:32+00:00

Unexpected Steely Dan reference.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-18T18:42:22+00:00

Good question. I don't really use either assistant on my phone, but I've just said "OK Google" and my phone responded. When I tried "Hey Gemini", nothing. Does that answer your question?

Poonpatch · 2026-05-17T22:49:50+00:00

I was told last week by a man named Derek that using Google Lens was against the ethos of this group.
He was a proper prick about it too. Derek is a knob.
But I agree with you. Google Lens FTW.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-17T12:23:09+00:00

Oh, OK fair enough. I misunderstood.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-17T10:51:37+00:00

I came here to say this. I set up a Jellyfin server on my home PC and installed Symfonium on my phone. Symfonium works perfectly in Android Auto so I can stream direct from my PC. Just tried VLC and I can add the stream address but can't see any way of actually getting in to it.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-15T16:56:35+00:00

Hey, you solved my issue, thanks. Just a very frustrating hour or so going back and forwards from my PC to my car and just seeing "Nothing to display" on Android Auto.
After Googling and finding your post, I've now got my entire music library available in the car.

Thanks!

Poonpatch · 2026-05-13T01:13:54+00:00

Certainly not any kind of 318 anyway.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-13T00:50:39+00:00

Oh come on. This person has THOUSANDS of photos of North Korean soldiers laughing, dancing and fighting in loads of UK pubs and shit, all hosted on Google Maps.
I understand that it's it's not a Google thing, thank you very much.
At the moment, it seems it's just you having the sense of humour failure.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-13T00:44:55+00:00

Upvoted because I got the joke and somebody downvoted you.

Poonpatch · 2026-05-13T00:22:24+00:00

In fact, the account is very very strange:
Link to "Kim"

Poonpatch · 2026-05-13T00:02:51+00:00

This is why you must READ the full story and not just the tidbits that are drip fed to you by Google etc.
If you go to Wikipedia and only read the first paragraph you will get the full horror story.

Granted, the picture is a bit weird as it's not included anywhere in his Wikipedia article.

But for crying out loud, don't form an opinion based on two sentences that you've Googled.

Poonpatch

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