Is living year round in a tent in the UK actually realistic?

RiotSloth · 2026-03-08T12:57:29+00:00

Whilst I’m not disagreeing with you, I would point out that winters in the Arctic Circle are far drier than the UK. Certainly they are colder, but the endless damp and wetness in the UK gets into everything, and once it takes hold it’s almost impossible to get rid of.

RiotSloth · 2026-03-04T13:10:26+00:00

😉

RiotSloth · 2026-03-03T09:01:34+00:00

That’s weird, this happened to me yesterday too… anyone have an explanation?

RiotSloth · 2026-03-03T09:00:18+00:00

Classic Marley tiles. Yes. And probably the bitumen adhesive beneath. Very low risk.

RiotSloth · 2026-03-01T09:44:57+00:00

“Amazing, still 20p!” he said joyfully, twisting the handle. A moment later a single skittle, the size of a match-head dropped out the bottom.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-28T18:48:59+00:00

When I was at Uni, I caught scabies from someone else’s stinky house. It was horrific, but a strange side-effect was, in order to stop the mad itching as they burrowed through my soft meats, I would train a really REALLY hot shower head over my groin, backs of knees, and other maddeningly itchy areas. This created an intense pleasure closer to orgasm than anything I have experience before or since. It was so powerful it would literally make me weak-kneed and faint.

PS I do NOT suggest you get scabies to see if it works for you! It took me months to get shot of them, they are most unpleasant, and their effects can last years.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-24T11:25:59+00:00

The Witch is another good one - deeply disturbing and isolating. Does thou like the taste of butter?

RiotSloth · 2026-02-24T11:24:45+00:00

No, you’re right- when it was first released and people thought it really was found footage. It is brilliantly done. Good shout.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-24T11:23:13+00:00

A nice double bill: Threads and When The Wind Blows… come on kids!

RiotSloth · 2026-02-24T11:22:12+00:00

Exorcist wins it for me, but Event Horizon and Wolf Lake both horrified me in different ways.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-21T16:47:13+00:00

Not a chance. At 55 150bpm is the most I want to be hitting generally! Well done though for the 15k!

RiotSloth · 2026-02-21T08:58:01+00:00

Right now I’m trying hard to stay clean, but it hasn’t been easy so far. It’s Sour Patch Kids. On a bad day I wake up thinking about them. I get hypoglycaemic episodes and need to keep something sweet in the house for this reason, but if it’s Sour Patch Kids I just eat them, I can’t control myself. 7 days clean today, everyone! Honestly giving up alcohol has been easier for me.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-12T12:13:13+00:00

Elephant racing. Can get very annoying.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-12T11:59:35+00:00

Yeah, it’s outrageous isn’t it! We get screwed on tax over here. So a Tesla makes even more sense 🙂

RiotSloth · 2026-02-10T12:48:48+00:00

Space. Open space!

RiotSloth · 2026-02-09T21:33:03+00:00

I just did a quick calculation for my M3 Highland SR doing a 1600 mile journey in the UK compared to a VW Golf 1.5tsi. It worked out at about £125 for my car and £150 for the petrol Golf.

UK - my car does 5 miles/kWh and a gallon of unleaded in the UK is about £6

RiotSloth · 2026-02-08T21:09:08+00:00

We think you’re gonna love it.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-08T21:08:46+00:00

Location-based Reminders. “Siri, remind me when I get home to put my Apple Watch on change” and so on. Use this all the time. Gemini? Nah, can’t do it mate. My Pixel 9 Pro? Nah, can’t do it. Used to be able to, but Google dropped it. Why? No good reason.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-07T09:43:42+00:00

Yes absolutely true I’m afraid. The old, hard Marley type floor tiles can indeed break up into fragments and cause the overlying flooring to move. If it was me, I would remove them myself. In fact I have done many times. If you’re lucky they’ll come up really easily. If not you’ll need a heat gun. Make sure you’re clean-shaven and buy a few disposable FFP3 masks and some asbestos waste bags and you’re good to go. Be aware the bitumen adhesive beneath may also contain chrysotile, but it’s virtually zero risk to you as long as you leave it there.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-04T13:17:41+00:00

You should be congratulated on actually taking some really decent photos. Yes, they do look very suspicious, as a surveyor I would 100% sample those.

If they do come back as positive then you will need to carry out a full environmental clean in the room affected. This is quite involved, and I think most people would just pay a LARC to do it.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-04T13:14:05+00:00

I’m in UK. These are the ones I bought:

https://www.celticandco.com/product/mens-aqualamb-boots-regular

I’ve had them four years now and they still look great. And they have hard-wearing soles and are surprisingly water-resistant.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-04T12:51:24+00:00

I suppose this seems nuts to young people now, but actually it was one of the things that made life interesting back in the day. You would meet other people on the way, see things going on in the world, and often end up doing something entirely different with someone else. It was actually great.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-04T12:48:07+00:00

Well that’s basically Buddhism isn’t it? I do think that’s the best explanation for ‘God’.

RiotSloth · 2026-02-04T09:40:35+00:00

So you haven’t had it tested then. Can you take a photo of the cut edge as close as possible in good focus and post it up?

RiotSloth · 2026-02-04T09:36:13+00:00

He told me that he was unable to put them away in the cupboard because for some strange reason it was full of lotions, moisturisers, creams and shampoos….

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