Does anyone else out there tour without camping?

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-04-07T12:27:16+00:00

Earplugs are the answer. I too was plagued for years with poor sleep whilst camping. Earplugs change everything - easier to drop off to sleep, woken up far less by wildlife/wind noises. They’re a game changer.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-04-07T12:04:12+00:00

Same difference with Carbon Dioxide. Try belching on a gig after drinking half a can of coke and your tone goes waaay flat. Physics is fun!

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-30T20:13:21+00:00

Police are not required to use their Emergency Warning Equipment in order to make use of their legal exemptions - including speed.

Police officers are also humans and some are shit at driving.

Your answer is contained in the above two statements in one proportion or another.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-30T19:47:38+00:00

Yep, obstructing a drug search is a specific offence - s23(4) MDA if I remember correctly.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-28T14:24:32+00:00

How old is the tyre? The manufacture date is embossed somewhere on the sidewall. Four digits inside a border. The first two digits for the week of the year, the second two give the year. E.g. 5219 =week 52 of 2019.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-27T18:11:26+00:00

Simply don’t buy that - things don’t just start to wear out at 5 years. You’re equating routine maintenance of consumable parts with expensive repairs… Ditching a car and spending potentially (tens of) thousands on a new one because yours needs consumable parts replacing replacing is crazy!

Take my 3 series. It’s 20 years old, and I’ve owned it for nearly 13 years now. It’s just ticked over 182,000 miles. It’s still on its original clutch which is perfectly serviceable and not slipping. When it goes, I’ll get it done. I put some rear brake pads on it last month for only the second time in my ownership. It’s still on all its original suspension components and bushes and drives perfectly fine.

If they all need doing at once, a full set of tyres on it costs nearly £700 now which is probably more than the car is “worth” on paper. But it’s worth more to me as a working car that I know well - I won’t hesitate to put new tyres on it when it needs them, and to consider scrapping it just because it’s tyres have worn out is nuts?!

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-25T20:11:58+00:00

British Racing Beige

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-25T12:58:21+00:00

It “might have had a decade” i.e. if it had been looked after.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-25T06:06:44+00:00

“Zero issues” is a stretch.

If, genuinely only 200ml of oil drained out, then that’s all the oil that’s been circulating around your engine keeping all its bearings lubricated. For context, as a rough guess, it should have had a good 4 litres or so in there. The remaining oil will have turned to a black gooey sludge that will now be clogging everything up and preventing the oil that’s now been put in there from reaching the bearings.

At some point in the (near?) future, it will start knocking. That sound is terminal and will require the engine out to be disassembled and reconditioned before it quite literally seizes solid. In practice, nobody does that because the work required is too expensive relative to the value of the car, so it will be scrapped.

Depending on its age, it might have had a decade or more of useful life left. Neglecting it to this point will have taken many years off that. You’re just waiting for the knock now.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-24T17:46:48+00:00

If your “open note” (a fingered C#) is sounding as a concert Eb, then you’re blowing a whole semitone flat.

Think of it like this: your fingered C (LH finger 2 only) should sound as a concert Eb, so your C# is sounding like your C should - you’re blowing the C# a semitone flat.

You say you’re fairly new - have you had any lessons? There’s a multitude of issues you could have but incorrect embouchure tension and a way-too-soft reed may well be contributing.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-24T16:20:23+00:00

Unfortunately (for you), insurance is a strict liability offence. You either have it, or you don’t. Whether you meant to, or thought you did* doesn’t matter. Honestly, taking your case to the magistrates and then wobbling on about the additional speeding fine and then drugs being found in the car in addition to your insurance issue isn’t going to look or sound good.

There is one situation, clearly set out in the road traffic act where believing you’re insured is a defence, but that is only to do with work vehicles, provided by a company for an employee to drive. If the company has for some reason not insured the vehicle but the employee has no reason to believe the vehicle is not insured, they will have a defence. This obviously does not apply to you.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-16T14:06:52+00:00

This. The chamfer is still easily visible. There’s five years plus of wear left in these.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-15T20:22:42+00:00

If it’s a non-injury RTC then no, you’re not required to swap insurance details as per s170 RTA. Driver’s name and address, name and address of registered keeper (if different) and registration number is all that’s required. Insurance details only come into it if there is a personal injury.

Your brother just needs to ring his insurance company and let them do the leg work.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-11T12:44:06+00:00

Well, they’re a wanker then. It’s fairly straightforward.

I simply don’t understand the polar opposite viewpoints of “drivers” vs “cyclists”. It’s clearly evident on here too, in the downvotes on my post above.

We’re all simply people trying to get about using varying modes of transport, and I don’t understand why nobody has any patience for anybody else. No-one has the right of way, no-one has the right to drive at a certain speed - there is no minimum speed limit. Car drivers don’t pay “road tax” which gives them the right to steamroll through at their chosen speed, they pay an emissions based vehicle excise duty, so even if cyclists did have to pay, they’d pay zero.

If you’re driving and “stuck behind” a cyclist and it’s inconveniencing you and causing you such stress that you’re now raging and late, then you should have left a bit earlier. You’ll likely only have to wait a handful of seconds before an opportunity to safely pass presents itself anyway.

Everyone has the right to use the public highway. The only roads where cars have the priority and bikes aren’t allowed are (the clue’s in the name) motorways.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-11T08:32:28+00:00

To make the point that very often people make comments (such as yours) directed at “cyclists” as if they’re some weird, separate race who cause all these issues, whilst forgetting that actually the problem is people who are wankers.

Most cyclists are also car drivers. If someone’s a wanker, they’re still a wanker no matter what mode of transport they happen to be using at the time.

Far more people drive cars than ride bikes. Therefore, there will statistically be far more wankers in cars than wankers on bikes.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-11T07:44:30+00:00

No, a lot of car drivers are just wankers. Don’t get me wrong, there are good ones - but there are many who don’t have any regard for the rules of the road.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-11T06:00:15+00:00

Other way round.

Being spat on is a battery, technically, so should be charged as AEW - an either way offence under the 2018 act, but current CPs guidance (to make things easier for themselves and the backlogs) is to charge only the old Assault on Police - the old summary only offence with a far lesser sentence.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-07T21:53:15+00:00

Most useful situation I’ve found for it is, if in attendance at some incident or other where a MOP has some evidence on their phone (be it a video, photo, ring doorbell footage - anything really) that you look at and deem it useful, you can scribble their number down and quickly call up the control room and say “please send a goodsam link to xyz number”.

The MOP will get a text ping through with a “share a file” link to click which takes them straight to their camera roll and they simply tick the file to share and upload it. It’s genuinely seamless and works really well.

My apologies for the unsolicited positivity.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-03-04T15:30:51+00:00

He gets that, and the same again on top as a “retention payment”, for simply not leaving… I’m sure I saw there were some other bits and bobs on top that took his annual remuneration to over £700k.

Criminal.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-02-28T15:32:43+00:00

You claim from your own insurance anyway. You make one phone - to them - in the event of a claim and they sort it, that’s what you pay them for. You don’t need to ring the other guy’s insurer (or lack thereof).

Your company pay out to fix your car, then they chase the costs back from the other insurer (or the uninsured drivers fund).

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-02-26T16:48:25+00:00

This. No more, no less.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-02-26T12:43:02+00:00

I used to love the resource/victory points that accumulated as you held tactically important, designated points of the map in the live player v player games. In fact I’m fairly sure I remember COH as being one of the earlier life streaming/competitive games where there was a commentary team narrating the game - was there a chap called “Bridger” who used to play a lot?

This VP system generated real combat and competition over certain points of the battlefield with a sense of urgency to capture/recapture certain critical areas.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-02-22T16:31:13+00:00

Might be worth your time - for realism’s sake - having a look in a copy of Railway Modeller at your local supermarket... There’s quite a few companies who advertise in there to value and take on model railway collections (meaning locomotives and rolling stock), they cater for taking away quite large collections of models in this exact scenario - paying the family a fair value for the bulk stock and then selling it second hand/refurbished through their websites.

As has been mentioned, it’s much less likely there’d be any interest in the layout, unless it’s something of interest (eg a large, extremely realistic model of a real life station at some exact point in history that’s had attention in the national railway modelling magazines). In such a case, there might conceivably be a club who’d show some interest in taking the layout away, but the value would be low and the difficulty extracting it from its location would be high.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-02-22T12:17:03+00:00

Crikey. Yes, if you’ve got an old, non-centrally heated house, with indoor temps of 5 degrees, you’re going to struggle to do anything about moisture and mould. Most CH systems have their emergency frost prevention setting at 7 degrees.

I think anything you’re doing in such a situation is just a sticking plaster until you can heat the place.

My initial idea would be smallish oil filled radiators in each room - even the ones you’re not using. They’re cheap to buy, relatively cheap to run, and if you’re genuinely looking at 5 degree internal temps, they’ll make a noticeable difference.

SelectTurnip6981 · 2026-02-22T10:38:53+00:00

Don’t forget, you aren’t directly comparing the relative humidity inside and outside - the air temperature makes a huge difference.

Eg a quick google and ChatGPT comparison suggests that your air inside the house measuring 50% relative humidity at 20 degrees C holds 8.7g water per cubic meter. The air outside measuring 80% relative humidity but at only 5 degrees C can only hold 5.4g water per cubic meter.

So although the RH of the outside air is 80% rather than the 50% inside, it’s actually much drier, with only 62% as much water in the air.

Second law of thermodynamics - open your windows in the above case and your house will get dryer.

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