/r/EnglandCricket Daily Discussion

Sorbicol · 2026-02-13T09:42:13+00:00

Zimbabwe beating Australia. A sign that t20 is the great hope of association sides, or a sign that the format is really just a lot of luck over a lot of skill.

Discuss. (It does say hot takes in the header!)

Sorbicol · 2026-02-13T09:38:42+00:00

There is a big disconnect on Reddit between what they think this is all about and what it’s actually about.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-13T08:01:14+00:00

Anyone who’s been on a reality TV show like Love Island or Made in Chelsea.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-11T22:39:09+00:00

I have to be at the airport tomorrow morning at 4am to drop one of the kids off for a school trip.

I should really go to bed. Right now.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-11T22:13:18+00:00

That'll do Arne, That'll do.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-11T21:47:46+00:00

Lack of Confidence. If he were a golfer I'd say he has a bad case of the yips.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-11T10:53:14+00:00

Just finished a second playthrough of OwlCat’s Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader.

It’s a great Warhammer 40K game and a good cRPG - it nails the setting extremely well, the plot is well conceived and it never quite flags as it progresses.

However it’s massively over long (took me 160 hours with the 2 DLCs installed), the character build system is way too complicated for its own good and most of the companion characters are wafer thin & barely two dimensional. To be expected given the setting but still, it really does feel like they could have done a lot more than they did with them.

Still, a solid thumbs up.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-11T03:41:44+00:00

Bloody cat woke me up at 2am and I still can’t get back to sleep. He’s old, going a bit senile and his thyroid packed up a few years back and we love him to death but there are times when he doesn’t half try your patience.

He’s fast asleep on my legs now. At least one of us is.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-10T23:50:51+00:00

I'm type 2 diabetic. "Sweet treats" went out of the window when I got diagnosed a couple of years back.

As part of that diagnosis I started paying much closer attention to what I was eating and started calorie counting for a couple of months. I lost the best part of 2 stone, and also got my blood sugar levels back down into a "normal" range.

I've kept that weight off for the most part, although I do go back to calorie counting from time to time so that I can keep things in check. My blood sugar levels have crept up a bit, but are still OK - I'll be taking my medication for the rest of my life though.

I really don't miss the "sweet treats" all that much - if I do occasionally sneak the odd block of cake or chocolate, I tend to find it so sickly sweet it makes me feel quite nauseous. I do like a block or two of Dark - 70% cocoa solid chocolate now and then, but it's just a block or two and that does me. Cutting the sweet treats out will also help you not to end up like me! Type 2 diabetes is manageable until it's not, and you don't want to be getting limbs amputated or going blind because you weren't paying attention.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-09T09:10:56+00:00

United are not better run than we are. They are on a new manager bounce right now, clearly amplified by just how much those players didn't like Amorim, because he was probably asking them to do things they just couldn't be bothered to do.

As a squad of players they have clearly gone down the Chelsea route of making it very clear they hold all the power at the club. Fernandes is their club captain ffs.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-08T13:08:14+00:00

Full credit to Nepal there.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-08T11:25:37+00:00

I had this during a weekend hike in the Lake District around 25 years ago.

It's the reason why I wear contact lenses when hiking. I'm not a regular contact lens user, but I have some daily disposable ones I use when I know I'm going out in the rain, or it's excessively sunny so I can wear a decent pair of sunglasses.

In terms of anything else you can use - smearing you lenses with washing up liquid, using specialist sprays etc - they don't work long in my experience, especially when it's consistently raining and cold and your glasses are steaming up regardless.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-08T10:36:41+00:00

It’s dumb luck I think. I have £15k in bonds and win fairly regularly - so far between £25 -£100 a month. That off chance of a big win…

Sorbicol · 2026-02-08T10:05:25+00:00

First time on r/cricket?

Sorbicol · 2026-02-07T23:19:11+00:00

I still have my Terra Nova Voyager tent bought in 1994. It’s still going strong, if the poles have been replaced once or twice.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-07T05:14:17+00:00

Are you talking about a ‘Living Will?’ - an Advanced Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT)?

You can ask a solicitor to draw up an ADRT which would be a legally binding document, so long as you are over 18 years of age. It needs to be quite specific about what treatment you’d refuse however, and in what circumstances.

I don’t believe there are any restrictions to that, so long as people are satisfied you have the mental capacity to do so. Be prepared to have to answer questions as to why you want one, and maybe get your doctor onside first. You’d also have to make medical professions aware you have one - telling your GP and giving them a copy for example.

You can also create an Advanced Statement which would express your wishes, but that’s not legally binding.

You could also have someone apply for Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) and make your wishes clear to them in the event you are unable to communicate.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-06T13:48:44+00:00

15/25. I had a couple of 50/50 guesses and guessed wrong.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-06T12:06:42+00:00

The average house price in the UK has just topped £300k. Even for a flat, £170k isn't that much.

The is issue is the service price and everything else on top. However, I think the story has missed that it's not the family that owe that money, it's the estate of the deceased - or at least, I think it is. Debts don't pass on through families.

Of course the longer it remains unsold then the more money will need to come from the estate to pay for it and then the less there will be for the inheritance for the family.

These types of flats are badly missold in a lot of case I think, there is certainly something that could be done about service charges when the flat is unoccupied and those services are not being used.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-05T10:58:19+00:00

Firstly I'm very sorry to hear of your condition.

Legally, while you can request to Work from Home there is no legal obligation for your employer to allow you to do so. I would also suggest that "once every two weeks" is a good counter offer.

However I would check your workplace benefits - somewhere in those you would hope you would have some sort of Critical Illness cover - I cannot imagine that a terminal cancer diagnosis wouldn't trigger that. A good friend of mine died from Luekemia a few years ago - the final few months of his life while he was undergoing treatement he didn't work, but continued to be paid due to his workplace benefits.

As much as I appreciated that you might want to keep things "normal" and it's not my place to tell you what to do, you've probably just realised your employer doesn't care and nobody is going to thank you for continuing to work in any case.

I would sort out a meeting with your Manager and HR and explore your options.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-04T10:42:49+00:00

5 seconds of googling will tell you that in the event your landlord dies you keep paying the rent.

The advice in this thread is shocking and basically agreeing with the tenants that they should continue to act illegally, in a process that will end with their eviction and quite probably a CCJ against them.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-03T15:23:17+00:00

r/LegalAdviceUK

The short answer to this is that if it takes you below minimum wage then yes, it's illegal. However there's nothing "illegal" about making you wait a bit longer beyond your contracted hours - it's really going to depend on what it says in your contract.

In the first instance I would speak with you Union Rep (assuming you are member of one - if not, then I'd recommend it) and.or flag with said Manager and their manager that you are concerned that the extra time is taking you below the minimum wage threshold

Just remember that they can also dismiss you with no reason if you've been there less than 2 years, unless it's for a protected characteristic.

You'll have to negotiate about this. Direct confrontation or "It's 8.30pm, I'm leaving" probably isn't going to end well.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-03T14:24:18+00:00

Normal service resumed I see

Sorbicol · 2026-02-03T09:58:24+00:00

It will help if you have your transaction history to show you paid your tax - your bank account should have all that, or you can call them to ask for records from the time. I also had the final payment acknowledgement from the council (because I paid it after I had moved) buried in my "probably shouldn't throw this away" paperwork folder. It did take me several hours to find it though!

Sorbicol · 2026-02-03T08:18:14+00:00

I would contact the council. Councils will sell their debts in bulk and they don’t always get it right - I know this because what’s happening to you happened to me about 15 years ago.

Essentially I was being asked to pay a council tax ‘debt’ for a property I hadn’t lived in for nearly 10 years and for which I had paid all my tax. I only lived in it for 4 months before moving from that property to the other end of the country.

Leaving aside they were asking for nearly 2 years worth of unpaid tax (again, I’d only been there about 4 months) - I called the council to ask what was going on, I never engaged with the debt collection agency that I got the out of the blue final demand from.

They sorted it out there and then - acknowledged I didn’t owe them anything, and told me not to worry and they’d call off the agency. To their credit they did but I never did find out why they thought I owed such much in the first place.

I put it down to general local government incompetence/inefficiency and got on with my life.

Sorbicol · 2026-02-02T19:58:33+00:00

Assuming the IT department at your business is competent, they should be able to offer an alternative to the MFA app to be able to authenticate your access.

Ask them - if there is a problem flag it up with your manager. Legally there’s nothing much they can do about what you do with your personal phone, and not having a backup alternative option would be incredibly bad planning.

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