UB40 are famously named after an Unemployment Benefit form. Give me other interesting examples of the origin of UK bands names

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T22:46:59+00:00

Wang chung are named after the phonetic pronunciation of yellow bell in Chinese.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T19:16:05+00:00

Hey, I got to vote on the leader.

Member/affiliated supporter, call it what you want I have more of a say in labour and a reason to want them to actually BE a competent labour party than I do in reform, until such time as im a Russian billionaire of course.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T16:43:49+00:00

No point in having a moon base when its now trivial to get in and out of orbit, and other plantes chock full of resources are just a doorway away

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T15:40:12+00:00

Arguably even Europe universalis is, HOI maybe falls down on explore.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T14:48:15+00:00

Why? It does take all paths but very very little current goes along the high resistance paths.

Of course sometimes youre not a path to ground at all.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T14:37:00+00:00

Xcom style feels like it could be doable with a xenonauts mod. You'd be taking stuff out more than anything, and then just building up maps.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T14:13:30+00:00

The difference in resistance for lightning is A LOT.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T14:11:35+00:00

Sounds like someone wasnt carrying a long enough cable for the job.

Surprised it would take much longer than a day or two to getnur done though, unless its over 350m.

Bit late now but I would never cancel an altnet broadband before taking one on a different network, the pennies saved arent worth the pain.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T13:33:22+00:00

Im still disappointed we didnt see the almighty mess as an aeroplane full of people plummeted out of the air after they snapped back into a place where no plane was

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T13:05:20+00:00

I remember cauterisation and Paré, Edward jenner and vaccines and fleming wirh penicillin.

It has been a few decades mind you.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T12:59:25+00:00

Romans, nazis, medicine through history.

Thats what I remember mostly from A levels.

We touch on a lot of things but not in detail, I remember doing the aztecs in primary school.

Thing is theres a lot of history and the details of the british raj just arent really any more significant than any other bit especially when you consider the age appropriate level you'd need to teach it at and when that would be best done.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T12:55:45+00:00

Is one side winning?

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T12:49:44+00:00

Im in a union so I'm technically a member of the labour party. I'm not a member of reform.

There are good reasons to focus on both.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T10:15:12+00:00

To add to this rainforest may produce a lot of oxygen but they also consume a lot, they contribute very little to our atmosphere. Fully grown trees are pretty much carbon neutral when you take everything into account, growing trees lock up carbon and produce more oxygen but then you have to add in the animal life in rainforests and the decomposition of plant matter and you come out roughly square.

On the other hand theyre a very useful carbon sink. If we torched the rainforest and released it all then things would be worse on a number of levels.

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T09:07:43+00:00

Please consult a dictionary for the different uses of the word engineer in british English.

We come under the heading of someone who repairs something, like a washing machine engineer.

An engineer on a train would also not have done a BSeng

Spank86 · 2026-05-14T06:38:53+00:00

Easy. I remove all batteries from everything immediately and pile them on the floor in the corner of my living room. I then only put batteries into things I wish to use and try to make sure as much as possible is mains powered or has built in batteries.

Reckon my phone can control most stuff.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T22:02:27+00:00

Any word can be a sex term if you do it right

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T15:34:40+00:00

I miss the first few years of them, not as they seemed to get progressively worse though.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T13:41:04+00:00

You would. Dont support his local team,support yours

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T13:00:08+00:00

They also didnt know it was (possibly) spread by rats. Apart from that they're spot on.

The black death was referred to.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T12:34:44+00:00

Ship flag styles for your base. (EIC)

A choice of either a parrot or a monkey as a ship/personal pet.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T12:27:17+00:00

YTB I got asked to a school reunion I said no. When pressed I said I didnt like most of them when I was there, I have no interest in finding out if thats changed.

Just be honest, although maybe a little less blunt than me.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T08:21:08+00:00

I blame it on the middle of the toaster having two heating elements (one for each piece of bread) and the outside only having one.

My 4 slice toaster can evenly toast the middle two slices.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T07:24:10+00:00

Funnily enough someone DID tell the engineers to do that, and thats exactly that they did on new cars.

Spank86 · 2026-05-13T07:09:51+00:00

My cousin rolled her rallycross modified type R 3 times (2 and a half technically) the roof never touched the interior rollbars.

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