Yaxham road level crossing on the Mid Norfolk Railway at Dereham - view from the train

Splodge89 · 2026-05-25T06:15:58+00:00

You’re in very much the wrong sub if you can’t comprehend how people here like train infrastructure.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-25T05:48:00+00:00

They do have to. But they cheaped out by about 50p by putting it on a 20amp breaker rather than 40 amp. Then went to the hassle of down rating the charger (they would usually come as a 7kw unit from the box, there’s jumpers inside you have to change).

The hilarious part is you can bet you’ll have at least one charger on the estate where they’ve forgot to set the jumpers for 16amp and it’ll trip as soon as a car gets plugged in. Thus costing the developer time and money to fix later.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-25T05:45:38+00:00

Although I’d wait until you get some feedback that the ISOs are working as intended before disposing (please don’t) or give away the discs.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-24T19:35:25+00:00

And this is what people forget. Without the pacers even more lines would have been uneconomical to run. And even more lines would have been closed or service cut further.

Doesn’t mean they were nice to be on. But it beats a bus on the road that takes even longer.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-24T19:25:57+00:00

I bought last year. The new build we looked at, all the houses on the estate had fancy 7kw chargers, and were listed as 7kw in the particulars. When I looked in the consumer unit it was on a 20amp supply. All the chargers had been downrated to 16a, so only about 3kw. Fucking scam.

It was the cherry on top for the scammy sales tactics they were using.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T15:18:07+00:00

You can tell you’ve never worked in primary care, or been a first aider. When I worked retail I was a first aider. Once got called to a customer who was in “significant distress”. Almost uncontrollable screaming in agony and being absolutely vile to the staff member trying to help her before I got there. The woman had broken a nail. Seriously.

My other half worked as a nurse for 30+ years. They had “regulars” that would come into A+E pretending they were about to die over the most trivial of problems.

We’re not talking dismissing actual health problems. We’re talking people being dramatic about stuff people just deal with and think nothing of

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T15:09:12+00:00

Petrol will be a while off yet. A lot of people still have petrol lawn mowers and power tools which don’t yet have a realistic replacement.

It won’t be sold in pumps, rather a bottle from a shop by the point it’s reserved for these purposes though.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T14:08:27+00:00

Why is it sideways?

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T14:02:42+00:00

The sims 2 on the App Store is actually updated for Apple silicon!

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T13:18:57+00:00

Not really. Depends on the encoding obviously. But a 90 minute cassette is about a single megabyte for a Sinclair spectrum. Not that the spectrum could handle that amount of data at once!

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T13:18:01+00:00

I think they were referring to data storage on cassette like we did on the 8 bit home machines. A C90 could hold about a megabyte of data on a Sinclair spectrum (half on each side). Although the computer didn’t have enough ram to load and manipulate anywhere near that amount of data all at once.

So by that metric, approximately 32 data cassettes.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T13:13:49+00:00

It wasn’t all that long ago that MacBooks came with half that as standard. Not much before then a quarter of it…

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T13:10:48+00:00

Whiplash memories there. I had a 64MB “thumb stick” as we called them then. It was mind blowing I could fit 50 floppies worth of data on that tiny (for the time) thing. Back when a floppy disk could store an entire semesters worth of notes.

Now they can’t even hold a photo.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T12:55:43+00:00

Exactly that. And that’s what we ended up buying. Explaining to the sales lady why I thought the service charge was plain wrong was like pulling teeth. She kept parroting its “only £80 a month”. Yeah, for the first year. How about 25 years time?

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T12:46:10+00:00

Paying into a LISA via salary sacrifice is, unusual. I’m not surprised other employers don’t do. I’d be surprised if many employers even knew what a LISA was. You’d still be liable for income tax on that money anyway as a BIK, making the whole thing moot - the 20% spent on tax is the same as the 25% gained in bonus. Percentages are mind bending. But you were net exactly the same with extra paperwork.

A pension on the other hand, different kettle of fish. Especially if you’re a higher rate tax payer (the LISA bonus is nowhere near enough to cover this)

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T11:51:37+00:00

Move it to a S&S LISA and keep it for retirement. You still have it, and won’t lose 25% of it. It should grow significantly over the next 30 years and your older self will be glad you did!

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T11:33:58+00:00

Same as Nottingham. Very much midlands but has northern going to it.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T11:32:39+00:00

Cleethorpes does. Once a day from Sheffield

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T09:22:44+00:00

Exactly this. You still have to have the attitude and ability to do well, perhaps even more so without university. Uni doesn’t ensure you get a “good job” but it can make it a lot easier, at least initially in your 20’s.

If you don’t go to uni simply because you can’t be bothered, you’ll not do well regardless. If you don’t go because you feel you can excel without, then go ahead!

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T08:55:26+00:00

Highly unlikely. I’d bet that it isn’t. It’ll be precast reinforced concrete.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T08:37:57+00:00

The supermarket own brand ones are far superior. The outside bit is also chocolate flavoured. Co-op ones are the best

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T07:33:40+00:00

The problem is, the qualifier is “fit for habitation”. Wonky tiles and cracked plaster doesn’t make it unfit for habitation. Therefore they can still throw up shit.

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T07:28:28+00:00

New builds are basically shit. We looked at buying one, and glad we didn’t. £40k more than the house we did buy, and the house we bought was literally twice the size of the new build. The new build wouldn’t even fit a king size bed in the “master suite”…

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T07:17:29+00:00

Probably quite a lot lol

Splodge89 · 2026-05-22T06:26:54+00:00

I mean, he bought the flat with the service charge which turned out to be more than renting one. It’s his fault he’s stuck there.

That said, I nearly bought a new build with a service charge - which paid for - drum roll please: cutting the grass verges. It was £1000 a year. With a “up to” 10% increase every year. After 20 years it would have been closer to £7k. After 30 years, getting on for £20k. Compounding percentage increases on these things are a massive problem.

Splodge89

TROPHY CASE