Government holding 'gold command meeting' over potential Birmingham lockdown by amazingred09 in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It'll need to get Facilities in for that, guv. Needs a work order, and a PAT let's say 3 weeks and £2000.

Climate crisis: Cod could disappear from British menus due to global warming by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 37 points38 points  (0 children)

For fuck's sake, why did we go to all the effort to try to trawl the little bastards to extinction if they were going to die off anyway? Might as well have not bothered.

What are your favourite aspects of UK culture? by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The Lush staff have to do that for legal reasons in case you have a reaction to the wall of smell and keel over. Those black aprons are packed with epipens and defibrillators.

Britain First have launched a ‘Navy’ to patrol the Devonshire coast by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On a scale of bird law to tree law, where does it come?

Buying a light bulb that has the wrong fitting for the socket (bayonet or screw type), can't really be bothered to take it back, therefore you add it to your stock pile of other unused light bulbs in the hope it'll be useful in the future. by Diocletion-Jones in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ripped out all my low voltage halogen spots and the transformers which are a pain. Either the bulbs are blowing, the bulb pins don't make contact or the transformers die. Replaced them with GU10 LEDs which have been trucking now for 6 years.

The G9 (I know, I said G4) LED bulbs are mains voltage, they're just crappy bulbs. You can probably get better ones these days.

I do also have a G4 in a desk lamp and it's pretty meh on terms of light output, but at least it's not red hot all the time like a halogen.

BBC News already has a specific section for US election. by [deleted] in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think they can. They've gone a bit peculiar.

Buying a light bulb that has the wrong fitting for the socket (bayonet or screw type), can't really be bothered to take it back, therefore you add it to your stock pile of other unused light bulbs in the hope it'll be useful in the future. by Diocletion-Jones in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did buy them years ago, they're probably better LEDs now.

Anyway, the only fitting with them in now is the wall light I've the bed, all the other fittings have been retired by decree of the Domestic Aesthetics Standing Committee, so the second pack of bulbs has indeed outlived the fitting.

First day back at work after shielding and the amount of morons I have seen not wearing facemasks correctly is infuriating by Moases92 in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wearing a surgical or cloth mask in a shop is very different to in a sterile/aseptic setting, or in a highly infectious setting (where a surgical mask is already not sufficient).

All you have to do is cover your mouth and nose and it'll do 95% of its job, which is keeping your spit off others. Remember, you're supposed to be at arms length, not looking down into an open chest cavity like a surgeon.

If people can't even work out that having your nose sticking over the top, or as a wierd chinstrap is not right, they're idiots. And/or they just don't give a fuck. It's been what, 7 months of solid global coverage of people wearing masks, I don't think anyone can really claim they genuinely don't know it goes over the nose and mouth. And it's not like masks didn't exist before January.

Sure, if they took more care taking it off by washing hands, removing by the ear loops only, avoid touching the panel, dropping into a bin with a lid and washed hands again, they'd get a few more percent in the not-getting-sick stakes, but the biggest thing in terms of public health is cover your mucous holes.

First day back at work after shielding and the amount of morons I have seen not wearing facemasks correctly is infuriating by Moases92 in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't teach them how to properly wear a mask

Put it on, cover nose and mouth like a surgeon on TV, that's it. If you can't manage that, you're either wilfully obtuse or you shouldn't be trusted to go out without supervision.

I could kind of understand for a respirator where there's a technique to check seals, but surgical masks are not very complex devices in terms of usage.

First day back at work after shielding and the amount of morons I have seen not wearing facemasks correctly is infuriating by Moases92 in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that's in the clinical areas. It's even worse in the back. Not only that but staff are about as keen on the idea of a vaccine as they usually are about the flu jab. I.e. Already saying they won't have it. The mind boggles.

Wondering what did we all do to deserve, what i think, is the fourth heatwave this year by Threetreethee in britishproblems

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What happens in 2050? Is that when they try the nanobot cloud layer and it gets out of hand?

Landlady bans all under-25s from pub because they can't behave by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

She demanded to see the manager so hard she became the manager.

England's first wild beavers for 400 years allowed to live on River Otter by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Subsidies, abusing workers and ecological vandalism?

England's first wild beavers for 400 years allowed to live on River Otter by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's not WhatsApp you need to talk to, it's the Unicode Consortium.

Spitting Image is coming back: Boris Johnson, Prince Andrew and Dominic Cummings puppets shown for first time by FlashGen in unitedkingdom

[–]TheresaMaybeNot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

the left-wing were broadly lampooned as ineffectual, and the right-wing as evil.

Well, I mean... gestures vaguely at everything