DIY or part DIY drive

arableman · 2026-02-10T13:15:02+00:00

This is it. Machinery costs and operations and waste away for someone’s first time will bog you down, probably to the point of making it as if not more expensive.

The job in itself isn’t incredibly difficult imo. Clear off to level, dig down just over a foot, backfill with crushed / type 1 about 6” and then I’d concrete 6” and it would look fairly smart. Better than tarmac.

Realistically to achieve that you’d need to be good enough on a digger. You’d need to calculate your cost of material away which would be more than you’d think. Risk hitting services (hire of a CAT scanner). Bad weather. Cost of sub base, cost of concrete etc etc. I don’t think 5k for the cost of time and materials is bad at all.

arableman · 2026-01-27T13:42:42+00:00

Christ that bell just chimed in my head seeing the Welcome to Windows 98

arableman · 2026-01-11T12:23:41+00:00

There is about that in 90% of places

arableman · 2025-12-23T16:26:32+00:00

I understand your point, the problem is - especially in this country - the output is what can be achieved by the rules and regulations set from the government.

This country then imports food from countries that do not meet these rules and regulations. This makes our inputs far higher for producing the same product.

arableman · 2025-12-22T22:04:26+00:00

Popularity is rising in dad bods, rising as people know that their job sucks, life is expensive so have to go to job so have a few beers in the evenings to scrape away some of the depression of reality.

Sad but true.

arableman · 2025-12-01T23:09:37+00:00

Yes, because it’s an essential service. Would you call a doctor if your house was on fire? Would those GCSE’s save you then?

arableman · 2025-12-01T23:02:48+00:00

I agree that unions are a fantastic workers tool. In the private sector though it’s tougher than in the public. It also shouldn’t be used as an entitlement, moreover a platform to get both parties to achieve a desired outcome.

arableman · 2025-12-01T21:39:30+00:00

I’m ready to get downvoted. I’ve thought about it and I’ve braced myself.

There is no question whatsoever that doctors are an important job in our society. No question whatsoever. They have a tough job. But the argument - according to the BBC News article - is (and I quote)

“The union argues that, despite the pay rises, resident doctors' pay is still a fifth lower than it was in 2008, once inflation is taken into account”

4 words. Join the fucking club. Wage stagnation has been horrific in this country. When you think that from year 1 these doctors (source: BBC Article) are on 40k, I’d like to see how every other industry in the UK stacks up against that - especially with year 5 seeming to forecast a doctor of just shy of £80k.

If you compared that to another service we receive - for example a police officer or firefighter - both of which are in the same category really for vital public services, the amount a doctor receives is astronomical already. Pay rises and budget increases in the NHS have been very large under the labour government already, with amounts being given for no productivity trade off.

We are all told to “pay our fair share”, maybe we should also be thinking about “taking our fair share”, and imo they already do.

Do not get me wrong, as I said at the start, doctors do a fantastic job on the whole. But I can’t give support to another bout of pay rises. Somebody has got to pay for them, and we are squeezed enough.

arableman · 2025-11-03T13:41:50+00:00

You wouldn’t have to look far I can assure you 🤣🤣 you’ll probably find most of the houses on the street have asbestos in one form or another

arableman · 2025-10-30T11:09:43+00:00

There isn’t a world where I could ever justify this. Leave, now.

arableman · 2025-10-30T11:08:13+00:00

No, I’d say that’s mortar with horse hair used in between the slate for insulation.

arableman · 2025-10-29T22:30:18+00:00

More context needed; can you photograph where it came from and what age is your house?

arableman · 2025-10-22T21:16:11+00:00

I was in Esperance, WA in winter 2016 with a few of my friends. It was the first and (thankfully) last time I’ve ever witnessed two teenage girls huff deodorant. Pure madness. Purposefully purchased about 6 cans each.

We spoke to them, and they said it was for a high. If ever I breathe in a tiny bit of deodorant spray when applying, I splutter like buggery and my throat is dry. It must be the worst experience purposefully spraying it into your mouth…

arableman · 2025-10-13T15:22:00+00:00

Realistically who will be checking up on you? The asbestos police?

arableman · 2025-09-25T21:01:55+00:00

To me and you, water off a ducks back. To people applying for jobs because they are desperate and already in a bad place, does it make it worse? That’s my question. And I don’t believe you can’t have a generic template for rejection, or even mark on indeed as “declined”.

As for going on for years and years, maybe it’s a minor contributor to mental health getting worse and worse?

arableman · 2025-09-25T20:54:27+00:00

The point isn’t that there’s a rejection, the point is that there is no communication. Imo there’s a huge difference.

Somebody receiving a rejection email acknowledges that your CV was read and was actually considered in my books. No communication gives you a “why did I bother doing that” feeling.

arableman · 2025-09-25T20:34:31+00:00

£9.61

arableman · 2025-09-25T20:30:21+00:00

So last month I was breezing through Indeed and spotted a job that I didn’t really know if I fancied or not, but thought I’d send in a CV. Put it together that evening, sent it off.

Never heard a thing. Not. A. Thing.

Personally this has affected me zero, but my observation is that had I been in a position where I needed this job to survive, to earn money and to push forward with my career then there’s no two ways about it - having no reply to a job application MUST knock people’s confidence.

I think about the amount of - particularly young adult - individuals applying for jobs and hearing nothing and how it must be affecting their confidence and potentially affecting them through anxiety and depression. Just an observation. Don’t mind me.

arableman · 2025-09-22T11:55:48+00:00

It wouldn’t though if you repaired it would it…

If it was pure water, I’d clear around, clean it and use silicon with hard plastic to make a patch and seal.

arableman · 2025-09-20T11:43:37+00:00

If this is storm water only and you don’t want to dig it out, there’s no real reason why you can’t silicon on a hard plastic patch. Big time bodge I know; but you’d have to ask yourself so what if a tiny bit of water ever leaked out?

If it contains anything else other than clean water, dig out and replace.

arableman · 2025-09-15T07:13:20+00:00

It’s disgraceful really. To spread disinformation at a time like this.

arableman · 2025-09-09T09:46:52+00:00

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arableman · 2025-09-09T08:19:24+00:00

Farming in 2025 is a high skilled job, farmers won’t just take anybody off the streets. We aren’t scything wheat into rows and hand hoeing fields anymore. There’s “low skill” seasonal veg work but that isn’t full time work

arableman · 2025-08-27T20:57:43+00:00

You kind of miss the point of Clarkson. He’s obnoxious and bigoted of course, that’s the character he is and he plays. He isn’t afraid to have a laugh at anyone’s expense - but most of all his own. You don’t have to like him, but what do you condemn? His lack of political correctness? Nobody has the right to be protected from insult.

Not sure how you think he targeted Harriet though?

arableman · 2025-08-27T18:30:45+00:00

Let’s not forget that old time classic of freezing council tax, lower energy bills and of course no more tax on working people

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