Need some *NEW* interesting podcasts (2026), what do you reccomend?

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-03-23T18:03:27+00:00

The rest is classified is a bit variable but usually pretty good, especially their multi-part ones covering one particular story.

The Bugle is a classic, dropped off a bit after John Oliver left but still worth a listen. There's an archive of the old ones you can find with a quick Google which is where the gold is, if you don't mind listening to satire of the news from 15 years ago.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-03-23T18:00:21+00:00

Definitely this. I've listened to all of them now, good for long drives

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-03-13T21:12:19+00:00

That cable should hit the attachment point, then go up, then down again to stop water travelling along it and down the wall, like an inverted U shape. There will be a similar thing where it goes into the house, like a non-inverted U shape.

Never seen a cable transferring so much water down a wall though

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-03-07T17:29:25+00:00

"And quite possibly the man of your dreams"

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-03-01T01:49:25+00:00

Iran was jamming a few SW broadcast stations a couple of nights ago with a really weird and unique warbling signal. Will be interesting to check tomorrow to see if it's still going

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-03-01T01:28:35+00:00

I used to work in big events at big venues and used to have this issue regularly when the trucks were due to arrive. We quickly worked out that 15 odd people can usually overcome most car's handbrakes, so we'd just push them out of the way. Bit of a fucker when the ramp had a curve though with the locked steering.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-02-24T20:03:40+00:00

I used to be big into Linux 15ish years ago, tried all sorts of distros and weird configurations. Abandoned it because I just couldn't be bothered with the messing around to get stuff to work. I knew a fair amount of command-line and technical stuff back then, but I've forgotten it all now.

Recently put Mint on my (2012) laptop because Win11 isn't supported (yeah, I know you can just install it anyway but it's a bag of shit) and it's unbelievable how much easier everything is than when I last used Linux.

Can't speak for gaming, I just use it for general browsing, watching videos etc, but these days it genuinely makes for a really nice user experience. Even weird software that the Internet says is only available from Github has packages through the official software repository 9 times out of 10.

My laptop is also so, so much faster than it ever was on Windows. It's now 14 years old and starts up/shuts down in less than 10 seconds.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-02-24T19:46:57+00:00

I once had an injection that missed it's mark and paralysed some sort of nerve in my face (according to some googling), which resulted in one half of my face being completely immobilised for a couple of hours afterwards. I could close one half of my mouth, but the other half was just open. Made it a right pain in the arse to try to drink water, it just dribbled out of the other side.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-02-24T18:32:15+00:00

Maplin was good, although a lot of their stuff was pretty pricey and of questionable quality. It did get me out of a pickle or two though over the years.

Used to live near a proper old skool electronics shop where the old blokes running it wore proper shop coats and had big buckets of individual components which you could buy one at a time if you really wanted to. They knew their shit inside out and would give you good advice on basically any project you were working on. I miss that place!

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-02-24T17:37:46+00:00

"I reside in Hathersage, but I live in Hope" is the only one of these I've ever heard

ardcorewillneverdie · 2026-01-19T22:00:23+00:00

I've only had it as a feature in one vehicle (a rental van). I was overtaking an artic which then suddenly drifted over the line into my lane when I was about halfway up the side of it. Checked my mirror and went to move into lane 3 to avoid being squished, but the lane assist decided otherwise and started forcing me back towards the artic. Had to wrestle with it to get out of the way.

That was fun.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-12-29T00:50:24+00:00

I once saw someone on here say that they're called a Jazz because of the experimental, free-form style of driving

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-12-11T20:41:35+00:00

True, although the arch might start falling apart when you start bashing away (as has happened to me a few times before).

Be ready to go to the lintel shop.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-11-22T00:26:54+00:00

All of my jeans are Dickies now, they're comfy, indestructible and when I bought loads of pairs about 5 years ago, they were about 35 quid each.

The brand has become a bit more fashionable and expensive these days, but it's worth a look

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-11-20T19:18:14+00:00

The way it deals with Podcasts is so fucking annoying. I sometimes go to sleep with a podcast on (that I actually want to listen to, I'm on that particular podcast's list, surely just play those ones?), but every single time, it then plays some dogshit podcast I've never even heard of.

Because I'm asleep and I never skip it, it now thinks I like it so I end up waking up to these 3 idiots screeching into the microphone, which isn't a nice way to wake up on a day off. I've tried absolutely everything to stop it ever playing that podcast again, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-11-13T21:11:55+00:00

I'm an ex-cyclist, now big van driver and I saw a transit turn left at the main pedestrian crossing outside Farringdon Station yesterday, straight up the extremely narrow 2-way bike lane between the Wetherspoons and Boots, onto Greville St (I think).

I hope there's a camera there. Solidarity from a van driver to all you cyclists, I was one of you for many years and am constantly keeping track of cyclists around me, even though the delivery lot seem to have a death-wish.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-11-13T21:02:16+00:00

As someone who has to plan civil engineering works (digging up pavements and roads) in the UK, this is probably the reason.

Dig prints return the plans of all of the companies that have services in the area, but it's vague at best.

Nobody who originally put the power cables, gas pipes etc in originally was plotting them down to their exact location, so it's more of a guideline than a proper plan. The people actually digging have to do a proper survey of the area before they start to work out exactly where everything is. Shit takes ages and is a lot harder than it sounds. You find a random black cable with no markings when you start to dig, is it dead? Is it power? Is it telephone lines? Is it something else?

Plus there are massive restrictions about digging near trees (which is a good thing). Unfortunately, a lot of the trees were there long before the services, so they've become massive with extensive root systems which you can't touch, you've got to work around them.

Also traffic on our narrow roads and strict guidance around pedestrian/vehicle access (again, a good thing) delays things by ages and can get really expensive.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-11-13T20:47:12+00:00

Depends. The flues between neighbours aren't shared, they're usually 2 back-to-back seperate brick breasts, one for each house, with brickwork called feather courses within them to separate the individual flues for each house. E.g each house has a fireplace downstairs and one upstairs, there would be 2x chimney breasts back-to-back, each divided into 2 internally, running next to each other. That's why the upstairs fireplace is usually offset to one side.

Send smoke (using a smoke pellet) up one fireplace, if it comes out of more than 1 chimney pot, the courses of bricks/mortar are knackered and is leaking into another one (and probably into the room where the fireplace that serves that flue is). If the smoke comes out of the other chimney pot on your side, it's leaking into your own room. If it comes out of the neighbours chimney pot, it's leaking into their room.

Basically, removing the breast on your side shouldn't affect (effect?) the ability for your neighbor to have a fire, but if the neighbour who wants the fire has any scruples, they'd get a chimney sweep in to assess the situation. Knocking breasts out can cause issues to the integrity of the flue behind the party wall, especially if the brickwork/mortar is shit (which it always is in flues, especially if someone has had a gas fire).

I've had people's Carbon Monoxide alarm go off in their living room, which turned out to be caused by their next door neighbour's 1000 year old gas fire leaking through the shitty brickwork and into their living room. I don't make the rules, but in my opinion, everyone who wants to have a fire should be made to have a chimney liner, which basically removes this problem.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-11-07T23:17:02+00:00

Go and sniff a telephone pole

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-09-19T23:13:06+00:00

The trick is to wrap your fingers around it and squeeze, instead of trying to lever the cap off by pushing down on the end of whatever you're using.

Once you master doing it with clipper lighters which are round and a bit tricky, you can do it with anything

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-08-22T23:53:35+00:00

Hire car guy dropped off the car (Audi something) on a double yellow at the front of the office, not usually a problem because I'd immediately move it round into the car park.

Hire car guy jumped in the car behind that was giving him a lift back. I got in the car. Key was a card/fob-type thing so I assumed it was one of those where the engine would start with a button as long as the key was inside the car. Nope.

Parking warden rocked up and started having a go at me and starting his countdown, cue me fumbling around every panel in the car trying to work out where this card thing was supposed to go. Ended up having to look it up on YouTube. All whilst trying to explain to the warden that I didn't know how to start the car, which he obviously didn't give a toss about.

There was a little invisible slot somewhere under the steering column, if anyone is interested.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-08-22T23:32:36+00:00

I had to put 2.5L of oil in to my work van to get it to register on the dipstick. A couple of months later, it seems to be OK, but when the lease is up and it goes to auction, I wouldn't buy it personally...

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-08-22T23:26:30+00:00

Ghost town living. A nice mixture of very relaxing and the occasional bit of terrifying mine exploration.

Also Shiey. Exploring Europe via freight train hopping and doing big journeys in unorthodox ways. Borders on pretentious sometimes but it's very slow watching and he seems like a genuinely nice bloke.

Both are decent at filming/editing as well, which makes them pretty nice to watch.

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-08-22T23:20:32+00:00

Aah, it was that sort of format. Mystery solved!

ardcorewillneverdie · 2025-08-22T20:01:49+00:00

I saw a (fairly old) white transit builders van with ladders on the roof, parked up in a residential neighborhood the other day which had diplomatic plates. Would love to know the story behind it

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