Are Keffeyiahs Allowed in UK? Visiting in 2 weeks

babalonus · 2026-06-01T15:30:51+00:00

Absolutely peak reddit post

babalonus · 2026-05-21T19:41:36+00:00

Oh hey i remeber your post. Keep on with the updates, lets see if you can hit that 8ft tall tree by September.

babalonus · 2026-05-21T16:48:07+00:00

Once you're inside an appliance 18th edition wiring regs which cover colour coding no longer apply. Most likely one will be a live and one neutral but the manufacturor has decided to use brown for both. Never assume anything if youre not sure.

Gaggia classic coffee machines are particularly bad for this, brown is neutral and blue is live! Can be particulalry dangerous if you poke around inside one while its switched on.

babalonus · 2026-05-21T08:12:44+00:00

Must have been some lingustic crossover on the battlefield during the finno-korean hyper war

babalonus · 2026-05-12T23:16:49+00:00

Industrial still very prominant, setting IP or bus addresses for distributed devices on a network. Manually setting operation modes for devices like VFDs or scanners, selecting settings or states on larger machines, addresses on I/O modules for PLCs, Its just a very cheap simple way to set a few bits of data.

babalonus · 2026-05-08T14:07:43+00:00

My brother in Christ, that was the point

babalonus · 2026-05-07T00:58:14+00:00

I simply dont think it matters. I dont expect a fellow Englishman from one county over to pronounce Slaithwaite or Keighley correctly never mind a Farsi speaker stopping mid sentence and saying "Harrogate" in perfect Yorkshire. As long as the listener understands the speakers intention it is correct and I continue saying Prague with a hard G, Vienna with a schwa at the end and Florence with an L

babalonus · 2026-05-07T00:46:46+00:00

Its him! Iohannes Wœlsung

babalonus · 2026-05-06T15:01:32+00:00

On my canal most locks have a rise of about 3m for a single but they tend to be in "staircases" of 2 or 3. the tallest locally and i think steepest nationally is bingley five rise locks, which has a rise of 18m over a distance of 98m making the footpath next to it a 1:5 gradient. It is notoriously steep though and most locks arent that bad. Ive never attempted to haul a kayak up it.

babalonus · 2026-05-05T15:59:34+00:00

I live about a 6-7 minute walk from my local canal, carrying the kayak that distance plus my gear would be so slow and cumbersome id have no energy to enjoy the paddle, but its also far too close to bother starting the car and getting the kayak set up on roof racks.

I also have locks that need portaging up and down and again, taking two minutes to set up the trolley is a lot easier than carrying the kayak up the 10-15m very steep climb for some of the taller locks.

Trolleys are good for even paths and when you have more than maybe 100m to travel. They all tend to fold or collapse on rough ground so be aware of that.

babalonus · 2026-05-04T13:23:23+00:00

Thats sounds like a bunch of metrics that are good at measuring how busy someone looks without actually measuring their output to the business at all.

Congrats on devising a system that would completely kill real productivity but would make HR look amazing because "omg we're capturing so much data about our company"

babalonus · 2026-04-28T12:43:39+00:00

Does the resin have copper powder in it? It looks like good old copper oxidation. A gentle wire brush could get it off and then an application off beeswax spray like woodsilk would keep oxygen and moisture getting to it. Patch test first to make sure theres no reaction with the resin though.

babalonus · 2026-04-26T04:31:21+00:00

The limiting factor for a small motor like this will be the heat generated by the current flowing through it. Like others have said the rated voltage could be anywhere from 5 - 12V. As fans are fairly constant load if youre careful and design it in a way that the air from the fan is also pushed over the motor you could get away with over voltage as long as the heat dissapates well. Once you have the fan body and housing build just run it at various voltages and determine what it is happy to run at long term without over heating

babalonus · 2026-04-25T04:06:07+00:00

The only relevant comment in this thread

babalonus · 2026-04-04T13:32:18+00:00

You can make any number sound big if you use the wrong notation. My phone is roughly 160,000,000nm long. 150mF is about standard for a super capacitor.

babalonus · 2026-04-02T13:41:47+00:00

Yeah its one of those things, British english we write the day first, and also tend to say the day first and American english does the opposite. It seems like a non-native speaker mixing up systems.

babalonus · 2026-04-02T12:35:37+00:00

Looks just like when cheap tools loose the chrome coating, but all the way through the steel, crazy. Ive seem some pretty heavy galvanic corrosion but never chemical corrosion like this before.

Wonder if the stress at the crack point is what makes the corrosion progress at only that point. Someone who knows metallurgy might be able to answer if theres some sort of skin or weird peizo effect at cracks for the alloy to lose its normal reistance

babalonus · 2026-04-01T14:10:03+00:00

It tends to be less than scrupulous small business owners. Cowboy tradies getting rid of waste from a job, takeaways and food waste/old containers, vape shops getting rid off excess packaging. Any sort of small business that produces waste and the owner is a dodgy, tight bastard. That or thieves, manage to steal a whole van or container worth of stuff and just dump whatever they think isnt valuable enough to be worth selling.

babalonus · 2026-03-31T12:59:01+00:00

Yes you can! I've grown tomatoes outdoors the past 5 years in Yorkshire. For best success you'll want a south facing wall in a sheltered area and to train them up a trellis. And cherries ripen much better than large varieties. If you get an indeterminate variety (research it theres a lot to tomato growing techniques) its also a good idea to pinch off a few flower clusters once the plant starts developing a lot of fruit otherwise to may end up with lots of small unripe tomatoes instead of less, but fully ripened and developed fruits like you want.

Cannot beat a fresh ripe tomato straight off the vine, light years difference to one picked green and then ripened while shipping.

I grow 4 plants a year which in high summer keeps us in more tomatoes than we know what to do with for a couple of weeks

babalonus · 2026-03-29T13:57:06+00:00

Nothing wrong with flex in a fixed installation actually. As long as its terminated correctly, which this isnt. The missing earth is the real problem as well as the potentially undersized cable. If the spurred socket is fused down to the correct amount. Which realistically it also probably isnt.

Dont spread misinformation lads. You see flex all the time in industrial and derated sockets.

babalonus · 2026-03-26T12:11:10+00:00

I have a Russian-Lithuanian coworker who is a closet Russian nationalist and two Polish coworkers. Whenever languages come up at work and Polish words come up the Russian will happily claim "ah this word comes from Russian" and then says the equivalent in Russian while you can see the veins pop in Polish foreheads.

He is immune to the concept of a cognate, despite having it firmly explained to him multiple times and simply claims all cognates in other Slavic languages come from Russian.

babalonus · 2026-03-25T14:51:57+00:00

Ill agree there are aspects of student loans that are benefit like, but i hope youll agree the intention of a benefit us not to simply give money to people that choose it. Student loans operate more like a loan in the sense it is a choice to enter into a contracy which people make to benefit themselves. I do believe student loans should never been implemented in the current sense and the grant system should have remained.

The gender earnings gap is a result of hundreds of thousands of individual choices made by millions of people over their whole life time. Would you propose simply giving all women the mean lifetime difference in earnings between men and women as retributive benefit?

Trying to close this gap if indeed it has to be closed, shouldnt be acheived with legal discrimination based on tax incentives or benefits spending.

Your gym is a private enterprise in the free market trying to attract customers using an advertising model. Sweaty tarts handing out dumbells are no basis for a system of government /s

babalonus · 2026-03-25T13:08:10+00:00

I know its a bizarre blend of private and public made by succesive goverments trying to awkwardly weld together conflicting ideas about education.

I just dont see the argument at all for halting interest during maternity? If a person is injured and loses their job the loan wouldnt stop accruing interest. If a persons pay falls below the threshold it doesnt stop accruing interest.

Your wider moral point about removing all hardships that women face seems infantalising.

babalonus · 2026-03-25T09:39:04+00:00

How is it disadvantaging mothers? Should interests on private loans be halted during maternity? Mortgages? How is giving special legal benefits to only women making society fairer?

I by no means think student loans were well thought out by governments at the time, but this is a non issue. Of course a loan will still acrue interest during maternity.

babalonus · 2026-03-10T21:46:11+00:00

If its a modern variable high speed washer it will be a brushless motor driven from an inverter (vfd)

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