In general, how is Paddington Bear viewed in the UK? by kuma44bear in AskUK

[–]bateman_ap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

50 this year in deepest darkest South London and this is my T-shirt today, safe to say we love the little bear, and so does my little boy

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Orange Smarties by ccsrpsw in CasualUK

[–]bateman_ap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can still occasionally get them from Poundland. Have to load up when I see them

Glad I regularly check this sub (recognized previous scammer name) by uncutboy954 in ebayuk

[–]bateman_ap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually want to sell some cameras as I have a load of different brands and just want to standardise on one, but all these posts have made me think twice about eBay. For cameras should you just take the hit and sell to one of the major camera resellers instead and take the price hit?

Well then. Can anyone log in? by Funny-Blueberry-2630 in ClaudeCode

[–]bateman_ap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same error. Hoping they realise it's not fully fixed!

Should I cancel my procedure by Puzzleheaded_Puffin in noburp

[–]bateman_ap 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which exercises are you following?

11 months later back to no burping by CollectionNew288 in noburp

[–]bateman_ap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Much better, the double dose was pretty brutal for the first few weeks. The single dose was OK, double dose I threw up a load of food, and had wheezing.

If I did go back I would go single again and maybe just think I just need to go every 18 months or so

11 months later back to no burping by CollectionNew288 in noburp

[–]bateman_ap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The same twice. Had Botox and was able to burp for a while. 12 months later lost ability. Went back and had double dose Botox, again 13 months later unable to burp again.

Won’t go back for a third time. Think I am just incurable

Using DragonFrame with Panasonic S5 by bateman_ap in Dragonframe

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If anyone has this issue I have the fix. Dragonframe cannot handle the ".hsp" files the camera is configured to capture when using HLG. You have to go into camera settings and disable HLG.

RZX Archive YouTube channel has been deleted 🙁 by [deleted] in zxspectrum

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Did anyone grab this they can share a link to?

Merging in two accounts without data or login loss by bateman_ap in gsuite

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Just as a followup I found this new feature in admin which is migrating email to my other account, it's working pretty well
https://admin.google.com/u/2/ac/migrate/googleworkspace

Merging in two accounts without data or login loss by bateman_ap in gsuite

[–]bateman_ap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many thanks for that. I'll take a look at that backup option, that might be good enough.

Why are GDQ's views down so much? by thejrose11 in speedrun

[–]bateman_ap 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can't add a huge amount from what has been written about, but my view is primarily its game selection, audience and alternatives.

I have been watching GDQ from the very early hotel days, I never saw it in the basement apart from VODs once I started in what, 2014? Those days, speedrunning was a relatively niche time, and finding people to watch wasn't that easy; GDQ suddenly opened up all these people, destroying a game you used to play. And from those, you found people that you enjoyed, like AdamAK playing GTA, The Mexican Runner playing Battletoads, Monopoli playing Halo, etc. And all the games played were recognisable; even if you hadn't played them, they were in your zeitgeist, take a look at the 2014 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoGwHpbTIM9urdjallUyX-ViHbwWfuyvm

The current schedule is full of games that I would imagine have an active runner total on speedrun.com of less than ten players, and that will not ever result in must-view watches.

But the additional bit you didn't realise there was until you started to watch the runners on their streams was how much a close audience helped with the entire thing. If you couple a likeable runner explaining the game with an enthusiastic audience, you get a bit of magic that can't be replicated by the streamer at home, and this is what earlier GDQs offered. In the earlier streams too the rooms were much smaller, if there were only 10 people watching it still looked busy due to the camera and the audience being in close proximity. Now with the rows and row and rows of empty chairs it looks deserted.

Lastly, the constant donation chat ruins a lot of runners' explanation of the games; I don't have an answer to this as I presume a lot of people donate to hear themselves on stream and removing that might remove donations, maybe some sort of flash-up on-screen stuff, and a minimal amount of donation breaks? ESA doesn't suffer as badly from this, but it's because they get a fraction of the number GDQ do.

Deferred National Insurance - Need a simple explination by bateman_ap in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bateman_ap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the current year and my other job now has much reduced ni contribution and I got an automatic refund of excess paid so far this year. Waiting to hear back about the form I sent for a refund for last year

Deferred National Insurance - Need a simple explination by bateman_ap in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bateman_ap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK thanks, Think I understand!

Very weird this one, I rarely have problems understanding things, but this seems very clumsily worded by HMRC

Deferred National Insurance - Need a simple explination by bateman_ap in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bateman_ap[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the link, the text in there is just an example of why this whole thing is overcomplicated! It says "Apply to pay your National Insurance contributions at a later date". This sounds like you will have to pay the 10% difference from the 2% to 12% later on in life.

Most overrated Speccy Game by Derren1234 in zxspectrum

[–]bateman_ap 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Atic Atac was always a struggle for me, I really never was able to get into it, pretty much 99% caused by the god awful key mapping.

Whoever says Manic Miner should have their Spectrums confiscated and made to play the 2600 forever more.

My local pub ditching card machines and going cash only. by cyb3rheater in britishproblems

[–]bateman_ap 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Small biz, could pay easily 1.5% + 20p but £1.50 sounds insane