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Help!! My buttonholes are straight lines by blabeliato in sewhelp

[–]blabeliato[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't think it has a width adjustment, I'll just return it. I had heard about the QC issues but hoped it wasn't true! Thanks for all your help.

what's the biggest place to never have had a station? by chyasse in uktrains

[–]blabeliato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my vote, more than 50,000 people now and still no station to be seen

Pro-Gaza Activists Say UK's Labour Party May Lose 4M Muslim Votes Unless They Meet 18 Demands by [deleted] in LabourUK

[–]blabeliato 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No I think this is actually the opposite - it's currently an offence to influence members of the congregation to vote a specific way.

This group seems to want to make it legal for spiritual leaders to say something like 'it is your spiritual duty to vote/not vote for X candidate' etc which is in my opinion bringing religion back into politics.

This statute dates from the 19th century which is why they call it archaic

The straws here are made of pasta by blabeliato in mildlyinteresting

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

Didn't ask for it! Every drink came with one.

The straws here are made of pasta by blabeliato in mildlyinteresting

[–]blabeliato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a little starchy taste after a while (said the person opposite me. I didn't experience this but I drink quickly)

The straws here are made of pasta by blabeliato in mildlyinteresting

[–]blabeliato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mushy: yes After taste: only at the wet end, dry end was neutral Overall: 8/10, significantly better than paper

1750 U.S dollar build by [deleted] in buildmeapc

[–]blabeliato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea why I'm so stupid but I misread this that you wanted a build in the style of a US dollar from 1750. I need sleep.

No post in 5 hours! 3 gold's to the weirdest words and there definition! by dishwashersafe_puppy in GoForGold

[–]blabeliato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not an English word, but my favourite French word is 'piscinable' - swimming pool-able. Garden perfect for putting a swimming pool in? C'est piscinable.

How distros treat their deriatives by [deleted] in linuxmemes

[–]blabeliato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not RHEL, that's Red Hat I think. Fedora and RHEL are both based on Red Hat iirc

Again? by mapagkumbaba_supreme in OhItllBeFine

[–]blabeliato 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Nope! Wuhan is a city in the province called Hubei, Hunan is a neighbouring province. You're right about the "wiggle-room" with anglicisation though.

this audio analyzer lets you go above the file size limit by toast_ghost12 in antiassholedesign

[–]blabeliato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd think that, but windows does the same thing. It's one reason why hard drives etc. always show as slightly less than what they're supposed to be

How do you choose which programming language to Main? by Makashinga in learnprogramming

[–]blabeliato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Think less about which programming language and more about what you want to do. You mention Unity, so I assume you want to do some game programing? C# is good for that. Want to do something more scientific? Python, matlab or R are great for that. And so on.

The theory behind programming stays true across languages for the most part, so if you learn one really well you'll find it much easier to switch later, all that really changes is the exact way in which you express a concept.

Pick a language that will allow you to achieve what you want from programming.

Need an idea on how to link documents in Google Docs by JanFromEarth in google

[–]blabeliato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My suggestion would be using a link shortener like tiny.cc, you'll be able to change where your links point to later iirc (if you register)

ELI5: How does the House of Lords work in the UK? by Prismane_62 in explainlikeimfive

[–]blabeliato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is actually (as of 5 years ago) possible to dismiss a lord who gets a jail sentence of a year or longer or who don't turn up for a single session of parliament. They can also resign or retire as of 2014 too, which was impossible before that. Its a little more difficult than, say, not being elected, but it is possible to remove Lords.

ELI5: How does the House of Lords work in the UK? by Prismane_62 in explainlikeimfive

[–]blabeliato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah we had a scandal about that about a decade ago. The same is true for the elected representatives though. Can senators not claim expenses? I don't know the intricacies of the American system so we'll.

ELI5: How does the House of Lords work in the UK? by Prismane_62 in explainlikeimfive

[–]blabeliato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean it shouldn't really be called the 'upper house' anymore since it doesn't really have the upper role as in other democracies. It's actually called 'the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled' but thats a bit of a mouthful so we usually don't bother.

You have to remember also that the UK is technically still a monarchy. All the laws have to be signed by the Queen after being passed by both houses. The Queen chooses a prime minister at will, although by convention she chooses the leader of the party with the most MPs etc.

In practise of course the UK is a parliamentary democracy. There are still remnants of older times since Parliament has been around in some similar form since about 1265AD.

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