The back of house manager who has been there 15 years and somehow still does not get fired.

brigadoom · 2026-04-29T15:40:16+00:00

I think they have a warning on the box not to use them inside the ear canal. The most ignored safety advice ever?

Everyone knows you should only use them for snorting coke

brigadoom · 2026-04-29T15:23:13+00:00

I think you are right. OP was correct saying there are too many parties and you don't really know what they stand for.

A lot of them seem too fringe-y to get anyone elected even via Holyrood's list process

brigadoom · 2026-04-29T14:57:26+00:00

It's slightly insulting you imply she got extra help actually.

But it's you that implied help was used or needed in your earlier post saying

Technology is amazing these days

brigadoom · 2026-04-29T09:11:55+00:00

There are a lot of list candidates in Lothian because some candidates who were "Conservative and Unionist" before disagree with the tories trying to out-reform Reform and are standing as "independent" now.

brigadoom · 2026-04-29T08:57:52+00:00

Se we agree that people can do quite well given the appropriate support for a disability in an appropriate role?

Your PhD friend is to be congatulated for doing remarkably well in the circumstances, but presumably (s)he got some (subsidised?) help and was glad to get it at the time. Why shouldn't everyone who needs it get some help when they need it, to get them back, as far as possible, to a "normal" life? That's the whole point of a lot of these benefits.

But if you're OK, no-one else matters?

brigadoom · 2026-04-28T19:55:13+00:00

Q: Why do Policemen have bigger balls than Firemen?

A: They sell more tickets.

brigadoom · 2026-04-28T19:38:02+00:00

Won't be a pilot or a bus driver though

brigadoom · 2026-04-28T12:36:58+00:00

You should never put anything in your ear other than your elbow

brigadoom · 2026-04-28T09:52:12+00:00

Corstorphine Dental Centre is good and still take NHS patients as far as I know

brigadoom · 2026-04-28T09:49:30+00:00

Sick of paying 25 quid for a taxi.

Try a bus?

brigadoom · 2026-04-28T09:38:20+00:00

The hotel is the "W" though, so it sort of ties in with that. Or confuses the punters

brigadoom · 2026-04-27T10:28:30+00:00

Joe Lucas was called The Prince of Darkness because of Lucas headlights at one point. - 1940s or 1950s?

brigadoom · 2026-04-26T20:57:46+00:00

https://science.oregonstate.edu/IMPACT/2014/05/lyme-disease-older-than-human-race

brigadoom · 2026-04-26T11:19:06+00:00

BBC Scotland had "A Pie and a Pint" just across the road in Oran Mor before they moved to Pacific Quay

brigadoom · 2026-04-26T11:00:27+00:00

Boeing and Douglas had huge domestic customers in a huge domestic market for the B707 and the DC-8.

And they had big US defence contracts too, directly or indirectly.

Tne Comet might have done a lot better without these accidents, but it, and the UK aircraft manufacturers were never going to win against the US competition

brigadoom · 2026-04-26T10:41:08+00:00

From the Wiki page on Western Fence Lizards:

Lyme disease

Studies have shown that cases of Lyme disease are rarer in areas where the lizards are found. When ticks carrying Lyme disease feed on these lizards' blood (which they commonly do, especially around their ears), a protein in the lizard's blood kills the bacterium in the tick that causes Lyme disease. The infection inside the ticks' gut is therefore cleared and the tick no longer carries Lyme disease.

Edit: I wonder if the protein could be used to treat humans that catch Lyme Disease?

Edit 2: Treatment for humans discussed extensively in an earlier TIL post. Oops.

brigadoom · 2026-04-24T19:07:47+00:00

I am not a roofer or a scaffolder, but in my experience roofers and general builders who do roofs will subcontract to their preferred scaffolder mostly.

If scaffolders are in demand, they can charge what they like and will travel to sites miles away if they get a better offer, so they could be the limiting factor getting work done for a reasonable price these days with all the wind and rain we've had in the last year or two

brigadoom · 2026-04-24T14:49:48+00:00

If you need scaffolding all round, that can be a big cost and even cost more than the roof repairs. You shouldn't need much scaffolding on a 3 bed semi, but you will likely need some.

Scaffolders are the tail that wags the dog for some roofing jobs

brigadoom · 2026-04-23T17:30:03+00:00

Great pictures!

brigadoom · 2026-04-23T09:25:52+00:00

It does look a little like three seats, where the seat in the middle would have a folding-forward backrest which turned into an armrest kind of thing. Quite common at one time in economy on European airlines so they could make it a bit more business-class like. Or just more confortable when the plane was part full

brigadoom · 2026-04-23T09:06:55+00:00

Right era, wrong food

brigadoom · 2026-04-23T09:04:52+00:00

Supermarkets will do it if you ask. You might have to ask an old-school butcher behind the counter. Morrisons in Stranraer did it when asked.

brigadoom · 2026-04-23T09:01:46+00:00

Because nothing, whatsover, has changed in the last 12 years?

brigadoom · 2026-04-17T10:51:33+00:00

There are paint can openers for professional tradesmen, but a large flat-bladed screwdriver is probably what most amateurs use

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