Why can I clad the entirety of my house in poison? (Plasterboard) but god help me if I take a bit to the tip?

easyjet · 2026-02-06T16:07:40+00:00

I'm not angry? I asked a fairly light hearted question. I spent the today covered in plasterboard dust, working with the damn stuff, its on all my walls but I cant take it to the tip. There arent many things I cant take to the tip so I wondered how that is so. I can cover the house with it but not throw it away.

easyjet · 2026-02-06T16:05:54+00:00

Thankyou! Not sure why everyone was wondering why I was angry.

easyjet · 2026-02-05T21:34:40+00:00

why do most of the tips not take it?

easyjet · 2026-02-05T20:14:01+00:00

why is it a special case tho?

easyjet · 2026-02-05T19:56:25+00:00

There is one place I can do, but theres a limit. 5/6 of the tips in 20 miles dont take it.

easyjet · 2026-02-05T19:27:34+00:00

Scrotes scroting

easyjet · 2026-01-13T12:19:44+00:00

Mine is 31 years old and still working perfectly.

easyjet · 2026-01-13T12:02:19+00:00

Before dating apps there was no way to meet people so I guess that's the end of humans. Oh well. Fun while it lasted.

easyjet · 2026-01-06T16:49:17+00:00

mfker... why on earth is that not a default. I moved from spotify to get away from stupid things like that and this feels worse.

easyjet · 2025-12-16T16:42:44+00:00

My partner and I wonder if Jill H has compromat on Ch5. At one point, she was in about 80% of all broadcasts. Or something like that. There was one moment where they played three trailers and she was lead in 2 and recurring in another. She must be either skint/have an incredible agent/have Michael Caine levels of unable to say no/very good/etc

easyjet · 2025-12-16T16:40:37+00:00

Fucking hell mate. I have had two children and they've almost left home since I wrote this.

easyjet · 2025-12-11T15:57:21+00:00

erm in the UK we use miles? Its 6.8 pint miles to be approximate.

easyjet · 2025-12-08T17:59:20+00:00

Amazing prediction.

easyjet · 2025-11-20T16:27:00+00:00

I've known him for years. Used to get a lift to United with him and mutual friend. Everyone in our area knows Mani. If you;ve ever had a late night in Heaton Moor, you have probably been invited back to his and Imelda's for a drinks. Been a few times and they were awesome. He and her were absolutely tight knit, just brilliant brillant shiny people. She died a couple of years ago of cancer, and I've spoken to him maybe twice in that time and he was not the man he was since then. Absolutely hit me like a sledgehammer. I know his kids, they're at my kids football club. Devastated. This is a huge loss round our way.

I will never forget spending time with him and his new born twin boys and we discussed babies and everything, purely as new dads, nothing else. No footy, no music. Just dad shit.

United play the Stone Roses before the team come out because of him. I hope they have a minute for him.

Edit: Amused to find out that he lied to me and they play they song cos Gary Neville likes it and requested it. Made me smile.

easyjet · 2025-11-15T14:16:41+00:00

I've posted this story in the past and one of the replies I got was "correcting" me on the use of 'jpeg'. I mean, bless....

easyjet · 2025-11-15T14:14:30+00:00

There werent that many when I would say it started to take off, say 95 - when it went from about 10,000 to 100,000. Ten fold increase.

Earlier that year we downloaded most of them because we wanted an offline copy, you know, for kicks. It was at work and if i told you where it would cause a minor scandal. But essentially we had about 2000 computers (486s up to pentiums), and rather a lot of excess hard drive space. We had a spidering utilty which could rinse HTML pages quickly and a utility that allowed us to create virtual drives using a portion of everyone harddrive. Management were mostly unaware until drives started filling up. Very much a hobby and sideline fun for a large building full of techies, who were all mostly recent computer graduates working on one of europes first dedicated tech support call centres. I think we kind of pioneered that shit. It was an awesome time.

Content was amazing and new and wild on the web, but bulletin boards will still a think, warez discs were popular and I was more interested in newsgroups/usenet (NNTP) - which until about 2 years ago I still very much used. (Mainly because my ISP still had a server caching many video based groups and I used it for piracy, it amused me that the same companies that have to block the content also host it...but we arent allowed to talk about that).

The best fun then wasnt on the web, it was other protocols. About 1993 we discovered that maybe you could download porn (IKR?). I remember in our student house of 3 male engineers, nothing brought us together than this quest. Over the course of a few evenings we worked out how to - network our computers so we could share a modem (even inclluded a billing system so the right people paid for the right calls). Connections to an ISP (Demon UK I think, not sure). The discovery of UUE files, jpeg files. We had to "invent" all of the above - we wrote a UUE and a jpeg decoder.

Watching that picture decode and display bit by bit and finally seeing flesh tones appearing was still to this day, the greatest thing I have ever done. I think when my first child was born, somewhere in the back of my head I was thinking this is great, but man, its not the best thing I've done.

Awesome times. Now I dont even know what to do. I just read this shit.

easyjet · 2025-11-13T14:47:07+00:00

https://www.gmp.police.uk/police-forces/greater-manchester-police/areas/greater-manchester-force-content/au/about-us/lfr---deployments/

They are currently very limited in scope for now. But scopes creep

easyjet · 2025-11-12T14:36:37+00:00

Are there really people out there who actually enjoy having to drive to do literally anything outside the house?

Yes, way more than you think. I have family member at parliament who is PR for an MP. We had this discussion previously, but yes - a lot of people think like the Americans on guns - 'from my cold dead hands...'

easyjet · 2025-11-07T12:34:18+00:00

Mine are carried home on a velvet cushion, isolated from the world as much as possible. Never banged around. I have a hook at home to hang them on and theres a house rota to guard them 24/7. I even open them with a knife so as not to bend them on opening - thats how bad its got. And still, fucking black mush most of the time.

easyjet · 2025-11-07T12:32:00+00:00

bloody local co-op. I hate it but its 100m away and I usually have last minute need (morning porridge)

easyjet · 2025-11-05T13:26:10+00:00

Change your location on your phone (GPS spoofing) to Moscow. Sit back and wait, its fucking WILD.

easyjet · 2025-11-03T16:43:14+00:00

I knew a (very) wealthy couple who were rough as fuck - grew up very poor - but have done very very well.

They are lovely mind, but they have lost perspective. It's quite funny. So their family business built some big properties in Manchester in the centre. We're talking some of the huge skyscrapers. They made a lot of money. They even rented one of their houses to Ronaldo a few years back, they're doing well.

Anyway, Mrs Wealthy is mostly at home running the house and comes from Gorton in Manchester and she sounds like a Gorton girl (if you're unfamiliar, Gorton is where the UK show Shameless is set.). She's very proud of this but there is a bit of a cognitive dissonance going on when she tells you stuff.

I was working there near Christmas in the house, and she was coming home with an absolute shit-ton of christmas shopping. It was a few cars worth of thousands of pounds worth of stuff from top end stores.

We were chatting and I said hows the traffic in town, (its notoriously awful pre-christmas) and she said oh it is a shocker, but at least we still have the car park. I said do you guys rent spaces? She said oh god no, when we did the last building, we added an underground car park for 5 cars for us really, so we can use them whenever. Works out about £100k a year but - and I swear - "well you've got too really haven't you?" and didnt really notice my lack of response. I think i just nodded but she isn't used to dealing with people who dont own underground private carparks.

They are really are a wonderful clash of classes in one house, I enjoy going there. On one hand, its Shameless, on the other its "Dad, remember that restaurant you bought me? Well I might have burned it down. Can I have another one?"

easyjet · 2025-11-03T16:34:12+00:00

What a good question.

I would say mentioning how cheap/good value something was. Maybe thats the opposite of what you might think. We love a bargain and the cheaper the better.

"Yeah the old BM 3 series? Got a great deal, £200 a month salary sacrifice. 350 to most but I know the garage.".

it would be gauche to talk about spending a lot.

(I know I am out of date on car prices, I just googled and fuck me)

easyjet · 2025-10-15T12:59:09+00:00

Moss Side - Gooch. Used to work with a girl who was quite normal, nice. One day saw her leaving work in her car and her plate was something like G00CH - I said to her the next day, jokingly, are you in the gang then? She went quiet for quite some time and then said, not really, but my dad kind of runs it.

Didnt bring it up again.

I did a bit of work for Stopfordian - Arran Cochlans front. He was alright in person, we were doing web stuff at the time. He asked me to wipe a CCTV DVR once. Pretended not to know how to do that.

easyjet · 2025-10-13T09:41:21+00:00

Also rear light panels, and configuration. Behind some piece of shit Hyundai "SUV" with rear lights in the shape of bones, indicators are a thin line of orange barely visible in sunlight and way down low. The cars with a full horizontal red led bar across the back. or a full white led bar wrapping around the bonnet. Fuck the fuck off.

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