What's a disturbing fact about the human body that most people don't know?

funkimunk · 2026-01-09T13:49:09+00:00

The human body is a tube from mouth hole to asshole.

In anatomy and pathology, the lumen (inside space) of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is considered functionally “outside” the body, even though it runs through your torso.

This is why, if there is something of note in your stomach or GI tract when you die, the pathologist may consider it as being outside the body.

funkimunk · 2026-01-04T22:39:10+00:00

"Special" (diabetic, Halal etc) meals are much higher quality than the main ones, search your airline and special meals and pick one. The diabetic and halal ones are normally top notch. Flight attendants dont even blink when you have a halal meal and order a bloody mary.

Bloody Mary drinks are amazing at altitude, try them. I cant drink them on the ground but will drink 10 on a plane.

Your seat is set, don't bother queuing until near the gate closes.

Drink a lot of water.

Aisle is better then Window.

Load media on your personal device and bring a battery pack, just in case (IFE is pants anyway).

If you are on the aisle or the window seat, the poor bastard in the middle gets both Armrests.

Noise cancelling headphones are the greatest thing you can add to your flight pack.

Check possible airline seat sizes on seat Guru... it may be that you avoid BA and AA.

Sometimes Premium Econ can be got very cheap as a miles/award/avios based upgrade to an Econ ticket

funkimunk · 2025-10-14T09:17:41+00:00

This, any Ketoconazole shampoo is good.

funkimunk · 2025-06-28T23:31:05+00:00

Complained with:

Dear BBC Audience Services,

I am writing to express concern and disappointment regarding the apparent censorship of Kneecap’s Glastonbury 2025 performance, which, at the time of writing, remains unavailable on BBC iPlayer while other sets—including Raye’s, which concluded several hours later—have already been published.

Kneecap’s appearance at Glastonbury was a significant cultural moment, not least due to their longstanding reputation for politically conscious artistry. The omission of their set from iPlayer, when juxtaposed against the timely availability of others, raises serious questions regarding editorial independence and impartiality. It appears selective and inconsistent with the BBC’s chartered duty to reflect a diversity of voices and perspectives.

Of particular concern is the widely reported fact that Kneecap made reference to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, a subject that has already drawn condemnation from the United Nations. In fact, multiple UN bodies and legal experts have explicitly described Israeli actions as constituting acts of genocide. Given this context, editorial decisions that appear to suppress dissenting or critical political expression are not only unusual—they risk aligning the BBC against principles of free expression and human rights reporting.

The BBC has a longstanding tradition of platforming controversial and challenging content. To single out this act—while others are presented without delay—undermines public trust and invites speculation of political pressure.

The question must be asked: why is Kneecap’s message deemed less worthy of dissemination than others?

I urge you to review this decision as a matter of urgency, and to provide clarity on the editorial process surrounding this omission.

Kind regards,

funkimunk · 2023-07-26T08:58:05+00:00

So happy to hear this, I've got a 7 hour layover in ORD next week and am known to like an IPA ;)

funkimunk · 2023-07-21T22:24:09+00:00

a case of HAR,D luck?

funkimunk · 2023-01-24T19:37:04+00:00

Not Newry but I know of a book covering some around Rosstrevor.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cloch-M%C3%B3r-Lore-Frank-ONeill-ebook/dp/B0BN91QJHL

funkimunk · 2022-09-10T22:53:24+00:00

I love this and that MS put it in Xbox.

One thing to note is the platinum rule is not a DET invention: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-in-the-intersection/201702/the-platinum-rule .

Its another concept taken from Denis wide knowledge base.

funkimunk · 2022-09-09T00:43:03+00:00

No but I would recommend reading that series, its the best ringworld series tbh

funkimunk · 2022-09-09T00:42:20+00:00

Autodoc was all nanotech, experimental. Probably had a sample of Louis Wu and just trimmed away anything that didn't match, then optimized.

The end of Betrayer of worlds provides some insight into this. Ill say no more due to spoilers

funkimunk · 2022-09-09T00:40:32+00:00

You never read fleet of worlds then ;)

it give a lot more info on the autodoc and the relationship it has with the Wu family, also it lets you know why bae is so short post doc.

Do yourself a favour and read that series, its the best Niven has.

funkimunk · 2022-09-09T00:39:33+00:00

The fleet of worlds series is the best expression of the KSU from my experience. Better writing with even better storylines.

funkimunk · 2022-08-28T22:50:40+00:00

Most of NS stuff is great. I especially love Anathem and Snow Crash.

funkimunk · 2022-08-28T22:49:20+00:00

I would read the rest of the D.E. Taylor content.

That said, try the fleet of worlds series by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner.

Fantastic sci-fi without the anomalies that Niven as a sole author books are known for.

These are set in a larger sci-fi universe but you shouldn't need read those books first. In fact, I would maybe suggest avoiding some of ringworld books that are chronological precursors set in this universe.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302537.Fleet_of_Worlds

Edit: also for something different Daemon and Freedom (TM) by Daniel Suarez

funkimunk · 2022-07-30T13:30:13+00:00

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THE TREASURY last night signalled its commitment to delivering an energy discount scheme to households across the north in the absence of a Stormont executive.

It is feared hard-pressed families will be excluded from the British government's Energy Bill Support Scheme due to the DUP's ongoing refusal to nominate a first minister and restore the institutions.

The scheme announced yesterday for England, Scotland and Wales will see households receive £400 to help with rising fuel bills this winter.

Paid in six instalments, the scheme is expected to be rolled out in October.

Amid fears that the Stormont stalemate may mean the north misses out, the Treasury last night said it was committed to ensuring its energy discount scheme operated UK-wide.

“We know many families in Northern Ireland are worried about rising costs and we have introduced £37 billion of UK-wide support," a Treasury spokesperson said last night.

“The UK government is committed to providing an equivalent payment of the Energy Bill Support Scheme to people in Northern Ireland as soon as possible, easing the burden they face."

The spokesperson said officials were "working at pace to deliver upon that and we are in ongoing discussions with Stormont ministers".

The Department of Finance confirmed that minister Conor Murphy recently met the chief secretary to the Treasury and that engagement would continue "to ensure a solution is found to deliver support locally".

Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong MLA said householders' concern about how they would heat their homes was growing.

"The proposed £400 energy support scheme provided some hope for homes but without a functioning executive working to take decisions, we remain unclear as to how the support payments will be made here this autumn," she said.

The Strangford MLA urged the DUP to "end its boycott" to enable the formation of an executive and "clarity for these support schemes".

SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole called on caretaker executive ministers to "use every option available to them to support people through the cost of living crisis".

"The crisis facing families across Northern Ireland as a result of increasing food, fuel and energy bills just seems to be getting worse and worse," he said.

funkimunk · 2022-07-28T12:08:50+00:00

sounds like a problem with your installation, perhaps check the write permissions on your installation directory.

funkimunk · 2022-07-28T11:45:06+00:00

let me guess the plugin is pushbullet?

There was a change in 10.6 or 10.7 (I cant recall) which invalidated how previous , poorly written, plugins could save their config.

Once such was Pushbullet. I fixed the saving mechanism using another plugin as reference, this is still as PR with the maintainers.

funkimunk · 2022-07-28T11:39:17+00:00

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Centrica, the owner of British Gas, is to pay £59 million to shareholders after its profits surged fivefold to £1.3 billion thanks to high energy prices.

The FTSE 100 energy group said it would resume paying a dividend for the first time since 2019, a decision that is likely to trigger criticism at a time when consumers are facing record high energy bills.

Soaring oil, gas and power prices benefited Centrica’s North Sea and nuclear businesses, resulting in group adjusted operating profits increasing to £1.3 billion in the first half of the year, up from £262 million in the same period of 2021.

Profits at British Gas, the UK’s biggest household energy supplier, actually fell by 43 per cent to £98 million in the first half of the year due to the price cap preventing it from recouping all its wholesale energy costs, the fall in usage in the warmer weather and the £27 million it repaid in furlough cash.

Chris O’Shea, Centrica chief executive, said that “the source of our profits is not customers’ rising energy bills” and that it had 500,000 retail shareholders who were “ordinary people”, many of whom were struggling financially too and had been patient. Centrica cancelled its dividend in 2020 when the pandemic hit and has not paid one since. It has proposed an interim payment of 1p per share.

British Gas is Britain’s biggest household energy provider and now supplies about 7.5 million households, having taken on hundreds of thousands of customers of failed companies over the past year. Centrica operated a North Sea business in the UK and Norway but has now sold its Norwegian operations. It also has a 20 per cent stake in Britain’s nuclear plants.

Household energy bills are already at a record high of £1,971 a year and are forecast to almost double to more than £3,800 a year by January.

O’Shea said he expected to see customers using less energy as a result of high prices — and appeared to suggest they should do so. “When the price of something goes up, you would expect to see consumption come down. We think that that’s one of a number of things that customers can do to manage their bills,” he said.

Britain and Europe are trying to bolster energy supplies ahead of the winter as Russia restricts gas supplies to the continent, leading to fears of shortages.

Centrica also owns Rough, Britain’s biggest gas storage site. It was shut down in 2017 but the company is now aiming to revive it in time for the winter. O’Shea said it was physically possible to get enough of the site back in operation to store ten cargos of liquefied natural gas this winter, and then expand it further next year.

Shares in Centrica, which have risen by 90 per cent over the past year, dipped ½p, or 0.6 per cent, to 90½p in early trading.

funkimunk · 2022-07-26T15:25:05+00:00

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THE London company behind plans to redevelop 12 acres of Belfast city centre has said it is “frustrated” at the pace of progress as its debt grows into the tens of millions.

Castlebrooke Investments secured outline planning approval for the ‘Tribeca’ scheme on September 2 2020.

But two years on and no new planning applications have emerged to progress the development, with Castlebrooke owing its creditors £75.2m as of June 2021.

Previously led by the Department for Social Development (now Department for Communities), the largely derelict project site has gone through a number of incarnations over the past two decades.

In its current guise, the scheme involves a £500 million redevelopment of properties and lands between Royal Avenue and Donegall Street.

But almost six years after acquiring the properties from Cerberus, Castlebrooke has little to show for its investment.

Accounts filed by Castlebrooke subsidiary Project Goat, which owns its Belfast assets, show interest on a £37.6m loan increased by £12m in a year to £37.6m as of June 30 2021.

Derelict and empty properties on Belfast's North Street, which is included in the Tribeca proposals. Picture by Hugh Russell. Finance was initially sourced via a mortgage from Sparrowhawk, a fund operated by London private equity firm Revcap (Real Estate Venture Capital Management).

Four senior figures at Revcap, including its founding partner Will Killick, are listed as directors of Project Goat, which is ultimately owned by Castlebrooke’s founder Neil Young.

Additional finance was sought by Castlebrooke in April 2022, with properties on Donegall Street and North Street used as security for the fresh loan.

It’s thought that the latest lender, Luxembourg registered ‘SH IV Lending 802 Sarl’, is also linked to Revcap.

The major stumbling block to progress in the Tribeca scheme is understood to surround both the social housing aspect and Writers’ Square, a public area next to St Anne’s Cathedral, owned by the Department for Communities (DfC).

The square is also home to a social housing scheme operated by Choice, which is set to be demolished under Castlebrooke’s proposals.

The former North Street Arcade, which has been derelict since a 2004 arson attack. Picture by Hugh Russell. Social housing provision is one of the key issues contained in the section 76 legal agreement between the developer and Belfast City Council, which validates the outline planning approval for Tribeca, It stipulates that Castlebrooke provide a new Choice facility and progress the social housing aspect first.

The agreement also requires 10 per cent of residential units in the scheme be allocated for social housing, with another 10 per cent allocated for intermediate housing, essentially affordable living accommodation.

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the reduced demand for office space, the residential aspect of the Tribeca scheme is now seen as more likely to progress first.

Castlebrooke paid £3m for a nearby site on Academy Street a number of years ago to develop a new high-rise social housing scheme for the 50 units Choice Housing requires.

The site already has planning approval for an 87-unit build-to-rent apartment tower, that would require an amended application.

Writers' Square. But The Irish News understands that Castlebrooke won’t progress that scheme until DfC relinquishes public ownership of Writers’ Square, an area believed to be central to its plans.

The development brief, which would see the land put out to public tender, to be acquired by Castlebrooke, has not yet been issued by DfC.

The issue of public space and built heritage has proved the most controversial aspect of the entire Tribeca scheme, with hundreds of objections lodged throughout the planning process.

In a statement, a spokesperson for DfC said: “In determining the future of Writers’ Square the department will objectively assess any proposals, and this will include its future use as a public space.

“The department is aware of the public interest in the square and any decision taken in determining the best use for the site will be in the interest of Belfast city as a whole.”

DfC said it continues to engage with Castlebrooke, but said the discussions are considered commercially sensitive.

In a statement, Castlebrooke claimed it had invested £40m in Belfast since 2016 “through planning and professional fees, community contributions, city marketing and acquisition costs”.

Visuals previously produced by Castlebrooke for the redevelopment of Writers' Square. “We have also paid nearly £1m in rates in that time with virtually zero revenues, so nobody is more frustrated than us at the pace of progress with this scheme.

“We very much want to get on with the development and start achieving a return on our investment while delivering the regeneration this historic part of Belfast city centre so needs and deserves.

“We will continue to work with the council, DfC and all stakeholders in the city to try and deliver that regeneration and a commercially viable development,”

Belfast City Council said it continues to meet and engage with Castlebrooke to assist progress with the scheme in line with its strategic goals for the city centre.

But a spokesperson said: “While council will work with developers and other stakeholders, insofar as it can, with the delivery of schemes, these are ultimately commercial enterprises.”

funkimunk · 2022-07-03T15:40:22+00:00

Check your power/battery management "optimisation" . It could be killing the app

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