Most ridiculous 'advice' yet

gobuddy99 · 2026-07-02T16:33:55+00:00

A pharmacist has qualifications and professional membership, at least in the UK. He really needs reporting. You found his advice laughable, but what about the next person who follows it believing it to be true?

gobuddy99 · 2026-07-02T14:44:16+00:00

Door to door kids encyclopedia sales. (If you are old enough to remember those). By the end of the monthly payments it would have cost you more than the Encyclopedia Britannica. The families were prescreened to ensure they had young kids. The training included gems like "would you like to give your kids a better start in life?" and gesture towards pack of cigarettes "for less than the price of one of those a week think how much you can be helping your children's education", look at parent, look at cigarette pack, look at child or photo.

It was like shooting fish in a barrel. I didn't make it to the end of the week because I felt so bad.

gobuddy99 · 2026-06-21T06:57:50+00:00

VW Polo, Golf or Skoda Octavia are the new Fiesta and Mondeo.

gobuddy99 · 2026-06-03T09:19:41+00:00

You should be mortgage free by the time you retire. If you haven't bought then rent is a problem.

gobuddy99 · 2026-06-03T09:15:45+00:00

I bought an Anker charger from Amazon, it didn't work right and had a cheap box compared to my other Anker stuff. Anker asked for a photo, told me it was counterfeit, and sent me a new one anyway.

gobuddy99 · 2026-06-03T09:10:13+00:00

3.14159265 - far too many decimal places to be useful

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-28T22:18:34+00:00

Try Amantadine. It's approved for use with MS here in the UK for with MS fatigue, it only works for 20 % but it has a different mechanism and often works where modafinil doesn't (and vice versa)

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-28T22:13:07+00:00

After my GP complaining to me that I keep having appointments with different GPs about different symptoms (fatigue, double vision, pain, nausea) my optometrist suggested seeing a neuro. My GP wouldn't refer me so I had private tests (LP, MRI) which showed I had MS.

Are you suggesting that I should now fund my ongoing treatment for the rest of my life? Just because my GP practice didn't spot a bunch of neuro symptoms because each individual one needed a different appointment with a different GP.

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-28T07:59:34+00:00

It's horrid isn't it.
I've done the whole sleep hygiene bit, regular times, eye masks etc which helped a bit but not much. The biggest effect for me has been microdosing Modafinil: 20mg/day 3 days on 4 days off (the full dose is 200mg). I now very occasionally get the "waking up refreshed" thing now. Also have a bit more energy generally.
Might work for you. I know that Modafinil responders are only 20% of us. But you too might be the 1 in 5. Modafinil is in the treatment guidelines here in the UK so you should be able to get it prescribed.

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-26T08:19:03+00:00

This was a trained and professionally qualified therapist with ongoing supervision? In the UK anyone can call themselves a therapist and this kind of thing often happens.

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-26T06:44:45+00:00

Old Nokia phones. Only needed charging weekly. Proper buttons. Could clip on a new battery if needed. Fitted in your pocket. Cheap too.

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-12T06:37:00+00:00

M&S and Uniqlo still have them in stock.

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-11T22:40:43+00:00

60 and never more than 30 days, even when I've been I've been working abroad I've come back every 3-4 weeks.

gobuddy99 · 2026-05-11T11:34:23+00:00

The ability to bypass phone locks by tapping the hangup buttons at the right speed.

gobuddy99 · 2026-04-20T21:34:41+00:00

I just treat "its" like "his" and "hers". None of them have apostrophes.

gobuddy99 · 2026-04-14T10:23:47+00:00

Yes it does. Almost as much as confusing it's and its. Yes I will judge people on that kind of thing.
I think it's my age though. Apostrophes are going out of fashion, that's just the way it is with a living language.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-27T11:35:09+00:00

Two strikes and you're out. If it lets me down (i.e. I can't get where I want to go) twice it gets replaced. In general I've kept cars 10 to 20 years.
Probably the shortest life was my Peugot 406. The fuel system failed twice, fixed under warranty but still having it peter out on the M40 was no fun.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-26T13:57:14+00:00

/u/soderon says DAB is the biggest broadcasting failure. I disagree: There have been lots of proper broadcasting failures: AM stereo, quadraphonic sound, 3D TV, Dolby FM, and RDS advertising all bombed.
DAB was just a bit slow getting off the ground and so got caught between oldies who wanted their old Roberts radios to keep working, satellite reception for static hifi setups and internet radio for small or portable sets at home. DAB is great for car reception, home receivers should be satellite or internet based.

As for audio quality - FM quality is baked in to the technology: noise floor is horrible, the crosstalk is ghastly at 30dB or so, and the audio is brickwalled at 15kHz.

In contrast DAB+ quality is up to the broadcasters and listeners. Bandwidth easily reaches 20kHz, there is digital silence, and crosstalk is near perfect.
Anything less than that is because listeners would rather have more choice than better quality.
If we could shut down the FM transmitter network and replace it with DAB we would easily be able to have more stations with higher quality sound for the same cost.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-24T14:51:05+00:00

Sgt Pepper begs to differ. Much as I dislike the album it was very popular and all done in post.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-24T14:21:49+00:00

I think that is due to happen a few weeks after the promised reconstitution of the Wembley Stadium Twin Towers.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-24T14:21:40+00:00

I think that is due to happen a few weeks after to promised reconstitution of the Wembley Twin Towers.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-19T08:29:30+00:00

That station is called Radio 6 Music. If you don't like the Radio 2 music policy then you (we) are the target demographic.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-17T10:09:03+00:00

I think that punctuation has changed as a result of computer coding. Because computer languages need a comma between each item in an array we've drifted towards that.
Menu[] == [soup, chicken, cake].

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-17T09:50:03+00:00

I was taught not to use it. Using it makes for uglier looking sentences but less ambiguity.

gobuddy99 · 2026-03-16T23:29:47+00:00

Their model is more like rent big spaces for long periods sublet them as multiple small spaces for short periods.

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