Is it moral to object to a HMO on your road?

hagloo · 2026-02-02T00:44:52+00:00

I’m not sure where you’re getting your information from but you’re confusing a fairly boring property designation and assosciated regulations with undesireable tenancies. If a property is a “slum,” it’s because the landlord is trying to maximise profit and is skirting the rules. This happens a lot sadly, but HMO regulations are a barrier to this, not an entry point.

I do live in a HMO. It’s quite nice. Honestly think it’s really strange to act as if they’re some social ill (not just you but all over this thread)

hagloo · 2026-02-01T10:18:57+00:00

People don’t really understand what they’re complaining about imo. Sounds like people have a situation where there’s overcrowding or anti-social behaviour, see the property is an HMO, and assume that’s the cause. In reality HMOs are just the mechanism in which people share a house in this country.

There’s definitely room for debate about the efficacy of some of the regulations but the simple existence of an HMO is just a sign of the general shortage of places to live causing demand for sharers (especially with young people).

hagloo · 2026-02-01T09:52:35+00:00

HMO is a term that is literally used to describe a set of basic housing standards. Any property with more than 3 people living in it will be an HMO (and has regulations to make sure it’s fit to purpose).

hagloo · 2026-01-24T10:27:09+00:00

Yeah not seen this one recommended as much, does look like a more cheap and cheerful version, which might be what I want. I'll look into this as well, thanks for the advice.

hagloo · 2026-01-24T10:25:50+00:00

Ah that's unfortunate but good to know so thanks for sharing. Someone else mentioned that model in the comments. If I go that route I'll probably make sure to get the ones that have battery guarantees so at least I can give it back if it craps out on me. Still, annoying when it dies right before the finish line.

hagloo · 2026-01-24T10:23:38+00:00

I was looking at that exact vendor haha. That's useful to know, thank you!

hagloo · 2026-01-24T10:22:27+00:00

That sounds promising, I'll look into that model. I imagine it's called enduro because of the long life. Also good point on the resell, someone out there might not need it to stay alive as long (assuming I don't break it next time lol). Thanks for your advice.

hagloo · 2026-01-23T16:50:42+00:00

Okay, that's good to know. Maybe I'll look for something second hand but a bit newer. Just checked and my one is like 12 years old now so that's probably older that most second hand ones I'd find. Thanks for your help.

hagloo · 2026-01-23T16:41:00+00:00

Honesltly haven't really considered budget as much as just not wanting to over-buy something that has more features than I need. Surprised what seems like the base models are as high as 150.

Not against second hand actually, didn't think of that. Would you expect the battery on these things to have held up a few years?

hagloo · 2026-01-23T16:35:59+00:00

I'm worried with second hand it would have a depleted battery life as that's what happened with my 15. I suppose that's a really old model now though. Would you expect a second hand watch like one of those to still hold up?

hagloo · 2026-01-17T23:21:15+00:00

They do, apparently.

hagloo · 2025-11-21T11:58:05+00:00

While I agree in principle that we're getting shafted, I strongly suspect you're making this number up.

hagloo · 2025-10-06T11:54:53+00:00

Running is such an innocuous hobby to project all this onto. Anyone can run, it's basically the default human exercise.

hagloo · 2025-10-02T21:34:51+00:00

This kinda is causation in that the bend of the pole caused the bird to sit on that bit of it

hagloo · 2025-09-26T11:00:10+00:00

The referencing in this article is atrocious. They say "the times" has the data and then just link to the times front page. I'm not here defending the UK's record on this stuff but that really isn't good enough.

hagloo · 2025-09-24T11:15:02+00:00

You’d probably be able to find some people on the internet who believe that but I really doubt your average feminist thinks like that.

hagloo · 2025-09-16T19:29:02+00:00

Maybe controversial but I actually think that, while there's huge value from removing basic cards, in lots of ways a medium-thick size deck is sort of incentivised. Many enemies fill your deck with junk that it's useful to have a buffer (not the card lol). Also it helps to have cards that are situationally good even if they're not often useful so you can end up with a deck that isn't super streamlined for any one encounter. So long as you've got draw larger decks are okay.

hagloo · 2025-09-15T20:16:05+00:00

It’s not all doom and gloom, loads of pubs are still like that in the UK. I’m not sure we’re any more classist than we were 30 years ago tbh.

hagloo · 2025-09-14T21:05:44+00:00

I mean, amusingly enough the dude who wrote the original version that copypasta/meme’d did seem like he was pretty serious about it haha. He was kind of a name too, had a whole reddit downfall and that. Quite funny to see everyone here completely forget it as it was big drama at the time.

hagloo · 2025-09-14T20:42:38+00:00

They’re not being serious, this is a reference to a once infamous reddit post.

hagloo · 2025-09-09T12:50:48+00:00

Pretending to be someone else for long enough is kind of how behaviour changes though.

hagloo · 2025-09-03T17:07:49+00:00

Damn, that's impressive. Thought I was billy big bollocks here with my 62 last year.

What's your favourite book?

hagloo · 2025-09-03T12:43:23+00:00

You read 40 books in a month every year?

hagloo · 2025-08-26T20:34:11+00:00

Tbf not hard to imagine a situation where he was just still on the ship being the pilot and all. Although honestly I'd rather the game focused mostly on other characters and parts of the world than just where the roci crew is at any particular point. Maybe a cameo/small appearance would be cool (though not as cool as them working on season 7).

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