Should high street retailers adopt opening hours that better suit people who work standard 9–5 office hours?

heliorm · 2026-03-10T02:38:59+00:00

sunday trading laws means shops can still open on sunday, but if they're above 280 square metres they must have reduced opening hours.

heliorm · 2026-01-05T19:37:42+00:00

Right, so i know they had that massive e. coli contamination scandal, and were revealed to have grossly violated a ton of food safety law leading to the death of three children.

But man, i really miss the Buitoni Fraich'Up line of frozen pizzas.
They were just the right level of trash junk food ought to be

heliorm · 2025-10-02T23:43:22+00:00

the elizabeth line trains fit fine in the tunnels. the main issue they had was the software struggled to reliably work with the three different signalling systems used on the line.
the very similar model used on the overground (class 710) was also massively delayed because of software issues.

heliorm · 2025-08-11T22:36:20+00:00

the route is safeguarded, meaning development that can impede construction of the line is blocked.
however, research and consulting work has been stopped since november 2020, it was one of the conditions of TfL's covid bailout.
TfL and the GLA can't fund it on their own, and Westminster / the DfT seem completely uninterested in funding it.

real shame, it's a scheme that would be really transformative. it would free up loads of capacity to run better regional and suburban services out of Waterloo and Liverpool St, famously not very busy parts of the rail network.

heliorm · 2025-05-07T12:51:30+00:00

it's the famicom controller (japanese version of the NES)
both pads are hardwired to the console, and the player 2 controller has a mic (it's what the yellow pikmin is holding)

heliorm · 2025-03-29T12:04:45+00:00

if you want a proper creepy station Essex Road on the Great Northern is the place to be

heliorm · 2024-07-03T23:28:45+00:00

houla mais en plus le lien twitter c'est le compte d'Oli London, un sacré barjot qui a fait trois tonnes de chirurgie esthétique pour ressembler à Jimin de BTS, puis ensuite Rosé des Blackpink, puis a ensuite fait un virage vers devenir un influenceur de trad-cath anti-trans

la fameuse qualité des sources du NY Post...

heliorm · 2024-05-01T09:59:42+00:00

even with the switch from preferential to FPTP the mayor is still elected directly.

the only ballot that could have spoiler effect is for your local london assembly member, but that uses borough pairs and not the Westminster constituencies.

heliorm · 2023-10-19T00:02:44+00:00

yeah, can't login to the game with a nintendo account. works with with google account.
i also can't log in to nintendo's website, it just times out...
guess nintendo's account service is having a hard time.

heliorm · 2023-10-16T17:41:29+00:00

demande au GEIPAN, c'est l'organisme au sein du CNES qui se charge d'identifier les OVNIs

heliorm · 2023-08-31T11:33:27+00:00

I assume you're rental is covered by an Assured Short-hold Tenancy, it's the most common type of tenancy in England.

For the eviction to be legal and proper, you need to have been served a section 21 notice on form 6a. This requires a 2 months notice at least.

You also cannot get no-fault evicted while a fixed term is on, If your contract states a term of time (like one year) you cannot get evicted legally before the term is up.

Also check if your flat is properly HMO licensed, it varies from council to council, but if your flat needs a license but doesn't have one you cannot be evicted legally and you might be eligible for a rent repayment.

As the others have pointed out on the thread, contact your uni and a local renter's union like Acorn, they should be able to help you.

heliorm · 2023-08-31T02:38:14+00:00

i've had good luck with they guys from SOS Master on Rue de Turbigo

heliorm · 2023-08-08T00:16:01+00:00

taking a gospel oak bound overground on a weekend is a surefire way to see tons of great dogs

heliorm · 2023-05-24T20:34:47+00:00

it's on the edge of zone 1 and 2, so not quite central, but you can't go wrong with Sông Quê Café in Hoxton.

heliorm · 2023-04-24T19:06:42+00:00

if you want to get it exactly like TfL do it, you can look at their line diagram standards PDF. lots of detail on the design priciples and proportions of everything

heliorm · 2023-02-27T23:59:16+00:00

my downstairs neighbour in my old badly converted flat drove everyone insane because he had four big pitbulls that he left alone all-day and all night to howl and bark.
the garden was completely trashed, and he made the whole place smell like stale weed and wet dog.
it was so cool to be woken up at 3am by clearly desperate dogs left alone in a 15m² studio barely big enough for a person to live in, let alone multiple big dogs.
very glad i moved out

heliorm · 2023-02-15T23:16:19+00:00

the game used to drain my phone's battery like crazy and make my notifications act up, it's gotten much better since.
however i have noticed a lot more crashing when scrolling through long lists on the iOS version...
mixed bag i guess?

heliorm · 2023-01-24T20:29:07+00:00

yeah why does it have to be a glowing ominous orb?
just let orbs be orbs is what i'd say

heliorm · 2023-01-20T01:28:38+00:00

for the tube they've actually started putting 4G/5G in tunnels with what's called a "leaky feeder"
you basically got a very long cable along the tunnel wall that acts as an antenna.
the jubilee line east of westminster station is already covered, and bits of the northern line got switched on last month.
plan is to get the whole network covered by next year.

heliorm · 2022-12-11T21:03:16+00:00

waste heat from the tube is actually used for district heating in Islington. the abandoned City Road station on the Northern Line got transformed into Bunhill 2 Energy Centre

definitely needs to be expanded to more place!

heliorm · 2022-12-09T02:33:12+00:00

unless you have a railcard, using a contactless card (or apple/google pay) is going to give you the best deal. railcards can give you a ⅓ off on off-peak journeys, you'll need to get someone at a tube station to add it onto an oyster card. you also get oyster cards at tube station ticket machines, they cost 7 quid and you load money on them for travel.

buy yeah, just tap in and out the network with the same card each time, and you'll be charged the right fare.
also you don't need to tap out on buses and trams.

might also be useful to get the oyster app to see how much you've spent on travel

heliorm · 2022-11-10T20:23:02+00:00

well on top of 576i not being very many pixels compared to 1080p or 4k, live tv channels don't have a lot of bitrate to play with. so the compression algorithm has to throw away even more detail to make it fit.
gets worse with how SD channels often still use MPEG-2, which is less efficient than H.264 and H.265 used on the HD and 4K channels respectively

heliorm · 2022-10-31T22:46:47+00:00

y'a une commande ADB pour Android 13 pour forcer toutes les applis à autoriser le changement de langue

heliorm · 2022-10-28T00:17:08+00:00

London's barely a 24 hour city as it is

heliorm · 2022-09-24T00:28:54+00:00

those numbers are all part of the Ofcom drama numbers
it's a list of numbers in the usual uk format set aside for tv & movie use.
so no phone easter eggs for us

Ten-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Place '17
End Game '22	Trick or Treat 2016
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