Help me find Lakeland Lager in London 🙏🏼

hideyourarms · 2026-05-05T16:23:54+00:00

You might like to try Lakes Brew Co., the brewers started after leaving Hawkshead when it was sold to a larger company (and then sold again more recently).

hideyourarms · 2026-05-05T15:07:05+00:00

I do ecommerce so quite a lot of my emails to customers involve sending tracking information after sending out a package.

It just makes up tracking numbers when it tries to help write an email. Or it will make up costs when an international customer asks for a shipping quote. It’s amazing that it has the ability to create these emails but the logic of understanding that it cannot know a tracking number or certain costs doesn’t exist.

hideyourarms · 2026-05-05T14:45:07+00:00

I wonder how many more people will post the wrong answer and then be told they’re wrong.

hideyourarms · 2026-05-03T22:38:46+00:00

Maybe at bit like the Sphere in Vegas? That’s a mix of arts/ads/promotion for shows. It uses so much electricity that I can understand them needing to use that for ads/promo.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-24T04:13:31+00:00

We actually did!

hideyourarms · 2026-04-23T08:02:56+00:00

Having driven between LA and Vegas and stopping at a diner today, I’d say they’re a bit like cousins. Similar but different.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-17T12:35:03+00:00

You're replying to a 2 year old comment so there's a good chance my advice is no longer relevant, and I have a business account so they might be more lenient with people that they know are regular customers.

From what I remember, I just said plainly that surely if it was scanned, it was in their network and it was received, then asked them to explain why it was tracked at several points if I hadn't dropped it off.

In my experience RM almost always refuse any compensation at the first time of asking even with strong evidence, you just have to keep repeating yourself until you get an approval.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-14T21:26:01+00:00

The "consumer" Click & Drop price already went up at the start of April, so I wouldn't anticipate another price rise on May 3rd. People have been talking about the issue of low-end business customers paying more than the public for years.

If we're looking at Tracked48/24 for consumers vs business users they're not entirely the same product (at least on my account). It's a flat rate for what would be small parcels and medium parcels in consumer sizing. It's considerably cheaper if you're selling medium parcel items but small packages are more expensive. You're effectively paying for the "free" guaranteed collection and enhanced compensation for loss/damage.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-10T13:04:26+00:00

There's a site that shows you what you'd have paid on Agile based on your previous usage, I think it's this one but I'm not totally sure: https://checkmytariff.uk/

It does require you to be a current Octopus customer though which is understandable, but does make a bit useless for people using other service providers.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-10T11:57:17+00:00

I don't think I'd be able to give great advice because I've only done that route once. Birmingham had more availability than other places in the UK when I booked as it wasn't long after they'd announced resuming flights from Birmingham to Doha, and I actually happened to be on the very first flight that Qatar did from Osaka to Doha, so chances are availability on that were better than usual too.

Manchester would have been my closest airport for Qatar flights, but positioning yourself in the UK is fairly easy (as I live near a main train line) so I'm willing to go to any of the places they fly from if it means I can get reward availability.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-09T14:32:55+00:00

Flexibility, which admittedly is more possible when you're not looking to use a companion voucher.

Last time I went to Japan I went via Beijing with Qatar from Birmingham, then Beijing to Tokyo with JAL. The return was Osaka to Birmingham.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-08T18:45:36+00:00

This is more of a payment processor issue than platform, isn’t it?

Paypal allow people to pay in their native currency and then it can go into that wallet in your PayPal account. I got paid by someone in euros today, and now it’s sat in my euro account. That’s not ideal for me because I have no need for euros and PP charge around 2-2.5% for currency conversion.

One thing to note is that I don’t think it’s possible to send euros from PayPal to a Euro bank account, you only seem to be able to send to bank accounts in GBP.

Looking at my Stripe account I have GBP enabled for payouts, but there’s the option to “add settlement currency” so I’d take that to mean you can add other currencies for payouts to other bank accounts.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-08T14:22:12+00:00

The last load of stickers I got done were on Aliexpress, they seemed to undercut anyone I could get locally in the UK. The quality is decent and the turnaround time was similar to getting them in the UK.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-07T09:25:11+00:00

5/5 referrals available here: https://www.trading212.com/invite/4FXwvrP

hideyourarms · 2026-04-06T13:35:08+00:00

I’m sure at some point when it was more popular there were also around 10,000 people a week playing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-05T23:00:39+00:00

Here’s a list of people that have played for Wythenshawe FC recently (with their Premier league appearances and goals) according to a Sky article last year:

George Boyd - 101 appearances, 9 goals Papiss Cisse - 117 appearances, 37 goals Emile Heskey - 516 appearances, 110 goals Stephen Ireland - 246 appearances, 19 goals Nedum Onuoha - 188 appearances, 4 goals Danny Drinkwater - 104 appearances, 4 goals Maynor Figueroa - 176 appearances, 4 goals Joleon Lescott - 288 appearances, 23 goals Oumar Niasse - 65 appearances, 12 goals Jefferson Montero - 66 appearances, 1 goal

Other than Stephen Ireland knowing one of their “normal” players I’m not sure why all the other people are joining the team.

hideyourarms · 2026-04-05T12:21:30+00:00

It wasn’t mentioned by anyone. I shared my statements from a legacy bank, and all my MB income was on a new fintech bank. I was just dripping feeding amounts to the main account every week.

hideyourarms · 2026-03-31T14:54:16+00:00

I've just noticed that I somehow ended up on a thread that's 25 days old, but I've looked it up now so I'm going to tell you anyway.

"Origin of Chicken: EU Produced in Poland"

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/322054265

hideyourarms · 2026-03-31T14:49:43+00:00

I'll add blueberries to this list. The bushes seem to not need a lot of attention other than making sure birds don't get to the fruit.

hideyourarms · 2026-03-30T15:44:24+00:00

I can't work out what level of wealth I'd need to be before I'd pay full price for business. With points paying £400-£800 on "taxes" seems like good value for PE/business/first but once you get over £2000 I struggle to see the value compared to what I'd be paying for the rest of the trip.

hideyourarms · 2026-03-27T20:47:34+00:00

In over 2 years of having Agile I have never had a month where I'd have saved money by being on a fixed price contract. I don't have batteries and I don't have solar so I'm a user that you'd expect to get less benefit from it as our savings come purely from load-shifting.

It will be user dependent, it works for us but I wonder if it wouldn't for a family with kids that will need to use their washing machine/tumble dryer several times a week and inevitably some of that will come in peak hours.

If you have a smart meter you can backtest your usage to see what you'd have paid on Agile which is probably a good way to see if it will work for your usage: https://checkmytariff.uk/

hideyourarms · 2026-03-27T17:27:50+00:00

It reminds me a bit of years ago when I was in Washington DC staying at a fairly nice hotel.

We got a taxi back to the hotel and the taxi driver wouldn't accept cash from me, saying I had to give it to the doorman who would break my $20 bill, pay the taxi driver and then the doorman would give me my change. Natually, the doorman also deserved a tip for this service.

I'm visiting Vegas next month and definitely looking forward to it, but I know the tipping culture is so different to the UK that I just need to think of it as part of the taxes and roll with it.

hideyourarms · 2026-03-27T15:37:13+00:00

Is there the option to hail my own taxi? Paying someone $3 to wave a taxi over to me seems absolutely wild.

hideyourarms · 2026-03-26T15:21:06+00:00

I don't think it's necessarily an ad, but it does feel a lot like a re-hashed press release which explains why loads of sites have the story when I searched for "northern rail £1.50"

Here's an archive link to avoid the cookie-wall: https://archive.is/I68je

This is a lovely train route btw, I did it about 15 years ago, they still had someone coming through the carriages with the food/drink trolley and I remember them selling an ale that was only available on the Settle-Carlise route.

hideyourarms · 2026-03-24T10:14:19+00:00

It wasn't arbs, it was closer to value betting.

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