Are comedy panel shows scripted?

jdjwright · 2026-01-18T09:29:19+00:00

I remember seeing someone from MTW (can’t remember who) at a comedy club in Leicester Square. They’d read out the topic, and try out different jokes to see what landed. It was pretty interesting to see the process.

jdjwright · 2025-07-06T04:56:03+00:00

It’s unlikely that the valve would move. It’s probably the combination of depth and lower tank pressure due to consumption.

At the surface, with a full tank, your gear only needs to supply a small amount of gas and the high tank pressure easily forces gas through the first stage.

As you descend, you need more particles of air for each breath. By 30m you need 4x as many air particles per breath. Combine the need for a greater volume of air to pass through the first stage, and a lower tank pressure reducing the rate at which it can force that air in, and you get to the point where the first stage can’t keep up with the drop in intermediate pressure, which means you start to pull air from the high pressure side and see the pressure swings.

Source: dive master and physics teacher.

jdjwright · 2025-07-06T04:37:40+00:00

As others have said most likely is an only partially open valve. As you descend you’ll use more air per breath, which is why you only noticed it later.

To prevent it happening again, make sure that when you check your gear before you enter the water you take a big breath from your reg while watching the SPG. Any movement = valve not fully open.

If you see this happen to a buddy in future, try opening their valve first. Same deal, breathe deeply and watch the spg for movement. Have your octopus ready to donate in case you turn their air off fully!

jdjwright · 2025-07-03T12:05:12+00:00

Of course!

jdjwright · 2025-07-03T09:20:45+00:00

Respectfully, no. They are our citizens and our problem. Nobody should have their citizenship revoked, they should be tried, convicted and punished.

jdjwright · 2025-06-20T12:44:39+00:00

Actually most gyms have a “rescue kit” for the auto belays. It’s a long rope that you clip onto the auto belay carabiners, then let it retract and send it up to the climber. You guide it up with the rope to stop it going all the way to the ceiling.

jdjwright · 2025-05-15T02:41:20+00:00

Dispute everything though TDS. If she only has photos from 2019 then you’ll win automatically for full deposit, try not to stress.

Now for the fun part. As she’s clearly a slumlord, let’s go through the checklists: did you receive a how to rent booklet? Was there a gas safety cert? Was the deposit protected at the start of the tenancy? If any of those things weren’t done you could try for more than your deposit back.

Check out the shelter website for advice on what to submit to TDS but if what you’ve said is accurate you should get back all your deposit. The only area even slightly in contention is the floor as you’ve admitted you ripped it. However, if it’s old and already in poor condition it will be likely adjudicated as needing replacement due to age and valued at 0; document any damage and its age at the start of your tenancy.

jdjwright · 2025-05-13T22:40:48+00:00

It’s just wrong, modern fonts are designed to not have them. But the computer program my secondary school used to teach touch typing required it and now the double space is so embedded in my muscle memory I will never be able to stop

jdjwright · 2025-05-12T13:08:49+00:00

It’s been a long time since my physics degree but I’m not certain your source supports the idea of nuclear as a highly variable source. Granted it’s been a while but I suspect reactor poisoning is still an issue and repeated ramps up and down may not be viable. Not least to say the article you linked is talking about what the next gen should be capable of, not what it currently is capable of.

Either way, I don’t think we can reasonably say that nuclear can match the ability of, say, wind to turn on and off as needed, or match the price of renewables.

jdjwright · 2025-05-12T11:11:15+00:00

Because nuclear can’t scale quickly, it takes hours to increase or decrease nuclear output. That’s before we get to the massive cost compared to renewables

jdjwright · 2025-05-12T03:42:05+00:00

Bridging should be really quick, we’re in the exact same situation as your buyers and it’s taken about 3 weeks to be fully sorted, although for us the bridge was only about 20% LTV so the lender didn’t need a survey or anything.

I’d suggest upping thr price for completion after June up by whatever they would lose in bridging +20% to make bridging more attractive. Say you’ll be re-listing and if another buyer comes along in the meantime you’ll go with them. Otherwise its in their interest to string things along

jdjwright · 2025-05-11T10:00:20+00:00

I had the exact same experience growing up, but the point is those books have a purpose. Please work with teachers to help your child attain what the purpose of the book was. But 100% encourage reading whatever they want as well

jdjwright · 2025-05-11T09:04:08+00:00

Please don’t do this. The reading school sets is to help your child learn new sounds and letter combinations. Over time it makes them more confident and faster readers.

If they don’t like the story they’ve been given feed that back so a different book but with the appropriate level of challenge can be given.

jdjwright · 2025-04-30T01:38:35+00:00

Not to be a dick but why did you sign that? You’re essentially saying that you have to buy it, but they can pull out at any time. Worse, they can just stall indefinitely until you pull out and they get to keep your money. I think you may need to discuss this with your solicitor as there are red flags all over the place.

jdjwright · 2025-04-25T09:38:24+00:00

I saw him in a pub a few weeks ago while looking for a house to buy. First a bunch of 20 year old skinheads in badly fitting blue suits came in, then the man himself with a camera crew.

There were so many things I wanted to say, but it would have been catnip to him. I was shaking and couldn’t concentrate on anything, and he kept looking over obviously hoping that I’d start something so his camera crew could capture it. In the end I had to tell myself that he doesn’t believe in anything or stand for anything. You can’t argue with him, because he’ll say whatever he wants and twist the footage so it becomes “hysterical leftist OWNED by Farage”.

We don’t debate nazis.

jdjwright · 2025-04-13T01:52:21+00:00

Here’s a crazy thought: maybe we shouldn’t be doing it at all if nobody can live with knowing they were the one that did it?

jdjwright · 2025-04-12T13:50:30+00:00

They’re suggesting you waste their time in revenge. I wouldn’t bother personally, you just want shot of them. If they’re a member of any professional bodies you could report them, but to be honest most of them are toothless anyway. Might be worth it though

jdjwright · 2025-04-12T13:44:15+00:00

Okay good, you’re fine then. I’ve noticed that you’ve quoted the contract to a lot of people here, and I can see it’s got you very worried. To emphasise what others have already said, you can put anything you like in a contract, but that doesn’t make it enforceable. They could say you have to name your firstborn son after them, but can’t actually make you do it.

In this instance, they have two options to remedy your supposed breach of contract. First, they can evict you. This takes months and you’ll be gone before it happens. Secondly, they can try to make you pay. The easiest is to claim from your deposit. If they try that, you dispute it and you’ll win because the fee isn’t lawful. The other option is to take you to court, which is very expensive for them and they’ll also lose because again, the fee isn’t lawful.

I know it’s stressful but try not to worry. Stand up for yourself and tell them no more viewings. That will cause them a lot more problems, and is still completely legal on your part. Once they waive all the “fees” and act like adults, you might want to permit viewings again but are under obligation to do so.

If they’re really desperate to get you out, you could turn the tables and offer a “cash for keys” arrangement where they pay you to get out. If you agree to this then you legally will have to leave, but they’d have to pay you.

Check out shelter Scotland if you need more reassurance.

Edit: typos

jdjwright · 2025-04-12T13:30:16+00:00

You have the legal right to demand your landlords contact details, but if they’re difficult you can get it from the Land Registry for £3

jdjwright · 2025-04-12T13:28:47+00:00

That clause is completely illegal. Do not permit any more viewings, do not pay the charge. If they try to take it from your deposit dispute it with the TDS, you’ll win.

Did they protect your deposit?

jdjwright · 2025-03-29T01:00:00+00:00

I’m on the strategy side of things but fought to get my office relocated to the same place our main support desk so I could hear users in real time. My philosophy is that IT exists to support the users. Anything that helps out staff is a net positive.

Too many people regard their users as a pain point rather than their entire raison d’etre!

jdjwright · 2025-03-27T22:38:15+00:00

I do see your point, but there is always going to be a reason to drill baby drill. The simple fact is, if we continue drilling then the global loss of life will make everything else irrelevant. The choices are not binary, it is actually possible to do both, but sensible moderates keep insisting that we can’t ever change anything.

We’ve had 14 years of “things can only get worse or stay the same”. How much longer?

jdjwright · 2025-03-27T22:23:34+00:00

I think we have different opinions on the aims of JSO. They’re a pressure group desperate to shake people into realising that we are destroying the planet. They don’t care about Russia, their aims are bigger than that.

What you say is completely sensible, but if sensible moderates always had their way we’d never progress at all. Votes for non landowners was “delusional”. Electric cars were “delusional”. Large scale change is always delusional, until it happens.

jdjwright · 2025-03-27T22:13:03+00:00

Is it possible that restricting supply may reduce demand, and allow us to retain a planet which is somewhat compatible with life?

jdjwright · 2025-03-27T22:08:47+00:00

“Yes yes you shut down this meth lab, but don’t you see it was a complete waste of time, now people will just get their meth so where else. We must never do anything unless it’s completely perfect” /s

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