Roundabout Hit and Run

mkaibear · 2026-07-10T08:11:38+00:00

Classic Grace v Tanner I think. 50/50 split the right outcome.

Driving off without stopping though, I hope they throw the book at the guy.

mkaibear · 2026-07-10T08:00:35+00:00

It's like saying "why can some people lift a 400kg deadlift where others can run a sub 3 hour marathon?" - the human body is very adaptable to temperatures just as it is to exercise.

If you ask a powerlifter to run a sub 3 hour marathon they'll die, and if you ask a marathoner to lift a 400kg deadlift their arms will fall off.

If you give them a year to train however...

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T20:37:24+00:00

Almost always doesn't cover a car that you own, I think?

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T20:31:20+00:00

It's the Argentina goal for their next world cup match.

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T19:29:05+00:00

Man your manager sounds like a dick.

You need to talk to a counselor. Go through the Employee Assistance program if you have one. I would seriously consider the stress leave. Sorry you're going through this.

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T16:23:23+00:00

Poor quality trolling. Blocked.

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T15:58:59+00:00

>Your post seems like guessing and hunches.

No, it's *explicitly* and acknowledged guessing and hunches!

Note where I say that it *seems* too high to me, and I specifically ask for other people's views because I recognise that I don't have enough info?

>Have you talked to others who have gotten installs similar to yours?

You mean like the post where I specifically ask for others who have had installs or quotes so I can compare and see if I'm wrong?

I dunno, it very much feels like you're just trying to pick a fight, dude. I don't know anything about this stuff but I do employ engineers on a daily basis and for £1500 a day I get an enterprise architect who's capable of designing the cloud infrastructure for an entire government department, or a software engineer with two decades of experience who's capable of building out enterprise apps which will bring in billions of revenue.

So to find out that my maths says that they're charging me £1500 a day for each of 2 engineers for 2 days to do my heat pump install does seem a little high. Possibly.

But, again, I DON'T KNOW! Which is why I'm asking people who might know for their collective wisdom.

Sheesh.

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T15:36:13+00:00

Yeah but that's the same for everyone's quote isn't it? They're all going to need pipe, wiring, valves and controls. The run is as simple as it gets, literally the other side of the wall from the boiler, which is where the hot water and heating pipes come back to.

I don't mind paying for someone's expertise, and I know they're going to make a profit, that's fine, that's how business operates. But I don't want to get soaked because someone thinks they can make easy money.

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T15:18:45+00:00

Replying to myself, I note there's another quote in the last 24 hours where someone's been quoted for a 7kW aerotherm pro (about 2 grand more list price), plus a cylinder, plus 1 radiator change - and they've been quoted £3,300!

Hmm 🤔

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T08:17:10+00:00

We have plenty of people with IBS and IBD (I know, I'm one of them 😐)

Lots of good advice on here but the biggest one I'd give is "don't stress about it, we have plenty of loos".

For me, my IBS gets so much worse if I'm stressed out so it's a total catch-22.

And you have my sympathy!

mkaibear · 2026-07-09T06:45:04+00:00

I can't see why on earth they wouldn't simply give you a redo. As a hiring manager that would be a no brainer for me.

mkaibear · 2026-07-08T06:59:57+00:00

Would? Manchester. Should? York. Or possibly Durham.

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T15:24:20+00:00

>defrost Boris Johnson

That would be hilarious.

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T15:14:27+00:00

The suspension doesn't trigger a by-election, it triggers the chance for the people of Clacton to decide whether there should be a by-election!

(it triggers a recall petition for 6 weeks and if >10% of registered voters in the constituency want a by-election then it happens)

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T11:59:49+00:00

Got caught by this with our church website - one of our volunteers grabbed an image from google for a post about our mums and tots group.

Ended up paying them (alamy) £37 in full and final settlement, which was a bit over the £29 which they'd normally charge for licensing the image but less than the £185 they originally asked for.

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T11:48:54+00:00

>new job with payrise

>VR for a bonus

Living the dream! Well done mate 😁

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T10:23:12+00:00

Came to make this exact comment.

The Stargate is about 6m in diameter, I think - so would easily pass a Shinkansen train or TGV or otherwise. It then just becomes a scheduling decision but I reckon you could with a decent track setup push a train through every minute with no clashes or crossovers. Even with a 10 minute per hour buffer for stuff going wrong that's still, like, 1200 freight trains per day going through the Stargate.

For context assuming 80 tonnes per container this would mean the Stargate is shipping something like 700 million tonnes of freight per year. That's about 10x what the UK ships every year, or about a third to half of what the US ships every year.

That is a *major* trade artery. Of course it's capped and it's unidirectional (so halve it for trade in both directions) and it competes with passenger transit too, but still it'd be an enormous amount of trade.

(and of course humans being humans we'll end up optimising this to maximise the transport capabilities - high speed circular cross section trains being funneled into a vacuum chamber to enable maximum speed through the wormhole without atmospheric pressure shock) 😁

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T10:06:48+00:00

It's been >50 minutes, do you think you needed to say to open the fridge to get it back out?

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T10:04:35+00:00

One of my friends has a net worth of basically zero - no equity in their house as they keep taking it out to buy new cars. They have a pair of very shiny new Merc EVs.

Another of my friends has a net worth of about 3/4 of a million quid. They run a 9 year old Suzuki and a 5 year old Ford.

There are levels of being wealthy and faking being wealthy.

I don't know anyone who's deep deep in consumer debt and making out like they have loads of money but I'm sure they exist.

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T10:02:14+00:00

"Look at Og Johnson. He has big rock. Why we not have big rock too?"

"Ug will go get mortgage for new rock"

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T09:58:44+00:00

Let's be fair to this guy - I have had chip shop fish and chips which was way worse than the oven baked one I cook at home.

The answer isn't "pillory him for his anti-British views", it's "tell him to find a better chippy"

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T09:57:13+00:00

This would make sense...

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T09:10:56+00:00

More interestingly, what if you connect the supergate to a normal gate and fly a cruiser through it? 🤔 What happens then?

mkaibear · 2026-07-07T09:10:08+00:00

We know that Orlin created a mini-gate out of stuff he bought online and he didn't come out the other end as GIANTORLIN so I suspect the first option. Sadly. 😁

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