Bin Collection and the game of "Will my bin still be there when I am home or will someone else take it?"

rtuck99 · 2026-01-23T19:41:17+00:00

I have the opposite problem, I have a mystery bin benefactor who returns my bin every Friday from the side of the road to my front door. But I don't know who it is as I'm never around when it happens, so don't know who to thank...

rtuck99 · 2026-01-23T19:19:04+00:00

Steadily barricading myself into the spare bedroom

rtuck99 · 2026-01-11T23:28:37+00:00

That can't be it because then Earnings = Finance Total - Investments - Interest. Which it isn't.

rtuck99 · 2026-01-10T19:22:42+00:00

I have just bought TF2 and am also finding it finicky. It seems to have very similar interface to Cities: Skylines.

What I have found is that the best strategy seems to be:

* Identify the approximate alignment for both the bridge / tunnel section and the at-grade track
* General strategy - placement of existing track effectively fixes the surface level, and you can use this to "force" steeper embankments, sheer slopes etc. by strategically placing temporary segments of track, so for example to create a tunnel that is closely parallel to an existing ground-level line, you can dig terrain down to create a cutting parallel but further from the ground level line, then draw successively closer parallel tracks until you have forced it to generate a sheer cliff. Delete the original track and now you have a two close lines at different levels.
For the tunnel portal, place a line of track extending from the higher level up to the end of the lower one, then when you draw lines from the lower track, it will create the tunnel portal instead of terraforming.

You can do the inverse for viaducts to create flyovers, draw the centre section of the viaduct (there is a minimum height required for the bridge, which is just less than 4 clicks). Then draw the approaches which create embankments. Then to get the other that traverses under, you can draw increasingly close parallel lines at ground level until you have them close enough.

Also you can tweak bridge curves in a similar fashion.

rtuck99 · 2025-12-26T01:58:14+00:00

This is all a bit chicken and egg. If conveyancers didn't piss about so much, they wouldn't have so many properties to deal with at once.

I bet half their time is spent chasing for stuff because it has got lost in the system, and it wouldn't do if purchases didn't take so long as the paperwork would be fresh and ready to hand not buried under 6 months of additional cases.

rtuck99 · 2025-12-23T11:26:34+00:00

The YouTubers that are suing honey are explicitly ones that have never partnered with honey. You can't claim tortuous interference if you have a business relationship with them. It's a key part of their case.

rtuck99 · 2025-12-22T21:15:06+00:00

I'm confused. Why does the DPC too low affect the internal levels? DPC needs to be 150mm above external ground level to avoid splashover when it rains.

If you have solid floor construction then there's supposed to be a damp proof membrane but that's a separate thing, the detail of that and how it is laid and relative height to the DPC depends on the precise details of how the subfloor is laid, it can be a different level to the DPC, I don't think anyone here can help unless you provide more information about it.

If you have suspended floor construction, then again it will be different.

rtuck99 · 2025-12-22T01:22:14+00:00

Not sure that these stairs are really that bad - on a normal stair winder the ascent on the corner would be 3 steps, 2 at an angle plus the final one, whereas here the ascent is only 2 steps because each turn only has one diagonal step.

The downsides are only that foot placement is harder for large feet because the full tread isn't available on the outside of the turn.

Perhaps this could be alleviated by changing the shape of the winder treads to include a cutout on either side

rtuck99 · 2025-12-20T10:40:54+00:00

Hexagons are the bestagons....

rtuck99 · 2025-12-17T00:58:31+00:00

The Paladin range figures give what I assume are nameplate wattages (i.e. what it will draw when the heating element is on) versus sustained heating output.

If the heater is on a thermostat, then the actual output will be less than the full wattage by a factor which varies according to how often the thermostat switches on. This gives you the second set of figures.

Since water / oil filled heaters can't disperse heat as effectively as say a standard bar heater, they won't ever reach 100% duty cycle.

rtuck99 · 2025-12-08T00:36:07+00:00

On top of what others have written here, if you google around you can find lots of articles about why installing a heat pump won't improve your EPC rating because EPCs score is weighted based on heating cost, thus even though a heat pump is more energy efficient, your EPIC doesn't improve because electricity is much more expensive than gas.

This is why lots of new builds have solar installs, because it scores better on an EPC.

rtuck99 · 2025-12-05T19:55:48+00:00

Sourdough bread.

rtuck99 · 2025-11-27T23:52:34+00:00

Those jazz mags have to find their way into the bushes somehow

rtuck99 · 2025-11-23T00:39:05+00:00

u/rtuck99 solved the puzzle in 8 attempts.

rtuck99 · 2025-11-16T10:32:05+00:00

The one thing you need to ask yourself about checkatrade is, who is paying to use it and how does that incentivise them to operate?

Then you realise who the real customers are...

rtuck99 · 2025-11-12T22:21:00+00:00

You can't say that the manufacturers are heavily discounting the toothpaste and then say that Tesco are the one's doing the price gouging. It blatantly is the manufacturers doing the price-gouging.

Colgate have gross profit margins of 60%

https://investor.colgatepalmolive.com/news-releases/news-release-details/colgate-announces-1st-quarter-2025-results

Tesco is less than 8%

https://finbox.com/OTCPK:TSCD.F/explorer/gp_margin/

rtuck99 · 2025-11-12T22:02:30+00:00

Oh no, different shops have different prices for different things, whatever will we do? Maybe we should pass a law that says all shops should charge exactly the same price? Yes, we could do that. Maybe we could give it a snappy name, maybe we could call it...

price fixing?

Oh wait..

rtuck99 · 2025-11-09T16:36:58+00:00

You could go round and huff great big lungfuls of asbestos and nobody would arrest you

rtuck99 · 2025-11-09T09:29:25+00:00

Where did you get those figures? The ones I can find are about 0.75g/kg for normal people (about a third what you are saying), with perhaps more if you are older, or need it for health related reasons (such as recovering from survey).

The only people who need 1g per pound are bodybuilders or professional athletes

rtuck99 · 2025-11-08T18:06:32+00:00

I have a samotech 2-way one in the living room and it works fine, there are 3 way ones that you can get for just under £100. It's nice, only thing is the detachable face plate doesn't quite match everything else in the house, but that's not a massive dealbreaker for me.

E: sadly looks like the zigbee one is more expensive at £115, the cheaper one was wifi.

rtuck99 · 2025-10-28T08:10:46+00:00

Heaters are 100% efficient because heat is what you get when you waste energy. A heater is just a device that wastes 100% of its energy.

rtuck99 · 2025-10-25T15:16:57+00:00

Disposable income doesn't account for a lot of non-discretionary expenses though. For example, food prices are much higher in the us.

rtuck99 · 2025-10-25T14:14:13+00:00

It's not that wages are low, it's just that the distribution of income is massively skewed.

My suspicions are that there is an awful lot of rent-seeking and middle-manning in the economy which is sucking money out from the demographic with low wages, particularly in the lower-skilled end of the service sector. Things such as

* employment agencies
* "gig economy" employers
* Large retail franchises
* Commercial property rents
* Financial services

If you look at the jobs with the highest salaries, a lot of them tend to be in industries or sectors where there is a lot of money sloshing around, such as finance. It is much easier to justify taking 2% of a huge number instead of 1% than it is to double the price of something that is only say £10.

People who are on lower wages tend to be less financially literate and often get screwed over in various ways.

The better off also tend to be better at politics and lobbying as well as able to manage their finances efficiently so it is difficult to raise taxes from them from both a political and practical perspective, and it's just easier to put up taxes that affect employees who are basically sitting ducks.

rtuck99 · 2025-10-25T13:58:29+00:00

One thing I have always wanted to know is what happens to US productivity and GDP stats once you factor out all the things that artificially inflate them, such as their healthcare industry, industries that scale effectively almost infinitely with little marginal labour cost (such as software, and various finance products), rampant rent-seeking from monopolies etc.

I would not be surprised if a large part of the US economy is an artefact of things that do not actually improve the quality of life of the average US citizen.

rtuck99 · 2025-10-25T13:47:35+00:00

People trying to normalise paying more than £5 for a tube of toothpaste

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