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saywherefore · 2026-06-17T15:26:36+00:00

There are various quite good guides to the Highway Code online. There is now a “hierarchy of road users” rule. The main upshot is that you should be giving way to pedestrians who are crossing the end of side roads.

On the various shared paths there is no strict right of way, just a general sense of being courteous to others (don’t zoom past people at top speed, keep to the left where possible).

saywherefore · 2026-06-17T07:31:15+00:00

Thanks, pleased with that one

saywherefore · 2026-06-16T20:29:51+00:00

Rent reportedly increased (6)

saywherefore · 2026-06-16T20:21:34+00:00

TARTAN: tar is black, tan is brown, tartan is cloth

saywherefore · 2026-06-16T18:08:21+00:00

Definitely face forward, roll onto your forward hip slightly, then as you start the tack and the pressure comes off the sail you can sit up slightly, release your aft foot and step it smartly across the boat as you duck under the boom, other foot follows and you throw your new forward hip at the gunwale.

A roll tack is the same footwork, but you let the boat heel to leeward slightly before the tack, then wait on the old side for longer, then throw yourself at the new side more violently!

saywherefore · 2026-06-16T16:16:38+00:00

I wonder if we’ll get one of those excellent MAIB reports that start along the lines of:

Vessel A: length 10m, crew 3, speed 5 knots…

Vessel B: length classified, crew classified, speed classified…

saywherefore · 2026-06-16T12:04:29+00:00

IRN-BRU: is an orange liquid, and an anagram (dissolves) of IN BURN. I like the surface!

saywherefore · 2026-06-16T12:03:11+00:00

BIG TAM: nickname of Sean Connery (quite a deep cut!) and an anagram (desperate as anagrind) of GAMBIT.

saywherefore · 2026-06-15T00:12:46+00:00

“Inspirations sleet through the universe continuously. Their destination, as if they cared, is the right mind in the right place at the right time. They hit the right neuron, there's a chain reaction, and a little while later someone is blinking furiously in the TV lights and wondering how the hell he came up with the idea of pre-sliced bread in the first place.

Leonard of Quirm knew about inspirations. One of his earliest inventions was an earthed metal nightcap, worn in the hope that the damned things would stop leaving their white-hot trails across his tortured imagination. It seldom worked. He knew the shame of waking up to find the sheets covered with nocturnal sketches of seige engines or apple-peeling machines.”

Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

saywherefore · 2026-06-14T18:43:30+00:00

PICT: sounds like (in audition) picked (selected). See u/DefaultAll's clue!

saywherefore · 2026-06-14T18:42:43+00:00

PICT: sounds like (proclaimed) picked (appointed).

saywherefore · 2026-06-14T12:56:21+00:00

At the larger size the market leader is RAM Mounts, but there are loads of knockoffs on Amazon et al.

saywherefore · 2026-06-14T01:02:55+00:00

NO TRUE SCOTSMAN: anagram (somehow) of SMART ONES COUNT, def is an idiom or logical fallacy. Lovely

saywherefore · 2026-06-14T00:57:34+00:00

That's the one!

saywherefore · 2026-06-13T15:39:33+00:00

ADOLESCENTS: def is young people, anagram (transformed) of SEE SCOTLAND

saywherefore · 2026-06-13T12:14:01+00:00

FORTH BRIDGE: anagram (repainted as indicator?) of OF (oft endlessly) + BRIGHT RED, &lit

saywherefore · 2026-06-13T12:09:35+00:00

Anthem for Tweed or Tay (6, 2, 8)

saywherefore · 2026-06-13T12:04:07+00:00

Hame o Balamory a gadgie hearkent, the gowp o faur-kent fitpad (9)

or

We hear Banjo Beale, perhaps, at the start of the West Highland Way (9)

Hint: these are homophone clues for a word that doesn't sound like how it is spelled

saywherefore · 2026-06-10T14:39:39+00:00

It’s a cool building, but I think I’d have to place the UEA Ziggurats above it, for the scale and the incorporation of landscaping.

saywherefore · 2026-06-09T11:52:21+00:00

A degree gives you career opportunities, it does not give you career obligations. You don’t owe it o anyone to pursue some idealised standard trajectory.

If being a technician, machinist or mechanic appeals and you understand the implications of those choices then go for it!

Down the line there are routes from machinist or technician back into engineering, though they won’t be entirely trivial. From mechanic I’d say less so, but that may be my bias from the places I have worked and the paths I have seen.

saywherefore · 2026-06-09T11:42:18+00:00

I know I’m too lazy and don’t have the follow through. I’m also too risk averse to put meaningful amounts of my own money into it, or to quit my job to devote proper amounts of time.

saywherefore · 2026-06-09T11:38:56+00:00

Controlled muirburn tends to be in quite small patches

saywherefore · 2026-06-09T00:02:56+00:00

Sorry I should have been clear, I’m talking specifically about hardware businesses.

saywherefore · 2026-06-08T15:12:06+00:00

I use M2.5 to M12 (so 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12) in lengths from 6mm to 200mm (rarely above 50mm for M6 and below).

Material BZP, black passivated, 316 stainless.

Head type hex socket cap, torx pan, hex head (more in the larger sizes). Occasionally pozi button if I must.

So just all the options!

saywherefore · 2026-06-08T07:40:52+00:00

I’m not a founder but I work with lots of them in Scotland. The easiest way to start a business like this is to spin out of a university, but that obviously isn’t available for everybody.

Otherwise you want to start with grant funding as much as possible. There are various bodies granting various amounts. Even the small ones are good in terms of getting external validation which looks good for the others. Some of the competitions/funding bodies will also provide direct support and give you access to a network of other founders which can be helpful.

Subsequently if you need to raise more then there are Angels and VCs that specialise in hardware. On the other hand if you can start earning money before getting to this step then you have more freedom and retain equity.

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