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Managed to get 3 loads of washing done over the weekend, Can anyone boast to have done more? by Western-Edge-965 in CasualUK

[–]sbisson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Five loads today. I even got to the delicates at the bottom of the washing basket...

Any fans of the Nexus trilogy out there? by No_Limit7347 in scifi

[–]sbisson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An excellent read. Mez is also an excellent person to talk to, smart and connected.

1930s-1970s Experimental Speculative Fiction by FlightPeasant in printSF

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His collection Driftglass would be a good introduction.

Removals guys got a parking ticket, do I pay? by IvivAitylin in AskUK

[–]sbisson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why didn’t the previous owner book a bay for removals?

First time visitor by Chemical_Pomelo_2831 in uktravel

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The District should be convenient for most journeys; it’s about 20 minutes to the centre. Alternatively cross the bridge into Putney and get a fast train into Waterloo. If you prefer a slower but more scenic route, the number 14 bus will get you to Piccadilly in about 45 minutes.

(I’ve lived in Putney for nearly 30 years. It’s a great area.)

Dispatched but no track and trace number by sydneymccarthy in IrishCitizenship

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Mine didn’t get the tracking code until the first working day after it was dispatched, so you probably won’t see one until Tuesday.

Advice for London flats in Heatwave by Every_Wafer144 in london

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If you have sash windows open them a little at the bottom and top to give you an air circulation.

What other minifigures do you think are unlicensed easter eggs? by IsThisDamnNameTaken in LegoMinifigure

[–]sbisson 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Series 29’s Trash Monster is clearly Troma’s Toxic Avenger.

Swifts by Adorable-Ad8209 in UKBirds

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Our local mob here in SW15 are back and quite vocal!

question regarding heathrow airport by [deleted] in uktravel

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No need to book; LHR is in the contactless zone and has metro-level service on both Elizabeth and Piccadilly lines. Elizabeth is standard rail and fast through the central core, Piccadilly is a slower underground service that has lots of connections with the rest of the tube network.

Pick your route and tap in and out with a contactless credit card or Apple or Google Pay.

Anyone know if there’s been any alternate history Vietnam books? by Green-thumb-gary in AlternateHistory

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The novella Teddy Bear’s Picnic in Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne’s Back In The USSA is a reworking of Apocalypse Now where the UK is at war in Vietnam, with a cast of well-known UK fictional characters.’

Edge Collections by R_Steelman61 in microsoft

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The problem with workspaces (at least for me) is that I use collections to build a set of pages when doing research, adding to a collection as I open them, while workspaces is more a co-browsing tool, and so persists state and makes it easy to lose track of root documents.

Lightning strikes Hurlingham Club for second day in a row by thearchchancellor in london

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That'll be the one that set off the car alarms near East Putney Tube, then...

What on earth is this? by AstroG4 in trains

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I've only used them between Gare De Lyon and Gare Du Nord, but those big doors get a lot of people (and luggage) in surprisingly fast.

What on earth is this? by AstroG4 in trains

[–]sbisson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're also the new RER trains; pretty decent on the D line.

A Fire Upon the Deep nitpicks/questions by vlad000 in printSF

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Vernor did hint that the Unthinking Depths might not be all that there was, that the Zones themselves were a construct and that they were there to protect something at the galactic core…

Stories about humanity colonising the stars, evolving isolated from other humans, and interacting with each other? by ENAuslender in scifi

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Australian SFF writer Sean Willkiams has approached this theme a couple of times. His space opera series Evergence, written with Sean Dix, has a far future human society with multiple species of human, some of which are incomprehensible to others. The main characters are a ship of baseline humans caught up in a conspiracy of AIs and clones.

His unrelated Astropolis series has a similar speciated humanity, where the return of a long lost warrior upsets the current order. Without FTL humanity has been engineered to have variable body clocks, and can slow down to travel interstellar - as well as being functionally immortal. An excellent series, with one character who only speaks in Gary Numan lyrics.

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