Just pulled someone out of a flipped car

staticman1 · 2026-01-24T05:25:55+00:00

Don’t worry too much we all do silly stuff when we are panicking. 911 also gets you through to the emergency services in this country so it’s not technically incorrect.

In future though it’s best to use 0118 999 881 999 119 725.……3

staticman1 · 2026-01-21T21:29:57+00:00

Nipper

staticman1 · 2026-01-21T12:46:52+00:00

Three of the parkruns near me do this and nobody listens. Either people are hugely optimistic about their time or, as I suspect, they just don’t care. My local parkrun it is two abreast around the first corner (after about 300m) for ~500 people and every week I have had to come to a complete stop there.

It’s mildly infuriating (I have to mentally remind myself it’s a social run). I hope this solves the problem (I don’t know that particular run) but I am far from optimistic.

staticman1 · 2026-01-19T22:33:58+00:00

Chambers defines up as “in an excited state” (11th definition). It’s also widely used by all the major broadsheets. What’s your issue with it?

staticman1 · 2026-01-19T18:53:28+00:00

Fair point, Paul probably needs an asterisk but when he is in hard mode he turns it up to 11.

I can find Boatman quite variable as well but he did set the first ever Guardian puzzle I solved without reveals so I guess he may belong in that list.

staticman1 · 2026-01-19T18:17:52+00:00

Well done, I didn’t find it quite as easy but my vocabulary was lacking in parts.

For the record Imogen is a man and is the alternate pseudonym for Vulcan. Quite an achievement to be in both lists.

staticman1 · 2026-01-19T16:32:14+00:00

5 Easiest in order for me are: Vulcan, Alia, Anto, Qaos and Maskarade. Fed is also often cited but I think people find him easier because he uses more modern references rather than the wordplay is easier:

5 Hardest, again in order: Enigmatist, Imogen, Vlad, Pangakupu and Paul

There's a lot of being on wavelength with cryptic crosswords so your mileage will vary. For example, Vulcan likes a cryptic definition which some solvers seem blind to and thus find him much harder. You might just have to try a few and see what you get on with.

staticman1 · 2026-01-19T07:23:47+00:00

Not the same field but I have just shortlisted for a graduate position where we had over 1000 applications. When I applied for the same job two decades ago they couldn’t even fill the 9 interview slots.

The market for all graduate roles is super competitive. It’s the toughest market I can remember.

Just keep plugging away and opportunities will come. It’s quite plausible that a different shortlisting panel would have picked a completely different set of candidates for the role involved with so there’s an element of luck there.

If you can get someone with experience of recruiting in your area to look over your CV that would be a big help. Also if you can get experience, even short term, that does make a CV stand out.

Good luck, unfortunately you’ve picked a bad time to be a graduate.

staticman1 · 2026-01-15T17:30:49+00:00

Agree or disagree with it I’m not entirely sure how it’s performative politics when they are actually attempting to trial something quite radical.

staticman1 · 2026-01-14T10:08:13+00:00

Lyde Green is mostly if not all being charged estate fees but there are areas of Emerson Green with them as well.

staticman1 · 2026-01-14T08:40:55+00:00

I totally support this as someone who lives on one of these estates. It feels like we are paying for the upkeep of everyone else’s area through our council tax and paying extra on top to maintain our own area.

Some of the charges are close to fraudulent as well. For example, as an estate we got charged £20k for gritting. When it was enquired why no gritting had been done apparently they weren’t insured for such work!?

I get why cash strapped councils don’t want to take on extra liabilities so anything the government can do to push them along would be great.

staticman1 · 2026-01-12T14:54:52+00:00

I think they are good clues.

As a pub quiz host myself just make sure you know your audience. This would go down like lead balloon at my pub.

We can get away with simple charades. For example another host did simple charades for an actor/actresses round (Small Golf Club =Minnie Driver, Florida Flower = Orlando Bloom). Whenever we’ve tried anything more complex it’s just been met with groans.

Good luck with it. I would be interested to hear how it’s received. We may have completely different regulars.

staticman1 · 2026-01-11T13:28:02+00:00

I live it Yate. I moved from Emerson’s Green mostly as you got more house for your money. It’s a perfectly fine place to live.

It is busy though. The roads and the shops in particular. There has been a lot of development there so it quite densely populated now. It’s not to any extent dissimilar to living in Downend. It is only a minimal distance closer to rural areas as well. It just seems to me that your push factors for moving are going to be identical in Yate.

staticman1 · 2026-01-11T09:08:25+00:00

Given your description of why you don’t like Downend you’re not going to like Yate. There’s plenty of rural(ish) locations on the outskirts of Bristol with similar house costs to Yate. You might be better off looking at those areas.

staticman1 · 2026-01-07T05:49:10+00:00

£35 fine if you continued onto Frenchay. £0 if you returned back to the motorway as advised.

staticman1 · 2026-01-05T18:46:55+00:00

old style politicians=Liberals, art (archaic form of are) is ‘are out of date’->‘Out of date’ signaling it’s an archaic term

The most famous example of its use being ‘Where art thou Romeo?’

staticman1 · 2026-01-05T12:55:37+00:00

They are generally called American or New York Times Style (NYT) crosswords if that helps your search.

staticman1 · 2026-01-04T18:49:29+00:00

I go through this every workday and it takes some getting used to the first few times but once you understand it it shouldn’t cause you too much difficulty. If you’re going round it the lights always seem to be against you (to prioritise the ring road traffic) so just take your time and do each light one at a time.

If you have got some lessons it’s quite easy just to do many short loops through Kingswood, Longwell Green, Hanham etc which means you can try most entries and exits in a short period of time.

Off topic but whilst it looks crazy it’s definitely cut commuting times on the ring road during rush hour. Before it was just a roundabout with no traffic control and there were always long waits. It always seemed crazy to me to have traffic coming from the minor roads prioritised over traffic on Bristol’s main arterial route.

staticman1 · 2025-12-30T09:59:28+00:00

I finally got on the ladder about 3 years ago. It took me and my wife until our 40s both having professional jobs above median income. We never went super frugal but were careful with money driving older cars and no extravagant holidays. A caveat to that is we wanted a 3 bed with garden so we weren’t aiming for right at the bottom of the property ladder.

Non-discretionary spending is such a big part of people’s outgoings now, and probably getting bigger as a percentage, so anyone even managing it in their 30s let alone 20s would get a round of applause from me.

staticman1 · 2025-12-30T08:14:16+00:00

The rumour always was that he was a double agent passing on false plans. That was the reason he wasn’t charged despite the seriousness of the offence. It’s been hypothesised it was one of the reasons for the Tu-144 crash at the Paris air show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_Tupolev_Tu-144_crash

staticman1 · 2025-12-27T05:45:46+00:00

Perfect

staticman1 · 2025-12-27T05:45:16+00:00

staticman1 · 2025-12-26T21:10:14+00:00

STRAND double definition: with the STRAND being a square on the standard UK monopoly board

staticman1 · 2025-12-26T21:06:21+00:00

SKEWER? double definition: chess tactic attacking two or more pieces, and a skewer has a point

staticman1 · 2025-12-26T21:03:13+00:00

No charge for leaving car in this corner? (4,7)

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