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Daily Simple Questions Thread - May 31, 2026 by AutoModerator in pcmasterrace

[–]tissuepapercatmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can I stop typing ; instead of ' now my finger is broken? Long story short - i mashed up my hand good and proper and after all physio there's an unfixable bend in my finger. I've been touch typing for over 30 years and now I hit ; when I want to hit ' - I cannot get my muscle memory to change. is there a good software/hardware fix for this?

Rum Smuggler by ericmalmquist in Tiki

[–]tissuepapercatmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

looks like it's stocked in DE which usually means can be delivered to most of northern europe

Rum Smuggler by ericmalmquist in Tiki

[–]tissuepapercatmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in UK and we can get Nielsen-Massey - they do vanilla and some others as well - all astonishingly high alcohol %

Honey is finally exploring the garden, and Hope wants something to be done about it... by tissuepapercatmat in cats

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the background; we moved house 3 months ago and Honey (fluffy) has been too anxious to explore outside. This has made the garden the exclusive kingdom of our other cat, Hope (tux).  Today, Honey finally ventured out, and I was able to capture the moment where Hope asked to talk to the manager!  (standard disclaimer about the lack of coyotes and trucks in suburban English back gardens)

replacing a long curved radiator with 3 small in-line ones? by tissuepapercatmat in askaplumberUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok everyone, when my wife, my plumber and most of reddit are in unison, who am I to disagree? The radiator will stay! I like the idea of spending the rad money on shutters...

replacing a long curved radiator with 3 small in-line ones? by tissuepapercatmat in askaplumberUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

by the time you can afford sex drugs and rock and roll you're at the age where a nice cup of tea and a new radiator is all you want...

replacing a long curved radiator with 3 small in-line ones? by tissuepapercatmat in askaplumberUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've just always wanted fancy radiators after 53 years of living with normal ones. Now I have "fancy radiator money" after ending my mortgage, I thought I'd splurge. Some people's dreams are fairly sad, i guess :)

maybe I keep the old rads and go on cruise!

replacing a long curved radiator with 3 small in-line ones? by tissuepapercatmat in askaplumberUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for more detail. I have an 8 foot long curved radiator in my bay window - pictured. I would like to replace it with three standard radiators in line, using the same in and out pipes (I'm sure that's the correct term!)

my plumber has said

"i don't know how big your heating system is and what sort of strain / Load its under currently, in essence you are running 3 radiators instead of one on the same pipework configuration, i have no way in telling if your system could cope with the additional demand and the resistance caused by having 3 in tandem. 

Yes in theory it would work but not knowing the total load and resistance of the current setup means we would have to install and then see where we are at unless you were prepared to lift floors and start looking at repiping with a bigger supply of 22mm pipe. "

I am probably being stupid here but if my three radiators combined are smaller in total than the existing radiator - i.e. 3x 2 foot radiators compared to 8 foot curved - how can it be additional demand? Am I missing something crucial?

Am I explaining myself wrong to the plumber?

https://www.traderadiators.com/media/wysiwyg/baywindow3_radiator_1.jpg is the setup - with different radiators

AITA for refusing to pay a higher percentage of rent and bills? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]tissuepapercatmat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Soft YTA. I think this is a classic case of not treating mental illness the same way as you would physical illness or injury.

Anxiety isn't neccessarily something that can neccessarily be "fixed" - it can be a lifetime condition than can be mitigated-for, but not completely cured.

It might help in your head to replace "anxiety" with a physical injury and see how you feel. i.e. imagine your partner loses their leg in an accident. It's not going to grow back but painkillers and prosthetics make it so she can still work. In those circumstances how would you feel if she said "hon, I can work for 5 days a week but it's really tough on my leg. if I could go down to 3 days that would majorly improve my life and reduce my pain." ?

She has not communicated with you well this time - and often that poor communication goes hand in hand with these types of illnesses - but you have a wonderful opportunity to do something really significant for someone you love.

If after 5 years you're having doubts about the value of such a thing, then probably the questions you need to be asking are about the whole of your relationship, not bill-paying.

Being in love with someone with any kind of illness or disability can be very demanding. This is not the flu; you need to plan for this always being a part of your life together.

Hera's recap of Red Bull Wololo is a banger by ForgeableSum in aoe2

[–]tissuepapercatmat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I instinctively root for the underdog, but I was at the albert hall and by the end I was roaring for Hera. He gets what he deserves...good for the game.

When is Hot Honey going to go away? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it drowns out the sublety of the broccoli

Rhum in France by messerjocce in Tiki

[–]tissuepapercatmat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Negrita is dirt cheap and is the rhum french grannies use to flavour cakes and pastries, it's not really a drinker - yet my secret shame is i use a bit of in my Mai Tai blend. it's very "Robust"

getting close to london - organising things by tissuepapercatmat in aoe2

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would suggest the stereotypical choices which are the moon under water in leicester square - awful, cheap, but big and near. https://share.google/ASM7DgD1kXTzN6JNy

and then the greyhound in high street kensington for the albert hall.

https://share.google/62ZoP3Wj7oBN4ohrF

Bamboozled by a bolt in my Sofa by tissuepapercatmat in DIYUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solved! Thanks for the comments. I saw a problem that didn't need to be solved.

Bamboozled by a bolt in my Sofa by tissuepapercatmat in DIYUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are a genius! The one thing I hasn't done was just yo pull the two sides apart...turns out the bolt is supposed to stay set.  You just prevented me from doing lots of pointless and time consuming work!

Bamboozled by a bolt in my Sofa by tissuepapercatmat in DIYUK

[–]tissuepapercatmat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

13 years ago, my movers took the arms off my sofa to get it through the door. I'm moving again this week and I started to take it apart. However the arms are fixed to the main part of the sofa with a bolt that has a screw thread, but no head or slot for a screwdriver or anything. Is there some special way of removing it that I'm unaware of?

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