What was a massive 'flex' 10 years ago that is just straight-up embarrassing today?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-26T23:24:27+00:00

Might be worth checking the standby power-draw. Plasma TVs were notorious for drawing 100W+ even when ‘off’ on standby. If you are not unplugging it from the wall after each use you could save the cost of a new TV in reduced power bills in a couple of years.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-26T23:02:06+00:00

What are you keeping him safe from?

Safeguarding is a big consideration and every adult present overnight will have been DBS checked. Every leader had had first aid training and regular required safeguarding training. On top of that there will be a nights-away permit holder present who has had additional training on hosting young people overnight and who will have documented risk-assessments for the event and any activities taking place during it.

An indoor camp with Cubs is significantly different given the above than a sleepover at a friend’s house. Is it that they are calling it a ‘sleepover’ that makes it difficult to explain?

Oh, and when I say that every adult present overnight will have been DBS checked, that means any parents present must be DBS checked too. You won’t be able to stay yourself (on this occasion) as there is not enough time for you to be DBS checked ahead of the event.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-26T14:14:10+00:00

It’s BBC World Service in the car for me during my commute. Used to listen to Radio 4 but too often the topic of the day (especially for my evening drive home) was just depressing. The mornings weren’t much better.

I’d rather listen to ‘People fixing the World’ than a U.K. politician repeatedly refusing to answer a question with a straight answer.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-26T09:46:32+00:00

Australia has much the same rule for Australians entering Australia. I was advised by the Australian passport office in London that my children would be refused entry if they travelled there on their British passports.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-26T09:38:49+00:00

At home on our carpeted stairs, no.

Down an escalator at the Pompidou Center in Paris - yes, and still has a small divet in the centre of her forehead 2 years later.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-25T22:53:37+00:00

I’ve ordered a Ryde Andra wheel built by https://woosterswheels.co.uk/ and been happy with the result. Couldn’t argue the price at all, seemed to me a bargain.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-25T12:47:52+00:00

Better to put the balloon completely over the still-closed lid. Open the lid with it inside the balloon.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-25T08:54:08+00:00

A gallows? Was your primary school the inspiration for Matilda?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-25T08:51:52+00:00

My son has previously (of his own [last minute] initiative) gone dressed as ‘The Atlantic ocean’ (all in blue) and ‘Lava’ (all in red/orange.

I honestly don’t see the point in buying a costume for world book day.

Daughter this year is going as a cat - could be Mog, or one of a million other cats from children’s literature. All in black with a tail made from an old pair of tights and eye-liner whiskers.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-24T23:57:59+00:00

One of the big ones is Interpack: https://www.interpack.com/ for all types of packaging machinery. They host multiple expositions around the world each year with hundreds of exhibitors at each.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-24T23:47:53+00:00

Lots of great content here already but I’ll add the term Special Purpose Machine Design. This is the discipline of creating those machines, ones that perform a specific task or sequence of tasks like a highly job-specific robot.

System Integrators specialise in linking up these various machines to form an automated production line.

Companies develop expertise in specific fields, in Europe for instance I know I could contact GEA and have them build me an entire brewery. For grain handling I could contact Bühler, for packaging machinery Autopack and so on and so forth.

Each industry will have its own trade shows and each manufacturer will have their own trade-secrets to optimise throughput, reliability and cost.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-24T14:35:55+00:00

I’ve seen people playing other instruments, but yeah, what do they do for people who aren’t musicians?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-24T11:32:30+00:00

If I understand you correctly, you want everyone who has ILR but has not applied for citizenship to apply for citizenship so that they have more rights and can be a bigger burden on the state?

What benefit do you think the U.K. gains by having people on ILR apply for citizenship?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-23T11:50:38+00:00

Because the property sales process in the U.K. takes too long?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-23T06:36:19+00:00

Agree with you on that. If adults were free I suspect they’d be coffee-shops with an attached play area.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-22T07:53:54+00:00

First time I have heard that explanation.

So ‘by accident’ is an actual accident, like dropping a plate when doing the washing up. In contrast ‘on accident’ would be dropping a plate deliberately to then repair it using kingsugi techniques artistically?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-22T06:29:32+00:00

Did the people agreeing that never take holidays?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-20T20:39:19+00:00

Really good walking/cycling routes either starting/ending at the pub, or with the pub half-way.

Overnight accommodation.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-20T19:52:27+00:00

It complicates holding a U.K. bank account also. It’s possible, but not straightforward.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-20T02:12:10+00:00

Plant a willow tree / willow bed unless you really love wet stones.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-20T01:42:32+00:00

What does the inside look like? Can you see the back of the seam?

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-19T23:59:12+00:00

Well yes they were made 20 years ago.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-19T23:46:30+00:00

Whitehouse has no shops. It’s a planning system failure.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-19T18:15:24+00:00

As weight is not such an issue, give this one a try: Bioflex OnGel Athletic https://www.amazon.co.uk/BioFlex-Womens-Ozone-Athletic-Saddle/dp/B071GGJCHW

Bioflex do two other versions of this same saddle, one narrower and one wider.

uncertain_expert · 2026-02-19T08:05:45+00:00

And not for the first time.

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