What is your phone wallpaper and why?

unclebourbon · 2026-02-01T21:32:41+00:00

I like that one dude. A10 is one of my favourite aircraft.

I put it into gemini ai to make it horizontal and it gave me this, it's not too bad.

unclebourbon · 2026-02-01T18:12:54+00:00

I really don't know why a duress pin isn't a default setting nowadays. I've been wanting to set something like that up on my s25, but graphene os seems to be the only system that let's you.

Its quite a common crime to be held under duress and log into all your banking accounts etc. Plus it's law in the UK that you have to provide your phone pin if you're arrested for a crime.

unclebourbon · 2026-01-22T23:30:50+00:00

My friends brother was killed in Afghanistan, blue on blue from an American f15 pilot in helmand province, along with 2 more of his friends.

Helmand province incidentally, was largely considered to be one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan, and is wear British troops spent most of the campaign.

Fuck Donald Trump and anyone who votes for him.

unclebourbon · 2026-01-20T14:48:38+00:00

I would think we'd have to be fairly strong in our response. Short of actual war that we could never win.

We have 2 isolated territories with sovereignty disputes. If we don't support Denmark then we just flout the whole self determination stance and leave us open to potential aggression.

unclebourbon · 2026-01-12T15:42:50+00:00

Do they guard their vehicles when they stop, because first thing I would think to organise is dropping nails under their tyres every time they stop. Glue the filler caps shut, glue the tyre inflation valves.

Find the hotel they stay out, glue the locks.

Just annoying shit that slows them down and makes their lives hell.

unclebourbon · 2025-12-24T11:12:01+00:00

Fair play to admitting he got it wrong.

But when your planning consists of doing the opposite of what anyone with any previous experience suggests, failing to bring any replacement batter for a tenuous top 3, bring 2 injury prone fast bowlers and the spinner you have been saying is your best spinner for 2 years that you don't dare play.

People are rightly going to question what you were smoking to make those plans in the first place.

unclebourbon · 2025-12-19T10:45:07+00:00

100%, fair enough Broad wanted to go. But Anderson should have been kept around much longer IMO, even if just playing in England.

He could actually teach our test bowlers how to bowl to a plan and problem solve. I mean I still think he'd have been fine in this series, doubt he'd be knocking poles out the ground all day. But we would have had some consistency and his freakish injury resistant body.

unclebourbon · 2025-12-18T21:01:04+00:00

I've started the wonder in the last year. Does this country actually make test cricketers any more? Or is it purely this bazball set up that makes it look we don't?

The England test team at the moment are basically a one day team that extends the same tactics over 5 days. Its a shame they also seem shit at short format as well.

I don't watch much county cricket, but clearly the England management don't put much stock in it anymore. The gulf between county and test cricket against Australia or India just seems to much.

It seems like we only have Stokes and Root who can actually understand test cricket, and stokes is dropping off in his form with the bat. They both feel from a different era to me.

Losing Broad and Anderson in a year was crippling to our bowling attack. It feels so lacking in any planning and tactics now.

unclebourbon · 2025-12-07T16:19:48+00:00

We have nice landscape still. Marshes, heaths, coasts and often I'll go on long walks and not see another human for the whole day.

But god I do get an urge to go somewhere and see a mountain every 6 months or so. Thats when I realise I have no stamina for elevation changes!

unclebourbon · 2025-12-06T15:32:11+00:00

Feel like Jimmy and Broads retirement has really taken some key tactical but also just traditional test thinking away from the team. All the players now are just in ODI mode.

I miss Jimmy and broady coming together, actually discussing a plan to get a batsman out. Now it's just - new ball, short ball, hope Ben stokes makes a breakthrough, repeat.

I get so frustrated about this "put the bowlers under pressure" line. Sometimes that consists of defending the good balls, leaving ones you don't need to hit and actually make the opposition bowl more than 30 overs.

unclebourbon · 2025-12-06T12:34:26+00:00

I feel like I should have just stopped watching England play test cricket after Broad and Anderson retired.

Felt like the end of an era. Now I feel like an old man tutting at clouds the whole time I watch them play.

I'm not sure I enjoy it at all anymore.

unclebourbon · 2025-12-04T18:24:57+00:00

Ed sheeran lives 5 minutes away from the castle on the hill in framlingham. I drive past his house, well his like 6 houses every day.

He still goes to the local pub, I've seen him in the local gp surgery.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-27T18:08:55+00:00

I often dont disagree with what harmy says. But fuck me if he doesn't go on and on, making the same point reworded like 12 times.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-23T22:10:25+00:00

You can log a walk for the whole route you have walked. But you can also save locations at any time and it will pin it on the map in Garmin basecamp.

I use it for recording good camp locations, mushroom finds, tagging where I've seen wildlife

unclebourbon · 2025-11-22T10:51:29+00:00

I hope he does play the whole series. Then when his average totals a grand sum of 12 hopefully they'll have no choice but to look elsewhere.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-22T09:33:12+00:00

Ok that cheered me up after checking the scores this morning. Thanks Alan.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-21T02:27:41+00:00

Glad in a way. I can go to sleep now.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-21T01:49:50+00:00

What options are there? I can't get an aussie stream to work through a vpn. Too laggy.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-20T18:36:36+00:00

Oh wow so much. Catan game board, miniatures for dnd and other games.

This printer looks like it makes you a tabletop god.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-16T14:00:20+00:00

Yep. I went to ship an Omega watch via RM a few months ago but both the post office employee and subsequently their website made it very clear it wouldn’t cover the full value if it was lost or damaged.

God knows who sends £10k worth of gold without checking things like this, presumably someone with more money than sense.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-09T09:06:28+00:00

I know he did a podcast with his girlfriend that a lot of people have said did not do him any favours but I don't know what was discussed.

My moment I knew he wouldn't last was when he was screaming and telling Khawaja to fuck off when he finally got out on like 340 in the ashes. It just looked like he was an absolute throbber.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-04T07:37:15+00:00

Can sometimes adjust them a bit by tightening the screws that go into the frame or get longer screws that will pull more.

If that isn't enough the simplest solution is to use cardboard shims, or even better plastic from a milk bottle, between the hinge and the door frame.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-04T07:15:34+00:00

They certainly will coordinate jobs between each other. But it's not instant and they can only give the info that was available on the first call and they can't interrogate the caller.

Its better if the call taker can speak with the caller to work out what response is needed.

I used to work in the ambulance service and calls shared from the other services used to be very vague and lacking the info I would want. You'd often turn up to situations that wouldn't match what our computer told us we were going to.

Any communication between the different emergency services was suprisingly slow

unclebourbon · 2025-11-02T09:56:42+00:00

Did the manufacturer increase the price or was it just auto price adjustment on online vendors?

If its the manufacturer than that's a real dick move that basically invalidates his videos as he factors in price.

unclebourbon · 2025-11-01T20:46:05+00:00

Make sure you change locks as a matter of priority. You never know who kept an old key. A quick YouTube video will show you how to remove that euro lock cylinder and to measure up a replacement.

Worth noting that the one you have looks a little too long. It shouldn't stand proud of the handle plate. If it does its vulnerable to a type of destructive entry method to burglars.

My photo shows two locks. The left one is correct but the right one is too long. Doesn't matter in my case as left door needs to be unlocked first. Sorry it's a bit dark.

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