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Radio 4 Thought For The Day (tonight with Reverend Ottavio of Holy Reformed Church of Lasagna)
Italy (EU) strikes agreement with non-EU but soon-to-be-EU Albania to dump their unwanted illegals over to them. Italian Parliament approves. Albanian Parliament approves. Albania's Supreme Court...
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World Population by Year, 2014-2023
World Population by Year Year...World Population...Net Change 2023....8,045,311,447...70,206,291 2022....7,975,105,156...65,810,005 2021....7,909,295,151...68,342,271...
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OT: Garbage Data Used to Support Climate Change Hoax
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:45:35 +0000, Cursitor Doom <> wrote: ITYM "in the open spaces near (FSVO "near") runways". What's preposterous about that? What do you suppose happens to hot exhaust gases from...
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Flexipipe connection to toilet cistern
I need to make a temporary connection from the supply pipe to my old toiler cistern which unfortunately has a bottom feed into the float valve and where the cistern is placed has a considerable offset...
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Energy payments by direct debits
I've said many times there are *no* checks, despite what is supposed to happen. It'll be interesting to see if anything else comes out of the woodwork. <> Energy firms are ordered to act quickly after...
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Roller Blind
My lounge windows is 235 cm wide with a 135 cm drop. I had a fairly cheap roller blind which collapsed round my ears a couple of days ago and is now a bit banana shaped! The roller was made of quite...
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Rigmorole of setting up Smart devices
I spent much of yesterday evening, trying to get a Sonoff inline, USB switch connected to Alexa. I tried a variety of sets of instructions, poor, multi-language ones, included with it, several on...
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small generator
Hi all I got a second hand generator cheap with a view to 'tinkering it up'. I thought it was 3kW but the stator says 1.8kW Now I've pulled it apart it would appear that the stator windings are shot....
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Compact flush unit
Hi, I imported a compact toilet from overseas 20+ years ago. The internal flush valve eventually broke and I had to replace it. The original flush unit was an unusual/proprietary mechanism whereby the...
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Utterly Stupid Idea ?
Or is it just me ? I were an insurance company, I'd invalidate the policy of any customer that declared they have one ! Personalise your unique keyring with numberplate, made especially for you in the...
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OT: Cold Weather Kills Electric Cars
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/business/tesla-charging-chicago-cold-weather.html
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OT: Has your Iphone been Spying on You?
See The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606 podcast at Security Now! Weekly Internet Security Podcast. This week describing the newly revealed SockStress TCP stack vulnerabilities.
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Wanted: Ground penetrating radar for gardeners
SWMBO had bought six new rose plants (bare rooted) and has been trying to plant them near a large silver birch. She decided where she wanted each one, and started to dig a hole. Large tree root. She...
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Workshop heating - success!
I've finally found the tuit to get a cheap Chinese diesel air heater running in the workshop - it's great! They have a reputation for being unreliable but that seems to be down to switching off the...
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"Air Fryers"
Are selling like Dutch tulips did 300 years ago. If the manufacturers were honest, and described them as what they really are - just compact electric ovens that sit on your worktop - I'll wager they...
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