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OT: Silly philosophical quiz

Describe mathematically/logically why the following cannot be done: 1 driver and 1 car are in London. 1 car is in Glasg...
41 comments posted 5yrs
posted by CFKinsey
41 comments posted 5yrs posted by CFKinsey

OT - lithium mining

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/08/the-curse-of-white-oil-electric-vehicles-dirty-secret-lithium Lefty Guardia...
14 comments posted 5yrs
posted by wibble
14 comments posted 5yrs posted by wibble

Arecibo has collapsed, RIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55147973 https://youtu.be/b3AASKr_iHc "A review last month found that the te...
22 comments posted 5yrs
posted by CFKinsey
22 comments posted 5yrs posted by CFKinsey

Old Samsung Tablet

A long time ago my daughter gave me a samsung 10.1 GT7510 tablet, which I happily used for a few years, after adding fi...
13 comments posted 5yrs
posted by news
13 comments posted 5yrs posted by news

Trimming Worktops

I am cutting some kitchen worktops and the plan is to saw them roughly to size and then finish them to size using the r...
3 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
3 comments posted 5yrs posted by tricky.dicky

Toilet cistern.

My new Ideal Standard toilet cistern has no provision for an overflow. Although the fitting instructions show two filli...
15 comments posted 5yrs
posted by dave
15 comments posted 5yrs posted by dave

extinction rebellion

One of the founders on Woman's Hour today, demonstrating how "woo-woo" she is
9 comments posted 5yrs
posted by usenet
9 comments posted 5yrs posted by usenet

OT: Amazon

I needed to return a faulty soap dish to Amazon. So, I found an absolutely enormous box, filled it with spare padding,...
16 comments posted 5yrs
posted by NOTsomeone
16 comments posted 5yrs posted by NOTsomeone

Experienced !!!

Why do experienced people give a drill a wiggle when the get to depth and withdraw it? Surely it damages and nice paral...
39 comments posted 5yrs
posted by JohnP
39 comments posted 5yrs posted by JohnP

wifi strangeness

Tested by Tim, wifi signal adequate throughout kitchen/dining area. Internet radio works OK although there have been a...
42 comments posted 5yrs
posted by tim
42 comments posted 5yrs posted by tim

Fixed it

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/images/4/48/Fixedit.jpg Well the ground workers that ran it over did. Straightened it up with...
8 comments posted 5yrs
posted by adamwadsworth
8 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

OT - renewables etc. in a foggy low wind day

I see that around 10% of power is coming from true renewables and not a vast amount from biomass. So we are in the much...
16 comments posted 5yrs
posted by wibble
16 comments posted 5yrs posted by wibble

Estimated dormer cost?

Just wondering what the group would expect to pay for a dormer? Approx 6sqm, standard slate roofed Victorian terraced s...
7 comments posted 5yrs
posted by rsandr
7 comments posted 5yrs posted by rsandr