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OT: Am I a nerd

I'm sitting in my study at the moment and: To my left is a PC moving Linux partitions around prior to having yet anothe...
33 comments posted 6yrs
posted by nospam
33 comments posted 6yrs posted by nospam

White Knight dryers no more?

Thought I?d remind myself how much a heat pump based dryer cost from White Knight (given the sterling service given by...
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tim.downie
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by tim.downie

Can you get...

The fuse and screw part of old MK spurs? Story so far. When men came to dismantle asbestos garage a couple of years ago...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by briang1
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by briang1

OT Panic buyers

Panic buyers have cleared out our local village shop. Not local people but ones from miles away who don't want to go in...
56 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
56 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747

What drives them?

These 16W D-shaped tubes like this: We have an older Astro Osaka Ceiling light that uses one of these, and the other da...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by timstreater
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by timstreater

That's nice - C Virus

A neighbour has just been to several houses in the street, popping printed notes through letter boxes. Hi I'm ?????, I...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry.m1byt

Re: Some advice is wrong.

Anyone remember the 1975 TV series Survivors when an influenza epidemic wiped out almost all the worlds population. I t...
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by tricky.dicky

mothers should look after their kids

when my parents married in the late 40's my father said if my mother went out to work he was coming in....what happened?...
24 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
24 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

OT House Prices

I wonder if house prices are going to crash? Seems a bit likely.
1 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
1 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747

A corona factoid.

"In the last week active cases in Italy have risen by 171 per cent. That compares to almost 300 per cent in France, 500...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by tnp
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by tnp

OT Savings

Rumours on the internet that both EU and UK governments considering raids on personal bank accounts (haircut). As per Cy...
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747

Agoraphobia an advantage these days ?

My friend has agoraphobia and I think it is a bit unkind of him to send me this email ... "......the country is 90% plu...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

Berry picking

Must be plenty off berry picking jobs coming up for those who had useless parasitic service industry and gig economy jo...
7 comments posted 6yrs
posted by jim.gm4dhj
7 comments posted 6yrs posted by jim.gm4dhj

OT Find out how many virus cases near you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274?xtor=ES-211-[30697_PANUK_SOT_11_CNV_CoronavirusE10-3_RET]-20200320-[bbcnews_coron...
9 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
9 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747