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OT Are these people mental or what?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6241229/Public-bodies-BANNED-showing-Shetland-Isles-box-maps-complaints-locals....
21 comments posted 8yrs
posted by harry130747
21 comments posted 8yrs posted by harry130747

smart meter portability

SMETS1 meters must either be upgraded to enable portability, or replaced with SMETS2 meters by the end of 2020, about 1/...
10 comments posted 8yrs
posted by usenet
10 comments posted 8yrs posted by usenet

Holding spectacle frame screws

Metal spectacle frame screws, the ones that clamp the lens in the frame by closing the frame at the hinge end of the fr...
25 comments posted 8yrs
posted by samchunk3
25 comments posted 8yrs posted by samchunk3

OT: Alexa getting really annoying

For some reason recently every time I stream any video on my iPad the Amazon Echo insists on playing the soundtrack ove...
13 comments posted 8yrs
posted by tricky.dicky
13 comments posted 8yrs posted by tricky.dicky

New toy^Hol

Spent a few days recently installing a new kitchen for parents, quite knackering and they insisted on buying me somethi...
1 comments posted 8yrs
posted by usenet
1 comments posted 8yrs posted by usenet

Broken screw in arm knukle of specs

Not wishing to appear too frugal but I want to repair my wife's specs. Mainly because the old specs are better than the...
13 comments posted 8yrs
posted by mikehalmarack
13 comments posted 8yrs posted by mikehalmarack

Stopping at a bus stop.

Are you breaking the law, stopping at a bus stop to allow a passenger to alight? (No buses around, so not hindering the...
140 comments posted 8yrs
posted by dave
140 comments posted 8yrs posted by dave

Woodworm treatment

Sadly I've discovered signs of woodworm in some of the workshop timbers. I'm told the main roof timbers were treated a...
13 comments posted 8yrs
posted by news
13 comments posted 8yrs posted by news

Immersion Heater in Bathroom advice please?

I'm halfway through expanding the bathroom by demolishing the wall between it and the immersion heater cupboard, but ha...
11 comments posted 8yrs
posted by dicegeorge
11 comments posted 8yrs posted by dicegeorge

Wet carpet

If a carpet of the normal house kind ie not one meant for a bathroom, which are designed to get wet, gets wet, how is t...
19 comments posted 8yrs
posted by briang1
19 comments posted 8yrs posted by briang1

Firefox oddity..

I usually have a number of tabs open for different sites in Firefox. The left most one is usually the one for a certain...
8 comments posted 8yrs
posted by harry.m1byt
8 comments posted 8yrs posted by harry.m1byt

"SPAX" decking screws - headsup

Fitted a load of decking July 2015. I used the cleverly designed SPAX screws which are threaded, blank and threaded, wi...
0 comments posted 8yrs
posted by jethro_uk
0 comments posted 8yrs posted by jethro_uk

OT: Westminster bridge pictures

The coroner has criticised people who took photographs of the carnage and posted them on the internet. Why? Surely we a...
38 comments posted 8yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
38 comments posted 8yrs posted by wrightsaerials

OT: May's rotten speech

Had to turn off after about 2 minutes. Thought I was going to puke. Can't they find a *proper* leader FFS? This bitch i...
20 comments posted 8yrs
posted by cbx
20 comments posted 8yrs posted by cbx