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Stop being a killjoy, Richard. I wanna make fire lol. I’d thought of the melting mess at the end, id have its my own burn tray, i have a few old mess tins that would work fine.
If often thought of making a plastic shredder out of an old electric plane. Quite a few on Instructables, the only thing that stopped me is my 16-year-old lad is in charge of recycling and he would end up cutting his figures off. But we need some type of solution that’s for sure.
Same with giff gaff (on o2) and most of the MVNOs out there. There is only a few providers that run the lot the others just piggyback.
That’s a good deal bob. But being Jan, I’ve just had an influx of tee shirts ? and underwear!
We should go back to the old pop man bottle deposit method.
Talking of plastics, did anyone get a tub of roses this Xmas. 1. They have changed the chocolate, they are not made of dairy milk chocolate anymore, but my biggest gripe was, (and this isn’t just roses) the once tinfoil wrapped sweets are now individually wrapped In plastic.
So we the consumer are told stop using plastic, but producers are using more and more each year.
We are getting that much plastic to recycle now we are having to half fill our black bin with the stuff. So we are thinking of installing a log burner in the kitchen to dispose of it. Hardly a clean solution.
But a good excuse to get one.
I send my kids the shop with my bank card, have done for years, we have a special one just for the local shop that the kids can grab if needed . The older ones have there own cards for pocket money.
If under 16s was allowed tap n pay , my 9yo would have one already, but yes she gets cash, but refuses to spend it. So i have a sealed piggy bank with 4 years of £5 and 10s crammed into it. Were on about our 4th bank, as the mint keeps changing their cash!
She still makes me gives her my card to buy sweets.
Today’s pensioners, the majority, won’t go cashless, but I’d guess once they go, there will be hardly any cash buyers.
The issue I have with this is a year on year the Bank of England will slowly reduce circulation until they get to a point where they can justify withdrawing cash altogether.
There are many reasons why this is terrible. So really i should be so ‘all on om contactless ‘. However its just so convenient. Also i won’t shop in shops that charge for using a card, though that is being banned, and i won’t use an atm with a charge, i never have.
We have a local spar shop that charges for cards, or did, so the only reason i go I’m it is to drop off parcels, as it’s a collect plus point.
It may only be 25p, bit it isnt the point. I know of many that won’t go there because of it. I have no idea if they have changed, but it’s now long tainted. And only still open cos its next to the high school. Though now school is cash free, kids don’t have their dinner money to spend on sweets like they did prior.
School dinners, is just set on a direct debit, that goes into the pupils food/trip/etc account and the kids have a contactless card that registers them in school and classes, and pays for lunch and we pay trips too via the same account.
Ever since I had kids, and a mortgage, ive turned into my dad when it comes to fashion.
I’d once think nothing of spending £75 on a Lacoste tee, and they was terrible quality, now as I said, Fruot of the loom, does me. Though I’m the summer when the fleeces are away, ill get out my more fashionable ones out.
Most of the merchandise tee shirts you see being offered, by minor celebs/youtune peeps, etc.. are usually Fruit of the loom, with whatever logo/design printed on. I’d be surprised if they are not one of the biggest sellers of tee I’m the world. A bit like YKK zips, you never hear of them, but i bet we each own at least 10 YKK zips.
I bet the V2000 set up would have been extremely expensive to produce compared to the VHS we got.
The best rarely wins. all you have to be is ‘good enough’ at a superior price level (value), to win.
Wow, I forgot about the tracking nob. if that fails you could try finding a head cleaning tape. I think all homes had one in the 80s.
£4 on amazon. ‘Vcr head cleaner ‘
Bob regarding your smaller village high street shops. The sales they will miss out not having contactless/chip n pin, will eventually pit them out of business, before the small charge will. Even if it doesn’t look like it today for them, remind them their usual clientele are not going to be around forever, and their next wave of clientele will just walk on by if they know that place only excerpts cash.
I use android pay that much now i rarely take out my wallet. I do have the emergency card in my car, it was the fuel card but became the emergency card. I use it less and less. Especially since Tesco has an app with no purchase limit. Though hoping android pay can bypass the 30£ limit soon. It would be perfect then.
I’m now down to taxis for cash, and that’s super rare. If im away from my village ill grab an uber. They are not in nor probably coming to my area. Back home the uber has pushed the black cabs and minicabs, to pick up their game. Unlike the taxis around my new home.
Funny how you’ll, or at least me, refer to where i grew up as back home, even though I’ve lived here now as long as i did ‘back home’. I wonder if that will ever stop.
I’m sure 3 have a sister, or a piggy back service that launched late last year, that undercut giff gaff, for the life of me i can’t recall its name. Maybe Pure? Maybe worth a look. I’m sure it was some one here brought it to our attention. So they may jump it.
Update Smarty its called, by three.
I’ve never worn or even seen a dickies tee, but if there 100% cotton I’m all in. Day to day I wear the cheap sub-£40 Berghaus fleeces, I must have 10, that I’ve collected over the last 15 years, every year the next is of lesser quality than the year before. I got two this Xmas, the look the same as past, but feel poor. Sidetracked, my point in my favourite tees are good old froot of the loom. Though their fit is small, so go one bigger.
EBay have them in packs of 5 for about £10-15, they are great quality and seem to last forever.
also a nice thin cotton tee, will iron itself under a fleece in about 20 mins. I had my fill of ironing years ago.
I have a dickies coat, love it. It must ne get om to ten years old. It now lives I’m my boot and is used for if I get caught short dog walking/breakdown jacket.
It was £40 from my local builder’s yard, was working on my roof at the time, and needed a cheap coat, and have luck would have it, is actually in the style of what became fashionable about 2 to 3 years after I got it. I have many far more expensive coats but it fits great, is warm and waterproof to this day. Never been treated either.
I also had a pair of dickies jean/trousers in the late 90s early 2000s back then they were quite expensive, and I never liked them but needed a pair of trousers to got out in an emergency. Bought them and a pair timberland just so I could go out for a pint. I think that was before they made a play for the work gear segment in the UK. I could be wrong on that. But them trouser was defo not workmanlike, like the Dickies stuff of a few years later was. Maybe just a different like of stuff they have since stopped selling.
January 22, 2018 at 5:09 pm in reply to: 5~30% CPU speed reduction to your Intel CPU forecast #16025So who is responsible for self-builders rigs. The mobo OEM? Or will MS gist push not out?
We all need to remember that we are all different and have different needs, some of us more niche needs, but just because we don’t see the benefits for us, doesn’t mean there isn’t a need for such things.
Sometimes I’ll see something and scratch my head why it exsists as a product of service. But it wouldn’t be a ‘thing’ if there wasn’t a market for it.
Us as geeks should understand this. We are usually at the front of the bandwagon, while everyone else points fingers, but eventually catch up.
Insurance is one of the biggest cons going. I find changing every year is a must. Cars for instance sell at a loss, or close to, for year one, with the hope your to lazy to switch or notice they pumped you the price by a third for the second year. Only once since I’ve been driving have i not have to change. It went up by about £20, but was still around about the cheapest. I could of save about a tenner, but for the sake of a tenner i cba.
My dog insurance went up by almost 100% this year! I won’t be staying with john lewis next.
I gist remember he spoke of the krays, and the Richardsons, and about a lot of gruesome attacks and the like, also a lot of prison stories. Iirc he spent about 30 odd years inside and had not long got out.
So probably half his life to that point inside. Give the first 20 years was as a kid, he really managed to mess his whole life up in the next, and paid for it the next 40. That’s what i took away from the night.
Each to their own, but it didn’t interest me. My dad was hooked, and he had some adventures, including the Falklands with the paras, (yuk). But i think his age group was brought up on these tales.my dad would have been born around the time he went inside. So that whole scene 10 years after the fact (the mid-70s when he was a teen), was probably seen through rose tinted glasses and with excitement. I don’t know, i just thought it a stage gig.
I’m sure he had half his hand cut off too, but i could be imagining that he may have said he cut someone’s hand off.
I like the idea of 3rd parties having access to my bank and being able to recommend some of the lesser know business, banks, insurers, etc id of never known about.
At this point, i just don’t care. Having had a few fraud run-ins, im more than happy and confident that the banks will sort that out in the way they have done over the last decade. Quickly.
Granted the most I’ve had taken was 3 max withdrawals. Can’t remember now if it was 900 or 1500. But i had it back in my account with a single phone call, took about 10mins, and the money was back in account before I’d finished the call. Note this was a cloned card, nothing to do with online, and the money was taken in my area. Halifax just trusted i was telling the truth.
On 4 occasions I’ve had strange going on, one was the clone issue, two was online purchases another a phone purchase. All 3 concert tickets. All a single phone call to fix.
Halifax each time have said they would send me a testimonial to sign and return. I’ve never had one.
So the system is already broken.
On a side not, Halifax are quite good (or bad depends on your outlook) as putting temporary blocks on cards it thinks are being mistreated. I once bought 2 ferry tickets, then tried to order two more within moments, that blocked my card. Also trainers and fuel, I’ve only heard this, bit apparently buying fuel and trainers will block a card. I’m hoping concert tickets is now on that list.
Also if you use contactless, after a certain amount of time, or transactions, your card will get a ‘tap block’, until you put your pin into either a payment console or an atm. This has happened to me a few times to me.
I have faith that open banking will be fine, no doubt there will be teething issues and horror stories, but there always is.
Never lived in london, worked around greater London for 12 months bits that’s it.
About 99/2000/01, i came home on leave, and my old man, said the hatchet man is in the pub tonight. I had no idea what he was on about, this was the time of lock stock, so harry the hatchet always comes to mind first when i think back, but it was actually Frankie frasre, on some UK tour telling tales in shitty pubs. This one was the pub next to the station pub in Ellesmere port.
He has an interesting life, but he came across a dick, but all the men 40+ , mostly alchies, was hanging off his word. Also loads of older guys turned out to see him .
I found it very strange if honest. I was around 18-20 at the time.
financial market have been said to be ready to pop for a couple of years now, Definally in tech business, crypto seems to be the new darling. The market is being kept high partly because of low interests, once we get any type of interest levels back (lol if) it could be the the prick that bursts the way over inflated bubble.
Open banking, as long as regulated, could be a good thing, partly just to break up, or atleast dilute, the boys club.
I think it was about a week ago now they had to remove cc/dc payments and relay on Paypal type pay.
You’ll be fine cos you bought via o2. unless I i used my life savings account instead of my Current id be worried. If your breached and emptied out, the bank will sort out a few hundred withing a 10 call. If i had paid with my life savings account, I think I would transfer it to another anoint fresh account.
That to now takes about 3 mins to sort out. I must have 15 Halifax savings accounts I set up to keep the kids etc money I’m for different savings. They come to me to keep their cash, as they know they will spend it. I only give it them back when they reqxk the goal they started or something changes.
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