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Not going to happen on that estate, some of those houses are 300K, especially the ones at the front with exquisite view of the massive culvert they had to build because the houses are built on a flood plain that even the local farmers said was shit land The culvert is so big they've had to position lifebuoys along the road Planning permission was refused three times because of the flood plain issue

What's not to like? An entire summer of the Tories tearing themselves apart. Always remember, this is how they want it, none of this is anyone's fault but theirs.

1985 would like the rock you've been hiding under back

Ah yes, I agree but I guarantee you'd see the lady next door's nipples at that distance

So in a moment of madnees last month I joined the Castles In Space label's subscription service for £15 a month A Label of electronic artists producing library music, modern kosmiche, imaginary film music etc And the first package they've sent me I finally got hold of today, including the introductory bonuses there's 4 albums (one a double) and a 7" single. I've only paid them two months so far, not bad for £30 Everything is superbly packaged, coloured vinyl and comes in protective sleeves of one description or other. Usually they also contain a booklet with pictures to give you a greater sense of the concept. I'm really quite impressed by the whole concept First one I'm listening to is by Everyday Dust - Deadham Ridge (Original Soundtrack) "A scientific team is exploring the vast network of tunnels in the ice caves of Deadham Ridge, British Columbia, but their survey takes an unexpected turn with the discovery of strange and eerily large insect eggs in the icy chambers. A laboratory is set up but the examination is soon cut short. A colossal landslide has trapped the expedition deep in the labyrinth of caves. It's bad timing - the inhabitants of the eggs are beginning to wake from their icy slumber..."

Have a look at that photo again and notice how close the corner house is to the one in the next street. 2 meters tops or is this silly regulation only meant for houses whose rears are exactly parallel to each other. It clearly has no rear windows but the pedant in me says that isn't what the tweet is claiming Pedantic as ever

Hilariously it would put Sunak in a better position if he actually campaigned to have Johnson on the ballot

160,000 How many of those are actually dead is a completely different question

Apparently 6000 Tory members have now signed the petition for Johnson to be on the ballot paper as a third candidate.

Spotify's Algo is shit. For example: Talk Talk. There are two periods to Talk Talk, the early "pop" period and the later "experimental" period with one album sandwiched in the middle which sort of crosses over. I listen to the last two albums quite a bit or have done. Spotify will base playlists on this, so maybe it'll be a playlist based on Talk Talk, Slint, Godspeed You Black Emperor, you get the idea, fairly post Rock all of a sudden..."Talk Talk" (the song and early pop hit comes on), I don't even dislike it but just NOOOO! It bases song recommendations on artists and genres but isn't able to distinguish between periods of that artist Also Spotify's shuffling within a playlist is abysmal. I've got this massive playlist I created (well over 11 hours), press shuffle and it still seems to pick tracks from around the same 50 songs, shuffle again, its the same 50 in a different order, and repeat Spotify also thinks because you listened to a whole song that it recommended toyou and you didn't stop playing it in under 30 seconds, that you liked it so it chucks it back at you at somepoint and then bases further tracks on that - its bollocks

They are Representatives for Wellingborough though

Sorry but I'm calling that out as bollocks Just a Google maps screeny of a new development by where I live on what I would describe as a typical new housing estate If those houses are 21 meters apart I'll eat something I don't like Hell they have even started building terraced houses again

Panda Markets are a disgrace!

Rule Number 1 - kids and animals It really is basic stuff

It really isn't because it actually doesn't exist yet. The first system to even try it is being trialed on a short section of a german network, that only started last year. Just like driverless cars, we're decades away from open network driverless trains

Mainline passenger service lines on complex networks that still involve victorian signals in places and tokens on single track lines? The absolute vast majority are closed network Metro systems The longest driverless network in either North or South America is in Canada and is a whole 79km in length

Yes it was, my bad Doesn't seem to be an option for that Looks like I'll have to either "WFH" for an hour or get it Saturday. (between 10 an 1)

They need drivers.

I love the smell of Euston, the aroma of all the streets paved with gold liquid

What a load of grandstanding nonsense in the current climate Where do you hire all these spare skilled staff from? For a day (or two)? They came up with this wheeze because of the rail strikes Where's this surplus of trained guards (sorry train Managers) and drivers coming from. The Industry already needs more of them there aren't spares just waiting around for a strike. It's pretty much the same in any skilled industry

On someones desk obviously

Because the radio station I listen to 6Music is my tool for both discovery of new music and a reminder of music I've forgotten If you constantly listen to your own tunes, you never discover new ones There are certain shows on 6 (Lamaq, Riley, Gid Coe, Cerys, Iggy and The Freak Zone) that I listen to all the time for this purpose when I'm in the car, in the bath or the kitchen. Friday and Saturday nights I listen to my own music because I don't really like those even shows but untimately I listen to 6 a lot

Royal Mail A parcel arrived for me today except I was in work. My neighbours are in both sides and always take stuff in for us and we do the same for them. So what does the lazy arsed postie do? Takes it to a post office. The local post office in our village has closed (bloke retired) so the nearest one is in Formby, no big deal except the one they took it to is only open from 10am to half 5. How is anyone working meant to pick that up? Grrrrrr!

Where is the safety issue? This is baggage handlers and the like not air traffic control issues This is LHR not having enough staff. A problem an awful lot of airports in the UK seem to be suffering from because they lost them during the pandemic. Staff went off to work for Amazon etc and didn't return (its absolutely the same in the Taxi industry) but the airports budgets don't allow them the scope to increase the wages to the levels required to recruit more staff on minimum wage and the time to train them and then there's the DBS backlog because anyone airside needs an advanced DBS and serious references. LHR probably haven't even got the staff levels right to cope with the Admin required for the vetting process. Shit like this happens when there is virtually full employment and immigration policies such as we now have

I can’t see the problem with that email. I’ve sent much worse. Im a big fan of tell it like it is in response to the utter bollocks I sometimes receive In fact there’s one police officer who has been sent at least 4 this week.