chrisp65

We’ve evolved. The brain is now capable of saying “the stitching on that costume must have taken hours”, whilst thinking ‘look at the tits on that’.

It’ll be a long time before there’s a better car name than the Mazda Friendee Bongo

If these aircraft loss numbers are anywhere near accurate, I’m loving it.

The owners might yet end up in court, and the company ownership has already changed hands between a couple of family members attempting to complicate the paper chase. Having an order that they need to rebuild prevents the easy development or the easy sale of the land. It means any profit in that site is now years away, sending a message to all manner of other developers with nuisance buildings on their land. We deal with developers that want, in an ideal world, a nice empty site with planning permission for flats. That’s the quick money, selling empty land with planning. This land is now useless to the quick profit brigade.

Ah that’s simple to answer, just look at Starmer’s pledges website. Actually, no, no that wouldn’t help would it.

I’ve not seen many people saying Labour aren’t offering anything. Seen plenty suggesting what they are offering is torylite.

So you have proof the arsonist was the owner? I thought the police were still investigating having let people out on bail? If the arsonist was the owner, they might well end up in prison, in the meantime they can spend their money rebuilding as a punishment to them and a warning to others. Again, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with whether it was a pub, or whether the pub was shite, or won prizes, that’s irrelevant.

It’s not sentimentally for a pub’s food offering that is being played out here. It’s punishment for taking the piss out of planning laws.

We don’t talk about them, we all saw what they did to poor Liz Truss when she tried to free us.

It’s all very clever you standing on the sidelines and heckling them. But they’d have solved the housing problem and the NHS problem and the cost of living crisis over the last 14 years if they hadn’t been ambushed by MOB RULE and unisex toilets.

Yep. Scooping out all the white stuff from the boilers by hand in the wet weather, so when it dried out we’d formed it into bike ramps. Turned out years later it was asbestos lagging, and now none of the Island kids can be cremated because it would take too long.

The train from Barry Island to Barry was 5p. But with the old slam doors and a grass verge, you could ride 90% of the way and then jump out as the train was slowing around the bend just before the station. That gave you 5p for a bag of crisps in school. Crisps every day, thank you.

Scumbags with fireworks on 5th November can’t be exclusive to Liverpool though. So, I’d have to say, I’ve also been there on business, a group of us stayed in a hotel for a couple of days and by the end of the stay between us we’d had three things go missing, a coat, a folder of work, and a camera. But again, I’ve had worse in other cities. On the plus side for Liverpool, it does have a half decent bit of shopping, interesting buildings, a waterfront, and a bit of a buzz about the place. I’ve been there a couple of times recently and if you’ve got a bit of spending cash and you land a good hotel and the weather is good, it’s a decent place for a visit. Personally, I’d do a weekend in Liverpool before I’d do Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Blackpool etc..

I’ve had the good fortune to have visited most towns around the country. Middlesborough: strong agree, been there 3 times and yet to find the good bit. Liverpool: strong disagree, it’s fine, it has the grit and the smooth and can be considered a decent weekend break

My new car is 3 weeks in, and so far not to tempt fate but so far it’s been exactly fine and any difference from the previous one (same spec, change of colour) has been a tweek of improvement. It’s still got all those little tiny touches that for some reason I’ve really found useful. An umbrella hidden in the door, a ticket holder on the windscreen, a pull handle on the inside of the boot, space dividers in the boot, an ice scraper, road sign recognition. Those sorts of things that have probably cost about £20 in total but just make life so much easier. Except one thing. They’ve saved 25p on not lining the glove box, so now anything in there like a rogue imperial mint or a phone cable, can have a little rattle around. But the mahoosive leap forward they’ve made is that the car software can update itself. The last model, to get updates required a dealer visit, and the dealer wanted £40 to basically plug it in to a laptop. So I would just decline to bother. This one just updates itself overnight. What exactly it updates, is anybody’s guess, sat nav maybe. Although I did notice the logo for radio 4 was different this morning.

Two rules: Take your own e’s and wizz. Buy some there and it’ll just be crushed up polos and paracetamol. Insist on bareback too, then they’ll know you’re a playa and psychologically you’re already half way there.

Defo a thing from around here. If you went home without crabs after a night down the Fanny it was a poor show.

Perfectly possible to do it, both practically, and within the regs (that big folder of green diagrams and illustrations, tables, and compliance stuff is all just suggestions). Rebuilding it to be similar to the original is sending a message, it’s expensive, its inconvenient, its less suitable for future conversion to multiple residential occupancy without more financial outlay.

Somebody complained (possibly in this thread) about use of the Oxford comma the other day.

I’d have to confess, I’ve got fairly limited interest. The current Mrs chrisp however, very different story, loves all that kings and queens stuff and Tower of London and castles and the like. Although also an ardent republican. One of those things where you don’t have to like it to love it. We had someone around the house last week that declared they loved the holocaust. After a bit of an awkward silence around the table, they explained what they meant and that fascinated and horrified and some more fascinated might have been better words.

Very much so. Found two copies of an extended album track released as a single that they didn’t know about. Sent one across but it’s gone awol. So they’ve decided its too risky to send the other one. So the old ion digital turntable has been dusted down! I think @Xann would be very impressed with the quality recording you can achieve with a 45 year old vinyl single, a shitty bottom of the range stylus, and software that converts to .wav

I love finding little social media rabbit holes like that. It’s twitter for me, used sensibly it’s just a goldmine of other people’s research on their fave topics. I’m currently doing some very crude digitisation of some records for a band in the U.S. that have no physical copies of some stuff they put out in the 70’s so my brother is becoming their sort of amateur archivist and has unearthed vinyl they didn’t even know had been released!

We could have had Chester Zoo and The Beatles.

A proposal from 1405 Wales, Northumberland, Mortimer. spoilers:

Well I wasn’t attempting to classify all Muslims I was attempting to suggest they are much like anyone else. But if you want me to extend my guess, then I’d guess some consultants that can earn far more working for Spire than the NHS are quite tory, some nurses on the edge of needing foodbanks would tend towards labour.