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    ® Did you know?

    Daughter has a degree in Physics. As part of her final practical exams, she had to compare and contrast the radiation levels in bananas from various parts of the world. She discovered that Belizean bananas had dangerously high radiation levels, and informed her Professor immediately. She had...
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    ® Did you know?

    If you were to fire a rifle* horizontally 1m above flat ground, and dropped a second round vertically from 1m at the exact moment of firing, both rounds would hit the ground at the same time**. *Not a gun nut, just the easiest way to describe it. ** ignoring air resistance and the curvature of...
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    Taylor Swifts wedding.

    Yeah, his super-weirdness would be amplified bigly, day in, day out.
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    Burnham the new PM

    Stingray.
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    Post the best photo you took today

    Yesterday ok?
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    Probably not going to like any answers, but...

    Already one pair of specs dow, Herts, not risking my phone lol.
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    Probably not going to like any answers, but...

    The 'doing' if it gets done will be all mine, for better or worse. So the builders are off the hook in the blame game. One idea of mine was to drain down (shut off the water and flush every bog*; and clean the area before putting a 5"wide bit of plastic, oozing with CT1 on the seam, and...
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    Probably not going to like any answers, but...

    I have a small domestic, one-house sewage pumping station. On the whole it's been fine for 30 years (on our second pump so not too bad). I have a problem with a float switch that has alerted me to another problem, the pressing one... I have a concrete, 2 piece, 2 cu m chamber for all the water...
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    Killer couple

    That is funny.
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    Killer couple

    Quite a bit to unravel there. First, as I have said before, maybe acting as barbarically as the murderers is not really the thing for a civilised society to be doing. Second, if you (as I have) had a modicum of safeguarding training, you'd know that these kind of people will literally play a 30...
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    Elon musk

    I can read.
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    Elon musk

    Musk is not one of them.
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    Elon musk

    Can't argue he has made the money, for sure. But if you are worth a trillion bucks ($40,000 per minute in interest) while there are starving children in the world, you're a bit of a c u next Tuesday IMO.
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    Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration?

    Wasn't it the 'Led By Donkeys' crowd who did that?
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    Take that, Trump

    Breaking via Reuters... Someone has thrown a whole pitcher of beer at Donald Trump. Thankfully it was draft beer, so he dodged it with ease.
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    Timber frame extension 2nd storey with 1m of boundary.

    What about a fire resistant barrier (1mm sheet steel?), then battens, then cladding? Is there a fire resistant fabric that could be used.
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    Roads that give cyclists priority.

    My road bike is huuuuge.
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    Roads that give cyclists priority.

    I'm new to road biking. I never dreamt I could get so much pleasure out of holding car drivers up. Mind, in Wales I'm usually out pacing them. Ho hum.
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    What have you been doing today?

    See Hobbies
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    OAP Triathlon-ing

    Update: daughter had a stress fracture few weeks ago and can't run, so we switched to a relay. She did the bike and I did the swim and the run. We came 7 out of 8 relay teams with a time of 1 hr 40. Me-17:23 (750) swim, and run 36:36 (5k) run. She abso crushed the 20k bike at 41 mins! Feeling...
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