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#1
The Chat Room / Re: This Is Weird
Last post by klondike - Today at 12:41:01 AM
I doubt it is structurally unsafe but internal walls aren't going to be weatherproof or retain much heat.

There is what used to be a pub down the road from me. I used to drink in there in my youth. They built a new road and roundabout and that pub got cut in half. What is left is now a house
They built a new wall where it was cut off.



Actually looking at it now most of the pub went and it looks like the house next door got the bit that was left. The pub was covered with those big marble tiles that the bit that's left has.
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General Discussion / Re: American woman survives eu...
Last post by klondike - Today at 12:23:01 AM
I saw a documentary on Pierpoint. It went further than just getting the mechanics right. There was a concealed or at least not obvious door from the condemned cell to the gallows trapdoor. Speed was the order of the execution day. From wakening to dangling was typically 13 seconds iirc from that program. It sounded convincing but obviously could have been total BS.
#3
The Chat Room / Re: This Is Weird
Last post by morty - Today at 12:19:48 AM
That's the weird bit ...
What the neighbour did is illegal ... yet he managed to sell the land on .... with approved planning permission for a 5 bedroom house and someone was daft enough to buy it.

The lady who owns the other half has her insurance company taking on the local council but quite honestly, I wouldn't feel safe living in that house. 

#4
The Chat Room / Re: What annoys you
Last post by Mups - Yesterday at 11:22:35 PM
What annoys me?

A few weeks ago,  an important legal letter I was expecting was delivered to the wrong address.
Luckily the lady brought it round to me,   unopened.

Today I was expecting a parcel,   and asked for it to be left in my porch.
When I got home,  there was a parcel in my porch,   BUT  it was not mine!
It had a man's name on it, and the door number was wrong too.

I found the correct house,  over the road and a few doors further along,  and took it over to them.
No one was in,  so I tucked it in the corner of his porch with another parcel that had been left for them.

As I was about to walk away, I had a strange feeling telling me to look at the address on his other parcel and guess what . . . . .  It was mine!!!
So the idiot Royal Mail man   (not my usual chap),  had taken my parcel over the road,  and left the man's parcel at my house!

That is what has annoyed me today.   :evil:


#5
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by Mups - Yesterday at 11:16:15 PM
I finally got my windows cleaned today.   :upvote:
Nice young man,  efficient,  friendly,  and did a good job.
He charged me £20,  but said it will be less if I wanted it doing regularly.  
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The Chat Room / Re: This Is Weird
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 11:03:44 PM
I am amazed that anyone got planning permission to do this ! 
#7
The Chat Room / Re: This Is Weird
Last post by Mups - Yesterday at 10:50:48 PM
Blimey,   I am glad that is not my house!

It looks very unsafe,  as well as illegal I'd have thought.
#8
General Discussion / Re: Two Tier Policing Again
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 10:45:30 PM
Retired Electrician gets 15 years for blowing up a ULEZ camera .
#9
The Chat Room / Re: The boring thread.....
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 10:35:07 PM
I wanted the shingles injection but when I went they said we had already had it .
I told them we had not .
I am so needle phobic I would not forget two injections .

But the computer says nah ...or rather yes .

It worries me a little as I had chick pox quite badly .
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General Discussion / Re: American woman survives eu...
Last post by muddy - Yesterday at 10:05:49 PM
Quote from: Mups on Yesterday at 01:43:22 PMYes,  I think that trying a third time would have been the answer, rather than sending her to hospital to be made better before they try again!

I have heard nothing about why the drug didn't even work after two attempts though.



This was probably the case of an incompetent doctor who couldn't find the vein so the euthanasia was going into the tissue instead of the bloodstream .
It still would have killed her eventually .