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- Comment on Roads at 'breaking point' as pothole repairs hit eight-year high, report claims 8 months ago:
I was shocked to find a particularly bad stretch near me to have had all of the potholes filled a while back.
Most of them came back after a month, but still, it was nice to not have to play dodgems on this stretch for a bit.
Also, anybody driven on the M48 eastbound between Newport and Bristol recently? Holy shit is it bad.
- Comment on Government's heat pump strategy well behind 600k a year by 2028 target 8 months ago:
Maybe, but i never came across them.
- Comment on Government's heat pump strategy well behind 600k a year by 2028 target 8 months ago:
maybe i got lucky to somehow hear them over my tinnitus. and no, if you live around them long enough, its not just a fan spinning (which will get noisy over time when they get manky and imbalanced, which in turn causes secondary vibrations). personally, i prefer air to air heatpumps i had when i lived in nz. not the noisy bastards i put up with in sweden.
that said, despite my hearing loss and tinnitus, i can pick up on annoying sounds nobody notices until i point them out.
- Comment on Government's heat pump strategy well behind 600k a year by 2028 target 8 months ago:
Fly by night cowboys always seem to pop up whenever there’s a govt grant involved. Then several years down the line you get countless stories of botched installs ruining houses (cavity wall and loft insulation for example)
- Comment on Government's heat pump strategy well behind 600k a year by 2028 target 8 months ago:
All of them? Sure, some were clearly rattly old things with knackered bearings, but they are not silent and stick out like a sore thumb when they click on at night.
But im sure I’ll be told my experiences are wrong.
- Comment on Government's heat pump strategy well behind 600k a year by 2028 target 8 months ago:
If all my neighbours had heatpumps installed the noise would drive me mad. I don’t think my sanity would last due to lack of sleep.
Houses where i am are so close together.
- Comment on Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in 8 months ago:
Refer to above.
- Comment on Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in 8 months ago:
Case in point.
- Comment on Boys admit killing more than 20 animals in break-in 8 months ago:
The problem I have with some vegans are that they twnd to be sanctimonious, holier than thou, cunts.
- Comment on Sky News: 16-year-old boy dies after being stabbed in Bristol 9 months ago:
Rawnsley park…
I guess stabbing/shooting someone 100m away on Easton rd is no longer in vogue.
- Comment on Families of disabled people tell BBC of battle for NHS care support 9 months ago:
independent.co.uk/…/jeremy-hunt-privatise-nhs-tor…
Guess where he worked from 2012 to 2018?
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
i fail to see how suggesting people to be prepared for not getting what you want is putting them down. Maybe its the fact i grew up with my father striking in the 80s (not the mines, dockyard. Didn’t work) been to enough protests, seen the inside of a police van too many times, and prefer to not go up before the magistrate again, that im jaded to it all.
But sure, lets all ignorantly cheerlead them on from the sidelines, right? 👏👏👏
I want to be wrong, but, mark my words, short of a revolution, nothing will happen. Partly because protests don’t work and partly because this country’s economy is circling the drain.
- Comment on Wonder drug: is the UK ready for the green rush of medicinal cannabis? 9 months ago:
probably because they know how easy it is to grow and it would undermine their potential profits.
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
what exactly am I doing to make it so easy for them? Not being optimistic about the situation? I’m not stopping anyone doing anything. Crack on. I just will not join in the “hurr, durr. Tories bad” circlejerk with the endless repetition of the same old widely known history and either sides talking points.
I think you’re all deluded to think anyone is going to get anywhere with the current govt, Tories have a track record of this and neither side is willing to compromise. History has shown what happens in this situation in the UK. Nothing. Even if the protests develop into violence, we’ve seen what happens. Still nothing.
It’s about time people get serious about the current situation and near future, because people are too damned optimistic and have too much faith in our politicians, of any party.
Sorry to be a doomer.
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
That’d be good. It’ll never happen, at least with the current one.
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
i think the tories have managed it. for me, im going to have to find money from somewhere to go private for something ive been waiting to get seen to for years
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
asking is reasonable, expecting it is another thing all together
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
i know that, and if they can get it, good for them. But read the room, there’s no money
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
i can understand why they want to have a pay rise but the amount asked is totally unrealistic considering the NHS is on its knees.
Can anyone see the healthcare in this country is only going to get worse? Its terrible over in Wales where i am.
- Comment on Liz Truss targets 'secret Tories' with new campaign 9 months ago:
you got to wonder how far right she actually is to consider Britain is run by left wing “extremists”.
- Comment on Pothole reports hit a five-year high in 2023 10 months ago:
i came across about 100m of freshly laid road yesterday. i only realised when i thought id gone deaf. it was magical.
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 11 months ago:
Isn’t that just astroturfing and they’ve been doing it forever there?
- Comment on Jeremy Hunt’s budget cuts spark fears of ‘existential threat’ to English councils 11 months ago:
I fear we’re soon to see councils going bankrupt one after another starting next year.
- Comment on How's everyone's pets doing tonight? 1 year ago:
Fast asleep. My dog sleeps through anything except for the rustling of a plastic bag or me getting my keys.
- Comment on Wales' 20mph speed limit: How has the first month gone? 1 year ago:
I’ve barely noticed it where I am. In fact some roads have increased to 30 in caldicot.
However, what I have noticed is so many a-roads and motorways are 50mph. It takes a fucking age to get to Cardiff or abergavenny because so much of the route is 50mph. The m48 is all 50 because they found the barriers unsafe and, if the m32 is anything to go by, the barriers will never be sorted.
- Comment on Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds 1 year ago:
Dementia
- Comment on Germany refuses to extradite man to UK over concerns about British jail conditions 1 year ago:
The system feels like it’s in free fall at this point.
Feels like the entire country is
- Comment on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year 1 year ago:
Don’t they use CO2?
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
I’m suddenly reminded of that dying man who mooned a speed camera only for loads of police to swarm his house later on.
- Comment on It works in my docker 1 year ago:
Lets ship your machine