UncleArthur
@UncleArthur@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
I was always under the impression that mattresses should be changed every 7 years or so. I mean, that’s a lot of use over a long period of time! A quick Google suggests a lifespan of 7 to 10 years is about right. One article on this topic is here:
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 2 weeks ago:
The SOLAS regulations that came into effect were mainly around lifeboat provision.
One cannot build a liner with full compartmentalisation, and nothing in the two Enquiries said otherwise. Titanic wasn’t a warship. No other civilian ship - even today - has fully watertight compartments.
It didn’t sink because of its design. It sank because it was driven at 22.5 knots into an iceberg. If you want to know more, read the book I linked in my original reply to OP or visit Encyclopedia Titanica.
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 2 weeks ago:
Possibly. It was never said to be unsinkable, that was a myth. Certainly any ship can be sunk by poor seamanship or adverse circumstances.
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 2 weeks ago:
This was common with coal-fired ships in those days. It had no impact on the sinking.
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 2 weeks ago:
That was absolutely not an issue. Titanic was a 4 compartment ship: any 4 compartments could be flooded without the ship sinking. Thus was WAY superior to the vast majority of ships sailing in 1912. Her design was superb.
When she hit the iceberg, 5 compartments were holed. No-one foresaw such severe damage as a possibility and it only happened because of the unique circumstances of the collision (actually, the alliision) with the 'berg.
In short, RMS Titanic was designed and built superbly.
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 2 weeks ago:
There was nothing wrong with RMS Titanic. Her first sister, RMS Olympic, trundled along until being scapped in 1936 after the merger with Cunard. The issue with the Titanic was that she was driven into an iceberg.
- Comment on Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? 1 month ago:
I’m in my 60s. Posting on social media mostly isn’t fun any more, and I don’t really want to put more money in the hands of billionnaire fascists. So Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are gone (I’ve had to keep Messenger as I have friends who only communicate using that platform) and I’ve never bothered with TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat anyway. This platform and Bluesky are the only ones left and I’m mostly a lurker anyway.
- Comment on Scientists Think This Animal Could Help Humans Live for 200 Years 2 months ago:
The Bowhead whale. Saved you a click.
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 2 months ago:
Opens ever so slooooowly using Gigaclear and Firefox; it’s as if the site is overloaded and it doesn’t fully load. No luck on Vodafone 4G; the connection times out.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 months ago:
Quite. It’s how I’ve been watching YouTube ad-free for ages.
- Comment on Trump's Drooping Face Draws Questions and Alarm 3 months ago:
… questions and HOPE.
- Comment on Where do you ask for TV Show suggestion on Lemy? 4 months ago:
Could it be Prodigal Son?
- Comment on Where do you ask for TV Show suggestion on Lemy? 4 months ago:
At least tell us what you know about the show; someone here might recognise it!
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 5 months ago:
I think I’d have to opt for Cold War Russia.
- Comment on Where do British elites get their news? Publishers, social media and AI 5 months ago:
A more interesting statistic would be to ask how many people actually read a newspaper.
- Comment on banknotes in the UK changing… AGAIN 6 months ago:
Everything you need to know.
- Comment on Outrage as Trump compares Iran strikes to Japan atomic bombing 6 months ago:
Outrage? I doubt it, given what the orange twat has done before now that passed with nary a word.
- Comment on UK council placed 10-year-old in illegal children’s home costing £29 a week: Isle of Wight has paid over half a million pounds for four months of ‘wholly inadequate’ care 6 months ago:
£29 a week would be remarkable! The figure is actually £29,000 which is equally remarkable but in a different way.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 9 months ago:
I am proudly batting zero.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 9 months ago:
Yep, same here.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 10 months ago:
I had Monty Python’s ‘Matching Tie And Hankerchief’ which had two side As.
- Comment on Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped 1 year ago:
Won’t somebody think of all the wealthy landowners, having to put up with being treated like ordinary people?
- Comment on Time for a road trip 1 year ago:
Lots of side trips available to places such as Upper and Lower Dicker (East Sussex), Scratchy Bottom (Dorset) and Minge Lane (Worcestershire).