I know this is judgemental, but all these young lasses getting arrested for drug smuggling abroad look like complete thickos.

I'm knackered. I drove over 300 miles back and forth yesterday visiting relatives. I'm not doing anything today besides lying on the couch and watching all the bland, vacuous Sunday afternoon light entertainment on TV.

>>470452

You wimp. I drive close to 300 miles most work days.

>>470453

Most of us aren't a cabbie.

I've got one of these meters on an Economy 7 tariff. I keep getting scary letters and emails from my energy company saying my electricity and heating will shut off when they turn off the RTS signal. That won't happen to me right? I think this thing can work on a single rate tariff, but even if I didn't switch to one before the deadline it's not going to suddenly shut down the house is it?

>>470455
They are presumably offering you an alternative, so why don't you want whatever that is?

>>470455

Your heating could get stuck permanently on or off, because a lot of storage heating systems are controlled by RTS. If that doesn't happen, then you'll just get stuck paying the peak rate at all times, which is likely to cost you hundreds of pounds a year.

Your electricity company will fit a new meter for free, you just need to book an appointment. You don't have to change tariff, but getting a SMETS2 meter will allow you to choose from a much wider range of tariffs.

>>470456
Suspicious of smart meters.

>>470457
I don't have storage heaters so no worry there. Peak rate is fine, I think I'm already being ripped off with my current tariff and should switch to a single rate anyway.

I've since done some more Googling and found this meter apparently doesn't even use RTS. Only ancient meters are controlled by a radio signal, and recent digital ones like mine (which was installed in 2009) keep track of time on their own. What a load of scaremongering bullshit.

I think I've aged pretty well, I have avoided a lot of the aches and pains of being nearly 40 so far, but I think it's time to admit that I can no longer eat a spicy curry and expect to be unaffected by it. It's like a two day hangover but for my stomach.

I've also noticed I can't eat nearly as much as I used to be able to without feeling bloated or uncomfortable. I suppose that isn't the end of the world, but I am yet to recalibrate on portion sizes.

>>470455

While we're on about it, does anyone have a smart thermostat and/or a smart radiator valve system in place?

I'm not normally one for smart bollocks but it would be nice to stick the heating on via my phone, but more importantly the way my house is built I think I'd see a massive benefit in being able to selectively heat certain areas, because the temperature changes per room are pretty dramatic.

It's basically because I've got a sun room which will heat up the south side of the house whenever it's even slightly sunny, and suck heat out whenever it isn't. To keep everything efficient myself I'd have to fiddle with the valves a couple of times a day.

The problem is they're rather expensive, I'm not sure they would pay for themselves very quickly.

>>470468
If you fit a TRV (thermostatic radiator valve) to each of your radiators, that would help with some of your issues and they're not that expensive.

https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/radiator-valves/cat830962?radiatorvalvetype=thermostatic
>Thermostatic radiator valves are self-regulating, designed to maintain a constant temperature in a room. These radiator thermostats, also known as TRVs, sense the room's air temperature and adjust the flow of hot water until the desired ambient temperature is achieved. With these energy efficient TRV valves, the temperature in each room of the home is easily controlled, reducing energy usage and saving money. Most feature a compression connection and are available in a choice of styles and colours.

>>470467

I'm 50 and I just found out that too much Ibuprofen messes with my digestion. I was taking copious amounts all last week after throwing out my back, and my poo came out half digested and very loose, and with an odd yellowish hue.

>>470469

Traditional TRVs are quite fiddly to set up properly. You want to have the system thermostat in a room with a radiator without a TRV, preferably in the centre of your home. The TRVs can then be adjusted by a process of trial-and-error to balance the temperature across the house.

You can usually get a fairly consistent level of heating throughout the house, but a lot of people just don't have the patience. TRVs can't really do anything to help if a conservatory is roasting when the heating is off, or if it's freezing when the radiator is already at full whack.

>>470468

Consider installing low-E window film, at least on the roof. It isn't cheap - you'll spend at least £20/sqm for a decent product - but it can improve the thermal performance of your windows by about 30%.

>>470469

I already have these, but they don't particularly help as I'd need to adjust them manually quite often. As I said, when the sun comes out, the back half of my house is hot, and the front is cold, probably a difference of 15 degrees in the summer, and when there's no sun, the opposite is true. So I'd either need to move the thermostat around depending on the day, or get the balance right on the valves, but I still find myself having to change them all the time too.

I have ten radiators in my house, so smart TRVs would be a significant expense, but it really seems the only reliable way to be able to say "just heat the office please".

>>470455

I've had the same polarver. They sent me a constant stream of e-mails telling me I need to upgrade or it will stop working, so I went on their webchat to book an appointment. Nobody came. Then the other week a bloke came to my door and told me it needed replacing, so I let him in to take a photo, and he told me there was an appointment available on the 12th of May to do it. Nobody came.

The other day I got a letter saying it was booked for the 28th of May. Then, on Saturday, another bloke came to my door and told me it needed replacing. I told hiom it had already been booked and showed him the letter, and he seemed very exasperated. He told me he'd emphasise in the notes how I'd been messed about and they need to pull their finger out. I understood, because I too have worked for companies, I know what they are like. But I am not holding out hope anybody will turn up on the 28th.

I do have storage heaters, but obviously I won't be using them at all for the next several months and my hot water can be turned on manually. But like you I don't even think mine urgently needs doing because it's also a digital meter. I would like a smart meter though to more easily keep track how much I am using.

sage because it's not a weekend

>>470482
Palaver.

>>470483

Well it's not a real word is it, I'll spell it how I want.

>>470482
If I ever change my mind and want a smart meter, I don't think it will ever stop being a duty on energy companies to install them for free, so I'm sure I can holdout.

Wait, Reform is going to be the next government. Hmm.

I went to sleep at 10ish last night. I have no idea how people can sleep for more than five or six hours, it's completely foreign to me. I suppose I'm just betterer than they are.

>>470541

The amount of sleep you need so you're well rested the next day varies from person to person. There are people who claim that they've slept for no more than five hours at night their entire adult lives. But consensus is that for the average person, a healthy and recommended length of sleep is somewhere around seven to as much as nine hours. If you average significantly less than seven hours for a longer period of time, it's generally not considered healthy and there could be side effects like elevated blood pressure, decreasing physical and mental capacity or executive function, and other cardiovascular problems. And if you have chronic multi-year sleep deprivation, it can even be a risk factor for dementia.

But also, you need less sleep as you age. When I was a younglad, I absolutely needed my eight hours every night to function the next day. I've always been very sensitive to sleep deprivation, which made me kind of a killjoy on lads holidays or at long, drawn out house parties. But as I've aged, and now being 50, I've noticed that an occasional six hours isn't a problem anymore. I'll function much the same way. The only thing I still can't do is several nights of five or six hours of sleep in a row.

Lots of dead badgers by the side of the road today.

I've spent all day looking at US police bodycam footage. It's really interesting. I know seppo police have a reputation for being heavy handed, but some of these situations I'd have loosed a bullet much earlier on in the encounter.

>>470546

Americans just love being total dickheads for absolutely no reason, don't they?

I feel like shit after a 12 day marijuana binge. Wake and bake, 6 days of wanking. First day sober was great, like sunshine in my life. But now, the third day sober, I barely want to get out of bed, I barely want to get into bed, I barely want to do anything. I think I might be depressed.

I did wonder about medical marijuana (apparently there's limited availability now?) as it absolutely does improve my social life from nill to 'passably autistic', but I think asking for it would be incinsere.

I don't know, man. Feeling depression on returning to normality after a prolonged period of altered conciousness is probably to be expected. It definitely feels the same as it usually does though, sans intoxicants, and it sucks.

I just fucking hate myself and everyone around me. Some pretty woman asked about my shopping at the supermarket till yesterday - I responded reasonable but walked away privately calling her cunt for daring to ask what biscuits those are that I'm buying.

Alright, that's enough bollocks. Have a good weekend.

>>470547
To be honest I think a lot of them don't have proper intellectual capacity. I watched one where a guy got caught by DNA evidence, having raped a bed bound disabled woman with Rett's Syndrome in the care home he worked at and getting her pregnant. And he was praying to God about being in the child's life and getting out of the situation. It seemed a very low IQ thing to do.

Personally I'd struggle to rape a quadrispazzed woman on a lifeglug.

>>470547

>>470549

There are definitely a lot of thickos, but I don't think it takes a massive amount of brainpower to realise that starting a fist fight with a cop is a shit idea.

I can only imagine that they're used to getting their own way by any means necessary, they're habituated to grinding people down by being totally unreasonable. It just doesn't occur to them that a police officer isn't like a waitress or a shop assistant or their mom and they will not yield to bullying or threats. The occasions where their usual strategy fails are rare enough that they don't give rise to self-reflection.

Maybe they lack the intelligence to understand why their usual trick isn't working in this particular scenario, but they aren't all toothless degenerates. The middle-class white women sob and scream "rape", the underclass black guys cry dolphin rape and shout "I can't breathe", but I think it's basically the same habitual behaviour.

Waitrose had some slightly smallish mangoes today that were barely bigger than my fist and didn't look like much, but for 89p I thought I couldn't go wrong. I just ate it, and it was one of the best mangoes I've eaten in a long time.

>>470546
It makes you wonder what would happen if you swapped British and American police in a couple of towns.

>>470548
You sure you're not just feeling a bit lonely and at a loss without anything to do?

I think I've asked this before here, but why, whenever I try to buy anything from eBay, are the search results invariably 50 pages of the same three Chinese-made items listed by an infinite number of different sellers? Is there something I need to be doing to get better results in my searches for meat mincers, or wind-up radios, or giant wall clocks?

I accidentally opened the McDonald's app on my phone and it had saved an order I'd previously created ready to go. I was hungry so here I sit waiting for a Friday treat to arrive on Sunday morning when I'm trying to lose weight.

Why was I hungry you ask. Because I had a basa fillet with rice and veg for dinner but I feel like a fillet of basa just isn't enough for man's dinner. Am I right about that or do I just need to stop being a fat fuck with low-impulse control?

>>470554
Amazon is just a Chinese flea-market these days, I actually find google shopping better for finding quality stuff. Or I do I quick look on AliExpress and realise I can get the cheap plastic tat for half the cost Amazon has it.

Apparently these days there are TikTok auctions too but that sounds like a disaster to me.

>>470555

Check the nutritional information of whatever serving of protein you're having for dinner. An adult male should generally be consuming about 30g of protein at one meal. If that's still not enough to satiate your hunger, up in to 40g.

If that still doesn't satisfy, consume something very fibrous afterwards - I don't know of anyone that doesn't feel full after eating an orange.

I agreed to help my mate out with some things around his house, but I mistakenly and callously agreed to this several days ago, before my girlfriend had a chance to see some sort of craft fair advertised on TikTok at 1am last night and now she's pretending she's not upset with me but is actually definitely upset with me.

This might be a controversial statement, but there's always one person in the relationship who loves harder than the other, who is more smitten. Make sure they're the one that tips the scales that way, not you, because I've realised I was the more involved one in previous relationships, and I think I would have probably felt guilty and changed my plans for them in that situation. But now I'm not that arsed.

That might sound bad but it's actually very peaceful.

>>470557
Well done on finding your backbone, lad. Now you need to work on your communication.

>>470555
>Am I right about that or do I just need to stop being a fat fuck with low-impulse control?
I don't know about that but at the very least you should stop paying a premium for someone to hand deliver you McDonalds that you've also paid for. What'd it cost you, £15? For a McDonalds? That's insane consumer behaviour right there.

I can't talk though, I paid £20 for a Chinese takeaway last night. I did atleast walk though (50 meters downstairs and next door)!

>>470556
>I don't know of anyone that doesn't feel full after eating an orange.
You what?

>>16126
McDonald's can easily cost close to £15 in-store. Burger King frequently costs me more than £15. And no I'm not obese.

The days of getting takeaway delivered for that amount are largely behind us.

>>470559
It's not THAT expensive for delivery. I paid £1.99 to avoid walking for 20 minutes and to eat in the comfort (and shame) of my own home.

The problem with these services is instead that delivery drivers don't earn even close to minimum wage, it's an easy way for illegals to get work and they have to take big risks and shortcuts to deliver on time. That's the real problem with the service; if anything we don't pay enough and they don't have the right protections so we have a system of techno-slavery for the underclass that could easily be replaced by drones but the current level of exploitation means that it's simply easier to maintain the existing model of human-drones you can abuse.

Fortunately China is already moving to drone deliveries on a mass scale and is poised to dominate the world while I'm still going to be a fat-fuck in 20 years time. The End.

>>470560
If you're spending more than £8 at Maccies you are a fat fucker.

>>470560
This man speaks the truth - I got a large McSpicy Red-Hot-bullshit meal, a Biscoff McFlurry and a double cheeseburger for £15.07. And then with delivery fee, 'service fee', and VAT it came to £18.57.

I could have walked across the road and gotten a shit pizza for about £12 but McDonald's is just nice sometimes. Admittedly I mostly got it for the McFlurry and chips, the burgers are usually shit, if Burger King and McDonald's ever did a partnership it would be ace.

My poo earlier was proper green, pretty much the same shade as goose poo. All I can think of is having a few basil leaves with my spaghetti yesterday.

I'm having to use robocopy in Windows command to transfer all my definitely not pirated movies on my external hard drive from G:\movies to another folder on the same drive because Windows 11 suddenly tells me that I don't have permission to access \movies. I've tried all afternoon trying to change permission settings or accessing the folder as admin, but to no avail. So now I'm using the built-in robocopy command to copy all my movies over to another folder. Which still works, luckily. I guess at command line level, Windows doesn't bother much with permissions. But it's a slow process. I can't even call up the folder properties, but I think I remember the folder being something like 350 GB. So it's probably going to take all evening, because transfer speeds seem to be slow. Naturally, because every video file has to be read and piped through my computer and written back onto the external hard drive.

At this point, I'm just glad my movie collection isn't lost.

>>470566
Can you tell me how to rip DVDs? I've tried using VLC but the copies return garbled and nonsensical. I'd like to make audio-only films for background listening, without having to reccord them in real time.

>>470567

You've probably got an issue with your codec settings that turn the VOB files on the DVD into a single-file movie on your computer.

Keep in mind that ripping DVDs is still illegal, but a combination of DVD Decrypter to get the files off the disc and then software like HandBrake for the encoding tends to work very well.

For someone who has been cutting his own hair since before it was cool, I've made suprisingly few mistakes. Until today, that is. Oh well, a good excuse to double down and finally go bleach blond.

WHY THE FUCK IS SOMEONE HEDGE STRIMMING AT THIS TIME?

>>470630

The other day my neighbours had a tree surgeon cut down their 50-foot maple at 8am with a chainsaw. On a day when I was hoping to have a bit of a lie in.

Lidl are selling 500g of buffalo mozzarella for around £5.70. Just ate it all out of the tub. I'm an animal.

I was supposed to be working but it looks quiet so I was given the choice to take the day off.

There's always something much more satisfying about an unexpected day off when you were supposed to be working, be it via sickie or just not being needed. I feel like it reduces the psychological pressure you feel to spend the day well, however you define that, so you feel less guilty if all you do is dick around on the internet or videogames or something equally trivial and fruitless all day. Usually it makes me paradoxically more productive- I'll get a load of cleaning and chores and such out of the way that otherwise I would have felt resentful about having to do on a day off.

I've already put a wash on, I feel like I might go download some obscure Pokemon romhack to waste a few hours on and then never go back to. I mean, why not. I can do what I like. The world is my oyster.

I have been to every shop I can think of. It is officially not possible to buy a meat mincer from a shop in Manchester. There might be catering wholesalers if you want to spend £250 on a giant machine, but I just want a manual one for maybe £30. And I might as well be trying to buy pixie testicles.

I also got the wrong size of wooden plank from Wickes, so it will stick out 10cm further than my other shelves. Clearly they weren't just sold out of the paint I wanted, but also of the shelves I wanted. Considering I was out shopping pretty much all afternoon, this really hasn't been an especially productive Saturday.

>>470636
You'll need to go to Canal Street if you want to find a mincer.