Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Yeah..but do you think some of them would get banned? I know for a fact some of mine would.I wouldn't want any of my friends and acquaintances finding Urban!
Discussion: UK anti-vaxx 'freedom' morons, protests and QAnon idiots
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think pretty much all of them would run away screaming!
ETA: Very, very few of my friends and acquaintances would consider the use of the word "cunt" in pretty much any circumstances. Just to start with...
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
what for?
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Some for loonspuddery for sure. We already argue about this stuff but I don't think they could handle the urban onslaught. They'd more likely just run away I expect. I did introduce someone years back who left in a few days saying you lot were so mean
I guess I'm more thick skinned online at least.
Someone Who Isn't Me in this house insists on making sure all switches are turned off before we go out or away.
Well it is that person's house, after all!
Reason : upbringing ..... and inherited fear of lightening strikes and risk of fire .....
I also (now!) have to follow this oh-so-sensible example ........ something I never bothered with prior to the age of 45!
Luckily no actual unpluggings need to be done .... and at least the fridge stays on ..... it's the only exception though!
Well it is that person's house, after all!
Reason : upbringing ..... and inherited fear of lightening strikes and risk of fire .....
I also (now!) have to follow this oh-so-sensible example ........ something I never bothered with prior to the age of 45!
Luckily no actual unpluggings need to be done .... and at least the fridge stays on ..... it's the only exception though!
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
The one good IRL mate I have who is a member got bored to tears by the enforcing of orthodox opinions and the lack of meaningful discussions over actual points of disagreement and might have got provocative just to liven things up, but just became a non-poster instead. I think most of my other mates would either feel intimidated or alienated.
That's not a gripe about the place by the way; it is what it is. This was a long time ago though, I expect he would have enjoyed the bandwidthz thread (that dates it!), and some other discussions since.
Tankus
Amused OAP
Someone Who Isn't Me in this house insists on making sure all switches are turned off before we go out or away.
Well it is that person's house, after all!
Reason : upbringing ..... and inherited fear of lightening strikes and risk of fire .....
I also (now!) have to follow this oh-so-sensible example ........ something I never bothered with prior to the age of 45!
Luckily no actual unpluggings need to be done .... and at least the fridge stays on ..... it's the only exception though!
mine goes off at the fuse box if its for any length of time ...I no longer have a freezer
going to work (pre CV19) I have a path I follow, doors,windows,plugs ....
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The thing is...the gap in a mains switch (which is surprisingly narrow) is nowhere near enough to prevent a lightning strike arcing across and doing its damage regardless of the state of the switch. TBH, if the aim is to protect devices from lightning strikes, I would unplug them.Someone Who Isn't Me in this house insists on making sure all switches are turned off before we go out or away.
Well it is that person's house, after all!
Reason : upbringing ..... and inherited fear of lightening strikes and risk of fire .....
I also (now!) have to follow this oh-so-sensible example ........ something I never bothered with prior to the age of 45!
Luckily no actual unpluggings need to be done .... and at least the fridge stays on ..... it's the only exception though!
Having said that, I've done neither for decades, and have never yet lost a bit of kit to lightning.
2hats
Dust.
Or use gas discharge lightning arrestors. Though reducing cable runs can limit ground surge susceptibility from local strikes, CME events or EMPs
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I used to have my fridge on it‘s own circuit, if I was going away for a few days I’d quite often turn off some of the circuits such as lighting at the fusebox but be able to leave that on. That’s mainly because I was in LS12 though, so done to make it harder for anyone robbing the place to find their way around rather than worrying about lightning strikes.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
One of the other sites at a place I used to work was located in old flat-roofed buildings in an elevated part of town. There was a thunderstorm and the lightning punched a hole through the roof of the server room and hit it. Don't think the server worked very well afterwards.
tony.c
Well-Known Member
They were out again yesterday
www.uk.yahoo.com
Thousands gather in Trafalgar Square to promote coronavirus conspiracy theories at ‘anti-lockdown’ protest
Thousands of protesters branding the coronavirus pandemic a "hoax" gathered in Trafalgar Square today.The demonstrators, who were not wearing face coverings, carried signs saying "no more masks no more lockdown" and "incremental fascism" at Saturday's "Unite for Freedom" rally.
Steel Icarus
we move
What lockdown? There isn't one. There was barely one when there was one.
prunus
Tick tock.
Bit of both, bit of both, you know, live and let live, or not, as the case may be; I’m all for celebrating difference, as long as everyone’s the same as me. Can’t say fairer than that.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It's hard to have any sympathy full stop really, including if they catch covid as a result of their stupidity.
Steel Icarus
we move
Yeah, I mean we prepared for one, we had food for a month, but then the food shops didn't shut and we were never not allowed out of our homes.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Well, yes
. But it makes it pretty clear that it's the idea of lockdown that they're knee-jerk protesting against. It's essentially a group-based superannuated toddler tantrum (I typed that as "tantrump" first time 
)..."DON'T WANNA!!! WON'T!!". At this stage you could have probably gone to them and offered them anything, and they'd have stamped their tiny feet and screamed.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
a moron said:
So things like wearing a crash helmet? Wearing a seatbelt? Stopping at red lights? Wearing hair nets when preparing food? Yeah... Down with mandating things!
Steel Icarus
we move
Just so you know in advance I intend to not only use that but pass it off as my own creation.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Steel Icarus
we move
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Oh. It's already on Urban dictionary and apparently also a board game
So, it is, together with a wee video to illustrate the meaning.
View attachment 2.mp4
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
So, he was arrested.
And, a £10k fine, I can see him fighting that.
Shame they didn't arrest Icke too.
And, a £10k fine, I can see him fighting that.
Shame they didn't arrest Icke too.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
deffo was a rave of loonatics there
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
35K is out by an order of magnitude or so.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I’ve always wondered how people estimate crowd numbers
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I think this instance they just googled "Trafalgar Square capacity" and took the number at the top of this article - How Many People Can You Fit In Trafalgar Square?
The square was in no way either completely full or packed solid, though there were definitely several thousand people there. The central area was pretty full but there was space all around it.
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