SteamyTea

It is a short term problem then. Bag and bin. As a general rule, collet it up in a box, then wrap it in Christmas paper, place on doorstep of disliked neighbours, set fire to it, knock on door and go and hide. Fun to watch people stamping on a burning box.

I suspect, but you can check, that the numbers are similar. I have suggested for a few years not that any uncast vote goes to the incumbent party. That will get the things sorted out.

But that is what local councils consist of at the moment. Why are the young not getting involved? Quick look at the ONS data shows that there were 660,137 birth in the year 2000, so that means we need to build just over half that number of houses, so 400,000. That is assuming that this is exclusively for 'millenniums' and that they are all currently wanting a home. Taking just London, there were 51,632 births in 2000, so an extra 25,000 homes. Now I have a tiny 2 bed house that sits on a plot of about 85m2 including share of access, parking garden and the house. This would be an OK starter home (if the layout was better, see my conversation with @caliwag about this). A football pitch is about 6,875m2 (they can vary in size to to the median permissible length and width) so 80 houses like mine could be built on that area. 310 football pitches worth. Sounds a lot, about 1.5 times the area of Hyde Park (1,420,000m2), or under a quarter of the size of Richmond Park. So I think, if there was the will, it would be easy to build enough houses for everyone born in the year 2000, even in London (and I am not saying you have to build them all in Richmond Park, just saying there is enough land). As an aside, for London (as a whole) there were 858,800 deaths in 2016, so they are greatly outnumbering indigenous births from 16 years earlier. So the snowflake generation can either wait and get a house when it becomes free, do something about it, or bleat like babies on social media. I think I know what they are doing.

Why are 'millenniums' not getting elected to local councils and changing things? How many 'millenniums' really decide to either pay 80% or earning on rent or commute? How man 'millenniums' are there anyway? Why are 'millenniums' not self building as a collective group? And finally, why are 'millenniums' not going around every estate agent in the land on a Saturday morning and pointing out that they only have £xxx to spend on a house? And second finally, why should anyone take notice of what an architect writes in a newspaper. Really, final, final point, if you build a smaller home, the market will set the price at what is currently the lowest value. So build larger homes rather than smaller and give people decent quality of life.

My views on Architects are well documented on here and on the old eBuild site. It never takes long for an architect to point out that they 'trained' for 7 years and the term 'Architect' is protected. And they just love the use (mis)use of language. There are a couple of architects on here that may like to comment.

Not saying it works or no, but it does smack of a bit of marketing puff to me. Most things kept in a fridge are water, or have a very high fraction of water (cheese being the exception). So you can calculate the amount of energy stored in that water and compare it to the cooler packs when they are changing phase and make your own mind up as to whether it is valid or not.

Had varifocals for over a decade now, I still like to hold onto a banister when going down stairs, feel really old doing that. Having had my old lenses vibrated, vacuumed out and replaced with new shiny acrylic, I would love glasses that just work. But got to live wonkey eyesight and a large amount of my left vision missing. For anyone having their cataracts done, think very carefully what you want from your eyesight. By default they set your new lenses up for distance, makes reading very hard, especially if you have astigmatisms, binocular instability and a 'lazy eye'. Oh and the contrast on a screen can be painful after a few minutes.

That should happen more often. Car shops need to sell an long stick with a trigger on it that takes a spray can.

I always leave my homework until the last minute. Works for me. Generally, I find that having others rely on me is a good motivator. I once had the production manager of the company I work for ask me what I actually did. Rather than explain to the ignorant twat, I said I would stop and he would find out after 3 weeks. I have a bad habit of making my job look easy and seemingly having a cavalier attitude towards work. Not done me any favours. But as the old saying goes: "When you are in a hole, stop f@cking digging"

I know a few people that 're-fenced' their back gardens. While doing that they took an extra 20 yards or so of land. The strip of land had been unused for many decades (part of an old mine. Just the other side of the strip some new houses had were being built and they were worried that they would put a road in and build some more (the developer had implied this in a local consultation). I seem to remember that that the people that pinched the land were claiming they had possession of that land (they did not) and were relying on the 12 year rule. Personally I think it will come back to haunt them and they will be paying out a lot to defend it against the developer. It is an odd thing, people want to live somewhere nice but at the expense of stopping other doing the same.

I drive like your Nan. A £270 speeding fine sorted that out. £270, and that was over 10 years ago. £270 to the Norfolk courts, they could a years worth of turnips for that.

To be more correct, I used to make the Marcos GRP panels

That is my experience when using CTs. Though I found, on average over the whole range things tend to sort themselves out. The only large inductive loads I have are the washing machine, vacuum cleaner and the bathroom fan. They are no used that much in the scheme of things.

More a case of the Dismal Science (Economics is not a science).

Um Sounds like he wants out, so be very vigilant about the quality. A few years back I had been complaining to some suppliers about there quality of products. Asked 3 suppliers to provide me with their best. Two then supplied excellent products after sending us rubbish for a few weeks. One, and the one I stuck with, personally came around and said that what we were getting was the best he could supplier at that time. We have stayed with him ever since as he is honest and would not send us rubbish if he could get better (it is fresh vegetables). So I am always very wary of people that can suddenly up their game.

In Economics, there is something called 'competitive advantage'. Basically it is just saying that you should do what you do best, and let others do what they do best. The UK, for some reason, thinks that we can 'do best' in everything. This is total nonsense, but led to the referendum and us voting to leave the EU. Now the general public are starting to understand what CA is about. The USA likes to skew CA with taxes, I suspect that we will follow this, and that has disastrous consequences. There is also a difference between living and working in a fully developed economy and not working in one, but having access to their market. This was very apparent in Brazil in the 1990's. The developed economies wanted timber, Brazil wanted to sell it. Brazil had access to millions of hectares of hardwood forests, cheap labour and a transport infrastructure. Inward investment happened from large US and Canadian logging companies with the consequences being both environmental and social devastation in Brazil. No one can blame an individual for wanting a bit of hardwood furniture, or wanting to work in the best paid jobs at their skill levels, so it has been down to the non-governmental organisations to highlight the issues and how national governments need to work together to change working practices. Thankfully this is happening and there are schemes in place to change logging and farming to tourism (it is easier to point to a fish than catch one). Tourism can only help in some areas though, so other industries will have to be developed, or created, in 'hard to treat' areas. The UK had a stab at this in the post war years with building of new towns with light industrial units built in. This has led us to believe that this 'small is beautiful' model is the way forward. In my opinion, and this is just an opinion, we have gone too far down this road and lost our competitive advantage compared to some existing fully developed economies (Germany, USA, France even) and we need to encourage large, multinational organisation to either move to the UK or develop out own. Not sure the best way to do this, it is usually done with tax breaks, so why not abolish corporation tax (gets rid of the non-payment of CT as well). We would have to tax individual more, which never goes down well, but if more people are working, earning a higher wage, on average, they are all better off (we have cut income taxes too much for low earners that now 40%(ish) of workers are out of the tax system). To conclude and sum up, let the best workers do what they do best, encourage them to work here, then tax them more.

There was a story in the 1960 about the UK trade delegation having a tour of a Russian factory. The Russians were very proud to show how efficient and hard working their staff were. Russian "They start 6AM, work until 12 Noon, 15 minutes break for sandwiches, Russian sandwiches, from the machine. Then start work again on the tractor line until 6PM. The second shift takes over, works until 12 Midnight, 15 minutes break for soup, Russian soup, from the machine, then work until 6AM. They do this 7 days week." Brummie trade delegate "You would not get our lads working like that, they are all communists."

"It's frothy man" Just like my wee in the mornings

Looks like my mates homebrew, probably tastes better.

While on this subject, almost. What is the easy way to sort this out.

Would MAC spoofing get around that?

Can you get another free trial loaded on another computer? Or see if you can open the file in another, properly free, CAD package. Or set the PC clock back a month, it used to work in the olden days when we were all honest.

Think I shall drop into my Count Arthur Strong mode.

enough grammer and spilling nazi really piss me off

I am not going to the GD show, or interested in listening to some experts (x is the unknown, spurt is a drip under pressure), in fact, I am not building a house. So shall go to the beach instead.