Things that don't deserve their own thread

[Sandstorm]

I recently, well about a year ago, slipped on wet brown leaves on the pavement and landed heavily on my knee. It hurt like fuck,

[Tichtheid]

I recently, well about a year ago, slipped on wet brown leaves on the pavement and landed heavily on my knee. It hurt like fuck,

That's the spirit

[tabascoboy]

I recently, well about a year ago, slipped on wet brown leaves on the pavement and landed heavily on my knee. It hurt like fuck, but not as much as the arrival of two students who came to see if I was okay.

[Tichtheid]

[Niegs]

The ultimate off-grid experience. Calls himself a 'Green Neck' ... part hippie, part redneck. Former Grateful Dead Head and weed grower. Taking applications too!

[Niegs]

[Uncle fester]

7 players from a team that was unable to beat a lower ranked nation in a home test series???

Also interesting choice of out half.

[Sandstorm]

10 Bongi Mbonambi

[Guy Smiley]

Rookie left wing Will Jordan makes team of the year without even playing in that position.

Ever.

[Gumboot]

ITV clearly knows sfa about rugby.

[Biffer]

ITV clearly knows sfa about rugby.

English TV channel desperate not to pick the Scot who has scored six tries v England in the last three Calcutta Cups.

[Uncle fester]

ITV clearly knows sfa about rugby.

English TV channel desperate not to pick the Scot who has scored six tries v England in the last three Calcutta Cups.

It's a small error. Could happen to anyone. Just switch Bongi and Jordan to fix it.

[Biffer]

Always thought Greg Wallace was a cunt since I met him at a social do some years ago
And now I see he really is!!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... misconduct

Only decent thing he's ever done:

The BBC / the production company have quietly done a very funny thing by replacing him as host with a middle class woman of a certain age...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr56v10v6yro

[vball]

I am an avid Mastershout watch and have seen Grace Dent on it many times. There is something about her that makes me, let's say, rather hot under the collar.
Probably just me.

[Biffer]

House in Newport for sale. All normal...

Picture 7

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Edit - I honestly didn't notice the earlier pictures, just seven stood out.

[Tichtheid]

House in Newport for sale. All normal...

Picture 7

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Edit - I honestly didn't notice the earlier pictures, just seven stood out.

What goes on in Newport stays in Newport

[Biffer]

House in Newport for sale. All normal...

Picture 7

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Edit - I honestly didn't notice the earlier pictures, just seven stood out.

What goes on in Newport stays in Newport

I'm guessing there were people from further afield involved here

[Tichtheid]

House in Newport for sale. All normal...

Picture 7

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

Edit - I honestly didn't notice the earlier pictures, just seven stood out.

What goes on in Newport stays in Newport

I'm guessing there were people from further afield involved here

It's, erm, unusual that the estate agent didn't advise the seller that some of the decor might puts potential buyers off.

[Sandstorm]

It's, erm, unusual that the estate agent didn't advise the seller that some of the decor might puts potential buyers off.

Even more misleading is them describing it as MidTerrace.

[Sandstorm]

Booooo! Right Move just took down the photo.

[Slick]

Always thought Greg Wallace was a cunt since I met him at a social do some years ago
And now I see he really is!!

Only decent thing he's ever done:

The BBC / the production company have quietly done a very funny thing by replacing him as host with a middle class woman of a certain age...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr56v10v6yro

I'm very pleased about this. I love Masterchef and I love Grace!

[Slick]

Booooo! Right Move just took down the photo.

What was it?

We once literally moved next door to our previous house in London and had to store our furniture somewhere for a couple of week. A neighbour said her friend around the corner had space and he agreed to let us store there. When we went round he had 5 pit bulls running around and his house was absolutely covered in framed photos of Princess Diana and Dolly Parton - I mean covered, absolutely everywhere. And that was the normal bit.

In the cellar where he told us to put our stuff was a full SM dungeon including a bed built into a concrete block with space of about 2 foot from base to ceiling where he slept when he wanted complete darkness. It was a little unnerving.

[Sandstorm]

Booooo! Right Move just took down the photo.

What was it?

We once literally moved next door to our previous house in London and had to store our furniture somewhere for a couple of week. A neighbour said her friend around the corner had space and he agreed to let us store there. When we went round he had 5 pit bulls running around and his house was absolutely covered in framed photos of Princess Diana and Dolly Parton - I mean covered, absolutely everywhere. And that was the normal bit.

In the cellar where he told us to put our stuff was a full SM dungeon including a bed built into a concrete block with space of about 2 foot from base to ceiling where he slept when he wanted complete darkness. It was a little unnerving.

Full S&M sex room with black walls covered with whips, chains and restraints. Couple of cameras on tri-pods too.

Amazed the agent added the photos to the Rightmove listing in the first place. Some junior staff member is going to get a kicking!

[Niegs]

For the parents...

[Tichtheid]

For the parents...

[fishfoodie]

Booooo! Right Move just took down the photo.

What was it?

We once literally moved next door to our previous house in London and had to store our furniture somewhere for a couple of week. A neighbour said her friend around the corner had space and he agreed to let us store there. When we went round he had 5 pit bulls running around and his house was absolutely covered in framed photos of Princess Diana and Dolly Parton - I mean covered, absolutely everywhere. And that was the normal bit.

In the cellar where he told us to put our stuff was a full SM dungeon including a bed built into a concrete block with space of about 2 foot from base to ceiling where he slept when he wanted complete darkness. It was a little unnerving.

Full S&M sex room with black walls covered with whips, chains and restraints. Couple of cameras on tri-pods too.

Amazed the agent added the photos to the Rightmove listing in the first place. Some junior staff member is going to get a kicking!

Still left up the ones with the bed posts with interesting bolts on them, & the rope room; I guess they were too tied up to remove all the "unusual" ones

[Biffer]

TIL that Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster are built on an Island next to the Thames. As with so many bits of London, the rivers (in this case bits of the Tyburn) have been paved over and now run underground.

This is why it’s particularly vulnerable to flooding. And the Thames Barrier was designed to deal with rising sea level predicted in the seventies up to 2030, its planned lifetime. It was anticipated when built that it’d have to be raised once or twice a year by 2030. It was raised 13 times last year, is now thought to be inadequate and there are no plans in place to replace or upgrade it.

[Uncle fester]

TIL that Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster are built on an Island next to the Thames. As with so many bits of London, the rivers (in this case bits of the Tyburn) have been paved over and now run underground.

This is why it’s particularly vulnerable to flooding. And the Thames Barrier was designed to deal with rising sea level predicted in the seventies up to 2030, its planned lifetime. It was anticipated when built that it’d have to be raised once or twice a year by 2030. It was raised 13 times last year, is now thought to be inadequate and there are no plans in place to replace or upgrade it.

ELI5 how that works?
You put up a barrier to stop storm surge coming in from the north sea but what about the water getting out?

[Biffer]

TIL that Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster are built on an Island next to the Thames. As with so many bits of London, the rivers (in this case bits of the Tyburn) have been paved over and now run underground.

This is why it’s particularly vulnerable to flooding. And the Thames Barrier was designed to deal with rising sea level predicted in the seventies up to 2030, its planned lifetime. It was anticipated when built that it’d have to be raised once or twice a year by 2030. It was raised 13 times last year, is now thought to be inadequate and there are no plans in place to replace or upgrade it.

ELI5 how that works?
You put up a barrier to stop storm surge coming in from the north sea but what about the water getting out?

Clever engineering. But basically the problem with the Thames is when high tides come back up the river and cause flooding, rather than when water coming down the river causes flooding. So you lower it again when it’s low tide. Tides can be over seven metres in London, and more if there is a storm pushing towards the east coast.

[Uncle fester]

TIL that Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster are built on an Island next to the Thames. As with so many bits of London, the rivers (in this case bits of the Tyburn) have been paved over and now run underground.

This is why it’s particularly vulnerable to flooding. And the Thames Barrier was designed to deal with rising sea level predicted in the seventies up to 2030, its planned lifetime. It was anticipated when built that it’d have to be raised once or twice a year by 2030. It was raised 13 times last year, is now thought to be inadequate and there are no plans in place to replace or upgrade it.

ELI5 how that works?
You put up a barrier to stop storm surge coming in from the north sea but what about the water getting out?

Clever engineering. But basically the problem with the Thames is when high tides come back up the river and cause flooding, rather than when water coming down the river causes flooding. So you lower it again when it’s low tide. Tides can be over seven metres in London, and more if there is a storm pushing towards the east coast.

Interesting. Presumably there's a time limit to how long you can leave them closed? Gap between tides long enough?

[Biffer]

ELI5 how that works?
You put up a barrier to stop storm surge coming in from the north sea but what about the water getting out?

Clever engineering. But basically the problem with the Thames is when high tides come back up the river and cause flooding, rather than when water coming down the river causes flooding. So you lower it again when it’s low tide. Tides can be over seven metres in London, and more if there is a storm pushing towards the east coast.

Interesting. Presumably there's a time limit to how long you can leave them closed? Gap between tides long enough?

You only need to close them at high tide, so six hours or so max, although I am not any kind of hydrologist and a severe storm effect I suppose might need a longer closure

[PornDog]

as a fellow complete ignoramous, I'd imagine they'd close them at low tide before an anticipated high tide flooding event, so that the Thames has room to flow into?

[Biffer]

as a fellow complete ignoramous, I'd imagine they'd close them at low tide before an anticipated high tide flooding event, so that the Thames has room to flow into?

I should have said they close them *for* high tides, so you might be right. Regardless, London is at risk. If another winter storm like the one in the 50s were to settle in to the North Sea and coincided with the highest tides, the barrier might not cope.

[Niegs]

Yeah, pretty much ...

[Sandstorm]

[Niegs]

Mahoney!!!

[shaggy]

as a fellow complete ignoramous, I'd imagine they'd close them at low tide before an anticipated high tide flooding event, so that the Thames has room to flow into?

I should have said they close them *for* high tides, so you might be right. Regardless, London is at risk. If another winter storm like the one in the 50s were to settle in to the North Sea and coincided with the highest tides, the barrier might not cope.

It is closed where the high tide aligns with a storm surge, so could be as little as 1 hour either side of HHW or up to 3 hours either side of HHW.

[TB63]

And on that bombshell..

[Uncle fester]

And on that bombshell..

[Niegs]

This is pretty cool technology. Rather than a PIT, which can be dangerous, or do that multi-car box in that Brits do which causes lots of damage, cops can lasso a fricken car!?