Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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It's on in place of half of the news at the moment, which makes hearing about it difficult to avoid for around a month each year.
- Some bloke you barely remember is doing Eurovision.
- He won't win.
- The song has been chosen.
- It's shit, or good.
- Ooh the frigging costume he's wearing.
- the performance is quite flat, or really good
- Ooh he's nervous or honoured, or realistic or someshit.
- Oh, someone dressed as a character from Sesame Street won it for Azerbaijan, and won't THAT be an interesting venue next year.
- UK came 36th, one place higher than normal
- that song no one liked is up to 347 in the charts because someone streamed it by mistake.
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Sounds like coverage of the football to me, but only for a few weeks.
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But football is important. You just have to accept that.
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Bloody NHS Cheapskates!
Went to pick up one of my repeat prescriptions today as I was running low. Pharmacist informed me that this was now hard to get hold of due to NHS shortages and unlikely to be available until......... 2026!!! Yeah, that's right! 2026!!
FFS! There aren't any viable alternatives but apparently the Drs can prescribe some unlicensed drug that might be suitable. I heard that most shortages are due to the NHS screwing the prices down so low from global suppliers that we are last in the line of people they send stuff to as the can get market value from other countries so very little incentive to send it to the UK. F'king ToryBastards.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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A solution to the pension problem? 😈
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I was vaguely aware Scotland had universal free prescriptions, but I had no idea until recently that Wales does too. Apparently the Wales prescriptions can often be cheaper options of the same drug used in England, where it's now ~£9.65 per item.
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Wales was the first to adopt free prescriptions in 2007. Saved money on admin, so Scotland followed suit in 2011.
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Having the heaviest rain (and hail) I’ve ever seen in the UK and maybe anywhere for about half an hour resulting in 75% of our ground floor getting flooded. The path outside was flooded to about 12 inches, you can see the level of the water in the side pane of the front door. As we were home and it receded in minutes after stopping we were able to clear up straightaway and back to normal after a couple of hours so hope it hasn’t done any lasting damage. Will be borrowing a dehumidifier.
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That doesn't sound trivial.
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Booger, bad luck, @Pross.
Is the outside flooding anything that can be mitigated against for future storms? Always interesting to understand how drainage failures occur... is that aspect part of your professional work?
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My mother up in Denbighshire said they had torrential rain earlier, with a river running down to the lower main road and lots of thunder, but nothing like that indoor and outdoor flooding!😲
Is the house electrics all still running ok?
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Could have been worse, it just overwhelmed all the drainage and outside cleared in minutes. It was maybe 5-10mm deep at most and as we were home we moved everything that could have got damaged. Couple of hours of hard work and it was sorted (hopefully). At least it was muddy river water. I’ve been here 25 years and only once seen water build up outside which was due to the rain flushing all the leaves out of the gutter and blocking the drain, quick arm down the gully and it cleared. Today the gully was clear (and the water drained incredibly quickly once the rain stopped.
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This is trivial. After an android update, the circle button doesn't work if I press the square one first.
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At least you've got good pictures of the rain for any insurance claim you have to make. Much better than any rain pictures I've taken. Still a bugger though. Hope everything dries out and there's no pong.
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Hope there's no lasting damage.
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Lots of hail in there which makes it show up more. Went to put my wellies on that were on the doorstep and they were full of ice!
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I guess that with a bit of maths that one could work out a shutter speed from the length of the 'raindrops' in the photo. Quick googling suggests that 25mph/40kmh might be a sensible average for haily heavy thunderstorm. Going to guess that length on second image is 5cm
40km/h = 11m/s ish
5cm = 0.0045 of 11m
Hmm, not sure that 5/1000 of a second is likely.
Perhaps my guesses are way out.
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Ooh, that's an (not) impressive amount of a rain dump. Our increasingly global warming world in action? Hope you het sorted out ok.
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1/120th of a second from the data on my phone so not too bad
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The only time I could think of that came close was a thunder storm when I was in Orlando but not even sure that was as bad. The road gullies were overflowing which is quite a feat when the road must be on a 1:6 slope so a lot of the water would flow past and they were actually cleaned out last week.
Everything drains to a single gully that takes half the roof a 12m x 2.5m drive plus the path around the front and one side of the house. It’s always coped in the past but once it couldn’t the water had nowhere else to go with the house on one side, a wall about 18 inches high to the lawn on another, the boundary wall on a third and steps down from the drive on the other with just a gap of around 6-12 inches that allows the side of the house to drain to it. At a guess it must have been effectively a tank holding around 1.5m3 of water with the gaps around the door being the only escape route. It also backed up down the side of the house and through the other door into what was the garage where I now have my office and that is 6 inches lower as it had no DPC.
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All good thanks. It didn’t get close to the level of the sockets but there were a few extension leads on the ground that we unplugged in time. We seem to have got away with it luckily, laminate floors too and I think we cleared the water before it could get through the gaps. It may have got under the lino in the garage conversion though but we always have a slight damp issue out there as it’s single block walls and no DPC.
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Nothing I can add Pross other than 🤞 all is well in the end.
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As mentioned above - wrong thread as indoors flooding definitely not trivial. Although we don't have a 'natural disasters that annoy you' thread. Yet.
Hopefully no major damage, or else hope your household insurance is up to date.
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Not as trivial as I’d hoped, the laminate flooring is bubbling up. Shame as it was the only bit of DIY I’ve been proud of, put it down around 20 years ago and it had still been in great condition. Will have the hassle of an insurance claim and having to move all the furniture around now.
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news but lower your expectations of the insurance claim. My Dad had water leak damage from an upstairs neighbour before Christmas. All will be covered by insurance, who were very nice, but it still has not been redecorated. 🤬
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That's annoying, sorry Pross
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Shit happens, at least it’s liveable not like when people get flooded from rivers.
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Shame about flooding update, hopefully not too much hassle to sort.
Why is it that almost every time rain is expected after a dry spell, I'll watch the rain band come in while vaguely looking at ride route options, but then not get out before it starts raining? Just took rubbish out and the rain appears to have started ~30mins early. Meh.
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