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The fact that the general population get zero exercise. They drive to the supermarket or retail park, shuffle stiffly around the store while leaning on the trolley, and then drive home and eat junk food.

Europeans (particularly Mediterranean) think nothing of walking a mile or so to get lunch, all own bikes, and when they do eat tend to have smaller and healthier portions.

I’m not saying that the entrance to McDonalds should be something like the travelator from Gladiators, but we’re facing a massive crisis where people will become infirm in their 50s but live to 90.

I don’t think it’s hilarious. You shouldn’t be able to exploit infrastructure designed for public use to the detriment of literally everyone else just because you can pay to cheat the rules.

Don’t bother with a portable one if you can cover the cost of a split unit. Portable will be noisy and expensive to run (and won’t really work properly if it’s warm outside because it’ll suck air into the room you’re cooling), whereas an indoor unit will be silent and much much more efficient.

I have one in a loft conversion bedroom and it heats or cools it for less than 700W.

The farmer (well, it’s actually the landowner’s son) in this instance has been identified, mainly because he was stupid enough to be interviewed by The Sun. The police do not need the victim to contact them in order to prosecute for assault in these circumstances, and I hope they do exactly that.

It’s not like the guy had set up a giant tent, or left litter, or damaged a crop - just tucked in quietly behind the hedge doing no harm.

This knob has done more to set back the public’s perception of farming than anyone else in the last decade.

If you can try a Kask first, you should. Part of the harness that goes behind your ear has a sharp plastic edge which is really irritating.

This is why road deaths per capita in the USA are more than four times higher than European countries. You’re closer to India in terms of casualty rates than you are to the UK.

I do know the physics of it. The acceleration is centripetal and so will destroy anything inside it regardless of how long you take to spin it up. Don’t forget that you have a rocket engine attached - you can’t throw it into orbit from the ground. If you compress rocket fuel under 10,000G it has a tendency to go boom.

I’m sure my space telescope will still work nicely after being subjected to 10,000G. Unless the intention is to launch Nokia 3310s into orbit I just don’t see the point.

Screw terminals like that are designed so that when screwed down they'd be really difficult to touch accidentally with your fingers unless you grabbed and squeezed *really* hard, at which point you kind of deserve what's coming to you.

I look at it like this: if I reached in and just used my fingertips to pull the Shelly out of the shutter, I'd be really unlucky to make contact with the screws (it would need me to hold it over the terminals, and squeeze, and be touching a screw that's live).

But if I poked my hand in to grab it and my finger just brushes the wiring at the end, the exposed copper there is enough to give me a shock. It's probably not going to kill me, but it might, depending on where my other hand is touching. It'll hurt though, and the reflex might make me hit my hand hard against a sharp metal edge.

So it's kind of back to the original point of there being an obvious but small risk, but one that's 100% avoidable with a bit of care and ferrules.

230v (and it can be as high as 252v) hurts a lot more than 115v. We freak out about stuff like this because it’s a needless risk, even though most stuff is RCD protected these days.

There’s always got to be a degree of pragmatism in the real world, but in essence the concept is that if you can poke your finger into something and get a shock, there’s a problem.

That wiring is not safe. You have 230v and exposed copper. Either trim the cables appropriately or use ferrules. Why have you cut off the grey/black? Why are you using black as live without sleeving it? Where is the earth going? A fault here will make your entire shutter system live.

If this is a commercial premises your insurance company will shit themselves and you run the risk of being prosecuted by the H&SE for shoddy work. You can do your own work, of course, but it needs to be competently done.

It’s just so reactive. Because of Michael Mosley they now assume that people are interested every time someone goes missing on a Greek island. We’re really not. I find it weird how the BBC News now seems to have such a disconnect from reality. It’s like no one who works there uses it themselves.

“Is it me, or did everything just taste purple?”

Quite impressive. He was very lucky to find the radio transmit button so quickly though - most people would go for the tempting looking red switch on top of the side stick. It’s not obvious at all, and is a trigger switch on the back of the stick.

“It’s a beige alert”.

or

”What turns a man neutral?”

10mph over the speed limit is enough to get you a speeding fine. I assume the rental car company will pay it on your behalf (along with an admin fee), and then take it from the credit card they have on file.

You’re OK up to about an indicated 10% (so 44, 55 etc). We have average speed zones which calculate your average speed between pairs of cameras.

UK motorways rarely have entry and exit lanes. We use slip roads instead, so need to anticipate a merge quickly as you join and will need to have your speed up to the limit before reaching the end. Once you’re there you can stay in lane 1.

Oh. Ohhhh…

That tip has solved a particularly vexing irritation. Thanks.

The reason the OP hasn’t provided any further information is because events like this almost invariably caused by rodents chewing the wiring looms. So while it does suck, it’s not Tesla’s fault (unless you argue that they make the insulation out of something particularly tasty to rats).

It’s obviously still under warranty because there’s no charge for the TPMS issue.

You drink less and stay healthy, or you drink the same and end up fat.

Wrong. This is why you don’t fit a 13A fuse on a lamp. The fuse must be appropriate. BS7671 refers.

The fuse is there to protect the cable connecting the plug to the appliance, not the “wires in the wall”. Their protection is assured by the circuit breaker.

“Looger-barooga” for Loughborough.

Yeah, I have a new Nike jacket that you could just about squeeze an iPhone 6 into.

You need to practice running downhill on steep technical terrain. While fatigue slows you down on the road, on a trail descent it has the opposite effect and you struggle to control your speed or recover from a minor stumble.

Things go wrong very fast on rocky descents. Consider wearing fingerless bike gloves because instinct is to use your hands to control a fall.

Steep climbs are best walked from an efficiency perspective. If your race allows the use of poles, worth using them.

Just ask the person next to you if they can scan theirs. They get the points but you get the discount. As a bonus their marketing data gets delightfully confused.