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Post by technoish on Jan 9, 2023 19:34:10 GMT
It's friggin expensive for schools also...
They were talking about struggling to keep classroom temps at 18 degrees...
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Jan 10, 2023 0:02:33 GMT
I keep a bag of frozen pineapple in the freezer to put on it. A few minutes in the air fryer to char and then onto the pizza. Lovely stuff. Shirley this would be more of a dehydrating process than a char. Which makes it even more perverted. May as well throw some sultanas on that flattened fruit scone. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 10, 2023 7:41:45 GMT
It’s still lovely and juicy but you get a touch of caramelisation
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Post by damagedinc on Jan 10, 2023 9:52:53 GMT
For anyone that loves takeaway curry I highly recommend aktarathome. It’s better than takeaway (by a Michelin star chef) and is £70ish for what would cost about £120 as takeaways and can be frozen etc. How do i thank you for pointing me in the direction of this. Looks amazing |
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 10, 2023 12:15:33 GMT
It is. You’ll probably get a 10% off code after the first one.
They do other boxes too, we had the bbq one last year but that’s hard to get through in less than a couple of months as it’s so meat heavy unless you’re having people around.
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Post by dmukgr on Jan 10, 2023 14:54:07 GMT
I'd forgotton about akatarathome but used them a few times during lockdown. A single box lasted for ages with just me and the misses and we used them instead of takeaway. I'll have to start up using them again  |
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 10, 2023 15:05:08 GMT
Anyone on here in a trade? Do you sleep on cash and gold? Had a few quotes lately for various jobs and they are laughable how much they asking for. Today's was a want a very small drive done, needs some drains put in but it's basically just remove the old stuff and tarmac the small area. Wanted £7500. Like they just plucking random numbers from the air?
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Post by Goban on Jan 10, 2023 15:23:12 GMT
Cost of any sort of building work is daft at the moment. In saying that tarmac has always been a stupid price.
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Post by Goban on Jan 10, 2023 15:25:35 GMT
What are people's thoughts on interest rates, are they going to go up much more?
My mortgage adviser has said he can lock on a new rate 6 months before my current deal is up. Seems like a sensible thing to do the way things are right now.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jan 10, 2023 15:29:48 GMT
When the shit hit the fan when Truss was PM rates were forecast to go up to 6%. Now things have calmed down a bit 4.5% seem the figure bandied about.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 10, 2023 15:41:10 GMT
We had that meeting today. I’m thinking the two year variable seems like the sensible option. Locking in five years at the moment feels like that would actually be the gamble.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 15:43:25 GMT
I got 1.69% on a 5yr last year which I was happy with. Before shit really started kicking off.
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 10, 2023 16:04:59 GMT
I got 2.5% just after Russia invaded for 5 years as a first time buyer. Think I just missed out on about 2.2 by about a month as that's when everything started shooting up. My friend just got a mortgage this month and she is paying £80 a month less than me but has borrowed £180,000 less than me, just shows how mental the rates are just 10 months later.
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Post by technoish on Jan 10, 2023 16:08:17 GMT
Anyone on here in a trade? Do you sleep on cash and gold? Had a few quotes lately for various jobs and they are laughable how much they asking for. Today's was a want a very small drive done, needs some drains put in but it's basically just remove the old stuff and tarmac the small area. Wanted £7500. Like they just plucking random numbers from the air? Yeah that's how I feel sometimes too. Always ask for breakdown into labour and materials and people/days. Really good trades have given very detailed itemised breakdowns before I even asked for them. |
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Post by elstoof on Jan 10, 2023 16:26:01 GMT
Couldn’t you call those builders you were getting beers and hotdogs in for a few years back revan
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Post by grey_matters on Jan 11, 2023 11:50:21 GMT
Back in the caravan last night after a lovely 3 weeks in a real house with the family. I recommend a heated seat cover for your office chair for those working at home in the coming months. It kept the legs, buttocks, and lower back toasty for hours at less than 30 watts. A t-shirt and normal hoody were fine in 7⁰C although another layer with long arms would have been better. I got mine in Lidl for next to nothing but they're all over the place. Don't forget to get a 12V adapter if you have one designed for a car.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 11, 2023 12:51:34 GMT
Fucking hell. I'm just about to go outside for a walk and it's a few degrees warmer than that.
Hopefully not a long term thing?
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Post by grey_matters on Jan 11, 2023 13:14:23 GMT
Fucking hell. I'm just about to go outside for a walk and it's a few degrees warmer than that. Hopefully not a long term thing? 4 or 5 days a week while our house is being renovated/rebuilt, and a 6 hour train commute back to the family on weekends (staying with my partners parents during this phase). 8 months down, 4 or 5 to go. Normally I'm fine with the cold but it was tough during the proper cold snap, thankfully I got a loan of a generator from a neighbour and my own was delivered just after I left pre-Christmas so I'll sort that out tonight. Butane should boil at these temps too and I have a carbon monoxide alarm to test that with. Should be fine. Air quality and mildew are the main concern now, need to do better on that front. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 11, 2023 13:39:43 GMT
This is the point where the camera cuts to Kevin McCloud to tell us how youve gone eight times over budget due to the builders uncovering an ancient Saxon burial ground where you wanted to locate your basement cinema room.
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Post by smoothpete on Jan 11, 2023 13:58:39 GMT
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Post by kingbambino on Jan 11, 2023 14:13:57 GMT
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Post by grey_matters on Jan 11, 2023 14:17:28 GMT
This is the point where the camera cuts to Kevin McCloud to tell us how youve gone eight times over budget due to the builders uncovering an ancient Saxon burial ground where you wanted to locate your basement cinema room. Hah! In fairness, an ancient Saxon burial ground in the south east of Ireland would be pretty noteworthy. None of that but we did find a car pit under the old shitty extension which cost a small fortune to get out. At least it wasn't bodies, guns, or drugs (a previous tenant was terrorist and drug dealer apparently). And on top of all the extra price increases over the last 2 years I'm surprised I haven't developed a twitch. It will all be worth it in the end. Not monetarily of course. /twitch |
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Post by dogbot on Jan 16, 2023 13:00:51 GMT
In "news that'll surprise no one" news, company that's made record billions of profits says that it wants to continue making record billions of profits that we all pay for and it'll sulk and go elsewhere if it's not allowed to continue doing so, particularly if it's not allowed to continue doing so using fossil fuels... www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64270157Cunts. |
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Post by richardiox on Jan 16, 2023 14:09:16 GMT
In "news that'll surprise no one" news, company that's made record billions of profits says that it wants to continue making record billions of profits that we all pay for and it'll sulk and go elsewhere if it's not allowed to continue doing so, particularly if it's not allowed to continue doing so using fossil fuels... www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64270157Cunts. 20 billy in pre tax profits from July to September only? Fuck King Hell. |
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Post by geefe on Jan 16, 2023 14:47:57 GMT
Rarely stop in to this depressing thread but saw those comments and wanted to kneecap the cunt.
You HAVE the money to invest, so fucking do it then. Oh, what's that? You don't want to?
That's why taxes (should, if we had a functioning government and Europe-wide approach) happen.
Evidence shows Europe will be hit hardest by climate change and fossil fuels running out. Even if you made all the money in the world, if you've not spent it on stuff that makes your house warm in winter, it's fucking pointless.
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Post by jeepers on Jan 16, 2023 14:56:15 GMT
Whut? Europe the worst hit? By what measures?
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Post by bichii2 on Jan 16, 2023 15:03:43 GMT
Couldn’t you call those builders you were getting beers and hotdogs in for a few years back revan I was renting then and miss those days when I found a problem like damp and just called the agency and it was fixed. Now I make some calls and it's £1500 to fix stuff like that. Ouch. |
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Post by grey_matters on Jan 16, 2023 15:14:17 GMT
For a bit more money than the heated car seat you can get a heated vest/gilet powered by a USB power bank in its pocket. Might be more useful for people working from home to wander about the house in but stay warm.
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 16, 2023 15:24:05 GMT
For a bit more money than the heated car seat you can get a heated vest/gilet powered by a USB power bank in its pocket. Might be more useful for people working from home to wander about the house in but stay warm. Or just get a 50m USB cable. |
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Post by geefe on Jan 16, 2023 15:34:52 GMT
Whut? Europe the worst hit? By what measures? By the impact of change to lifestyles. I believe the metric was that the change and the process of change itself would be most felt by Europe. Using made up figures, the gist is... Nigeria's average yearly temp going from 25C to 32C isn't as big an impact as Norway's going from 8C to 15C, despite both experiencing 7 increases |
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