Be Excellent To Each Other

Absolutely the same pit-of-the-stomach feelings about it here.

The worst thing is, Corbyn is going to come in with the best intentions with his new party, but all that's going to do is split the Left Vote in half. We're going to end up with some god awful rainbow coalition with Nigel as PM

The section of motorway from Droitwich to Halesowen had been completely flag bombed a week ago, but when I drove up today there were only a few left on one bridge, so I detoured on the way back and removed those too.

Drove up from the tunnel today (M20, M25, M1,M6 toll,M6, M56,M53 route fans, must pay the Dart crossing) and all the flags I saw on the bridges were laughably shit. So bad an "I'm sorry Jean, take me back" written on a bedsheet would have more dignity

Apologies if you’ve already seen this doing the rounds already.

In my little village (and the connecting village) there’s flags on almost every lamppost on the main road. No tatty flags or slogans, just flags flapping in the wind. It looks quite nice and thought it’d be nice for any tourists visiting the area.

Sat’s a flagger! SAT’S A FLAGGER!!!

My neighbour has a flag hanging from his porch window.

Wondering the best way of nicking it without triggering his ring doorbell...

Fishing rod

A guy up the road from where I live have a St Georges cross outside their house but, it's on a proper flag pole. At least they're doing it properly.

Seconded

Genius

My mate was walking alongside a park in Streatham and said there were loads of empty packets on the floor. Then he realised, they were the packets the flags came in.

Putting up flags while littering your precious country is what these chav pricks are all about.

So they're doing the flag thing as bait, hoping someone will be seen taking them down. Obviously this isn't going to happen because it's obvious bait.

So the flag waves and flap on lampposts and bridges across the nation, resplendent in finest Chinese polyester.

BUT!

The weather doesn't stay nice for long in the UK and it will rain eventually. And it will get windy. And the flags will get tatty and dirty.

What then? Will the flag shaggers get their stepladders out and replace the flags? Will they fuck. Because just like every idea and project in this country, all the "budget" (usually money, but in this case: effort) was front loaded with no contingency in place for the future. Like every playground that goes to seed, or community garden that gets overgrown with brambles, the flags will be forgotten and neglected. And hang as a sad reminder of how pathetic nationalism is.

And what's more British than that?

Yeah I really should put that light into the living room up

FTFY

Someone recommended me a book yesterday, and I saw that it was .99p on kindle. For that price, I was more than happy to get it and even if it was crap it wouldn't bother me.

However, the battery on my kindle had was flat, I thought I would charge it up before getting the book, so I plugged it in and then forgot about the book until a few moments ago.

I just went to check and the kindle version is now £4.99

If I bought that, I would have to actually read it or I'd be really annoyed, but my worry is it would join all the other partially read books (physical and kindle) I currently have.

Is it just me or are we at the point where it's less likely that a letter/card won't make it via the post anymore?

My last four cards out (2x to mum, 1x to brother, 1x to a friend) didn't make it to their intended destinations.

We get post maybe twice a week now. Recently, I waited 10+ days for a "Tracked 48x" parcel to arrive. I just use EVRI now.

As soon as Royal Mail were allowed to add an asterisk to the "Tracked 24" and "Tracked 48" services that said that there was no guarantee of delivery within 24/48 hours respectively, I knew it was pretty much the final nail in the coffin.

Like, at that point, why not just rename the services? "Tracked Priority" and "Tracked Express" or something.

All the parcels I’ve sent this year by RM have arrived promptly.

I can rely on every other Wednesday being Private Eye day, and nothing else has been late for me. Postie collected a 48-hr tracked from me yesterday so I'll see if that works as well.

My mum (NW10) gets parcel and small packet delivery once a week, on a Wednesday. Every Wednesday all mail arrives at once.

I was going to say that our mail delivery wasn’t too bad, but I have only today received a Tracked 48 small packet sent on August 18th.

Yeah, parcels no problem. But envelopes, big problem.

Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns

Extract:
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a warning about what it calls the "worrying trend" of students hacking their own school and college IT systems for fun or as part of dares.

It has told teachers that they are failing to understand and recognise what it calls the "insider threat" pupils pose.

A guy I work with (a completely fucking useless waste of space and money) has switched from Labour to Reform. So much so that he actually went to the Reform conference. He's also caught religion in a really big way this year for some reason. Literally one of the worst people I've ever known too, so the religion thing hasn't improved him at all.

My village suddenly has a few flags in it. On the plus side, they're Union Jacks (or whatever, I know the flag isn't called that technically) but I prefer it to a red cross England flag thing as I can imagine it's just a village doing village-y things and it makes me think of Bake Off. But no doubt they were put up under cover of darkness by some right fucking chief.

There are a couple of union flags on M5 bridges by Worcester. They've got some bloke's face on them.

Presumably a cunt, whoever he is.

I've always had uneasy and confused feelings about flag flying. Superiority, protectionism, exclusionism, I dunno, and I know there's supposed to be some difference between patriotism, nationalism and racism but I've never been sure what it is.

Had to buy a magnetonnastick as I lost a pingfukkit (somewhere in the mudroom) which I need to make the new bit for my bike work.

I love my magnetonasticks, especially the one with the little torch in the tip.

It arrived, then I thought "Oh, the pingfukkit is probably made of aluminium"

You'll just have to find somewhere that sells the right kind of pingfukkit.

Or ..... you could walk around the room with bare feet for a while.

I’m battling with myself over the ‘need’ for a turntable with a speed select switch as it’s a right pain in the arse constantly taking the platter off the one in my office to change the belt onto the 33/45 pulley while I’m cleaning and playtesting the hundreds of dance 12”s I have.

As much as I'm a super-saving minimalist, I'm also a firm believer in buying things that you've got a good use case for. If you feel conflicted, sell something on eBay to balance it out.

That's basically been me for the last eight years.

I don’t eBay nowadays since they’re wanting my NI number. But yeah. I always use trades/record money to buy goodies.

That's a need, 100%

My home internet bundle has been upgraded from 1000/50 to 1000/100.

Due to some of the inherent losses in wifi, distance, obstuctions etc the top speed I get id about 650/100 on my wireless devices which is still far more than I had last year with the previous telco (and cheaper too!), and also plenty sufficient for what I actually need and do.... but I still find myself wanting a bit more and like I'm chasing a high score

Thanks for the purchase approval Sir Taxalot

Items will arrive in discrete plain brown packaging x

Ordered a new pingfukkit but I don't know what the old one looks like so I guessed

If it doesn't fit, gorilla or loctite.

Or vaseline.

The suspense is killing me.

Is this still about Speedos?

Depends on your interpretation of 'pingfukkit.'

There's a lovely photo of me wearing them with an alpine lake and mountains in the background.

Leave it there.

What's your hi score blud?

Peak, my G