muddycoffee

I'm willing to give it a go but can't imagine it will be anything like as good as the real one.

Why the hostility toward wasps?

Have you got stang off a wasp, to use the Viz parlance ?

On ‎15‎/‎10‎/‎2020 at 15:45, Thirsty Relic said:

Yes, I suppose it could be the cable-laying, but I wouldn't have thought they'd be at at around midnight, when I had my power cut

If you need to splice a new cable in, Midnight would seem a good choice to me when the load is vastly reduced and most people are in bed.

One of my colleagues was waken up with a big explosion up the hill from Woodseats, somewhere below Derbyshire lane. It could have been something to do with an electrical fault maybe?

Also some workmen are laying new electrical cables across the area, Down Cobner, along Chesterfield road and up Holmhirst. It is a big trench with new cable ducting in it.

Not sure whether this is a standard  upgrade or renewal or something more urgent due to lack of capacity/fault.

18 hours ago, geared said:

Currently people get home from work, shove the charger in, it starts charging and they go inside.  This will lead to massive peak evening demand if significant numbers of people are using EV's.

My understanding of the issue is that to preserve the Battery and make it last for as many years as possible, the battery is charged more gradually overnight and not to 100%.

So there wouldn't be a massive peak evening demand, the charging demand comes through the middle of the night, but it is spread out over many hours depending upon the charging profile.

Sadly I have been expecting this for some time.

He had part of his tongue removed some years ago and I heard that he wasn't well enough to have a hip operation at least 10 years ago.

I have been a fan of Van Halen since the late 1980s when my music choices were vastly increased by being a full time student with people from all over the UK. The Early Albums were truly ground-breaking and a showpiece of brilliant lead guitar innovation.

Many people are only familiar with their more Commercial hits like Jump and the other great tunes on the 1984 album. To understand what made Eddie one of the greats, I believe you have to listen to the VHI, VHII, Diver Down and Women and Children first.

What a sound the band had. What innovation from Eddie's Guitar and his finger tapping technique, now a mainstay of lead guitar playing.

39 minutes ago, butlers said:

The Democrats have won more votes in 6 or the last 7 presidential elections .

Yes and four of those 7 resulted in a Democratic President.

I've been watching the recent Trump stuff with great interest. All the channels I have seen reporting trump speeches and comments portray him as an unhinged psychopath with dementia symptoms.

The fact that he has given prominent positions to his own family members is frankly bizarre.

The BBC politely report that his use of the White House to deliver Election Speeches as Unconstitutional and possibly even illegal. While Biden appears to be a safe and sensible prospect.

The BBC radio have Republican speakers interviewed to put their side of the story, but they don't come across as normal. It would be easy to conclude from this side of the Atlantic that Biden will win easily.

However I don't believe it. Trump did have the support to win last time although it was close and I just don't believe that we are being presented with an unbiased view of the situation.

I think we should expect that Trump will probably win as that is what normally happens to an incumbent president.

Whether we like it or not.

Having listened clearly to scientists about this matter, it seems that the test is only partly reliable with so many false positives that it is not usual to test people who don't have symptoms for Covid-19.

Even people who work in hospitals can't get a Covid test unless they  currently show enough of the symptoms.

The only way to prove you are Covid Free is to isolate for 14 days.

They have always run up there as far as I remember.

You might find that some projectors and TVs have several models with the same plugs and hardware. The cheaper versions could have different firmware installed which doesn't access the extra ports but the more expensive has all features working.

This way manufacturers can have models available at 2 or more price points and get more of the market while only requiring 1 manufacturing facility.

3 hours ago, Be My Bubble said:

I don't drive into city centres because they are complicated with fines for being in the wrong lane, inappropriate  signage, too fast, have cramped parking areas,  tight manoeuvring around obstacles and varied inconsistent restrictions. Get around those and i would be happy to use the City centre again.

Please hand in your driving licence. You clearly are not competent to be driving a vehicle if you cannot negotiate the very simple traffic system in Sheffield city centre.

And what ever you do, don't be tempted to drive across London or Leeds.

2.4 Ghz wifi channel is normally fixed and set by the person who sets up the router.  So there is a chance that several neighbours are running on the same channel, and this means that they all have slightly less performance as they are using the same frequencies.

If you get a network scanning tool like inSSISer  Or one of several available on android, you can scan your area and find the unused channels. This enables you to set your router up with 2.4GHz in a less crowded space and increase your wi-fi performance.

5GHz works really fast by joining up its adjacent channels so it selects channels automatically, you don't set anything.

However the advantage of 2.4 GHz is that it reaches further like out to the car or down the garden. whereas 5 GHz goes much faster but you have to be fairly near your access point,

What internet Browser are you using ?

It works much better now on an "up to date" browser like Microsoft Edge,  or the latest Google Chrome or Safari if you use a mac.

YouTube is under global pressure to sort out its platform as there has been a history of people posting dodgy content. Such as harmful conspiracy stuff and religious radicalisation content.

In a similar vein Twitter now does not work on Internet explorer.

It is annoying but it is just good housekeeping to update these platforms to provide better security, screening and performance.

It's blindingly obvious when you walk down the moor as the café is in the window. Was always well used.

You had me worried then I thought you were talking about BBC radio 4.

I didn't even know there was a BBC TV 4

2 minutes ago, Halibut said:

Churchill managed both very successfully wouldn't you say? 

The problem here is that the great majority of people and especially leaders had a very different view of ethnic origin that we do today.

I know one of my grandparents had a very old fashioned and fairly offensive viewpoint in the 1970s and 80s which became far less bad before they died in the 1990s

A few years ago in Hungary, I visited the communist statue park. This was an out of town museum in the open, out of town full of communist era statues that used to be in prominent places in the region. There was information and pictures explaining what they meant to the people at the time and where they stood. Some were plain and others elaborate and vast. It was informative and enjoyable. There were also souvenirs and a visitor centre.

Instead of destroying or storing old statues out of view, we should consider this kind of thing, making a feature out of them and giving students and interested people a place to see and study them.

j4wm,

In respect of your enquiry about "duff bombs".  I believe that the bombs dropped on Sheffield during WWII were not all the same type.

As well as large bombs there were also incendiary devices;

http://www.ww2airdroppedordnance.com/incendiary-bombs.html

These were not for blowing buildings up, they were used to start fires. I know of sites around Sheffield where these bombs were dropped and caused damage to property and this was later repaired. 

On ‎24‎/‎05‎/‎2020 at 12:40, *_ash_* said:

I've just been looking again at the map (google maps) Did they move the lines to build this then?

If you look at the next 2 bridges towards town, you can see the empty space at the side of the current lines, but then at the next bridge towards Dore, the space is on the other side.

 

(either way - how was this allowed?!)

Yes. The Lines were long gone (15 years?)  before Tesco was built. If you look at the Southern Railway Bridge of Archer Road. It is Adjacent to the old Station building. The distance between the Current lines and the Station Building is where the old pair of Local Lines are missing. Next there are two blocks of Industrial units before Tesco all built on the track bed.

As to why was this allowed. Most of these new buildings have been there  over 20 years, when the UK had had 30 years of neglect of the Railways. It probably wasn't considered likely that they would expand again. The 1980s was still  the motorway age when it was assumed everyone was better driving cars, this only came to a slow halt in the 1990s with the protests against M40 and Newbury Bypass signalled the change in public and political mood.

The most obvious question is why did people do this in the first place. Hard labour for the sake of it.

HS2 was/is set to skirt the edge of Rother valley. Maybe the land is now reserved for construction.

10 hours ago, lobster said:

You would be surprised just how many Millionaires there are in Sheffield , most are hard working unassuming people that  just get on with their lives 

It depends how you count being "a Millionaire". (Assets value + Lifetime earnings) would put quite a proportion of the Local population in that bracket.

£25k (Average) x 40 years means most people now will earn that anyhow over a working career.

The Main stumbling block to this plan is that local trains can't share the same rails as express trains because they would hold them up and cause delays. In 1903 the tracks were quadrupled so that local and express trains could operate side by side. In the 1980s the tracks were reduced to just a pair again after the local stations had closed in 1968.

These slow lines now can't be reinstated because the large Tesco at Abbeydale Road is built across that part of the track bed. The bridges and most of the rest of the track bed is still there, between Dore and Midland Station.

Not at all. You are just moving the problem 50 yards, but probably increasing the costs massively .

The whole point of a recycling centre like Blackstock Road is that is isn't just a "Tip", but a system for getting local householders and their vehicles to enter in a orderly fashion while making sure no dodgy people dump builder's waste or industrial waste there. It is run by a private company so the staff are adequate for what is required and not just hanging around.

If you don't like it hire a skip.

As the virus molecules are deactivated by UV light anyhow. It would be unlikely to be viable outside for very long and to ingest enough viral load to catch the virus from a pavement you would have to spend quite some time sniffing a particular spot on the ground.