Bellend Sebastian

I took too long trying to work this out yesterday and not getting anywhere with it

My Dad took early retirement from the council at 57. 57! He's 85 now and I'm pretty confident he's not been bored or regretted that at any point. I think I'm like him in that I've never had trouble filling my time (I don't recall feeling bored at any point since I was a child other than occasionally at the King Power and watching The Hurt Locker) so I'd jump at the chance. I might find myself in your situation depending on how long the olds last and how much care they end up needing, so not really something I can plan for, but if the opportunity comes up I'm all over it

It's spreading! It's a bit weird - looking on the internet it doesn't feel like a thing, and a couple of folk I've spoken to who have been talking to the charger providers have said they struggled to get them to grasp what has happened. I'm not rushing to get mine fixed, that's for sure. If anyone has theirs nicked or someone tells you it's happened to them, please encourage them to report it to the police. In WP several of them have gone unreported, it's bonkers

Oh yeah, always. Finances are squeezed in the lower income groups and property crime goes up, completely predictable. In the 80s and 90s people would break into your car for the shittest stuff - my brother had a car radio nicked that had half of its front plate already snapped off. Since then we've had phases of fuel pipes being cut and petrol tanks drained, catalytic converters being pinched, lead off building roofs etc etc. There's always something

Where do you live? I've not heard of any new ones in Western Park. My sparky reckons there's about 3-5 quid's worth scrap value in a standard domestic EV cable. Having looked at the cross section of mine now it's been cut, there's really not that much metal in there - it's mainly plastic - maybe twice as much as a standard mains cable? The profit relative to the cost of putting it right is bonkers

I would've agreed 100% but I've just been told it's nearly 400 quid to replace the cable. I don't think I'll bother - I use it so rarely it will be cheaper for me to top it up at Sainsbury's than pay that

Telegraph making stuff up about pension tax free cash again, I see

Oh man. Get well soon

I read this and thought, whilst most would expect her own experience and empathy would make her a natural fit for such a role, it sounds like her own trauma has taken her to a rather strange place. So yes, it's weird, and I can understand why folk would be horrified but I'd be really concerned for this individual

People not reporting crime, and particularly not reporting it and then moaning about crime. I know a Batman-like response from the police is unlikely but even less likely is them solving or allocating resources to crimes they don't know about

I don't know what the risk is, to be honest. Mine was plugged in but the charging would have finished by the time it was cut (charger end first, then the car end), but whether he would have known that I've no idea. I think it tripped the fuse it's on as there's no light on the unit now

I'm not sure what cost of repair is yet, but I know someone with a different one who has been quoted £200. I'm lucky enough to be able to charge at work most of the time so won't rush to do anything. Quite surprised to be honest, assumed it was just a local saddo. Someone needs to come up with a solution for this, as unlike most of the hysterical crap that gets shared about EVs, I can see why this would be really off-putting. A bloke near me encased his in a really sturdy wooden box yesterday, possibly because the theory was that they wanted the cable and connector but that doesn't seem to be the case as they took mine when it was plugged in to the car, so literally just took a bit of cable. You can secure the unit as much as you want, but they'll just nick the cable when you use it

Exciting new pain in the arse for EV owners where I live; at least 11 of us have had our cables snipped and half-inched. Scrap value is apparently negligble, so about as small and twatty a crime as you could have. £200ish to fix though. Doesn't really seem to be a thing anywhere else, Leicester really blazing a trail for low reward/high inconvenience offences

My recollection is that expectations around the Olympics were pretty low, and that they went well both in terms of the medal count and the events themselves was a bit of light relief against the backdrop of a pretty grim couple of years. Also that I missed the opening ceremony as I was fitting a roof box to my Astra and it absolutely did my head in

All those other robots would be at least twice as good if they said that as well. "Bite my shiny metal ass, Dorothy!" I can imagine K9 saying it, definitely

I wrote a really enthusiastic - possibly overenthusiastic - review of barbecue sauce flavour Monster Munch for Sainsbury's and they didn't even use it

Marvin the Paranoid Android basically is me, so sorting out a job share to give me more leisure time

Surely I'm not the first to ask, which robot: R2D2 : As if, the bleeping twat Robbie: Hopeless C3P0: Possibly T1000: Tearing humans a new arsehole may be seen as a useful skill but ultimately not conducive to a management role Cylons: As above Metal Mickey: Absolute joker Tin Man: Spineless, would cry on the job K9: Get real Bender: Best of the lot

The captains of industry are circling, they don't let talent like that fall by the wayside

Can't believe that Reform's child councillor has left his position as deputy leader of the County Council and lead for adult social care after just 3 months in the two posts

You forgot to add 'and is provided strictly on a bloke down the pub basis', like I always do

EE full fibre service is very good where I am and the support when needed has actually been excellent. Only downside is that their current router doesn't allow you to separate out the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands (it's all managed automatically, supposedly) which can sometimes be a pain in the arse for things that still use the former, like security cameras, doorbells, bulbs and the like

Those bloody randomly selected woke juries at it again, making decisions based on the evidence presented after someone is arrested, charged and the case deemed of sufficient seriousness to go to Crown Court. Stop getting the two tier justice system (which must exist because people say it does and why would they lie) wrong!!! Personally I'm quite relieved as I made that gesture when I brought a hot Christian girl out and my mate proceeded to tell us in great detail about how he'd just been listening to an NWA track where Eazy-E was so cross about a romantic interaction with a transexual that he shot their genitalia off (apparently Eazy-E is no longer with us, unsure to what extent he's missed if this is what he gets up to), so it's good to know that this doesn't automatically lead to incarceration

Not running much and eating absolute shite at the minute, but weight staying the same for now as the all the good stuff gradually turns to mush

Imagine if all they left me was their phone (a crap one)