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Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime
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we have a single radiator that is not working. Have bled and it isn't that.
It's in our main bedroom. All the other radiators in the house are fine and warm to the touch.
any ideas anyone?0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Just checked ... and took 2. I only had 3, so now I've only got 1 left
I bought them last year, never bought tablets before but I was getting headaches.... so they're not something I usually have in.
Hope the ibuprofen tablets make you feel better. If they do, then next time you're well, buy some more to have in ready for next time you're ill. Get some more lemsips too, if that's your preferred way of taking paracetamol.
Can I add my voice to the others urging caution about paracetamol doses. Ibuprofen with lemsip is fine, but don't take anything else containing paracetamol while you're on the lemsips.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
we have a single radiator that is not working. Have bled and it isn't that.
It's in our main bedroom. All the other radiators in the house are fine and warm to the touch.
any ideas anyone?
It could be that your thermostat is stuck - if you turn the knob fully clockwise then fully anti clockwise - give the bottom of the fitment, that is the metal junction a few sharp taps that should release it for you.0 -
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Before I forget and apropos of absolutely nothing recent on here, I saw a really interesting article on the NRA while in the States. I know that conversational ship sailed about 2 weeks ago, but I thought some of the regulars might find some of it interesting.
Essentially the NRA started after the Civil War as a training group to professionalise soldiers after it was recognised that many died in the war having gone to battle with inadequate training: a noble aim. It started to spread into other areas following the Wall St Crash, when a series of high profile bank robberies and mob racketeering led to calls for gun control. At this point the NRA was a very moderate organisation and supported the gun control laws. This was the case for the following approx 40 years, until in the 1970s the moderate leaders were forced out under a coup d'etat by hard liners. The more hardline leadership has remained in control since and has been petitioning against gun control since the Reagan presidency.
Membership of the NRA has increased substantially since the school shooting and now stands at around 1.5m. Not very many but a lot of people support the rationale of the NRA without becoming a member.
The NRA is not the only pro-gun lobbying organisation in the US. A further 300,000 are members of a more hardline organisation (I want to say this is called Gun Owners of America).
47% of households in the US own at least one gun. This rises to in the 60s percent in the countryside and falls in cities. The split is also along party lines as Democrats are less likely to be gun owners.
Having listened to both sides of the argument, they do actually both have a point. The anti-gun lobby says that if you need an automatic assault rifle to go hunting, then you must be a pretty crap hunter and that laws should be brought in to improve registration, etc. The pro-gun lobby says that there are already hundreds of gun laws in statute but they aren't being enforced. So what's the point of introducing more when criminals are not being prosecuted properly for using a weapon for non-legal purposes.
This coincides with a time when the Legislature (HoR) is the most inexperienced for several decades due to a) a swathe of new members and b) the death or retirement of many experienced Congressmen/women and senators who know how to act in a bipartisan fashion.
Will be interesting to see how it plays out.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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we have a single radiator that is not working. Have bled and it isn't that.
It's in our main bedroom. All the other radiators in the house are fine and warm to the touch.
any ideas anyone?
It will either need flushed of changed.
We had one like that before we changed our boiler. I usually bleed mine when I re-pressurise the system but this one was always cold.
Was fixed when he flushed the system. A filter on your CH system is a good idea if you haven't got one. Would need a plumber to fit it though.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »I think it goes in cycles gen depending on the amount of economic/house price news. There's a lot of news at the moment on problems on the high street so its in a lot of people's minds.
I have a question for you if I may gen. I heard that the price of cigarettes in Australia has gone up to $20 a pack. In the in-flight duty free brochure I also noted that the duty free allowance to bring into Australia is now 50 cigarettes or 1 pack of rolling tobacco. Are the duty free measures new to come in line with the more stringent cigarette pricing?
It's interesting I think as it is so hard to bring cigarettes in from a second country. It's not as if there's another country that is particularly close to bring them in from, so very unlike here. I don't think it could work here, but interesting to watch Australia do it.
ETA: doh, stupid me! Of course, it was because pastures had no net access for a long time. Thanks for putting me right PN.
$20+ a pack I think (I'm a very ex-smoker). You get 25 in a packet over here though and a 'correct' FX rate to use is about $2.50 = £1 rather than the current $1.50 = £1.
The cigarette packets have no branding on them now and are kept in drawers or cupboards behind the counter. You can only have 1 till in a shop where cigs are sold so in a bottle shop (off license) with 2 tills you have to go to the right one to buy cigarettes. The packets are a colour that is a cross between a rotting olive and what I imagine an alcoholic's poo to look like.
They have a photo on the front. Choices include a young girl being given oxygen and clearly in some distress in a hospital bed, a cancerous mouth, a picture of a foot with gangrene, a picture of an eye that is about to be operated on, a man dying of lung cancer (he specifically asked the Government for his picture to be included in the list of photos for the packs before he died) and an ashtray. I have been in queues in a shop and have heard a buyer of cigarettes request that he is given a pack with a different picture.
One of the states (QLD???) is now discussing banning the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2000, effectively a rolling prohibition. Outside of the Western Suburbs, the crappier suburbs of Sydney, it is very unusual to see a white person over the age of 25 smoking these days. People from Asia smoke in larger numbers, especially those that are not from India, Pak, Bang and Sri L (i.e. what Britons call Asians).
Smoking is dying out here. Apparently 10% of Aussies smoke now. People ask smokers to desist even outdoors now and you hear the odd snide comment when a smoker gets into a lift or onto the bus.
As most people here know, I'm a Libertarian lite. I think that if someone is dumb enough to smoke then let them. I don't think Aussies agree with me. I heard a bloke on the ABC (our BBC) slagging off smokers in a pretty aggressive way for hanging a cigarette out of the car window during a total fire ban. I suspect that we're a bad bush fire away from smoking in cars being banned entirely. Already you can't smoke in a car that has a child in it.0 -
we have a single radiator that is not working. Have bled and it isn't that.
It's in our main bedroom. All the other radiators in the house are fine and warm to the touch.
any ideas anyone?
It may just be that the lockshield tap has been switched off. That's the tap at the other end of the radiator that has a cap over it, so it doesn't look like a tap.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
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It will either need flushed of changed.
We had one like that before we changed our boiler. I usually bleed mine when I re-pressurise the system but this one was always cold.
Was fixed when he flushed the system. A filter on your CH system is a good idea if you haven't got one. Would need a plumber to fit it though.
Cleaner in our system was enough to make our hallway radiator work earlier this year, and it had not worked before. Might be worth trying...it's not expensive.0
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