Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

silvercar

Local news, there may be another sink hole in St Albans, near the recent one. Is there a danger inner herts will implode?

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Local news, there may be another sink hole in St Albans, near the recent one. Is there a danger inner herts will implode?

Can you throw your washing machine in the hole?

ukmaggie45

To return to housing costs around the country (I'm behind due to GrandDaughter stuff)...

8 bedroom detached property. £550,000

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35302293.html

I'm guessing that if this was in London it would be X10 that price.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can you throw your washing machine in the hole?

I'd be careful otherwise the roads will be clogged and collapsing due to the sheer weight of locals trying to dump washing machines/ spent nuclear fuel/ cooked bacon/ lost TARDISes/ whatever. And who could blame them?;)

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

Local news, there may be another sink hole in St Albans, near the recent one. Is there a danger inner herts will implode?

Please don't say that Silver...

I'm worried about Inner Herts, where it borders Outer Herts with Eastseaxe now :D

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Loud noise on the spin, rattling away. It's 10 years old, so no warranty. Also, the last wash produced black splatterings on the sheets that exactly matched the holes in the drum.

Think it is time for a new machine.

Mine did that a few years ago. I got a repair bloke out to look at it, and it was the bearings, not repairable.

michaels wrote: »

Our neighbour bought his house when it was built - in 1938.

My dad was 12 in 1938, so not really up to buying houses at that point. How old was your neighbour? He must be well over 90 by now if he was buying a house 77 years ago.

kabayiri wrote: »

When we first moved here there was a recluse who lived in the neighbouring house all his life ; 90 years.

When he went into a home, another neighbour moved into the house.

In the back garden there was a small hill towards the back of the garden. I guess we just assumed it was a hill, but it turns out that it was decades and decades of empty baked bean tins, grown over with grass :rotfl:

It turns out the recluse was a hoarder.

How sad.

vivatifosi

B

silvercar wrote: »

Local news, there may be another sink hole in St Albans, near the recent one. Is there a danger inner herts will implode?

I saw that yesterday too. There are certainly a lot of old chalk and brick works in Herts and such small scale and defunct mining appears to be behind both these and the Hemel hole last year. Such places are everywhere round here, I used to play hide and seek in the chalk pits when I first moved back here. Strangely, although I came home absolutely filthy, it somehow felt cleaner to be covered in chalk than mud.

A friend of mine bought their first home in the road that leads to the sinkhole and only moved in a couple of weeks before the sinkhole. They have been looking at the old mines maps of st albans which show mines in the vicinity of these houses, but thankfully not under hers.

I can see people actively looking at old mining records as part of their house search going forward.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Local news, there may be another sink hole in St Albans, near the recent one. Is there a danger inner herts will implode?

Our friends sold their house which was right by the original hole and even closer to the new void about 2 or 3 years ago. I bet they are pleased , but not as pleased as their buyers must be gutted. We went to a party there but didn't notice the ground feeling soft....

Apparently part of the history of the holes is that the clay pits were 'filled in' by people using them for rubbish so perhaps the plan of dumping old washing machines is not the best one....

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Our friends sold their house which was right by the original hole and even closer to the new void about 2 or 3 years ago. I bet they are pleased , but not as pleased as their buyers must be gutted. We went to a party there but didn't notice the ground feeling soft....

Apparently part of the history of the holes is that the clay pits were 'filled in' by people using them for rubbish so perhaps the plan of dumping old washing machines is not the best one....

Should be okay with a Miele. They're pretty solid. I wouldn't bung an Indesit or something down a hole though.

I've been doing some research on cyber security today. What a fascinating topic. The average US company is targeted 135 times a year and 3,000 companies in the US were unaware that they had been hacked until after the FBI called them! One company lost 200,000,000 client details. The board had been all over cyber security so the Head of IT simply lied to them about what he was doing.

Another company had 8.5 million client details sold by their Database Administrator!

What happened at Talk Talk is typical and is very likely to cost them more money than they have. If they lost 4 million customer records that will cost in the region of £400,000,000. That's more than their total profits since 2010 quite comfortably.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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Another company had 8.5 million client details sold by their Database Administrator!
...

Contextually rich customer data is worth about $40 a record; basic info about $1.5 a record.

It shows where the value is.