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    Minor complaints thread

    my very sporty 12 year old nephew has been on three different antibiotics for a chest infection and pneumonia over the last two weeks. he passed the chest infection to his brother, who has now passed it to my mother who is now on antibiotics.
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    Insomnia

    i've not tried it, but have read that the best approach is to have coffee and go for a nap - the coffee takes about 15 minutes to kick in so as you wake, you get a double boost.
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    Insomnia

    I'm an enthusiastic napper. Will do for a 20 minute snooze most days.
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    Home improvement

    you mean he had a secret trick, or that they were barely hanging on the wall?
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    Jaysus cycling!

    IIRC the netherlands has seen a near doubling of fatalities in the last ten years - but that's driven mainlyby the elderly getting back on bikes, with the surge in popularity of e-bikes. they don't have the reaction times, or the survivability, that younger cyclists do.
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    People Who Died

    the only bit of that show i think i've seen is a clip of yer man on stage attacking the idea that america is great; starts out well-ish, then descends into godawful 'well it was great when i was a kid' do i have the right show?
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    Climate change global warming natural disaster freak weather etc.

    The pearl clutching meter has started emitting smoke. https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/06/19/stonehenge-sprayed-with-orange-paint-by-just-stop-oil-protesters/
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    i think it was too much to manage that on top of crimson. he's had a busy few months; marriage broke up and he was diagnosed with ADHD
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    yer man ben crowe of crimson guitars has closed down his business which bought and restored old tools, and sold them on.
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    Celebrity Creeps Thread

    joey barton called vine a nonce. vine says 'that'll be 75k please'. barton says 'fuck you, you're a double nonce' barton then offers 75k and vine says, no, that ship sailed.
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    maybe i'll treat myself to a violin plane.
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    yep, i'm considering a curved top - just rechecked the maple i have, 27mm thick. allowing for a bodge job resawing, i'm hoping to still have a 10mm+ thick top to shape.
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    yep; he was working on a drawer bottom when i arrived, planing 3mm off a piece of pine probaby 40cm by 60cm. that looked like work.. he was using a nice no.7 though.
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    Home improvement

    yep, that happens a lot of them. did the same in my last house. friends of mine got one a few years ago, it makes a good rustic planter in their garden.
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    Home improvement

    an old metal water tank? the likes you'd have found in an attic?
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    i was given that maple by that lad i know in north county dublin, he's got a sizable collection of wood. he gave me a 30 inch length (about an inch thick and 7 wide) from a plank probably 12 foot long. he's got many cubic metres of wood there of all sorts.
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    DIY Guitar Messing About

    i got a 20-something mm thick piece of maple to use for the top of the body; not highly figured, alas, but i do know someone with a bandsaw which should have a resaw capacity of six inches; so i'll resaw it and bookmatch it hopefully.
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    European and local elections 2024

    let's say hackett got the job (and ossian smyth has weighed in behind her) - that'd leave only FF and FG of the 'established' parties with male leaders.
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    Celebrity Creeps Thread

    Probably an apt thread for this? As one of the replies states, he fucked around and found out.
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