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Reclad and insulated Airey houses. Shame. There's an entire estate of untouched ones near me. I always liked them as they remind me of older farm workers cottages. If someone put some nice forest green timber windows in them and left the outsides as they were they'd look fantastic IMHO.
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reclad and insulated Airey houses. Shame. There's an entire estate of untouched ones near me. I always liked them as they remind me of older farm workers cottages. If someone put some nice forest green timber windows in them and left the outsides as they were they'd look fantastic IMHO.
1820s-1840s refacing of an 1600s timber frame.
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
1820s-1840s refacing of an 1600s timber frame.
The avg. person "Well I sure do hope the economy isn't attached to that!"
*Points out the window at the test ground*
Meanwhile the manhole in Operation Plumbob's Pascal B test leaves earth's atmosphere at 170x the speed of sound on its merry way to the outer rim.
That guy; "Don't worry about it."
*Points out the window at the test ground*
Meanwhile the manhole in Operation Plumbob's Pascal B test leaves earth's atmosphere at 170x the speed of sound on its merry way to the outer rim.
That guy; "Don't worry about it."
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The avg. person "Well I sure do hope the economy isn't attached to that!"
*Points out the window at the test ground*
Meanwhile the manhole in Operation Plumbob's Pascal B test leaves earth's atmosphere at 170x the speed of sound on its merry way to the outer rim.
That guy; "Don't worry about it."
*Points out the window at the test ground*
Meanwhile the manhole in Operation Plumbob's Pascal B test leaves earth's atmosphere at 170x the speed of sound on its merry way to the outer rim.
That guy; "Don't worry about it."
Rule of thumb - if it's something Europe did between the years 1936 and 1945 and we've never done it ever since, then there's a very good reason why we shouldn't be doing it now. You never drink from a poisoned lake twice.
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Rule of thumb - if it's something Europe did between the years 1936 and 1945 and we've never done it ever since, then there's a very good reason why we shouldn't be doing it now. You never drink from a poisoned lake twice.
I see the 2008 poverty safari is alive and well, trophy hunting the elusive Ryobi 18 Volt One Plus Drill. Despite the obvious part it was his party that told police not to bother with this kind of thing in the first place. He was literally at the table "If only we could find the person who did thi!"
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I see the 2008 poverty safari is alive and well, trophy hunting the elusive Ryobi 18 Volt One Plus Drill. Despite the obvious part it was his party that told police not to bother with this kind of thing in the first place. He was literally at the table "If only we could find the person who did thi!"
And most of them are still standing. Even those that were not designed to.
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And most of them are still standing. Even those that were not designed to.
This Tony Benn quote is getting well worn in this age, unfortunately:
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it."
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it."
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This Tony Benn quote is getting well worn in this age, unfortunately:
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it."
"The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it."
This is the bit that's never talked about when nostalgia is brought up.
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is the bit that's never talked about when nostalgia is brought up.
London has some of the best little independents. When I'm working my way across the city I try to make sure to pop into local shops for a drink or something to eat as I need.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
London has some of the best little independents. When I'm working my way across the city I try to make sure to pop into local shops for a drink or something to eat as I need.
I love a good strategic rock. I call them the equalisers. If you can't negotiate an object bigger and more stationary than a cyclist you shouldn't be driving. And I drive. My other favourites are the corner bollards.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I love a good strategic rock. I call them the equalisers. If you can't negotiate an object bigger and more stationary than a cyclist you shouldn't be driving. And I drive. My other favourites are the corner bollards.
Given why he was born there - likely a descendant of a British colonial officer of some kind - he's one to talk of voices of the past given their exploits in that region.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Given why he was born there - likely a descendant of a British colonial officer of some kind - he's one to talk of voices of the past given their exploits in that region.
White UK born people make up 87% of all crime pretty much across the board because they're the majority. He's reporting only the less than 10% of a specific demographic, of which the crime he's talking about makes up less than 0.087% of that. That's some approx figures from ONS I dug up from 2021.
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
White UK born people make up 87% of all crime pretty much across the board because they're the majority. He's reporting only the less than 10% of a specific demographic, of which the crime he's talking about makes up less than 0.087% of that. That's some approx figures from ONS I dug up from 2021.
Why is it always weird racist guys that project their crackpot mysticism onto other cultures? This is exactly the kind of cult stuff you saw in the 1930s with the SS. It's all projection because none of their drivel makes 'sense' unless you exist mentally in a kind of self-enforced unreality.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Why is it always weird racist guys that project their crackpot mysticism onto other cultures? This is exactly the kind of cult stuff you saw in the 1930s with the SS. It's all projection because none of their drivel makes 'sense' unless you exist mentally in a kind of self-enforced unreality.
They're all that kid that didn't pay attention in class and never made up for it as an adult. We're watching him fail to learn stuff that is new *to him* that's obvious to everyone else, in real time - It's the internal monologue of a vacant mind desperately in search for which side to butter bread.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
They're all that kid that didn't pay attention in class and never made up for it as an adult. We're watching him fail to learn stuff that is new *to him* that's obvious to everyone else, in real time - It's the internal monologue of a vacant mind desperately in search for which side to butter bread.
Painting the working class as juvenile whilst she lives a molly coddled existence, playing in the adult crèche on easy mode with an entirely taxpayer subsidised lifestyle, all whilst young vulnerable people in this country, far younger than I, live paycheck to paycheck is the definition of infantile
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Painting the working class as juvenile whilst she lives a molly coddled existence, playing in the adult crèche on easy mode with an entirely taxpayer subsidised lifestyle, all whilst young vulnerable people in this country, far younger than I, live paycheck to paycheck is the definition of infantile
Just noticed - it would also explain the centre chimney being offset. As the chimneys mark the 'backs' of each room line.
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Just noticed - it would also explain the centre chimney being offset. As the chimneys mark the 'backs' of each room line.
Interesting how the rhythm changes along the facade. I suspect the area where the windows are narrower and closer together was the original stair zone (2nd bay from the right).
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interesting how the rhythm changes along the facade. I suspect the area where the windows are narrower and closer together was the original stair zone (2nd bay from the right).
This is the exact thing they did with QT where they'd invite a person of a different colour talking about an important topic that they specialise in, and for 'balance' invite on the most racist person you've ever heard. As if that person's actual existence was undermining 'balance.' Mind boggling.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is the exact thing they did with QT where they'd invite a person of a different colour talking about an important topic that they specialise in, and for 'balance' invite on the most racist person you've ever heard. As if that person's actual existence was undermining 'balance.' Mind boggling.
Mar a largo interior. Spot the same, quite literally everywhere. There's 7 of them in this photo alone...
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Mar a largo interior. Spot the same, quite literally everywhere. There's 7 of them in this photo alone...
You don't need algorithms or AI, you can do this very accurately with an Excel Spreadsheet and a percentage output. That's how they did it for us when I was at school. And the accuracy was 100% because it was data entered from the form and class registers.
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
You don't need algorithms or AI, you can do this very accurately with an Excel Spreadsheet and a percentage output. That's how they did it for us when I was at school. And the accuracy was 100% because it was data entered from the form and class registers.
Reminds me of early attempts at trains where they tried powering a train using horses on a treadmill carriage because they could not imagine that a boiler could power such a vehicle. It's like asking in 1700 - would you design a car, a train, or a robot horse, and then pusuing the robot horse.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Reminds me of early attempts at trains where they tried powering a train using horses on a treadmill carriage because they could not imagine that a boiler could power such a vehicle. It's like asking in 1700 - would you design a car, a train, or a robot horse, and then pusuing the robot horse.
I literally go to London quite a few times a year and meet communities and they do talk to each other and actually do things together, it's genuinely inspiring! A lot more than much of the home counties in their suburban and exurban solitudes. Many of which don't even know any of their neighbours.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I literally go to London quite a few times a year and meet communities and they do talk to each other and actually do things together, it's genuinely inspiring! A lot more than much of the home counties in their suburban and exurban solitudes. Many of which don't even know any of their neighbours.
She said: “It has been good in a lot of ways but in some ways you lose something as well. (We've lost) community. We’re not a society anymore. We’re not social. People don’t talk to each other like they used to.”
Who's "we," as it isn't the people that live there that aren't talking to one another..
Who's "we," as it isn't the people that live there that aren't talking to one another..
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
She said: “It has been good in a lot of ways but in some ways you lose something as well. (We've lost) community. We’re not a society anymore. We’re not social. People don’t talk to each other like they used to.”
Who's "we," as it isn't the people that live there that aren't talking to one another..
Who's "we," as it isn't the people that live there that aren't talking to one another..
In England similar buildings were oftentimes referred to as 'Scotch flats' or 'French apartments' or a combination of both. Because that's who they were heavily influenced by.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In England similar buildings were oftentimes referred to as 'Scotch flats' or 'French apartments' or a combination of both. Because that's who they were heavily influenced by.
Also some were designed by master builders & philanthropists themselves. Usually coming from the working class to help the working class, this happened in London too and some real oddities in some southern coastal English towns where local folk had a go at building this typology with varied success.
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Also some were designed by master builders & philanthropists themselves. Usually coming from the working class to help the working class, this happened in London too and some real oddities in some southern coastal English towns where local folk had a go at building this typology with varied success.