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I suppose the alternative is a hand mixer but it's not going to have the right paddles or enough chooch.

Is pretty much the thing. We get by with a metal bowl and a cheapo hand mixer (I think it was £10 from Sainsbury's).

A KitchenAid like the above would make various things easier, but not sure "various things easier" is worth ~£400. We're also short on worktop space as it is. There's a cupboard it could sit on when not in use but that's less than ideal. Definitely no cupboard space for it to sit in.

We make cookies once a week (for daughter's football team) and with a KitchenAid I'd be more likely to make bread more often.

stode(?)

stowed

Has anyone mentioned that Bitcoin/BTC is traceable?

Fidough and?

a Doughberman?

(Tried for ages with bagel and beagle and didn't get anywhere.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_tea/

who (allegedly) is it?

It can be solved within a minute if you google. Generally reddit has no problem naming the people involved.

Makes me think (and it's just my wild guesswork) that this is blackmail payback for not going through with decisions for a betting scam.

Bonus points if it was his mates who videoed it who are blackmailing him.

Could be interesting if he'd reported the blackmail attempt to the PGMOL.

Yes, i know.

truth.social is just a mastodon instance.

Bluesky is its own thing though.

Because you can't put Bitcoin shares in a SIPP.

Not quite home DIY but the electrician we had round to do the EICR today showed me the Quinetic switches.

We've got a couple of light switches we'd like to move (mostly as we've rehung some doors the other way round) and the Quinetic stuff looks like an awesome way of dealing with it without having to do any extra wiring. The deeper 25mm boxes will be behind the doors anyway so I don't care what they look like.

The fact you can have up to 10 switches paired with each receiver, and you can have a free floating one to move around the room with you is genius (see ~7:18 in this vid https://youtu.be/9wnGN4RetJk?t=438
) as that'll be perfect for my daughter's bedroom, she can have a free floating switch next to her bed or carry it over to her desk rather than having to go to the main light switch if she wants to adjust the lighting (the switches all do dimming too).

I'm 6'-3".

Biased or unbiased is something the FA/PGMOL can work out based on reviewing decisions made during the game.

I'd be amazed if they're not doing this already. Cricket has been doing it for the elite umpires for years (more about getting the right decisions than any questions about bias.)

I can clearly hear "German cunt" at 1m04 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1U8UMIymI

"Yeah, so, but, uhh, my God, gngrg, German Cunt, fuck me."

I just used to look at when the auction ended and set an alarm/reminder to be at my computer or on my phone with a few minutes to go. I'd never bother monitoring anything. Maybe I'd check in a few days in advance just to make sure it hadn't already gone above my intended max.

But then I was just doing one or two auctions a week. Can imagine it's different if you're addicted to eBay.

Just had EICR done, was partially dreading it but turned out pretty much fine.

No cabling needs replacing (so no old vulcanised rubber). A few sockets and light fittings need tweaks here and there.

Current fuseboard needs replacing (obviously) since it's from the 1980s but otherwise it's fine. All of the sockets in the entire 3 bed flat are on a single ring but they're not that fussed with that as we don't have much huge loads anywhere apart from the kitchen. They're happy with the existing oven that's plugged in to a socket (since it's <13A).

It'll be a good excuse to get a bunch of stuff done and a bit of redecoration.

Or was I doing it totally wrong?

No, but the optimal strategy (which is what the sniping bots do) is put your maximum bid in as late as possible (we're talking with seconds to go).

If you put your maximum bid in early there's a greater chance that someone will come along and decide to pay just a bit more for it and you lose out.

If you put your maximum bid in as late as possible there's no time for anyone to react to it (unless they've already entered a higher maximum bid themselves).

As others have said, the other benefit of a good sniping bot is that you can set it up to bid on a group of items and if you're successful with any of the items in a group it won't bid on the rest.

I snagged a PowerTap wheel for my commuting bike with manual patience. I must have bid on 10 or more wheels over the course of months that all went for £200+ until I hit on one that I got for ~£100.

I read that as someone asking for a recommendation for a local plumber, rather than just the number for any random local plumber that may be a cowboy?

But, yes, many times people are just bored and just want to start some kind of a conversation.

Epic would be sniping a charity supermarket trolley token for pennies on eBay.

Since May 2023 it seems: https://www.investopedia.com/binance-uk-7255139

(Could be old news.)

What are you plugging in?

Not the OP but I've done similar (taking a 4-way UK extension block) on a holiday with wife/kid.

There's usually various chargers or things that need power (laptops, etc). I take 6 port mains powered USB hub and that means we can charge all 3 of our phones, iPad, our watches (one Garmin, two fitbits), etc from that and plug in a laptop if we want to watch a film. One adapter and 4 UK sockets is much easier than multiple adapters.

Suspicious timing given the MOTD job has just come up.

I plan on getting one of the 120W Anker USB A/C chargers like this: https://www.anker.com/uk/products/a2148 for going to co-working spaces or UK trips.

For travelling I generally just buy a European power cable for the laptop power brick, something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/C5-EU-3-PRONG-CLOVER-LAPTOP-POWER-LEAD-CORD-CABLE-for-Laptop-Adapter-2-pin-/284228480558

And I have a couple of European/US style USB chargers: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126695123313 which can be useful for hotels/airports/trains/etc.

If I need to charge anything else (e.g. USB-C) when away I do so from my laptop.

Unless you are Gary Barlow's father that is.