I’m surprised there’s shortages, I thought loads of people apply to be train drivers?

I think there’s a lot to it in stopping the train smoothly and accurately and applying the correct amount of power for any given conditions. The drivers also seem to have to require extensive route knowledge to the point they can drive the train safely in poor visiblity.

I’ve been hit with another cold after being wiped out by one before Christmas. It’s not as bad but I haven’t been able to breathe through my nose for a couple of weeks!

Cyber

haha, these things do tend to escalate. We had our living room floor and decorating done last year, and my wife was like “let’s get new sofas!” and I pointed out that our existing ones fit perfectly with the new style we were going for. I finally managed to convince her that getting them professionally cleaned would be the the better idea and sure enough it was lol, made a massive difference to how they look.

Yeah alright ta, how was yours?

Tiring. Been trying to sort out longer term care for my dad, as he’s been having free care since being discharged from rehab from the carehome. We didn’t know it was only temporary so we’ve been in a bit of a panic trying to get a replacement care package sorted for him. My mother in law then also got sent to hospital and has spent the week there due to an issue with her lungs, being moved over to a bigger hospital over the weekend. So it’s been a bit manic trying to deal with them and keep the kids busy, do the housework, get some gym time in and so on.

Do they have water for tables that can’t keep still?

It’s a tram.

I’m talking about the procedure described in the article. It’s £3000 but all it does is make your soft dick girthier, which is pretty pointless? Surely you’d want it to be bigger when it’s erect.

Our first was bottle fed, and our second breast fed and it was so less stressful. No constantly cleaning bottles and sterilising them or not being able to change plans on the fly while you’re out because you didn’t bring enough sterile bottles. The NHS are constantly changing the standards to make it ever more difficult to bottle feed.

There was also an issue at the time where people would bulk buy baby formula and then sell it to people in China at a premium as it was in demand, so it drove up the price of formula.

I’m surprised you weren’t even more damaged!

This would be absolutetly career ending anywhere else.

Julia & Axel are the GOAT

That’s an app though.

It is designed to increase a man’s flaccid girth

I don’t understand the point then.

To be fair if it’s on a flood plain then it should be unsellable, mortgage providers and insurers might not want to deal with it.

I’d guarantee that they’re already doing that now anyway. If you buy a new car but don’t choose the heated seats optional extra, the seats will still have the capability, just that they won’t enable it. This has been going on for decades; I recall an old Peugot 405 my parents had when I was young, there were various placeholder areas on the console where some switches would have bee on the more expensive models. All the wiring would be there, but just no phsyical switch on the console. They’ll standardise as much as possible to make the production process as simple and cheap as possible.

I can see the appeal from a potential customers point of view as you don’t need to stress about picking the wrong options and later regretting it.

I wouldn’t say they’re small constraints because they’re not necessarily easy to fix. They could ease the load on the local authorities planning offices by hiring more staff or easing regulations, which will always drag on and take time. There’s the fighting with NIMBY’s in courts. And there’s also only so many builders in the country that can be on projects at any given time.

There are huge house building projects going on, at least there are in my area. However there’s constraints as to how fast you can actually start these projects as you need to find suitable land, go through all the red tape and have enough resources (materials, people) to build them. So if demand keeps outpacing supply, the prices will still continue to rise.

Interestingly, I saw an article recently that average rents actually started to decrease, so maybe the increased supply is very slowly having an impact on the rental market.

Slightly off-tangent, but it frustrates me when sellers complain that they can’t sell their house and then take it off the market. No, you can’t sell it at the price you want, it’s obviously over-priced. If you were to knock off £50k or £100k, I’d guarantee that you’d be able to sell the house.

I’m not totally against a subscription for features, as long as they provide the ability to purchase it outright and it stays on permanantly throughout the life of the car.