I love me some Richard Cheese cover versions. He knows exactly where to take other people’s songs.

Yeah, I only discovered the word when I read “doctoress” in a translation I was proofing and knew there was something going on there.

I think it would be “Doctrix” in older versions of English.

I particularly like the dude who picks-up the flaming wheel (?) only to discover that it is, in fact, very very hot.

I was working with an old timer South African. He showed us the new strap for his guitar. It was a rainbow. We looked surprised. He told us it was for his homeland - a brave new rainbow nation. We told him how it would probably be interpreted where he was. He looked sad and went back to the old strap.

That makes sense - thanks.

BLM? I’m non-USian, what do the initials mean in this context?

Probably…

There was a website where you could enter the “pattern” you had and it would give you step-by-step instructions… My mate’s kids used to go to bed with scrambled cubes and every morning wake up to it solved. They thought their father was a cube savant.

There’s also all the activity on the practice courts too.

As I understand it gold is used as it doesn’t tarnish or corrode - it’s not there to benefit the sound in any way.

No pre-drilling. 5” screw. c.200 Nm of torque. 25mm PZ3 (Metabo) bit. Magnetic Milwaukee bit holder.

The bits break first, by design. The bit holder hardly ever breaks. Never broken the gun.

It’s horses for courses at the end of the day. “If it works, it works” is the mantra I was brought up around.

Sorry, slight clarification: Internet is a portmanteaux word. So it is a made-up word made-up of two different made-up words.

That’s a standard size bit - for use in a bit holder. You don’t put that bit directly into your impact gun.

Milwaukee sell them in tic-tac boxes of 25. I only go through a maximum of maybe two bits a day working with timber.

Pure speculation - rival gangs and the hair salon is a front / laundering operation…

Or they gave a terrible haircut to that guy.

That’s a great example.

Glad you made it.

I see what you done there… well played.

Regardless of the whole big c / little c argument I’d still be hard pressed to find one person that was alarmed with falling crime figures…

I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the poster meant a “knee-jerky, xenophobic, Reform / BNP / UKIP / English Alliance etc. voting Londoner” because, yeah, that headline would be counter to their narrative.

My dryer only has a low and a high setting and the length of time is human dictated.

I dry clean any really good clothing I own.

If I dry my clothes on high they are shrunk and sometimes ruined in other ways too.

Almost everything I own can survive the low setting with no noticeable negatives.

Be careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.