Things That Gladden The Heart

Slab said:
Did a satisfying bit of housekeeping the other day
Cleaned out the drawer with all the old mobiles in it, all over 15yrs old. Blackberry’s, Motorola, iphone4 etc. soaked them all in cola for a couple of days then snapped the sim cards and smashed the handsets with a convenient breezeblock, nice
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Why?? Is everything ok at home?
 
Slab said:
Did a satisfying bit of housekeeping the other day
Cleaned out the drawer with all the old mobiles in it, all over 15yrs old. Blackberry’s, Motorola, iphone4 etc. soaked them all in cola for a couple of days then snapped the sim cards and smashed the handsets with a convenient breezeblock, nice
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You've just given away the headquarters of SPECTRE.
 
Slab said:
Did a satisfying bit of housekeeping the other day
Cleaned out the drawer with all the old mobiles in it, all over 15yrs old. Blackberry’s, Motorola, iphone4 etc. soaked them all in cola for a couple of days then snapped the sim cards and smashed the handsets with a convenient breezeblock, nice
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What an odd thing to do.

Do a factory reset remove sim cards and give them to charity would be my option.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Though I have to ask - what is the problem with driving at 20mph...other than it feels a bit weird at first - it adds very little to overall average journey times. My albeit limited experience is that I was getting used to it - and so when I got back home I found driving in our town centre 20mph zone much easier and less frustrating. The more I do something that feels a bit odd; the easier it becomes to do it (bit like they say golf should be).
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It’s much slower 👍

Farnham town centre particularly has always hated cars and you’d have been lucky to get up to 30 for any amount of time.
 
Having had an unsatisfactory experience with Motorway earlier today, I was surprised when I went to webuyanycar.com that they upped their initial (albeit lowball offer) to a higher number. Is this a change of strategy for them?
 
HampshireHog said:
It’s much slower 👍

Farnham town centre particularly has always hated cars and you’d have been lucky to get up to 30 for any amount of time.
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You’d be lucky to over take a pedestrian at walking pace in many parts of Farnham town centre!

Though Bills is a cracking place to go for breakfast and slip into Caffè Nero for a pick me up coffee on the way out 👌
 
Slab said:
Did a satisfying bit of housekeeping the other day
Cleaned out the drawer with all the old mobiles in it, all over 15yrs old. Blackberry’s, Motorola, iphone4 etc. soaked them all in cola for a couple of days then snapped the sim cards and smashed the handsets with a convenient breezeblock, nice
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Are you Jason Bourne?
 
jim8flog said:
What an odd thing to do.

Do a factory reset remove sim cards and give them to charity would be my option.
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Factory reset not an option
I'm mad enough to still have multiple handsets (& a couple of cameras) for 15 plus years, but not that mad to still have chargers for them
 
Lord Tyrion said:
It feels painful in areas where there is no risk and if people don't see the point, they wont follow it. I agree with them being outside schools but having them wider spread is unnecessary.

I also agree with @Neilds It is so slow that I have to keep checking the speedo, taking my eyes off the road more than I would normally.
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Surely the more you drive at 20mph, the more used to it you get, and so driving at that speed becomes normal and exceeding it is easier to avoid - just as it is not difficult to avoid exceeding 30mph elsewhere. It does feel weird…but that is simply human perception of speed and what the brain becomes used to as normal. Change normal.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Surely the more you drive at 20mph, the more used to it you get, and so driving at that speed becomes normal and exceeding it is easier to avoid - just as it is not difficult to avoid exceeding 30mph elsewhere. It does feel weird…but that is simply human perception of speed and what the brain becomes used to as normal. Change normal.
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Quite probably. I still would say it's largely unnecessary unless in specific areas. It's so painfully slow, people will ignore it unless they see a genuine reason for it. You have to bring people with you in these situations.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Quite probably. I still would say it's largely unnecessary unless in specific areas. It's so painfully slow, people will ignore it unless they see a genuine reason for it. You have to bring people with you in these situations.
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My experience - albeit very limited - was that, where I was, most drivers seemed to adhere to it.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Surely the more you drive at 20mph, the more used to it you get, and so driving at that speed becomes normal and exceeding it is easier to avoid - just as it is not difficult to avoid exceeding 30mph elsewhere. It does feel weird…but that is simply human perception of speed and what the brain becomes used to as normal. Change normal.
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And the more you get used to taking longer and, therefore, adding more pollution to the planet.
 
Arthur Wedge said:
I very much doubt the pollution levels will be vastly different between someone at 20 mph and someone at 30mph
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Possibly not, but the car is taking much longer to drive through built up areas.
If a 30mph zone changed to 20mph the car would spend 50% longer spewing out particulates.
 
Slime said:
Possibly not, but the car is taking much longer to drive through built up areas.
If a 30mph zone changed to 20mph the car would spend 50% longer spewing out particulates.
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20 mph limits are in my experience in short bursts - you don’t travel for miles at 20 mph

Pollution argument when it comes to speed limits is very very thin
 
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