Bellinghman

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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  I have read, from a source I cannot recall but I thought at the time reputable, that Princess Kitty is not a cat, but a young woman (possibly furry-adjacent), and even has a pet cat of her own. Possibly here...
• Commented on Place your bets
  When we visited Iceland for the first time, back in 2004, our host only used cash for parking meters. Even buses took credit cards, so your credit card company ought to have been with it if they dealt with Icelandic...
• Commented on Place your bets
  I can't see us building the national grid with this stuff... If only because, at that price, the cables would be being stolen almost instantly...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Right now, Suella...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Nah, they're all working in the same shared universe...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Yeah. If your mode of transport takes so long that you have to carry along beds and showers and eateries, the per-person load will increase. This applies to long distance trains too - multi-day ones, that is where you have...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I've been reminded (via Twitter) of the disappearance of Helen Bailey of this parish. She and her dog also went missing, and evidence initially suggested she'd gone to the family holiday home in Broadstairs. But nobody could find her and...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  We've had lovely clear skies here in recent days, with the exception of Sunday night/Monday morning, when the asteroid impact happened. I was outside just before 03:00, but it was solid cloud Yeah, pretty much what usually happens...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  The only other poster I am likely to have co-located with is Bellinghman, and I don't know if that has happened. I think we may have met once at a BSI meeting down in Chiswick. My wife (who doesn't share...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  We had goats, and they all got names. One was named Johnsons' Breakfast, because he was destined to be sold as meat to the family of that name Amusingly, he ended up becoming our stud goat instead...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Cephalopods - are "monocarpic" to use a term from plants - they die when they breed. IF said animals did not die on breeding, their intelligence could easily be "a threat" to humanity. I think the term for animals is...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Oh sweet summer child! No. There are some cards which cover a number of suppliers - I have one - but it seems that every location has a different supplier. Eventually they'll settle down, but right now the highly expensive...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Green for the win This time I got to see parts of Leeds I'd not encountered before, including the chargers at Elland Road Park & Ride. Which confused me, as they have a nice large 'EVolt' logo and advise you...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Yeah - we've a small stash of oven bulbs, to ensure when one does die we can replace it and then later go buy a replacement. The relative inefficiency of incandescent bulbs in an oven isn't a problem - my...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  To be fair, I don't know how much gas was in the pipes when they broke. Presumably they weren't at working pressure (200 bar), and if they were at less than 8-10 bar it would less than the water around...
• Commented on London Bridge
  When I was young, we had a small herd of goats, which would go up the down-angled half-collapsed branches of our willow trees, because the leaves were tasty. We also had a calf, which was being fattened up from the...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Being a clueless Yank and having no idea where Trier is, I checked. Hey, I'm a right-pondian, and I couldn't have said where it is until recently, and I'd not been there until less than a year ago, when (due...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Yeah. 'Necographers' are people who attempt to measure the world by reference to cats...
• Commented on London Bridge
  FWIW, our house (1980s build) will probably benefit from air-to-air, because it currently does use blown hot air for heating. But yeah, that's unusual in British housing stock. (We've also got straw internal walls - heavily compressed panels that are...
• Commented on The ends of education
  A TGV trainset is 4.05 metres tall From ground plane to where? I'm sure that's taller than a trailer car, and I think it's taller than the aerodynamics fairings on the power cars so I suspect that figure is ground...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  The odd thing is that, once we got away from muscle power, we explored the most energy-efficient forms of travel (boat, rail) first Odd? Those existed as muscle powered transport (canal barges, the first tramways) because they were viable with...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  We flew back from Munich last night. Few people were wearing masks until they got to the gate. The same was applicable on the trams and S-bahn trains - pretty much everyone was only masking up when about to board....
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Speaking of Archer, my former brother-in-law wrote a biography of him, The informal family chat was that there were may more instances of dishonesty and the like, but they weren't provable, and so they got left out. He also found...
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  Wow. Three recalls in 4 years, for fire problems? Eek!...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  What about fallow deer? I'd say they're more visible in the English countryside than roe deer are. (I personally have seen more muntjac than roe, but I've not seen wild red at all. Perhaps had I lived in the Scottish...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  It also suggests that bisexuality in men is much commoner ... Except that the rapists don't (usually) think they're indulging in homosexual activity. This is about power, not about sex...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  Hah. There are places in South East England where mobile phone reception is non-existent, or was until very recently. Another commenter's home (until recently) was in one of those blackspots, at the bottom of a Kent valley. As it's a...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  Yeah. My 'research' came up with two different names, the one I expected, and then a different Tory scumbag. I suspect both of them, but I presume only one has been arrested this time. If the other gets named, then...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  Agreed, not due to deafness, but because prat navs have done things like tell me to turn right at a junction clearly signposted "Left turn only". Yeah, like my last visit to Bristol, where the city council had decided to...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  It may indeed be — but that still doesn't guarantee there can't be a collision anyway. Anecdata: about 18 months ago, I was crossing a lights-controlled crossroads in a nearby town named (look away, Charlie) Baldock. A learner driver in...