Grumpy Old Man
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@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.
I mean... what the fuck? Are they actually that stupid? Or are they eliminating any chance of the other person interrupting?
I genuinely don't get it. It's not like there aren't examples of people using a phone properly for them to observe.
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew Can you do one array of 9 and another of 5 and then join them later? Sounds bloody stupid to me.
I'd have to get planning permission for the additional 5 as it takes the total size over the limit.
Can you get hold of the planning requirements document yourself?
Does it say anything about fixtures / concrete or something similar?
Because if you ground mount using screw-in poles without any concrete required, maybe you get around the rules on "fixed" structures? i.e. if it is just bored into the ground, it is effectively temporary and such... -
Different rules here, Nick. This has now moved onto pure Kafkaesque theatre involving red lines on maps, blue lines on maps, whether the cable run forms a boundary of "the works" and is within a red line or blue line and whether the PV panel support structure could be used as a greenhouse. And no, I'm not making any of this up.
Can you get hold of the planning requirements document yourself?
They are too vague. They will look into what I'm trying to do and tell me what/if planning permission is needed....for a charge of £450/$800.
Will update later.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Different rules here, Nick. This has now moved onto pure Kafkaesque theatre involving red lines on maps, blue lines on maps, whether the cable run forms a boundary of "the works" and is within a red line or blue line and whether the PV panel support structure could be used as a greenhouse. And no, I'm not making any of this up.
Will update later.
My parents-in-law took 8 or 9 years to finally get permission to make another house on their plot - a entire acre, one (if not the) biggest in the village
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation. -
@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Different rules here, Nick. This has now moved onto pure Kafkaesque theatre involving red lines on maps, blue lines on maps, whether the cable run forms a boundary of "the works" and is within a red line or blue line and whether the PV panel support structure could be used as a greenhouse. And no, I'm not making any of this up.
Will update later.
My parents-in-law took 8 or 9 years to finally get permission to make another house on their plot - a entire acre, one (if not the) biggest in the village
The Council have told me the planning costs could be as much as £3.460.00 as they class PV panels as "Plant and Machinery", the total area would need to extend to the boundary of the road and they calculate fees on the total area. The panels themselves use about 10sq m of land
Planning costs for a 250 sqm green house are £95.00....
I might send the Head of Planning a copy of the Collected Works of Franz Kafka
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@Victor-Meldrew I only state this because I follow Robert Llewellyn on YouTube (EV show in the UK) and he got around the structural thing via the ground bored poles.
Best of luck with it
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew I only state this because I follow Robert Llewellyn on YouTube (EV show in the UK) and he got around the structural thing via the ground bored poles.
Best of luck with it
That might be Building Control which deals with stuff like structural safety.
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@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation.They're doing voice-notes. No one rings people nowadays.
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@delicatessen said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation.They're doing voice-notes. No one rings people nowadays.
That's what they tell you.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@delicatessen said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation.They're doing voice-notes. No one rings people nowadays.
That's what they tell you.
Via voice note, yes
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Christmas present sorted...
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@Victor-Meldrew Not many old people can wear something that tight though.....
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew Not many old people can wear something that tight though.....
Another reason to be grumpy. I bought this novelty old man top and it was never a medium…
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GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
