[QuickTidal]

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 May 2026 - 02:58 PM, said:

Guess I'll bring my cooling umbrella. Maybe wear my cooling scarf too.

Yo, where do I get these blade runner sounding things?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 19 May 2026 - 04:28 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 19 May 2026 - 02:58 PM, said:

Guess I'll bring my cooling umbrella. Maybe wear my cooling scarf too.

Yo, where do I get these blade runner sounding things?

I got them on Amazon, but they're available elsewhere as well.

Amazon.com : UV-Blocker Sun Umbrella UV Protection Fashion Umbrella - Large Sun Blocking - Windproof - Auto Open - Vented Double Canopy - UPF 55+ - Blocks 99% of UVA UVB Rays - 48" : Sports & Outdoors

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UV-Blocker uses their patented Solarteck fabric with silver coating outside. In testing, temperatures run 15 degrees F cooler underneath versus direct sun.

Sun Umbrella UV Protection: 6 Reasons Dermatologists Recommend Them

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This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 19 May 2026 - 04:46 PM

[Maark Abbott]

Found out my caffeine intake is half killing me (circa eight 800ml cups of about four tablespoons per day). So cold turkey it is.

Daddy is very grouchy kitten

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Maark Abbott, on 21 May 2026 - 07:34 AM, said:

Found out my caffeine intake is half killing me (circa eight 800ml cups of about four tablespoons per day). So cold turkey it is.

Daddy is very grouchy kitten

I thought caffeine was supposed to make folks live longer!

[Maark Abbott]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 21 May 2026 - 07:12 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 21 May 2026 - 07:34 AM, said:

Found out my caffeine intake is half killing me (circa eight 800ml cups of about four tablespoons per day). So cold turkey it is.

Daddy is very grouchy kitten

I thought caffeine was supposed to make folks live longer!

VERY
GROUCHY
KITTEN

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Maark Abbott, on 21 May 2026 - 07:34 AM, said:

Found out my caffeine intake is half killing me (circa eight 800ml cups of about four tablespoons per day). So cold turkey it is.

Daddy is very grouchy kitten

You could make a TikTok of you playing it on the drums and making faces. Perhaps with death metal vocal overdubs.

Then at some point as you're drumming you could have someone come by with a cup of coffee to hold just out of reach (and on camera) as you glare at it. And growl (... via death metal overdubs, if necessary...).

Personally I went from about eight cups of coffee a day to cold turkey last year for a week to help prevent acid reflux. My plan was actually to switch to green tea but I didn't have any nearby so I decided to add it to my next scheduled Amazon delivery and save a few cents with Subscribe and Save. Since then I've been doing two to three cups of green tea a day and have had much less acid reflux.

Back to messing with my groove... the weather here is literally going from a record high to a record low... smh. So much for "spring" this year. And the oscillations between extremes will almost certainly get worse in the future, at least in the near term...

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 22 May 2026 - 06:12 PM

[Maark Abbott]

The heat is horrendous in the UK just now. 31c in the day, 25c at night, just inescapable, sticky sweat

[Tsundoku]

Quite balmy.

Unfortunately it makes you guys barmy. Must be some sort of Vitamin D allergy.

[Tiste Simeon]

So the other day we got back from a day out and someone had taken a load of dog poo bags from the poo bag bin in the nearby playground and put them all over my garden. On the trampoline, in the play tent my kids have and on the back door step. Still in the bags thankfully but still, shocking.

Asked some of the local kids and found out it was a brother and sister who are always playing in there. Now this is a pair of siblings that we basically look after half the time. When the weather is good, their parents essentially send them out all day with a bag of snacks and so they're always coming round ours because we're decent people and my son is in a class with the brother.

So we have given a lot of our time and resources to these two. Why did they do it? Not a clue tbh we've not spoken to them. Thankfully their parents found out and matched them down here and made them clean absolutely everything up. So in theory no harm done but it's a pretty horrible thing to do, and especially to people who have treated you with kindness and hospitality.

If I'm being generous I suspect that in their minds they thought they were being funny, but man. It's not fun.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Sorry to read that Tiste. I'm glad the parents reacted in the right way and made them clean it up - but it seems a weird amount of effort to do to anyone, let alone people who've been kind to them.

[QuickTidal]

Maark Abbott, on 26 May 2026 - 07:24 AM, said:

The heat is horrendous in the UK just now. 31c in the day, 25c at night, just inescapable, sticky sweat

The last time I was in the UK for any decent length of time (2009), there was a heat wave and I've never suffered anything worse. Your people don't air condition anything properly, and the fridges in shops for cold drinks are open to the air so they offer Luke-cold drinks and it's awful. Our hotel in Luton (I mean, yeah, I know...) was air conditioned and we were suffering trying to sleep and when I put my hand near the vent to see how much cold air was blowing, it was like someone was gently blowing lukewarm air out at a gentle pace...useless.

Contrast to Canada (where it can get as humid as a goblins asshole in the summer; sometimes 35-40) and most hotels you have three options: cool, Cold, and Iceberg...so you never suffer.

I say this as we will be heading to the UK in August and my GODS I hope our friends home has decent AC if it's hot.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

QuickTidal, on 26 May 2026 - 12:10 PM, said:

where it can get as humid as a goblins asshole in the summer

There's a delightful expression I'm definitely stealing!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

In case you missed this from the Guardian:

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From the air, London resembles a colossal refugee camp. Streets, gardens and parks are teeming with tents and cobbled-together shelters, within which the city's residents have spent another uncomfortable night away from the heat traps that their houses and flats have become. [...] Half-hearted attempts to upgrade insulation across the country's housing stock ran out of steam and cash decades earlier, and most homes still have few barriers to the infiltrating heat. [...] Early risers yawn and stretch as they queue at standpipes for water. A succession of dry winters and a spring drought have brought water rationing across the south-east of England, adding to the woes of those waking from another sticky, broken sleep. Ironically, there is plenty of rain now, and every day ends with an electric storm and torrential rain. Most of this, however, cascades directly into storm drains that can no longer cope, bringing surface flooding to lower-lying parts of the capital, but no end to the dearth of potable water.

[...] Every hospital is overwhelmed as the incessant heat and humidity take their toll on vulnerable people, the old and the very young, and the final death toll across the country once the heat has abated is likely to be in the tens of thousands.

The picture I paint here is one that few today would entertain as a future reality, but it has every chance of coming to life if we continue to blunder unprepared into a climatically challenging future.

People [will] sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water [will be] scarce and supermarkets [will be] for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 26 May 2026 - 01:28 PM

[QuickTidal]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 26 May 2026 - 01:14 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 May 2026 - 12:10 PM, said:

where it can get as humid as a goblins asshole in the summer

There's a delightful expression I'm definitely stealing!

A friend once used it years ago in summer and I stole it and used it ever since. LOL

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Azath Vitr (D, on 26 May 2026 - 01:27 PM, said:

In case you missed this from the Guardian:

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From the air, London resembles a colossal refugee camp. Streets, gardens and parks are teeming with tents and cobbled-together shelters, within which the city's residents have spent another uncomfortable night away from the heat traps that their houses and flats have become. [...] Half-hearted attempts to upgrade insulation across the country's housing stock ran out of steam and cash decades earlier, and most homes still have few barriers to the infiltrating heat. [...] Early risers yawn and stretch as they queue at standpipes for water. A succession of dry winters and a spring drought have brought water rationing across the south-east of England, adding to the woes of those waking from another sticky, broken sleep. Ironically, there is plenty of rain now, and every day ends with an electric storm and torrential rain. Most of this, however, cascades directly into storm drains that can no longer cope, bringing surface flooding to lower-lying parts of the capital, but no end to the dearth of potable water.

[...] Every hospital is overwhelmed as the incessant heat and humidity take their toll on vulnerable people, the old and the very young, and the final death toll across the country once the heat has abated is likely to be in the tens of thousands.

The picture I paint here is one that few today would entertain as a future reality, but it has every chance of coming to life if we continue to blunder unprepared into a climatically challenging future.

People [will] sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water [will be] scarce and supermarkets [will be] for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire

... so the moral of the story is: the solution is for Maark to sleep outside naked (perhaps with fans blasting his aromas through the neighbors' windows (to mingle with the marijuana fumes))...

[Abyss]

Azath Vitr (D, on 26 May 2026 - 01:27 PM, said:

In case you missed this from the Guardian:

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From the air, London resembles a colossal refugee camp. Streets, gardens and parks are teeming with tents and cobbled-together shelters, within which the city's residents have spent another uncomfortable night away from the heat traps that their houses and flats have become. [...] Half-hearted attempts to upgrade insulation across the country's housing stock ran out of steam and cash decades earlier, and most homes still have few barriers to the infiltrating heat. [...] Early risers yawn and stretch as they queue at standpipes for water. A succession of dry winters and a spring drought have brought water rationing across the south-east of England, adding to the woes of those waking from another sticky, broken sleep. Ironically, there is plenty of rain now, and every day ends with an electric storm and torrential rain. Most of this, however, cascades directly into storm drains that can no longer cope, bringing surface flooding to lower-lying parts of the capital, but no end to the dearth of potable water.

[...] Every hospital is overwhelmed as the incessant heat and humidity take their toll on vulnerable people, the old and the very young, and the final death toll across the country once the heat has abated is likely to be in the tens of thousands.

The picture I paint here is one that few today would entertain as a future reality, but it has every chance of coming to life if we continue to blunder unprepared into a climatically challenging future.

People [will] sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water [will be] scarce and supermarkets [will be] for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire

FREAKANGELS vibes anyone?

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 26 May 2026 - 03:53 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 26 May 2026 - 01:27 PM, said:

In case you missed this from the Guardian:

Quote

From the air, London resembles a colossal refugee camp. Streets, gardens and parks are teeming with tents and cobbled-together shelters, within which the city's residents have spent another uncomfortable night away from the heat traps that their houses and flats have become. [...] Half-hearted attempts to upgrade insulation across the country's housing stock ran out of steam and cash decades earlier, and most homes still have few barriers to the infiltrating heat. [...] Early risers yawn and stretch as they queue at standpipes for water. A succession of dry winters and a spring drought have brought water rationing across the south-east of England, adding to the woes of those waking from another sticky, broken sleep. Ironically, there is plenty of rain now, and every day ends with an electric storm and torrential rain. Most of this, however, cascades directly into storm drains that can no longer cope, bringing surface flooding to lower-lying parts of the capital, but no end to the dearth of potable water.

[...] Every hospital is overwhelmed as the incessant heat and humidity take their toll on vulnerable people, the old and the very young, and the final death toll across the country once the heat has abated is likely to be in the tens of thousands.

The picture I paint here is one that few today would entertain as a future reality, but it has every chance of coming to life if we continue to blunder unprepared into a climatically challenging future.

People [will] sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water [will be] scarce and supermarkets [will be] for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire

FREAKANGELS vibes anyone?

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[Tiste Simeon]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 26 May 2026 - 09:36 AM, said:

Sorry to read that Tiste. I'm glad the parents reacted in the right way and made them clean it up - but it seems a weird amount of effort to do to anyone, let alone people who've been kind to them.

Thank you yes it's weird and I doubt the kids even knew what they were thinking. Oh well! Life goes on!

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 26 May 2026 - 12:10 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 26 May 2026 - 07:24 AM, said:

The heat is horrendous in the UK just now. 31c in the day, 25c at night, just inescapable, sticky sweat

The last time I was in the UK for any decent length of time (2009), there was a heat wave and I've never suffered anything worse. Your people don't air condition anything properly, and the fridges in shops for cold drinks are open to the air so they offer Luke-cold drinks and it's awful. Our hotel in Luton (I mean, yeah, I know...) was air conditioned and we were suffering trying to sleep and when I put my hand near the vent to see how much cold air was blowing, it was like someone was gently blowing lukewarm air out at a gentle pace...useless.

Contrast to Canada (where it can get as humid as a goblins asshole in the summer; sometimes 35-40) and most hotels you have three options: cool, Cold, and Iceberg...so you never suffer.

I say this as we will be heading to the UK in August and my GODS I hope our friends home has decent AC if it's hot.

The problem in AC is that most of our infrastructure isn't built for it. Windows are casement, so window mounts are generally out. So that leaves installing an external unit, which can get very pricey with older properties. It's a catch 22.

[Macros]

after months of fucking about with a disputed boundary on the house we were buying, everything was agreed a week ago, all sorted, final paperwork being drafted up, ready to sign over and out of nowhere last night the woman rings her agent and says she's not selling.

Thanks for wasting 6 months of our fucking life and thousands of pounds you twat