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1 hour ago, kris88 said:
Go away. I’ve said this on this forum more than once. I’m dyslexic, I find the continual pointing out of spelling and grammar mistakes to be one of the most churlish and antiquated forms of insult used on this forum.
Perhaps what is really being pointed out is that you often seem too lazy to bother to use a spellchecker, even though you say you are dyslexic. It shows a lack of courtesy to your readers.
Standardisation of language promotes mutual understanding. Saying it doesn't matter is just an excuse for confusion. As for "98% of the world's population" not caring, where is your evidence for that figure?
If you had a physical disability that affected your ability to walk, would you use a walking stick, or just expect other people to lend you an arm whenever you overbalanced?
23 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:Maybe (being a proper noun) it should be Catamaran.
If it were a proper noun, yes, but it isn't. The word "catamaran" is derived from the Tamil word, kattumaram, which means "logs bound together".
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Square feet per kilowatt? Talk about inconsistent units ...
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To expect a BSS examiner to keep fees at a particular level would be naive. They are running businesses just like any other consultancy outfit.
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8 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:
You're beginning to live very dangerously!!
We Nationalists will be after your blood (and your money)!
Now if you'd said your trip to the UK..........
😁😋😎 😇😇😇
WALES?
After yesterday's match, I'm glad I have some roots in Scotland!
(Sorry Graham, not trying to derail the thread. Like me, Tim is a proud England supporter.)
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5 hours ago, cuthound said:
I expect that most large companies would be OK with you recharging your battery pack, provided you agreed to it having regular, successful Portable Appliance Tests.
That's an issue I hadn't thought of.
Not looking too good for the OP's planned approach, is it?
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Yes, it could be de minimus, but the tax issue (which I only brought up as an afterthought) would be not nearly as big an issue as the employer bringing things to a grinding halt by saying "no, pal, that's taking the piss".
Which, as Slim and I have both pointed out, is far from trivial, being an eventuality for which a Plan B is needed.
The morality of the practice is arguably not a triviality either, though.
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I can't help wondering if the back boiler, or the back of the stove, has cracked. For all the popularity of Morso stoves, this does happen ... DAMHIK.
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1 hour ago, Gybe Ho said:
Modern employers are far more concerned about employees stealing time by looking at their phone's messaging app every 20 minutes.
DILLIGAF?
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Leaving morals aside, the central point was perfectly valid.
"What if" the employer objected to being the OP's primary source of energy.
I see no "Plan B" covering that eventuality.
That's not derailment, it's covering all the angles.
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1 hour ago, Phoenix_V said:
did you declare for income tax purposes?
It was nearly 40 years ago. Benefits-in-kind were simply not a thing back then. I didn't even attract a tax liability for my company car.
Drinking the free teas and coffees at a client's office, which I have done on countless occasions, did not, and still does not, count as a B-I-K.
20 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:Given the possibilities that the kWh of electricity was "provided" or stolen you went for the allegation of criminality. Hmm.
What you are seeking to attack is somebody's selective opinion on my views, not the views themselves.
Hmm.
22 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:>>>As an employer you should know that the cost of recruiting a non minimum wage employee is about £+10k. Would you risk a resignation over £40 of electricity annually?
I am no longer an employer. In the past, my employees were subject to their contracts and to any appropriate disciplinary measures. In this hypothetical case, I would not have allowed an employee, on a routine basis, no charge up a car battery or similar device. As somebody else has said, why should an employer pay for an employee's heating and lighting other than through their normal remuneration?
Would I have risked the resignation? You bet I would. As I said in my first post on this thread, the user of the firm's electricity would be taking the piss.
For the avoidance of doubt, charging up a mobile phone would be perfectly OK. The question is simply one of reasonableness.
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39 minutes ago, frahkn said:
If you are taking electricity without the employers permission - i.e. stealing it - there could not be a tax liability.
If you look back upthread, I said he was stealing either from the employer or the public purse. Not both.
52 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:Have you never stolen a teabag, milk and hotwater at a place of work?
No, I've used them if they were provided by the employer.
I've also provided them as an employer.
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58 minutes ago, cheesegas said:
I hope anyone who reports someone who is ‘stealing’ the taxes on 50p worth of electricity from the HMRC as a benefit in kind has a good hard look at themselves in the mirror before realising what a terrible human being they are.
I hope anyone who steals the taxes on 50p worth of electricity every day for years (or indeed steals the electricity) has a good hard look at themselves in the mirror before realising what a terrible human being they are.
I said nothing about reporting anyone.
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5 hours ago, cheesegas said:
As long as the employer is aware of it I don't see an issue. Not everyone works for a massive multinational with a huge chain of command to pass things through. I used to work full time in a hires warehouse, small company of 10 people, and would routinely take things in to work to charge, including my partner's Bluetti power bank. I'd borrow a van and plug it in in the warehouse. They were totally fine with it; at 20p per kwh (at the time!), that's around 50p to charge even a big 2kwh power bank. Pales in comparison to the 32a 3ph electric heater that was run in the winter!
As to charging lithium in a warehouse and insurance - that company had a few hundred wireless uplighters with li-ion NMC cells in them which were charged daily, as well as two lithium forklifts. All approved by insurance.
I agree it's cheeky if you work in some massive companies office as it wouldn't get approved and some brown-noser would probably delight in informing someone as to what you're doing...
Even if the employer knows what's happening, they can still change their minds, leaving the OP with no Plan B.
Besides which, the size or status of the employer, whether a multinational, a p7blic body or a SME, makes no difference: the OP would be getting something he hasn't paid for, so it's a benefit in kind, and therefore taxable.
He's not being cheeky: he would be stealing, whether from the employer or HMRC.
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The OP talked about taking the units to work to charge.
It occurs to me to wonder what his employer would think about that. It's taking the piss (not to mention stealing the employer's electricity), and once the employer has stopped it happening, the OP is stuffed.
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A 50ft boat that you like is better than a less appealing 56ft boat.
As others have said, go and look at lots of boats!
We ended up with a 48ft cruiser stern, which wasn't what we at first thought we wanted, but we weren't looking for a liver board.
Oh, and we bought it dahn sahf and ran it (not sailed it, or even cruised it!) back to the North ourselves over a few weekends.
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9 hours ago, magnetman said:
People tend to assume Rockwool absorbs moisture because it looks like it would be it doesn't.
Rockwool is hydrophobic.
It will not absorb moisture from the air.
It's also completely incombustible.
Unlike plastics, which burn and emit highly toxic smoke.
The disadvantage is that you need a greater thickness of Rockwool to provide a given level of heat insulation, but bear in mind that the material, whatever it is, does not insulate. It's the trapped air that does the work. Plastic foam is better at trapping those little pockets of air.
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On 10/02/2025 at 23:17, magnetman said:
>> I saw someone almost roll a narrow when they tied it by the centre line to a bollard too near the lock then emptied the lock. The boat went so far over I could almost see the baseplate on the outside. Must have been at least 45 degrees.
They should have taken their soap and flannel with them.
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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
Yes.
If one is holding something for a long time it is more comfortable if the vibration amplitude is increased and the frequency decreased.
That wasn't what you said before, in fact, it's the opposite of what you suggested ("less vibration").
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17 minutes ago, magnetman said:
A longer piece of metal tube will vibrate less at the end than a shorter piece.
Maximise the distance between the source of vibration and the hand.
Haven't you got that arsy-versy? If the tiller is longer, the amplitude of vibration at the steerer's hand will be increased. There will not be any significant attenuation of the exciting force by damping along the length of the tube.
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11 hours ago, Dawn.treader said:
>> See haters if you don't ask the questions that's the only dumb question. The one you didn't ask
It's still not as dumb as ignoring the answers.
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29 minutes ago, Stilllearning said:
'Zebra parking places provided everywhere'.
"When entering a railway compartment, be sure to shake hands with all the passengers".
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On 01/02/2025 at 11:40, Stilllearning said:
I wonder if that is a direction sign, or a political slogan?
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I was thinking of Hoffnung's comment about ignoring all left and right signs. 'They are merely political slogans.' He was talking about roads, but the joke remains valid.
"All London brothels display a blue lamp"
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Glad there actually is a target date.
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I Thought It Was The Gratuitous Use Of Capitals, Which No Official Communication Would Ever Do Because It Looks So Stupid.
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No, it isn't. You may feel controlled, but standardisation is about mutual understanding, convenience, and the greater good that arise from them.
I notice you have failed to back up your assertion that 98% of the world's population don't care about spelling and grammar. That was insulting to all those millions of people doing their best to learn English as a foreign language, a difficult enough undertaking in itself.
For the avoidance of doubt, I have said nothing about your intelligence, or lack of it. What really bugs me is your playing the victim's card as a smokescreen for laziness.
By the way, I do know what dyslexia is. A close friend of mine worked for, and obtained, a degree in Mech Eng despite the difficulty, and this was in an era that was probably before you were even born.
I'm not judging him on his dyslexia, but on his attitude to it.
That's all Fairy Nuff. There are ways to deal with the problem other than a spellchecker (there was no such thing in the 1970s) but technology advances all the time.