Josh Owen Morris

The number of daytrippers from Manchester/Liverpool/Bham and #vanlife people means a tourism tax for overnight stays can only ever be a partial solution.

Asking people to pay for parking, or pay more for parking, maybe with some being used to support Mountain Rescue, is probably next biggest part.

I switched to duck duck go a couple of years ago now, and it has sent my targeted ads HAYWIRE. They don't know if I'm Christian, Muslim, gay straight, trans, from Essex, Canada....

One interesting thought that occurred to me was the hydro sector was keen to talk about how many thousands of tons of coal they'd save for a given period. Which is probably a great illustration given people held it in their hands regularly at the time. Much better than homes equivalent.

I know of one government org that FOI'd their own advice (which may have been incorrect...)

I think about that electric guitar tone basically every day now

Screenshot of a North Wales Weekly News article from 1949 discussing wind power tests in Dolgarrog

North Wales has been the heart of electricity generation and innovation in the UK forever.

First public supplies in the Conwy Valley.
First commercial offshore wind farm.
First UK tests of wind power in 1949!

The heat pump driven ones are apparently very efficient

I like how all the food reviews are ones that fit within the £15 HMRC subsistence rate for an evening meal.

and by the looks of things, they earn less than me, so you could probably bribe one with a big sandwich

Well, this was eye opening. That's not 140 sessions or days, that's 140 days in total, aka 20 weeks.

so in an ON year, the Texas (31m people) legislature meets 10 weeks fewer than the Welsh (3.1m people) legislature. That is WILD

i used to work in a call centres and just on some calls you'd end up saying one word over and over again. And then you'd hang up and the person next to you would be like "do you want a brew? Perfect" and piss themselves laughing.

Being a billionaire looks to be as bad for your brain as being kicked in the head by a horse.

Used to live near there. It was a horror show 20 years ago and I can't imagine it getting much worse by reducing the speed limit 10mph. The bottle neck has always been the traffic lights/turning for Cheadle and Gatley. And why do they keep printing the "more pollution by slowing down" fallacy?

A screenshot of a Manchester Evening News post about veterans supposedly being "turfed out apartments for migrants" which is not happening.

Here's another classic: couldn't resist teasing the misinfo debunk. Of course, people believing the misinfo don't read beyond the headline...

isn't that what Scaramanga had in The Man with the Golden Gun?

Doing the local chainy for the first time since moving here... Four years ago?!?

Hope I still remember how to pedal dead hard, then pedal nearly as hard, then pedal dead hard again, then...

In the last week of university, she cancelled going to a pub for a drink and suggested we go to the University Hall bar where they serve curry on cardboard plates.

Somehow it came up in conversation that she was pro death penalty and that it was biblically permitted.

Now is the time to get aboard the Remco hype train

A screenshot of a Facebook post sincerely comparing Kier Starmer directly to Stalin, as if they were actually the same.

The second home owners in Gwynedd are truly going insane.

Gels are generally much of a muchness. You can get SIS ones in Tesco, but sometimes I buy STYRKR or Kendal mint ones online.

For day to day riding, haribo or wine gums are good and cheap. But I do have a tendency to impulsively snack on those in a way I'd never with gels...

It is the organisation that keeps on (not) giving.

Just found out which health centre I was referred to in August 2022 for a particular service, and also just found out they stopped doing that thing 12 months ago.

Gotta love Betsi Cadwalladr University Health Board.

This is basically the same reason my kids ended up with Ajax and Olympiakos kits. Cheapest full kit in their size on eBay that wasn't an English league team haha

In the words of Don Draper, that's what the money is for.

Screenshot of a Facebook post from north Wales triathlon club Gog Tri: At around 7pm Thursday night, one of our female members was minding their own business riding alone down the A470, from Llanrwst towards Tal Y Cafn. Sadly this attracted the attention of a motorcyclist who decided to harass and bully her, making repeated close passes at speed, the final pass forcing her off the road. We want to say as a club that this is not ok. On what planet is it ok to risk someone’s life, intimidate a lone female and ride a motorcycle without regard to the law? Luckily our club member was ok physically but left in tears and massively shook up. We all share the same planet so let’s do it with kindness. If anyone has any information please get in touch.

Shared from the Gog Tri facebook page. There are some horrible people out there.

All American maps have America in the middle. This one might be ours...

This whole episode reeks of somebody accidentally taking Bob Mortimer talking about Pocket Meat too seriously.

Fully convinced that someone has decided to do a Bob Mortimer bit and this has happened because nobody in America knows who he is

Maybe it isn't so bad in context. Somehow I don't feel any desperate need to find out