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I'm thinking of getting solar panels and a battery for our house.

What's your setup like, and is there anything you wish you'd set up differently if you were going to install it again? What supplier are you with?

A company extremely local to us is offering 12x Aiko Energy panels (465 watt), with a Sunsynk 5 kW inverter and a 5.32kWh battery. Octopus Energy are offering a similar set up for a similar price, but they're using 450 watt panels, so with using 12 panels I'd be potentially be losing 180 watts vs what the other company is offering. Is that a significant amount or would it basically not really amount to much additional power?

I got these reusable cloths and they've saved me a packet while being eco friendly. However the reusable sponges I've tried have been shit. Anyone know any good ones?

I have a theory every British person has one

Surely there's far fewer rounds? My previous profession must be in tatters

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31367928

Also which were rare that you were lucky to catch once in a while but not regularly?

HRH Charles's birthday is Saturday! How many pages will the Daily Fail dedicate to it?

I am American, but I live in Japan. I have been searching for a particular T-Fal cooking pot with a particular type of glass lid that used to be available for sale in Japan, but is not any longer.

Doing a broad web search for it, I found it still for sale on Amazon UK. The company selling them even offers to ship to Japan. The problem is when I try to make an account I am blocked because of “suspicious activity.”

I think if I had an account, I would be able to use my own payment methods to buy it and have it shipped to me. Can anyone living in the UK help me?

I've got a bit lost with it cos a) it's unfathomable b) there's a lot of info

I mean, there's obviously something going on. Public sentiment towards Ukraine is still strong and you still see yellow and blue flags flying but sympathy for Israel was never as strong and it's since massively died off given how they've reacted. The vote is clearly not a reflection of genuine public opinion. But what's going on, are certain people just voting loads of times?

I expect that a good many of you will be familiar with the Douglas Adams & John Lloyd 1983 book The Meaning of Liff - which took the "thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places." and applied them to "common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist."

I bought it at the time, devoured it and incorporated many of the words into everyday use from then on. Forty years on, a few of them are still in my routine vocabulary: my dad suffered from lifelong peoria, I unexpectedly gained a friend as a result of fitting a gweek to my car, and have aboyned more than one expert over the years for example.

Yesterday, on holiday with some friends, one of them - also a fan of the book - discovered a scullet hidden in the drainer. Except it wasn't quite a scullet since that is the last teaspoon in the washing up and this was in the drainer. That prompted me to look for the placename Scullet on Google maps, with the idea of using somewhere nearby as the more accurate term for this.

Google maps couldn't find Scullet though. That shook me a little.

The map for the 'S' section in the original book is not particularly helpful, as you can see.

I have subsequently searched for scullet using Google, DDG, Qwant and a couple of others. I can find haircuts (spelt with a 'k') and surnames (apparently of Romanian origin), but the only placename that comes close is Scullet Drive, between Cooloola Cove and Tin Can Bay in Queensland, Australia. That is clearly not the one indicated in the book.

Not every name applied to a place appears in online searches however. I have seen an C18th document in the local records office, for example, recording some field names that were used then and are still in use by some local landowners now, but which I have never found in online searches.

Clearly the majority of the placenames in The Meaning of Liff are genuine. I have always taken without question that they all are. There is enough disinformation and falsity in the world today without finding out that a foundational text from my youth was contributing to it all along.

So, is Scullet a genuine placename in the UK or Ireland that for some reason doesn't appear in online searches OR have Douglas Adams and John Lloyd been lying to us all this time? I am very unwilling to accept that.