hot

[vom]

After those days when it was really hot and also I had COVID at the same time, normal summer heat doesn't really feel very hot any more

[blombluss]

Insulation is the worst lets ban it

Insulation is woke cultural Marxism.

[endar]

what if you open the doors and windows from about 4am til about 8am, then close absolutely everything until the next night

[dng]

i tried that but a hedgehog got in

[dng]

A very warm hedgehog

[endar]

that happened here once. It poked its head through the door and had a bit of a sniff. I used my shoe to get it to turn around and usher it back outside

where i left some water

[endar]

That don't stop me though, oh no

[dng]

Lovely hedgehogs

[vom]

spiky fuckers

[Bruce Sato]

I have basically become nocturnal now, when work meetings permit

I am keeping all curtains shut all the time, and then opening up door and all windows when the outside temperature drops below the inside temperature, and keeping them all wide open as long as possible. The newly installed heating system comes with a thermometer, which is proving very useful in this endeavour, although I'm not sure I like the creepy radiant heating panels hanging off the ceiling. I certainly don't appreciate the airing cupboard switch that has buggered up the off-peak water heating.

[endar]

Likewise, Brucemund.

I cannot exist in temperatures above 20 celsius

[blombluss]

If I had a hedgehog, I'd name it Mario.

[dng]

Last night I couldn't get to sleep until about 4 or 5 (due to hot, restless, sweat, stupid brain, etc). Then this morning, I got woken up at about 8 by men using angle grinders and hammers and drills 2 metres outside my window (which went on for about four hours). I have been utterly absurdly headachingly tired ever since, yet for some reason, still cannot get to sleep.

[dng]

I blame my stupid brain for this.

[dng]

And also the heat

[dng]

Also it doesn't help that there's like some sort of white noise I can always here out the window at night from about midnight till about 2 or 3 (air conditioning? a generator of some sort on nearby roadworks? who knows) which my brain can't ever seem to even be bothered to try and work out how to ignore.

[endar]

oh no poor david

sleep now. Sleeeeeeeeeeep

[dng]

I did some sleep

[dng]

But this morning they came back armed with something even worse than power drills (80s classics radio)

[dng]

fuck off elton john. fuck off belinda carlisle

[vom]

you leave Belinda alone

[endar]

Yes. Heavenly Belinda.

I do empathise, however. Fucking radio

[dng]

It's okay they've gone now

[blombluss]

Maybe he meant Belinda, Carlisle? The most frightening woman in Cumbria.

[Pual]

My wife decided to listen to magic fm once. Some of the songs were ok.
The next day she listened to it again and they played exactly the same records.
Then the same the next day

[Pual]

After a week she went back to listening to radio 4

[Bruce Sato]

Workmen are powered by loud music and racism

[endar]

all of the radios are like that. So if you work in a place that plays a loud radio and it's the same fucking songs every day, sometimes every hour or two throughout the day, it is breakdown madness inducing

[endar]

when i briefly worked at stansted airport a few years ago, in an otherwise quiet office with radio, i had to walk out when the fucking spluice griols came on. This actually surprised people, as if it's actually acceptable for that shit to enter your ear holes

[The Robotic Anomaly]

Yeah I had a summer job in a basement and we could only get Radio 1, it sent me slightly mad

[The Robotic Anomaly]

I remember it was the year "Frontier Psychiatrist" was popular so I'll forever know that tune by heart

[vom]

I had a summer job that played some kind of 80s station once and it was indeed mostly hell but when they would occasionally play a good song it really stood out and that is why Lardpony used to cover "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" by A Flock of Seagulls

[endar]

i've had Wake Up Boo stuck in my head for a few days now. I blame you, of course

[vom]

I wouldn't have it any other way

[blombluss]

all of the radios are like that. So if you work in a place that plays a loud radio and it's the same fucking songs every day, sometimes every hour or two throughout the day, it is breakdown madness inducing

god ves.

But why? There are thousands of commercial, catchy, popular, and unthreatening songs from the 1970s to the 2010s. Work your way through 'em, radio stations!

[dng]

Because they're all entirely automated lowest possible cost hellscapes with no purpose except maximising the extraction of advertising revenue for the benefit of the fewest possible people in the most effort free way

[dng]

Today i seem to have woken up with earache

[dng]

no sleep week is the best week ever

[blombluss]

Could the heat have dried up your earwax?

NOTE: I am not an ear Doctor

[dng]

I think a wasp crawled in there

[dng]

also i am okay now (ear wise)

[blombluss]

An okay ear is one less problem to fret over.

[dng]

hot

[richschnauzer]

Boiled.

[dng]

I am going to eat an iceberg for dinner

[blombluss]

Windy 'ere, at the mo', thank gawd!

[blombluss]

I am going to eat an iceberg for dinner

I quite like lettuce, also.

[richschnauzer]

Windy 'ere, at the mo', thank gawd!

you should probably stop eating beans, homfrus

[blombluss]

"Mass crop failures expected in England as farmers demand hosepipe bans
Leaked documents predict crop failure rates of up to 50% as water companies resist calls to prioritise food production"

It'll be eat or be eaten, so I'm off to wander the highways and byways looking for... food...

[blombluss]

Windy 'ere, at the mo', thank gawd!

you should probably stop eating beans, homfrus

I'll stop you in a minute!!!