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Post by Moose on Apr 8, 2023 23:31:34 GMT
What's everyone up to? I am just .. sleeping all the time  |
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Post by Kye on Apr 9, 2023 0:44:49 GMT
I'm busy since tomorrow is Easter, but the power was out at the church for most of Holy Week, so a lot of the services were cancelled. At least it's back for Easter!
Why are you sleeping so much?
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Post by tangent on Apr 9, 2023 13:07:32 GMT
Bard says that it is possible that the forum is quiet because it is actually very active, but the activity is taking place online or in other forums. This is becoming increasingly common, as people are increasingly using online platforms to communicate and collaborate.
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Post by Kye on Apr 9, 2023 16:57:58 GMT
Umm... this IS an online forum
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Post by Moose on Apr 9, 2023 23:53:22 GMT
LOL. I am starting to be a bit wary of this Bard.
Not sure about the sleeping - possibly a menopause thing.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 12, 2023 7:10:04 GMT
Bard has a bit to learn.
Personally I think the reason it's been quiet here is because people are not posting very much.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 12, 2023 7:10:36 GMT
I'm busy since tomorrow is Easter, but the power was out at the church for most of Holy Week, so a lot of the services were cancelled. Was that an Act of God? |
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Post by Kye on Apr 12, 2023 9:14:36 GMT
It sure felt like it! I guess technically the ice storm that produced it was.
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Post by Moose on Apr 13, 2023 0:49:59 GMT
I would post more if other people did!  |
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Post by Mari on Apr 18, 2023 10:01:31 GMT
Sory, I've been running around like a headless chicken trying to get things organized. And everytime I think I've got something organized I get a phonecall telling me that I need to rearrange things or do it differently entirely.
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Post by tangent on Apr 18, 2023 11:30:11 GMT
Moving house is traumatic. I've done that once and hope I don't have to do it again, although if I were to win the lottery, I might consider it.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 19, 2023 8:03:03 GMT
Moving house is traumatic. I've done that once and hope I don't have to do it again, although if I were to win the lottery, I might consider it. You've only moved house once Steve? My parents moved house four times before I was 13, though fortunately they're still in that house. I've moved quite a few times, including obviously between different countries! |
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Post by tangent on Apr 19, 2023 12:01:16 GMT
]You've only moved house once Steve? My parents moved house four times before I was 13, though fortunately they're still in that house. I meant as a family from a real house into a real house. As a child and young adult, I moved with my parents three times and as a young adult, about eight times (from my parent's home to college, and from various lodgings when they kicked me out). |
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Post by Mari on Apr 25, 2023 7:05:19 GMT
I've moved before, but the new house was empty and we knew people for the redecorating. Now I have to organise everything through a screen in conjunction with the current owners, plus very long waiting times for the builders. It's 7 or 8 months waiting time at the moment.
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Post by kingedmund on Apr 27, 2023 15:11:51 GMT
Still running around like a headless chicken, Mari. 😆
Good heavens. Waiting time is nuts. My store I’ve been building the walls and stuff myself. It’s cheaper and to me more fun.
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Post by tangent on Apr 28, 2023 13:33:14 GMT
I used to work with a colleague who had a twin brother. When they were 17, they applied to their bank manager for a loan to build two houses, one each, and designed and built them both themselves. A matching pair. Not many 17 year olds could do that.
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Post by kingedmund on May 6, 2023 23:31:58 GMT
Oh wow they sound like an interesting set of brothers.
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Post by Elis on May 7, 2023 11:12:56 GMT
Been quiet because of school and our little one. Working full time and being a mum is quite a lot. Now we have a project week coming up at school which I haven't prepared much for.
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Post by tangent on May 7, 2023 22:00:39 GMT
I'm sure you have your hands full.
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Post by kingedmund on May 8, 2023 16:13:23 GMT
Oh yes. Your hands are more than full. I love a good and interesting project but rarely are they interesting enough for me. Even as a kid I was that way.
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Post by Mari on May 9, 2023 7:27:40 GMT
We build a bit differently here. I'm always amazed at the cardboard houses I see on American shows. All the walls are literally nothing but some wooden framing and then drywall or whatever it's called.
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Post by kingedmund on May 10, 2023 13:30:22 GMT
Very true. I think they do that because it takes less resources to do than other ways. The exterior of houses typically are brick here. In Oklahoma to make a house more efficient for the environment you would use brick or stone mostly.
I was reading how homes are built there. I was shock to see a variety of the had steep stairs to climb. I would have fallen many time over on those as I have no balance. 😂 but some look pretty cool. Was so shocked at the sizes homes came in even though I knew since space is limited in Europe.
You have to share close proximity to neighbors so it makes since most homes walls are concrete. We do that here on some homes but it costs a lot to do that and their typically isn’t a need for it. I have a friend that did it so the home is tornado resistant to a point but it increased the price of the home by 50%.
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Post by tangent on May 10, 2023 16:15:09 GMT
We pay a lot for land here, a acre of land on which houses may be built might cost £300,000 in the north of England or £1 million in the south. Farmland is much cheaper, typically £10,000 per acre, I believe. Housing estates with ten houses per acre might cost £30,000 for the land alone and so builders tend to build houses close together.
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Post by whollygoats on May 12, 2023 16:28:30 GMT
Very true. I think they do that because it takes less resources to do than other ways. The exterior of houses typically are brick here. In Oklahoma to make a house more efficient for the environment you would use brick or stone mostly. Which will come back to bite them now that the oil dipshits are fracking like mad. Earthquakes where there used to be none are now all too common. Brick structures and earthquakes are deadly dumb...but that's the oil bidness for you. They're here to shit on you and yours. |
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Post by tangent on May 12, 2023 17:57:11 GMT
The largest fracking earthquake in the UK occurred in April 2011. It had a magnitude of 2.3 and was felt locally. As a result, the government has abandoned fracking probably because of its danger to local housing and the enormous damage it would make to the government's image.
I believe Oklahoma has also suffered earthquakes from wastewater disposal. Wastewater disposal is a process in which fluid waste from oil and gas production is injected deep underground far below ground water or drinking water aquifers. Meanwhile, Oklahoma suffered an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 from fracking in 2019.
It is said that damage to buildings does not usually occur until the earthquake magnitude reaches somewhere above 4 or 5.
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Post by Moose on May 12, 2023 23:50:32 GMT
I am glad I have never needed to worry about being earthquake resistant.
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Post by jayme on May 14, 2023 4:15:04 GMT
There was a 5.8 magnitude quake south of Wichita, KS that cracked peoples' foundations and basements all the way up here in 2016. Any quake in southern KS or OK would be considered fracking related.
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Post by jayme on May 14, 2023 4:17:49 GMT
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Post by tangent on May 14, 2023 7:04:43 GMT
You get all the fun in the States.
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Post by Mari on May 16, 2023 7:30:54 GMT
Nope, we've got quakes due to gas winning up North in Groningen as well. There are cracks in houses and housing prices have plummeted. The government made billions off of selling our gas, yet can't find the money to compensate the people in Groningen. Typical *rolls eyes*
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