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Click on the three horizontal lines (aka "hamburger") icon at the top left of the YouTube web page and scroll down to the bottom of the pop-out menu and you should see the option circled below:

As soon as you add a second destination, all the timing options are removed and it just gives the end-to-end journey time (presumably on a 'Leave Now' basis, though it doesn't say that). This is for Google Maps in Safari on a Mac. In Chrome on the Mac it doesn't offer any timing options at all. So Google's own web app is less functional in Google's own browser than Apple's? Go figure. The same goes for the Google Maps app on Android. How peculiar.

This was likely an autodialled call. They are programmed to call randomly generated telephone numbers (so they don't actually "get" your number from anywhere, they just get a "hit" every so often) and if it's answered but they get silence or what sounds like an answering machine, they hang up. A call blocker phone stops these, and all other spam calls, dead in their tracks. It lets through calls from numbers in the telephone electronic phone book, but calls from an unrecognised number are directed to an automated "concierge", which screens the call for you and puts it through once the caller has said who they are or who they are calling from. This stops autodialler calls, since the autodialler interprets the "concierge" as an answerphone, and hangs up. You never even know that the call was made. All you need is to have caller ID on your line - which I believe is a no-cost feature bundled with most if not all landline providers these days - and a call blocker phone which is a one-off cost. As for wasting their time in relation for them wasting yours, that really is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Just hang up.

Best not to go near a Post Office with RM Tracked 24 and 48 I think. Apart from anything else, it costs extra to drop a Tracked package off at a Post Office (16p it would have been for the last small parcel I sent). If you're able to wait in, you can get it collected from your home address for free - they'll even bring the address label ready printed off you can't be bothered to fit that yourself. Otherwise drop it off at a local RM delivery office, or in one of their parcel post boxes (locations of which they give on their web site when you buy the postage). I'm with andyman regarding the reliability of the Tracked 48 service: not had a problem with it to date. I never buy postage through eBay; apart from anything else, in my experience it's poor to unusable for selecting anything more than the base level for a given service. I much prefer to buy postage direct from RM online. eBay don't 'encrypt' the buyer's address, they just insert a code of their own part way through. As that's just for their own admin purposes, you don't need it if you aren't buying the postage from them. I just take the postcode they give you and feed it in to RM's reverse postcode lookup tool to confirm the buyer's postal address. It's quite common for the official postal address that RM have on file to be subtly different from that given by eBay - likely due to buyers not really knowing their own postal address properly, and eBay not checking. Using the official address as known to RM reduces the risk of the item going astray.

If the seller removed the listing from eBay and sold the item as a private transaction then neither party would be able to claim redress, fraudulently or otherwise, through eBay. eBay is very clear about this in its Ts & Cs, and its guidance to sellers and buyers: do the deal outwith eBay and you're on your own. What you may be thinking of is the scam whereby a buyer completes the purchase on eBay paying by PayPal or, more likely these days, directly through eBay, but requesting collection in person. Having collected the item, the buyer then files a non-delivery claim and very likely gets their money back (given that eBay tends to favour the buyer in most disputes). To avoid this, sellers can (a) decline/not offer collection in person, or (b) insist on cash on collection. Taking option (b) means that eBay isn't involved in the financial side of the transaction, so the buyer can't fraudulently claim the money back from them. The seller and/or buyer could still gather photographic evidence of the in-person transaction - or maybe get a signature on a "received with thanks from...in payment for..." chitty - just in case the other party decides to try something funny. This is a [sadly not so] rare example where using cash is actually preferable to using electronic payment mechanisms. I have in the past refunded a buyer's PayPal payment precisely because they asked to collected the item in person. The request for collection in person was perfectly reasonable since they were quite local, but I still insisted on cash payment (as I had stated in the listing) and in that case they were happy to comply.

It's in Crystal Palace Park - there's actually two of them. The mistake was made by Gideon Mantell, the discoverer of the first, incomplete, iguanodon fossils. In his defence, he was working with the specimens he had at the time; it was only when more complete specimens were found later that the mistake was recognised. Bear in mind that he made his first skeletal reconstruction in 1834, and the Crystal Palace iguanodons, which were built nearly 20 years later, were still constructed with the erroneous nose spike or horn which they retain to this day*. What's probably more egregiously wrong about the Crystal Palace iguanodons is that they are depicted as heavy, pachyderm-like creatures, contrary to what Mantell had worked out about them five years earlier. This error was based on the views of another paleontologist Richard Owen, who still clung to creationist ideas and believed that the iguanodon was fundamentally mammalian, and could not have "transmuted" from a reptilian form into modern mammal-like species. (Owen became the Superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum in 1856, which gained their own premises in 1880 in what we now know as the Natural History Museum. His rather forbidding statue stood at the midway point of the main staircase until 2009, when it was replaced by a statue of Charles Darwin having a nice sit down - but no cup of tea 🙁. Owen was widely regarded as being not a very nice person, to put it mildly.) * They were retained during the 2001 renovation programme, thankfully, preserving the original mistake. All the models in the Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park were kept as as close to original condition during the renovations as was practically possible, given the state of deterioration of some of them. Some had actually gone missing, and had to replaced with fibre-glass replicas. As of 2007 the site is Grade I listed, and quite right too. When I was a nipper and my family lived in Bromley, we used to visit the dinosaurs quite regularly. They were looking pretty care-worn even back then. I was very pleased to find them lovingly restored when I visited the park again in the early 2000s, more than 40 years after I'd last been there, despite it being a bitingly cold day (we eventually retired to the nearby indoor cafe for a restorative cuppa and fish finger sandwiches - the latter being a delicacy I had not previously experienced but which proved to be eminently sustaining in such weather)..

And you know this how, exactly? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/09/christian-horner-makes-his-case-against-controlling-behaviour-claims Until more information emerges, I'd suggest that you desist from uninformed speculation about a potentially sensitive subject.

Hmm, not entirely convinced. My wife was still getting the maximum £1 selling fee offers long - as in at least a year - after my original eBay account was only receiving the 80% off selling fees offer. That's partly why I set up my second eBay account, and lo and behold I got the maximum £1 selling fees offer almost straight away. Then when the first thing I sold (in May last year) meant that they lost out on nearly £40 of commission, no more maximum £1 selling fees offers for me. Yet my wife was still getting them in October and November last year i.e. five to six months later*. Of course it's possible that the maximum £1 selling fees offers stopped for good in November, but nonetheless I'm pretty sure they do profile users' selling history as a guide of which selling fee offers to make to whom. * Since when she has had no selling fee offers at all, and of my two accounts only the new one has had the 80% offer. Looks like they went all-in in the run up to Christmas and are now in bit of a cooling down period.

I don't use Amazon as much as I used to. When I do I almost always get the 99p for a week "trial" offer. In fact, looking at the Prime Membership page for my Amazon account, it's offering it to me now; it may be a permanent offer that I just get reminded about when I make a purchase. I do sometimes get the free one month trial offer but it seems to happen much more rarely than it used to. TBH it doesn't bother me that much: if I want free delivery on an order under £25 I get the order sent to an Amazon locker, of which there are many near here. I'm never in such a hurry for something that I can't wait a couple of days for it to be delivered. It's the same with eBay: I used to get the maximum £1 selling fees offers more or less monthly. Nowadays all I get is the 80% off selling fees offers. I actually set up a second eBay account to see if that made any difference and the maximum £1 selling fees offer appeared quite quickly. I took advantage of it to sell a relatively expensive item, and all they've offered me on that account since is the 80% off. One might almost get the impression that these companies have more sophisticated algorithms these days capable of recognising when people are just taking advantage of the attractive "tester"/"teaser" offers to get something for next to nothing, with no intention of signing up for the long term. Recall also that Amazon got a lot of criticism in the press a few years ago for supposedly signing people up to Prime 'without their knowledge'. AFAICR it was always made pretty clear at the time of making a purchase what the offer was, although it was sometimes not so easy to find out how to decline it. Neither was it always easy to find out how to cancel the Prime subscription before they started charging (although in fact you could cancel the same day that you accepted the offer, and you still got the free one month). I had slightly less sympathy with those who took several months to spot that they were being billed on a regular basis for something they didn't want. (A person of suspicious mind might suggest that the offer appeared much less frequently once the above mentioned obfuscations had been removed, and they found they were making much less money out of accidental subscribers.)

For the avoidance of confusion: 2-Propanol and Dimethyl carbinol are the same thing - see "Other names" in this Wiki article. Additional help to solve mystery can be found in this Wiki article which says of 2-Butoxyethanol: 2-Butoxyethanol ... is a colorless liquid [with] a sweet, ether-like odour. It derives from the family of glycol ethers, and is a butyl ether of ethylene glycol [a.k.a. antifreeze]. As a relatively nonvolatile, inexpensive solvent it is used in many domestic and industrial products because of its properties as a surfactant. It is a known respiratory irritant and can be acutely toxic, but animal studies did not find it to be mutagenic, and no studies suggest it is a human carcinogen. A study of 13 classroom air contaminants conducted in Portugal reported a statistically significant association with increased rates of nasal obstruction and a positive association below the level of statistical significance with a higher risk of obese asthma and increased child BMI. Commercial uses 2-Butoxyethanol is a solvent for paints and surface coatings, as well as cleaning products and inks. ... It is the main ingredient of many home, commercial and industrial cleaning solutions. Since the molecule has both polar and non-polarends, 2-butoxyethanol is useful for removing both polar and non-polar substances, like grease and oils.

WINE Is Not an Emulator - it's in the name. (Technically it's a compatibility layer.) I tried Wine few times but never really got on with it. I find VirtualBox much easier to use for running Windows applications, though it does require a Windows licence which Wine doesn't. But then my first Windows VM was a virtualization of a licensed XP machine which has been successively upgraded to 7 and 10, all happily running on the original XP licence. (Although I have had to buy a 64-bit Win 10 licence in anticipation of experimenting with 11 at some point, but TBH it wasn't that expensive and I don't grudge MS a few dollars every decade or so.)

Not dissimilar to the Lowland Caledondian Sleeper incident in 2019, then? The isolating cock somehow got closed during the shunt at Carstairs after the brake continuity test had been carried out. The driver did do a running brake test in the usual location en route to Edinburgh, but apparently failed to appreciate that he'd had to apply more service brake than normal to reduce the train's speed. Rheostatic braking on the approach to Edinburgh was likely compromised due to the pantograph dropping "unintendedly" as the train passed a neutral section at Curriehill, and it ended up running through Waverley at between 30mph and 20mph before it was finally brought to a stand 650m beyond its intended stopping point, apparently assisted by an intervention by the train manager. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5ece325b86650c76a551df1a/R052020_200528_Edinburgh.pdf

I think his tendency to lose his rag at the tiniest perceived on-track unfairness and resort to potty-mouth expletives doesn't endear him to some people.

It's definitely in the new Peco packaging with the clear plastic box rather than the old style Parkside placcy bag with a Peco label on it, as in the second photo in the Hatton's link posted by Moxy above. (The actual item listing is here.) I've raised an "item is defective" return with eBay this morning, it'll be in the post to the seller later today.

Good plan, I'll give that a try first before raising a complaint against the seller (who may actually not have known about the issue).