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Incey Wincey Spider might. The computer's taken her spot. And worryingly for us she's discovered the concept of a world-wide web...

Build a T gauge garden railway and literally make a mountain out of a molehill.

Hi Faulcon, I'm really sorry that you're feeling this way. If you need somebody to talk to (and I would strongly reccomend doing this) then you can call 13 11 14 to speak to someone from Lifeline (I think you're in Australia). I know that it can be really hard to talk to people at times, especially when you're feeling really low. Those feelings are completely natural, but it doesn't change the fact that there are other people who care about you and who will support you. I think it's important to remember though that you've already taken that first step by reaching out to the community on here. That in itself is a sign of incredible strength and I really think that you should hold onto it.

Please speak to Lifeline - they're probably the best people to support you right now and find the right way forward given your personal circumstances. Beyond that, try to remember that there are other people who care about you and who want to help - I'm sure that I'm far from the only one on here hoping that you'll be able to find a way through. I can't promise that it'll be easy, but I can promise that I'll be thinking of you and happy to help where I can.

Thank you for reaching out, and I wish you all the best,

Declan

Have you been looking at the price of $1 again?

Good luck! When I tried to do this, the police told me to stop as my car was 'damaging the road'...

"All received."

Yes we have.

I'm not Jeff!

@KDG  I suspect it's just a matter of personal sense of humour. I think the special format is always going to suffer from having to stand alone as a story, which means that the plot has to be relatively simple. At the same time, the audience is probably more 'general' than for a full series - which could incentivise the use of a relatively 'safe' formula, trying to get a few laughs out of people, and hoping that they take enough of a liking to the characters that they come back for the main series. I think this is exactly what yesterday's programme tried to do, but of course if the 'groundhog day' format and slightly bizarre visual humour don't appeal to you then I can see why you wouldn't be interested.

If the rails are isolating and need feeding, make sure that the supermarket can do a contact-free delivery.

Or the locomotives - you might end up with a diseasel!

Good to know. What are we talking about?

Look for positives Andy. If the server's music career takes off, it could earn enough money to pay for RMWeb, and then you might get a break from people moaning about adverts (I can't promise they won't find something else though).

@AY ModFacebook is the bane of my life. I had never used it until about 8 weeks ago (I was under the impression that nobody in my generation did). Then I came to University. It turns out that every club and society relies on Facebook - the football team, the chess club, even the JCR use it. It also turns out that Facebook is, in just about every respect, awful. You can't search it easily, whether you get notified about a new message seems to be entirely down to chance, the content is displayed in a completely random order and they have no customer service. I don't mean by this that their customer service is very poor - they just don't have customer service. There is no phone number. You cannot contact Facebook.* I know this because I spent a week not being able to receive any information about... well, anything, because Facebook had decided that I had broken its community standards - and I'd never actually posted anything!

I would be very glad if I never had to use it again. I'm certainly not using it through choice.

*There is a community support thing on Facebook, but that's not much good when you've been locked out of Facebook.

The Heljan Beyer-Garratt must be a contender.

@AY Mod It's a smaller jump than you might imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartell_Light_Railway

You just have to have them buy a slightly larger loco, and then find a way to justify all of those standard gauge things.

If it's anything important, I wouldn't attach it to a public message on here.

It's OK. He's not worth talking to anyway.

If you meant to send a private message, note that you have sent a public one. If you wanted it to be public, why not mention them in the relevant thread:

Should this be a private message instead?

My sister's very unhappy. We're going on holiday to the area next week and she's worried about missing the final of Love Island. Hopefully they won't fix it until September...

Lots:

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

I must apologise Captain for being so slow to offer my condolences, but I am afraid that your tale brought back traumatic memories of my own violation by the infidels. I was strolling around Chippenham as I often do in an evening, when I came to a new housing development on the site of the Westinghouse sports ground. As I ventured into the housing estate I was impressed with the road names. Rather than the usual custom of naming them after types of bush or flower, they had chosen names such as 'Signal Way' and 'Westinghouse Park' which recognised the heritage of the land.

Then, I discovered this entirely unwarranted assault on my sensibilities, and a mere 20 miles from Swindon Works!

By all means, feel free to name a road after a distinguished train: The Bristolian, or the Cheltenham Flyer for instance. But this... this? Utterly reprehensible.

Or, we could not bother extending stereotypes which are ridiculous when applied to humans to other species as well. Everyone, whether human, feline, canine, bovine, or something else entirely, deserves better than that.

Speaking from my experience a former Member of Youth Parliament (and hence somebody who has engaged in discussion about current affairs with all sorts of young people) I think many of 'the youth of today' would object, with justification, to being described as 'gullible and easily manipulated'. The people who unquestioningly believe whatever they see on TikTok would, in another generation, unquestioningly believe whatever they read in the column of a certain Ms. Hopkins.

It's also worth bearing in mind that while at secondary school, people my age have been through:

- The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

- The 2015 General Election

- The 2016 EU Referendum and US Presidential Election

- The 2017 General Election

- The 2019 General Election

- The 2020 US Presidential Election

With all of the fake news and dubious claims made around these votes, we've had more than enough practice assessing whether a story is credible or not. Thankfully, this is made easier because the UK has an impartial news broadcaster whose content is universally available. As long as the BBC is around in something like its current form, I think it will remain the go-to option for my generation to verify information about current affairs.

The only young person I know who has ever expressed irrational concerns about the covid vaccine was influenced primarily by his grandfather's opinion. I'll allow you to make whatever you like of that information.

A question for @truffy: When would your daughter have taken these first IT lessons? Back when I would have been in that situation (probably some time between 2007 and 2010) I don't think the idea of fake news spreading on social media was such a big concern. I only really remember this becoming a prominent topic of discussion from 2016 onwards (though of course this pushing into the earliest years of my political memory, as I am too young to recall the 2010 election). If she started school before then I doubt that they would have been teaching about fake news because we (as a society) didn't really recognise it as a threat at that point in the same way that we do now.

I understand where you're coming from, but of course the individual item (not the entire industry) is what should be compared to the individual trip to space. Also, by purchasing second hand models I am not adding any carbon emmisions to those already created. The products were manufactured to satisfy the demands of somebody else, often before I was born. I had nothing to do with that process and no action that I am able to take could prevent them from occuring. I am simply reusing what is now somebody else's waste. If there wasn't a second hand market, these items would go to landfill once their first owners had finished with them. That would be considerably worse for the environment.

Regarding the second point, I had realised that you were unhappy with the criticism of the spending of these two individuals. As I explained above, I would be happy to face such criticism myself. Clearly you would not be and that is the source of our difference of opinion on the morality of it. As this is personal to each of us, I find it unlikely that either of us will be persuaded to change our minds. It is perhaps best that we agree to disagree on this point, as further discussion will only become tediously repetetive, which is sure to lead to unneccessary frustration.