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And the police wonder why people don't respect them and say things like "All Coppers Are Bastards".

My last few interactions with the police in Notts have been pretty dumb.

My neighbour was screaming some horrible things to a kid like "you're a cunt" and "you don't deserve to be in my care". I called 111 because I didn't think there was any violence happening but I was worried about the kid and the way they were being treated and said if you need to talk to me, they could ring. They sent out a car, was there for maybe 10 mins then rang me back and said it was fine they were "having an argument about something else", whatever that means. Then I was called an hour later and was told I'd asked to speak to someone. I've no idea where that came from, I didn't, I said they could speak to me if they need to multiple times on the call, unsure how that translated to me wanting to speak to someone higher up.

Time before that, they were out to investigate an argument between two 15 year olds at a local school, they sent out two cars and blocked both my driveway and my neighbours for over 2 hours, and refused to move their cars, even though there was plenty of space that wasn't blocking drive ways, and they spent most of that time stood in front of their cars doing naff all.

The time before that I was punched in the face by some addict being a dickhead, I reported the assault, they called me 3 times to ask me where it happened, I gave street names, they said they couldn't find it and asked if I had any CCTV evidence. I asked if I could send them a link to Google maps as they can't find it and was told they're "not allowed to use Google maps". Why I have to do the investigation for them I don't know.

Notts police are fucking useless unless they're protecting the racist mobs that travel here to march. They also brag on Facebook about busting people for cannabis.

I still buy cassettes! New ones too!

My last phone before this one was an HTC, and it needed a proprietary dongle, if I used a cheap one I'd only get sound out of one ear.

The proprietary dongle for the HTC at the time was like £16.99, which was close to what I was paying for headphones. (I'm still using a 20 quid set now).

I tried wireless earbuds but they're quite heavy and my ear canals were getting pretty sore, I just don't get on with them much. I know there's one with clips that go around the ear, but I'm not a fan of that either, especially if I've glasses on.

To me, yep, absolute deal-breaker.

I've broken too many dongles and a couple of charge ports, I prefer to keep it simple.

Also the whole "if you need to charge your phone you can't listen to music" thing is incredibly frustrating.

Massaclaim is a great word for a class action.

Dropped my fairphone 3 yesterday, smashed the screen

Really annoying I've dropped this loads and never broke it.

~35 quid for a new screen isn't bad

Just wish the later models had, you guessed it, a headphone jack.

Not much out that I'm looking to play, there's some slightly older survival games that I might have a go with like valheim and enshrouded. I've been told the new Dune survival game is good, but when I asked what the hook was, I was told it was "Dune like", which doesn't do a lot for me, though if anyone has any feelings on it I'll happily listen.

There's some new factory builder that looks like satisfactory but with wave defence like factorio, I'm very interested in that but forgot the name.

I'm also interested in the new hello games game (light no fire or something) but I imagine that's a few years out yet.

I like playing games with my friends (rather than against them), and I like stuff that basically lasts as long as we want to play, survival games are great for my group because of that and 7 days to die will always be one of my faves.

Any recommendations for things I should look out for are appreciated. (already had our fill of Ark, Grounded, 7 Days, Empyrion, Minecraft)

When I was a kid, if I wanted to ride to school, my school required that I pass a cycling proficiency test, which taught me about road laws and where and how I was supposed to position my bike on the road to stay safe.

I'd love to see a cycling and small electric vehicle proficiency course be part of our school curriculum.

There are always going to be people that ignore the rules of the road (I nearly got hit by a car today who didn't give way to the right on a roundabout, I was watching him, he didn't even look!), but I don't see how adding this in schools could cause harm.

Check out how Bicing in Barcelona works, problem is already solved there, no need to start fining lime, just change the legislation so that these services need to have physical locking racks where bikes can be both left and retrieved from, that way they can't be stolen and they'll be kept in better condition because they aren't being pinched constantly.

Check out how bicing in Barcelona works, no cameras and surveillance, but you literally cannot retrieve a bike without an account and the app because they are physically locked in racks. It's a brilliant system and ours can be easily fixed with a little legislation.

You just bump start them, there's nothing to break from the outside, you just lift the back wheel and start moving, then drop the wheel and it'll keep going, but with an alarm and a clacking.

Yeah there is, they can be bump started really easily, you literally just lift the rear wheel then start moving forward, then put the wheel back down and jump on, I've seen kids do it, it takes zero skill. In the meadows these days I hear a lime alarm pretty much every day.

This is a problem that's already been solved, check out bicing in Barcelona and how that works. This really is a problem of legislation.