ScreamingFirehawk

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[–] ScreamingFirehawk 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'd never signed a credit or debit card in my life until I travelled to the US last year, and then I only did it because I'd heard stories of places confiscating cards if they weren't signed. Don't know how true they are now but I wasn't risking it.

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 2 points 1 month ago

All I know is that when I order locusts and get a stowaway cricket with them is that it drives me mad in the evening when it starts chirping

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They only really chirp in the evening or at night

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 1 points 1 month ago

It's called Bovril

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There isn't 8 billion women last time I checked

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"The film also investigates wild claims that, the then, Prince Charles piloted an experimental UFO type craft in 1975"

For some reason I am doubting the credibility of this source

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 8 points 1 month ago

Boats actually pass on the right on UK canals

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 3 points 2 months ago

It's worse than that - it's described in the article as the "station tuck shop". Apparently the police station has resources to run a tuck shop when crime routinely goes uninvestigated

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Made me think of the yellow eyed demon from Legion

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Usually 12, and it's a temporary ban, but there are some cases where people have managed to accumulate more because judges kept deciding that they needed to keep being able to drive despite repeatedly demonstrating that they cannot drive safely.

[–] ScreamingFirehawk 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If the council maintained the road markings like they are supposed to then companies meeting their obligations to repaint markings would never make the news. It only gets picked up on when the original marking is basically non existent anyway.

 

Most of what I found was keys and coins, mostly coppers but I might have a quid total if I'm lucky! Not sure who accepts dirty, heavily tarnished coins though.

Two bikes this time, but I'm pretty sure there's two more down there in the mud. It's really thick mud in that section so I think all the heavy scrap is sunk in there deep down.

I developed a bit of an audience while trying to pull out the second bike and got a round of applause when I eventually pulled it out! It was good to brighten some people's day but I think I'll go somewhere quieter next time. As always I was very pleasantly surprised with the overwhelming majority having positive reactions to what I was doing, and one woman even came and had a go.

Most interesting finds were these two Israeli coins and one Indian coin:

 

I frequently get asked what happens if I get my magnet stuck and can't pull it out - well this is what I did after I plus 3 passers by couldn't pull it out.

I ended up driving my car down the harbour wall and attached my rope to the towhook. A conveniently placed mooring post made it so I could wrap it round and pull the magnet pretty much perpendicular to the harbour wall.

I had an interesting find that I definitely wasn't expecting; a fossilised tooth from what I think was a prehistoric marine reptile, not magnetic but fell off when I was removing chunks of metal from the magnet:

And here is the pile of scrap metal I ended up with:

This was a very good location, every single cast brought up multiple bits of metal, and I never moved from the first spot I stopped at along the harbour wall. I suspect I could go back thousands of times and still pull loads out.

 

I pulled out 107 in about 3.5 hours as well as one big bonus canister. Nearly every single cast I pulled more up. Nothing particularly interesting this time unfortunately but I did get 2 bikes from the old YoBike scheme and a Voi scooter with the battery removed (presumably stolen).

Near the end of the day a young woman asked to have a go and promptly got hooked after a few casts, so hopefully I've helped create another future magnet fisher!

 

I found these four in the Gloucester & Sharpness canal. The nail I found near the two swing bridges at Purton, and the others further down towards Sharpness where the old railway bridge collapsed. I thought the mooring hook might come in handy as a rope anchor in places where there's nothing to attach the rope to.

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