u/ariadnevirginia

I hear a tiny patter of rain on the roof!!!!

Yes, I know technically it's Tower Hamlets.

I'm moving there from London Fields, which has swarms of foxes nightly and I'm hoping that there's a community of them in my new neighbourhood.

My new lamp just exploded a couple of bulbs last night which isn't a great sign.

Any recommendations to get the whole thing rewired or at least checked over by someone who knows what they are doing?

Thanks.

I'm trying to buy a flat, and the estate agent and the owners have both gone out of their way to point out "there are lots of families with kids here" and I am single and will be living there alone.

It ACTIVELY puts me off.

Children are noisy and tend to leave toys and bikes and skateboards everywhere and their parents are usually looking for an excuse to boast about how special their kids are which is a) boring and b) a minefield because if you're not enthusiastic enough about their offspring they tend to hate you.

When my next door neighbour died, his son told me "don't worry, I sold the house to a lovely family".

They have 3 kids who now dominate the communal area with noise and scattered toys.

Why would he think I'd be pleased? My ideal neighbour would be an OAP with quiet habits or somebody very glamorous I could burnish up my social life with.

Is it because "families" are supposed to be respectable somehow? Because I don't see it.

Is there an option to make a wishlist for things you find, want, but don't need and want to think about?

I googled, it said you can click on a heart to "like" an item then you can pull up a list of "liked" stuff but I don't see a heart?

I just watched Along Came A Spider and Alex Cross guessed the baddies password so fast.

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They had said at one point that their father won an antique gun in a game of Aces and Eights, so he entered AcesandEights and bingo!

Cracked it on the first try. Had the correct capitals and everything.

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I realise that the very personal password is to allow the password to be conveniently guessed, but it's so, so much more likely to be Nibbles123 or MyPassword or Hello1?

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https://recorder.google.com/196aac8c-0daf-4edd-81ae-65462ca700d0 I live in London Fields and it sounds like an alarm?

Keeps going off recently. Really it sounds industrial, like as if it's a nuclear warning or something.

In one of the Thomas Harris books, Hannibal Lecter uses an ancient mnemonic strategy called the Memory Palace (or Mind Palace). This involves visualizing a vast, familiar physical space and assigning specific memories, facts, or pieces of information to distinct rooms, objects, or architectural features.

It's based on the method of loci traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Simonides of Ceos around 500 BCE, so OLD.

and I feel as if the Backrooms in the film is a perfect example of a Memory Palace gone warped and wrong....as memories DO warp and alter for us.

It's a realistically nightmarish version of a Memory Palace, and when you enter, it starts adapting to you, so it ends up as a collective location for the memories of all the people who have gone inside. It's why you can never really leave - it's become part of you, you see the version of Mary at the end which suggests that even if she leaves, part of her is trapped there.

But maybe I'm overthinking it 😊

I had lens replacement surgery with Optical Express and my eyesight is worse now than it was before.

I paid over £8k for the surgery.

I have had a series of appointments since then where they test my eyes and say to come back again.

They had me wear a series of contact lenses to "check my prescription" but didn't answer questions about why that was necessary.

They have done no follow up, it's all been me chasing them.

They said I can get LASIK through them to correct my vision...or maybe I will need the new lens replaced in one eye.

I am beyond frustrated, have laid out my concerns in a letter they haven't responded to.

Do I have any legal recourse? I feel I should get my vision corrected by them ( if this is even possible) and I should get a full refund, but is this a possible outcome?

Should I report them to the ISO or the CQC?

I woke up, as I always do around this time of year, wondering if there was a massive illegal rave going on.

Pounding music fills the air and vibrates through the house.

My usually quiet street is filling up with strangers.

Two cars which were parked in the way had their windows smashed to gain entry and have been hauled away.

The next street to mine has 4 porta-potties installed but people will still choose to piss in the street and assist their little children to piss in the street.

Soon, the strangers in the street will start blowing whistles, clanking cowbells and occasionally screaming.

Yes. It's the Hackney Half Marathon.

In an action scene they are fighting, and bump into or jolt a record player or similar which starts playing music which either energises the scene or is an ironic counterpart to the action.

You see it in horror movies quite often.