[09:00] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[18:55] <daftykins> £32.50 for a new disc brake rotor?! oy vey
[19:55] <zmoylan-pi> you could avoid that by only driving uphill :-)
[19:56] <daftykins> ah so you're familiar with Escher's Guernsey?
[19:56] <daftykins> working out where to place the harbour was a lengthy task
[19:57] <zmoylan-pi> i live in an area where if i cycled anywhere it was uphill and a long slow drag and when i returned home the wind negated the downhill and it was still a long slow drag... :-)
[19:57] <daftykins> hah yep that sounds like me riding up the east coast here on the 'cycle lane' that people like to walk in
[19:58] <zmoylan-pi> 2 words... *NO* *BRAKES* when you're right behind them does the trick :-P
[19:58] <daftykins> :>
[19:59] <daftykins> that would definitely be an improvement over the expletives that often come to mind
[20:00] <zmoylan-pi> pedestrian crossing outside trinity college often had pedestrians crossing against the lights slowing me down at start of a long slow hill to work.  those words parted the eejits like the red sea when bellowed right
[20:00] <daftykins> :D
[20:00] <zmoylan-pi> overcame the language barrier for the foreign folks too :-)
[20:54] <enclude> which mail and irc client  do you use?
[20:55] <zmoylan-pi> claws for email, irssi on rasp pi for persistence
[20:58] <andylockran> howdy
[21:02] <daftykins> vote for irssi here too, no mail client - web only
[21:02] <daftykins> gmail on android for mobile
[21:07] <zmoylan-pi> i do occasionly consider using a console based client for email like mutt or alpine on the rasp pi...
[21:07] <penguin42> mutt is great (default config isn't)
[21:08] <daftykins> penguin42: hey hey \o all well?
[21:08] <zmoylan-pi> yeah, every time i look at doing it it feels like the first time i tried to use vim :-)
[21:08] <penguin42> daftykins: Yep, it's been a pretty nice day up here
[21:09] <daftykins> neat! my guest from the states flew out from Manchester airport this morn
[21:10] <penguin42> ah, that pays for a lot of Manchester; it's owned by a consortium of the councils
[21:10] <daftykins> multiple councils o0
[21:12] <penguin42> daftykins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Airports_Group
[21:13] <penguin42> the 10 borough councils....and an australian investment firm (!)
[21:14] <daftykins> ah i see, always figured cities would be just the one
[21:15] <penguin42> daftykins: We've got a connobation (sp?) - i.e. multiply nearby cities where they've grown and now touch each other so that the combined area is 'Greater Manchester'
[21:18] <daftykins> *nod*
[21:19] <daftykins> i always found it funny the island has many parishes and makes them all negotiate waste disposal individually, heh
[21:39] <zmoylan-pi> stops them used to be all the local corporations in every town here had their own bin collection services.  now it's all outsourced... i'm not sure it's an improvement in any way
[21:39] <zmoylan-pi> s/stops them//
[22:30] <penguin42> daftykins: They dont necessarily cooperate that much - I live near the border of two of the councils and the bin lorry turns around at the bottom of the road