Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@KAIRU It sounds like a funny thing when you say it like that but it’s a profoundly terrifying prospect growing up in a city with marches every July actively calling for your community to be murdered in their thousands. We make fun of it but from the outside looking in, it must seem rather mad to just accept that every year you have to stay indoors several weekends in case a mob of nutters smell the Catholic off you.

@nessisonett Guess you may stay in then.

@KAIRU It should be banned, crazy that you can march about celebrating murdering people.

@nessisonett @KAIRU Sounds like something out of The Purge films!

So I find it very interesting that there is so many games today, even modern ones which I feel are very underappreciated or basically unknown to most people.. Even among gamers.. Its really feel like almost all games deserves a community of its own. On another note it fleet very cool that I today learned a 50 year old lady to play Chinese checkers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_checkers). She had never played that board game before but seemed really delighted to learning it. Felt so glad that I had the chance to learn her a little bit about the game at least.

I guess it has something to do with there are like a few franchises that are so big today that it is also easy to miss out on many games..

@oliverp Yes we are spoiled for choice. Which ones in particular are you thinking of?

Soooo, the flat above us has sprung a leak.

It's 10pm and they aren't home. Any tips? We've stuck a note through their door, do we just wait for them to come home?

I guess we can't call our own landlord/letting agent as we don't have their number/they are not open respectively. Even then, it's not like they have anything to do with the flat above us so far as we know.

It's tripped our breaker switch and we don't have any lighting. Not a major issue because we have lamps on a different breaker, just no ceiling lights.

It's not leaking heavily yet. It was coming out of a wall light fitting in the bathroom which tripped the breaker initially. An hour or 2 later, it's made a damp patch on the wall in our bedroom (opposite side to that wall light) and small drips have appeared on the bathroom ceiling and on the door frame of our boiler cupboard - it's obviously leaking through the walls and ceiling from the adjacent bathroom/boiler cupboard upstairs

Is it just a waiting game or does anyone know of anything we can do in the meantime?

Update: they've come home and turned their water off so hopefully it all dries out and we can have our lights back tomorrow!

@ralphdibny I would definitely contact your landlord to let them know, as they will need to see about who is paying for repairing any damage done.

@JohnnyShoulder cheers, have just submitted something through the letting agents online repair portal to keep them updated on the situation!

@ralphdibny Yeah, I'd recommend getting your landlord / letting agent to perform an electrical check before you start trying to re-activate anything that tripped. From what you're describing, the damage doesn't sound like it'll be too extensive, but it's always better safe than sorry when it comes to electrics.

Jesus I come on here to avoid work, thought I was looking at my inbox for a minute!!

@RogerRoger cheers, yeah I'll see what they say! It doesn't look too bad but obviously got no idea what it looks like inside the walls/ceiling. Luckily because the power tripped, we were alerted immediately and could mop up and clean stuff so shouldn't have too much staining at least.

@kyleforrester87 you coming round to have a butchers? 😆🤣

@ralphdibny Just fire her up, if she holds she's good, if she trips get the hairdryer out - it's all an electrician will do lol

These things often look worse than they are, good time of year to have a leak ultimately, and it getting through a light fitting is better than it soaking into walls and ceilings.

@kyleforrester87

Cheers, well I've got the dehumidifiers running at the moment. Will probably check it again later.

Thankfully doesn't look too bad anyway, just no lights. But the plugs still working so we can light it up with lamps at least!

@ralphdibny We had a leak from the upstairs bathroom but luckily that mostly came through a light fitting. There was an amazing amount of water from what was a very small leak but it had all gathered in the glass shade below and then eventually got too heavy and smashed down on floor. As most of the water had gone that way it was just a case of drying everything out and then doing a bit of patching up of the paintwork and buying a new light fitting. You can always use a dehumidifier if you've got one as that will speed up the drying process.

Edit: ignore the dehumidifier bit as it's a bit redundant now based on your previous post 😂

@render that's a point actually, I should probably check the main light fitting in the bathroom at some point. Just a bit of a waiting game at the moment so I have time.

Thankfully cosmetic damage doesn't look too bad, the paintwork in this flat wasn't in the best of conditions when we moved in anyway!

Haha yeah both my partner and I had dehumidifiers cos she had damp in her old apartment and my bedroom at my parents place was very mouldy at one point. Now we use them to dry our clothes. Very handy pieces of kit!

@LieutenantFatman It's perfectly alright old chap, I don't visit too often myself nowadays either. Good to hear about the tabletop games. No to Elden Ring, a sweet farming spot got locked off to me and that's normally how I complete these games - I am planning on playing Demon's Souls Remake at Christmas though. What are you playing?

I'm looking to reduce my monthly outgoings further (I've already reduced my monthly payments for my electric and broadband), and as I've paid off my mobile phone now, that I was next on my hit list.

I usually upgrade, but as my phone is not broken or anything, I thought I'd go with a sim only package this time to save on some cash.

So I'm checking the app for my current provider to see what deals they have. It details that my monthly data usage is around 2.5gb. Of course, they recommend me a package with 30gb data allowance! 🙄

They obviously do have packages which suit me better, but I've shopped around a bit and have found a better deal. I've been thinking of changing for some time now, as the internet when I'm not home is not reliable. There have been at times at work when I get no internet connection even though the 4/5G symbol is up on my phone. I talked to a few people at work, and they have said they have similar issues on the same network as me. So I think now is a good time to change as any. Bit of a shame, as I've been with the same provider for about 20 years now.