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    Ease of walking off without paying by accident at self checkouts?

    I believe M&S self-checkouts will add a red tinge to the main screen if the payment was not successful, maybe more retailers need to do that.
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    Older cars you have seen

    In Lyme Regis a B reg Golf cabrio.
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    New cars you have seen

    76 plate BYD spotted in Lyne Regis, and no picture but a 76 plate Nissan in the new car parking at Dorchester Nissan
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    Older cars you have seen

    Not quite old enough but there is an '02 plate Saab limo in Weymouth, uding the 9-5 as its base, looks weird with it's extra set of doors.
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Next time it goes wrong get a second hand Sebo, then you'll wonder why you ever bothered with a Shark, 6 years would not even be half the lifetime of a Sebo, even in a commercial setting. Alas I think a lot of items are designed around knowing they will fail and as such charging enough for the...
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Printer wise I have a Brother colour laser all-in-one, got it a few years ago now (2020?) for a steal once a small ebay voucher (something like 5 or 7% off) and a £100 rebate was taken on to account. Has the rarest thing in a modern printer, cartridges without chips in!, so no way of telling...
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Interestingly PPI was a shrewd thing my step-mum hot when she brought her Apricot computer in the 80's. She had a side-hussle where she typed up letters for people on the computer as they looked more professional than one done on a typewriter, alas Alan Sugar came along with his PCW series and...
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    Fords (shallow rivers and streams that cars drive through)

    We didn't, just saw a road and took it, it's not far from the Averton Gifford end so no good if your further on. Think we had one or two close calls on our various stays down there (7 stays in total iirc).
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    Buses U-turning

    The CR5 Dorchester to Yeovil does a u turn at Charlton Down though takes a slightly different route back to the main road. Also currently the X51 and X53 buses going past Bridport to Lyne Regis/Axminster can't turn right at the moment to get on to the A35 at West Allington so have to turn left...
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    Fords (shallow rivers and streams that cars drive through)

    I remember my Auntie seeing a big 4x4 just about make it and think we'll be fine in her X prefix Fiesta, thankfully there is an "except for access" road that saved us from the rising tide! More locally Beaminster has a ford that I didn't know about until recently, between two roads off the...
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    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Nah, lake Epstein Files of course! Gets the media talking about the files again, Trump really won't like that.
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    Trivia: oldest station with the same rolling stock it had when it opened

    Further to the original question, what if we extended the question to include heritage lines? I bet Norden on the Swanage Railway could be in with a shout, there was never a station there originally and was built essentially as a park and ride as part of being allowed to extend the railway back...
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    Russia invades Ukraine

    The CIA chief has probably said to whoever he has visited in Russia, "I've come about the photos, how much for each one?"
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Southampton is also closing.
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    My Grans one ran off a small 4KG butane cylinder, we ended up using the bottle in exchange for a larger one when we got a gas barbecue.
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    Unexpected - but positive - anecdotal experiences on the railway

    A few years ago I got delayed coming back hoke from my Aunts due to an incident, put in a claim to GWR/FGW and ended up getting a reply saying that I wasn't eligible due to it not being their fault but got given a cheque for £30 as a gesture of good will, the £30 was more than the cost of the...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    Because, as I understand, it's the law and they can't sell alcohol free booze to under 18's so as not to promote drinking. They can, however, have an alcohol free drink in a pub when under 18.
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    And some mobile caravans, campervans and narrowboats will still have a fridge that can be run on gas.
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    This seemed to be just a push fit, not a proper bayonet connector. And as another poster said. Yes commercial stuff can still be gas powered but the heating part would normally be separate to the machine, or used for powering the dryers. All but one of our commercial dryers at work are LPG...
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    Here's something interesting seen in an antiques shop in Swanage, a gas heated but manually driven washing machine. Didn't think to get a close up of the instructions but was designed to be attached to the gas supply as and when needed, I guess like a bunsen burner would be.

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