Seems like everything is these days.

I think most of the people disagreeing with the post are from the USA, which has completely different costs/taxes/prices etc.

In the UK (as the original post is), it depends where you live - our mortgage is about £350 per month (5 bed terrace), but if would have been almost £500 a month without the deposit. Rent in the area is about £600 - £1500 per month, for similar or smaller properties.

Note that this is in Northern UK, in the sort of town sometimes described as “a bit of a shithole”. I could get a train to a town an hour away and the prices would literally double - but the ratio between mortgage and rent would be pretty much the same.

Even with the cost of repairs, and a tiny bit on insurance etc, it’s a significant saving. Also, the repairs actually get done, which was not the experience I had in rented accommodation.

That’s great! Well done! Knew you could do it :)

You’ve upgraded your skills now - what’s next on the list? :)

Good luck! You can do this! :)

Just to add to this - you might find there’s 3 different depths of the latch mechanism bit (the bit inside the door), so take the existing one out first to help getting one the same size.

I kind of like it. I say bring it back.

If we all started using it, þen sooner or later it would start showing up in AI generated answers.

That’s a lot of money for something that doesn’t even have real buttons on it.

At that age, kittens will hiss at every smell that’s not their siblings or mother. If you keep up being near them as often as possible, they’ll soon get used to you.

In any foodstuff which says “average contents”, followed by a number, you will always get fewer than average.

For example, your packet of chicken nuggets says “average contents : 24 nuggets”. You are the person who receives 23 nuggets.

Here is an example of the discussion stage:

The actual sleeping stage was just a pile of multi-coloured fur.

Good work, thank you :)

Before games had full epic soundtracks, you still got quality “intro tracks”, occasionally with a few other songs for whilst you’re playing.

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe intro music (youtube link)

From the same Atari ST/Amiga era: Chaos Engine, Frontier Elite 2, Xenon 2 Megablast, Syndicate Wars

For newer stuff with “full soundtracks”, you can’t beat Stellaris OST (youtube link)

We think one of our cats thinks he’s a human, whilst believing his sister and two brothers are still cats.

“Mama! Papa! one of those cats is trying to get into our bedroom and sleep on our human bed for humans”

Yeah, Mac stuff is white or silver now. They stopped doing the colourful stuff 20-odd years ago.

Did it work?

On Google Earth (rather than Google maps), you can view all the previous streetview photos from any location that has them - so the 2012 one won’t be the default one, but you can switch back to it with a few clicks.

Nobody’s asking you to kiss guys. They’re asking you to kiss comrades.

Looks fine. As others have said, check with your hands. The fact that you’ve prepared the walls at all means you’re doing a better job than average.

Primer nearly always looks blotchy. In simple terms, paint is colour granules suspended in goo, mixed with magic.

The actual wall paint has lots of colour granules, and some magic to make it lay flat in neat planes of colour. The primer is going to get covered up, so no point in adding all that colour - it only includes enough colour granules for you to “see where you’ve been”. Its main job is putting down a layer of special goo, which sticks to both the original surface and the paint.

The important bit is that some primer covers everything, so its layer of goo can form a sort of film that the paint will stick to nicely. If the primer is a bit thicker or thinner in places, it will be more or less opaque, looking blotchy, but it will still work fine.

After that, 3 thin coats is better than 1 thick coat.

Different colours have different opacities. A light yellow colour might need 6 coats to look “properly flat”. A dark blue may be finished with only 2 coats.

Whites, greys, blacks and dark colours have better coverage, on average, than pale colours.

Because those cars are too big and don’t fit in the parking spaces any more.

This is brilliant. Such a useful website, I’m surprised it didn’t already exist.

Thank you for doing this!