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I'm buying window blinds for my flat

That is the single most boring thing I have ever written on here, nevertheless it is the case: I am buying window blinds for my flat, which needs a spruce, a spritz and a spunky little makeover

My old metal blinds now looks sad and broken, ergo they are gone. Has anyone ever bought blinds?? What's the rigmarole?

The rigmarole is to marry the sort of person who understands that sort of thing who can work out who is best to talk to to get it sorted and understands that if they get you to do it it will end up in a muddle. Don't try to understand it, just pay the bill.

Is there another way? Ask Dear Mary

"Has anyone ever bought blinds??"

Yes. Several times. Hillary's.

They come, they measure, they show pattern books, they quote, you sign, they come back and fit and the job is done.

Can't fault them based on my experience.

How much for some nice wooden blinds for two floor-to-ceiling sash windows? Including fitting?

I am genuinely clueless on this

Have you considered asking ChatGPT?

Am I allowed to answer this?

Given that you are a mod, then I presume it is - and yes, of course I have. And ChatGPT has given me great advice, on all aspects of my domestic makeover. ChatGPT will even do mock-ups of your home interiors in your chosen new colours - you feed it a photo of your living room and say "what will this look like in Farrow and Ball's Byzantine Blue?" and it will do it for you, transform the room on screen. Incredible

HOWEVER I am aware these machines can hallucinate, so I wanted to know if ChatGPT's advice on blinds matches real world experience, on here

PB, you've gone a bit weird lately.

I mean, I can cope with the endless frothing about random islands in the Indian Ocean. I can cope with the endless hyperbole around a boring but functional government being the Worst Government Ever(TM). I can even cope with the genocide apologists.

But, the board's edgelord-in-chief getting you all discussing the best way to replace the blinds in your flat?! That's beyond the pale I'm afraid.

Kemi:



Don't think it will save her. But it does put clear blue water between the conservatives and the government.

Wishy washy. You don't need a review to decide this. If those are your tests and they are more important than everything else then just say you will leave the ECHR, as Farage has done. There is close to zero market share available that wants a wishy washy exit from the ECHR rather than a bold exit.

This is the setup to a policy that lays out why we should leave the ECHR. Hopefully it gives a well reasoned and researched paper which shows how remote the Strasbourg court is now from member states and how much sovereignty all countries have handed over to this cabal of judges that are simply accountable to no one. This exercise, like the Cass study, may end up becoming one of the major flashpoints with the ECHR across all of Europe. The Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany have all begun signalling their unhappiness with the current status quo and a serious paper that outlines all of the flaws within these specific points could be a game changer, at least for how a new approach could be taken across Europe and potentially pushing the Strasbourg court down to "advisory" status in some scenarios such as deportation hearings etc...

The ECHR was set up by the likes of Churchill as a check and balance to the sort of behaviour that allowed the rise of Hitler. It is quite remarkable that when we leave under Farage/ Jenrick/Badenoch/ Robinson we join a tiny band of dictators from Russia and Belarus, until the next elected right wing nutter takes control of another European state.

We won't need to leave (why's that always the solution?!). The Council of Europe is already making noises about reforming it. We should make a strong and principled contribution to that process.

Tbh, it should have been Starmer's BoE moment in the first week.

I think what we need is for Trump-Musk to get so acrimonious it actually turns reality inside-out so that they become friends again, and THEN they fall out again.

Just heard about this and is Trump is going to pull his support for Tesla ?

It may be popcorn to some but not those of us who are very concerned about the consequences

And Reform disintegrating as well

Let's go back to the Blair and Cameron- Clegg years

Nigel seems to have done very well not to get too close to Elon Musk but not to piss him off.

I don't see Musk supporting Democratic candidates personally, but who knows?

Musk has suggested he could set up his own party
https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-tesla-chief-floats-idea-of-new-political-party

The Muskovites?

Kemi:



Don't think it will save her. But it does put clear blue water between the conservatives and the government.

Wishy washy. You don't need a review to decide this. If those are your tests and they are more important than everything else then just say you will leave the ECHR, as Farage has done. There is close to zero market share available that wants a wishy washy exit from the ECHR rather than a bold exit.

But it’s not bad as retail politics. Five point plans often sound good, which is why they are used constantly by everyone

It is bad. Next month Refukkers +1 or +2. Conservatives -1 or -2 yet again. And this kind of wishy washy farage lite is why.

It won’t nudge the dial either way. But it gives Kemi a means of placating both wings of her party and also looking sensible and patriotic

She really is in a bind. The entire country wants to vote for a British Pinochet but she’s stuck in some weird rump Cameroon sect of MPs that are basically Lib Dems

Now now, don´t project your own neo-fascism onto the entire country.

1) its bollocks
2) its stupid bollocks.
3) even the Daily heil isn´t giving Farage a pass on this... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14786531/Reform-crisis-Nigel-Farage-party-infighting-Zia-Yusuf-quits.html