I do find it quite amusing that the Russians spent years bribing & co-opting UK governance, successfully buying their way into the highest levels & it achieved the square root of fuck all for… (View Post)

I think you’re going for brittle failure vs plastic or elastic deformation? Plastic deformation is when your material moves under stress & doesn’t spring back afterwards - it’s permanently deform… (View Post)

IIRC Land sales are different to any other kind of property in this country. A sale that has been registered by the Land Registry is in principle final: No backsies. If the LR transfers ownership due… (View Post)

In the UK you can register an email address with the Land Registry & they will send alerts about any application to change the ownership of a property or to take out a mortgage on it: https://www… (View Post)

As a local example: there’s a large plot of land less than 500m from Oxford railway station that is currently being occupied by a calor gas distribution & storage centre. This is the dumbest plac… (View Post)