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Clean up after an accident is going to be a sh*t job normally ... Lorry carrying human poo overturns on A485[^] 
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Almost as much fun as this guy ... Vet work at Elephant Nature Park Expect the Unexpected! - ElephantNews - YouTube[^]
Seriously though, years ago I was living in Melbourne (Australia) and was away in Sydney over a weekend. My home was in a ground floor unit with 4 floors above me. Unbeknownst to me, that weekend, the sewerage system blocked and all of the raw sewerage from the 4 floors above me backed up and came out of my toilet. I arrived home late Sunday night, and there was a stench at the front door. When I opened it, all of the rooms, from my view point were flooded and the wall of stench that hit me was indescribable. I could not enter, even after it was professionally cleaned and all furniture and belongings were replaced. I had to move.
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Ouch, even water without the faeces can wreck a place good.
An uncle once had his house flooded because he didn't tie a bolt fast enough or some such.
The water came from the attic and left no floor untouched.
He had to strip his whole house after that, new floors, new wallpapers, new furniture, everything.
Of course after that it didn't smell so bad, but some of the damage can still be seen to this day (happened 10 years ago or some such).
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I used to live in a town that was on the (prone to spring flooding) Minnesota River. There was a restaurant situated right on the river. The upper dining level was generally above the flood line but the lower level which was mostly storage was often below flood level.
Every spring the owner would empty the basement and if the river flooded he would fill the basement with clean water to a foot or so above the flood level. This meant clean water seeped out of his basement which kept the dirty flood water out. It sounds crazy, but apparently his clean up costs were much less. Crazy like a fox I guess.
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The Netherlands had a huge flood in '53 (knows as "The Disaster").
The place I live in (a coastal island) was hit hard.
At some old houses, you can still see how high the water was (in many places, only the roof was safe since we live below sea level, next to the sea).
A friend of mine actually did not buy a house because of that reason, the walls were pretty porous from that time.
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He should've hired a plumber (but I expect he has since realised that!) 😉
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Yikes! What a nightmare.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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A few years ago about a dozen full portaloos came off the back of a truck near here, but your one definitely looks to be a bigger hazmat job.
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I once saw some drunk teens push over a portable toilet just after their friend entered
Guy could've died from all the bacteria in there.
With "friends" like that you really don't need enemies.
Not sure what happened to them after that.
That venue never had a portable toilet again though.
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When my dad was a kid no one had running water so the bathroom was an outhouse. A common Halloween prank was to move someone's outhouse back off the pit. So if anyone tried to use it that night ...
Good fun until old man Cooper moved his before the pranksters got to it. As my dad told it, a couple of his friends fell in the pit when they went to move it.
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FreedMalloc wrote: moved his before the pranksters got to it.
That's called helping Karma...
A cousind of my grandpa had a field with some fig trees along the road. Every year the trees got empty by the tourists when going downtown from the camping place.
He started inserting small hot chillies in the figs that were low enough to get caught by the people without big effords.
Was funny to see them get the figs, bite them and then start spitting, swearing and more...
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Hmm, been cleaning up the Senedd no doubt. 
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Quote: A resident said it was the third crash along the affected stretch of road in a month.
Seems that Carmarthenshire tends to be in s**t all of the time. 
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When I was very young and just married we lived with in-laws in a single wide trailer way back in the hills of KY.
My father in-law had created a septic tank of 2 x 55 gal. drums connected together and to a drainage system.
After several years we started having problems, to find out the drums had rotted and the whole thing had caved in.
We had to dig it up, drain what waste was there using a 5 gal. bucket and then rebuild the whole thing.
Another job I had, also in KY. during college was I worked at a hog farm. Our job to replace all the boards covering the sewage drain. At lunch the boss would take us to lunch and everyone in the place would get up and leave. The owner came over one time and asked our boss not to bring workers in to lunch as it was driving his business away.
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That doesn't exactly look like a closed tanker truck. I suspect laws have been broken.
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Hi all,
I am looking for two new monitors, my eyes are not the best now and I thought of leaving my 2 24" monitors and get 2 27" monitors.
Currently I have 2 P24h-10 Thinkvision monitors which have QHD resolution.
I am thinking on going to 27" 4k and scale fonts to get clearer text and being able to see it better while not losing many code lines.
I have a Lenovo 40AJ ultra dock station which has display port and HDMI options.
OK, the monitors I've seen as most recommended out there are:
Dell Ultrasharp 27" U2723QE >> 676,39 €
Samsung ViewFinity S8 S27B800TGU >> 509,14 €
HP Z27k G3 >> 512,12 €
Dell P2723QE >> 467,54 €
Dell S2722QC >> 311,03 €
LG 27UK650-W >> 526,81 €
Some of them have an integrated dock station and that could be a good thing as mine is usually going nuts every time I arrive at the office after having used my small portable monitor and I end up unplugging the monitors every time...
From time to time, I play a couple of games, but that is not important at all, my current monitors do that fine enough and I guess anything I could by today should be better than my current ones.
Would you choose a monitor from that list or you wouldn't and choose something else?
Thank you all!
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I'd go with the LG. I have 3 LG's right now and I love the clarity and the colors.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I suppose it boils down to taste and personal needs. I own the Samsung model from your list and I can only rave about it, don't know the others so no comment there.
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I'm not familiar with any of those models, but I'm currently using a pair of 32" LGs and love them.
I had to replace my previous two monitors because of an errant recoil spring in a 1911 .45 ACP pistol, which taught me not to repair firearms whilst sitting in front of my monitors. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Dell is my favorite
diligent hands rule....
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Use 2 HP 27er monitors. They are not the newest models, but I had them for years without any problems.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Seriously consider: Dell UltraSharp 30 USB-C-hub monitor - U3023E
I have 2x 27" hp z27 at work. During covid wfh, I bought this dell. It is far better on the eyes with clearview 2. Pixel spacing is slightly bigger, without zooming it results in slightly bigger texts. Has integrated usb-c dock
But best of all 1600 pxl height...
I see it dropped 30% since I bought it.
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Personally, I've had two transitions. Sorry about the lengthy post...
First from a dell 27" 2560x1440 to a samsung 49" 5120x1440. It was either that, or two 27" monitors. While the 49" 5120x1440 is a _very_ wide monitor, it is superb for e.g. Visual stuido. 3-4 files open side-by-side, as well as toolboxes. Awesome! Highly recommended! But also more expensive than the two corresponding 27" monitors. Physical screen size is 100% equivalent between those two solutions, it's only a question of having the insanely annoying bracket between the monitors, or not. I prefer the single monitor solution by far, since I otherwise tend to have "two fullscreen monitors", rather than "one huge surface where I can place windows - also in the middle, since there are no annoying brackets". With to monitors I find myself looking directly at one right in front of me, and getting a neck-pain from looking at the other one, located to the left or right. Alternatively, having both located to the side of your "staring straight ahead" line, you have to look either to the left or the right. You're probably used to that now, but after *not* having those brackets down the middle, you don't want to go back.
Regarding physical monitor size and old-eyes problems (I'm getting there, getting closer to 50 now  ). You're used to 1440p vertically on a 24" monitor. Switching to a 1440p on 27" is a huge improvement, since you will get the same number of pixels, but each pixel will be larger, so no change in number of code lines visible, but everything will be larger. Equivalent to moving your eyes closer to your current monitors.
If you switch to 27" 4K you will more or less retain pixel size, but will have more pixels (hence get room for more code lines). Like adding more pixels to your current monitors. In that case, you will have to start scaling in order to get larger text, so thats that... More or less the same, I don't think you will find that the scaled version is significantly better or worse than the non-scaled one. So, either one will probably be fine.
Now, what I didn't think of beforehand - but has come to appreciate a lot later - was the switch from 60 Hz to 120 Hz. The strain on your eyes is really a lot less. 120 Hz is just a lot more "calm" to look at. Not like the difference from - say 30Hz to 60Hz on the old CRT tubes. But it's there. Very much.
Now, the second transition. Due to office re-arrangements, I decided to move the 49" 5120x1440 from the home-office to the office-office, and got a 34" (OLED) 3440x1440 for the home office. That is not a bad middle ground. Monitor takes up a lot less space, vertical pixel size and resolution is identical, but yes, I loose 5120 - 3440 = 1680 pixels horizontally. Turns out that for many actual usages, it doesn't hurt too much. However, you still get that "wide screen, and still no monitor brackets down the middle"-feeling. Also very recommended! Still way better than two individual monitors. This one goes to 165 Hz as far as I recall (not 11...) but I don't think the difference between 120 Hz and 165 Hz is very noticeable. At least not at all like going from 60 to 120!
The only thing I would recommend you think about twice is the OLED tech. It turns out that the way sub-pixels (the individual components/leds that make up the pixels) are arranged on OLEDs causes some "fringing" on high-contrast (horizontal) edges. So imagine a T. You will see the artifacts on the top horizontal line, but not on the vertical one. But only if its a "large" letter. Think "question headlines" on stackoverflow - but not the actual text. It's described here QD-OLED and WOLED Fringing Issues | PC Monitors[^] and it IS an issue. Not for media consumption where the OLED really shines, but for black text on white (or vice versa). I can easily live with it (took a few days to learn to completely ignore it), but I can see it if I start looking for it, an maybe not everybody will be able to ignore it.
So, to summarize:
Get some larger pixels. Those 24" 2560x1440 are tough on the eyes if you over 30.
Two monitors is a cheap(er) solution, but not the most ergonomic and definitely not the most "pleasant" to use. Get one big one instead.
5120x1440 49" will give you the same amount of pixels you have now, but larger. It is sooo nice to work on. But it takes up a lot of desk space.
3440x1440 34" will also give you a lot of pixels, and they will be larger. But less than you have now. I would prefer it to two 27" 2560 x 1440.
Test out an OLED before you buy!
Do you know why it's important to make fast decisions? Because you give yourself more time to correct your mistakes, when you find out that you made the wrong one. Chris Meech on deciding whether to go to his daughters graduation or a Neil Young concert
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Get three of the same. I have 3 27 inch Dell. all the same size and type. makes a huge difference.
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If you were thinking about the more pricey ones, I wouldn't just because for 2x of those you can get one massive curved one, have no bezel sitting in the middle, and have all the real-estate of two screens.
They tend to be built more for gaming but the higher refresh rates are beneficial to your eyes. I liked the Odyssey G9 so much for fun that the next home (work) purchase was a curved panel. Though not the G9... it was still like $1500 then.
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