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I like browsing BOLA, but I dislike following the link back to the original r/LA post or scrolling down to find it repeated by LocationBot.

It would be amazing if LocationBot's post in r/BOLA could be automatically pinned to the top of the thread.

My elderly neighbour died recently and the funeral is today. I hadn't known him for long, just a matter of months, but we were friendly and I used to help him out a bit. I don't know his family, aside from his wife who has dementia and won't recognise me.

I don't particularly want to attend the funeral service (crematorium), in part because I really dislike them but mostly because I would need to take annual leave from work and I didn't really know him all that well. However, the reception afterwards is being held just a few minutes walk from my office during my lunchbreak and I would like to drop in and pay my respects.

I'm unsure of the ettiquete here. Would it be rude to attend the rece

I get longish hairs in the exterior part of my ear, around the 'rim' of the outer ear, and from the inner and outer surfaces of the wobbly bit close to the earhole (hopefully clearer from this diagram). I'm struggling to trim them properly.

We're not talking about a dense bush, but with the onset of middle age it's no longer just the odd pluck-able hair. I'm in any case frequently finding long hairs I've missed when plucking because their position and white colouring makes them hard to spot in the mirror.

I have a Panasonic nose/ear trimmer with a round cutting head fo

Over the years I've bought various products that have subsequently stopped working as a result of changes at the manufacturer's end. I'll give two examples:

1. A bought an internet-connected photoframe that is entirely dependent upon a connection to the manufacturer's cloud service. Without that connection, it won't do anything. A few years after my purchase the manufacturer switched off the cloud service, rendering my frame completely useless.

2. I bought a WiFi router and a month later the manufacturer released a firmware update that caused it to crash every few days, requiring a manual reset. They have acknowledged the problem publicly and have said a firmware update will be require

This rather old pond is lined with concrete and has seen better days. Today I drained it and dug out the silt and I'm wondering what renovation would be helpful whilst it's dry.

I think it was probably built in the 1920s, and it has been completely abandoned for at least the last 30 years. It's about 2 feet deep and nearly half the "water" was actually a deep layer of soil and rotten leaves. Amazingly, it has maintained a good water level for the 6 months I've owned it (although I wait to see if it will still be watertight without its silt lining!)

The concrete lining is ropey in parts and has plenty of cracks etc. Although I'm not currently aware of any

I have a second gen (2014) Quashqai. Whilst it's not a Juke, there isn't a Quashqai equivalent to this helpful sub and with the cars being so similar I was hoping someone here could offer some advice.

Recently the AC has been distinctly ineffective. If it's cooling the air at all then I can barely feel it. The light on the AC button comes on and I can adjust the temperature, it just doesn't get cold. At precisely the same time the air re-circulation button has stopped working entirely - pressing it doesn't even toggle the light on the button (which is off).

I was pretty surprised to find that the AC and vent re-circulation systems are linked, but it seems they are.

I'd like some idea

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I am replacing a garden tap that is currently connected to old alkathene pipe with a leak close to the tap. I plan to do that by replacing the last couple of feet of alkathene pipe with 15mm copper pipe, the current standard here in the UK.

Our winters are mild, but it does freeze each year. I'd like to stop the copper pipe bursting so I plan to fit an isolator valve and a drain-off as shown in the drawing. They will be a few inches above the ground.

My question: is this a pointless exercise? My concern is that if it freezes hard enough to burst pipes then the short length of pipe up to the valve will freeze even if I drain the pipe

I've just bought a new mattress and would appreciate some advice on a protector for it. It's worth noting that I'm a sweaty sleeper - it's normal for me to wake up in the summer with damp sheets where I've been lying.

Here's what I've used until now:

My last bed was a double. I bought a cheap sort of papery cover for it that fully enclosed it and was supposed to stop dust, mites, etc. Then I put a Coolmax protector on top of that because I get hot. In the winter, my wife wanted an electric blanket, so we got a dual-zone blanket that had a fleecey upper surface. That was too sweaty for me, but we found that putting the electric blanket under the Coolmax protector gave us the best of bo

I've long wanted to keep chickens, and having recently bought my first house this is now a possibility. However, I'm concerned about predators.

Foxes visit the garden. I've seen them from time to time, and the previous (human) occupants told us that a vixen raises cubs in the garden some years.

There is also a badger sett. I live in the UK, so this is the Eurasion/European badger, not the American badger. Strangely, it's a sett of just one badger who comes out every night for a peanut feast on the understanding he will then minimise his lawn-shredding. The sett is inside our garden (we are not merely on the badger's 'rounds') and UK law

This is a 4" clay pipe just outside my house. It's directly connected to the drains and is not capped. I posted a while ago asking what it was, but am now confident it's the base of an old downspout from some long-removed guttering. I'd like to cap it off.

Obviously I have access to this outside end of the pipe. I've also identified the other end where it enters a manhole. I am certain the pipe is exclusive, but will put a camera through it before sealing just in case.

How should I seal it properly?

What I plan to do is dig down a bit and remove the surface-level part of the pipe, seal it underground with an expandable bung (i.e. [one of these](http://www