Recent content by najaB

This is the problem, described by someone who's experienced it. https://viewfromthewing.com/total-power-zero-consequence-inside-the-incentive-machine-that-turns-cbp-checkpoints-into-humiliation-lines/

Well of course they wouldn't say it was the meme. And, in all likelihood, it wasn't *just* the meme, rather it gave someone more reason to look deeper. And, in any case, I don't see why drug use as opposed to possession would be grounds to deny entry. Indeed. 'Many years ago' people being...

They have up to six months to decide if they want to bring charges, so it's not uncommon for the first letter to take a month or more to arrive.

AIUI, winter tyres have a bigger tread gaps so that snow is less likely to get compacted and stuck and then turn into ice. What you're describing are studded tires.

I don't think it's timber framing in particular, but rather multi-storey timber framed buildings. There is/was an issue with mains gas supplies to such construction: https://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/supply/notices/sn0105/index.htm

Somewhat specialist knowledge for this thread but the party line was replaced by the DACS system which used the same pair of wires but digitised and frequency shifted one of them out of the audible range of the other and then de-shifted it at the exchange. Unlike a party line, this allowed for...

If it was an automatic it would be pretty easy: press the go pedal and it goes. Slightly more difficult if it was manual. @greatkingrat beat me to it. :)

Hopefully she is okay? The thread split just means that they used your post in an existing thread as the start of a new thread, since the conversation that resulted from it, while interesting, was possibly off-topic for the original thread.

What would that involve?

Well yes, if you're travelling to see friends or family then you don't have much choice. I'll be travelling there at the end of July to see my best friend of some 30 plus years, and his family. And to be fair, the likelihood of experiencing any issues isn't that high. But it definitely is...

Thing is, 1tpd isn't enough to realistically evaluate demand.

And that attitude, more commonly associated with countries like China or Myanmar, is a good reason to give other destinations a second look.

Probably not, as long as you had your hotel reservations, etc. printed out and available to be confirmed.

Another consideration that I had forgotten about earlier is that CPB are only allowed to access data which is stored locally on the device, not things that are stored in the cloud. So another thing to do is remove any local files that could possibly give them reason to object to your entry and...

Oh definitely. And I personally think having a second device is a good option in any case as noted above. The idea is that you if you willingly hand over the phone when asked, they're less likely to get their backs up and want to search your bags, person, etc. Quite a lot has changed since...