The Noise Chap

Did you know that hearing protection has a shelf-life and in most cases doesn't last indefinitely? For ear muffs / ear defenders that is usually between two and five years from the date they were made. Replacing them should be part of an employer's noise risk assessment. thenoisechap.com/noise-safety-i…

@SandyofSuffolk To be fair, that’s quite normal. I am away every week. I’ve paid £49 for. Travelodge in a small market town and then seen the exact same room going at £259. Same with some Holiday Inns. Supply and demand sadly.

A hotel we often go to in the Cotswolds in February for our anniversary is £120 per room per night including breakfast. Just looked at the prices for June as I fancy going back there. £1,100 for 3 nights!!!😲 We're not going. 😡

@ThrillaRilla369 The Smiths, Erasure, The Darling Buds, Transvision Vamp, The Tansads (in Wigan anyway), The Cult, Queen, Dire Straits.

Don’t mention your age. Name a band that was popular when you were in high school. I’ll go first Guns and Roses

Isn’t the number of taxed private vehicles continually going up, not down, so the tax take is higher, not lower? The number of vehicles is going up about 1% every year. I tax a car, a van and a motorbike. I’m fairly sure I’m paying for a good five mile stretch of the M5 all by myself at the current tax rates!

@pwnngm @GBullstein @jemmm85517813 To be fair, we did kind of invent industrialised CO2 emissions…

@GBullstein @jemmm85517813 It is worth noting. The UK accounts for a relatively small share of annual global emissions, roughly 0.7% to 1.2% of the total, making it a minor contributor to current yearly emissions, especially compared to top emitters like China.

The BBC says the UK is the only country experiencing catastrophic super+ climate change.

@Jalopnik I loved my PT Cruiser…

Alright, here's your chance. Tell me what ugly car you'll put up your dukes to defend in the comments below, and we'll all have a great time arguing about it. #Echobox=1780147841" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jalopnik.com/2183686/ugly-c…

@dontforgetchaos At the risk of being overly nerdy, both Aluminium and Aluminum are correct. The chap who created it himself switched between the two a lot, we just chose one and the Americans another.

I’m going to mention the word ALUMINIUM for starts. Then we can progress to Worcestershire Sauce. We can finish talking about squirty cheese out of a can.

@Kristinartz A TV which had a tuning dial you had to twiddle to change channels rather than buttons to go between them.

Age yourself with a piece of outdated tech from your youth! I'll go first: VCR

@the_gpc_ @lx_wanderer Not the greatest quality but means a huge amount to me. Taken with a very cheap 35mm film camera back in 1992, possibly even a disposable camera. Just caught Mark looking straight at the camera.

Photographers, show us a picture YOU took. No description. Just a pic 📸

You are too late to the party, that was last weekend. This is the UK, two weeks ago I had the woodburner lit as it was so cold, last week it was 30+ degrees and melting Brits, this coming week is 17 degrees and raining. That’s why we don’t bother with A/C, it’s just not worth it. 😄

does the UK not have AC units you can buy and put on the window?

Ever wondered what the blast of noise is from toilet hand dryers? Wonder no more: thenoisechap.com/noise-safety-i…

Employers: If you have ear muffs, it is worth checking what version of EN352 they are certified to. If it says 1993 as the year then as that has been defunct for a long time now, the ear muffs are well past their usable shelf-life and should be replaced.

@muheediva01 Literally literally to literally mean anything but literally.

What English word is mostly used by uneducated people?

@GazzettaFerrari #Ferrari have reinvented the CrapKitt from Knight Rider 2000.

🚨 | Luca Cordero di Montezemolo on the new Ferrari Luce: "If I said what I really think, I'd harm Ferrari. We're risking the destruction of a myth, I'm very sorry about that. I hope they at least remove the Prancing Horse from that car"

@dove_lenore This wasn't helpful when trying to use it for Car Play on my motorbike to navigate my way through Somerset and Bristol today.

anyone else’s phones not handling the uk heat well??

At a cider brewery for a noise assessment today. They say ‘you can have as much as you want to take back with you when you’re done’. Came on the motorbike rather than in the car. Noooooo 😭😭 thenoisechap.com

@JasonrShuman Everything is ugly when it first comes out, I offer up every baby ever born as proof.

People said the cyber truck was ugly when it first came out too…

One of the ways I keep my Noise Chap work’s climate impact down (on my last calculation I was actually negative by quite a long way) is by planting and maintaining woodlands. Looking gorgeous up there today. I planted 140 new trees last year and of them the majority are thriving well.

A non-work day today. If you haven’t been, #FarmFest is an excellent day out. @JeremyClarkson heading up a celebration of all things farming. Superb. A nice appetiser before the @3countiesshows in June.

@50CrazyFacts @The_TUC The UK has no law on maximum temperatures at work. Workplace temperature falls into the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations. No maximum is stated.

@The_TUC The current legal limit is 35 degrees, I used to help a chef it's been a law for decades

BREAKING 🚨 | As Britain's first heatwave of 2026 begins, the TUC is calling for a maximum working temperature to protect workers. Workers should be able to stop work above 30°C, or 27°C for those doing strenuous jobs. With heatwaves becoming more common, we need new laws on maximum working temperatures, cooler workplaces, and climate action to reduce global heating.