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lots of chimneys... are there any left?
of those in the photo only two, both are now grade 2 listed:
https://i.ibb.co/bQwQWQw/falcon.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
you'd think council would do them up a bit. they have trees growing out of them
My local in 57... i can find my mother and father's house near top (from no 10. go up at about 60o until second group of houses. its the one with the black looking bay window towers. town is much bigger now.
https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/1979251_892313270864591_676001326870547442_o.jpg?_ nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=8vY6jBqZ6g0AX-ClwMN&_nc_ht=scontent.fman2-1.fna&oh=00_AT-RnNXI01s_KmCR3IBz9LIlyXG2ODqI8Y1KPXNnTmi-jA&oe=6237CBB9
How much of that is left? We still have most of the old houses and shops, but almost all the factory buildings are gone.
How much of that is left? We still have most of the old houses and shops, but almost all the factory buildings are gone.
vast majority really. all the fields around it and much more out of shot is all built on too. a big sports centre, 9 hole golf course up near my old house.
Lawrence001
20-02-2022, 19:28
My local in 57... i can find my mother and father's house near top (from no 10. go up at about 60o until second group of houses. its the one with the black looking bay window towers. town is much bigger now.
https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/1979251_892313270864591_676001326870547442_o.jpg?_ nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=8vY6jBqZ6g0AX-ClwMN&_nc_ht=scontent.fman2-1.fna&oh=00_AT-RnNXI01s_KmCR3IBz9LIlyXG2ODqI8Y1KPXNnTmi-jA&oe=6237CBB9Is that a council estate at the top? Looks like a typical post war layout plus some bungalows for the old folk, although there's a bit more variation in the building design than you sometimes see in the larger, cheaper estates, indicating a bit of civic pride.
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Where I used to live as a child in Bristol.
https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/3433541/680811969/image-0-1024x1024.jpg
Our house was five doors down (past the conifer), but I believe all the houses have now been converted into flats.
Pigmy Pony
20-02-2022, 21:14
Where I used to live as a child in Bristol.
https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/3433541/680811969/image-0-1024x1024.jpg
Our house was five doors down (past the conifer), but I believe all the houses have now been converted into flats.
Love that type of house, so much character. But I imagine they could make 4 flats per house, so you know parking's going to be a real arse.
Pigmy Pony
20-02-2022, 21:16
of those in the photo only two, both are now grade 2 listed:
https://i.ibb.co/bQwQWQw/falcon.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)
I bet they were toasty warm in winter.
Pigmy Pony
21-02-2022, 13:48
Feeling sorry for myself right now.
Just got back from the hospital where a decent-sized portion of my nose has been removed, and the skin replaced by a patch harvested from under my ear - not nearly as much fun as it sounds. Five injections of local into my neck, and another seven into my nose, with half of the stuff going down my throat, numbing it so I couldn't swallow.
I didn't think an eye could water so much, and by the time they'd finished my eyes were almost glued shut by half-dried tears.
Still, I got two free brews and a biscuit, and a day off work. Speaking of which, I don't know how I'm gonna keep these dressings clean and attached for a week, doing what I do.
I know that compared to the proper surgery some folk on here endure my "ordeal" is a piece of piss, but I never said I was tough...and to add insult to injury, when I look in the mirror it looks like bugger all :(
walpurgis
21-02-2022, 14:06
Sounds nasty. Surgery is no fun.
Nasty, Steve, hope you’re soon on the mend. Take some comfort that you are now part of the elite club who’s posts run into five figures, though. :)
Pigmy Pony
21-02-2022, 14:36
Nasty, Steve, hope you’re soon on the mend. Take some comfort that you are now part of the elite club who’s posts run into five figures, though. :)
Oh yeah, I hadn't even noticed! Don't know how I've managed to say so much without actually saying anything, but then Eastenders have been doing that for years :)
Anyway, cheers guys. Plenty of sunblock on me snout from now on...
Feeling sorry for myself right now.
Just got back from the hospital where a decent-sized portion of my nose has been removed, and the skin replaced by a patch harvested from under my ear - not nearly as much fun as it sounds. Five injections of local into my neck, and another seven into my nose, with half of the stuff going down my throat, numbing it so I couldn't swallow.
I didn't think an eye could water so much, and by the time they'd finished my eyes were almost glued shut by half-dried tears.
Still, I got two free brews and a biscuit, and a day off work. Speaking of which, I don't know how I'm gonna keep these dressings clean and attached for a week, doing what I do.
I know that compared to the proper surgery some folk on here endure my "ordeal" is a piece of piss, but I never said I was tough...and to add insult to injury, when I look in the mirror it looks like bugger all :(
take the week off is my advice.. no point in being brave as you'll not get any brownies.. look after yourself, rest and play muzak,
take the week off is my advice.. no point in being brave as you'll not get any brownies.. look after yourself, rest and play muzak,
yes do that, hope you feel better soon, sure you will.
Pigmy Pony
21-02-2022, 17:52
take the week off is my advice.. no point in being brave as you'll not get any brownies.. look after yourself, rest and play muzak,
Thanks fellers, for your advice - sounds good, but can't do that just now, I'd be letting folk down. BUT... it is all going to change, as I'm sick of having the disadvantages of self-employed (no sick or holiday pay) without the advantages (working to my own schedule at my own pace). It's like I have a boss all over again. Unless I can completely fill my week I barely make minimum wage, and filling my week means no crap weather, no injury or sickness, no non-delivery of product, and definitely no holidays :(
The price of the 8-yarder skip on my drive (which I pay for) and materials costs (which I also provide) have all gone up 30% or more this last year, while fitters' rates are virtually unchanged. I foresee a fitters revolt in the coming weeks, and I won't mind being at the front of it, because life's too short to be fretting about shit like this.
Sorry for boring you with this, I'm just a bit fed up right now.
Thanks fellers, for your advice - sounds good, but can't do that just now, I'd be letting folk down. BUT... it is all going to change, as I'm sick of having the disadvantages of self-employed (no sick or holiday pay) without the advantages (working to my own schedule at my own pace). It's like I have a boss all over again. Unless I can completely fill my week I barely make minimum wage, and filling my week means no crap weather, no injury or sickness, no non-delivery of product, and definitely no holidays :(
The price of the 8-yarder skip on my drive (which I pay for) and materials costs (which I also provide) have all gone up 30% or more this last year, while fitters' rates are virtually unchanged. I foresee a fitters revolt in the coming weeks, and I won't mind being at the front of it, because life's too short to be fretting about shit like this.
Sorry for boring you with this, I'm just a bit fed up right now.
i know what you mean steve. i was self employed in trade myself and it can end up being pointless when a few things go agin you, and you just get to paying out more than you take in, even doing 14 hr shifts.. as for skips; yes i was shocked to see current prices. i need one but its too much money.
Pigmy Pony
21-02-2022, 18:22
8 yarder I use went up last Jan from £210 to £240, and went up again last month to £265. And they take it away after 3 weeks, full or not. My advice would be to pile it up in the garden for a rubbish removal firm to take away. Prob less than £100 that way.
Maybe we should start a business renting skips? Got to be some space in the market if the prices are so high.
I mean once you've bought your skips and paid back for them after that it's all profit. And a skip must last years before you have to replace it.
walpurgis
21-02-2022, 20:58
And a skip must last years before you have to replace it.
They don't you know. They get damaged by all sorts of things. My mate had a successful skip company and moaned about the cost of repairs and replacements.
Feeling sorry for myself right now.
Just got back from the hospital where a decent-sized portion of my nose has been removed, and the skin replaced by a patch harvested from under my ear - not nearly as much fun as it sounds. Five injections of local into my neck, and another seven into my nose, with half of the stuff going down my throat, numbing it so I couldn't swallow.
:eek: How did that happen?
Anyway look after yourself - play some good tunes and drink a few beers.
Bloody hell Steve, sorry to hear about your operation (and your frustrations with work and skips).
Hope all goes well.
Pigmy Pony
21-02-2022, 23:30
:eek: How did that happen?
Anyway look after yourself - play some good tunes and drink a few beers.
Basal Cell Carcinoma. Probably the most common type of skin cancer. Not normally dangerous, but never goes away. Just keeps growing. It will have come from working outside all year with bugger all attention to UV protection.
Thanks for asking Barry, and for the excellent advice :) Just got myself a new vinyl copy of Vanessa Fernandez "When the Levee Breaks", which may help.
Pigmy Pony
22-02-2022, 07:17
Bloody hell Steve, sorry to hear about your operation (and your frustrations with work and skips).
Hope all goes well.
Thanks Guy. Bloody dressing fell off in the night, and what's underneath ain't pretty. I'll have to cobble something together with spare swab they gave me and some germolene before I leave the house.
Firebottle
22-02-2022, 08:23
I'm sure you'll be even more handsome when it's all healed up Steve, lock up your daughters everyone.
Seriously, sorry to hear of the need for surgery, look after yerself mate.
Was the acquisition of Vanessa Fernandez "When the Levee Breaks" due to NEBO 11?
walpurgis
22-02-2022, 08:30
Charity?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10533519/Royal-charity-spent-98-cash-raised-one-year-paying-just-10-staff-probe-reveals.html
russia starts its invasion i see... oil and gas prices go haywire again...
Charity?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10533519/Royal-charity-spent-98-cash-raised-one-year-paying-just-10-staff-probe-reveals.html
Despicable :steam:
This may end up being a ramble so apologies in advance... I lost my Mum before Christmas (when I say “lost”, I don’t mean she slipped down the back of the sofa, she passed away) but one of the positives is that me and my (younger) sister who had drifted apart are back in touch. We were reminiscing about our childhood, and one of the things we remembered was when I was about 11 or 12 my mum and dad (who were rather bohemian) used to run a craft stall on Saturdays in the cloisters at St Andrews Hall in Norwich. We used to get bored...
So money was tight, but the nearby “Cinema City” used to show old films for next to nothing, so I’d drag her there to see “Jason and the Argonauts”, “Great Expectations” and other classics.
Another very cheap waste of time not far away was the Bridewell Museum, and I remembered three things from last going there about 40 years ago. A huge model plane from the First World War (I suspect it was built by Boulton and Paul, a Norwich engineering firm pressed into aircraft manufacturing) a large collection of old shoes (Norwich being at the pinnacle of shoe manufacture for centuries) and a huge case of stuffed canaries. (As in taxidermy of little yellow birds.)
Well, my kids, now roughly the same age as we would have been at the time decided after this dinner table conversation that they would like to go. So today, it being half-term, we trundled up the A140 and spent a couple of hours wandering around what is now called The Museum of Norwich at The Bridewell and it was thoroughly enjoyable, for them too!
I was curious if the items I remembered would still be there, and was very pleased to find the model WW1 aircraft first, although a bit like Wagon Wheels, it was half the size I remembered it being in about 1980... plenty of shoes on display, too. And finally, a handful of stuffed canaries in the Norwich City FC display at the end of the tour (and yes, the irony of the Canaries being stuffed isn’t lost...)
Finally to the point(?) of my post... When I used to take my sister 40 years ago, admission for a child was 5p. Today, a child ticket was £6.20... According to an inflation calculator, the equivalent price today should be 23p - so it’s time to stop moaning about the price of gas, petrol and electricity and seriously question the robbing bastards in the museum services! I’m starting a petition and writing a very strongly worded letter... :lol:
Everything is going up in price - often disproportionately.
Once upon a time we could afford to eat a turnip once a week, now we have to make it last a month. ;)
Thanks Guy. Bloody dressing fell off in the night, and what's underneath ain't pretty. I'll have to cobble something together with spare swab they gave me and some germolene before I leave the house.
How's it going?
Pigmy Pony
23-02-2022, 22:50
I'm sure you'll be even more handsome when it's all healed up Steve, lock up your daughters everyone.
Seriously, sorry to hear of the need for surgery, look after yerself mate.
Was the acquisition of Vanessa Fernandez "When the Levee Breaks" due to NEBO 11?
Cheers Alan, but you're too kind - I think you actually mean "lock up your Grannies":wheniwasaboy: You're probably right about the handsome bit though, the more of my face they remove, the better looking I'll be :)
"When the Levee Breaks" was already on my radar since you played us some at Tipton Manor, but the prices are a bit :eek: Then I got the chance of a new copy at a great discount, thanks to a fellow forum member who'd ended up with a spare copy. A quality album it is.
Pigmy Pony
23-02-2022, 23:13
How's it going?
Bit knackered due to not getting a good night's sleep - nose not a problem in bed, as it's had 63 years of my farts so it's a tough old thing. But the patch behind my ear, where they took some skin for a graft, doesn't like resting on the pillow.
Working is pretty much normal, except that whenever I bend down to tie my laces or something, my nose throbs in tune with my pulse. Which is a bit shit. Also the right nostril is so swollen I can't get my little finger up there. I'll have to start blowing my nose, like a posh person...
Otherwise all good! Customers are providing sympathy biscuits with my brew, which is nice :)
Pigmy Pony
24-02-2022, 07:15
This may end up being a ramble so apologies in advance... I lost my Mum before Christmas (when I say “lost”, I don’t mean she slipped down the back of the sofa, she passed away) but one of the positives is that me and my (younger) sister who had drifted apart are back in touch. We were reminiscing about our childhood, and one of the things we remembered was when I was about 11 or 12 my mum and dad (who were rather bohemian) used to run a craft stall on Saturdays in the cloisters at St Andrews Hall in Norwich. We used to get bored...
So money was tight, but the nearby “Cinema City” used to show old films for next to nothing, so I’d drag her there to see “Jason and the Argonauts”, “Great Expectations” and other classics.
Another very cheap waste of time not far away was the Bridewell Museum, and I remembered three things from last going there about 40 years ago. A huge model plane from the First World War (I suspect it was built by Boulton and Paul, a Norwich engineering firm pressed into aircraft manufacturing) a large collection of old shoes (Norwich being at the pinnacle of shoe manufacture for centuries) and a huge case of stuffed canaries. (As in taxidermy of little yellow birds.)
Well, my kids, now roughly the same age as we would have been at the time decided after this dinner table conversation that they would like to go. So today, it being half-term, we trundled up the A140 and spent a couple of hours wandering around what is now called The Museum of Norwich at The Bridewell and it was thoroughly enjoyable, for them too!
I was curious if the items I remembered would still be there, and was very pleased to find the model WW1 aircraft first, although a bit like Wagon Wheels, it was half the size I remembered it being in about 1980... plenty of shoes on display, too. And finally, a handful of stuffed canaries in the Norwich City FC display at the end of the tour (and yes, the irony of the Canaries being stuffed isn’t lost...)
Finally to the point(?) of my post... When I used to take my sister 40 years ago, admission for a child was 5p. Today, a child ticket was £6.20... According to an inflation calculator, the equivalent price today should be 23p - so it’s time to stop moaning about the price of gas, petrol and electricity and seriously question the robbing bastards in the museum services! I’m starting a petition and writing a very strongly worded letter... :lol:
Kids are so expensive these days, I couldn't afford one. Time was you could kick them out of the house in the morning, and off they'd go to the woods to try out their latest home-made weapons. These days you have to take them somewhere, somewhere that costs.
Having said that, £6.20 for a child ticket is just wrong. It would be acceptable if you were able to leave the kids there for the day while you go off drinking beer, but I bet you're supposed to stay with them, and pay even more for the privilege.
The Harris museum in Preston was always free, and probably still is. But then they won't have a box of dead canaries, and maintaining them won't be cheep [groan].
Sorry to hear about your mum Alex, but good that you and your sister have re-connected. Same thing happened with me and my brother after my mum's passing. That was 20 years ago and we are still in regular touch with each other.
im not looking forward to the reunion with my bro..:rolleyes:
so, russia has full on invaded ukraine... all very silly this and it will spread. a madman.
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 09:08
so, russia has full on invaded ukraine... all very silly this and it will spread. a madman.
Putin knows exactly what he is doing.
Nobody will do anything about his imperialistic stunts, all you'll get is a load of hot air and empty rhetoric from Boris and the rest including US.
He could hold the whole of western Europe to ransom, including us, under threat of nuclear attack and nobody would resist. The yanks would do nothing useful, they might make things worse though.
Moldova and Lithuania must be feeling very uneasy, Poland too.
Mikeandvan
24-02-2022, 12:45
At least we've got the correct pronouns to lob at the Ruskies.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/24/how-our-weak-elites-emboldened-putin/?fbclid=IwAR2GEt4yj67LqLlnUpaGWX-5moeob2sJ5LxB5Q1xl5UGrFp-yIIbpUsh39k
When did Kiev become 'Kyiv'? I must have missed that. Really been confusing me reading these articles, I'm thinking who is this Kyiv bloke they keep mentioning?
But it's still 'Moscow' and not Mockba. Someone explain to me again how that works?
white russians are the ones who fought against the Red Army in the Russian Civil War .. ie ukrainians, lithuanians etc. maybe this is the basis of the woke talk;)
as for kyiv, i think thats ukranian
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 13:34
When did Kiev become 'Kyiv'?
Well it's since Rumania became Romania.
white russians are the ones who fought against the Red Army in the Russian Civil War .. ie ukrainians, lithuanians etc. maybe this is the basis of the woke talk;)
as for kyiv, i think thats ukranian
I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.
Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?
Like Churchill said re Istanbul/Constatinople, ''I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.”
or AP Herbert: ''Every Englishman is born with the inalienable right to pronounce foreign words any way he pleases”
I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.
Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?
Like Churchill said re Istanbul/Constatinople, ''I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.”
or AP Herbert: ''Every Englishman is born with the inalienable right to pronounce foreign words any way he pleases”
yeah but im scottish:ner:
The Ukrainian name is Ки́їв, written in the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet, and usually rendered in Latin letters (or romanized) as Kyiv. Before standardization of the alphabet in the early 20th century, the name was also spelled Кыѣвъ, Киѣвъ, or Кіѣвъ with the now-obsolete letter yat.
But spoken in Russian, Kiev sounds more like “Key-EV.” But at times, it sounded more like “keev,” with the long “ee” pronounced as a single syllable.
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 14:05
I remember fifties/sixties Soviet cameras marked with the 'Kiev' brand. Quite liked them.
yeah but im scottish:ner:
'Viewers in Scotland will have their own programmes.'
My favourite is the Italian port of Livorno, I still have a world atlas from about 1972 which shows it as 'Leghorn.'
Immediately brings to mind the once highly popular 'Foghorn Leghorn' cartoons, now sadly confined to the dustbin of history by political correctness.
They're telling you what you can and can't do, what you can and can't say, what you can and can't think, but it's not fascism because they don't call it fascism.
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 14:22
'Viewers in Scotland will have their own programmes.'
Re-runs of Kenneth McKellar and Andy Stewart shows? :)
I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.
Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?
No more than I could say I have visited: Shqipëria; Hellas; Mesopotamia; Persia; Cathay; French Indo-China; Ceylon; The Japans; Haute Volta; Abyssinia; Tanganyika; Bechuanaland: North and South Rhodesia, etc..
My favourite is the Italian port of Livorno, I still have a world atlas from about 1972 which shows it as 'Leghorn.'
Immediately brings to mind the once highly popular 'Foghorn Leghorn' cartoons, now sadly confined to the dustbin of history by political correctness.
They're telling you what you can and can't do, what you can and can't say, what you can and can't think, but it's not fascism because they don't call it fascism.
was once known as ligorno; think thats where leghorn came from
No more than I could say I have visited: Shqipëria; Hellas; Mesopotamia; Persia; Cathay; French Indo-China; Ceylon; The Japans; Haute Volta; Abyssinia; Tanganyika; Bechuanaland: North and South Rhodesia, etc..
aye, ive been all over the world too... london, newcastle and dublin:D
No more than I could say I have visited: Shqipëria; Hellas; Mesopotamia; Persia; Cathay; French Indo-China; Ceylon; The Japans; Haute Volta; Abyssinia; Tanganyika; Bechuanaland: North and South Rhodesia, etc..
I'm off to East Prussia on my holidays :D
was once known as ligorno; think thats where leghorn came from
yes. It's still the most amusing English bastardization of a place-name though.
I remember fifties/sixties Soviet cameras marked with the 'Kiev' brand. Quite liked them.
Yes, they were modelled on the early German Contax designs. I used to have a Russian 'Fed 3', which was based on the German Leica.
https://i.etsystatic.com/19034834/r/il/adffbd/3677746647/il_1140xN.3677746647_h9vi.jpg
I'm off to East Prussia on my holidays :D
Which part: Russian, Polish or Lithuanian?
You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.
You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.
60's.. yes its kept alive as folk liked it as a place and be damned to the bureaucrats.. more power to them
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 16:55
You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.
I still use it.
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 17:31
all you'll get is a load of hot air and empty rhetoric from Boris and the rest
I was right. Loads of indignant waffle from House of Commons. Nothing they can do though, any sanctions will be maneuvered around by Russia.
Moldova may well be on Putin's wish list after Ukraine. After that, we need to watch what the US may do if Lithuania are threatened. They are NATO! Could go very badly indeed.
Interesting that in the PM’s statement to MP’s when outlining the UK’s response he said “eventually Military” :eek:
I am still convinced we’re living in some sort of computer simulation - on the day that most COVID restrictions are dropped, the Third World War starts...
And I never knew that Middlesex wasn’t actually a thing since before I was born!
I give up, time for wine.
Pigmy Pony
24-02-2022, 18:42
I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.
Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?
Like Churchill said re Istanbul/Constatinople, ''I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.”
or AP Herbert: ''Every Englishman is born with the inalienable right to pronounce foreign words any way he pleases”
:lol: Thanks Martin, I'll take that and use it whenever possible!
Never really believed that it would get this mad - Putin seems to have made a veiled threat about nukes if Nato (or anyone else) gets too involved.
China will be watching very carefully (watch out Taiwan).
North Korea could then chance its arm. Could be "end of days".
Sod it, I'm off to the pub.
I thought I’d put the RT (Russia Today) news channel on... they’re re-running documentaries about how the Ukrainians are the aggressors in the separatist controlled (Russian backed) states and how Ukraine are breaking the Minsk agreement...
Pigmy Pony
24-02-2022, 19:01
Never really believed that it would get this mad - Putin seems to have made a veiled threat about nukes if Nato (or anyone else) gets too involved.
China will be watching very carefully (watch out Taiwan).
North Korea could then chance its arm. Could be "end of days".
Sod it, I'm off to the pub.
It's a M.A.D.* world, and so Putin really would have to be mental to risk that.
*Mutually Assured Destruction
walpurgis
24-02-2022, 19:16
It's a M.A.D.* world, and so Putin really would have to be mental to risk that.
*Mutually Assured Destruction
We wouldn't know it was coming.
The Russians have been surveying undersea installations for years and with the onset of a war situation would destroy all cable and optical links to the UK, not to mention power, oil and gas supplies. And our government would shut down all internet, phones and media transmissions.
im on my way out anyway so it wont bother me... a five minute warning and i'll arse my best bottle of whisky;) shame for my kids and grandkids and everyone elses' tho.
but russia will be a wasteland; as will china, so not all bad. yanks have plenty space in bunkers.
I’m up in the loft tomorrow, I’m sure I’ve still got a “Protect and Survive” pamphlet from the 80’s up there somewhere, doors will be off and my “inner refuge” will be created. Emergency supplies will be entirely bottles of wine!
I’m up in the loft tomorrow, I’m sure I’ve still got a “Protect and Survive” pamphlet from the 80’s up there somewhere, doors will be off and my “inner refuge” will be created. Emergency supplies will be entirely bottles of wine!
I think I can remember what to do from that episode of The Young Ones.
Pigmy Pony
24-02-2022, 19:53
I’m up in the loft tomorrow, I’m sure I’ve still got a “Protect and Survive” pamphlet from the 80’s up there somewhere, doors will be off and my “inner refuge” will be created. Emergency supplies will be entirely bottles of wine!
Your doors are what's keeping the looters from getting your wine. Besides you'll find a few newspapers are just as effective :) Up here for thinking, down there for dancing.
I think I can remember what to do from that episode of The Young Ones.
:lol:
Your doors are what's keeping the looters from getting your wine. Besides you'll find a few newspapers are just as effective :) Up here for thinking, down there for dancing.
I’m clearly not thinking this through properly after the third glass. Maybe the looters getting the wine is the best outcome!
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I’m clearly not thinking this through properly after the third glass. Maybe the looters getting the wine is the best outcome!
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Just leave the case of Peruvian Riesling out for them to take. Or steam off the labels from all the Piat d'Or you have, and write Chateau Margaux 1787 in their place. The looters will never know.
Just leave the case of Peruvian Riesling out for them to take. Or steam off the labels from all the Piat d'Or you have, and write Chateau Margaux 1787 in their place. The looters will never know.
:lol:
Good night out - ran the pub quiz, and hadn't realised that drinks were "on the pub" :cool:
Pigmy Pony
25-02-2022, 06:55
Good night out - ran the pub quiz, and hadn't realised that drinks were "on the pub" :cool:
It's ten past one! On a school night! I bet they're regretting giving you free drinks :doh:
Pigmy Pony
25-02-2022, 07:06
Just leave the case of Peruvian Riesling out for them to take. Or steam off the labels from all the Piat d'Or you have, and write Chateau Margaux 1787 in their place. The looters will never know.
I don't know, thieves can sometimes be quite discerning. A work colleague once told me his car was broken into while visiting his girlfriend, and they'd made off with about 30 albums he had left in the boot. but they left behind his copy of "Living in the Material World" by George Harrison. I used to have that album and thought it was pretty good, in fact I even paid for my copy.
It's ten past one! On a school night! I bet they're regretting giving you free drinks :doh:
I'm retired now :)
walpurgis
25-02-2022, 09:32
Just to liven her day up. When the missus came downstairs, I told her the Americans had bombed Moscow overnight.
Not sure she believed me :).
What have you got against Muscovites? I found them perfectly charming, but that was 30 years ago!
Pigmy Pony
25-02-2022, 18:39
When my mate had a holiday in St. Petersburg and Moscow a few years ago, he brought me back a souvenir mug featuring a topless Putin riding a grizzly bear. That has been my regular coffee mug ever since. But now I think I'd use a felt marker to draw some tassels onto his nipples.
And that is about as severe a sanction as anything Boris will have the stomach for.
that mug could get you in to a lot of trouble when they invade UK. Just remember "don't tell them your name Pike"
Pigmy Pony
25-02-2022, 19:22
"We're doomed! Doomed I tell ye!"
Pigmy Pony
25-02-2022, 19:23
I'm retired now :)
Really? You sound so young :)
Really? You sound so young :)
You silver tongued charmer :)
When my mate had a holiday in St. Petersburg and Moscow a few years ago, he brought me back a souvenir mug featuring a topless Putin riding a grizzly bear. That has been my regular coffee mug ever since. But now I think I'd use a felt marker to draw some tassels onto his nipples.
And that is about as severe a sanction as anything Boris will have the stomach for.
I wonder if there would be any interest in Putin babushka dolls: wherein each successive inner doll shows Putin in a greater state of undress? :D
Pigmy Pony
27-02-2022, 13:02
I wonder if there would be any interest in Putin babushka dolls: wherein each successive inner doll shows Putin in a greater state of undress? :D
Whenever I've been to Bulgaria there has always been items for sale featuring Putin doing something which may be considered macho - examples include previously mentioned mug with Putin bareback riding a grizzly bear, or (I got my mate one of these) a beach towel with Putin hugging a tiger. I don't know if the objects were promoting Vlad as a superhero, or just taking the piss.
Now there's a business opportunity - Y fronts with Vlad on them (hugging a python perhaps. Where is Marco when you need him?)
I see some reports say the Ruskies are getting bogged down in their advance. I was wondering if that would happen. Although you can't rely on the information we are getting one way or the other.
I see some reports say the Ruskies are getting bogged down in their advance. I was wondering if that would happen. Although you can't rely on the information we are getting one way or the other.
putin has put his nukes on standby apparently. and he is demanding belarus join the war. about time someone in russia topples him before the world goes mad.
The world has always been mad.
Pigmy Pony
27-02-2022, 14:22
The world has always been mad.
But it's gone from Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest mad, to Jack Nicholson in The Shining mad.
But it's gone from Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest mad, to Jack Nicholson in The Shining mad.
It think it sort of perpetually alternates between the two Jakes.
For 'The Shining' I'm a big fan of the 'Wendy Theory' which, if correct, means Jack isn't mad at all, but Wendy is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRr_0W-9hWg
I don’t think Putin was expecting the strong resistance of the Ukrainians, or the united response from the West. I agree with Grant, this needs to be an “inside job” - you have to feel sorry for the Russian population, but they, the government and military need to say enough is enough...
interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness :)
Pigmy Pony
28-02-2022, 07:29
interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness :)
I was doing that too - their heads were nodding agreement while their eyes barely managed to conceal their horror. I don't expect they'll ever be seen again.
walpurgis
28-02-2022, 07:46
interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness :)
I expect they are likely to have been told how to look. The whole thing may well be rehearsed.
There's a lot of 'spin' coming from all directions I think, notice how we mostly hear about the difficulties the Russians are encountering. It's likely negative news about Ukraine progress is suppressed.
Mikeandvan
28-02-2022, 10:58
Putin should have taken a leaf out of the U.S. handbook on war and called the invasion 'Humanitarian Intervention'.
Putin should have taken a leaf out of the U.S. handbook on war and called the invasion 'Humanitarian Intervention'.
That is exactly what he has done - during the past couple of years over half a million Russian passports have been issued to residents of Donbass region of Ukraine.
He is now going in to protect those Russian citizens.
Putin doesn't need a handbook from anyone, he was trained as a lawyer and worked for the KGB for quite a few years before entering in to a career in extortion, corruption and self aggrandisement (whoops should read "politics", but spell checker took over :lol:)
well he has pretty much got whole world bar belarus and to an extent, china agaist his country now. their finances are going back to stone age. he needs to wise up fast before someone in the kremlin does it for him.
Pigmy Pony
28-02-2022, 18:59
China knows what side its bread is buttered, and will know that a few million skint Russian citizens won't be enough to prop up their economy. They're already on a yellow card with me.
Also China can't be too anti Russia over this invasion because they plan to do similar with Taiwan.
Sensible to sit back, be non committal and see what the west does with Russia.
Mikeandvan
28-02-2022, 22:49
That is exactly what he has done - during the past couple of years over half a million Russian passports have been issued to residents of Donbass region of Ukraine.
He is now going in to protect those Russian citizens.
Putin doesn't need a handbook from anyone, he was trained as a lawyer and worked for the KGB for quite a few years before entering in to a career in extortion, corruption and self aggrandisement (whoops should read "politics", but spell checker took over :lol:)
In that case if his actions are supposedly 'mad', then what does that make practically every US intervention in the Middle East since WW2. Take Iraq and Libya, two dictatorships, but the US turned them into failed states.
In that case if his actions are supposedly 'mad', then what does that make practically every US intervention in the Middle East since WW2. Take Iraq and Libya, two dictatorships, but the US turned them into failed states.
Being "mad" doesn't exclude one from pursuing a "career in extortion, corruption and self aggrandisement" neither does being a politician exclude madmen/women".
I would tend to agree with your point about any intervention in another country since WW2 (by any other country/countries) - it doesn't stop with the Middle East, just think Afghanistan, Tibet etc. Only one that I can think of as being justified, off the top of my head, would be the former Yugoslavia.
I think that what makes Putin different and therefore being referred to as "mad" is his willingness to make veiled threats about the use of nuclear weapons.
Mikeandvan
01-03-2022, 12:36
Being "mad" doesn't exclude one from pursuing a "career in extortion, corruption and self aggrandisement" neither does being a politician exclude madmen/women".
I would tend to agree with your point about any intervention in another country since WW2 (by any other country/countries) - it doesn't stop with the Middle East, just think Afghanistan, Tibet etc. Only one that I can think of as being justified, off the top of my head, would be the former Yugoslavia.
I think that what makes Putin different and therefore being referred to as "mad" is his willingness to make veiled threats about the use of nuclear weapons.
I don't know, the US rains shit upon the middle east for decades, getting rid of dictators with the promise of democracy, which never comes, only chaos and destruction, Iraq, Libya, even the 20 yr occupation of Afghanistan couldn't establish democracy or any sort of functioning state, as soon as they depart, the Taliban just steps in. It seems once this chaos comes close to home, we take more notice. Russia of course also occupied Afghanistan, in an even more bonkers project, to turn the natives into communists, but they just ended up torching entire villages! How either country think they have right to do this is beyond me. Putin is no 'madder' than Kissinger, Bush, the Clintons, whoever. Was there ever a point in post war US history that the US weren't involved in the Middle east? What does Ukraine for Putin, partly the same thing the Middle East held for the US, mineral reserves, and a strategic defence position against encroaching Nato membership.
there were major differences tho. no matter the russians upset at nato too close for their comfort, their attack on a no military country just because they fancy it back isnt on, especially with their indiscriminate shellings.
I don't know, the US rains shit upon the middle east for decades, getting rid of dictators with the promise of democracy, which never comes, only chaos and destruction, Iraq, Libya, even the 20 yr occupation of Afghanistan couldn't establish democracy or any sort of functioning state, as soon as they depart, the Taliban just steps in. It seems once this chaos comes close to home, we take more notice. Russia of course also occupied Afghanistan, in an even more bonkers project, to turn the natives into communists, but they just ended up torching entire villages! How either country think they have right to do this is beyond me. Putin is no 'madder' than Kissinger, Bush, the Clintons, whoever. Was there ever a point in post war US history that the US weren't involved in the Middle east? What does Ukraine for Putin, partly the same thing the Middle East held for the US, mineral reserves, and a strategic defence position against encroaching Nato membership.
West gets involved in the Middle East because of the oil, not because they're crazy.
Don't buy the idea that Putin/Russians are worried about NATO. As if NATO would ever invade Russia. It's strictly a defensive alliance. Plus Russia has nuclear weapons in any case so they're untouchable.
If they were in the slightest bit worried about NATO attacking them they wouldn't have gone into Ukraine would they?
Not really possible to equate threats of nuclear weapons use to being "closer to home", ballistic missiles make everyone an interested party/potential victim.
I want to be clear though, "western" interventions in the Middle East have been ridiculous and solve nothing. As for treatment of Palestinians by Israel and backed by US, well that is atrocious.
Not really possible to equate threats of nuclear weapons use to being "closer to home", ballistic missiles make everyone an interested party/potential victim.
I want to be clear though, "western" interventions in the Middle East have been ridiculous and solve nothing. As for treatment of Palestinians by Israel and backed by US, well that is atrocious.
well 1990 was about liberating Kuwait (well their oil anyway) and 2004 was about taking control of the world's second largest oil reserve away from a loose cannon.
Given oil is absolutely fundamental to our civilisation that's not a crazy thing to do. Whether it's 'right' or not is a whole different argument.
Nobody would give a toss what they were doing in the middle east if it wasn't for the oil. They'd be left to their own devices. A Kurdish bloke said to me 'We will never have peace as long as there is oil.'
I think you are right - very interesting program on "Yesterday" earlier this evening. Covered the Caucus oil fields from time of WW2, effectively for many years Rusia/controlled the distribution of oil to satellite States at prices way below worldwide rates. Once satellite states became dependant on the oil supplies they were effectively "over a barrel" and had to toe the party line.
Mikeandvan
01-03-2022, 19:57
West gets involved in the Middle East because of the oil, not because they're crazy.
Don't buy the idea that Putin/Russians are worried about NATO. As if NATO would ever invade Russia. It's strictly a defensive alliance. Plus Russia has nuclear weapons in any case so they're untouchable.
If they were in the slightest bit worried about NATO attacking them they wouldn't have gone into Ukraine would they?
TBH Macca, I'd say the death of over 100,000 civilians in the first Iraq/US war was pretty crazy, getting rid of Saddam and Gadaffi was pretty crazy, seeing as the result of that was to create chaos, into which stepped extremists. Almost every US military intervention creates instability, but they keep on doing it, again and again! With Vietnam being the reference, they just bombed the shit out of that country, people need to get a perspective on the US, they are war mongering bastards, the only country to ever use that disgusting weapon, the h bomb.
Mikeandvan
01-03-2022, 19:58
As far as I can understand, Russia views Nato on its doorstep as a humiliation, but also I believe a direct threat. Ukraine has large reserves of oil and gas as well, and is a strategic defence position.
Can't go out to get dinner as expecting a delivery and of course the second I leave the house and disappear around the corner they will attempt to deliver.
So forced to ransack the emergency rations and have a pot noodle. Desperate stuff.
Can't go out to get dinner as expecting a delivery and of course the second I leave the house and disappear around the corner they will attempt to deliver.
So forced to ransack the emergency rations and have a pot noodle. Desperate stuff.
im sure they wait around corner for me to go out then quickly stick a card through door;)
same with my phone.. i can sit for hrs and nothing; moment i go to toilet, the damn thing rings:doh:
im sure they wait around corner for me to go out then quickly stick a card through door;)
same with my phone.. i can sit for hrs and nothing; moment i go to toilet, the damn thing rings:doh:
Yes. If I'm working and nip to the bathroom I can pretty much guarantee that the phone will ring even though it hasn't rung once for the previous 4 hours while I have been sat there and can pick it up right away.
And if you rush back it is absolutely guaranteed they will ring off in the split second before you pick up.
walpurgis
02-03-2022, 13:27
So forced to ransack the emergency rations and have a pot noodle. Desperate stuff.
You should have had a can of sardines. Live in style! :)
You should have had a can of sardines. Live in style! :)
Forgot I had them but don't have any bread in so I'd still have to go out.
Fancy a bar of chocolate now but I just daren't leave the house.
interesting thing. watching star trek insurrection and picard started singing gilbert and sullivan's hms pinifore to data. just after the boy phoned and out of blue i said, thats good eatin'.. now i found out that that was said by grandpa simpson in cape feare episode, in which sideshow bob sang hms pinifore to bart..
aint it amazing how the brain connects things without you realising.:eek:
Beobloke
04-03-2022, 13:01
Yes. If I'm working and nip to the bathroom I can pretty much guarantee that the phone will ring even though it hasn't rung once for the previous 4 hours while I have been sat there and can pick it up right away.
And if you rush back it is absolutely guaranteed they will ring off in the split second before you pick up.
And if you ring them straight back, they don't answer. It's like they just put the phone down when you didn't answer and then ran away.
interesting thing. watching star trek insurrection and picard started singing gilbert and sullivan's hms pinifore to data. just after the boy phoned and out of blue i said, thats good eatin'.. now i found out that that was said by grandpa simpson in cape feare episode, in which sideshow bob sang hms pinifore to bart..
aint it amazing how the brain connects things without you realising.:eek:
anytime I see Gilbert and Sullivan mentioned I think of that Simpson's episode.
'It's lucky for you that you drifted past this brothel.'
And if you ring them straight back, they don't answer. It's like they just put the phone down when you didn't answer and then ran away.
yes exactly that. I've had people call me, leave a message asking me to call them back, and when I call back, even just minutes later, I'm told that they've left the office and are now on holiday for two weeks.
anytime I see Gilbert and Sullivan mentioned I think of that Simpson's episode.
'It's lucky for you that you drifted past this brothel.'
it was an episode the writers thought would end the run of the simpsons as well. they didnt like it at time and the classic extended rake stepping was done as long as a filler as they had run out of ideas. i think it was one of the top 10 eps..
clessic simpsons of the early mid series'. not seen many for years as i dont have telly
it was an episode the writers thought would end the run of the simpsons as well. they didnt like it at time and the classic extended rake stepping was done as long as a filler as they had run out of ideas. i think it was one of the top 10 eps..
clessic simpsons of the early mid series'. not seen many for years as i dont have telly
I still have loads of the old ones on video cassette. My old man had cable installed the first day it became available so he used to tape them and post the tapes to me.
They still show them sometimes on Channel 4 and Sky. Any episodes made after about 1999 aren't worth watching though.
I still have loads of the old ones on video cassette. My old man had cable installed the first day it became available so he used to tape them and post the tapes to me.
They still show them sometimes on Channel 4 and Sky. Any episodes made after about 1999 aren't worth watching though.
ive the first 10 series on dvd somewhere but not seen them for years. an awful lot of work putting discs in tho lol,. might if i find them someday see if they will go onto a hdd. have my doubts tho.
'catch up' on Channel 4 website https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-simpsons
No old ones on there right now but they'll start showing them again, I'll let you know when they do.
Managed to fix the hoover and now it works fine. Major achievement for me that is.
What did you do - renew or empty the bag? ;)
What did you do - renew or empty the bag? ;)
No suction, thought it might be the filters, pulled them out and then could see the whole tube was blocked.
I don't know what it was I must have hoovered up, some plastic/metal thing which had jammed at the top just before the filter. Got that out and all the crud that had built up behind it and it works fine again now.
Pigmy Pony
06-03-2022, 17:22
No suction, thought it might be the filters, pulled them out and then could see the whole tube was blocked.
I don't know what it was I must have hoovered up, some plastic/metal thing which had jammed at the top just before the filter. Got that out and all the crud that had built up behind it and it works fine again now.
I have nothing but admiration for those who have a grasp of technology, especially when it is self-taught :respect: Just think, when you retire you could start up a small business, coming to the rescue of folk who never thought to check for a blockage :ner::ner: Possibly including us, Mrs P has amassed an impressive collection of hoovers none of which "work right".
I trust the plastic/metal thing was nothing important.
about 85% of hoover issues are blockages of some sort. older ones especially were fairly easy to work with too. you could pick up 'broken' hoovers all time for pennies and fix up, quick paint, new outer bag, cable, brushes and make a good living on the side.
I have nothing but admiration for those who have a grasp of technology, especially when it is self-taught :respect: Just think, when you retire you could start up a small business, coming to the rescue of folk who never thought to check for a blockage :ner::ner: Possibly including us, Mrs P has amassed an impressive collection of hoovers none of which "work right".
I trust the plastic/metal thing was nothing important.
I don't know what it was, if it was something important I'll just have to wait for it to go bad.
I know for a man who fixes stuff it's nothing much, any fool can clear a blocked hoover. Which is why I was able to accomplish it I suppose.
walpurgis
06-03-2022, 19:19
any fool can clear a blocked hoover
Must be true, I've done it a few times! :D
Not bad at clearing blocked drains either.
I make frequent trips to our 'reclamation centre' to dispense of stuff I no longer need (you know the sort of thing: LPs; reel-to-reel recorders, etc. - nah only kidding!).
It always surprises me just how many Dyson vacuum cleaners there are there.
They sold a lot of them, that's why. I've got two of them plus an Electrolux and a Shark. Did have a VAX too but gave that to the tat man.
dyson yellows blocked up worse than most due to design at base. used to pick up loads for free as folk obviously thought they were goosed. not really any different tho to most hoovers. just a lot of press bull about being great etc.
And a great price too (i.e. expensive). And what is so great about not having a bag?
And a great price too (i.e. expensive). And what is so great about not having a bag?
bags are a pain in the arse, that's why. You need to hoover, bag is full, you used the last one, now you've got to search out some place that sells the exact type of bag, go there, pay money for them...
dyson yellows blocked up worse than most due to design at base. used to pick up loads for free as folk obviously thought they were goosed. not really any different tho to most hoovers. just a lot of press bull about being great etc.
Yeah no different performance to my nan's hoover - that was a long metal cylinder which weighed half a metric tonne and was made in about 1950, but it would suck the paint off the skirting board if you let it.
Henrys are good too. I had to use the one at work once when the shredder went skitz on me.
I always wanted the one that will suck up builder's rubble.
bags are a pain in the arse, that's why. You need to hoover, bag is full, you used the last one, now you've got to search out some place that sells the exact type of bag, go there, pay money for them...
Bagless vacuum cleaners are also a pain in the arse You have to empty them outside, unless you want the dust everywhere.
Pigmy Pony
07-03-2022, 07:19
For work I have a budget Henry-type hoover, made by Titan and sells at Screwfix for forty quid. Works a treat, but does use bags (about a tenner for 5, also sold at Screwfix). The bags do last a long time though.
If you stick the hose in t'other hole it blows like a good 'un, which may be handy for something.
Pigmy Pony
07-03-2022, 07:26
I don't know what it was, if it was something important I'll just have to wait for it to go bad.
I know for a man who fixes stuff it's nothing much, any fool can clear a blocked hoover. Which is why I was able to accomplish it I suppose.
Hey I'm not a man who fixes stuff, I'm shit at it. I just fit windows and doors, everything else I'm just winging it :doh: And did I mention our collection of hoovers? :)
That Aviva advert where they're struggling to cross a little stream that is about an inch deep and the old girl looks so scared you'd think she was transversing Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
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'Arc light. B52 strike. Charlie don't see 'em or hear 'em.'
'Arc light. B52 strike. Charlie don't see 'em or hear 'em.'
a couple crashed into each other once. bet that was a big bang in the sky.
walpurgis
09-03-2022, 09:53
a couple crashed into each other once. bet that was a big bang in the sky.
Funny how birds don't collide, even in flocks.
Funny how birds don't collide, even in flocks.
They do fly into windows though, and wind turbines. They don't look so smart then.
Why do I keep on thinking about Dr Strangelove :eek:
Why do I keep on thinking about Dr Strangelove :eek:
Think I might watch my DVD copy. :eyebrows:
I had thought of watching it again on Netflix. Doesn't seem to be available in UK though:(
'Secret Army' just starting on Talking Pictures. Not seen that since it was originally broadcast, can't forget the theme tune.
Never watched it, thought it was dead boring. I remember it because it was always on Wednesday nights in the winter, back when there was only three channels and there would be nothing worth watching on the other two either. One of those scheduling dead zones. That theme tune was the signal that I had to go and do my homework. I always tried to fit it in around the telly.
Bugger, laptop not responding - having to use desktop in study. Means that I can't browse web while Fliss is watching "call the midwife" and suchlike.
'Secret Army' just starting on Talking Pictures. Not seen that since it was originally broadcast, can't forget the theme tune.
Never watched it, thought it was dead boring. I remember it because it was always on Wednesday nights in the winter, back when there was only three channels and there would be nothing worth watching on the other two either. One of those scheduling dead zones. That theme tune was the signal that I had to go and do my homework. I always tried to fit it in around the telly.
I have that on dvd ,that my daughter gave me 3 yrs ago . I havent watched it yet ,but wasnt that the basis for Allo Allo , or am I imagining it??:lol:
I must root it out but I recall the very same thoughts about it as you did , a bit boring ,and no Michelle in a maids outfit :eek:
On another random note , I have had a quiet time with my hi fi , not had it on for a few weeks and cant be arsed to play any vinyl , as I am too lazy!!
Alexa keeps me amused most of the time :eyebrows:
great series. quite a lot of episodes too. ive got it on my hard drive. and yes allo allo was a parody of it, even tho secret army was belgian.
Pigmy Pony
14-03-2022, 18:04
'Secret Army' just starting on Talking Pictures. Not seen that since it was originally broadcast, can't forget the theme tune.
Never watched it, thought it was dead boring. I remember it because it was always on Wednesday nights in the winter, back when there was only three channels and there would be nothing worth watching on the other two either. One of those scheduling dead zones. That theme tune was the signal that I had to go and do my homework. I always tried to fit it in around the telly.
Wasn't my thing at all. And iirc, the theme music was similarly dreary. My mum was into it.
Wasn't my thing at all. And iirc, the theme music was similarly dreary. My mum was into it.
No-one in our house was into it. My dad wouldn't be home from work yet, my brothers would be at cubs and the only thing my mother ever watched was Coronation Street, and maybe This Is Your Life if it was someone she liked. We used to dread that as she'd insist on turning the channel over to see who it was and we'd pray it was no-one she was bothered about, or we'd be stuck with it.
Just hearing that Secret Army theme tune and seeing the opening credits again sparked a Pavlovian reaction in me. 'Oh no. Got to do my homework.'
No-one in our house was into it. My dad wouldn't be home from work yet, my brothers would be at cubs and the only thing my mother ever watched was Coronation Street, and maybe This Is Your Life if it was someone she liked. We used to dread that as she'd insist on turning the channel over to see who it was and we'd pray it was no-one she was bothered about, or we'd be stuck with it.
Just hearing that Secret Army theme tune and seeing the opening credits again sparked a Pavlovian reaction in me. 'Oh no. Got to do my homework.'
not sure what time it was broadcast but i think it was just after teatime, or dinner time elsewhere.. back of 6 o'clock??
Pigmy Pony
14-03-2022, 19:47
It was broadcast in the late 70's, so I had no problem being somewhere else. We had a second living room with another telly and the family stereo, my bedroom with my stereo, and there was always the pub :) Not that I did any of these things just to avoid Secret Army.
I never did any of my homework at home, my school had a thing called homework detention for that sort of thing. Which preceded Secret Army by quite a few years.
It was broadcast in the late 70's, so I had no problem being somewhere else. We had a second living room with another telly and the family stereo, my bedroom with my stereo, and there was always the pub :) Not that I did any of these things just to avoid Secret Army.
I never did any of my homework at home, my school had a thing called homework detention for that sort of thing. Which preceded Secret Army by quite a few years.
only homework i did was cutting grass etc; anyone's grass:D
not sure what time it was broadcast but i think it was just after teatime, or dinner time elsewhere.. back of 6 o'clock??
I would guess it was on in the 7 o'clock slot, BBC2.
The one I saw the other night was first broadcast in November 1978. I would have been ten years old.
I would guess it was on in the 7 o'clock slot, BBC2.
The one I saw the other night was first broadcast in November 1978. I would have been ten years old.
ok, yes could have been.
i used to watch it so it must have been before pub time:D
on another note, i see putin has banned old joe biden from travelling to russia, :( i can just hear joe now....."well thats the holidays screwed jill;)
lol yes I thought that. Pictured him unpacking his suitcase, chucking his fur hat back in the wardrobe.
Russia Today has had its licence to broadcast in the UK revoked with immediate effect after watchdog Ofcom said it did not consider the channel "fit and proper" or a "responsible broadcaster".
The media regulator said that it had taken into account "a number of factors" including the fact that the news channel was funded by the Russian state "which has recently invaded a neigbouring sovereign country".
Ofcom also cited new laws in Russia "which effectively criminalise any independent journalism that departs from the Russian state's own news narrative, in particular in relation to the invasion of Ukraine".
"We consider that given these constraints it appears impossible for RT to comply with the due impartiality rules of our Broadcasting Code in the circumstances," the regulator added.
RT responded to the decision by saying Ofcom had shown itself to be "nothing more than a tool of government, bending to its media-suppressing will".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "This is a continuation of the madness which is going on in America and Europe - it is anti-Russian madness.
"This is yet another step that crudely limits freedom of speech."
if it werent so sad it would be hilarious... i wonder if the kremlin has a writer for all this pish they spout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXtVlG2VW0
walpurgis
22-03-2022, 11:11
In case you wondered. The song on the 'Kayak' sponsored Pick tv channel is Oktoba, by Laura Greaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANg5oLtcYsQ&ab_channel=headcell
It caught my attention, so I looked it up.
Pigmy Pony
22-03-2022, 18:53
In case you wondered. The song on the 'Kayak' sponsored Pick tv channel is Oktoba, by Laura Greaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANg5oLtcYsQ&ab_channel=headcell
It caught my attention, so I looked it up.
If you have Shazam on your phone it's easy peasy. I can usually have the song title and artist before the advert is ended :)
Strange thing with Shazam though, it doesn't seem to "listen" the same way we do. One time while on holiday I tried to identify a particular song some bloke was singing in this bar. Shazam was having none of it.
walpurgis
22-03-2022, 18:58
If you have Shazam on your phone it's easy peasy.
I don't use a smartphone. In fact I don't use any kind of mobile phone much at all.
Just set up a new one for my boy. His was giving issues. He got a Moto.
If you have Shazam on your phone it's easy peasy. I can usually have the song title and artist before the advert is ended :)
Strange thing with Shazam though, it doesn't seem to "listen" the same way we do. One time while on holiday I tried to identify a particular song some bloke was singing in this bar. Shazam was having none of it.
Doesn't work if the song is performed in the 'club' style.
Pigmy Pony
23-03-2022, 15:59
Doesn't work if the song is performed in the 'club' style.
You're right - tried it, doesn't work.
https://youtu.be/X1fYqd-mNhQ?list=RD3i2xnMnGKAQ&t=14
aye my google phone has something like that built in, and it needs to be an official version i think, i rarely use it even tho its always on as i can never find the results. i think its aligned with spotify
walpurgis
23-03-2022, 17:39
Fuel duty to be cut by 5p per litre apparently. Just watch the greedy fuel companies start easing pump prices up to absorb that!!
You're right - tried it, doesn't work.
https://youtu.be/X1fYqd-mNhQ?list=RD3i2xnMnGKAQ&t=14
what about when he sings it again 'properly', does it not work then either? App must be rubbish in that case.
Pigmy Pony
23-03-2022, 17:52
what about when he sings it again 'properly', does it not work then either? App must be rubbish in that case.
I know, it can only do the easy stuff. Songs done in the 'club' style are what we need help with, and if the app can't do that, what's the point? To be fair though, Vic does sing "don't wanna be" rather more quickly than on the original.
Fuel duty to be cut by 5p per litre apparently. Just watch the greedy fuel companies start easing pump prices up to absorb that!!
much good that is to me :D
Pigmy Pony
23-03-2022, 18:13
much good that is to me :D
Bet you wish you'd kept the Toyota now, you'd be quids in :)
Bet you wish you'd kept the Toyota now, you'd be quids in :)Nah, 5p is nowt to savings I get with electric, even when prices go up it'll still be way cheaper.
In sport mode I also get the rocket takeoff lol
Pigmy Pony
23-03-2022, 18:34
Nah, 5p is nowt to savings I get with electric, even when prices go up it'll still be way cheaper.
In sport mode I also get the rocket takeoff lol
I knew all of that really. I can see that 'going electric' would bring savings, after initial purchase cost. I wish everything else could be that simple - it looks like my diesel-powered tumble dryer idea, despite obvious electricity savings, will be a non-starter :(
i never understood why water mills went out of fashion. One thing we're not short of here is water. You could use that to spin the washing machine, or do loads of other things. Charge a leccy car off it.
You'd need to move to a house by a stream though. Or divert one through your land, like they do in the westerns.
Pigmy Pony
23-03-2022, 20:41
The good people of out-in-the-sticks America are very protective of their streams though - get it wrong and they'll go gunning for the man who stole their water - a guy from Utah once told me that.
walpurgis
23-03-2022, 20:41
i never understood why water mills went out of fashion. One thing we're not short of here is water. You could use that to spin the washing machine, or do loads of other things. Charge a leccy car off it.
You'd need to move to a house by a stream though. Or divert one through your land, like they do in the westerns.
You want one of these.
https://i.ibb.co/M5c4D1D/s-l1600.jpg (https://ibb.co/Nn9P6N6)
Pigmy Pony
23-03-2022, 20:50
If I ever won the lottery though, I'd buy a house next to a stream, I believe some good savings can be made with a water powered generator. No need for it ever to fail - during dry spells I could assist the stream by adding water from my tap via a garden hose :)
You want one of these.
https://i.ibb.co/M5c4D1D/s-l1600.jpg (https://ibb.co/Nn9P6N6)
With all of that free power, you would have thought they would have at least a tumble dryer if not a washer/dryer. :D
Waterwheels apparently don't make good leccy makers
Pigmy Pony
24-03-2022, 06:56
Waterwheels apparently don't make good leccy makers
Well it certainly wouldn't work for me, with my lack of technical skills - I'd end up electrocuting the fish
The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.
The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.
you can power a TV from a bicycle so a water wheel should do it easy.
you can power a TV from a bicycle so a water wheel should do it easy.
yeah it can but a normal waterwheel doesnt spin quickly enough reall to produce enough. you have to design it right and place it right too. it still wont do much more than a house and solar and wind are more productive on small scales. tidal works well too ... solar panels on my roof would likely produce all i need plus a bit
walpurgis
24-03-2022, 12:44
you can power a TV from a bicycle
Bit tricky following what's shown while you're pedalling along though.
Microplastics found in human blood.
Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.
The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. The impact on health is as yet unknown. But researchers are concerned as*microplastics cause damage to human cells*in the laboratory and*air pollution particles*are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year.
Fuel duty to be cut by 5p per litre apparently. Just watch the greedy fuel companies start easing pump prices up to absorb that!!
And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:
latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:
Pigmy Pony
24-03-2022, 18:22
The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.
I wouldn't have thought big and cumbersome would be a problem - as long as the wheel has some welly, the final drive can be quick as you like if it's geared down that way.
And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:
latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:
i heard none will be... the old excuse that they can do it til they change their tank contents, and by that time it will have vanished. thats why it wasnt taken off vat. another tory con.
did you see sunak talking about the devistation in ukraine and boris bursts out laughing? what a fuck we have as a pm
Pigmy Pony
24-03-2022, 18:30
And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:
latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:
There will always be some who benefit from economic "events", unfortunately that never includes us :(
And the latest I've heard is that price of loft insulation is set to increase by about 55%. Just as folk will be looking at ways to cut down their energy usage. Boils my piss that does.
I wouldn't have thought big and cumbersome would be a problem - as long as the wheel has some welly, the final drive can be quick as you like if it's geared down that way.
they will work and produce electric etc but they are not efficient. modern hydro is really a modern version which is fairly efficient. ideally you want the whell turning fairly even and relatively fast. not like a waterwheel which is better at producing a decent bit of muscle.
Pigmy Pony
24-03-2022, 18:41
they will work and produce electric etc but they are not efficient. modern hydro is really a modern version which is fairly efficient. ideally you want the whell turning fairly even and relatively fast. not like a waterwheel which is better at producing a decent bit of muscle.
Ok I accept that a water wheel is probably not ideal, but living next to a stream can still save us some money - all I would need is a rock in the stream to beat the clothes on, and another rock next to it for Mrs. P to sit on :)
walpurgis
24-03-2022, 18:53
Ok I accept that a water wheel is probably not ideal, but living next to a stream can still save us some money - all I would need is a rock in the stream to beat the clothes on, and another rock next to it for Mrs. P to sit on :)
My grandmother did that. The locals had a pond and stream fed by a spring and washed their laundry there. It was in a tiny hamlet east of central France.
Pigmy Pony
24-03-2022, 19:02
My grandmother did that. The locals had a pond and stream fed by a spring and washed their laundry there. It was in a tiny hamlet east of central France.
Yeah well they have clean streams in France ime, having done canoeing and fishing in some. Not like the watered-down gravy we have over here.
The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.
Wind turbines are slow moving, but they generate electricity. There is no real reason why water wheels cannot be used to generate electricity for domestic use, as long as there is not a need for a lot of power (say < 20kW): https://www.askaprepper.com/homemade-water-wheel-electric-generator/,
There will always be some who benefit from economic "events", unfortunately that never includes us :(
And the latest I've heard is that price of loft insulation is set to increase by about 55%. Just as folk will be looking at ways to cut down their energy usage. Boils my piss that does.
What the f--- :steam:
If I was selling insulation - or indeed anything - I might find it a useful tactic to advise potential buyers that the price was about to go up...
govt has scrapped vat on home insulation, solar panels and heat pumps to drive down bills.
The vast majority of people still won't be able to afford them though, and those that can could afford to pay the VAT too.
Plus a lot of properties are unsuitable for heat pumps and solar anyway.
What's required is for water and power to be re-nationalised. Cutting out all the middlemen from dipping their beaks would reduce costs for everyone.
What's required is for water and power to be re-nationalised. Cutting out all the middlemen from dipping their beaks would reduce costs for everyone.
Totally agree! Privatisation was intended to offer competition; but instead it just favours the shareholders at best and encourages the formation of cartels at worse.
On the other hand nationalisation can allow a lessez fair attitude and a lack of investment.
Amory Lovins.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/26/amory-lovins-energy-efficiency-interview-cheapest-safest-cleanest-crisis
Amory Lovins.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/26/amory-lovins-energy-efficiency-interview-cheapest-safest-cleanest-crisis
some interesting stuff in that.
A "game-changing" antibiotic could save millions of lives worldwide from drug-resistant superbugs, a new study suggests.
The breakthrough, made by UK scientists, involved the development of new versions of the molecule teixobactin, which is thought to be capable of killing bacteria without damaging the tissue of the mammals it was tested on.
A team of researchers was able to use it to successfully eradicate methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - a so-called superbug known as MRSA, which is resistant to several widely used antibiotics - in a study on mice.
Teixobactin was first hailed as a "game-changing" antibiotic in 2015, but the new project developed "synthetic" classes of the drug, according to scientists.
Because the synthetic versions can be kept at room temperature global distribution of the drug is much easier.
In 2019, more than 1.2 million people died from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according to a January 2021 study in The Lancet.
Mice always the first to get the benefit of these revolutionary new drugs, they must have shares in the pharmaceutical companies or something.
It's because of Frankie, Benjy and the number 42
Pigmy Pony
29-03-2022, 17:29
Mice always the first to get the benefit of these revolutionary new drugs, they must have shares in the pharmaceutical companies or something.
They do alright don't they? Kept in a cat-free environment, don't have to forage for their food, and get a wheel to play on.
Pigmy Pony
29-03-2022, 17:35
It's because of Frankie, Benjy and the number 42
:scratch: You'll have to enlighten me, I don't watch Nickelodeon :)
Edit: no need, just came to me. At times like this my failing memory worries me. But if I give it ten minutes I won't remember what I was worrying about...
hitchhikers?? not a program i watched much but caught some of it. the dwarf was my weakness and still is lol
:scratch: You'll have to enlighten me, I don't watch Nickelodeon :)
Edit: no need, just came to me. At times like this my failing memory worries me. But if I give it ten minutes I won't remember what I was worrying about...
it's a book, radio series, TV series and I think a film :)
Frankie and Benji were actually two hyper intelligent pan galactic beings who took on the form of mice to control /observe the earth (which was really a computer program designed to find the ultimate question to which the answer was 42)
EDIT - I'm a bit of a nerd, I also have original radio series on BBC cassettes and LP records :)
the book is well worth a read, the tv show is okay, the film is diabolically bad.
never heard the radio show.
walpurgis
30-03-2022, 10:00
Not sure what you're all on about, but I do have a cousin called Ford Prefect :).
Not sure what you're all on about, but I do have a cousin called Ford Prefect :).
You are Zaphod Beeblebrox, and I claim my prize :)
we are deffo on hitchhikers. sure ive got the audiobook.. was stephen fry who read it.
Pigmy Pony
30-03-2022, 14:48
the book is well worth a read, the tv show is okay, the film is diabolically bad.
never heard the radio show.
Read the book and saw the series many years ago, never saw the film - film trailers tend to show the best bits, and they were grim enough, so didn't bother.
Read the book and saw the series many years ago, never saw the film - film trailers tend to show the best bits, and they were grim enough, so didn't bother.
IIRC the trailer showed the one funny bit in the entire film, as they so often do.
What they did was take out everything from the book that made it funny, then added a load of stuff that isn't funny at all. Similar to what the BBC do when they get a show that becomes popular. Because they don't understand the reasons why the show got popular in the first place.
Pigmy Pony
30-03-2022, 16:41
BBC have a history of hitting upon something that proves popular, then keep battering the formula long after it's died. Examples being Are You Being Served, Last of the Summer Wine and Silent Witness.
BBC have a history of hitting upon something that proves popular, then keep battering the formula long after it's died. Examples being Are You Being Served, Last of the Summer Wine and Silent Witness.
They were all pretty bad to begin with, although 'Are You Being Served?' is like Shakespeare compared to modern stuff.
I was thinking Red Dwarf, Royle Family and Fools and Horses. They gave Fools and Horses a right beating, buried it, and then dug it up and kicked it about a bit more.
dwarf was bbc2 till 99 then reinvented on dave.. actually the last bbc 1 was worst ... then it got better again.
Pigmy Pony
30-03-2022, 18:04
They were all pretty bad to begin with, although 'Are You Being Served?' is like Shakespeare compared to modern stuff.
I was thinking Red Dwarf, Royle Family and Fools and Horses. They gave Fools and Horses a right beating, buried it, and then dug it up and kicked it about a bit more.
:lol: They did, didn't they? Well it was either that or increase the licence fee...
walpurgis
01-04-2022, 07:50
If, as Putin asserts, there is no war. What are the thousands of people killed through his military actions in Ukraine, murder victims?
If, as Putin asserts, there is no war. What are the thousands of people killed through his military actions in Ukraine, murder victims?
he cant tell his own people he has started a war. hence the special op and of course the drug addicted nazis shit. trouble is as thats all the see and the older ones especially dont want to believe anything dangerous, the happily swallow it.
Pigmy Pony
01-04-2022, 08:15
My mate's son has been seeing a Russian girl (from St. Petersburg) for a couple of years, they live together in London. She is currently not on speaking terms with her parents back home, who don't believe a word of it. They're convinced she is being brainwashed and should never have gone to England.
Normal people like you or me stay at a hotel we pretty much never order room service because we know from experience that it's usually crap and it's always hideously expensive.
So why is it in films/tv that the spy, or witness or whatever can't wait to get on the blower and order it? Even though they've been told 'Don't open the door to anyone'
It's absolutely guaranteed that the room service bloke will be an assassin in disguise, or will have put a bomb in the trolley, or some other ruse.
Just send one of the FBI agents or whatever out to get some KFC or something. Or better still get them to put you up in a military base or a police station or anywhere that the general public can't just wander in and out of at will. Really not hard.
Pigmy Pony
01-04-2022, 16:36
The spy/witness doesn't even need to order room service, it will come anyway. And he will open the door to tell the incompetent fool. In person, as that is the only way they will learn.
You got to watch out for the window cleaner and the maintenance man too. And the agents guarding you will be no use, dead in seconds.
Not really worth them assigning anyone to begin with really.
Worlds best mancave:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/millionaire-who-illegally-created-britain-s-best-man-cave-creates-fortress-to-stop-it-being-torn-down/ar-AAW0EDS?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=74555661b01449609b603b817dcb15e5
of course the local council want to pull it down so he's bought all the properties surrounding it so the bulldozers can't get to it.
Funny how local councils are shit hot when it comes to this sort of thing but they struggle to keep the streets clean and in a good state of repair.
well he has no neighbours who complain so it should just be allowed. govt allow a lot worse when it suits THEM
You can't even see it from the street. Here they love to rip down beautiful or interesting Victorian buildings and replace them with total eyesores that look even worse after a couple of years due to the shoddy materials they use. No-one on local councils seems bothered about that.
I think he just forgot to slip a plain brown envelope to someone.
walpurgis
09-04-2022, 10:21
If his neighbours don't care, I can't see it's a big deal even if he is an entitled prick. He'll come unstuck eventually.
He'd have done better buying a farm and converting a barn.
Looking like the hospital/ambulance system in this country(England in particular) is now not fit for purpose with people waiting 48 hrs to be seen properly.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/10/appalling-waits-for-ambulances-in-england-leaving-lives-at-risk
Patients with life-threatening conditions such as heart attacks and strokes are having to wait far too long for emergency care, she said, and vulnerable older people are in some cases spending all night on the floor at home after falling.
The rapidly escalating crisis is being caused by soaring demand, enormous staff shortages in the NHS and social care that have been worsened by Covid-related absences, and a drastic shortfall of hospital and care home beds.
“The true barrier to tackling this crisis is political unwillingness,” Henderson said. “The current situation is breaking the workforce and breaking our hearts.”
Hospitals are facing record demand from patients coming forward after two years of the pandemic, while struggling to discharge patients because of the crisis in social care.
As a result, Henderson said, doctors are struggling to find any space for patients arriving at A&E. That is causing record delays in ambulances handing over patients, which is leading to waits of up to 22 hours for 999 callers.........
walpurgis
12-04-2022, 16:25
Boris nicked!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61083402
With a bit of luck he'll be bunged in the Tower of London pending execution :lol:.
Boris nicked!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61083402
With a bit of luck he'll be bunged in the Tower of London pending execution :lol:.
They seem to have had more parties during lockdown than I've been to in my entire life. Johnson was foolish to have allowed it to happen.
They seem to have had more parties during lockdown than I've been to in my entire life. Johnson was foolish to have allowed it to happen.
not one to pick on his wife, but!!!:D
They seem to have had more parties during lockdown than I've been to in my entire life. Johnson was foolish to have allowed it to happen.
as for parties, i rarely went to any, and never had one(even as a kid), bar my wedding night. Any i did go to always ended badly or was just soul destroying. :eek:
struth; not a party animal:D
as for parties, i rarely went to any, and never had one(even as a kid), bar my wedding night. Any i did go to always ended badly or was just soul destroying. :eek:
struth; not a party animal:D
No, neither am I. Not been to any that ended badly though except one where the cops turned up, can't recall why now. A long time ago in Liverpool.
Pigmy Pony
12-04-2022, 17:33
Been to dozens in my early years, but I can only think of three that ended badly(ish).
One where I tried to open a beer bottle with my teeth (which I've mentioned before). That ended in A&E getting stitches. One where we all got ejected after someone tried to start a fire in the garden with one of the sofa cushions. And one where some guy thought he could intimidate me with his 6'3". I set him straight there, but got chucked out by an off-duty copper.
Mostly parties were just under-attended non events, and none of them even register on the shame-scale compared to Boris and his cronies.
I don't understand who they have advising them. I mean first you have those two idiots advising May to call a snap election when it was obvious to any fool that it was a bad time. Then you've got these 'get togethers' at No 10 and now it's Sunak's wife doing tax avoidance.
Why are the advisors not saying 'There's a lockdown on Mr J having a birthday bash is not a good move'. Or 'Tax avoidance looks bad especially when your married to the Chancellor. Just pay the fucking tax, you're loaded anyway so what does it matter?'
Or maybe they do say that and they just ignore them? I really don't know.
I'm now paying £100 a month more than I used to pay for electricity and gas! :doh:
Mikeandvan
16-04-2022, 23:36
I don't understand who they have advising them. I mean first you have those two idiots advising May to call a snap election when it was obvious to any fool that it was a bad time. Then you've got these 'get togethers' at No 10 and now it's Sunak's wife doing tax avoidance.
Why are the advisors not saying 'There's a lockdown on Mr J having a birthday bash is not a good move'. Or 'Tax avoidance looks bad especially when your married to the Chancellor. Just pay the fucking tax, you're loaded anyway so what does it matter?'
Or maybe they do say that and they just ignore them? I really don't know.
What the fuck do they do with all those millions, every year, it's puzzling. Surely they'll never spend it, their kids and their grand kids will just keep getting richer and richer.
What the fuck do they do with all those millions, every year, it's puzzling. Surely they'll never spend it, their kids and their grand kids will just keep getting richer and richer.
I don't know Mike. Their lives are so far removed from mine that I can't even begin to speculate. I had that kind of cash I'd be living anonymously and luxuriously out in the Caribbean rather than getting all the aggravation of being in the government. People are strange.
Mikeandvan
17-04-2022, 21:27
I don't know Mike. Their lives are so far removed from mine that I can't even begin to speculate. I had that kind of cash I'd be living anonymously and luxuriously out in the Caribbean rather than getting all the aggravation of being in the government. People are strange.
I wonder what % of rich kids go on to develop heroin habits.
Pigmy Pony
18-04-2022, 08:06
I wonder what % of rich kids go on to develop heroin habits.
I've researched this and the answer is 41.1%. But we have no idea what these kids have to go through emotionally, so shouldn't judge. For example, a huge 1% of these addicts told us their problems began when they were told they couldn't change their yacht just because it was moored in the wrong place.
IME the rich kids like their cocaine.
IME the rich kids like their cocaine.
and us poor boys like our coke zero:D
Mikeandvan
18-04-2022, 10:50
I've researched this and the answer is 41.1%. But we have no idea what these kids have to go through emotionally, so shouldn't judge. For example, a huge 1% of these addicts told us their problems began when they were told they couldn't change their yacht just because it was moored in the wrong place.
It's one thing rich kids share with dole kids, hours of free time. One goes yachting, another sits by the local shops begging. I'll get me coat.
Pigmy Pony
18-04-2022, 12:03
It's one thing rich kids share with dole kids, hours of free time. One goes yachting, another sits by the local shops begging. I'll get me coat.
When you say coat I assume you mean this :ner:
https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiTqLGHyJ33AhVB7O0KHbuuAGMYABAiGgJkZw&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAASE-RojBZWNYXhYUfp8WQO-6L9g6w&sig=AOD64_2D2W4HM1Lr8QSPOFHrRMSFI9KNiw&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwio1KiHyJ33AhUaQEEAHVdQBy4Q9aACegUIARCjA g&adurl=
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