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Originally Posted by struth
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Originally Posted by struth
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Originally Posted by Macca
Managed to build this today all by my self. Was hoping to get help but none was forthcoming.
I did it on the table lol.
[emoji12] Too many films and nowhere to put them so bought this flat pack online. It's solid wood.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c640375ce5.jpg
Looks handy Grant. Dowelled and glued?
Looks good Grant - and a nice collection of DVDs as well. :)
doweled and screwed. no glue used. i could have but felt dowels were for strength and to set it straight really.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
yes ive a good set of blurays and dvds tbh. those are bluray. ive still at least got spaces left over now to keep me happy for some time lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
very tidy and you've got room for more now. If you want more.
I just found a Rockford Files box set I don't recall getting. Usually means you've got too many.
I do that all the time with CDs. Shameful really. I never have this problem with bags of Maltesers.
funny i found my rockford files set too and is now on bottom shelf. i had been watching it then misplaCED THE BOXSET.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
love maltesers.. some are too hard but most melt in gob. Revels, i used to love those too... bar the disgusting coffee ones lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Worse than that - I've bought CDs, only to find I already have them in my collection. Even worse, I have inadvertently bought a CD from a charity shop, the same disc that I previously donated. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I have a weakness for chocolate raisins, don't buy them often though.
You so crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Yes I used to eat lotsQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
:lol: Now I don't feel so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I was on a couple of bags per week until a couple of months ago, got sick of 'em. Since moved over to chocolate peanuts, sick of them too now. maybe time to switch back, or move to jars of cockles, a previous fad.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
A tray of mussels is nice now and then. Plenty of mayo & pepper, plus some decent crusty bread to go with it.
Used to have bloke come round the pub of a Sunday evening with a tray of seafood ("have you got crabs?" oh how we laughed) I think he did all the pubs back then, busy man... I always got whelks, bloody big chewy things they were.
we had to make do with scotch pies:rolleyes::DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
A Nepali sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for a record 26th time, breaking his own previous record set last year, a government official says.
Kami Rita Sherpa, 52, scaled the 8,849-metre mountain on Saturday along the traditional south-east ridge route leading 10 other Sherpa climbers.
“Kami Rita has broken his own record and established a new world record in climbing,” Taranath Adhikari, director general of the Department of Tourism in the capital of Kathmandu, said on Sunday.
Some achievement...
I see they've found out where I live. At least the dustbin's out the back :).
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-05-13/...iracy-theories
saw that yesterday. think nasa said its natural and actually a very small fissure.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I expect the image has been edited to 'assist' it a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I don't know why people are so quick to dismiss the idea that there could once have been a civilisation on Mars.
It's perfectly possible and there are a lot of as yet unexplained features.
Modern humans have only been around for the last 200K years or so. In the life of the solar system that's just a few seconds. There's millions of years for another civilization to have appeared and died out, or even multiples of them. In those time spans it does not take long for everything to crumble to dust and vanish.
apparently huge magnification can do that, but it does look like a door... a friday afternoon door tho.. good to see aliens have a shit workforce too:DQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
it was only tiny in real life
There is no sense of scale, so nothing to give an idea of size - it could be anything.
A lot can change in 200k years. It only took 15 years for the foam surrounds on my AR speakers to crumble to dust. Give it another 200k years and the cabs will be looking pretty shot too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
i'd imaging there will be signs of humans having been here for a good few million years, but vast majority of it wouldnt take anywhere near that. some radiation might take up to half a million years to completely vanish. deep mines might take longest tho, and might always show some traces; hard to tell. but bar the steel(mostly stainless) as normal steel would likely go quite fast. stone etc would be gone i'd think relatively fast. I mean how long does it take for a house to disappear? not that long in geological terms. I guess much will depend too on the way the weather goes after we go.
Might get some fossils etc i guess for a long time..
You can see from some of the abandoned industrial sites here how fast nature reclaims them.
One just round the corner from me, was totally clear in 2008 as they were going to build a parade of shops on it (despite there being a dozen empty shops within a couple of hundred yards). Then the crash happened and the site was abandoned. Only 14 years later it's a dense wood with trees 20 foot high.
yup chernobyl was only 30 odd years ago and its getting pretty overgrown... but the buildings are still there of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Give it a thousand years they'll be rubble and another thousand they will be dust. I saw a TV show about that where they computer-age the structures.
That's nothing when we're talking about millions of years. I mean in that space of time continents can move about.
I reckon if we abandoned the planet or all died out then it would only take a hundred thousand years for all visible trace of our mess to be gone. Anyone landing on the planet would not know anyone had ever been here unless they started doing some serious archaeology and testing and that.
they say that probes like voyager may be our lasting contrabution(assuming they dont actually hit anything). ceramics too could last for a hell of a time
That surprises me, I'd assume the constant unfiltered UV light would do for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
i dont think its affected tbh...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
on a different level, i guess the longest we will on earth still have any remnants will be before the earths crust is subducted lol.. but that will take a long, long time. hundreds of millions of years i guess
I would be content if Nature could remove all traces of the present government in the next week or so.
Nature may as well get rid of the next government too while it's wielding the big stick. They're all as bad as each other. As will be shown in the coming years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
2 years ago accountants charged me £360 to do my tax return. Ok, they probably do things in a way that may save me some tax. Last year it went up to £480, an increase of 30%.
I've just got an email from them, saying this year the fee will be £702 :eek: I've sort of gotten used to price increases, but enough is enough. Greedy little bastards in their air-conditioned offices inflation-busting their already comfortable standard of living at my expense. Although to be fair we did get a Christmas card off them.
So I phoned them back, telling them to get their greedy shit together or I will be going elsewhere, because up with this I will not put. We've got to make an effort to call these modern-day highwaymen to account.
i used to do my own accounts and vat back in day but it became too stressful doing that and work so i upped prices 10% and got an accountant lol
Good for you Steve - it's the only way the greedy buggers will learn. They are using the tax changes which came into effect in 2021 as an excuse for profiteering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Is that what it is? Well they can try that one, but it won't wash. Thing is, Anita does my book keeping, spends hours on it, even though it is probably relatively straightforward. Then we present it in a way that even the most junior of their minions can work with. And yet...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
We are all expected to accept the way things are right now and 'ride the storm'. I don't see why they can't too.
'Magnum P.I' has been cancelled by CBS https://www.newsweek.com/magnum-pi-canceled-cbs-1706328
That's great isn't it? One of only two modern shows that I actually watch.
Now all we need is for the 'Curse Of Oak Island' people to actually find the frigging treasure and there's no point me having a cable subscription any more. I can watch proper telly (i,e the pre-1980 stuff) on freeview for nothing.
a body blow.. must admit ive not missed tv at all. ive plenty on dvd etc to keep me happy. was that the ld show or a new version?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Reboot. It got as far as four seasons which is more than I thought it would manage.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Thing is they've cancelled that but renewed 'SWAT' and 'CSI:Vegas' which are both unwatchable shite.
more folk like shoite alas. just look at soaps and reality tv etc.
if you read the Newsweek article I linked to, SWAT and CSI:Vegas actually get less viewers overall than Magnum P.I, but they get more viewers in the 19-49 age demographic, which is what the advertisers/sponsors want to target.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I guess they realise that us over-fifties are far to wise to waste our money on whatever crap they are flogging. I always tape it and fast-forward through the ads anyway so I'm a dead loss to the sponsors regardless.
ive stuff on a tv type hdd that i recorded 8/9 yrs ago. its now interesting to look at the ads occasionally and see if i can guess the product. some of those ads were actually quite good in an ad sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I dunno about that, 8 or 9 years ago is practically yesterday as far as I'm concerned. Have ads really changed that much?
I do my best to avoid them altogether, even on the rare occasion I'm watching 'live to air' I will mute the sound when the ads come on.
I do like to watch some of the ads from the 1970s though, purely for nostalgia purposes. 'Ronco - the perfect Christmas gift' and 'You can't kanacker a Knirps.'
Knirps still seem to be a going concern surprisingly.
Every attention seeking waste of space ends up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Magnum and Higgins eventually got a snog at the end of season 4. I reckon Thomas saw the writing on the wall and decided to steam in there while he had a chance.
CBS were too quick to believe the younger folk when they say they prefer the other shows, seemingly unaware that said demographic are too busy on their X-Boxes or gawping at their smartphones to give a shit what's on the telly.
A misnomer if ever there was one. Bears no resemblance to my reality. Makes me glad I'm old.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth