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contrary1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:06 pm
Bryn Mawr wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:10 am Hi Chonsi, great to see you back.

And hello to the Contrary one - I must admit I don’t recognise the name but you’re welcome anyway
I'm sure I was a different name then.

I’m sure you did

Hi Chonsi, great to see you back.

And hello to the Contrary one - I must admit I don’t recognise the name but you’re welcome anyway

Welcome, it’s good to see you back here. Condolences on your mother’s passing, it is never an easy time, especially after such a long illness. It's true! My father died quite suddenly from a heart attack in 2008 and of course it was still devastating but I think it was easier, certainly on him and ...

We've gotten hooked on the series "Vikings". I think it ran for 8 seasons and after a few years it was brought back for an 2 additional seasons. Hopefully it will continue to be renewed. We''re only on Season 4 so have a ways to go. Any other fans? I watched one or two episodes but never ...

Welcome, it’s good to see you back here. Condolences on your mother’s passing, it is never an easy time, especially after such a long illness. This side of the pond? Life progresses, we have 3 more children in the family since you left. We love them to bits but I’d forgotten how hard it can be looki...

Far Rider wrote: You know spot for a brit you got a lot of guts. First your Boy George comment is offensive. I don't agree with my President very often, but his office is to be respected. I hated Clinton but when he was President I refered to him as Mr. President. And My Commander and Chief. I knew...

spot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 7:26 am Hi - that's interesting.

Is that actually Fourpart, or has someone got hold of his account details or email login?

Strange

No problems from here.

Expensive hiccup.

We've had a bit of a spike, as well. Not to mention that several other "bugs" are going around. We had a Strep infection, followed on by this apparent new version of RSV that can attack adults as well as children. And, of course, the Influenza strain of the year is in full attack. Makes o...

magentaflame wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 1:29 am Hello Peeps....long time no post.
I randomly thought of you all today, Hi

Far too long, I randomly miss your posts quite often

As an exercise in logic, this is a doozie 5. What was the name of the first calender made by the Romans? Your Answer: Romulan The correct answer was Julian. Emperor Julius Caeser invented this calender in 46 B.C. We have Caesar spelled wrongly, calendar spelled wrongly twice, Julius was never an Em...

If, hypothetically, a person were grown from a single cell in a lab, it wouldn't be called "lab-grown meat", it would be called a person. If the process were competent then the person would think, talk, reason and be as human as a naturally-created person. It wouldn't be "lab-grown m...

Why he isn't simply retiring from public life I have no idea

Money

I think that my entire exposure to the House of Lords and such is primarily credited to "the Ruling Class" a rather entertaining piece, starring Peter O'Toole. Correction: Well, I did watch that "Downton Abbey" series that our PBS folks put together. I’ve watched it occasionally...

Luckily the electric sockets look like they are up high, not like home here in the UK where the majority are on the skirting board level causing major issues if you get flooded. Hope you get the insurance money and make sure you enjoy the hard work it's going to take re-decorating etc :( That’s the...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Sun Oct 23, 2022 9:05 am That sounds not unlike the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in South Florida.
My friends in the region say that they are lucky to still have a house,

Things will recover, life will go on

I had the Moderna spike vaccine four weeks ago for the current mix of variants and rested through a couple of days to get past the reaction. I'm pleased I did it. eta: I am reliably corrected. I was apparently comatose and complaining for an entire week. I have no recollection but I would be the la...

They are very distressing photos. The Guardian had a major piece about it which I expect you've seen, I'll put a bit here from it: The weekend storm unleashed the equivalent of four months’ rainfall in a matter of hours on coastal villages, flooding roads, shops and homes. As rescue teams continued...

A follow up on the vax. They said that it could spark a rather strong immune response. They didn't lie. Holy CRAP! I started feeling a bit tired and achy by dinner time, and turned in about 9 PM. Sleeping was fitful and every time I woke I felt like I had been beat and left for dead. Next day wasn'...

Well, at least you didn't have carpet. Nothing is more fun that trying to pull up sopping wet shag Carpet. Ever since that adventure, I've always made a point of finding a home on relatively high ground. All our homes in the UK have been at the top of hills but we didn't expect "a biblical cat...

Indeed, more than a little damp, about 18 inches of it, all running through our apartment. https://forumgarden.com/forums/ext/dmzx/imageupload/img-files/2231/22365fa/7fcdee3/56a2aff3eea33ac9a9af99f436b85565.jpg It started about 9am with 2" of rain falling in about 45 minutes, then we had a rest...

spot wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:25 am
Betty Boop wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:35 am Who's next?

Far be it from me to be so presumptuous.

I heard a voice that said
"Henceforth be blind, for thou hast seen too much,
And speak the truth that no man may believe."

Tiresias; Alfred Lord Tennyson; 1885

Never a truer word spoken

:o I had to look this guy up, thought he must be in his 70's he's so cardboard! Shocked to know he's 56 :lol: What I remember from living a mile south of the Arsenal ground is that people used to go round shouting "There's only one Tony Adams" whenever his team played a home fixture. He s...

If Russia didn’t want it’s ex allies to run to NATO for protection then maybe they should have treated them better whilst the Warsaw Pact existed. The invasions of Hungry and Czechoslovakia are a case in point. The past is a foreign country. Now I'm worried I might not remember where that's from. I...

If Russia didn’t want it’s ex allies to run to NATO for protection then maybe they should have treated them better whilst the Warsaw Pact existed.

The invasions of Hungry and Czechoslovakia are a case in point.

LarsMac wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 8:53 am Did they (the "conservatives") Actually expect that the rich folks would just run out and start a buying spree to celebrate their "lowered tax burden"?

Given how long it is since trickle down was discredited, no, they just expected the rich to get richer.

spot wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:37 am I'm sure neither Mr Starsky nor Mr Hutch ever saw one of those in their investigations.

Whereas I found one in, of all places, Gateshead.

The lads in the office there took me to a nightclub once - it was an interesting experience!

Cornwall Council's decision to no longer support our museum

operates with no support from Cornwall Council

Me confoozed.

LarsMac wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:19 am So, the Queen could actually say, "Nope. Send someone else."

Has she ever done so?

Sadly, if she tried it would be the last time she could - they’d change the rules.

Are you differentiating between a belief in, for example, honesty and justice and a belief in Qazxlolb, the god of mindless obedience?

If I might make an observation? 1. The current Covid infection rate in the UK just passed it's previous high and now stands at one in fifteen of the whole population being infectious, children included. That's the sort of announcement you'd normally hear in a zombie apocalypse movie, so I'm told, a...

So, who is this A$AP Rocky person, anyway? This is the only place where his name has ever crossed my path. Has it occurred to you recently that you're no longer hip with the jive, man? That the megadrome rap marathon experience has failed to attract your physical presence? When did you last crowd-s...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:22 pm I think that I might have witnessed one of their demonstrations during my second visit to the UK, as part of the y2k revelries.

They seem to be much like our Blue Angels, and Thunderbirds.
I have been witness to a number of those shows.

Much like - but far better :-p

Hmmm, a quick wander across the web, it seems that it may be true. Hard to find specific data, but in general, ... "So, in conclusion, private jets will burn anywhere from 50 gallons of fuel per hour, all the way up to 626 gallons per hour." That would feed a lot of cars. The Red Arrows d...

I note this news story yesterday: It’s been a busy time for the Red Arrows recently, after June kicked off with a spectacular RAF flypast to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The display team formed part of a flyover of more than 70 military aircraft after the Trooping the Colour ceremony, with the Queen ...

So, the Anglo-Saxons were basically the descendants of Saxons who had found there way to the British isles after the Romans retreated back to the "Continent" And from what I have read, lately, the Celts seem to have originated in the Sub-Alpine regions of Austria and Germany. So, who were...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 8:19 am So, A-G moved in after the Romans left - Give or take a few decades.

Pretty much - the romans left in about 410 and the raids started soon thereafter.

Youngest granddaughter had a baby girl this week. According to the docs, she had a case of COVID while carrying. The whole family group, Son, DiL, and their other kids, and, the Dad's family. My guess is that they all picked it up during a rather large Celebration called a "Baby Shower" (...

And for those who doubted China's honesty in reporting deaths, I think the current outbreak this year has thrown them into that position now. Whatever they're reporting at the moment is short by two zeros in my opinion. I hope they bite down and get straight again, but I don't think it likely they'...

In our little corner of Trumpland, the Vaccine is gaining in popularity. Our county, long at the bottom of the list for percentage vaxxed, has climb five steps up the chart, and the death rate is at a new low. Masks are becoming popular in town. And, not sure it's related or not, but, I've noticed ...

Note to self - Debian 10 reaches end of life in August. root@forumgarden:~# uptime 15:15:02 up 323 days, 5:07, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.17, 0.05 root@forumgarden:~# cat /etc/debian_version 10.12 Is it worth keeping Buster into the LTS period or would it be better to move straight to Bullseye?

magentaflame wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 2:08 am Belarus president just let it slip that Moldova is next. Seems to me he wants all of them back.

They’ve already put fifteen hundred Russian troops into eastern Moldova as agitators to justify the invasion as “saving” our mistreated people.

spot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:38 am I put it here for what it's worth - from the FreeBSD forum...

The battery as new was 45000MWh and now laptop charging circuit will only charge it to 33540MWh

Gosh. The difference just one case change can make.

Quite a battery though.

The national grid could do with a few of those

But of course, at the local café, the word is that all of this is Biden's fault. And so it damn well is. Biden backing a NATO guarantee to Russia would have prevented the war before it started but no, old clever-clogs had to stand on his hind legs and mouth off instead because that's what people li...

In any list of the people who made cricket exciting to watch, Rod Marsh and Shane Warne would stand out. England might offer A P E Knott and Derek Underwood, but those two Australians were mesmerizing. To lose Shane Warne today at the age of 51 is immensely saddening. To loose both of them so close...

spot wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:58 pm
FourPart wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:19 pm I had to laugh when the Skiing was disrupted because of snow.
You wouldn't laugh if you'd had to thaw out your whatsit though.

Poor lad did not deserve that.

Here in the US, there is a big outcry against CRTs I don't get it. We grew up watching TV on CRTs and all the computers in the world had CRTs. And now that LCDs and OLEDs and Plasma are popular, everybody is getting down on CRT. I don't think that I even own one anymore, but are they worthy of all ...

Here in the US, there is a big outcry against CRTs I don't get it. We grew up watching TV on CRTs and all the computers in the world had CRTs. And now that LCDs and OLEDs and Plasma are popular, everybody is getting down on CRT. I don't think that I even own one anymore, but are they worthy of all ...

This is just inexcusable exactitude: Glenn Shuttleworth, Devon and Cornwall Police control room supervisor, tweeted that it had been the "busiest shift I've experienced", with more than 1,000 999 calls. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-60428046 Rather than "more than 1,00...

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