The observation and asides thread

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:36 am

cars;1503809 wrote: Now that you mention it many of the names sound like they are girl names.

Dasher

Dancer

Prancer

Vixen

Comet

Cupid

Donner

Blitzen

The only real male name was "Rudolph" the Red Nose reindeer! :wah:

AnneBoleyn;1503855 wrote: No mistake, cars. Accidental omission. Rudolpha.

Rudolph was not one of the original eight.

Besides, in the poem, there is no mention of antlers.

On another note, only two of those names actually appear to be feminine. Maybe three, but then my nephew says that he thinks Prancer 'liked Pink'.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:43 pm

Stickler

Post by **spot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:39 pm

By heck. I used to live half mile up t'road from there years since.

Oldham Maple Mill fire

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:34 pm

spot;1503980 wrote: By heck. I used to live half mile up t'road from there years since.Oldham Maple Mill fire

I edited it for you Spot

Post by **spot** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:56 pm

I get confused, it's all the chocolate.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:07 pm

You have chocolate?

Gimme!

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:16 pm

spot;1504000 wrote: I get confused, it's all the chocolate.

It's your age.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:51 pm

Oh, just saw that fire on the midday news. Ha i thouggt you were talking about a historical event. Bloody hell! How many appliances turned out to that one? As blazes go thats not a bad one.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:14 pm

LarsMac;1503877 wrote: Rudolph was not one of the original eight.

Besides, in the poem, there is no mention of antlers.

On another note, only two of those names actually appear to be feminine. Maybe three, but then my nephew says that he thinks Prancer 'liked Pink'.

But, then, until Queen Victoria changed it all around, Pink used to be a Boy's colour, and Blue for a girl.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:29 pm

5 toddlers dead within two months in Australia...... what yhe heck?

At one point there were none after the introduction of pool fencing.

Now they want to introduce alarms on the fence gate similar to fridge/car alarms when you leave the door open .

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 2:46 pm

Scientists are exploring the ocean floor of the antartic......... holy mother of god! How can something so deep dark and cold in a place so white be all the colours of the rainbow.???? Its remarkable.

( i cant link so youll have to look it up yourselves)

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 4:08 pm

I've been watching the leftist rants in the US. Seems that now, after the vote, the people who were saying Trump will ruin the Constitution if elected are now quite willing to tear that document up themselves to get him unelected.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Dec 21, 2016 4:14 pm

Lefty, righty....... has anyone noticed yet Trump is neither?

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:17 pm

magentaflame;1504407 wrote: Lefty, righty....... has anyone noticed yet Trump is neither?
Are you serious? His primary policy is focused on rallying hatred against others based on Race & Religion. To promote more & more benefits for the richest 1% at the cost of the poorest masses. A supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. The next step for this lunatic is to set about building railway yards for the cattle trucks. He couldn't be any more right wing.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Dec 22, 2016 6:04 pm

I was watching "Adam ruins everything" last night . So you guys have aleady deported mexicans during your history OFF THEIR OWN LAND WHEN YOU STOLE IT! And then again after ww2 . Im still surprised they havent waged war on you.

Just because youre right wing doesnt mean youre a fascist.

Trump, is just a dictator and facsist. He is his own political party.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Dec 22, 2016 6:11 pm

Meanwhile...... back at home ,...... seems we wont be blown up on chrissy day afterall.

Police, asio, and the feds did raids overnight and this morning arresting 7 in connection to a terrorist plot to blow up St Pauls cathedral, Flinders st Station and federation square on christmas day. (Wendy would be familiar with this landmarks) . They released two and five front court this afternoon. Police also believe they were going to use firearms andknives. Basically the same sort of attack that happened in Paris.

Post by **spot** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 7:13 am

I was looking up crashes of Tupolev 154s while starting the Sochi crash thread.

This bit caught my eye, from Greece in 2000:During the approach the crew had failed to deploy the undercarriage. This was noted by the tower controller, who instructed the flight to go around. A go around was initiated, but the crew was not able to arrest the high descent rate. At 13:57 UTC the underside of the fuselage touched the runway, the airframe and inboard flaps sustaining substantial damage. The airplane became airborne again and entered a holding pattern while debris was removed from the runway. A safe landing was carried out at 14:13 UTC.

ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 154B-2 HA-LCR Thessaloniki International Airport (SKG)

There's a photo of the scrape, too.

Gosh.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 2:37 pm

The russians have sent 3000 troops to the area to retrieve and investigate........ im suspicious!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 12:30 pm

And now Carry Fischer?

Another young one.

Farewell Princess .

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:19 pm

Ever had lightening go off in front of you? After an afternoon and evening of storms and sitting on the verandah watching it im afraid to say it got a little close.

It sound like a firework has gone off. And the brightness! Holy crap! Ears ringing, eyes blinking! And of course no counting for thunder because its not far away. Three strikes got a little too close last night. But ive never seen it That close, probably 20 metres away. .......... shudders thing about it.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Fri Dec 30, 2016 4:54 pm

Fire works tonight on sydney will be streamed live on facebook tonight.

Dedications to those who died this year, purple rain will rain of the harbour bridge and a dedication to Bowie as well.

Seven barges in the harbour .......its going to be big.

May stay up afterall

Post by **spot** » Sun Jan 01, 2017 4:56 am

spot;1503583 wrote: Not Android version 7 yet, but it does have the security patches. My old phone never did that.

I'm delighted to say that my phone did update to Android 7 (Nougat) before the New Year - it was announced at lunchtime on New Year's Eve and installed itself before midnight. Well done OnePlus.

Attached files

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:01 am

The world's niche manufacturer of condoms for the under-endowed has just bought a significant share in an international baby formula food firm. I think they should make their mind up whose side they're on.

Durex maker moves into baby food with $16.6bn purchase

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:03 am

spot;1506673 wrote: The world's niche manufacturer of condoms for the under-endowed has just bought a significant share in an international baby formula food firm. I think they should make their mind up whose side they're on.

Durex maker moves into baby food with $16.6bn purchase

Next......undertaking ?

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:18 am

They're claiming the merger will make it easier for the company to enter China.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:31 am

spot;1506679 wrote: They're claiming the merger will make it easier for the company to enter China.

Enter China safely ?

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:45 am

Presumably allowing them to come and go as they please.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:42 pm

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:33 am

Guess they're just hedging their bets & playing safe. Win-Win situation for them.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:37 pm

Christchurch is very pretty. The Priory is stunning, I'd like to visit again. :driving:

Post by **spot** » Sun Mar 05, 2017 9:29 am

I'm reeding a book and came across a word I didn't understand. On page 9.

Semester.

I looked it up: A period or term of six months, esp. in German and U.S. universities and colleges, the college half-year.

I can think of no occasion in England where the word would have any application, or has ever been employed. Why on earth does anyone in England need a synonym for half-year?

Who in England ever measures anything at all by the half-year?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:29 am

Funny that.............................."Reeding" is a noun defined as meaning " A small semi-cylindrical moulding or ornamentation."

I say funny because I knew semester was a period at school college or university, although I have never needed or cared to know the duration.

I had thought as word definition was your thing you ought to put an index of your personal language aberrations somewhere on the site......so we can all keep up.

I would have thought Reeding would be a Thatchers term.........you are not a thatcher are you ????

Post by **spot** » Sun Mar 05, 2017 1:16 pm

No, I'm a spelling reformer.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Mar 05, 2017 1:35 pm

A spelling reforma ?

See.........................we can all do it.

Post by **spot** » Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:41 pm

That's regional dialect, you'd not get away with that in Bristol.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:14 pm

In Australia the government has made a rule that all children will be denied mainsteam education if they are not fully immunised/vacinated.

This morning on the news (television and national radio)that almost a thousand children have been denied medical attention in the last two years by doctors refusing to treat unimmunised children under the age of six.

What a nice old world we live in.

Post by **spot** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:49 pm

I'm wondering how else the Australian government can respond to people endangering childrens' lives beyond those they have parental responsibility for. An epidemic of a disease prevented by immunization would harm far more children than any vaccine might. Epidemics are a consequence of too low a level of mass immunization.

Presumably you'd not want these parents imprisoned, that would hinder the development of their children. Fining the parents would do the same. Taking the children into care would too. What sanction would you recommend? Just leaving it to a rational balance of risks allows selfish parents to choose to have their cake and eat it, throwing the vaccine risk onto everyone else in exchange for not paying either the vaccine risk or the infection risk themselves. The government is reducing the risk to society at large by imposing penalties on the dissenting families.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:00 pm

spot;1507218 wrote: I'm wondering how else the Australian government can respond to people endangering childrens' lives beyond those they have parental responsibility for. An epidemic of a disease prevented by immunization would harm far more children than any vaccine might. Epidemics are a consequence of too low a level of mass immunization.

Presumably you'd not want these parents imprisoned, that would hinder the development of their children. Fining the parents would do the same. Taking the children into care would too. What sanction would you recommend? Just leaving it to a rational balance of risks allows selfish parents to choose to have their cake and eat it, throwing the vaccine risk onto everyone else in exchange for not paying either the vaccine risk or the infection risk themselves. The government is reducing the risk to society at large by imposing penalties on the dissenting families.

I'm 100% on Spot's side here. Let's not blame the children or the government. It was the parent's responsibility to get their children immunized. What kind of a parent cares so little about their child or is so ignorant that they would endanger other people's children?

The Spanish Flu killed 18 million. Trust me on this, the next plague is just around the corner. Mankind's entire defense is based on immunization.

Honestly, magentaflame, isn't your child protected? If you don't have one, but then had one, wouldn't you get them immunized? Why expect other parents to care less?

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:13 pm

..........Yeah.......so anyway..... the AMA is denying any doctor has turned away children from medical care. Yet, it was a survey of 2000 parents at a major hospital. The medical authority wants to know what question the parents were asked.

Post by **spot** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:20 pm

What you wrote was that "almost a thousand children have been denied medical attention in the last two years". There's no indication of whether this was routine checkups, emergency interventions, life-or-death treatment or even whether any of the children were adversely affected. No hint of whether other unvaccinated children were treated because of the severity of their problem, or any vaccinated children were also refused medical attention. It's a very vague report, it does need a lot more specifics to be informative.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:08 pm

I believe we'll hear more about it as the day goes on.

On a side note........HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY!!!!!!........

Post by **spot** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:18 pm

I'm not sure I've yet met any international women.

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:25 pm

......Sighs...... and goes back to bottling apples.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:58 am

I've been over the water, does that make me international?

Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:03 pm

I expect they'll end up singing folk ballads about it. See betty boop like a thing on the wave Over the seeeeee to Skye, that sort of thing, and toasting moles. I'm all in favor of equal rights all round. International women, nae problem. Mine's a wee malt if you're asking.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:44 pm

spot;1507301 wrote: I expect they'll end up singing folk ballads about it. See betty boop like a thing on the wave Over the seeeeee to Skye, that sort of thing, and toasting moles. I'm all in favor of equal rights all round. International women, nae problem. Mine's a wee malt if you're asking.

Betty Boop shall be far above the waves, no way is she going anywhere near waves!!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:51 pm

"Toasting moles"....... ????? ..... from womens rights to animal cruelty!....ya sick barstard!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:54 pm

magentaflame;1507318 wrote: "Toasting moles"....... ????? ..... from womens rights to animal cruelty!....ya sick barstard!

haha I took it to mean 'toasting' - as in raising a glass to toast!!

Ban Him!!!

magentaflame · Post by **magentaflame** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 2:03 pm

Ive never known moles to do anything worthy of a toast lol. ..... but yes, ban him! Ban him now!

Btw, happy international womens day.

I watched a dozen episodes of "woman by Gloria Steinem" last night. So needless to say i spent the evening in tears. Cant ever become complacent. I had no idea of the concept of. 'Femicide' and why its so brutal.

Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:07 pm

magentaflame;1507321 wrote: Ive never known moles to do anything worthy of a toast lol. .....

The Ulstermen are called Orangemen too, after the head of the House of Orange, King Billy, William the Third, whose troops held Derry through the siege and kept Ireland British - that's where the traditional Protestant shout of "No surrender!" comes from. Then "William personally intervened to lead his armies to victory over James II at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690". The Skye Boat song was about James the Second's grandson Bonny Prince Charlie.

After all that, William of Orange countersigned the order for the Massacre of Glencoe two years later. He was therefore an unpleasant fellow and he was killed by a mole.

In 1702, William died of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel. The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William. Because his horse had stumbled into a mole's burrow, many Jacobites toasted "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I ... te_ref-130

Hence toasting a mole after mentioning "over the sea to Skye".