Our usual photo therapy, courtesy of the BBC...
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- 06 Oct 2024, 09:18
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 17034
- Views: 2180248
- 05 Oct 2024, 15:55
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 17034
- Views: 2180248
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
We saw this parked in Ifracombe, Devon, but it wasn't open for business at the time saw I can't comment on the pizzas! The van reminds me of the old British Rail road parcel trucks. Right colour paint job too.
- 05 Oct 2024, 15:23
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 5241
- Views: 671192
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Sisyphus is the bloke who crosses the Möbius strip to get to the other side.
- 04 Oct 2024, 15:57
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 17034
- Views: 2180248
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
`Northern Lights possible as solar storms gather' LINK ...“There is the potential for a coronal mass ejection to arrive at Earth late on Friday or early on Saturday, which could lead to visible aurora for Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of northern England,” said Met Office Space Weather Manage...
- 04 Oct 2024, 15:40
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20783
- Views: 2563171
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it part of a weapon, such as a cross bow?
- 04 Oct 2024, 09:02
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 17034
- Views: 2180248
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
David, I think you'll find that the extreme sects immunity from military service has already been restricted by the far right government of Netanyahu.... Early in the war mothers protested in the streets because their sons and daughters were sent to fight but those of mothers in the extreme sects w...
- 03 Oct 2024, 13:38
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20783
- Views: 2563171
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
The Swiss postal service symbol is a post horn so Stanley is close except these mouth pieces are from a straight, trumpet-shaped post horn as used to signal the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach. It was used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The mouth pieces in my pic ar...
- 03 Oct 2024, 09:00
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20783
- Views: 2563171
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Not so weird, you are getting close (in function but not in geography!)
- 03 Oct 2024, 08:58
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 395602
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
`'It kills everything' - Amazon’s indigenous people hit by record forest fires in Brazil' LINK The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year already – an area bigger than countries like Sri Lanka or Costa Rica. The world relie...
- 03 Oct 2024, 08:53
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 4110
- Views: 480130
Re: Seen in the News
I'm waiting to see if Russia gets involved in the Middle East conflict. Remember when he helped Assad murder his own Syrians? Putin would probably like to see America distracted by Iran. If the Wagner Group was still around it would probably be in there stoking up the terror. Elsewhere... `Trump 're...
- 03 Oct 2024, 08:47
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12993
- Views: 1504750
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I missed this while on holiday but have been catching up. I recommend it to everyone - just put aside your political views, whatever they may be and listen to what he has to say (especially about Brexit!). It's excellent.
`Sir John Major - Amol Rajan Interviews' BBC 4
`Sir John Major - Amol Rajan Interviews' BBC 4
- 03 Oct 2024, 08:38
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20783
- Views: 2563171
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Yes, Tom, well done. But these are special - what `wind instrument' do you think they came from and where was it in use?
- 02 Oct 2024, 15:02
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6786
- Views: 1039893
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Talk Talk has been losing customers by the bucket load and falling further into a debt black hole for at least a year now. At the last minute they've managed to persuade some of its biggest shareholders to give them some cash to keep the business afloat for a while. However there have also been disc...
- 02 Oct 2024, 09:36
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20783
- Views: 2563171
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is shown in this photo...
- 01 Oct 2024, 09:03
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 4002
- Views: 662267
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
Offer them to Elon Musk for free and I bet he'd make them into a battery giga-factory or some other application!
- 01 Oct 2024, 09:00
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 4110
- Views: 480130
Re: Seen in the News
Except for `masquerading as a sports club' it sounds very like the same idiots that the The Times investigated and exposed over a year ago. It's like what I believe is called whac-a-mole. Knock it down and it pops up somewhere else but with a different name etc.
- 01 Oct 2024, 08:55
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 17034
- Views: 2180248
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Early in the Ukraine invasion Tripps suggested we were already in World War 3. His prediction is looking even more likely now. Russia already has military support from China (which already has a thousand or so soldiers in Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland), North Kor...
- 01 Oct 2024, 08:34
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7856
- Views: 989008
- 30 Sep 2024, 10:42
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6786
- Views: 1039893
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Colin's a useful man to know in these digital days, especially since Pluggy became ill. Has anyone got news about how Pluggy is coping?
- 30 Sep 2024, 10:37
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7856
- Views: 989008
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
I now have a black moon-like crater on my head about an inch in diameter. The `skin lesion' protrusion (hyper actinic keratosis) was removed at the hospital with local anaesthetic. It was scraped off with a curette, a `sharp spoon-like instrument', and then electrical heat burns the surface of the u...
- 30 Sep 2024, 10:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 4002
- Views: 662267
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
The locals are campaigning to save the the towers from the proposed destruction - they're so used to them that it'll be a great loss from their point of view (literally). Surely a new use could be found instead? Have we lost our creativity and innovation?
- 29 Sep 2024, 15:37
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6786
- Views: 1039893
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Wendy, please pass on my thanks to Colin for getting Stanley out of that deep hole! I've been on hols since before Colin intervened and I'm pleased to return and find him happy again (well relatively happy! )
- 29 Sep 2024, 15:15
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 5241
- Views: 671192
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Thanks for the jokes you've all been posting while I was on holiday in North Devon with no wi-fi or mobile signal. As usual, whenever I'm away a war starts somewhere in the world but never mind, here's my joke... (Sorry about the poor cropping - probably due to too much alcohol!) https://www.oneguyf...
- 19 Sep 2024, 15:54
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7856
- Views: 989008
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
If you use olive oil in your ears use only olive oil BP (pharmaceutical grade) available for a few quid in a dropper bottle from the chemist. It's highly refined - all other olive oil naturally contains some wax.
- 19 Sep 2024, 15:49
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6786
- Views: 1039893