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by Tizer
06 Oct 2024, 09:18
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 17034
Views: 2180248

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

Our usual photo therapy, courtesy of the BBC... :smile:
`Your pictures on the theme of 'arches'' LINK
by Tizer
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.

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by Tizer
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.
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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?
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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!)
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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
by Tizer
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? :smile:
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
02 Oct 2024, 09:36
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20783
Views: 2563171

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

What is shown in this photo...

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by Tizer
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! :smile:
by Tizer
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.
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
01 Oct 2024, 08:34
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7856
Views: 989008

Re: MEDICAL MATTERS

PanBiker wrote: 30 Sep 2024, 11:11 Glad it went OK Peter. Join the crater club, I have three...
Thanks Ian. I'm in no hurry to catch up with you! :laugh5:
by Tizer
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?
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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?
by Tizer
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! :good: I've been on hols since before Colin intervened and I'm pleased to return and find him happy again (well relatively happy! :extrawink: )
by Tizer
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...
by Tizer
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.
by Tizer
19 Sep 2024, 15:49
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6786
Views: 1039893

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

Tripps wrote: 18 Sep 2024, 12:49 Try this for Bob's emails, and the others. Five minutes and you're sorted - and free of charge too.
Proton email
It won't happen of course. . . . :smile:
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