OneGuyFromBarlick

Does it incorporate a ventilation shaft? (I haven't looked at the spoiler.)

I might not be saying much on here but Mrs Tiz and me are thinking about those of you fighting your health problems and wish you all get the best outcomes. Onwards and upwards!

`Labour calls for vote in Commons on holding second referendum' LINK `Labour has said the Commons should be able to vote on whether to hold a second referendum in an amendment the party submitted on Monday night to Theresa May’s Brexit update...' At last...Oh, hang on a sec... `...the carefully word...

We knew that Greenland's glaciers were dumping increasing amounts of ice into the sea and contributing to sea level rise but now we find that the ice sheet itself is melting inland and flowing away as rivers to the sea. `Greenland's ice melting faster than scientists previously thought' LINK `Greenl...

Pluggy and Ian, thanks for your efforts to keep us afloat in choppy waters!

Perhaps the chickens are coming home to roost for the social media/tech companies...
`Amazon, Apple and Google face data complaints' LINK
`Google hit with £44m GDPR fine over ads' LINK

The Times reported on Saturday that HMRC were fining people for `late payment' in advance of the payment deadline. Accountants had spotted it and contacted the newspaper. HMRC denied it. Now HMRC have admitted it's true - I suppose another case of `a blip on the system'! `HMRC error hits early-filin...

She has not changed her mind and on the contrary is blaming the failure of her 'attempts to get cross party support by conference calls' on Jeremy Corbyn, it's all his fault. Exactly. That's why I said he should have taken the opportunity to meet with her. Also he would have had a chance to pick up...

`Card surcharges: Customers charged hundreds illegally' LINK

“Fear under the Tories, or hope with Labour” – Tom Watson’s speech at Fabian conference LINK
Perhaps deputy leader Tom Watson would make a better Labour leader than J Corbyn.

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20 Jan 2019, 03:21

97 year old.... Did I hear a report yesterday that he had been see driving without a seat belt since the accident?
Later, indeed I did. The police say they have spoken to him.....

Yes...The Duke of Hazard, perhaps?

Thanks for the view of JC's letter to TM, Ian, but I wish he had done as T Blair suggested he should - surely it would have been better to have gone into No.10 and met with TM, then come out, stood on the steps of No.10 and told the reporters something like "She won't budge but we can come up with a...

Huguenots...They seem to have been involved in a lot more than the oft-quoted lace and silk making, as suggested in this web page: `Nonconformist and Protestant thinking shaped the development of Great Britain following the Reformation. During the Industrial Revolution, Britain was at the forefront ...

I'd say it's a platelayer's hut but I don't know what Kev's ghost post said!

Soap isn't what it used to be. Mrs Tiz bought me a bar of Aleppo soap for Christmas (there must be a hint there) that she saw at a Christmas market in Wells. It's a traditional product in the Middle East and made from olive oil and bay laurel oil. There's information here and some photos of the trad...

The ice core story that I posted above got me searching for more information about glaciers. This is a great article from the British Antarctic Survey explaining how ice cores are used to study CO2 and methane levels in the past: LINK The methane curve is particularly interesting because this gas is...

Eric `Winkle' Brown claimed that he survived aircraft accidents because he was shorter than average. Some of his colleagues were killed due to their head being closer to the cockpit canopy.

I like the thought that Tripps might be descended from a dancing tripe dresser!

Gadoteric acid is a large molecule consisting of a ring of 4 amino acids with a gadolinium (Gd) atom at its centre. The ring is a chelating agent which binds the Gd and makes it water-soluble and thus suitable for distribution through the blood circulation. (A bit like a haemaglobin molecule has an ...

The banks are still letting down customers because they can't get to grips with the technology...
`Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers face payments problems' LINK

It's kind of the BBC to put this Twitter post up today in its article about Boris telling lies. LINK Bruff warned us of the misinformation and I've been telling anyone who would listen ever since. Regardless of all the talk, Turkey was very unlikely to be considered for membership of the EU; and eve...

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18 Jan 2019, 04:33

Mind you, I will admit that having short legs helps with the laces......

I have that advantage too! Mrs Tiz can reach a higher shelf than me but I always tell her it's because my the heels of my shoes are thinner than hers.

Stock markets...regardless of Brexit I think that the instantaneous automatic trading of stocks and shares should be curtailed and replaced with a system incorporating a fixed delay between buying a stock and selling it. We'd have to choose a satisfactory delay time but it would make the stock marke...

Trippier!

Laser technology uncovers medieval secrets locked in Alpine ice core Press release, 15/11/2018, from University of Nottingham A new study has found ground-breaking evidence from an ice core in the Swiss-Italian Alps that proves the 7th century switch from gold to silver currencies in western Europe...

I notice the company claimed that the lasers are harmless to our eyes. I wonder how they can be so sure of that? If I were a motor manufacturer considering using them I'd want to know the evidence. Unfortunately my impression is that they accept whatever the tech companies tell them. I read that the...