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- 27 Mar 2024, 17:02
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6626
- Views: 947842
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
The text editor by default in Ubuntu is Gedit and has been for as long as I can remember. I've never had any problems with it and I use it a lot every day. I have seen unicode come up but only when it's my fault - for example trying to open an image file by mistake from the gedit file/folder tree or...
- 27 Mar 2024, 09:26
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6626
- Views: 947842
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
A couple of years ago we were walking home along our street and saw a man in his shirt sleeves and slippers standing in the middle of the road. As we got near him he asked us for help. He lived in the house alongside and had been trying on the phone to get his bank to help him with a problem. He cou...
- 27 Mar 2024, 09:18
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4759
- Views: 553359
- 26 Mar 2024, 11:31
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6626
- Views: 947842
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
It's about 11.00am now and so far we've spent this morning trying to sort out an unexpected charge on my credit card account. It's only for about £10 but, more importantly, it means someone has unauthorised access to my credit card details. Phoned the bank but couldn't understand the man who respond...
- 25 Mar 2024, 11:48
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 19939
- Views: 2276929
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Large stone balls have been found in many places. Sometimes they are with other ancient architecture and are there generally regarded as man-made although it's possible they were found and subsequently incorporated into the architecture. On the other hand, stone balls in a variety of sizes and forme...
- 24 Mar 2024, 10:02
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384490
Re: Seen in the News
I noted yesterday that he said that the suspects who had been captured were 'fleeing towards Ukraine'. Zelensky pointed out that trying to flee to the east and Ukraine would be suicidal because of all the military and police. They'd never make it out of Russia. Perhaps they did immediately go west;...
- 23 Mar 2024, 11:25
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384490
Re: Seen in the News
Russia keeps on being attacked by Islamic State and other terrorist groups but Putin now simply blames Ukraine.
- 23 Mar 2024, 11:19
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 19939
- Views: 2276929
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
For holding sand to throw over incendiary bombs?
- 22 Mar 2024, 17:09
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384490
Re: Seen in the News
Seeing the BBC's report this afternoon on the latest UN negotiations over the Israel-Gaza war I find myself for once agreeing with Russia. This from the BBC's live feed.... Russia's ambassador to the Security Council Vasily Nebenzya made Moscow's opposition to the US draft resolution clear even befo...
- 22 Mar 2024, 10:07
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12567
- Views: 1320610
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Stanley it will help readers if you put in a line space between stories when you have more than one in a post. Thanks.
- 22 Mar 2024, 10:03
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6848
- Views: 926667
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
That reminds me of the double garage my dad built with his brother when I was a kid. No telegraph poles but all scavenged timbers - there was a lot of it about in those days after the war. Later he got a space nearer to our house, took down an old single garage and rebuilt it on that bit of land.
- 20 Mar 2024, 10:24
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4759
- Views: 553359
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Today's Daily Star front page headline... `World goes mad after woman goes shopping' -------------------------------------------- From The Times Diary on Saturday... Charles Banner has just become Lord Banner of Barnt Green, the name of a village near where he grew up. The family home is also near t...
- 20 Mar 2024, 10:02
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: Wildlife Corner
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 210808
Re: Wildlife Corner
We had a Hummingbird Hawk Moth on our rosemary and pulmonaria flowers yesterday. Never seen one so early in the year before in Britain. Big and beautiful! Have a look at the video in this article: LINK
- 19 Mar 2024, 16:56
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16457
- Views: 1909042
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Were those cottages for handloom weavers? They've got the big windows. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suppose it's not surprising now that many of their staff never come into the office... `HMRC will close tax helpline for half th...
- 19 Mar 2024, 09:53
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384490
Re: Seen in the News
I'm so cheesed off with both the current political world and the business world that I'm now wishing a government would come along and simply nationalise everything!
- 19 Mar 2024, 09:49
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3927
- Views: 577528
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
I think that began when smartphones became popular and the general attitude among those doing the layout was that users couldn't cope with long paragraphs!
- 19 Mar 2024, 09:44
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 19939
- Views: 2276929
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
An erratic, a boulder carried by a glacier during the ice ages and now far from its former home. In the UK they usually get carried from the north to south and wet to east. Often seen on beaches on our east coast but can be found anywhere. There's one sitting on a rock shelf at Porthleven on the sou...
- 18 Mar 2024, 09:59
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384490
Re: Seen in the News
A newspaper's headline this morning tells us `Top secret UK military system still managed by Fujitsu'. And it's 2 years since the contract ended. LINK
- 18 Mar 2024, 09:54
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3927
- Views: 577528
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
The BBC News writers seem to have run out of commas. This is from a news article this morning and leaves the reader to make his/her own interpretation of what it means....
Heat pumps use electricity rather than gas like boilers... LINK
Heat pumps use electricity rather than gas like boilers... LINK
- 18 Mar 2024, 09:48
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3924
- Views: 585783
- 17 Mar 2024, 10:01
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3924
- Views: 585783
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
There is a mention in another thread of the local pronunciation of Whitworth. When I worked at Boots in Darwen in the 1960s the elderly storeman pronounced my home town as `Blegburn'.
- 17 Mar 2024, 09:55
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16457
- Views: 1909042
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Talking of supermarkets, when staff arrived to open the front doors of their supermarket in a small town in Hampshire yesterday they were shocked to find the ground in front of the doors strewn with dead hares. One door handle had a dead barn owl impaled on it and the other had a different bird. Nob...
- 16 Mar 2024, 10:51
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7579
- Views: 848339
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Hands up anyone who knew about this new thing. :smile: My hand is up.. and yours should be too! You heard it first on OG when it was launched at the end of January. :smile: LINK Probably the most controversial aspect is the last item in your gov.uk link... Will Pharmacy First have an impact on anti...
- 15 Mar 2024, 09:33
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4759
- Views: 553359
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Kev, the Igor cartoon is funny but Terry Pratchett would tell you it can't be a real one of his famous Igors because they always have a lisp and would have said `Yeth, Mathter'.
- 15 Mar 2024, 09:30
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: Wildlife Corner
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 210808
Re: Wildlife Corner
The ones shown are in what used to be the drive up to a grand house in park land but is now an expensive housing estate. At the end and around the corner there is a gigantic cedar too. These trees are on a ridge and can be seen from many miles away and make it easy to pinpoint Taunton's position fro...