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by Tizer
19 Sep 2024, 15:54
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7781
Views: 977180

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: 6717
Views: 1031091

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:
You get more for your money from Fastmail and it's served me well for about 20 years! :smile:
by Tizer
17 Sep 2024, 09:46
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16936
Views: 2157794

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

While spending billions on trying to send apes humans into space and leaving millions of poor folk to starve, this man supports Trump and stirs up aggression on his social media platform...
`Secret Service 'aware' of Elon Musk post about Harris, Biden' LINK
by Tizer
17 Sep 2024, 09:39
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 4030
Views: 471335

Re: Seen in the News

How soon will it be before the Tories start trying to blame this on Labour policies, I wonder? Mind you, MPs from all parties voted to leave so we have to blame politicians rather than parties - although it was `them Tories wot started it'. `Brexit deal impact in UK is worsening, warn economists' LI...
by Tizer
17 Sep 2024, 09:25
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2065
Views: 391782

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

And Musk, for example, not only wastes his billions on trying to send a few people out into space but at the same time he pollutes the Web and social media with conspiracy theories - both his own and millions of other people's lies.
by Tizer
16 Sep 2024, 09:19
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 4030
Views: 471335

Re: Seen in the News

I'm pleased to hear that a British singer/songwriter, now in his 70s, has won his court case against Trump who has been using his songs/music in his campaign now and previously. The judge has ordered Trump to pay compensation for all the fees due and and to reimburse the singer's expenses on the cou...
by Tizer
15 Sep 2024, 09:41
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
Replies: 21267
Views: 2092081

Re: Today I shall be Mainly...

Ear wax! I went to the hospital last week to get new hearing aids - we and they have decided I'd get better hearing with earmoulds instead of the tubed ones I've always had (and which are too fiddly for me now). They took impressions of my ear and said the new ones will be ready in a few weeks. In t...
by Tizer
15 Sep 2024, 09:11
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 5149
Views: 660445

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

Fooled me too! But then Mrs Tiz says that's not difficult! :extrawink:
by Tizer
14 Sep 2024, 11:29
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16936
Views: 2157794

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

Does your talktalk email still work OK on a tablet or smartphone?
by Tizer
13 Sep 2024, 16:10
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3984
Views: 655156

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

At last!... `High Court Judge rules West Cumbria plan for coal mine should be quashed' TheBusinessDesk.com Folk are led to believe that it's a small West Cumbria-based business but as I've noted before that's completely wrong: Note this: West Cumbria Mining is owned by Singapore registered Woodhouse...
by Tizer
13 Sep 2024, 09:22
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16936
Views: 2157794

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

All I can suggest is to move your account to Plusnet. Most of its support staff are British and they drink Yorkshire Tea! :good:
by Tizer
13 Sep 2024, 09:12
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 4030
Views: 471335

Re: Seen in the News

Bill and Melinda Gates could have shewn them what to do with their money! Yes, and such money could be used to sit up more colleges like this one in Belfast to equip youngsters for work on Earth in the modern world... `Teenager invents robot to solve Rubik's Cube' LINK The school's principal says: ...
by Tizer
13 Sep 2024, 09:02
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2065
Views: 391782

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

This is literally a tipping point!... `Mystery tremors were from massive nine-day tsunami' LINK A massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave that “shook the Earth” for nine days. The seismic signal last September was picked up by sensors all over the world, leading scientists to investi...
by Tizer
12 Sep 2024, 16:05
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 4030
Views: 471335

Re: Seen in the News

This drives me crazy - just think how much money was spent on this one `private spacewalk' and what good it could have done down here on Earth if the billionaire used the money instead to help starving people.... `First private spacewalk a success' BBC I regularly watch `Sky at Night' on the TV and ...
by Tizer
12 Sep 2024, 15:47
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16936
Views: 2157794

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

That's why I've stayed with Plusnet for 20 years.
by Tizer
12 Sep 2024, 09:26
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16936
Views: 2157794

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

The fact that my email is AWOL! What do you mean? Has your Thunderbird software failed to open? Does it open but fails to connect to your broadband server? Does it connect but you're not getting any messages? You've sent this post - if it's from your PC then your router must be working (unless you ...
by Tizer
10 Sep 2024, 10:23
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 4030
Views: 471335

Re: Seen in the News

The Telegraph's front page today has a nib saying that US military chiefs warn that Trump wants to be a dictator and is a threat to US security. They believe Harris is the only safe option. I note too that back in January this was published by NBC News: `Fears grow that Trump will use the military i...
by Tizer
08 Sep 2024, 15:02
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20574
Views: 2539294

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Is it for hammering into wood or stone to start a split?
by Tizer
08 Sep 2024, 09:21
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 4030
Views: 471335

Re: Seen in the News

Yet another Chinese car maker coming to Europe to join those already there...
`Chinese giant Chery could build cars in UK' LINK
by Tizer
08 Sep 2024, 09:19
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16936
Views: 2157794

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

Well done, Laura! :smile:

These photos are lovely...
`Your pictures on the theme of 'still life'' LINK
by Tizer
07 Sep 2024, 10:55
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7781
Views: 977180

Re: MEDICAL MATTERS

We're booked in for flu jabs at our local surgery on 3rd September. I had my RSV jab there last Wednesday and have had no side effects.
by Tizer
05 Sep 2024, 09:51
Forum: Seasons
Topic: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER
Replies: 5778
Views: 517807

Re: TODAY'S PENNINE WEATHER

It look like you escape the worst to come but we get it here in the south - have a look at the map in this article! :smile: `Over a month's rain in two days forecast for southern UK' LINK Coincidentally we watched this TV programme last night! :surprised: `The Great Devon & Cornwall Floods' Chan...
by Tizer
05 Sep 2024, 09:46
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12933
Views: 1487719

Re: POLITICS CORNER

Regarding the building cladding. I cannot for the life in me see why we cannot train up thousands of folk that are on the dole on how to remove the cladding. Surely the practicalities are not that complicated that this would be an issue. Identify them all and get the job done.... I think we need so...
by Tizer
05 Sep 2024, 09:33
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 20574
Views: 2539294

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

The extinguishers had another disadvantage. Carbon Tetrachloride was a very effective dry-cleaning agent and the crews of the buses soon realised this and consequently many extinguishers were found to be empty when needed! And it was the component in products widely sold `over the counter' (OTC) fo...
by Tizer
04 Sep 2024, 09:33
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12933
Views: 1487719

Re: POLITICS CORNER

I can remember when the infant state of Israel employed terrorist tactics to further their end. Anybody remember the 'Irgun'? (Hebrew for "organization") Also known as Etzel, which is the Hebrew acronym for "Irgun Tzvai-Leum" or "National Military Organization." The Ir...

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