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by Tizer
27 Mar 2024, 17:02
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6625
Views: 947692

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...
by Tizer
27 Mar 2024, 09:26
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6625
Views: 947692

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...
by Tizer
27 Mar 2024, 09:18
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4757
Views: 553229

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

Examples...
Age UK
NHS

I suggest you ask around locally and get some word of mouth recommendations.
by Tizer
26 Mar 2024, 11:31
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6625
Views: 947692

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...
by Tizer
25 Mar 2024, 11:48
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 19938
Views: 2276589

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...
by Tizer
24 Mar 2024, 10:02
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384353

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;...
by Tizer
23 Mar 2024, 11:25
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384353

Re: Seen in the News

Russia keeps on being attacked by Islamic State and other terrorist groups but Putin now simply blames Ukraine.
by Tizer
23 Mar 2024, 11:19
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 19938
Views: 2276589

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

For holding sand to throw over incendiary bombs?
by Tizer
22 Mar 2024, 17:09
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384353

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...
by Tizer
22 Mar 2024, 10:07
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12565
Views: 1320346

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. :smile:
by Tizer
22 Mar 2024, 10:03
Forum: Local History Topics
Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Replies: 6847
Views: 926450

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.
by Tizer
20 Mar 2024, 10:24
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4757
Views: 553229

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...
by Tizer
20 Mar 2024, 10:02
Forum: Animals and Pets
Topic: Wildlife Corner
Replies: 1406
Views: 210760

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
by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 16:56
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16451
Views: 1908695

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...
by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 09:53
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384353

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! :smile:
by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 09:49
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3927
Views: 577439

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! :smile:
by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 09:44
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 19938
Views: 2276589

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...
by Tizer
18 Mar 2024, 09:59
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384353

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
by Tizer
18 Mar 2024, 09:54
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3927
Views: 577439

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
by Tizer
18 Mar 2024, 09:48
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3924
Views: 585592

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

Sue wrote: 17 Mar 2024, 10:09 Rankle, used a lot in Rochdale.
But is that because it's a Rochdale word or because Rochdale people have more to be rankled about than the rest of us, Sue? :extrawink:
by Tizer
17 Mar 2024, 10:01
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3924
Views: 585592

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'.
by Tizer
17 Mar 2024, 09:55
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16451
Views: 1908695

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...
by Tizer
16 Mar 2024, 10:51
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7578
Views: 848205

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...
by Tizer
15 Mar 2024, 09:33
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4757
Views: 553229

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'.
by Tizer
15 Mar 2024, 09:30
Forum: Animals and Pets
Topic: Wildlife Corner
Replies: 1406
Views: 210760

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...

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