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- 26 Mar 2024, 15:43
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: May I recommend. . .
- Replies: 341
- Views: 47821
Re: May I recommend. . .
It's philosophy poetry and music this afternoon. I know at least two of us will enjoy this. The 'Nostradamus' of the 1960's - Total genius. :smile: "I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken". Predicton of the interwebthingy in general - and X (Twitter) in particular. :laugh...
- 26 Mar 2024, 15:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384486
Re: Seen in the News
I didn't realise that some "smart" meters did not communuicate by mobile phone. I thought they all did. The Google news fed to me daily, this morning contained an item about the "energy price cap" and the fact that the regulator was considering changing it. It was said one option...
- 26 Mar 2024, 12:17
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18908
Re: Wine Lovers Corner
According to the Tories all immigrants sponge off the state and are a pariah to society. Oh, hang on, that's about right for Rishy! If Carlsberg did inaccurate, hate filled, well off topic, posts - then this would be the likely result. PS On a point of information - I don't think you can be a 'form...
- 25 Mar 2024, 13:20
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16457
- Views: 1909035
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Can we stop worrying about the Chicken Pox now? I do hope so.
- 25 Mar 2024, 13:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384486
Re: GOOD TV
Gold merit star for "Kosher Nostra".
- 25 Mar 2024, 10:57
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18908
Re: GOOD TV
I channel hopped into BBC4 tonight - Daniel Barenboim doing Beethoven from The Albert Hall. That shows how bad TV is at the moment. All very pleasant and harmless, then it morphed into the EU national Anthem ! I don't like him - he didn't treat his wife Jaqueline DuPre very well as I recall it. He l...
- 24 Mar 2024, 22:20
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18908
Re: Wine Lovers Corner
PS - I've sent a complaint to Australia. That'll make them sit up. . . .
- 24 Mar 2024, 22:01
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18908
Re: Wine Lovers Corner
Found it - thought we had a wine corner - took some finding though. :smile: A word of caution from my recent experience. I've resumed my drinking (modest you understand), having abstained for well over a year - I can taste it now. The market seems to have changed in the interim - perhaps due to budg...
- 24 Mar 2024, 12:27
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384486
Re: Seen in the News
If it wasn't ISIS it would likely be Chechens who've been attacking since the war in Chechnya. I remembered the Chechen revolt yesterday, and the fact that the Russians levelled Grozny in putting it down. It was a while ago, and didn't seem to be important to UK at the time. It looked like Gaza loo...
- 21 Mar 2024, 14:24
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4420
- Views: 499930
- 20 Mar 2024, 15:27
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
- Replies: 2106
- Views: 305569
Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
"There's no such thing as a free lunch". Free Iftar
Can there be a connection with Stanley's recent and rather personal observation -
"Not for the first time it struck me that David is one of the most rotund people I have ever come across! "
Can there be a connection with Stanley's recent and rather personal observation -
"Not for the first time it struck me that David is one of the most rotund people I have ever come across! "
- 19 Mar 2024, 12:42
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3924
- Views: 585783
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
We must move in different circles. :smile: I don't think I have ever heard the word rankles in ordinary speech anywhere. I'd consider it a writing word rather than a speaking word. A couple of examples of Rochdale usage which have stuck in my memory - I never heard any of them before I became involv...
- 18 Mar 2024, 19:05
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12567
- Views: 1320606
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I have heard a whisper that the thing that is actually holding progress up is Diane refusing to attend an education course on Anti-Semiticism. I don't know if this is true but it sounds very likely to me Who is whispering to you? Diane Abbott says it isn't true. Someone's lying - her or your whispe...
- 18 Mar 2024, 11:33
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4759
- Views: 553356
- 18 Mar 2024, 10:46
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3924
- Views: 585783
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
I agree Rochdale speech had some idiosyncracies, but from my own experience, I wouldn't think rankle was one of them.
I think we decided in 2012 that 'hoo' applied only to females.
Hoo
I think we decided in 2012 that 'hoo' applied only to females.
Hoo
- 17 Mar 2024, 22:44
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 632
- Views: 83727
Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
I think Stanley calls it "Doctor Green". Looks like it applies in Denmark too.
- 16 Mar 2024, 22:18
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16457
- Views: 1909035
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Indulge me (again) :smile: I came across this particularly well made video tonight. It's an aerial view of Whitworth. One click led to another and I found other videos with commentary, which spoke the name. All pronounced both the 'w's. I've passed through the place a few times, and remember going t...
- 16 Mar 2024, 18:17
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 03
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1105
- 16 Mar 2024, 12:14
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7579
- Views: 848332
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
My hand is up.. and yours should be too! You heard it first on OG when it was launched at the end of January I'll put both hands up and surrender. Guilty as charged. I must be fading faster than I thought. :smile: The point you make would not be my main concern. That problem has been flagged up for...
- 15 Mar 2024, 16:49
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7579
- Views: 848332
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Hands up anyone who knew about this new thing. :smile: I got my tablets delivered today (ordered Wenesday) and being an inveterate label examiner. noticed that beneath the pharmacy name and my address, was (in even smaller print size) a message stating that in future it would be possible to obtain s...
- 13 Mar 2024, 17:35
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3709
- Views: 384486
Re: Seen in the News
Camilla hasn't quite mastered this upgrade from 'first floosie' to "Queen" yet, and neither have her loyal subjects. Just seen her at Cheltenham presenting a trophy, where she has no 'presence' at all, and the commoners were showing no awe, or even a little deference. In fact the jockey Ra...
- 13 Mar 2024, 16:57
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 632
- Views: 83727
- 13 Mar 2024, 16:51
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: OBITUARIES
- Replies: 1882
- Views: 334586
Re: OBITUARIES
Michael Culver has died aged 85.
If you want to feel really old - try this. I had vaguely heard and seen this chap, but only in the context that I remember seeing his father, Roland Culverlive on stage in a play in London in 1973.
If you want to feel really old - try this. I had vaguely heard and seen this chap, but only in the context that I remember seeing his father, Roland Culverlive on stage in a play in London in 1973.