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by Tripps
18 Mar 2024, 19:05
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12552
Views: 1311730

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...
by Tripps
18 Mar 2024, 11:33
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4731
Views: 533991

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

Not 'old fashioned' but definitely a woke joke. :smile:

Scot Squad
by Tripps
18 Mar 2024, 10:46
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3921
Views: 582523

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. :smile:

Hoo
by Tripps
17 Mar 2024, 22:44
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Replies: 630
Views: 70465

Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business

I think Stanley calls it "Doctor Green". Looks like it applies in Denmark too. :smile:


by Tripps
16 Mar 2024, 22:18
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16430
Views: 1893368

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...
by Tripps
16 Mar 2024, 18:17
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 03
Replies: 4
Views: 1077

Re: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 03

Stanley wrote: 04 May 2019, 04:19 the monasteries found it as easy to communicate with Rome as London
How did that work then? I always find it difficult to visualise any meaningful correspondence system between Yorkshire and Rome and back, in the 16th Century within a reasonable time scale. :smile:
by Tripps
16 Mar 2024, 12:14
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7578
Views: 840499

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...
by Tripps
15 Mar 2024, 16:49
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7578
Views: 840499

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...
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 17:35
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3682
Views: 359417

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...
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 16:57
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Replies: 630
Views: 70465

Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business

Stanley wrote: 13 Mar 2024, 12:53 I watched the video and didn't understand what was going on
I see.

It's a fairly new thing, and is called variously - humour, comedy, or parody. Don't worry - I doubt it will catch on. :smile:
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 16:51
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: OBITUARIES
Replies: 1882
Views: 332202

Re: OBITUARIES

Michael Culver has died aged 85.

If you want to feel really old - try this. :smile: 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.
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 12:21
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12552
Views: 1311730

Re: POLITICS CORNER

There should be an upper limit of 50 years old to be president or Prime Minister Here's a list of what actually happened. I'd never really thought much about that aspect. It's interesting. :smile: "Interestingly, the Prime Ministers of the 20th Century were generally much older than the 21st –...
by Tripps
12 Mar 2024, 11:01
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Replies: 630
Views: 70465

Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business

As the monarchy sinks slowly in the West - well done QE II for keeping it on the road, with some dignity, for so long - let's look back to happier times. :smile:


by Tripps
12 Mar 2024, 10:16
Forum: Ongoing Family Research
Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
Replies: 232
Views: 85777

Re: Ancestry.co.uk

There's an 'add on' in Firefox which will translate from any language into English, even foreign character sets such as Cyrillc, Arabic, or Mandarin. Very impressive - you just highlight the text, and click on a link marked A and there it is in English. If the text is contained in a document, you ma...
by Tripps
12 Mar 2024, 10:07
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3682
Views: 359417

Re: Seen in the News

That would involve a strategic decision with consequences beyond the next election, and their pension and peerage. . :smile: Rather flippant, but I would create the mother of all 'iron domes ' over UK and forget about the aircraft carriers. One of them caught fire a few days ago whilst parked up awa...
by Tripps
11 Mar 2024, 12:04
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3921
Views: 582523

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

Stanley wrote: 11 Mar 2024, 03:43 Maria Callas induced a spectacular period of weight loss
I think I'll stick with Montserrat Caballe :smile:
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 22:15
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3682
Views: 359417

Re: Seen in the News

Not long ago it was said that The Princess of Wales would appear at Trooping the Colour (that's in June). That was withdrawn after a few days. Then there was another photo of her in a vehicle, and the web said it was her sister not her. Now the official Mothers Day photo which has been the subject o...
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 17:43
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12552
Views: 1311730

Re: POLITICS CORNER

Did you read that the catering bill fo r her private jet trip to Australia was over £15,000. Posh snacks Now George Galloway has remembered that he is the member for Rochdale first, and Gaza second. He seemed miffed that he did not 'catch the Speaker's eye' last week - although it was PMQ's and Budg...
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 17:31
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 19879
Views: 2123978

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Stanley wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 13:14 Such a nice artefact!
Agreed - it's a shame no one has any idea what it's called. :smile:
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 17:12
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2021
Views: 341706

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

Speak to the BBC not me. . .

I'm blaming Kev, for blatantly buying a diesel car when electric ones are easily available. It'll be his fault when the sea flows backwards and Blackpool Tower gets its feet wet. :laugh5:
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 15:03
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: BOB'S BITS
Replies: 4400
Views: 494694

Re: BOB'S BITS

Bells ringing all over the place here. . . . :smile: I saw the Count Basie Orchestra live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, and heard Jimmy Rushing (Mr Five by Five) sing. Frankly I found it all a bit boring - especially the longest drum solo ever, during which the entire orchestra left and then...
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 12:08
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2021
Views: 341706

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

The deep ocean currents that circle the globe could be changed suddenly by loss of ice at the poles. The BBC warned us very recently that Will the Gulf Stream collapse by 2025? , but when the headline is a question of course, the answer is always no - so I have not lost any sleep over it. :smile:
by Tripps
10 Mar 2024, 12:00
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3921
Views: 582523

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

Nesh -"there is no synonym" - I'd suggest that another Northern word 'mard' comes fairly close. :smile: Stanley said elsewhere - "I am so lucky that I don't get sated by eating the same things all the time" Which brought to mind the noun from 'sated' which is 'satiety'. Rarely se...
by Tripps
09 Mar 2024, 19:56
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4731
Views: 533991

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

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by Tripps
08 Mar 2024, 12:21
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Replies: 630
Views: 70465

Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business

I bet anything that I hath gotten that all awrong. Nay nay lass - thar't quite areet. :smile: The latin bits - well - "Res ipsa loquitur" of course. The pronouns thingy - I didn't want to be seen as 'off trend' with dinosaur tendencies.It's been there for a while. The working days thing -...

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