OneGuyFromBarlick

You get more for your money from Fastmail and it's served me well for about 20 years! I fully agree - but my lad tells me they don't do the free version any more. I've been with them more than twenty years and (quite unusually for me :smile: ) I pay about $40 or so every two years. From memory just...

Youtube has taken over from TV quite a lot for me This week in the afternoons, it's the Chess Olympiad from Budapest - Sweden v Bangladesh , Grand Master Jan Ludwig Hammer is doing the commentary - it's a challenge for him - there have only been four moves in the last hour and a half. He manages to ...

Wow - that's an impressive list. It's the wrong end of the County for me, and I think demand for this type of book is dying - if you get my drift. For instance he has a trilogy of Ben Brierley books from 1896, at £20 (after reduction). I just bought the same set without trying too hard from Ebay for...

Hands up all those that are aware of Biodiversity Credits. :smile: Nobody I'd guess. Me neither. I heard it first tonight at an Oldham Council Planning meeting. I'm stuck for words to describe my reaction. That's a rarity. My first thought was that it was an extension to the Carbon Credits racket - ...

Stanley wrote: ↑18 Sep 2024, 12:35 I'm feeling beaten down and helpless...

Get a grip man, and some sense of proportion.

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I find myself increasingly at odds on many topics with most of the people who post on here, and not wishing to cause any bother - I refrain from saying what I think on most topics. This is becoming stressful. I came across this the other day. I was unaware that it was a "thing". It has a g...

On another thread a while ago Stanley recommended "The Crossman Diaries" . I had to get it of course. I went for the "abbreviated" version which arrived today and I find it has 764 closely typed pages. in the smallest font readable by man. I dipped in at random, and on p. 386 fou...

Someone called David Pope mailed me but I don't know the name so I simply deleted it. That name triggered the 'velcro' memory :smile: I once had an email from Pendle labour Party and I thought that was the name. However - I named the episode "pieandpeasgate' and googling that today found that ...

"Barnoldswick is the largest West Craven town and a key place situated between Colne and Skipton. But it is the largest town in England not on a major A-road, and it is less accessible on public transport than Colne and Nelson. " - and what's wrong with that? There is talk of a "plan...

Nearer to home, and relevant perhaps to a few on here - certainly to me. The Failsworth MP, Deputy Prime Minister, and and dancing queen from Ibiza, Angela Rayner- has not denied that there may be plans afoot to abolish the single person occupancy discount to the Council Tax. This stands currently a...

An MP said yesterday "Our country is not a dormitory for people just here to make money, or a hotel for those passing through. It is our home and no one else's." This person's mother arrived in London in 1980 whilst pregnant, with the express intention of getting a British passport for her...

Nice touch that this came from a "nib". :smile: I came across this today from George Orwell's 1984. "The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that i...

Those who expressed admiration for the BBC 'Counter Disinformation' correspondent Marianna Spring recently, should watch this latest video from John Campbell. He has been off piste for a couple of weeks, but is now back to this very important topic.

The Public Accounts Committe has just prised out of the Home Office Minister the fact that they are currently paying for 5,000 empty hotel rooms on standby, as a buffer in case of a surge of illegal immigrants. 5000 rooms buffer The committe members seemed quite surprised / amazed. I'd be asking how...

I read a couple of weeks ago that the Russians were taking 1200 casualties per day (dead and seriously wounded). That seemed a lot and unsustainable. I have still no idea if it is true or not. It is impossible to find the truth in this matter. I am convinced that there is more than meets trhe eye in...

The hysterical reaction to the announcement of the return of the singularly unattractive - (musically, physically, and personality wise ) Gallagher brothers, causes me to wonder if I really belong to this society. People who you might once had some respect for have now forfeited it. Are they pretend...

Indulge me here . . . :smile: I must include this Gamul anecdote. The procedure was to arrive at RAF Changi, and acclimatise for a couple of weeks - getting uniforms tailored and dhobi'd. Then there was a welcome interview, and disposal to that part of the widely scattered unit where you were going ...

I watched this film on TPTV yesterday. Definitely falls in the category of 'Forgotten Corners' in many respects. I think these are the 'working class' people that Sir Keir is pledged to care for. The problem is there aren't any left, as machines now do almost all the jobs and avocados have replaced ...

This has gone a bit spooky. I mentioned Gamul from Changi and quite unconnected - within a couple of days a photograph of him appeared on the Regimental site I joined recently. Shown on the photo dressed for work - I had forgotten he was always barefoot, (ironic seeing how good he was at polishing b...

Perhaps for us pedants - the title could be changed from Geoffrey's to Godfrey's?

Police in Solingen where the latest mass stabbing atrocity was carried out yesterday are said to be seeking a person "of Southern appearance". I guess they mean someone from Bavaria wearing lederhosen. See what Solingen is famous for - knives - ironic really. PS A fifteen year old is now u...

I don't know a lot abut American politics, but there seems a lot of hatred for Trump here and elsewhere. I asked the Artificial Intelligence site ChatGPT for help . It;s the new thing we're told - might as well use it. :smile: the reply is quite long, but worth a look I'd say. I don't conclude that ...

Well Letitia from EVRi has delivered my item. A memorable "Beiderbecke" moment - remember the platinum blonde and Trevor Chaplin? Outstandingly the best looking woman who has ever rung my doorbell. Drop down a rung Heidi Allen. She kindly left a souvenir photograph on her EVRi page - I'm t...

Interesting - thanks.
I use my phone as little as possible, and with the exception of Starling - never for banking. I can't see the level of detail needed for due diligence.

Thanks for a thoughtful reply. I think the aswer is to train yourself to react on different levels to different peer groups? It's quite possible. I used to really enjoy speaking (and perhaps teasing a bit) the Poet next door's intelectual guests, at her gatherings. I don't think they realised they w...