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- 05 Apr 2024, 14:32
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20157
- Views: 2344744
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Are we seeing the ends of bundles of optical fibres?
- 05 Apr 2024, 14:28
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
- Replies: 2119
- Views: 314976
Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
Swap Out for Cou and outrageous might do the job
- 05 Apr 2024, 09:14
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16625
- Views: 1942771
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
No wonder we've lost trust and respect for our politicians.... `Tories planned to make millions from members’ data with ‘True Blue’ app: Exclusive: senior party officials worked on commercial venture that would allow brands to sell products to supporters' Guardian Senior Conservative party officials...
- 05 Apr 2024, 09:02
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3799
- Views: 403159
Re: Seen in the News
For a decade or more I've been boring people by telling them that we shouldn't be spending billions of pounds on searching for and mining more lithium whilst destroying the environment in the process. Instead we should spend the money on research to find ways of using readily available metals such a...
- 05 Apr 2024, 08:41
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4888
- Views: 573115
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
A clip from a BBC News story this morning about powerful rare earth magnets. I guess it was meant to be serious but the man looks like he's spent too much time with his magnets...
- 04 Apr 2024, 13:54
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4888
- Views: 573115
- 04 Apr 2024, 13:51
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7642
- Views: 867900
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
My sister-in-law works part-time as a receptionist at her local GP surgery and she has plenty of stories of offensive customers, so that's another problem for the NHS. Also she ends up with dealing with people's other problems. She rang Mrs Tiz for their usual chat one evening last week and apologis...
- 04 Apr 2024, 09:39
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16625
- Views: 1942771
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
I don't understand how Israel is being allowed to get away with its actions in Gaza. Indeed we are providing the weapons that are helping them cause the deaths, disease and famine. Our government can hide behind the fact that we provide only 0.04% of the military aid going to Israel (almost all of ...
- 04 Apr 2024, 09:35
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7642
- Views: 867900
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Recently I got a text from the GP's surgery asking me to contact them and make an appointment for a`medication review'. It said I should have one annually but I haven't had one for at least 20 years other than when I moved here and met my new GP! I rang and was given an appointment with Mahola. When...
- 31 Mar 2024, 15:51
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7642
- Views: 867900
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
Gosh Tize that’s so interesting….I can’t get my head around it, but very interesting. Can you picture your children, in your mind? That would be difficult, Cathy - we don't have any! :smile: We took a decision early on that we were both more interested in pursuing other aspects of our lives than in...
- 31 Mar 2024, 10:48
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16625
- Views: 1942771
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
My sister-in-law sent me this pic . I don't know where she got it from but it's interesting!
- 31 Mar 2024, 10:41
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7642
- Views: 867900
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
I'm always interested to see this topic raised because it's very familiar to me... `Aphantasia: Why I cannot picture my children in my mind' LINK I've always had it but only realised when I became an adult and at the time it didn't have a name and nobody seemed to talk about it. I get fleeting glimp...
- 31 Mar 2024, 10:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3799
- Views: 403159
Re: Seen in the News
I wish that all those people who keep pressing modern organisations to make reparations for their alleged use of slavery in the past would instead turn their attention and energy to where it's happening now, in the 21st Century... `The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredie...
- 30 Mar 2024, 15:49
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4888
- Views: 573115
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
That's a good trick Cathy, worth remembering!
- 30 Mar 2024, 15:47
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: Wildlife Corner
- Replies: 1414
- Views: 217467
Re: Wildlife Corner
I'd forgotten to mention this...a few weeks ago we looked out of the dining room window and there was a heron siting on the edge of our pond - and it's only a small pond, an area about the size of a desk. Luckily we have netting over it to keep the daft pigeons from trying to swim in it, so the hero...
- 30 Mar 2024, 09:54
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3944
- Views: 593743
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
More information about the fires...
`The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires' BBC
`The crews bracing themselves for a rise in electric car fires' BBC
- 30 Mar 2024, 09:42
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12664
- Views: 1344993
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Talking of Donald tusk and Poland, this Radio 4 programme is good... `The Reinvention of Poland' Radio 4 This is the BBC summary... Anne McElvoy goes on the road in Poland in the latest in her series of programmes exploring the waves of change sweeping through Europe. She takes the temperature of a ...
- 30 Mar 2024, 09:37
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6916
- Views: 948621
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
I looked it up on Mindat which my `go to' web site for all things rock and mineral... Mindat
- 30 Mar 2024, 09:33
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 963169
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Ask Bob to send it to you in a plain text email message or as a plain text (.txt) attachment. HTML emails are what Terry Pratchett would have called an embuggerance.
- 30 Mar 2024, 09:28
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: Wildlife Corner
- Replies: 1414
- Views: 217467
Re: Wildlife Corner
Well done, Cathy, it's a smart-looking bird!
- 27 Mar 2024, 17:02
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 963169
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...
- 27 Mar 2024, 09:26
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 963169
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...
- 27 Mar 2024, 09:18
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4888
- Views: 573115
- 26 Mar 2024, 11:31
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 963169
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...
- 25 Mar 2024, 11:48
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20157
- Views: 2344744
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...