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- 10 Apr 2024, 11:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12664
- Views: 1345157
Re: POLITICS CORNER
The mind boggles, this was a senior politician with responsible jobs. The mind might have boggled once upon a time, but I now assume that most politicians are probably crooks, at best a bit odd, and most male Tories are gay - declared or otherwise. :smile: I heard on LBC news this morning that a ne...
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:12
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Tripps Clipps
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1632
Re: Tripps Clipps
too long for general consumption. They simply won't read it. That's always an option of course. It's not compulsory, and if no one does then I'm not really bothered. I aim the content at a modest single figure audience, but I shan't give up after just one post. . . . :smile: *************** Heard y...
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:05
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3799
- Views: 403326
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:00
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20158
- Views: 2344916
- 09 Apr 2024, 20:22
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 658
- Views: 91180
Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
I've just seen this on the PBS America channel. I was hoping it was on Youtube, and of course it is.
Remarkable.
Remarkable.
Re: GOOD TV
Fair enough - two good reasons to persist. They are just not my "cup of tea" and I have only myself to consider, so I tend make a very quick judgement.
- 09 Apr 2024, 11:19
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12664
- Views: 1345157
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I read that Lord David Cameron has flown to the USA to speak to some chap called Donald Trump and urge him to support the supply of more weapons to the Ukrainian Government. I understand this Trump fellow may be a candidate in the next presidential election, and Dave is presently British Foreign Sec...
Re: GOOD TV
I didn't realise it was compulsory to watch these programmes. . . .
- 09 Apr 2024, 11:06
- Forum: Baking
- Topic: Boiled Fruit Cake
- Replies: 7
- Views: 500
Re: Boiled Fruit Cake
Can you give some idea of quantities of ingredients. I'll have to try it. . .
- 09 Apr 2024, 11:05
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20644
- Views: 1919965
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Don't they have Bingo, and community singing?
- 09 Apr 2024, 10:47
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20644
- Views: 1919965
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Thanks I shall watch the take off. I love the Youtube flight deck videos, though that's as near to actual flying as I want to be. I still find it hard to believe that an aircraft weighing a couple of hundred tons cand do such a thing as fly.
- 09 Apr 2024, 10:43
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 600174
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
My lads still occasionally mock my pronunciation of such words as 'castle' etc. I use the short 'a' whilst they (mainly brought up on the South of England) use the long vowel. I try not to let it annoy me, confident that my pronunciation is correct.
PS I knew where 'perks' came from.
PS I knew where 'perks' came from.
- 09 Apr 2024, 10:33
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Tripps Clipps
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1632
Re: Tripps Clipps
Interesting and a bit spooky that today's phone in topic on LBC was the high rates of pay of Local Government executives, and comparisons with the pay of the Prime Minister - a rather niggardly £165k pa. I was going to do this in strict chronological order, but find that Clip 1 is so full of potenti...
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:49
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Tripps Clipps
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1632
Re: Tripps Clipps
This wa prompted by Lee Kuan Yew's policy of paying his MP's a good salary so they would not be tempted by bribery. I've removed the rose tinteds, and find that he also said words to the effect that 'if you cross me I will put the knuckle dusters on and wait for you down a dark alley, but which do y...
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:40
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Tripps Clipps
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1632
Tripps Clipps
I've accumulated a long list of cuttings over several years, that have piqued my interest from all over the interwebthingy, and I've toyed with the idea of publishing them in a new thread perhaps on a regular basis. Not in any way to rival Bob Bliss's daily contribution - I wouldn't dare, but just p...
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:31
- Forum: Baking
- Topic: Boiled Fruit Cake
- Replies: 7
- Views: 500
Re: Boiled Fruit Cake
Now you've done it, and I've just weaned myself of such cakes from Aldi.
That cake was a regular feature of the lads' packed lunch boxes a long time ago.
That cake was a regular feature of the lads' packed lunch boxes a long time ago.
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:26
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3799
- Views: 403326
- 08 Apr 2024, 08:21
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6916
- Views: 948800
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
This is where the heavy woollen cloth processed at the mill was stretched out on 'tenter-frames' to dry and bleach in the sun. Days when that was possible are certainly a 'forgotten corner' now. :smile: I found this photo of Peter Tatham in my collection.- worth posting again I'd say. . . When he i...
- 07 Apr 2024, 17:14
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16629
- Views: 1942990
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
this daily sterilising of my pot might also have a bearing on how I manage to be so infection free. I can't remember when I last had a common cold. My recollection is that the last person that I heard recommend the use of bleach as a prophylactic against viral infections, was President Donald J Tru...
- 06 Apr 2024, 22:39
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3799
- Views: 403326
Re: Seen in the News
Just stumbled across the Daniel Meadows' photo of Peter Tatham on top of the Salford incinerator chimney with this comment below it. Mark Fletcher This may be the chimney where the massive cast-iron oversailer accidentally detached itself and fell, as they were dismantling it. Stanley Graham got a p...
- 06 Apr 2024, 16:17
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: BOB'S BITS
- Replies: 4480
- Views: 512850
- 06 Apr 2024, 16:03
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4888
- Views: 573317
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
A customer goes into the bank to withdraw some money. Can you identify yourself, the bank worker asks. Customer takes out a mirror looks into it and replies 'yes that's me all right'.
- 05 Apr 2024, 13:01
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
- Replies: 2119
- Views: 315047
Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
The chancellor has praised a Tory MP for apologising after he admitted he gave other MPs' personal phone numbers to someone on a dating app. Jeremy Hunt said William Wragg had been " courageous " in telling the Times he was sorry for the "hurt" he had caused. Any suggestions for...
- 05 Apr 2024, 12:45
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12664
- Views: 1345157
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I suppose this is loosely politics, and is in essence, a summary of the history of the last century. I've been watching a lot of Lee Kuan Yew's videos lately. The more I watch, the more respect I have for him. Huge intellect, totally incorruptible, and with a clear strategic vision for his nation. I...
- 02 Apr 2024, 17:57
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
- Replies: 658
- Views: 91180
Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
I never saw one of these until a few days ago. They are called 'Handpans'. Thought of making them a mystery object but decided against, and I wouldn't really recommend them, so they go here. The players all seem a bit odd - they look like vegan morris dancer types to me, but who am I to judge - and ...