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Red ones
02-01-17, 10:21 PM
The dog.

Year before last the wife and kids went out to get a rabbit and came back with a dog as well as a rabbit.

Now I'm feeding the rabbit daily and the dog has had diarrhoea for a week. The carpets are being washed 4 times a day, I'm paranoid about e. Coli and giardia and Yankee Candle think Christmas is never-ending!


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Littlepeahead
03-01-17, 07:54 AM
I think rabbits are the worst pets for kids. A pair of rats are much better. They live inside but are not smelly, will use a litter tray in the corner of their cage, are friendly, adapt their awake times to yours, unlike hamsters, and live 2-3 years so you aren't stuck with them when the kids leave home. They are also very affectionate and don't bite, unlike most kids.

Luckypants
03-01-17, 08:37 AM
When was the last time anyone left their car parked with side lights on? (Other than by accident after which a jump start was needed)

Quite often here, we don't live in town with permanent light. Why would you NOT leave side-lights on your car parked on a dark road?

maviczap
03-01-17, 08:47 AM
Why do the BBC (and other news organisations ) persist in sending an outside broadcast team and reporter to report on an event in the dark, when nothing can be seen or there's nothing new to report. I single out the BBC as its my licence fee that pays for these teams. Plus the weather report being broadcast from a remote location, London Zoo today!

Spend my money on better programmes

DuncanC
03-01-17, 10:36 AM
LPH, we have a pair of house rabbits that the kids love. They are house trained and use a litter tray in the cupboard under the stairs where they live. Our rabbits have the run of the hall kitchen and dining room whilst we are out and can come into the living room with us in the evening. At night they live under the stairs. Rabbits are great pets if you give them things to do and space to move. In out old house we had a pair of French lops who had the run of the garden during the day and went home to there shed at night.
Rats are kind of cool if you don't mind them weeing everywhere.

BanannaMan
04-01-17, 05:09 AM
Rats are kind of cool if you don't mind them weeing everywhere.



Sure rats are not the perfect pet but if there's an outbreak of the plague you'll be the first to know. ;)

Littlepeahead
04-01-17, 07:29 AM
House rabbits are lovely, sadly most people just leave them outside in a tiny hutch. I'd like a skunk, apparently they are great pets. Not sure how the two fat boys would take to it though.

Red ones
04-01-17, 02:29 PM
My gripe today is newepapers that grumble about Fat Cat boss day. On the front pages they make huge assumptions (ignoring it's not cash but stock options that maje the numbers big) about executive pay of £75k a week and complain it's unfair.
Turn to the back pages and they lavish praise on premier league footballers on salaries known to be in cash and three times the sum while ticket prices are silly.


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ophic
04-01-17, 03:09 PM
My gripe today is newepapers that grumble about Fat Cat boss day. On the front pages they make huge assumptions (ignoring it's not cash but stock options that maje the numbers big) about executive pay of £75k a week and complain it's unfair.
Turn to the back pages and they lavish praise on premier league footballers on salaries known to be in cash and three times the sum while ticket prices are silly.


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It's a different kettle of fish. Bosses in some cases decide their own salary and also the salaries of everyone under them. Earning over a certain (large!) amount is simply sheer greed while their lowest employees probably work harder, in worse conditions and for minimum wage.

While footballers do negotiate their pay, they don't decide it, and they're only worth as much as people are collectively prepared to pay to see them. Ticket prices are a simple supply and demand scenario, and going to see sport is a luxury anyway. The players aren't responsible for this.

Red ones
04-01-17, 03:22 PM
How much did the same club play the groundsman, or the people who clean, or secure the ground? Who is the collective? Us it the manager whose pay is often linked to the players pay?
Is it the same club that fleeces grassroots?

Why does TV cost so much? Sky costs a fortune to pay ridiculous sums for football so the players can take £250,000 PER WEEK.

Footballer pay is in cash. FTSE execs are often partly cash, part stock. There are people on that FTSE list who actually get a couple of weeks of footballer pay in cash, the rest is performance related share options. If they are rubbish at the job, then the shares are worthless.


The point I was trying to make is the hypocrisy of the newspapers. Target FTSE and conveniently forget those they praise.

Where useRupert Murdochs pay?

Tabloid hypocrisy.


And don't start me on the 1%. Did you know that to be in the world's top 1% for wealth you need a massive (if you believe the tabloids) £250k in assets to your name.



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punyXpress
04-01-17, 04:03 PM
. . the price of a second division semi in Hertfordshire or Whyteleafe ?
Only asking.

Red ones
04-01-17, 04:14 PM
Exactly
By the time you have paid half the mortgage and counted your pension funds you're surprisingly very wealthy. Especially if you bought only a few years ago and the house value increased at the same time.

ophic
04-01-17, 04:36 PM
Still can't blame the player. The fat cat boss of the club might be a more suitable target.

Littlepeahead
04-01-17, 05:15 PM
When it comes to sports people's pay footballers really are in a world of their own. It's really the TV money that allows the huge pay of the footballers. I pay £90 a month to Sky and never watch a minute of football.

Cricketers at the highest level in the UK get paid well, but much of that comes from endorsements rather than their set salary. If they do well they get more sponsorship, they get dropped by England those companies soon stop knocking on their door. Your average county player who is 25 years old will earn a lot less and their career is probably over at the age of 30 if they are a bowler.

I haven't had a pay rise for 3 years despite MCC doing really well and selling out all our major matches. Instead the Club are paying a fortune to have the ground redeveloped and as I'm also an Associate Member of MCC I just had to pay £300 for my subscription too. However a full Member of MCC only pays about £600 a year, for that you can come to both Tests, the ODIs, the County final, all Middlesex games and every other match at Lord's of which there are loads. Compare that to the price of a Chelsea or Arsenal season ticket and it's a bargain!

maviczap
04-01-17, 05:43 PM
Ill again, or perhaps its still the bug i had on the run up to Christmas?

Weird nauseous sensation, combined with lightheadedness and very unpleasant hot flush and sweats this morning. Fell asleep on the sofa at lunch time today. Been having these nauseous sensations the last few days, but only a couple of times a day, most weird and unpleasant.

Littlepeahead
04-01-17, 09:04 PM
I'm no medical expert but it sounds like the virus may have lead to labrynthitis, a problem with the inner ear. I had it, and it let me feeling like I'd had too much booze, room spinning, sick and really horrible. Often happens after a cold or other lurgy.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Labyrinthitis/Pages/Introduction.aspx

maviczap
04-01-17, 09:29 PM
Could be, although I suffered with similar symptoms earlier this year. But wouldn't surprise me, as I do have problems with my right ear

Littlepeahead
04-01-17, 09:41 PM
If it gets really bad a combination of Stemetil and SERC which are an anti emetic and an antihistamine that increases blood flow to the inner ear can really help.

maviczap
04-01-17, 09:44 PM
Ok thanks LPH. Touch wood no nauseous spells since the bad one this morning

Sir Trev
05-01-17, 10:36 PM
Touch wood no nauseous spells since the bad one this morning

You're not pregnant are you?

maviczap
06-01-17, 06:01 PM
You're not pregnant are you?

Highly unlikely ;)

But I know trains make me ill.

I was ill after coming back from Paris last July on the Eurostar.

This latest bug I caught after using the train to get to a training course in London on 15th December, I was ill from the 16th.

Filthy dirty germ ridden carriages carrying sick people from place to place! :reaper:

SV650rules
06-01-17, 06:51 PM
Pretty much any public transport (and coaches and airliners) will make you ill, fuggy, humid spaces where the same air is pumped around ad infinitum through dirty airconditioning filters with very little fresh air involved - its a made in heaven playground for germs, hell for people.

Littlepeahead
06-01-17, 07:04 PM
Wash your hands with soap and hot water when you get to your destination and before lunch and when you get home. So many people don't then wonder why they get ill.

maviczap
06-01-17, 08:42 PM
I'm wearing a hazmat suit the next time i catch the train.

Bibio
06-01-17, 09:22 PM
once you have suffered arsenic poisoning then all other bugs are a mere inconvenience in relation. its like the flu symptoms on steroids.

the flu is very rare to catch and usually puts people in hospital, its not so much the flu per say its more the other bugs that you catch at the same time as your immune system is down trying to fight the ferocious flu virus. this is why most people that contract the flu usually end up with such things as pleurisy and other nasty chest infections. people suffering from the flu dont walk about in public. the flu KILLS.

maviczap
06-01-17, 09:44 PM
once you have suffered arsenic poisoning then all other bugs are a mere inconvenience in relation. its like the flu symptoms on steroids..

What does that score on Top Trump illness card ;)

Measles nearly got my number when i was a kid, which wasnt nice. Pre immunisation days

Sir Trev
06-01-17, 10:07 PM
Turned out to be a nasty virus but I had suspect meningitis as a kid and I can still vaguely remember the delerium it caused. Not suggesting this turns into a competition or anything but I do know a bit about what you went through.

Kenzie
06-01-17, 10:53 PM
I had meningitis as a child and also pneumonia a few years ago. Never slept so much in my life!

Sent from the darkroom

maviczap
06-01-17, 11:26 PM
Yes, let's stop the illness comp, before we get sick of writing about it. ;-)

Meningitis is the top trump in this

Heorot
07-01-17, 12:19 AM
Had chicken pox as a child. Don't remember having it but I must have because, 5 years ago, I came down with shingles. Completely knocked me down and drained all the energy out of me. I had to have 2 weeks off work with it.

Littlepeahead
07-01-17, 09:02 AM
I thought man flu trumped everything?

SV650rules
07-01-17, 09:18 AM
As Bibio rightly says, 'I have had the flu' is much misused term - If you get proper flu you normally end up in hospital, when you get flu you are too weak to walk and your temperature is off the scale, and then the other nasties jump on the bandwagon and you get secondary infections.

Sir Trev
07-01-17, 11:17 AM
The gripe de jour at Trev Towers is... the fridge. The compressor is on almost permanently and I've checked the easy things: pulled it out and dusted off the condenser coils (amazingly clean already) and cleaned the door seals. The latter are looking very stiff and seem shot so ordered new ones but it will be sod's law the motor burns out before they arrive. Hope it's not the thermostat as it will be cheaper to buy a new fridge.

SV650rules
07-01-17, 03:49 PM
If the thermostat was broken and motor running most of the time you would expect things to freeze up (happened to sister-in-law fridge recently), other thing maybe loss of gas, which would mean the thermostat is probably OK but the poor old compressor is running but not compressing much, feel the condenser coils, they should get hot when fridge working properly. I you have a thermometer pop it in the fridge and see what it measures, should be around 4 deg C.

Heorot
07-01-17, 04:42 PM
Have you moved it recently? Sometimes that causes a gas lock in the pipework and the working fluid can't cool properly.

Sir Trev
07-01-17, 05:59 PM
Thanks for the suggestions both - the coils are warm, the food inside is still cold and we've not moved it at all recently. If you turn the thermo dial down to zero the light goes off and the motor stops. Putting it back up re-activates the light and (with the door shut again) the motor does not cut back in for a while, presumably once it warms up a bit inside, suggesting the stat is not completely shot. Either the stat does not read the lower temp properly to stop the motor or the unit is losing the cold air and it's not getting cold enough wherever the sensor is. PITA!

BanannaMan
08-01-17, 01:41 AM
Stopped by the grocery store on the way home last night after texting the wife to find out what we needed,
just as the big snowstorm hit, so I wouldn't have to go out in it today.
Wife wakes me up at 6:30 AM, Grandson (baby) has nothing to drink.
Must go out in absolutely the worst of the storm with snow over a foot deep on the road. :rolleyes:

punyXpress
08-01-17, 10:30 AM
C'mon, Bill
We know you like a challenge - a mission of mercy no less.

pookie
08-01-17, 10:46 AM
ESP.. I decided 2 weeks ago .. didnt you read it on that scrap of paper I left lying around that you dont normally read ???? FFS Arghhh arghhh ..Dont get me started on eeny meeny miny moe !!!!

Can I say arghh again! :)

garynortheast
08-01-17, 01:59 PM
ESP.. I decided 2 weeks ago .. didnt you read it on that scrap of paper I left lying around that you dont normally read ???? FFS Arghhh arghhh ..Dont get me started on eeny meeny miny moe !!!!

Can I say arghh again! :)

Oh, a familiar tale :( There's really no substitute for proper verbal communication.

maviczap
08-01-17, 02:03 PM
Exploding hairdriers

andrewsmith
08-01-17, 02:23 PM
About 1 ton of rubble and 3 ton (at least) of clay to clear at the side of the house before the new paving and the shed.
Looks like I'll be hiring a digger to clear it

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yokohama
08-01-17, 03:36 PM
Broken combi boilers at this time of year. :(

Littlepeahead
08-01-17, 08:22 PM
Back ache. I get it from time to time but it's always annoying when it flares up.

maviczap
08-01-17, 08:30 PM
Broken combi boilers at this time of year. :(

Always going to happen when its working at its hardest.

Mines going to need something more than its annual service, as the water temp fluctuates from hot to cold to hot, so i guess its a problem with the heat exchanger plate.

So a bigger than normal bill soon:smt085

maviczap
08-01-17, 08:36 PM
Back to work, back to waking up in the middle of the night

Littlepeahead
10-01-17, 04:55 PM
My gripe today is people who don't use capitals when typing. Anyone who can't be bothered to hold down the shift key when typing is just showing how lazy they are, it's really very irritating.

I'm just logging entries for a photo competition and a lot of them are all in lower case. I then have to go through and capitalise where appropriate which takes an age. I also see it on here from time to time and this phrase springs to mind:

Capitalisation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.

Bibio
10-01-17, 07:20 PM
There is no hope when the likes of primary schools don't even teach proper pronunciation or the ABC's properly these days. I'm all for regional accents but elocution goes a long way. One of my mates kids says Egh, Bh, Sih, Dih instead of A, Bee, Cee, Dee and thats in primary 2. The meat grinder springs to mind with today's education.

TBH i think nobody gives a fek now.

daktulos
10-01-17, 07:30 PM
There is no hope when the likes of primary schools don't even teach proper pronunciation or the ABC's properly these days. I'm all for regional accents but elocution goes a long way. One of my mates kids says Egh, Bh, Sih, Dih instead of A, Bee, Cee, Dee and thats in primary 2. The meat grinder springs to mind with today's education.

Phonics, innit. ;-)

SV650rules
10-01-17, 08:56 PM
The word mangling that passes for English now, the sort used in text messages and online has reduced our fine language to the contents of a dustbin. I know people who cannot spell who just type words and rely on the spell and grammar check to sort things out, but given that US English is used on many computers now, that does not work.

Trev B
10-01-17, 09:08 PM
Foresooth,I fear that the words that spring forth from thy lips doth trouble my ears,for I know not the meaning of them,tis a language from a land far across the seas ? ...I fully agree with what's said,even in my 62 years there are now words I'm not allowed to say and many new ones( mainly due to pic ), as much as I find it annoying I'm afraid life moves on,things change ( and not always) for the better innit !!!

Littlepeahead
11-01-17, 06:50 AM
I'm fine with the progression of language, we don't all speak like Chaucer, but I agree it needs to be spelled correctly. Your, you're, to, too, there and their etc. Learn the difference. My annoyance is the failure to use the shift key.

shiftin_gear98
11-01-17, 08:38 AM
As long as these stay the same I'm happy.
****, ****, ********, ****. Last three removed as to not cause offence.


Wow who knew t0sser, bellend and w#nk all went through the spell check!

timwilky
11-01-17, 08:39 AM
New boss. Like the last based in another country. He doesn't know me. My strengths/weaknesses etc.

But he wants to change my role/responsibilities. Bet no more money, but more hours, stress.

SV650rules
11-01-17, 08:51 AM
Due to progress in many areas we need to add new stuff to our lexicon all the time, that's why English language is so subtle and nuanced. We have been absorbing words from other languages for centuries, English is the only truly international language and we are its custodians - it is our duty to nurture it and keep it healthy and relevant. I can remember once when I was with a group of people on a business trip with Americans and a couple of people from Singapore, the yanks were taking the p!ss due to my limey accent when one of the Singapore men piped up - "hey steady on guys, it's his language, you can't tell him how to speak it", needless to say the Asian spoke Queens English and put us all to shame. We should be proud of our language and not be guilty of letting it become meaningless badly spelled babble by sheer laziness.

synXero
11-01-17, 08:52 AM
Getting on a 0730 tube. **** the tube so much! Still - hoping I'll get an SV out of it.

Littlepeahead
11-01-17, 09:14 AM
Due to progress in many areas we need to add new stuff to our lexicon all the time, that's why English language is so subtle and nuanced. We have been absorbing words from other languages for centuries, English is the only truly international language and we are its custodians - it is our duty to nurture it and keep it healthy and relevant. I can remember once when I was with a group of people on a business trip with Americans and a couple of people from Singapore, the yanks were taking the p!ss due to my limey accent when one of the Singapore men piped up - "hey steady on guys, it's his language, you can't tell him how to speak it", needless to say the Asian spoke Queens English and put us all to shame. We should be proud of our language and not be guilty of letting it become meaningless badly spelled babble by sheer laziness.
Working in cricket means a whole language just for that with all its technicalities. And it never ceases to amaze me how many phases you probably all use that originate from it. On a sticky wicket, bowling a maiden over, just not cricket, hit for six, and so on. Then read Hamlet and see how many times you still hear those phases in everyday use without even realizing Shakespeare wrote them. In my mind's eye. Shuffle off this mortal coil. Neither a borrower or a lender be. There's a method in my madness. Woe is me.

The English language is a wonderful thing. I co-edit a heritage magazine as part of my role and it is always a joy when a really well written article arrives for a first read.

Spelling, punctuation and the appropriate use of capitals are all as important as the words written otherwise the correct meaning of a sentence can be completely lost.

Red ones
11-01-17, 05:17 PM
Donald Trump's inability to complete even a single sentence.

I'd love to be able to tell him that he is completely incomprehensible as he drivels and rambles on with seemingly endless arrangements of random and often nonexistent words.

Why doesn't a journalist just ask him to summarise any of his answers or proclamations in no more than 12 words?

Littlepeahead
11-01-17, 06:04 PM
Donald Trump's inability to complete even a single sentence.

I'd love to be able to tell him that he is completely incomprehensible as he drivels and rambles on with seemingly endless arrangements of random and often nonexistent words.

Why doesn't a journalist just ask him to summarise any of his answers or proclamations in no more than 12 words?
He usually just goes with 140 characters in block capitals.

SV650rules
11-01-17, 06:15 PM
George Bush junior was far worse than Trump, sometimes it was touch and go if he was even able to string two words together, let alone an understandable sentence. Dan Quayle was also noted for his lack of skills with English.

Don't understand why people are being so nasty to Trump, he is the fairly elected president, democrats never stood a chance because apart from Hillary there is no one over 24 years old in either the party or its support base, the old, uneducated, racist, redneck people won, just like Brexit LOL.

He will likely be the best thing to happen to USA in the last 30 years.

Red ones
11-01-17, 06:43 PM
He usually just goes with 140 characters in block capitals.



Ending with an exclamation mark!

Red ones
11-01-17, 06:50 PM
I sincerely hope you're right, but watching his press conference was rather alike watching a slow motion replay of a massive motorway crash. But we did learn how small cameras can be these days - a bit like those microphones that can be clipped to your clothes while you talk about grabbing women.

At least Dan Quayle was amusing in his ineptitude. And he knew his potatoe.

Trev B
11-01-17, 07:10 PM
Timwilky...this is one of my Tattoos and says it all for me.Im not a revolutionary,a lefty,a reactionary,trouble maker or anachist and I don't believe in equality just fairness but as I'm aware the world doesn't revolve around fairness !!!

carelesschucca
11-01-17, 07:15 PM
He will likely be the best thing to happen to USA in the last 30 years.
Really? In what way?

SV650rules
11-01-17, 07:37 PM
Really? In what way?


He appears to be a nationalist, this has become a dirty word in these days of political correctness and lack of free speech and opponents usually label nationalists as racists. It is wise to remember that the Democrats are the American equivalent of our Lib Dems, and who would trust them to run a country, they are lucky to still have any MP's after their childish behavior when allowed into coalition government. Their support hit rock bottom after country was given an example of their naivety.

Obama was given a chance and has failed to grasp world events, the Russians have run rings around him, now give Trump a chance, at least he is a businessman and not just another lawyer clone from the list of 'acceptable' people who can become president, the Yanks are as fed up with career politicians as we are with EU, think of Trump as the Nigel Farage of the USA.

SV650rules
11-01-17, 07:43 PM
I sincerely hope you're right, but watching his press conference was rather alike watching a slow motion replay of a massive motorway crash. But we did learn how small cameras can be these days - a bit like those microphones that can be clipped to your clothes while you talk about grabbing women.

At least Dan Quayle was amusing in his ineptitude. And he knew his potatoe.


Career politicians practice speeches and work on their 'image' endlessly, and not many of them have any input into their speech content, they have a team of professional script writers to do that. Trump is a businessman and maybe not as polished as the legal eagles who normally find their way into Presidents position.

His less than polished performances may be a sign that he is being honest, personally I don't think you can judge until at least 2 years in, when the American voters can also have their say in mid-term elections.

carelesschucca
11-01-17, 08:38 PM
His less polished performances like taking the p!ss out of a disabled reporter, and his inability to to hold a sentence together today while trying to refute allegations about him.

The fact he has shown the lack of caring to the Forbes family near his golf course in Scotland shows how much he really cares about the average person.

Bibio
11-01-17, 08:39 PM
it does not matter who is in power in America, the President is only a figurehead of the elected party just like out Prime minister is over here. its the wheels and cogs in the background that run a country (excluding dictatorships).

he is trying his best to get kicked out of office as i feel he really never expected to get elected. personally i like Trump.

the world economy has collapsed and every country is feeling the pinch which makes the public miserable as they are the ones who have to bail out mistakes made by politicians with such things as increased taxation or reduction of funding to public services and culture. this reflects on public voting and to a point people dont care so vote for change.

the cost of living has skyrocketed in relation to wages which in turn reflects on businesses who are paying out more on wages so the price of goods and services has to go up to cover this... the wheels on the bus go round and round...

carelesschucca
11-01-17, 08:40 PM
Oh yeah since when does a good businessman file for bankruptcy 4 times. Might be good for him to clear his debts but what about those he left unpaid.

Red ones
11-01-17, 08:43 PM
He shouts down journalists when they ask tough questions he doesn't like (CNN reporter today) and publicly bashes his own security services when they suggest nation state hacking despite his Secretary of State elect saying that ye is a reasonable assumption that Putin was behind hacking.

Shooting from the hip and not thinking. You're right it's just like Farage. It's frightening.

SV650rules
11-01-17, 08:53 PM
Most business people who are 'successful' have probably failed more than 4 times and most politicians have only reached their present positions by wheeling and dealing and have probably done more harm to people and more dirty deals with party donors than Trump ever has. You only have to look at Tony B Liars cash for honours scandal as an example. Career politicians are a dirty, deceitful bunch, mostly in it for themselves ( cue Neil Kinnock and extended family oink oink making millions out of EU gravy trough).

I am amazed that democrats have not asked for election to be rerun because they are not happy with result, seems to be the go these days, just look at EU remoaners (sorry losers)

Saw in paper today lib dems want to rerun brexit vote and give votes to 16 year olds.

embee
11-01-17, 10:51 PM
Interesting debates about Trump. I wouldn't have wanted either candidate to be honest, what a choice.


As said by others, the media take him literally but not seriously, the public take him seriously but not literally.


I'm appalled by the blatantly partisan approach being demonstrated by the media, especially the BBC. Just watched the BBC report of today's stuff and it's dreadful, it is all presented such that it presumes what the media and the "sources" tell is gospel truth, and that what Trump says is lies. Trump doesn't trust the "Intelligence" services, well do you?


There was a clip showing the appointed Secretary of State being quizzed as to whether he would accuse Putin of war crimes based on what's happened in Syria and Aleppo. He said he wanted more detail before laying accusation.
Like the US and the West are squeaky clean. Does no-one remember Iraq? Does no-one remember the 90 odd civilians bombed at a wedding party in Pakistan? Does no-one remember Iran Air Flight 655? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
A touch of hypocrisy there I think.


I don't know whether Trump will be any good, but it sure makes interesting watching to see how it'll work out with someone in the White House who doesn't give a **** who he offends or takes on in a fight. He's torn up the rule book and the establishment don't know how to deal with it.

SV650rules
12-01-17, 09:52 AM
The entrenched career politicians in the USA were incandescent with rage when 'an outsider' dared to run for president and they wrote him off and used smear tactics to try an discredit him, now he is president they have not given up, and neither has the BBC - I have also seen the way the BBC handles stuff, and all their hard earned reputation for being fair and impartial has been very badly dented with the way they report things these days (have they got a raving liberal in charge these days ?). You are actually better off watching Al Jazerah ?

I link Brexit and Trump because the same phenomena was in play, voters fed up with the present political elite who nowadays seem to take no notice of the voters and plow on regardless with their politically correct but morally wrong plans. The 'Elite' in UK have been criticised for not planning for Brexit, the reason is such a result was never on their radar and they were shocked to the core, Cameron rightly resigned but not soon enough, he was obviously such a died in the wool remaniac that he never even negotiated with the EU before referendum, he came back with empty hands except for a 'peace in our time' note from Junkers and then tried to tell us how successful he had been in negotiating a damned good deal for us plebs and we should jolly well be grateful for any crumbs from the EU high table.

I watch Trump with interest and not a small amount of affection for slapping the political dynasties (the Bushes and the Clintons mainly) in the face. If Hillary had put her rampant ambition to be first woman president aside and backed Bernie Sanders we may well be looking at a Democratic President now, but her ego was just too big to realise that most of the women in USA hated her too much to vote for her.

DuncanC
12-01-17, 12:42 PM
The main reason Obama didn't make the difference expected of him was that both of the houses that really control what happens in the US were republican. This is still true so no matter how out there and radical Trump wants to be the Americans will only get what traditional republicans want. So nothing has changed or will change. Except the comedy value of future presidential press conferences.

SV650rules
12-01-17, 05:41 PM
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/01/barack-obama-anatomy-of-a-failure/

The Spectator reckons that Obama never grasped what his job was supposed to be and surrounded himself with lack-lustre under-achievers (that is what happens when you pick your staff from the Democratic party where there is a limited choice of achievers).

Spectator got it wrong when they credit Obama administration with developing drones though, the yanks threw loads of money at developing drones and failed, then someone noticed that the Israelis were using drones with great success, the yanks got the Israelis to help them and voila - as usual the yanks take the credit, some things never change.

Sir Trev
12-01-17, 06:25 PM
The gripe de jour at Trev Towers is... the fridge. The compressor is on almost permanently and I've checked the easy things: pulled it out and dusted off the condenser coils (amazingly clean already) and cleaned the door seals. The latter are looking very stiff and seem shot so ordered new ones but it will be sod's law the motor burns out before they arrive. Hope it's not the thermostat as it will be cheaper to buy a new fridge.

Well the parts guy took so long getting me a new thermostat the refrigerant has probably all run away as the inside of the fridge is now warmer than the kitchen. HOWEVER, this is not my gripe of the day. That honour is reserved for Currys. We nipped out to avoid the evening rush, picked up a replacement fridge and got back before it started snowing feeling pleased with ourseves. BUT, I was about to cut the box open only to find they'd wheeled out the wrong one! AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH! Back in the car, through the rush hour, in the snow, managed not to swear at them too much, got the right box, managed not to swear at the imbeciles using the wrong lanes to jump the queues too much (that's a fib), and the new fridge is settling before we switch it on. Knowing my luck it will blow up.

Trev B
12-01-17, 06:31 PM
The whole thing about politics is....it's all like a giant snow dome,it's all nice and settled until someone comes along and gives it a good shaking,but no matter how violent it's shaken it all settles back down after a while. What a politician says he or she is going to do,is far different from what they actually can do. !!!

pookie
12-01-17, 06:56 PM
not enough snow.. i've waited 5 years .. now bucket down so I can fit my snow tyres ( push bike :) )

maviczap
12-01-17, 07:35 PM
My daughters been waiting 4 years to ride her snow scooter, she'll be too big to use it if don't get a dump of it soon

Littlepeahead
12-01-17, 08:37 PM
It's snowing. I don't like snow.

Red ones
12-01-17, 08:43 PM
I must say that was one of the most horrible commutes in years. 30 miles of motorway in the dark and snow.

The visor steamed up because of the snow collecting on the outside. Visibility was awful, the wet got in to my boots and gloves. My fingers were numb. Slush between the lanes. Bloody cars with just front lights on (DRLs).

Glad I'm on the train tomorrow!

Kenzie
13-01-17, 07:17 AM
Not had any snow in Ipswich. It seems to be snowing everywhere EXCEPT here. Cold though and frosty.

Sir Trev
13-01-17, 09:09 AM
The BBC and their rabid reporting on the weather. We've had, let's face it, a dusting of a centimetre or so in some parts of the south east - you'd think it was Armageddon the way they are going on about it.

On behalf of the south-easterners on here I'd like to apologise to Organs north of the Watford Gap who have far more snow and just get on with it every winter.

timwilky
13-01-17, 09:18 AM
What snow? there was a little overnight, but melted by now.

We in the chilly north west get little snow at the best of times. But usually enough for the poor teachers to declare it unsafe and take the day off

SV650rules
13-01-17, 09:21 AM
Ever since I got winter tyres for the car a few years ago (mainly to save alloys from winter ravages) we have had very little snow, just like it never rains when you take an umbrella with you. About half an inch here today, not even enough for local kids to enjoy (would need to collect snow from every garden in the street to build even a diddy snowman).

Trev B
13-01-17, 09:45 AM
Snows ok on Christmas card and boxes of chocolates,that's all !!!

Littlepeahead
13-01-17, 09:46 AM
Yesterday we were bracing ourselves for the immense and terrify snow predicted at lunchtime and I was ready for the trains to grind to a halt. It never happened - however some poor bu99er instead threw themselves under a train so that caused huge delays instead.

Then we had a small flurry or two and this happened - I was stuck on the train behind this one and we did indeed get the announcement:

http://www.essexlive.news/horn-filled-with-snow-delays-train-near-shenfield/story-30054129-detail/story.html

Sir Trev
13-01-17, 12:13 PM
Priceless LPH. (the horn bit, not the one-under)

I guess everyone remembers the once in a decade deluge we get down here where we get a proper covering all of a sudden which catches us all out. New year's eve 1996 when we got snowed in to a delightful little hotel in Sussex when two feet fell in the afternoon. 2010 when it did the same and some of Lady Poppy's colleagues had to abandon their cars and walk the last five miles back to Wycombe (good job my good Lady only works mornings and got home ahead of it). We may be due another one hence the hype but come on people, it's almost all melted here now.

maviczap
14-01-17, 08:57 PM
We seem to have lost our senses when it comes to snow. Always seems it's snowmagedon each time. I've seen pictures from people we stayed with in the Pyrenees cycling. It's snowed for 24hrs. What did they do? They went skiing of course!

maviczap
14-01-17, 09:01 PM
My gripe, why does my sister feel the need to reinforce any email or text message with exclamation marks?

I got your point without extra inference, your not in the army now, you're a civilian.

garynortheast
14-01-17, 09:06 PM
It's really bloomin' annoying isn't it Mav!! But I guess you were waiting for a smartarse riposte like this!! :grin: !!

maviczap
14-01-17, 09:14 PM
Yes it is !!!!! :-)

Thank goodness for the org

maviczap
17-01-17, 06:13 PM
My local hospitals car park, at times the visting hours must coincide with appointment times, as at just after 11 today it was mayhem, completely full, gridlocked roads. I circumnavigated all the parking places more than once!

timwilky
18-01-17, 09:09 AM
Mates funeral this morning. Found out he had cancer in December, 6 weeks later gone. Over 300 expected, so speakers are being put up outside the crem.

His widow has said close friends/family are to be asked to enter and we are to then go in. No standing on ceremony.

So two gripes from me. Why do the good ones go early. and why are crematoriums built so small? I know nobody wants to see an empty auditorium and have been to a funeral with only 5 there. but also been to more than my fair share with more standing outside than able to sit inside.

Luckypants
20-01-17, 12:29 PM
Finding out someone you know has been finished in their new job after a few months and that the person who left to create the vacancy has been hired back. Nepotism is nasty.

Littlepeahead
20-01-17, 01:25 PM
Mates funeral this morning. Found out he had cancer in December, 6 weeks later gone. Over 300 expected, so speakers are being put up outside the crem.

His widow has said close friends/family are to be asked to enter and we are to then go in. No standing on ceremony.

So two gripes from me. Why do the good ones go early. and why are crematoriums built so small? I know nobody wants to see an empty auditorium and have been to a funeral with only 5 there. but also been to more than my fair share with more standing outside than able to sit inside.

I went to a memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral for a friend who was also a broadcaster. Such was the number of people wishing to attend the family had to go through all the requests and decide who would and would not receive a ticket and there was a seating plan. It was the day after Margaret Thatchers funeral at the same venue. I bet there was a lot more love in that wonderful building for my friend Christoper's service than there was for Maggie.

Red ones
20-01-17, 04:34 PM
My gripe is people who work in support functions at workplaces who insist you work in a way to make their life as easy as possible.

They are the support. Tail wagging the dog.

garynortheast
20-01-17, 06:23 PM
The orange faced sh!tgibbon. We're all in serious trouble now.

pookie
20-01-17, 08:19 PM
Luckily he's on the other side of the world? Oh no its got a lot smaller with all that wall building going on. What with his views on global warming I think he'll destroy the world sooner without resorting to the big red button.

On a side note.. why is it vegetarians want me to eat less meat ( apparently we eat too much of it) .. but how do they know how much I'm eating? ( and how much is too much?)

Bibio
20-01-17, 08:39 PM
Americans.. their own worst enemy... they voted in a non politically correct president and now dont like it. bet half that voted Trump done it for a laugh.

just goes to show.. no matter how much of an ahole you are if you get enough votes your in (personally i see nothing wrong with Trump being President of the USA). lets just see how popular Mr Farage is for prime minister in the next election :-)