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I read that also Ed. I see it as another case of so-called “engineers” not carrying out comprehensive physical tests upon materials and design, as proof of real working conditions.
Bridges in the USA are a perfect example of this, as disasters waiting to happen. The information is there, warnings are published, but no one listens. https://tinyurl.com/ngexgaa
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I'm out.What’s your issue bob? Do you use the offical Google photos app, it looks like a flower on a white background? – etc, etc… (cba to repeat it all here)
Now after all that, how are you currently doing it?
Thanks, Steve! My problem was over-elaborating: I was trying to use ‘MyDrive’ to copy photos singly. Your advice has put me right, I have accessed Google Photos on phone and desktop. I had already synced them, but misread what I had to do. Now all my piccies are on phone and PC, hundreds of the buggas! I just had to open Google Photos instead of MyDrive, which I back them up to along with everything else on my Google account. DOH!
No time has been wasted if I learned from it… ??
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I'm out.Looking into that, Steve. Back later.
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I'm out.I’ll ask when I see him next. He is a a bit younger.
Might have been in when I was; ’64 to ’76. A bit of time added on for bad behaviour, LOL.
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I'm out.It (mostly) works on my Wileyfox Swift, since CM went TU and I had Nougat. Doesn’t work on SWMBO’s Spark yet, that update is promised by WFox HQ.
The main bugbear I have with Google and both phones, is the time it takes to transfer photos from my phone to my desktop via same Google account, and SWMBO’s phone to her lappy.
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I'm out.Steve your FIL sounds a bit like me, maybe a bit older than my 72: was he a miner before or after he joined REME? I was down the pit with 5 mates one Friday, having finished one Day shift, when the Afternoon shift came on, our mates among them. It was mid – July and the Afters lads said it was sunny and hot.
I thought “That will be me next week, coming down this bloody great black hole on Afters when there is sunshine up there!” So I said I was going to join up after dinner in the pit canteen. All 5 on the shift followed me, only 2 of us joined up. 12 years later, after being an Aircraft tech, I changed direction and became a motor mechanic, working on engines that do not leave the ground.?
Ask you FIL what trade he had in REME, and what the motto in the REME stable belt buckle means.
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I'm out.15 for me which proves my low iq. I’ll get my coat and move to inda.
No stay here but move to Wembley, Graham needs you! ????
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I'm out.My Google Spambox is always full of naughty Scandinavian “invitations” in some Scandinavian language or other. I take a scroll through to make sure they are all the same – hang on, haven’t done it for a bit, just going to it – yep, 38 Spam messages, deleted after a quick check. Wish I knew what the messages were in English! Although maybe not…
In outlook I get a couple of Adult Dating links to naughty videos every other day. I just block them: next time the address has changed slightly. Obviously automated.
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I'm out.As our son, gson’s dad is also dyslexic, he could not read to the lad when he was young. So it was mostly me doing that, but I have always done that for the kids anyway. At one time when youngest gdaughter was small, I was asked to read my choice of (vetted) books to her Infants class. I enjoyed that so much, as I can adopt accents and make it exciting as well as educational. I still have a picture of me in the library with about 25 nippers all round my chair, listening and some laughing. I had to be vetted of course, but I think that was one of the most magic times of my life.
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I'm out.Who said I was angry ? I stand by what I say though. As a public service user and local shopper I meet the locals all the time. I mostly don’t understand them but I sit on the bus next to them. I offer no proof so I sudgest a visit. Come to wembley central on a non event day and have a wander around the high st. If your feeling brave take the 182 bus to the local A&E and take a look around.
It SEEMS angry, or at least annoyed at first read, Graham, sorry if I misread:
” They really ARE just out for what they can get. ”
I did say that I understand your feelings and would not like to live there myself. How long have you lived there? If many years, you must have seen a lot of changes. My first visit was to the old Wembley Twin Towers in 1959, to see Forest the FA Cup for the second time. (first was 1898) and there would not have been such a small percentage of White British population then, I imagine.
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I'm out.I was reading somewhere that they reckon 1 in 6 of us has some Huguenot in our ancestry.
Far worse than that – I have a blood link to Jimmy Young (my dad (some sort of cousin of his) couldn’t stand him as a kid way back in the 20’s !)
Much worse than that for me: I am Robert Williams, related to Robbie Williams. My dad and his granddad were cousins of some sort. I recognise a daft Williams when I see one!
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I'm out.I was as annoyed about that as you, Jason, then I read the Wiki page: https://tinyurl.com/ycavoe9r
Scroll down to ‘Ethnic Diversity’ and find that, in the 2011 Census, only 5.3% of the population of Wembley, were White British. Just 792 people, and you can bet by now that most of them are gone. I have already stated here and elsewhere that I have friends from many different cultural and racial backgrounds, but I would not like to live in an area as part of such a tiny minority. Especially in my own country.
I can therfore see what makes Graham angry, he does after all live there. However, I cannot condone these words:
” None of the new arrivals have any interest in integration or even in speaking english. They really ARE just out for what they can get. ”
Graham, you probably don’t know many of the people you refer to, or how they live their lives. I would hazard a guess that a very large proportion of them have menial jobs on low pay, I may be very wrong and stand to be corrected. I join Jason in asking for evidence regarding the above statement, though. I do know how two of my ‘culturally different’ friends here in East Lindsey felt when they first came to live in an area that is 93% White British, though. Initially, they felt like outsiders, until locals including myself, started talking to them. Is that familiar?
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I'm out.Thanks all. Went into local O2 this morning to get an Alcatel pixi4 or a Sony XperiaE5. Didn’t realise how big they are until I tried them in my pocket (perhaps I have small pockets) then spied an LGK4 (4.5 inch screen but supposed to be 4G). Read a number of reviews which rate it poor to middling but at least it works and fits my pocket in all senses of the word. Best of all, O2 recovered my cash balance for me and killed the old phone. Just waiting for the SIM to register. 88 page instruction manual – its only a phone not a 747. It will cost more than the phone to print it out so I will see if I can load it onto the phone. Should have said it was £50
Looks like he bought an LGK4 Steve.
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I'm out.I have to amend my post regarding SWMBO’s Wfox Spark: I contacted Wfox and they say that an update will be automatically sent within two weeks. Nice, I keep a little more hair. For now.
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I'm out.After reading about this, I checked the Kaspersky information, manually update Kaspersky, and scan, then make an unscheduled backup. The rest is in the lap of the gods.
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I'm out.16/20. I am puzzled by the “citizenship” part. Most of my friends of other cultures are born here: one is 4th generation British-Carribean and I doubt that he could answer more than 10 of these questions. However, citizenship and nationality can be different things, especially in regard to ancestry: the knowledge that your ancestors have lived and died in Britain for centuries, is something that is not quantifiable and cannot be determined by one’s knowlege of kings, queens and political figures.
By a coincidence, today I learned that my paternal ancestors go back to 14th Century North Wales. I have work to do regarding my maternal ancestors, but I have found the stumbling block to be the 17th Century, during which they appear to have been exiled from France as Huguenots: French Protestants who may have chosen exile in Britain, over conversion to Catholicism or being burned at the stake.
How British am I? – Sixth – generation English, but proud of my Welsh ancestry, one of whom was born in Conwy, became Bishop of Lincoln, then Archbishop of York and political advisor to King James I. My gt-nephew and his two chidren are Scots born and live well north of Aberdeen. All I need is a N.I. connection.
On second thoughts, no. I don’t. And I consider myself to be no more British than my mate Vijay, a 6’6″ Sikh, third generation British and with a really daft, really British sense of humour that matches my own.
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I'm out.That is a better deal, Richard. I have the £9.98 deal I mentioned, but my missus does not/will not email or use a browser from her phone, therefore does not have a data deal. And still on Pay as you go, probably pays out about as much on average as I do. Hey-ho, fixed ideas in the female mind… I gave up trying to change that about 30 years ago.
Have to say that I share your preference for a bigger screen, mine is a second-hand 24″ Iiyama on this desktop. Phone has a 5.5″ screen which is not bad, but I cannot use it to read e-books comfortably, that’s why I have a Lenovo 8″ tablet. I use the phone to screen out a lot of stuff: most of the dross is deleted before breakfast is over, leaving the rest for the desktop later. This week, though, I am using the phone more, as I am ferrying about my dyslexic 18 yo grandson. He is at the point of almost getting another year at college and another two courses. This week he is sitting exams designed to test his ability to take further his Electrical Installations work, having already passed the first 3 parts he would be able to get a job. However, he has the bit between his teeth now and wants to pass the last 2 parts, while also taking his IT qualifications further. To say I am proud of him, does not do him justice. All his education has been a constant struggle, but he has always given 100% to it, knowing from the start that he has to work harder than any classmates. The results are telling: out of a course 2 years ago of 22 students, he is one of 5 who got this far. He has left so-called ‘brighter’ lads behind. He says that he wants to be in a position to offer an employer more than others, which is one reason why he took Work Experience at 14 and still works 2 days a week at the same company, who have promised him a great reference.
To help him through this vital period, this week and probably next, he goes to college on the bus and I bring him home, after a text as he finishes. For his 2 days work, dad takes him and I bring him back. He is also having driving lessons, but does not want a car- he says a van makes more sense for his needs. A big, quiet, pensive lad, who has a large vocabulary but has trouble writing down what he knows and understands. I love him to bits.
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I'm out.Caravans, Dwynne? We have them everywhere along the coast of Lincolnshire, I call them “Tin Cities”. Have to say that we need them, really adds to the local economy and keeps our Council Tax down, etc. The static parks are fine, (says Nimby Bob), as long as there are none in my village! It’s the ones towed in and out of the area that can drive local motorists and farmers mad.. We can get the Perfect Storm along our single carriageways: Road Race cyclists in bunches, caravans, mobile homes and a huge lump of agricultural machinery, often overfilled with the brown and smelly. All on the same stretch of road. I just dive down one of our narrow lanes and take the Back Country roads, a longer distance but gets me there quicker. It’s always best to have a few nibbles and a bottle of water in the car.
Last summer I was coming home from Mablethorpe one Saturday evening, when I came across a huge queue behind a multiple accident scene. The road was blocked and I walked up to a local bobby at the scene. He told me it was very bad, the Air Ambulance had been called and it was going to be hours before traffic could proceed. I turned the car around and headed off into the back roads. In my mirror, I saw half a dozen cars following me, two with vans on tow. I stopped, they all had to (no room to overtake) and walked back. They all wanted to get home via the Louth bypass and the A16, and more were appearing behind them. Eventually I convoyed a total of 17 assorted vehicles and vans, up to the bypass and out of the village, did a 180 around a roundabout and felt like the Pied Piper as I went past all these drivers and passengers, honking horns and waving thanks. I don’t think SWMBO believed me, until a neighbour called and said he had been coming down the hill and saw it all.
The incident, according to local bobby I know, was caused by a motorbike rider losing patience and overtaking on a series of blind bends. It cost him his life and injured two more people, one severely. You have probably heard of or witnessed similar incidents in your time.
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I'm out.It’s not Ransomeware, according to Kaspersky research and contributors:
It’s just destructive wiping/
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I'm out.I would be very concerned about the amount you are paying, Richard. As Steve says, I have a Wileyfox Swift. I am with EE and have just 512 MB of Data, unlimited text and calls, all for £9.98 a month. I use data all the time when out, text quite a bit now and I figured out emailing and using Firefox on the move a while ago. I have never used all my data, but do come close to it at times. (Esp. when SWMBO and/or a needy grandbrat is trying to track me down!) Since buying a cheap holder at the local Spar filling station, I have almost cracked ‘hands free’ as well.
I am almost into the second decade of the 21st century now…. ???
But it still P****s me off when I can access my EE account quickly and easily over the phone, whereas on the PC it occasionally refuses to believe that my number IS my number! ?
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