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What worries me more, Ed, is the other idiot being elected PM. Within 2 years we will be many more £Billions in debt and a great deal of business will have moved away from the UK.
I think TM would have been bettter off with something along the lines of “After the election, we are going to take a serious look at Adult Social Care” instead of coming out with a plan of action that has put so many people’s backs up. For me, the £100,000 limit is fine: I rent Social Housing. But I can see why so many see it as a bad move. There does have to be an answer to all the money going into caring for an increasingly larger ageing population, but this plan is a difficult sell. Knees are jerking everywhere. Younger generations are looking with horror at their inheritances being whittled away. A resentment of the older generation may very well follow. Young people already blame my generation (as a majority) for the Referendum result. How will they view us when they realise that their retirement will come later than ours did, and a greater proportion of what they earn and/or should have inherited, goes to care for the old?
Incidentally, the Chinese have the same problem, with correspondingly and horrifically high numbers, thanks to the “one child” rule they brought in many years ago. Their solutions may be somewhat final, if recent history is any guide…
Manny Festo? Wasn’t that an Italian in a Synagogue?
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I'm out.Thanks for all the advice guys, it is much appreciated. As we descend further into our dotage, TV will become more important I guess, as we dribble over our Horlicks.
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I'm out.STOP STOP Dwynne I’m much better now, think a bit of wee came out…
Cheers, Bob.
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I'm out.Great explanation, mind at rest, panic over, TY Dave!
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I'm out.Thanks for that link and the information, Dave: yes it has more channels than ‘vanilla’ Freesat, but they appear to be variations upon the ‘repeat ad infinitum’ theme, in that there is no appreciable difference in quality of channels, just quantity of garbage.
But interesting that I could get a viewing card for £25 as a Sky customer. Put that together with maybe a NowTV box (which I already blagged free from Currys when buying the TV, Bband, calls and Sky) and I might have a plan. May keep Sky Bband, phone & calls. Have to check out if they let me keep the Q Box.
More food for thought later in the year.
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I'm out.As usual Steve, Wiki is your friend: https://tinyurl.com/6rgs3rh
Quoting Wiki:
” Having this shared heritage, the two systems are quite similar, but there are differences. The US customary system is based on English systems of the 18th century, while the Imperial system was defined in 1824, after American independence. ”
So it looks as if those ex-colonials followed our our original system, and we changed ours in the next century, to standardise it over here. Leaving the last two users of the Imp system today, to be different even to each other! Anglo-Saxons, Romans, William the Conqueror and his Normans, all involved!
History is BS sometimes… :yahoo:
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I'm out.I was really considering a Humax box and Freesat, until I compared Freesat and Freeview. There really is not much difference. Freesat’s “200 channels” seems to include all the radio stations and the OD services, whilst Freeview just advertises 60+ TV channels, most of which are the same as Freesat and most of which are repeats in fancy dress anyway. The very few added channels on Freesat are dross to me and Freeview actually has more Radio stations, most of which are the local ones. I only listen to a very few radio staions anyway, so no point made there. Therefore Steve’s statement appears to be correct:
” There is nothing between free view and free sat. Saves buying and hanging a dish. ”
I could either sell the dish if Sky don’t want it back, or leave it mounted and remove the cables, coil them up and store them safely, then return to digital antenna reception, Freeview and a NowTV box.
OR in the unlikely event that Sky make me a better offer when contract time is up (October) I could tell them to send a better installation engineer than the first clown and have him feed the cables through the loft. For free, or don’t bother.
Decisions for later in the year… :scratch: B-)
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I'm out.JOHN
This is the Amazon UK page for the PCI Wireless adapter in my last:
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I'm out.I can’t see how it’s vital that he keeps the email address and I’ll bet TalkTalk will not do a thing. If someone insists on using a compromised account they’ll get what they deserve. Just as well he isn’t an Orange customer, their email service is closing completely at the end of May.
Something that I am trying to tell my daughter, who still has the fsmail address from before Orange taking over Freeserve. She has the attitude that “tomorrow is always soon enough”. Drives me and her network engineer son mad, she won’t let either of us near her laptop. Until… well, you can guess the rest. I am carrying out a guerilla raid by employing gdaughter to nag mum.
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I'm out.Dwynne man, thank you for those last two. I was having a really bad day, health-wise. Those have cracked me up, cheered me up and made my day.
Cheers!
Bob.
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I'm out.I am not going to take part in the game of generational opposition. Regular meeting and having real conversations with young people today, can reveal that they are neither less, nor more intelligent than previous generations. They have different intelligence because they have different life paths with different aims and different obstacles in the way of those paths. One thing I will say about this generation, is that most of them seem to have a method of opposing or simply bypassing BS. This is often seen by older people as disrespect, and in a few cases it is, but mostly I have learned that they respect that which deserves respect, but find the kind of pumped-up officialdom that frowns upon them and their activities, to be amusing at best, and totally ridiculous at worst.
My post about Imperial weights and measures was meant to be taken with a large saline lump. Of course metric measures are easier and make for more efficient and accurate calculations. The problem for my generation is that metric measures do not “feel real“, after years of using one system our brains are hard wired with the stuff that appears to be the stuff of calculation nightmares, to someone who has grown up with a brain hard wired for metrication. TBH, Imperial measures are meaningless today. The USA has not understood this, but Canada and the rest of the old Commonwealth has. There is no more amusing sight than the US driver I saw at a Canadian ‘Gas Station’, trying to equate Litres into US gallons, in 1982 British Columbia.
Steam engines and mental skills of young people? Maybe a bit left-field, but two weeks ago I was at one of my son’s Stationary Engine Shows and saw three young early – teenage lads buying some “Mamod” model steam engines, then building them on a board laid out on the grass. When I came back later, they were almost done: within a couple of hours the little engines were working and the lads were obviously happy with the results. I spoke to their dads, who said it was the first time the boys had taken an interest in anything other than computers and gaming. Then I thought back to my own youth and the ‘mamods’ I had built with my cousin. Some things have universal appeal to the young male mind!
In short, if us oldpharts were given ‘flexible’ brains by the convolutions inherent in calculating Imperial weights & measures, why are they not flexible enough to make lightning conversions? Mine, I am overly proud to say, is flexible enough for that: but what does that give me that is worthwhile, except for an ability to convert a dead system that only my age group understands, to a living one?
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I'm out.Since putting my Sky router higher, I have had much better WiFi from it. I used to have to park up outside the house before our phones ‘pinged’ to show the WiFi was picked up. Now it happens when I pass the rear of our house on the main road, between a gap in a line of bungalows in front of ours. Goes again until I turn round in the Close.
John: cable is better IF you have Gigabit ethernet cable and the router can transmit Gigabit to the PC, which must have a Network adapter capable of using Gigabit. If it’s 10/100, you might be just as well off with a good WiFi adapter. I have this in my desktop, disabled since I went up to Gigabit and 20 meters of Cat 6 ethernet cable across the loft:
It gave me over 350 Mbps, never had the “up to” 450, but that was a stable 350+, the PC is 2 rooms and a hall away from the router and I don’t have enough sockets in this room for a Powerline adapter. I left it in the PC, can always use it as a standby. When you say “short cables” do you mean just the ethernet cable? That’s no problem, the maximum length for an ethernet cable to avoid signal drop, is reckoned as 100 meters. My No.2 gson has an external Cat 6 of that length up to his room, from dad’s router: the house is old and solid, thick walls, WiFi does not work more than 1 room away downstairs. If you mean the router power line and phone line, longer ones are probably available. I will have a look at that for mine as the router powerline is only just long enough. What first annoyed me about the Sky router was that there are only 2 LAN ports, but the WiFi from the newer Sky routers, is good.
Dave is right about the BT ads: there is exaggeration, then there is BS. One of my neighbours has the latest BT Hub and the signal is not as good as my Sky router: proved by phones and laptop in her garden. Her phone and lappy work over a greater distance in my rear garden than in hers. Sky should bring a case against BT.
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I'm out.“ THIS ISN’T OFF TOPIC, as the boss pointed out one of LFC top sponcors is Nivea. ”
Good point, don’t want to upset His Nibs,do we? :good: :yahoo:
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I'm out.Here you are Marc, switch the Sky box to Freesat:
PDF of Freesat Channel List:
This is probably one of my choices when I get to the end of my Sky contract. Or a Now TV box. Or both!
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I'm out.Blimey Steve I thought Forest had transfer troubles, the club has only just come out of the (unfair) ‘Fair Play’ transfer rules embargo. So a decidedly shady financial sponsor can tell one of the most successful and best-known clubs in English football, to sell a player they don’t like?
That is disgusting. BTW, just watched MoTD 2 on iPlayer, what a player that Couthino is, quick feet, great ability. Hope you keep him. Or send him on loan to the City Ground…. :yahoo:
Don’t know if BlackLion will appreciate that though!
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I'm out.Ed, my grandbrats admire my ability to translate Imperial weights & measures into Metric. I often amaze them with a mental equivalent ” Oh that’s about (XX:XX) – whatever.” Knowing very well that it’s acurate. Our pre-Metric generation had the kind of flexible mental processes that only concepts such as gallons, pints, feet, inches etc., can impart. Not to mention esoteric stuff like chains, Cwt, fathoms, furlongs, Pounds, Shillings and Pence, et al.
And don’t mention 45+ drippy-nosed 5 year olds in a packed, draughty, 1950 classroom, reciting their Times Tables en masse, all the way up to ‘Twelve Times Twelve!’ Visiting my old primary schoolteacher at 12 after being in Technical school a year and hearing that sound, took me back to 5 years old immediately.
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I'm out.” I’d say my team only promote the best. However our sponsor Standard Charter, has one of the most shady histories EVER. ”
As shady as THESE Steve: https://tinyurl.com/5yvho ..?
That’s Forest’s new sponsor, goes with the Greek billionaire shipping tycoon who just bought the club for £50 million from the Kuwaiti Fawaz Al Hasawi, who obviously could not take the pace, as he was only a millionaire. He is the one who sacked 3 managers in our last season, and almost dropped us into League One.
It looks like Evangelos Marinakis is just the Bent Bugga we need, he is trying to set the club on a good business footing. But If he gets banged up for match-fixing, we are back to square One, although out of debt. Temporarily…
Forest supporters are never bored. Often P****d off, sometimes fed up, occasionally angry, but never bored. 152 years old, 3rd oldest club in English football. It’s all probably happened before… :scratch: :whistle: 😥 :unsure:
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I'm out.Get it up high if you can John, and in clear line of devices. This shows my Sky router (small black object) on top of the bookcase. It is diagonally opposite the Q-box, which is at the far end of the lounge. Two rooms and a hall away in this room, I get 72 Mbps on both phones and my tablet. At the kitchen, on the far side of the bungalow, SWMBO gets a full Wls signal on the lappy and 72 Mbps on her phone.
Before I moved it up from the bottom of the bookcase, Wls was poor at around 23 Mbps. I think Dave gave me that advice (Re: putting router up high) in MM forum.
SWMBO loves cushions …. what can I say?
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I'm out.I also have sensitive skin. (SWMBO comments that it is the only sensitive part of me) :negative:
I use Gillette Blue II razors, the cheap ones, as anything else, even the most expensive wet razors, make absolutely no difference. I have used and discarded several electric shavers in the past: they damage my skin more than any wet razors. I use Nivea shaving gel and Nivea after shave balm, which cools my face and really does protect my skin. I have mentioned on the forum before that I have a Lymph System problem which can give me boils and other infections. This routine seems to have kept the problem at bay.
I have a moustache though, because I suffer the same top lip soreness that Marc talks about. Actually, I have worn a ‘tache since service in N.I. in the 70’s. My missus has only ever seen me without it once, when I decided to remove it. She took one look, laughed like a drain and said “Grow it back!” I’m still trying to work that one out…. :scratch: :wacko:
I am also cursed with a facial family heirloom: a large hairy mole on the left cheek, apparently decorating Williams faces for at least the last 7 generations. I have photos of granddad, dad and others with the same mole. One of my nieces was a small girl with a large example in exactly the same place, and opted to have it removed. It became infected after surgery and took several weeks to recover, leaving a nasty scar which meant more surgery. Other family members with the ancestral lump, have decided to let well alone… But it does occasionally object to being shaved, which leaks A Rhesus Neg all over my jaw. :negative: 🙁
I am also afflicted with excessive body hair, as is my son: when my No.1 gson was small, he referred to us as “Granddad and uncle Furry”. :yahoo: I use a Babyliss trimmer to help control my Neandertal appearance – https://tinyurl.com/lpckf3v
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I'm out.I cannot talk about Advanced Mathematics, as I only reached as far as Calculus, algebra and geometry. That I managed to understand and apply most of those, is down to one teacher at my old Technical school, Mr. Crofts. I only began to realise and appreciate the man and his unique way of educating the 800+ boys in the school, when I had been in the world of work (specifically the Army) for some time. I was only ever enthused by Engineering, Tech Drawing (both treated as a combined subject) English and History in my first year. Maths was just too slippery and elusive for my brain, and my first teacher believed in the same methods as Graham D‘s Maths teacher – if it’s on the board and in the book, the pupil’s job is to understand it, no further explanations are necessary. We also had a teacher of French like that, who blew my first year’s interest in Language. Not until I joined the Army, went to other countries and decided to learn other languages, did I find that I had an aptitude for language.
Mr Crofts also took the football teams and helped with the athletics squads. When I could not find a route into my brain for geometry, he took myself and several other sufferers for extra lessons after school. He drew a footy pitch on the blackboard and began with the angles formed by interaction between the lines, then did the same with a running track and a cricket pitch. I remenber clearly the moment that I ‘got it’. The man was just so dedicated and gave so much of his own time to extra curricular activities. He was passed over for Head for years after I left, having made Deputy Head so many times. I believe it was his preference for ‘old school’ education, and his opposition to the Trendies, that meant he would never progress further.
Many of us old students kept in touch over the years, several of us writing to him. When he became ill we took turns visiting him. When he passed away, there were hundreds of us of all ages at the funeral. I do not believe that there would be any of his colleagues, who would have received such a send off. There were grown men, some middle-aged, wiping their eyes inside and outside the church. Including myself: what that man gave me was something priceless. I will never forget him, neither will many more. Perhaps that is the real quality of a man: the respect and love he generates amongst others.
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