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Thanks Graham, I’ll use that link too, when the time comes.
Cheers, Bob.
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I'm out.Thanks Nolan and Ryan. She can use a phone touch screen perfectly well Ryan, doesn’t need a keyboard.
Nolan, looks like it will be Smarty, thanks for the referral offer. I have to contact this very busy old girl and take a look at her phone first, but Smarty will fit her limited requirements. Coverage here is poor: achievable 3G outside all the time, inside occasionally, the Lincolnshire Wolds mask our nearest mast. Text can be done OK inside or out. I know that I will have no problem getting her working with it, as she is still very sharp-minded at 93, hope I have all my marbles if I make it to that age!
I think her initial problems were caused by a niece trying to sort it all out for her over the landline. The niece I have met once a few years ago, tbh she is in her 60’s but not half as intelligent as her aunt.
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I'm out.It’s all over the net: looks like an Airbus Benefit Year.
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I'm out.+1 for Truecaller, thanks for the tip back when Steve.
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I'm out.You misread Dwynne: “The ambulance medics discovered that Thug One had a broken jaw and other facial injuries.”
Brother was enraged enough to leave the house and try to prevent damage to the roses his wife had loved. That was what the thugs wanted, but they should have been careful what they wished for. They attacked him and he defended himself against 3 attackers: having no time to pull a punch, he hit thug 1 perhaps harder than he should have, turned to thug 2, wrestled him to the ground and sat on him until first I and the police arrived, within minutes of each other. Thug 3 ran away. Thug 1 was out cold, had a broken jaw from bro’s punch and the same punch caused other facial damage. Only one punch, but if you had ever met my big bro, you would have seen an ex-Naval stoker and ex-miner, who was also an ex-amateur boxer.
The village was a typical mining village at the time, in that violence was seen as a way of settling disputes. Family feuds were common and that was the reason for the same thugs (all from one family) attacking me later. I agree that my bro caused disproportionate damage, but if anyone is attacked and outnumbered, there can be no doubting the defender’s right to defend themselves and there is no time in that scenario to consider what is or is not ‘reasonable force’. I do not defend the times and the actions, but they were of their time and place.
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I'm out.I found both links interesting, but Richard‘s ICO link was an illustration of the way that the UK will deal with GDPR issues after Brexit. I found particular interest in the ICO’s handling of TPS (Telephone Preference Services) complaints from people signed up to TPS, who were still receiving “cold calls” from telesales people.
I await a possible response from Ed with anticipation: very unlike you to miss something like this, Ed!
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I'm out.This is our Surgery website, http://tinyurl.com/y6q3ya74
I click “Order prescription online” and get this: http://tinyurl.com/y4ty7466
When either of us input the password, the medication pops up along with last date ordered and date when we can order again. I actually used it this morning to order 2 items, one of which is a 5 litre container of the stuff I have to wash and shower with. Because the surgery car park gets full, has only one Blue Badge space, and my missus needs the extra space to get out and into the car, we have our scrips taken to the Co Op pharmacy in town and they deliver large items like the 5 litres. that will be with me tomorrow, along with the smaller item. We had some bad times with the dispensary staff in the past, until I spoke with the Practice Manager and promised that my next protest move would be an official NHS Complaint procedure.
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I'm out.Thanks Dwynne.
My query was in regard to a case within my family around 1983, involving my big brother, then in the first stages of what became the lung cancer that killed him. He was living alone at the time, after the death of his wife my lovely SIL. He phoned to tell me that there were 3 thugs banging on his doors and walls, after a pub argument they came to his house. I advised him to call the police and made my way down there, a few streets away. My big bro was a very hard guy, in his mid 50’s then but still handy. I had asked him to wait for the police, but watching them tear up his wife’s roses was too much. By the time the police arrived one thug was unconscious, he was holding another in a full Nelson, and the third had run off.
When I arrived, the Sergeant who was the Senior Officer turned out to be an old schoolmate. He was very apologetic, but had to carry out his duty, arrested my brother and sent for an ambulance. Both my brother and I understood that. There was an elderly witness next door, who gave a statement to the effect that he had been threatened by the thugs and told not to interfere. The ambulance medics discovered that Thug One had a broken jaw and other facial injuries. Brother, (not for the first time), was summoned on an ABH charge, bailed and attended court: I took him.
The magistrate threw out the case. The Thugs appealed and that was refused. They then tried to make a case out of the fact that the arresting officer and I were old friends and that is how their case was put together. Unfortunately they had the Sergeant as arresting officer, when in fact it was his PC who carried out the arrest. This affair simmered until after my brother’s death in ’88, when it boiled over and I was attacked by thugs One and Two whilst walking home late from the Welfare. Unfortunately for them, I had been trained by my brother and the Army: I got up and decked them both, then used a street phone to call the police. Both Thugs were arrested, which cheered me up, and both received heavy fines.
I tell this story to illustrate the snowball effect that can ensue from one stupid act of what is seen as revenge. I understand “Reasonable Force” and what a necessarily ambiguous phrase that is. Either of the above events could have resulted in my brother or myself being convicted and possibly jailed, but that did not happen because of the checks and balances represented by our justice system and the common sense of associated personnel.
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I'm out.Go to a Main Post Office John, one that sells different size boxes and wrapping material. Take a tape measure and the dimensions of the PC and check them out.
Post Office boxes: http://tinyurl.com/yyatv4ex
Alternatively, Amazon do these, check out the dimensions:
Davpac, you can phone these and give the dimensions:
I have one from my current desktop, but I will be needing it later this year. Good Luck!
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I'm out.TANDY !!
– Or Radio Shack, if you managed to get US imports.
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I'm out.Dwynne, I have a question, based upon what happened to a family member a few years ago.
An intruder breaks into someone’s home and utters a verbal threat to kill the occupant, heard by a witness next door. Would the threatened occupant have a valid defence in stating that he (or she) was in fear of their lives, after using force to defend themselves, which culminated in severe injury to the intruder?
I’ll tell you the outcome after reading your opinion.
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I'm out.It was an attention-seeking act by an idiot who had not considered what might happen as a result. Had there been anything like professional Security at the venue, she might have wound up on the deck, possibly injured.
Should think herself lucky to live in a country that allows deluded idiots to carry out stupid, irrelevant ‘protest’ wherever and whenever they wish. Had that happened in the USA, she might well have been shot. Had I been in this guy’s shoes at that moment, I would have carried out more or less the same actions. Using ‘all reasonable force’ of course.
Fully expecting litigation by this female muppet.
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I'm out.Not much to choose between AOC and HP tbh OT, but I have had an HP VH240a for over a year now and am very happy with it. Been watching Women’s World Cup on it: full HD 1080p is brilliant, even lesser HD is good.
Have to look where I got this from, but I know I paid less than £135.60.
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I'm out.Electrolux vacuum cleaners.
Thor Parnell washing machines.
Arena Hi Fi. Eagle Hi Fi.
Temple Instruments Wolverhampton. (gone with so much British Industry) I learned Tech Drawing with these:
The set pictured in (1 to 5) was mine, bought as a present by my namesake maternal uncle Bob, when I started at Technical school in 1956. My No. 1 gson has it now, still uses it, all working perfectly. although he uses CAD at work, he likes to use the TI set at home.
They quite literally do not make them like that anymore, because there is not the mass demand there once was. I remember sitting on a draughtsman’s stool in ‘Engineering Workshop Theory’ and drawing onto an inclined drawing board. Making plans in 3 view and isometric, for items we would make in later classes of ‘Engineering Workshop Practical’. Using lathes, millers, pedestal drills, forges, you name it. From 11 years old, Elfin Safety would not allow that now. A wonderful education that stayed with me all my life. Thank you so much, and RIP, Messrs. Crittenden and Marriott.
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I'm out.Camp Coffee! My dad loved that, but no one else would drink it the way he made it: three spoons of Camp, two of sugar and a big dollop of what both he and my FIL called “exasperated” milk. That’s evaporated milk to you and me. My FIL and my own father never met, as dad passed away a few months before I first met my missus. When I first told FIL that my dad had not only drunk Camp coffee, but also ate sandwiches made with “Daddie’s Sauce“, FIL said “So what, so did I!” I have always wished that they had met, because they had so much in common, including a wicked SOH.
Camp was actually made with Chicory, from the Chicory root: –
During WWII my Romany paternal gran grew the root in an extension to the cellar in their ancient cottage, which she dug herself. She sold it on the sly to some bloke who made his own “coffee” out of it, which must have been rough as even my dad would not drink it. It was of course a substitute for real coffee, unobtainable during the War years and for some time afterwards. In Germany I learned that ‘Ersatz’ coffee had been made in WWII from burnt acorns.
“Liqorfruita” cough syrup, supposedly tasted and smelled like rotten onions according to my brothers, but apparently I wolfed it down as a nipper. “Beecham’s Pills”, fed to me by mother because I ‘looked bilious’ whatever that means. I learned from my missus that her mother fed them to her, for the same reason.
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I'm out.I have just read a great book by a guy called Gary Bell: “Animal QC”. I intend to post about in Book Topics, so will not say much more here than ‘Heartily Recommended.”
Anyway, one of Gary’s cases was defending a bunch of Dog-fight breeders and users. Several dogs were used in this case, brought by the RSPCA and the police. All were injured and scarred, none could be rehomed as they were all trained for nothing else but killing other dogs, for ‘sport’ and financial gain. The defendant was convicted and jailed along with his partners in crime, despite Gary’s defence. As they were taking them down, the convicted crim learned that all the dogs were going to be put down.
“And the RSPCA call themselves animal lovers!” he shouted. I don’t think there could be a suitable answer to the ignorance and stupidity in that remark.
The same kind of stupidity that lets animals escape from testing laboratories, with nowhere to go, knowing no life outside the lab. That invades a chicken farm and letting all the chickens out, naming it as cruel, when all the chickens are free range during daytime, inside only at night. Happened near us, most of the chickens not recaptured, died.
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I'm out.3 years ago I made the mistake of taking Sky Q TV, BB and calls. It took them ages and several
offersbribes to talk me into it. One of the inducements was a big spray bottle of lens cleaner, with 2 microfibre cloths. We have used that ever since, for TV screen, monitor and laptop screens, phones, tablets and specs. The bottle is still a good 1/3 full after 3 years, the lens cleaner does a great job and the cloths come out of the washer to be used as if newSky Q did not last so long: gone 2 years ago. The best thing that came out of Sky for us, was the engineer they sent, who found faults that BT missed. This resulted in a new line to the house, moved nearer to a new BT socket that was stamped BT and not “GPO” (I kid you not). At least I got something out of the deal that lasted!
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I'm out.Glad you’re doing better and getting fitter Nolan, building muscle is the right way to protect bone and ligaments when you have osteo and/or rheumatoid problems. That’s what I was told some years ago, just wish I could repeat the exercise I could carry out when I was younger, especially weight training (not weight lifting) and running.
I can’t remember the name of the stuff they gave me after my cancer battle reduced my weight so much. It was like a very thick beige milkshake and I had to down a litre a day. Initially the taste was fine, but the more I drank, the less I liked it. It did put some weight back on, but it wasn’t until my appetite came back, (with a vengeance!) well after chemo that I really replaced what I had lost. When I felt fit again, I was off walking 2 or 3 times a day, from ‘around the block’ to 3 or 4 miles along the beach or the Coast Path. Takes me ages to get anywhere, but I get there. Well, if I can’t run…
All the best with your efforts mate!
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I'm out.Thanks Mark. I was about to try that when I found that my efforts to disable the touchpad, had not actually succeeded. It kept reinstalling itself! I looked into it, asked No.1 gson and discovered that the way to disable it was via Device Manager , yes, but then go to Mice and other pointing devices – (not HID Mouse) – PSU (?) Mouse. Disabled the latter and SWMBO has now been typing without problems today.
Hopefully that’s it solved. I will hear a wail of despair if it isn’t and it will of course be AMF (All My Fault.) As usual.??
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I'm out.Tested with another external KB JCD: same result. So it isn’t the KB.
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