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A mate and I were discussing this the other day. He blames the tendency of today’s young women towards more masculine work and activities, and the increased tendency of young men towards more ‘femininity’. That includes, he says, the rising number of women in what was men’s work. This developed into an argument between us, as I pointed out that women had been taking male work since the munitions factories, bus and tram driving, farm labouring and other work in WWI. After a brief period of peace, a large part of the male population left to fight WWII and the women took back ‘male’ jobs again. I pointed to my own background: growing up in a pit village, women worked in clothing factories, most of the men at the pit, some in engineering, some joined HMF. In the same village today, sans pit, the local women work at any job they can find, and so do the men. I told him he was a dinosaur and he left in a huff. I can carry a debate to the point at which I may admit I am wrong, but not even a long-standing mate can make me admit to being wrong when I am convinced I am not. Years of that attitude probably explains the shape of my nose…
But it is a fact that Western men do not have the position as Master of the House that they once had. Ed is right I believe with ” …farm spraying of insecticides and anti-fungals plays a big role.” and I suggest that pollution and diet also play a part. Porn: I don’t know whether that has a negative or positive effect, if you understand my meaning. I certainly believe that paedophilia was never as rife as it has become. Whether male and female homosexuality has increased or was always at the extent it is now, is something that cannot be ascertained now, I think.
I mean no criticism of any one group by that last, I have a couple of gay friends, but all of the above factors must play a part. I have been present at the birth of my two biological children and it is an experience that made me thankful to be born male, but a woman who has not given birth, for whatever good reason, means at least one less child and future adult.
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I'm out.Thanks for the replies guys.
Symptoms, Dave: wife will be typing into any search box, website, OO or Office doc, in fact anywhere she needs to type. Cursor may or may not jump to another location, text suddenly jumps and goes up, down, sideways and/or inserts itself in the middle of the text already typed.
Checked the loom Ed, I have the Lenovo Manual for this laptop and could completely strip it if I wished. Nothing out of place or position.
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I'm out.Population is growing in either less-developed countries, or developing countries with huge populations, therefore unable or unwilling to educate all of their people. This will produce an exponentially – growing number of ‘have-nots’ who will have more and more reasons to take from the ‘haves’.
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I'm out.Dave we holidayed in a Somerset Levels B&B around 28 years ago, can’t remember the name but it was out in the sticks and we could see the Tor from the farm and the tiny village. (With a great pub!) Apparently the place had flooded during the winter that year and the drive to the cottage had been almost washed away. I believe much of the Levels is like the south Lincs flatlands, which had once been Fenland and was at, or in some cases below, sea level. Lots of “X____ marsh” place names in the area.
We have also had help from the Netherlands, who have carried out beach renourishment for some years now and have saved much of our coastline.
Another reason to thank our European neighbours….
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Should be Carlsberg, should be a Green bottle, never mind.
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I'm out.I always use a mouse with a laptop John, can’t use the swipe on a lappy and am more comfortable with the mouse. But, just as you say, I can use the swipe fine on phone or tablet. I suppose mouse on a lappy is what I’m used to, but swipe on the others is what I have had to do to use them.
Oldphart heads are funny places!
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I'm out.Duke explains what I meant by linking John. Logging into any device you have with android and/or a Google searchbar, lets you access your Google account from any of those devices. If the device has Google but you have not used your account on it, just input your gmail or Google account into the searchbar.
An 8″ tablet is definitely easier to use than a 10″: I have taken Google photos with both of mine and it is easier to hold, although I prefer taking them with my phone. I also have Android Open Office on the phones and tablets, besides the desktop and laptop. I can print doc’s from any of these, although Google docs works just as well.
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I'm out.A feminist boards a bus and an old man gets up. “Sit down you misogynistic old fart” she says and pushes him down.
At the next stop another woman gets on and the old guy gets up again. “Patronising old git!” says this one and he is shoved back down.
At yet another stop several women get on and the old man gets up again. “Sexist old swine!” says one and pushes him back onto the seat.
“Please, please, let me off this bus!” he wails “I missed my house three stops ago!”
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A man goes into a fishmongers carrying a salmon under his arm. “Do you make fishcakes?” he asks.
“Yes we do.” replies the fishmonger.
“Oh good,” says the customer “It’s his birthday.”
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Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says “Dam!”
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I'm out.I find red web pages distinctly irritating. I consciously posted little yesterday as I knew I would be easily and maybe irrationally angered at small things.
I thought that was just me Ed, glad someone else feels that way. A nice cool blue is a soothing colour. My favourite colour is Royal Blue, closely followed by Magenta. But they would be inappropriate and irritating on a website, for me.
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I'm out.Notts:
‘er legs is like sparrers kneecaps!” (She is a very thin young lady)
“Yer dunt get many o’ them ter t’ pahnd!” (She is a very well-endowed lady)
” ‘E’s a tanner short uv arf a crahn!” (He appears to be lacking in intelligence)
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I'm out.Have to revise one of the Potteries sayings, before Les jumps in. (ayup Les, ‘ow ‘at?)
“‘cos kick a bo’ agen a wo’, yed eet back an’ bost eet?”
Can you kick a ball against a wall, head it back and burst it?
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I'm out.Ed, maybe the US has made a practice run, using Argentina? –
As for UFO’s, I was once taking mates back from a very late night in Nottingham clubs (not drink driving, it was my turn to drive sober) when we were convinced that we had seen some green UFO’s. I pulled over, they staggered out and we looked at these green lights, flashing across the sky. It definitely was not the aurora borealis, I had seen that in Norway and these were circles of light, criss crossing the sky. “You’re sober,” said one mate “do you see that?” I certainly did, I said.
We watched it for some time and it was still all happening when we left. Next day I learned from the local news, that some idiot Yuppy party-goers had got hold of laser machines at a big country house. The lights had been bouncing off high clouds as they swung the lasers across the sky. IIRC, the miscreants had been reported by aircrew flying into East Midlands airport. I believe they were charged, probably with endangering aircraft.
So no alien invasion, although when I watch the TV news and the antics of our politicians, I begin to think the aliens got here some time ago. And they are not a particularly advanced bunch either.
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I'm out.I repeat that I would not buy a Windows tablet John, and others here say the same in different ways. Android works better and takes up much less storage and RAM.
If you have a Google account on your PC, whether that is by Gmail or just an account, you can link a tablet/phone/whatever android device you like, to the PC. We have a Windows desktop, Windows laptop, 2 android phones, Hudl and Lenovo tablets. All are linked and networked, I can access SWMBO’s phone and laptop, she can access my phone and tablets but not the desktop. (thankfully! some things are sacred!) She can access her Google account on phone and laptop, I can access my Google account on desktop, phones and tablets. We have linked our Google photos across devices: when she takes a pic, it comes to mine. And vice-versa.
It’s an interconnected home and it makes things easier.
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I'm out.How different people have different colour preferences, fascinates me. Sometimes you get drawn into something that you don’t expect. For example: my eldest niece is a Forest fanatic, as are 99% of my family in Notts*. When I drove over there in my red Tucson a couple of years ago, she was happy with the colour choice. Now I have been a Forest supporter for 67 years, but I base my car choices on other factors but colour. When I drove over in the iX20, she pulled a face: “It’s BLUE!”
Told that I couldn’t care less, she was not impressed.
My eldest granddaughter is very girly and likes purple or pink. Her younger cousin is not at all girly, hates pink, thinks purple is daft. She likes blue. The boys don’t care, as long as it drives OK and/or doesn’t wear out quickly.
*The 1% is a Man U sheep. We try to talk to him, but it’s an ordeal.
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I'm out.I have a Lenovo Android 8″ tablet and bought my gdaughter a 10″ Dragon tablet at the same time. Her 1o” was slow, as are all budget tablets below iPad spec, but the resolution was carp, compared to the Lenovo and Hudl 8″ I also have. The Dragon was replaced by a Thinkpad laptop as Steve says. IMO tablets are fine if that’s what you want as occasional backup for a laptop or desktop, especially when linked to them and your phone via a Google account. However I would never contemplate one as a main PC: some of the tasks on them are painfully slow. And I would not buy a Windows tablet anyway: android uses much less of everything.
John, have you read the Amazon Reviews and the Questions? This is one of the Answers to a Question about Resolution:
“..my answer to your question the resolution is good however think twice before you purchase, it is very slow and for some reason loses hard drive space, if it wasn’t for the spare card I would have no space to load programs, I had to return my unit and all they did was remove the windows ten and reload it after about ten days the hard drive started to lose space again and I had to reset it once more,hope this helps
By c.w.terry on 20 October 2018 ”Sounds like a memory leak, or background processes that don’t stop? – maybe others will know.
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I'm out.Nottinghamshire:
“Where’s me mam?” – “Up shires, a’ back a’ Josses, where thee kill dead ‘osses!” (A reply to someone which means nothing, except maybe that the asker already knows the location of his/her mother)
“Gi’ ‘ova wi’ that else ah’ll belt ya one!” (Stop doing that, or I will strike you!)
“Eyup mi duck, are yer orlrate?” (Hello my friend, are you well?)
“Fetch me an errand me duck. Ah’ll gi’ yer threpence.” (Go to get me some shopping and I will give you three pence)
The difference between “mi duck” and “my duck” is subtle: ‘mi duck’ is a friend, ‘my duck’ usually a family member.
I love Britain and its dialects, there is nowhere in the world like it. The distance between Notts and North Staffs is around 85 miles and Derbyshire lies between them, but the dialects are very different.
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I'm out.I share a lot of Les’ Potteries sayings, having parents from Wolstanton, granddad & great-granddad born in Burslem. (“Boslem”)
“That’s a codge-modge, ah conna eat eet!” (That meal is a mix up, I could not eat it!)
“Ah’ll ave that when eet’s gone under th’arms!” (I’ll have that when it’s worn out!)
“Ayup, ‘ow at, orate?” (Hello, how are you, are you well?)
And my all-time favourite:
“‘cos kick a bo’ agen a wo’ an bost eet?” – (Can you kick a ball against a wall until you burst it?”)
The Potteries for me were a magical place when I was young. With a magical language that I learned to speak fluently. I visited every school holiday, from age 8, travelling over on 5 or 6 buses. I lived and went to school there for over 2 years aged from 6 or 7 to 8 or 9.
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I'm out.Steve I told my missus that one. Her reply after a good laugh was “Don’t join a golf club.” I’m still trying to work out what she meant… Anyway –
A farmer is slowly getting very drunk in his local and this is unusual for him, as he has a small and old-fashioned dairy farm and he cannot afford to drink much. The landlord asks him why he is intent on getting smashed.
“I was milking Daisy this morning when she kicked out her left leg and knocked over the bucket. So I tied that leg to a post and carried on. Then she kicked out her right leg and knocked over the bucket again. So I tied that leg to the other post and carried on. She knocked over the bucket with her tail next. So I used my belt to tie up her tail to an overhead post.” The farmer takes a big swallow of booze, then another.
“Then what happened?” asked the landlord.
“Then my trousers fell down and the wife walked into the dairy.”
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A woman sitting opposite a fat bloke on the Tube says to him “If that stomach was on a woman I would think she was pregnant.”
The man sighs.
“It was. She is.”
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I'm out.Don’t need the sunglasses now thanks Lee. The blue is good, I like red on a Forest shirt but not much else.
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