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I lost two very good mates to this terrible affliction and my brother, who we thought had Alzheimers, turns out to have Vascular Dementia. *His eldest was a staff nurse and kept digging for answers* until they carried out scans and found, in the words of a consultant who should used a better description, that “ … his brain is turning to soup.” It explains why he deteriorated so quickly from the fun-loving guy we knew, to an 89 yo who does not know his wife, 6 kids, numerous grandkids and gt-grandkids, or myself, who has known him all my life. Sits in a commode chair all day and has the family constitution, which means that he goes on and on well after his mind has left the building, if you know what I mean. Not being overly facetious here, it’s just that we all know what the situation is doing to his frail, 88 yo wife, who will not let the kids put him somewhere which might allow her some peace. The brother I knew is not there anymore and it breaks my heart.
Hope your mum’s partner does not reach anywhere near that point Nolan: there appear to be great strides made in treatment.
*Considering that my eldest niece has had double breast cancer, lymph cancer and then a stroke, followed by occasional seizures,* I have a very high opinion of the lass. She is something else.
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I'm out.A very good point, well made Ed.
However, I do not believe that Farage would have the qualities of patience or statesmanship, to achieve results in those circumstances. Bombast and misplaced patriotism are more his characteristics.
I would rather vote for a candidate representing the Church of The Militant Elvis Party:
It makes more sense than a vote for Farage, IMHO. I am delighted and proud to report that David Bishop, AKA ‘Lord Biro’ is a man from my birth city of Nottingham, where he has garnered most votes in his interesting political career.
A Nottingham lad. It figures….
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I'm out.Thanks Ed, sent link to No.2 Gson. Much appreciated.
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I'm out.April 17, 2019 at 11:22 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #32748Every aircraft that I ever came across as an AAC technician, whether fixed or rotary winged, was fitted with heater elements in the pitot tube. Even the ‘dinosaur’ that was the Auster. Alan Wood and Drezha will perhaps support the fact that the correct operation of the pitot tube heater is part of pre flight checks, in the RAF, FAA and AAC.
Any new aircraft programme, including drones, is always subject to problems. There are many disasters and failures in the history of flight, from the birth of ballooning in the early 18th century. Much of it is caused by the ‘learning process’ when new conditions and physical limits are encountered. Unfortunately, human error is also a factor, but when aircraft began to be a “product” on sale in quantity for profit, competition and human greed became an issue. This is further complicated when national ‘pride’ caused governments to get involved.
Not every manufacturer and government take the steps and meet the expense of rectifying a problem that causes many deaths. Some will evade the issue entirely, which is the case of Boeing and the US government at this moment. It is to the credit of De Havilland and the British government of the time, that millions were spent to investigate, find and rectify the problem which caused the Comet crashes. However, it took three crashes in less than twelve months, before those steps were taken. At the time, how could aeronautical designers and engineers have known that fitting square passenger windows would cause cracks, leading to explosive decompression and the certain deaths of everyone aboard?
Humans take new paths after a trial and error process, throughout history. But when the profit motive blinds those who decide to ignore the facts, tragedies follow.
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I'm out.Living and mostly traveling in a very rural area, I don’t have problems that some other Forumites have with heavy urban traffic problems. However, the best reason for a school 20 MPH limit explains itself in two local locations. One is in the village of Trusthorpe, near Mablethorpe, the other in a very small hamlet, North Ormsby. (Name is much longer than the hamlet!) Trusthorpe school lies between a series of very sharp bends and has holiday traffic driving through there, for example day trippers from the East Midlands come through on Fridays, after taking a long weekend.
Ormsby is a tight, country “Rat Run” road, used by locals to avoid A16 traffic and get to the A18/M18/Humber Bridge and airport roads, or the Laceby Morrisons large supermarket, faster. The Primary school is on a long straight road and its pupils are from many villages in a large radius. I use it fairly often, and always keep my speed down in school hours, but other drivers go through there far too fast. The limit is obviously necessary in both locations, but I can understand the objections and problems in Urban areas. One problem is clearly pollution: driving at 20 MPH creates heavier exhaust pollution from any vehicle. These two examples are typical of many Lincolnshire rural Primary school locations. Secondary schools are usually in the larger towns, and this creates another problem as Secondary pupils are bused home to villages and often have to leave the bus in hazardous areas. In my village this is complicated by the placement of a bus stop between a series of twisting bends on the A157. Further complications are happening as the village is receiving lots of new housing along the same stretch of road, with building traffic and utility companies using heavy vehicles. Atm it is a nightmare, when the holiday traffic starts coming for the bank holiday it will be much, much worse. Just crossing the road to the shop will mean taking our lives in our hands, trying to see/hear traffic around the bends.
Richard, one only has to look at these protesters to realise that, although many are there to make a genuine attempt to bring Climate Change to the notice of governments, others are not. They are the same self-confessed ‘Anarchists’ who go to each and every “Protest” occasion, simply to use the crowds as a screen to hide the pointless destruction and criminal damage they cause to property. Most of this tribe have never worked in their lives, some are obviously well spoken and possibly well educated: the expense of their education wasted in the same way as their lives are a waste of space.
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I'm out.90% of A roads around my neck of the woods, are single carriageway. Today I drove the A16 to Grimsby to get SWMBO’s birthday pressie for tomorrow*. There are speed camera signs along the whole stretch of road, with a few built up areas. The “cameras” take the form of one camera van, which appears and disappears in various places. Today it was sat in a village layby: the village has a 40 MPH limit. That was pretty sneaky, or good enforcement if you prefer! It was on my nearside driving up and set I think to catch those coming downhill at a rate of knots, some coming from Grimsby and some from the A18/Humber Bridge/M18/M62. Having learned my lesson some years ago, I take care not to break the limit. However, the whole purpose of the ‘Trap’ was completely lost, as there are bends about 75 metres away in each direction and the dozens of trucks going to the Humber ports were flashing drivers before they made the bends. On my return, either the officers in the van had realised why ‘custom’ was not happening, or the station canteen had fired up the bacon sarnies. Either way, they were gone.
*Been asking for a month what pressie my missus wants. Made her mind up yesterday, ??? wore out much shoe leather to find exactly the necklace she wants. Why are all the jewellery shop assistants women, why are they are so superior, and why do they think they know more than I do about what my missus likes? I have been buying her this stuff for many years and know what works. Eventually I found an old – style shop and a male assistant who listened, then brought out a selection.
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I'm out.You’re right Chris, it is Firefly. Also corrected by No.1 Gson. Thought you might like this pic of his sister at CCF, she was up for her first flight last week in the elementary trainer, the Tutor. Now wants to be a pilot, or any aircrew.
Tutor: http://tinyurl.com/yb53ynhn
Gdaughter:
Out of 3 grandkids, 2 boys 2 girls, only one in uniform is youngest Gd! Should have expected it, she has always been a tomboy. Loves football and running, when young she preferred dinosaurs and dragons to dolls, hates pink. Gave up Dance when it clashed with CCF. Just been here with mum, gave her permission to show this pic when I explained your CCF connections. One day I will take her to IWM Hendon.
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I'm out.My old village in Notts was surrounded by 3 hills, the highest was Church Hill and the second highest in the county. There was a beautiful view of Trent Vale from the church, or better still from the pub, “The Bird In Hand”, which is a local pub restaurant and has live entertainment. A few miles away by road, but closer as the Crow flies, is Newstead Abbey, which was never completely destroyed by Henry VIII and was home to Lord Byron.
There were tunnels from St. Marys Church in Blidworth, dug by the Abbey monks, which go all the way to the Abbey and were used to smuggle out much of the Abbey valuables when Henry’s vandals came calling. It is said that they found the Abbey in such a poor state that they did not have the heart to do much damage. One of my boyhood mates and myself decided to test out the tunnels, despite warnings that they were dangerous. We took candles and counted our steps: got to over 700 before the candles began to die, so came back – obviously due to the Black Damp that our dads had told us happened underground, they were both miners. ‘Black Damp’ is of course CO² and we would have been very foolish to have carried on further into the tunnels.
AFAIK those tunnels, or their remains, are still there. Some idiot developer decided to build an apartment block over them, next to the church, to provide Rooms With Views. Despite everyone advising them that the ground would not take the weight, they built. Now the apartments are all cracked and leaning walls. Last I heard, the developer and builder were being sued. together with the Council Building Inspectors who passed it.
If anyone here is ever in the area, the church is worth a visit. It was a place of worship in Celtic and later Saxon times and that part of the village is called ” ‘owd village” by locals. It was old when the Domesday Book was put together, old when the Saxons came. And the Bird In Hand pub does a good meal. (Known locally as ‘Bod.”)
Check out the pub, local history and views:
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I'm out.Sorry mate, hope you get better soon!
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I'm out.Totally agree with your post Dwynne. Only had to do the dreaded door knock to a new widow once, during a short spell as Regimental Police in BAOR. A young Bombardier had wrapped his BMW around a huge tree whilst driving at some speed and was killed instantly. I had to go and tell his even younger wife, who met me at the door. After giving the awful news, her reaction was to attack me and I had to allow her to take that out on me. Never forgotten it, never will.
Years later I was recovering vehicles, working as workshop foreman. I saw so many RTC’s that caused fatalities and life-changing injuries. In every case, speeding was involved, sometimes complicated by careless and/or dangerous driving. Many of the officers I met at these incidents, were as visibly sickened by what they had to do, as I was. It is absolutely true: speed kills. I am no saint here, having been caught twice driving a few MPH over the limit many years ago, but I drive within the limit now and have done for years.
The numbers using phones while driving is just as bad as speeding and drink driving, IMHO. This is a step in the right direction I think:
Atm it cannot differentiate between drivers and passengers, but a passenger answering for the driver can ignore the warning.
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I'm out.I live in a Seniors Ghetto. (God’s waiting Room, Sheltered Housing) I am surrounded by Zombies. One was placed underground yesterday, we all hope he stays there. ???
It’s being determinedly irreverent, that keeps us all going here. For a bit, anyway.?
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I'm out.I read somewhere that they are trialling red dye (the type the banks use to stain money if stolen,) on the tusks / horns which renders them useless for ivory or powder potions. Was it a wind up?
Well, Obama did say “… you can put lipstick on a Pig…” Why not on Rhinos and elephants? Might make them more attractive to each other and thus go some way towards slowing their extinction.
I get these thoughts ….
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I'm out.Dwynne I simply do not have the health and vitality left to contemplate taking a candidacy, from any Party.
Funding would not be an issue for two of the offers, very restricted for the other which is however the one I would prefer, should I have decided to stand. I have carried out some limited research, mostly by the traditional British activity of “Playing One Against The Other”. ??? I found out the names of those who recommended me to two of the parties, then learned to my surprise that the 3rd person was a retired Labour Councillor from a Ward where I lived in Louth before coming to the village where I now live. I had worked with this Councillor to force a developer to pay for Land Drainage which the developer’s builders had damaged beyond repair. The Councillor was the best example of a local representative, in that she worked with other Parties to get results for her Ward. She did not, btw, recommend me to the Labour Party as an MEP candidate, as she has said that she no longer has faith in the Party that she worked for, over so many years. A comment upon Corbyn’s leadership and influence, I think.
This is one of those occasions when I really do wish that I was younger and in better health. I would have sincerely wished to have applied for the candidacy, probably as an Independent. Which gives a clue as to the 3rd Party. Looking at what might have been, if I won the (short-lived) seat, I would refuse the pension and make that decision known to the media, very publicly. I would have liked the money of course, but we are not (yet) in poverty and it would make a statement about one of the things I hate about the EU: that the Brussels bureaucrats are over-rewarded for their services. A reform that Cameron originally wanted to make, but got lost by jumping too soon.
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I'm out.I watched that too Dave. It always delights me that archaeologists are all so enthusiastic about their work. Nationality does not seem to matter; whether in China, Egypt, Britain or America, they are all the same. Passionate about the subject and always like a kid with a new toy when a new discovery is made.
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I'm out.Thanks to Laura Kuensberg for drawing my attention to the fact that the extension ends on Halloween. As she says ” You couldn’t quite make it up. The new Brexit deadline is, you guessed it, Halloween. “
Tusk: ” “Let me finish with a message to our British friends: This extension is as flexible as I expected, and a little bit shorter than I expected, but it’s still enough to find the best possible solution. Please do not waste this time.” ”
European Commission President Jean-Claude
WJuncker said: “There will probably be a European election in the UK – that might seem a bit odd, but rules are rules and we must respect European law and then we will see what happens.”All quotes from BBC news today.
I hope that was addressed to British politicians, not British people. Those are the idiots who have caused delay and confusion with a mix of power conflicts and incompetence.
Stand by for TM PM leaving, a renewed power struggle in the Tory party, continuing dissension in Labour. European elections. maybe a GE, Local Government elections already scheduled. Is 6 months long enough? Merkel wanted more, Macron wanted 6 months. The Germans continue to shrink from appearing to be in control, when it is their (and our) contribution that keeps the whole EU vehicle’s wheels turning. When we leave, Germany will bear the brunt. Their economy is currently dipping.
We live in Interesting Times. Please take me back to 1950, things were simple then.???
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I'm out.Yep, usually there are just one or two big heads, like when Portillo fell in 1997 or Clegg and Balls in 2015. Come the next GE I suspect there will be a lot of household names losing their feeding place at the trough.
Actually, if you think about it, Clegg was emasculated by Cameron – ask any Uni ex – student still paying off fees.??
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I'm out.Thanks Lee, watching that. Some of the tackles those lasses make would have John Terry wincing!
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I'm out.Daft question or have you done this, Ryan? – Tried connecting it to the internet via Ethernet instead of WiFi?
Sorry if you already tried it, but I had a similar problem with a neighbour’s PC some time ago. Her son had messed up the network by trying to manually connect her phone, his phone and her tablet, instead of letting them locate the router. Then, he said, he “Adjusted stuff.” but could not explain what stuff he ‘adjusted’. I fixed it by saving data, music, photos etc, doing a reinstall connected via Ethernet, reinstalling all drivers. Let both phones find the router, used password to install phones and tablet to network.
He actually knows less than his mum, who asked me to install a new router password and a new password to her PC. Obviously she does not want him to use her network again during his (infrequent) visits.
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I'm out.Good link Ed. I wonder if UK would have been -er -allowed- to report something similar about a UK manufacturer?
” “Airlines don’t want Boeing to give them a fancy new product if it requires them to retrain their pilots,” said Matthew Menza, a former 737 Max test pilot for Boeing. “So you iterate off a design that’s 50 years old. The old adage is: If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” ”
It wasn’t broke. So they fixed that!
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