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Nice to get a second opinion JCD!
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I'm out.Thanks guys, that changes my mind again! Think I will get the Honor 10 Lite. There is only a few pence between Amazon and Carphone W. price, and CW guy in Louth was offering me some Freebies, so it looks like I will be going there. Checking it out well of course.
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I'm out.During my early years living at home in an NCB estate house with coal fires, my dad received free coal every month as part of his job*. He would ‘volunteer’ me from childhood to join him in shoveling coal into the coal house: as we reached almost overflow, adding another plank to the barrier which kept the coal inside. By the time I was about 12 I could heave a pan shovel right up and over the top barrier. That gave me a build like my dad and brothers, we all had Ricketts, so great upper bodies and bendy legs!
Dad decided to make his own firelighters and kindling from whatever he could “borrow” at the pit. He borrowed a cheese slicer, like a paper guillotine, from the local Co Op, who were throwing it out. My big bro repaired it, dad put sides on it to make a rectangle. Dad borrowed regular amounts of sawdust from the colliery joinery shop, and paraffin from some other pit workshop. He half- pressed the sawdust in the home made press, added paraffin, stirred it and pressed it down hard. He made several of these things at once, showed me how to do it, convinced me it was fun and gave me the job permanently. It took me a few years to understand what a clever, devious, fun guy my dad was! The fire lighters worked very well.
The problem with living in our particular colliery village during the coal – burning years, was that the village was on 3 hills and we lived in the valley, the Dale. Consequently, I must have been breathing in pollution for all my younger life. When driving into the village from any of the entrance roads, it was always a descent. looking down in winter, the village was wreathed in smoke from all the chimneys and the huge colliery boilers. How we all survived from kids, I don’t know! But we did.
*Dad would always slip the NCB delivery lads a few quid to get more coal, which
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I'm out.TY guys, grateful for the advice.
Turned off the Honor (which is a Huawei cheaper model) because the battery is not removable. I want to be able to remove the battery if/when it dies and replace it. Cannot discover if the G6 Plus has a removable battery, but I think I will go for that. It appears £10 cheaper on Amazon, until you see it’s listed last year and is a lesser model. I was told at Carphone Warehouse Louth that the Honor 10 Lite comes with a free case and charger, which seems to me a bit of a marketing ploy. Anyway, I will go back there and see what Freebies I can get with the G6 Plus.
Does anyone know if the G6 has a removable battery? Or are most phones sold without removable batteries now? I can split cases of our WileyFoxes, my Lenovo and Hudl tablet now with ease and without damage. I don’t want to find that the battery of any phone I buy is going to die within the next 4 or 5 years. Us Oldpharts like to buy stuff that we can fix if possible.
EDIT: I want to explode the brain of a Curry’s ‘Tech Guy’ by going to the Grimsby store, asking about the G6 and asking if the battery is removable. Should be fun.
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I'm out.One for VFM and WoF:
Everyone else, if you have never read “The Daily Mash”, it is wonderful, sarcastic, P**s taking on a mega scale. It cracks me up daily. And no, I am not “Psychic Bob.”
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I'm out.Ed you never fail to give us interesting links to absorbing stories. I had to read the whole thing from start to sorrowful finish and it completely captivated me, what a story, but what tragic circumstances brought it to ProPublica’s notice.
As an ex-seaman and for much longer a soldier, I had experience and parallels in my own life to make me nod my head at certain passages. A very wise Colonel, a CO that I drove around from time to time, gave me a truism after what was obviously a difficult exchange at BAOR HQ:
“The expectations and decisions of most military officers are directed by those above them. They in turn are directed by others, most of whom have no idea what military life is really like for those who serve.”
I asked my CO if I could write down and retain those words. He was an abrupt, fiery Fifey Scot, a Technical Officer and no respecter of certain other officer classes. “Why? D’ye think me a bloody philosopher, is it?” Nevertheless, I have kept those words all these years. The whole unit respected our CO, he would do whatever he could for all of us. If we behaved…
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I'm out.VFM: from the link in your post 277 above, I accessed this from the same page: –
” Economists predict the UK economy’s trajectory in 2019 ” It does not support the link you gave, in fact totally contradicts the outcome you expect.
It is now obvious that Brexiteers inhabit a cloud-cuckoo land of the UK surviving the after-Brexit economic landscape and going on to prosper economically and financially. I hope you are all ready for the inevitable storm of “Told You So’s” when the bad times of the next decades arrive.
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I'm out.I think the real problem is that when I click on the tag for the latest post in this thread, I end up on post page 1 and have to go searching. Is this a plot to slow down the rate of posting new material I wonder?
This is also happening to me Richard: maybe a sign that this debate is overloaded with too much of the material that made me post my “fed up” comment. EDIT: just happened again, wonder if it’s because the number of posts has exceeded 50?
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I'm out.VFM putting words in my mouth now, I know how Dave feels!
” Yet you appear to be in against such a firm stance in the UK.” Where did that supposition come from? And what does it mean anyway? A firm stance against what or whom?
When I spoke about going to OZ, it was in reference to my oldest mate who left these shores in 1967 and died in Oz 2 Christmases ago. 1967 was a time when joining the EEC was not even considered by the UK: indeed, anyone mentioning it would have been laughed at.
You seem to think that anyone who does not possess your own over-patriotic, flag-waving, immigrant-drowning views, is totally wrong. In your summing-up of Australia’s immigration policies, you ignore the fact that it is already one of the most racially-mixed, cosmopolitan countries on earth, typified by the lad who was my apprentice in 90’s UK and now owns a Harley Davidson bike agency in Melbourne. He is married to a lovely Vietnamese lady and has 3 children. The only people who are not immigrants into Oz, are the Aboriginals who met the white explorers off the boats, and they walked into the place around 40,000 years ago, across a land bridge now underwater. Where are the real immigrants?
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I'm out.Fed up to the back teeth (well the two I have left) with Brexit and politicians, whichever side of the House and whichever side of the Channel. Beginning to wish I had gone to Oz with my mate in 1967, instead of joining the Army in ’64. Or taken the job offered in Kelowna, BC, Canada, in ’81. Anywhere but here, now, in this mad country, almost half the population of which lost its collective sh1t in the Brexit vote.
All debate here, in Westminster and the media, is circular argument which goes around and around, with no solutions.
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I'm out.Dave, the vehicle imports into Avonmouth are matched by the Humber ports of Grimsby and Immingham:
We often travel to the docks to watch the shipping dock, usually into Immingham. Driving through Grimsby and across to the M18/M62 links, means passing Grimsby docks and seeing all the acres of vehicles parked, with often dozens of transporters queuing to pick up loads. Driving on to Immingham, means seeing more vehicles there.
Busiest ports in the UK, Grimsby and Immingham:
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I'm out.You got me there Les!
I had a similar traumatic experience at a dentist clinic when young, having a cheek tooth extracted which was in so deep and took so long to remove that I wound up with a bruise to my chest where the dentist shoved his knee for purchase. There is still a lump of that tooth left on the inside of the gum, it broke into several pieces. Made me hate dental treatment for years. But the real damage was caused by Army
butchersdentists, not one of the 3 who treated me did so without pain and what I now consider may have been unnecessary extractions.Nolan, as Richard says there are worse things to mess around with than your teeth and eyes. Having recently had Ultrasound and a camera inserted into my poor battered dingaling as a result of a bleeding, enlarged prostate, (for the 3rd time in 13 months) I can say that is undeniably true. The secondary procedure of a consultant’s probing of the fundamental orifice, is also unpleasant and very painful. However, the eventual ‘All Clear’ verdict is fitting compensation!
Ed: having an 89 year old brother with Alzheimers which has become very severe dementia, I share your fear. My brother has total incontinence and does not recognise either his wife, 6 surviving children, or anyone else. Whilst I have faced some severe physical challenges, I am deathly afraid of anything similar. I believe my brother inherited some of our mother’s mental problems: he has made some strange moves and questionable decisions in his life. In short, I would not trade all the pain and operations I have suffered over the years, for my brother’s problem. The jokey, fun-loving person that was my brother no longer inhabits his mind and body: my greatest wish is that he will soon go to sleep and never wake again.
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I'm out.Yep, if the powers that be think their a***s are in danger, they can always unite and agree to organise safety for said a***s, with great efficiency and competence.
If they could only unite, agree, demonstrate and apply similar efficiency and competence to the current state of the country, perhaps we would not be in such a bloody mess.
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I'm out.NHS dental care? Is that still a thing?
Certainly is here, 2 NHS practices in Louth alone. When I first found the practice I use now, my dentist was an Iraqi. Between first and second visits, he went from just a few words of English and using the assistant as an interpreter, to speaking very good English. When I complemented him, he said that he had been studying all year, sincerely wanted to be British and have British-born children. I still see him now and again in the area: has his own private practice, has 3 lovely British kids and always acknowledges me.
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I'm out.I have just 22 very crooked, worn teeth left. I have not been able to visit my dentist for some time due to more pressing medical concerns, but I went last week for my 6-monthly check. The Polish dentist who has looked at my chewing tackle for the last 8 years recommended an x ray and I agreed. He gave me a clean bill of health, no problems except the wear and crooked line up, but released me for another 6 months unless problems arise. He also commented that the half-broken front incisor he filled 3 years ago, and its loose companion, were no worse than they had ever been.
This dentist told me when I first went to his practice, that some British dentists were too keen to “excavate and remove” teeth which could be treated and kept. He always says that even my crooked chompers are perfectly capable of lasting long enough to “give you a smile in your casket.” What a nice man. I think…
The X ray cost £22, a small price to pay for knowing they will stay firm and enable me to remain a carnivore.
Saus and mash tonight, with several veg, cooked as only my Gert can cook it.
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I'm out.I am no supporter of the Royals: as I have said before, IMO they represent an outmoded system and should go after the current monarch passes away. But I have a mental picture of thousands of rioters, faced with a tiny, very old lady asking if “Could one desist from causing such a commotion, please?”
If it is true that Her Maj and fellow Royals are to be evacuated, it may be time to remind them that Her Maj’s own father, the late King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), remained at Buck House during the Blitz. When German bombs actually struck the Palace:
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“The bombing, along with the royal family’s refusal to flee Britain against Foreign Office advice, was to win the King and Queen affection and fellow-feeling across the country. The Queen declared: “The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the king will not leave the country in any circumstances, whatever.”
And anything that keeps Prince Philip in London and away from driving on roads around Sandringham , is to be applauded ….
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I'm out.I have suspected for some time, that the Irish might start to really think about the real effects of being the most “offshore” and separated part of the EU, without the Buffer Zone that is the UK.
At least the Irish are shifting the ‘blame’ from the UK and Brexit. Thoughts may change in Ireland, but change in Ireland has in the past been accompanied by civil unrest.
IREXIT! The final, most ridiculous joke at the EU’s expense. And if it happens, within 12 months Dublin will revert to blaming the UK again.
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I'm out.Interesting and absorbing, Ed. I had read about and viewed much of what happened in Sadr City at the time, but recall no attention paid by the media to the concrete wall construction. N.I. was of course a much different affair, being part of the UK. However, I would have welcomed the construction of a similar wall around certain sections of Belfast and Derry, during my time there. I would have liked to have walled up certain people within it, too. Patrolling some areas in streets of those two cities was a real nail-biter. Our problem there was complicated by the fact that every male civilian was a potential enemy, and all male civilians looked just like every mainland UK citizen.
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I'm out.Like Steve says, there really is no alternative except to keep on going. I have been through so much in the years since 2005, that I just take each event as it happens: spinal repair to avoid quadriplegia, bowel disease and Parastomal hernia, gall bladder removed, start of prostate trouble, pancreatic and spleen cancer, both removed, then lymph gland cancer. Now the prostate is back again knocking on my door and I am still bleeding every time I urinate. So that does not look good, but it’s back to the same old same old: what else can you do but get your head down and get on with living?
Latest is that my Gert may have to have the hip installed last February, subjected to further investigation and possible surgery, she is having a lot of trouble walking. I told her she should have been a tennis player, lol. She says her 4’9″ height does not reach far over the net.??
If we didn’t have a laugh at our misfortune, we would not be British.
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I'm out.Thanks Nolan, I do use Netflix and I watch some YT, including Ed China’s stuff. I have no intention of using Prime yet. i also have lots of TV on my Tablet which I can connect to the TV.
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