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Many thanks Dave, just what I needed, bagged it!
That moronic reviewer was representative of those who do not read the item description properly, just see what they want to see. I have read worse, but Amazon always tries to please. I wonder if a refund had been given if it was an expensive item.
BTW I have stripped the Eeeeeeeeek! PC and saved the Hdd. Here’s hoping I can do something with it. Not strictly necessary, but gives me an activity and I do love taking stuff apart to see what can be salvaged. Do we ever grow up?
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I'm out.Whether or not a new Referendum is actually imposed upon a population that already made a democratic decision, is irrelevant. Whether such a monstrously undemocratic action results in a change of vote to Remain within the EU, is also irrelevant. Whatever happens from now on, we will never again be fully trusted by the EU and advantages gained by other member states will not necessarily be automatically extended to the UK, even in the event of a decisive vote to Remain.
“Misinformation from the Remain camp” was matched by similar misinformation by the Leave organisations. Both sides lied to us: I have stated this repeatedly here. Those political and allied figures involved, created half-truths and made up ‘statistics’ to support their own positions, which were mainly influenced by hopes of eventual power, financial and commercial interest.
You are stooping low enough to use the clownish figures of a (twice failed) leader of UKIP, and a public school Loon who shoots himself in the foot with every other ridiculous phrase he utters. With such “support” for your cause, how can you fail?
Answers on the back of a tenner please, before it becomes worth less than today’s £1.
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I'm out.I don’t know which town you are talking about Richard, your local?
Louth is certainly still vibrant, especially on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, which are all market days. The town is packed on those days, even more so during days of good weather. Wednesday is the best market day and has at least 20 stalls, reduced by about 40% on Fridays, 20% on Saturdays. There are many different stalls selling everything from Asian food to Grimsby fish, specialist cheeses, local farm veg, hats, other clothing, books and magazines, many other items. Louth and East Lyndsey people are very protective of the town: so much so that a jewellery shop burglary was defeated by locals a couple of years ago. Two scumbags on a motorbike entered the store, smashed up shelves with hammers and tried to get away with loot. By the time they got outside to their bike, locals had severely disabled it. When they ran, they were both chased by locals who kept Police up to date by mobile phones. One was caught and ‘severely disciplined’ by a big local lad, the other tried to hijack a car and was driven off by the driver, to be tracked and caught by the Force helicopter. All the loot was recovered and the scumbags are serving long sentences.
You do not mess with East Lyndsey people.
We still have a very good 5- screen cinema, a popular modern Theatre, large well-used Leisure Centre, very good Museum and lots of different eateries and more pubs, clubs etc than I could count. The Theatre and Museum are largely volunteer-run and both are well attended. It’s a great town with a lot of Community Spirit and I love living here.
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I'm out.So: not TSB then? What a relief! ??
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I'm out.No paradox here VFM: I voted Remain because I believed it was in the best interests of the young. Specifically, my grandchildren, their peers and a working future in an area which is at last getting other than seasonal work, thanks to a number of EU companies investing and building in the Humber area of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire. I was worried that they would leave and take all that work away. It now appears that most will stay, but that can change. As for “today’s Oldies”: I was born 2 months before the end of WWII, to parents who were 40 at my birth, born in 1904 and 1906. I actually used to talk to them and listen to their tales of living during the days of Empire. Neither were impressed by what they had to live through and both agreed that The Good Old Days were anything but good. I come from a deeply Socialist family and I know that my dad would have agreed with my choice of vote, if only because they remembered both World Wars clearly. They knew that WWI was the most unnecessary war that caused slaughter of generations across Europe, the result of outmoded anachronistic rule by a select few who promoted that slaughter. In fact, during WWI my grandfather, a founder member of the Independent Labour Party, was an active pacifist and was abused for it. The birth of the EEC created a bordeless Europe and a determination by the member states to never again make war on each other. That has worked for 73 years. The growth of the Right that you refer to, is exactly what happened in Germany in 1933, but it does not have the same power to attract enough numbers. That is because the situation in Germany between the Wars, is very different. Germany and indeed the whole world, was in a deep depression. Germany suffered much more than any other nation because of the vast Reparations that the Allied Powers, particularly France, imposed upon them. It led to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis and the truth is that WWI reparations were the cause of WWII: you can almost say that II was just a continuation of I. I have spoken to older Germans during my 8 years there, who told me about their suffering. In this country, we have not been invaded for so many centuries that we have no history of millions of refugee peoples fleeing from an enemy. We cannot therfore share the innate fears of other Europeans.
I believe that your problem, is that you refuse to perceive the real truth behind this whole Brexit mess: that the UK will be in a long lasting slump after March 2019. Read Steve and Ed‘s last posts here and try to see what I mean. There are going to be some very hard times for our country and I cannot see when they will end. If the Tories stay in power, and I cannot envisage anything but a close decision there, cuts will be made that will make the last series look like chicken feed. If Labour gets in, the amount of Public Spending will increase exponentially and we will be even worse off. Can you not see all this?
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I'm out.” Despite all this, when an old school friend set up a Facebook page to drum up custom, the traders handed out a load of abuse and complaints when people dared to suggest that their shops weren’t perfect, and even blamed customers for not going to their shops! One shop is on a side street, under another shop, and the owner got quite abusive when someone said they didn’t know the shop was there. ”
Sounds a bit like a group that formed in and around Louth, made up of self-satisfied, wealthy people from the plush outer areas of big houses. “Keep Louth Special” they called themselves a few years ago, letters in the local papers and on FB, telling us all to patronise certain (expensive) shops: “use them or lose them” was their motto. Well, most died and the vast majority of we Great Unwashed, carried on shopping at the same Poor People outlets. There are still a few more expensive shops left, but the stuff they sell is worth buying.
Seems Keeping Louth Special was too much like hard work. Demand creates Supply.
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I'm out.JB that activity is the cause of several deep cuts on my fingers, worst on my right thumb, into the quick of the thumbnail and index finger. To ‘save money’ on the cost of new lounge carpet, SWMBO
pressuredpersuaded me to take up the old carpet, underlay and gripper. Problem was that a previous carpet fitter had hammered some really hard nails into the underlying tile floor. It was removing these which abused my poor digits. The margins of the ceramic tile floor are all damaged by the nails and their removal by me, but the new carpet fitter managed to lay down some stuff which took the new gripper and the carpet hid the damage. I don’t want to have to do that again! It does look good now though.This is just one area of damage, all round the margins is the same.
I cut up the old carpet, gripper and underlay with my trusty Stanley knife. A new neighbour is building a shed/workshop and has spent a bomb on a kit he bought on the net. He has got about 25% of the build done but keeps stopping for a couple of days, every time he has left it over the last 2 days of high winds, off comes the tarpaulin. The shed kit includes an insulated base and more for the walls. I offered him the underlay for more insulation, he refused politely. Says he was an office worker before retirement and the way he is working, I believe him. No offence to office workers, did that myself once in between other work. Least interesting working period of my life.
The old carpet & underlay is now landfill, no one wanted it. I denailed the gripper and took it to the Waste dump.So much for recycling!
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I'm out.Thanks guys, you are basically confirming what I thought. Taking Dave’s advice and giving it up, apart from a strip down and maybe rescue the Hdd, which is 320GB. I can either put that into my desktop, or connect to my 1TB external SATA and format it, after Check disc takes a look at it. Bound to find a use for it, hopefully.
Which option would be best, what does The Team think? I could sell it minus Hdd as Spares or Repairs on Fleabay.
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I'm out.The Referendum was the result of a UK illness: too much gazing back into our past and too much misguided patriotism. Politicians used this to lie to the public about how much more we would be in control of our own laws and governance. Whether it was a high proportion of my generation who fell for that or not, is irrelevant. It left a lot of young people hating a vote which they see as an ‘Oldies’ decision and it further divides the country, as if more division were needed.
Thank you Cameron, you really gave it some thought. “Knee Jerk” doesn’t even describe it.
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I'm out.Louth “High Street” is different: a Georgian town that lies in a depression off the Wolds, lowest point by the River Lud is actually below Sea Level. Town even has Roman and Prehistoric history, it’s f***in’ ancient man, and often feels like it! Streets are narrow, pavements just enough room to pass for 2 or 3 people. Shops vary from expensive clothes shops, to EWM and Peacocks, Heron, Superdrug, Wilkos etc. A lot of different Eateries of all kinds, including a Moroccan. 3 markets a week and people come from all over the country in coaches and cars, to clog our pavements and do some rubbernecking. Any trucky who can negotiate Louth streets, is a real driver.
We use a local fishmonger in the indoor market, greengrocer and an award-winning butcher. Anything else is Morrisons, although all their butchery is also from a local farm combine and is fairly good. Eggs and some veg from the village Volunteer-staffed shop, supplied by a farm down the road. Picked in the morning, delivered within an hour, eaten at dinner. Anything fresher is still growing!
I would hate to see our Louth shops go the way of so many others. High Streets rely what the businesses put into them and Louth businesses have either learned to compete, or die and become YACS*. Parking is a minimum of £1/hour, double time allowed for a Blue Badge. There are places where I can park for nowt and I have found them all in the 18 years I have been here. I guard that knowledge even from friends!
We also have the best chippies in Lincolnshire!
*Yet Another Charity Shop.
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I'm out.Thanks for the good wishes and encouragement guys, much appreciated. Richard, I already have nerve damage thanks to an old injury which became worse and led to a spinal repair of C4 in 2005. Left side is mostly affected, some nerves damaged/no functional after tiny broken pieces cut the sheaths. Apparently the tiny pieces are like small scalpels. However, the damage has become worse over the last few weeks. I put this down to chemo and/or medication, but your words about side effects have induced me to ask further questions next week. Thank you for that, Richard.
I just cannot help the way I have always lived my life: I have to be engaged in some sort of activity most of the time. The downside is fatigue and weakness, the upside is that I am deeply asleep about 5 seconds after my head hits the pillow. I have to bash on, it is moving forward that keeps me going. Well, assisted by a SWMBO taskmistress! ???
Today I enlisted my loyal and helpful Buddy, No.2 gson, in order to erect and fit the new TV stand from Wayfair. (via China of course) The stand was a nightmare to build, with pictures to show “howto”. Unfortunately there were no written instructions and it was initially unclear that the build needed to start from upside-down. There were long threaded bars holding it all together, with the most ridiculously difficult fixing to each shelf of 3: a square block had to be maneuvered into a round hole, to accept a square peg above. We started again and managed to triumph, set up TV and waited for Her Maj to give a verdict: “The bottom shelf is upside down.” I refused to redo the job. Atmosphere became icy, gson ate lunch and retreated home. Wise lad!
BL, the ION is an old deck I have had for some years and never really used. It was a gift from a customer of my old design & print business. It can record direct from a PC, comes with an internal pre amp, which has given me another idea: I have an 11″ Eee PC that was my gdaughter’s, which has Windows 7 Basic. It has a small SSD but I could use it to record my masses of vinyl, then store the results on my NAS and external HDD. I may be able to upgrade the Basic to 7 Home premium. Can’t get to it atm, but I know it was media-centric, as that is why gd bought it.
Ed, I am in the same position of all the seemingly endless ‘small’ tasks that have to be done after redecoration, complicated by similar room layout changes, as
requesteddemanded by my lovely wife.I now have connection plan clear in my head. As there 2 components with optical input, I will choose TV to soundbar. The other optical port is on the Humax and I have bought a 2-way switch:
That will connect TV to soundbar and Humax STB. Done.
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I'm out.Interesting it sounds promising. Dave n Bob from what you say, you only need strips under a mat (not fully cover the area)? on a carpet.
Yes John, strips are good enough. I have a kitchen Runner rug on a tiled floor. I just cut 4x triangular shapes out and put them under each corner. On a slippery floor, it seems to do the job better.
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I'm out.I use THIS for a lot of things – under my mouse mat to stop it sliding on the desk, on the car’s dash ‘shelf”, in the cubby holes to stop coins sliding, it’s brilliant. It should also be good for it’s original purpose to stop mats sliding on wood floors or carpets!!
Me too JayCeeDee! Great stuff, keeps kitchen carpet in place on tiled floor, keeps my Parking change from rolling about in the dash cubbyhole, keeps stuff in drawers and toolboxes in place. I love it, just easily cut to fit anywhere you need it.
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I'm out.Dave most of your post has echoes around here, especially in regard to an almost permanently Tory County and District Council, and the MP always returned as a Tory. LCC and ELDC were ‘requested‘ to keep CT low and they did. The repercussions came when the Cuts hit. There was once an organisation called “Supporting People” which really did give proper support services to the elderly and Social Housing organisations. It was funded by central gov and allowed Social landlords to provide wardens, funds to let us organise Residents Associations, Outings with a minibus, Christmas Dinners and Parties. It kept all local Sheltered Housing in contact and gave interests to many old people who are now housebound. Landlords no longer had funding to run these services, Sheltered Housing is gradually draining away. Adult Social Care and Youth Services died within weeks. I alternated annually with my recently-deceased mate to be Chair and Vice Chair of our Residents Association. It collapsed when we could no longer support it with our own funding and as the Treasurer and secretary both resigned due to ill health. All of those life-sustaining activities disappeared and people became isolated.
It is to the great credit of LCC that they have become more politically mixed and have set about determined to redress this. CT has had to rise, but the money is being used sensibly. Adult Social care is provided by contractors, who have to pass strict guidelines and sign documents concerning their staff, pay and financial affairs, with penalties for failure to provide decent services. There are several tenants around me who receive the benefits of this in Carers. We are not in the position of some who use Benefits to help, but we have a cleaner and a gardener who we employ and carry out very good work. It seems that the future of Youth and Adult Social Care will now be provided by Private Contract, but if you have worked and saved all your life, hard luck mate, you pay for it from your own pocket.
I think almost the whole of the country outside London and the South East, is appalled and affronted by the money spent on that area. Our infrastructure in the East: East Yorks, Lincs in particular, is dreadfully short of what it should be. We have massive businesses building up along the Humber and the ports are expanding, freight trucks constantly pounding our totally inadequate roads on their way north and south. Our railways are still waiting for electrification and new rolling stock, the service is far short of what it should be. To look at the Crossrail and other services being given to London, at such huge, expanding cost, is to wonder why the rest of us is ignored by the government.
Scottish Independence? Can we join you, Nicola Sturgeon??
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I'm out.Am amazed by the length of this thread. Opposing viewpoints are being expressed, some of which have a shaky foundation not in complete agreement with actual facts.
I find myself mostly in agreement with Dave’s reasoned arguments, which have a factual basis.
Yes, I voted Remain, but my attitude to politicians is coloured by my MP, who took over the position by being voted in as a Cameron “babe” and has quickly become a local media star, appearing in local outlets pictured baby kissing, supporting local agriculture, etc. Try to find her at published time of Surgeries in Horncastle or Louth? Impossible! But I remember her first days, when all the Lincolnshire roads had “VOTE LEAVE!” posters everywhere, which she completely ignored and advised her constituents to vote Remain. That was not taking in the message I thought, and when the vote went against her, she came to her opportunistic, ambitious senses and decided to change horses. She is now a May favourite and is a rising star, considered as an eventual Tory leader. Surely she will go far in the Tory Party, with the number of different faces she presents to the public?
A democratic vote, once taken and acted upon, cannot be changed, whoever decides to disagree with it. That is a cornerstone of all our centuries of struggle to arrive at an imperfect but currently unimprovable system. The Tory Party is set upon battering itself into insensibility by infighting, disregarding the fact that they may be handing the keys to No.10, to a Deeply Red party which may eventually complete the process of bankrupting our nation.
We live in interesting times.
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I'm out.My IT genius gson made his own “Nest-type” solution and keyed it to various devices, recording usage to an old tablet that he rooted, upgraded and reset solely for that task. He looks at weather towards the end of the working day and uses either his phone or the work system connected to his PC, to set heating. He can also set TV to record, start dishwasher, set Microwave to thaw or oven to start cooking what he may have left in there. All from his own setup. He has designed 3 remote systems for contracts and boss admits he struggles to understand them. He sets up Server systems on a white board, translates them into reality. Amazing lad, getting more amazing all the time.
I created this situation by building his first PC when he was 9 or so: trying to find that “one thing/one direction” that Aspergers intelligence can react to and go with. Created a monster!
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I'm out.I love my Lenovo Tab3 8″ tablet. Every morning at brekkers I boot it up and watch latest news reports, weather forecast and then read a Kindle or other e-book. I am also going to set it up as a satnav and see what it’s like: an 8″ screen will be good for me.
I also have a Hudl which works fine, (thanks Nolan!) trying to decide on a use for it. No intention of selling it.
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I'm out.Dave that is interesting information. I had vaguely thought of Dyson as some sort of British Techno hero, obviously he has feet of clay and his may be just another Big Business actually contributing to the slow degradation of British industry and loss of British jobs.
We were considering a Dyson at our last vacuum cleaner purchase 4 years ago, but SWMBO tried handling one and disliked it. (She is 4’9″) In the end we chose a Vax, made in China and came with a free Hand vac. It was much less expensive, very powerful and we just managed to find one before the EU Directive regarding motor power/voltage was enforced. It is a hassle to clean and empty, but just keeps on going. I guess we went from considering one Asian purchase, to buying another. One benefit is that registering gave us a 2 year warranty and access to their website, where all parts are available.
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I'm out.Just seen my GP again and I now have another referral in the pipeline, this time to a gastrointestinal specialist because of my stomach issues. The medication I’m on makes me more vulnerable to other issues and the GP wants to make there is nothing untoward going on. In the meantime I have another drug to try, Ranitidine.
Nolan my missus takes that and is happy with it. Just a thought: it gives her relief and a little prevention for the problem she has, and she is of Griffiths descent, so perhaps some slight genetic benefit upon you too??
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I'm out.Bob. I want you to get out of the bubble where you are. Come and see me in Wembley for just one day.
Not bloomin’ likely Graham! I hate cities, even towns. I am born & bred country village, first Nottinghamshire, now a lovely Lincolnshire village. As Steve says, what is to stop you moving? Even to the outskirts of London? I visit mates in Barnet, High Barnet is lovely. I stay in North Finchley near to Woodside Tube and travel down to wherever. Wife has relatives in Dulwich, we visit once a year for two nights and that is quite enough Mad City for me, although I like the Toby Carvery in nearby Beckenham, which is where we stay: lovely meals, well soundproofed and comfy rooms.My dislike of city and town is based upon one thing: too many people.
I am in no bubble, I have Iraqi, Caribbean, Sikh, Chinese and other culture friends. I spent a lot of time as a kid down at the Marquee and Crawddady clubs, to see the original Stones and other original Blues bands, off the back of my Ducati 250. I sailed twice around the world as a Junior Deckhand, starting from Hull and porting at the old West India Dock for cargoes to pick up and drop off around the world. I was Army for 12 years and served in Aden, Borneo, Ireland during the worst of the Troubles, and Germany, where I had my first missus and two kids, now long behind me. When I realised that the pit village that I came back to was not what it was after the Strike, pit closure, another relationship (30 years next year!) and living across from rioting DSS druggies and burglars, I moved. Try it. And if it does “come to me”, whatever it is, it will not settle. Probably 99% of the people you are talking about, settle in the Inner Cities and towns. The ones who move hereabouts are intelligent, tolerant people. Any others are soon off to the nearest Urban area that has “their” people.
One of my best mates was born in Trinidad and I grew up with him: at first the only black guy in the village, turned into an accepted Local Lad, but that’s real village life. He was one of a gang of us 9 lads who still stick together (OK, down to 7 now) and we looked after him: others in the village still look after him.
I met people all over the planet and one conclusion I came to, is that ordinary families are all wanting one thing: to feed, clothe, educate and care for their family in their own way. Might not be your way, might not be mine, but it’s theirs.
Why not get out of your bubble, Graham? There is life outside of The Big Smoke.
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