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Once I was a little bit like that guy Steve: returned to my home village after leaving the Army, became workshop foreman of the big, independent village garage. I used to frequent the village pubs and the Miner’s Welfare, where people I had grown up with and/or known all my life, made up the custom. After some time of everyone realising that “one of ours” was running the place, I became very popular as a source of advice and was asked to carry out ‘weekend jobs’ for cash. I soon found out who my real mates were: they came to the garage with their motors and asked for no special favours.
I used to play snooker as part of a foursome, my mate and myself playing two more guys. One of the other two was a real mate, still is, was my best man. His partner was an idiot he worked with and was always asking me questions about his knackered old Volvo. It all came to a head after a long day at work when I had cause to sack a mech who was stealing parts. I was trying to play snooker and enjoy the evening, when he asked if I could weld his outer sills at the weekend for cash, to pass MOT. I blew up. Mate and I went to different places for a week, came back to the Welfare and the other two were there. I discovered that the idiot had taken his car to another idiot and had the sills BRAZED, which is ridiculous and would never pass an MOT test.
He wanted us to MOT it, so I asked him to come to the garage and book it in, which he did. I gave it to one of the lads, who promptly failed it for that and other stuff. The idiot went bananas and took a swing at me, which did not go down at all well for him. ?
Best man had to find another snooker partner, bad news was that he was a better player than the idiot. ? But that was just one time out of many when my good nature was imposed upon. Eventually I just told them all to come to the garage and pay the business, which was what kept me in wages. Many of my new ‘friends’ never bothered me again. Fortunately, one of them was my original SIL, long gone and divorced by my daughter when Gson was a toddler.
I hate people the Yanks call “Freeloaders”, we call ‘fair weather friends’.
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I'm out.Steve, they are playing in an all-red strip, which possibly accounts for your lack of support. And they have your captain, who for me is playing out of his skin, doing the stuff that is absolutely necessary but will never make him Man of the Match. The engine room, I call him.
Maybe you have begun turning Welsh after all this time on your mountain? ? ?
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I'm out.John, I get a PP email message every month to tell me that it has been paid.
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I'm out.The problem with Corbyn is the same problem that has always been associated with Left wing Labour politicians: the possibility of a Communist Party Card somewhere in their past. My brother was a dyed – in – the wool Labour Party activist, a District Councillor who was sacked by the local Party organisation after the Miners Strike, in our pit village. I wrote much of his material and he told me a lot about the local Party, several of whom had provable connections to the CP. The Party used the excuse that he worked with Tory members of the District Council, to get certain village projects off the ground. These included a new Sheltered Housing complex of flats and bungalows, and a restoration of the old Colliery site, which is now a beauty spot of fishing lakes and woods, with paths and walks between two villages which once were black with soot.
The rise of the UDM, after the CP members of the local NUM were dismissed for backing Scargill (who doubts he has a CP card? I know he does!) was accompanied in our village by my brother being re-elected as an Independent Labour candidate, with an increased majority. Because the voters could see what he had achieved for them and our village. My granddad, as I have said here before, was a founder member of the Independent Labour Party at the turn of the 19th century: I was steeped in Labour (not Socialist) history from a young age. I even flirted with the CP myself at 17, after meeting a lad whose dad was a Mansfield CP activist and candidate (failed). I soon enough learned that all the Russian “Proletariat Paradise” tractor and agricultural output figures, were BS, just like the whole CP agenda and totalitarian ambitions.
It may come as a surprise to some that certain significant Labour figures of the 20th century were originally at least Communist sympathisers, if not actual members. Much of that concerned certain people who became politically active and some in government, as a reaction to service in WWII. There is of course, the other side of the coin: Burgess, MacLean and Philby were upper class, Oxbridge educated traitors. They are always among us: not paranoia, simple fact.
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I'm out.I should share a thought for the mechanic and his health. I hope he has not sacrificed his health for his business. I wish him well.
As an ex-workshop foreman and mech myself, thank you! We spanner-swingers are too often subjected to insults, not good wishes. ? ?
Steve, buy the guy a pint or 3 when he fixes things. Glad it’s all come out OK for you and daughter.
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I'm out.Croatia were the better footballing side I thought, but just could not translate their superiority into goals. Russia worked hard, but a lot of their play was long ball stuff and header tennis, all thud and blunder. Cheryshev’s goal was a cracker, though.
I am looking forward to England playing Croatia on Wednesday: several yellow cards mean that some of the Croatian players miss a match. And the extra time, plus the nerve – shredding of Penalties, will hopefully have an effect on the Croatian team.
Dare we dream? COME ON, ENGLAND! One more game!
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– and on, and on, and what next?
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I'm out.This “deal” is absolute BS, very little is going to change as far as I can see, even if the EU accepts it, which I doubt. Watch and listen as Barnier dismisses it. As a Remainer, even I am disappointed. Leaving? No, we are still going to have to go cap in hand to Brussels whenever we want something.
The whole last couple of years has all been for nothing, IMO. All caused by one PM panicked at the growth of UKIP support, followed by both sides of the argument lying and “expanding” the truth to the British public, winding people up with warnings about what might happen, if… And another PM who was a Remainer and has tried without success to get her own governing party to agree. I fear for my grandchildren.
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I'm out.This team has come of age, what a performance. I cannot pick out any one player. I just wish that Raheem Sterling had just that bit of luck, he ran his socks off, won the ball and broke up the Swedes in their own half, taking on 2 or 3 players and going through them. If he had the slightest good luck in front of goal, England would have been at least 3-0 up at half time, probably would have thrashed them by 4 or 5. Henderson was magnificent, doing what seems like simple stuff and doing it so well. After one of Pickford’s great saves, he put his body in the way of the rebound, from the floor. This is a guy who hates to lose.
From a magnificent defence, through midfield to attack, they dominated, and any player would take on either of those roles.
How far can we go? we are in the Semi’s of a World Cup! No one gave this team a chance when they flew into Russia. And this was an England win without a Harry Kane goal.
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I'm out.On advice from grandson, I bought these:
And this to keep them tidy and unbroken:
Thanks for all your advice guys.
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I'm out.I don’t do reviews unless I actually liked everything about the item. I don’t do “Surveys” which are just Marketing crap, trying to get as much info about you and target you from other companies, to whom they sell your details.
My thoughts are, if it is good it will sell and i will use them again. If it’s bad, I contact and tell them, either return or ask for money back. If some company messed me about like that John, I would not bother replying. They obviously have incompetencies in their admin, even if the item was a good one.
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I'm out.Sorry guys, but the Gdaughter’s desktop has been delivered, sorted by IT engineer grandson and gdaughter’s big brother. I have no idea of the spec’s, but I do know that he will obtained best bang for bucks and will be OK to upgrade it over the coming years. A decent monitor has been sourced from among the family to use now, then Christmas will probably see her getting something better.
I appreciate the advice from both EdP and Steve and will remember it when I come to source a monitor. Ed, my grandson also has (2x) 24″ monitors at home, at work he has a battery of FOUR 27″ screens. I have no idea what models they are, but the ones at his flat are fantastic 4K setups. There is even a 22″ screen in the Server Room at the flat (spare bedroom) but don’t ask me what he does with that. The days when I built his first PC when he was a child, are long gone! He uses one for gaming and one for the work he does at home, connected by a phone service direct from work. He is always on standby, as he set up 3 remote systems for large contracts and no one else really knows how they work. He baffles his boss I think, and he has been working in IT and building the business for almost 20 years. Gson grins at me and says “I am indispensable, granddad.” His salary is very good now, but when he has finished a new Microsoft course at Lincoln Uni (2 days a week) it will be much larger.
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I'm out.Towing a diesel generator might be an option. ? ?
Just a thought. I get them from time to time.
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I'm out.What a game that was, and lost by Neymar, who went to ground so many times in this game and all his previous appearances without an actual foul being committed. Result: when Gabriel Jesus should have had a penalty, and when Neymar himself might have had one, referee did not give it, because the ref’s have taken against those players who have, in reality, brought the game of football into disrepute. It’s about time this happened, maybe now Neymar, still one of the world’s greatest and most skillful players, discovers that he doesn’t need to cheat, and when he does he hurts not just himself, but his own team mates.
I was right to think that Belgium might fade, they did in the last 10 minutes and it became very very close, but fantastic saves from a marvelously talented goalkeeper, a lot of luck, great defending, and a horrible miss of an open goal from Phillipe Coutinho, kept them on track. I think that Belgium can now go all the way, can’t see either Russia or Croatia stopping them. I have been wrong so many times during this WC, though, and that is pleasing to know, it’s what has made it so different and so unpredictably entertaining.
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I'm out.I’d have a long hard think about whether or not you NEED Windows. I don’t anymore. I’ve yet to find anything my Chrome/Android machine can’t do. Usually easier and cheaper than on Windows. My X220 is only used to do updates and check it’s working, only reason I have it still is I still sometimes get asked Windows questions but it’s mostly tv streaming and Android these days.
Food for thought Nolan. Pondering that, as I have got more involved with Android and Google nowadays. Transferring data and docs may be an issue.
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I'm out.Can’t quite believe how good this Belgian team has become. They seem to be fired up by every result and consequently develop more belief in what they can do. Lukaku has become much better at winning the ball and keeping it, breaking up Brazilian play in their own half. de Bruyne is immense, but in fact the whole team are playing out of their skins. Brazil are shell-shocked, Neymar is becoming a peripheral figure, has laid down a couple of times for a non-existent foul and is completely overshadowed by his opposite No. 10, Eden Hazard, who is working his socks off. Hope they don’t fade in the second half, but the Brazilian attacks will keep coming, although the Belgian defence has been very effective.
The earlier game was all action, this one even more so. As you say Dave, we have a game on now, more proof that European national teams are no longer worried about the South Americans: catching and overtaking them.
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I'm out.Job done, France. Second goal looked lucky until SloMo proved that the spin and bend that Griezeman put on that half-pace shot, spun it away from the goalie, who was expecting to pat it down and keep it. It bent away from his gloves and up into the net. Very, very intelligent player, is Griezeman.
France were better in all departments, including goalkeeper. Lloris made a brilliant double save and made certain to be in position if a shot was close. Uruguay just pumped balls into the box, Suarez played out of the game completely. Never seen him so anonymous, running around desperately by the end. Ah well, no one was bitten, but at one goal down the Uruguayans went all Colombian and began petty fouls and arguing against decisions. Does not work with this ref, who has been the referee of the tournament for me. If he had ref’d the England-Colombia game, we might have had more penalties. At 2-0 they realised that they had to keep playing football, but the French defence was solid. France will give Brazil a good game: if the Belgian team get extremely good or lucky they will be beaten by France.
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I'm out.Richard I appreciate the danger to people sensitive to wasp and bee stings and hope that she stays free of them. Not putting out fruit to ferment close to your house, is an obvious step. However, we are used to them around us by now and only take care to protect eldest granddaughter, who is a big girl at 21 but totally terrified of them after being stung when young. Her 12 yo cousin grew up in a cottage in the country (back there again from Louth after parents worked to rebuild it as a large 3 bed house) and is unbothered by any insects at all, just waves them away if they get close and has actually joined me in picking up drunk wasps: never once stung. My theory is that they sense unease and panic in humans when they alight upon them, through the skin. This confuses them and, as in all animals, when confused, they attack the source of confusion.
While on service in BAOR, I was having a summer sports afternoon and had spent a pleasant 2 hours or so running across the airfield of my aircraft workshop and through the extensive forest nearby. I returned, bought a Coke at the NAAFI and drank half, laid it on a table and lay face down on my bed for a snooze, when I felt a presence on my back, slapped it and was stung 3 times. Killed it, picked up the can and was stung on the lip. Ejected it from the window alive, had a shower, got into my Droopsnoot Firenza and motored down the B1 to see a friend in Dortmund. Halfway there, another ‘presence’ on my back, more stings, pulled over and removed my shirt. Puzzled German drivers, astonished at the sight of a Brit, naked chest in the breeze and flapping his shirt. AFAIK, the offending insect survived. None of this made me hate wasps: I set my mind to learning about them and it changed my viewpoint about them. Nevertheless, I accept that this view is neither acceptable nor of service to others, in fact can be dangerous for them.
I also appreciate the danger of the Asian Hornet threat in the UK: http://tinyurl.com/ycge3ney
Not just to humans directly, but also as a threat to our bees, who already have problems. And I love Honey! I have it either on toast, or on breakfast cereals instead of sugar. They eat bees and wasps in the nest, but see wasps as the Primary threat and will totally destroy their nests, killing and/or eating everything living, including larvae and young. If you see any, there is a contact email and number to report. Catching and keeping in a jar, etc, would help but I realise that you would prefer to kill, understandably so.
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I'm out.The wasps are coming out in numbers now, but are noticeably smaller than last year. I leave an unpainted patch of roof felt retaining board, for them to scrape some wood and make cellulose for the nests. They are pollinating my roses and killing other insects in numbers too. I see them as a friend, not an enemy. Please don’t kill them if you don’t absolutely have too. If you get stung, get indoors and slap vinegar on it.
Leave the wasp outside, though. ??
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