[JayCeeDee]

Brilliant story – and if she accepts, she can’t say you won’t be in it for the long haul.

Are you as resilient (aka stubborn ) about everything else in your life, or is she just a shining example of persistence??

Good luck. ??Don’t suppose we’ll be seeing much of you on here for the next 7 days then!!????

[JayCeeDee]

The Duke wrote:

We think and say, we like it cos it’s our interest, but is it just our interest because we want the control of knowing exactly how things work. If any of you are like me, lack of control of situations give me massive issues.

Echoes very much with me!! Do you make a bad passenger when somebody else is driving?? I most certainly am – the wife has been known to tell me a bad ride is better than a long walk!!! I’m not sure what  she meant by that at all!!???

I also don’t like either type of roller coasters or the other flying seat fairground rides, but if you put a wheel, an accelerator and a brake pedal on them I’d probably be off the tracks  more than on – think Scalextric. I put it all down to a lack of being in control.

If I’m being totally honest now, probably a little OCD too – but only on irrelevant things like coasters and place-mats on a table that I sit down at!!??

[JayCeeDee]

All up to date in the background, just needed a relaunch. Cheers.

[JayCeeDee]

Dave Rice wrote:

JCD, if he makes the icons OK for his screen they will be too small for the other screen. The answer is a £68 AOC monitor from Amazon for the other monitor. I’ve bought a few of these recently.

I forgot that essential factor!! I was coming from what I did to my setup, but I’ve got my desktop spread over my two screens, one exclusively for email and one for browser.

I suppose Marc could do what I do, when I want two separate browser windows open at the same time, I just flip one over to the other screen, click and hold the tab and swipe it over to the other screen. It all really depends on his work processes.

[JayCeeDee]

Can’t you then use W10’s large/medium/small icon option??

1. Right-click on an empty space on the desktop.

2. Select View from the contextual menu.

3. Select either Large icons, Medium icons, or Small icons. The default is medium icons.

[JayCeeDee]

There are many reasons that that country comes up for criticism, both just and unjust.

In no particular order, ( and no particular accuracy!! other than the last example,)

Travellers ( generally assumed to be Romany and therefore from Romania)  cause problems wherever they go. These are in fact itinerants from Eastern Europe and not necessarily from Romania.

Street crime and shoplifting ( Oxford Street etc,) seems to be organised trips by Romanian gangs and if caught and deported, find their way back to rinse and repeat.

Gangs of beggars along rich thoroughfares – I worked on Kensington High Street for 20 odd years and they were the bane of our street trading life. They would consist of a 30ish year old woman, a young girl 6 – 10, a baby swaddled up and drugged – yes, they drugged them so they were quiet!! – these were up and down the street all day, begging from passers by and our customers. They had a card with a sad tale on it, spoke no English ( supposedly ) , but gave you dirty looks when you told the public about the Mercedes limos that came two or three times a day to collect the money they had made. We found out from our local home beat officer that they held Romanian passports and travelled back and forth to home regularly.

This isn’t a racist rant, just an answer to the question above.

[JayCeeDee]

It was once explained to me – my writing is un-intelligible too btw – that the reason behind that is that the hand is working  faster than it can cope with, trying to keep up with a brain that is racing ahead!!

[JayCeeDee]

Late on parade for this one – and it’s only 9am!!!!

Happy Birthday, Bob. Enjoy today to the fullest – they’ll still love you just as much tomorrow, but won’t need to spoil you like today.?

[JayCeeDee]

Fancy a nice game of Rollerball, anyone?

 

Six of my mates from back then got roles as extras in the film – full expenses to Germany and good money, what’s not to like. I would have gone too, had I not had the misfortune to fracture my wrist and end up in plaster for 6 weeks!!!

[JayCeeDee]

The VFM Addict wrote:

@JCD, I know what you mean about losing long texts. I now pre-type in MSWord and then past to avoid such.

On longer posts I normally do as well, but it was the inserting an emoji that wasn’t on the list, by adding a picture copied from a Google search that caught me out.

[JayCeeDee]

AfD are in favour of Gexit of whatever one would term it.

Probably D eutschland Aus giving you a catchy DAus!!

[JayCeeDee]

@JCD Tell me have you ever seen such blatant lies and hypocrisy as that exhibited by Heidi Allen.

 

Yes – from every GE manifesto over the last 40 years, the Yes/No EU vote in the 70’s to the EU Ref campaign from 2016.

The whole confrontational politics from PMQT’s to Question Time panel answers is broken.

This is why I’ve only posted in this topic about specific points, not the whole political approach/perspective.

This was a whole lot longer and deeper, but I went to insert an emoji with steam coming out of their ears, and the page refreshed and I lost the whole post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

[JayCeeDee]

I did not intend to suggest that the ‘rectification’ took things to where they should be or that such as you put it, would “save the country”.    I had thought my analogy with a pendulum and how a swing too far in one damaging direction results is and equal an opposite swing in the other would have made that clear that the other is equally damaging.   Neither extreme is desirable.  It is merely inevitable in major part because our FPTP electoral system of its very nature is not one conducive to balance.

I got the pendulum reference, but in the earlier paragraphs of that post, you seemed to be waxing lyrical on the achievements of the Conservatives, whilst in the next recounting Business World’s fear over Labour.
That aspect alone, puts you on the right of politics. Yet, if neither extreme is desirable, you seem to be mocking those leaving the extremes to meet in the middle. That’s ‘cake and eat it’ time!!

[JayCeeDee]

The VFM Addict wrote:

Even the very, very best rarely get it right more that 80% of the time. And May is not even a mediocre negotiator.

 

And that’s the nub of the problem, we have a ( bad ) politician trying to negotiate for the country.

Why, 2 years ago, weren’t the headhunters out for top negotiators, such as Nick Clegg’s wife ( already experienced in EU wide contract negotiations ) and a team of similarly CV’d others????

It’s a bit like sending a capable chess player into a Poker tournament and hoping your seed money doesn’t disappear!!

[JayCeeDee]

By austerity do you mean ‘swingeing spending cuts for everyone!! – except for us and our mates/sponsors!!’??

If so you could be right – oh it seems you already are.

 

The fear and trepidation held by people like myself – long standing labour supporters – of the prospect of a Corbyn/McDonnell government ( which is a Momentum government in all but name ) have been expressed on here and on other topics.

We agree on that but don’t need to hear how your ” ….rectifying government of the right to eventually replace it and the need for austerity.” will save the country, because what has it done for the NHS, teachers, Police, welfare, railways, etc over the past 9 years.

[JayCeeDee]

The Duke wrote:

Tbh I don’t think men mature ever. But to give us a bit of credit, I’d lower that to 30. I don’t think I even felt like an adult untill 30, even though by then I was married, had kids, been a marine, gone back to uni and was self employed. Probably wasn’t untill my wife first fell ill I felt liek I had to step up. Before then she was the adult, and I just done what she said. Or rather know how far my boundaries was. Though I bet she felt similar. We’re all just sort of winging it. No one one ever tells you at 18, that you may be an adult, but your a actually far from one.

 

I agree – but with a slightly different skew.

I didn’t get married until I was 31 and throughout my 20’s I was an adult, but lived my life as somewhat of a grown up kid. I had a job that paid the bills, I had a flat of my own, I’d had a couple of bikes, more than a few cars, I answered to no-one, did what I wanted, when I wanted – I was spoilt – and maybe a tad selfish.

That all changed when I got married, and once again when we had our son – you acquire new responsibilities. The only person I had been responsible for, or to, up to then was myself.

The expression ” Boys and their toys” applied to me in my youth and in my 20’s and I could afford to let it influence my choices. Come my 30’s and married life and fatherhood took precedence on my choices and options. Now I’m ‘sort of’ retired those choices and options are open again – the only difference is the wife joins in the conversation!! ?? She also has her ‘wish list’ which we balance against mine, but the boy is still looking for ( and getting ) his toys!!!??

[JayCeeDee]

I don’t think the “By-election now, they’ve left the party they stood for” brigade have a leg to stand on. How many election promises/manifestos have had an about face done to them once the election is over, ( as per the Uni fees ) and how many MP’s have the opposite stance to their constituency referendum result?? Where do you stop/draw the line??

[JayCeeDee]

I don’t know whether she has the mettle to try that after her previous run dropped her deeper in the proverbial than before!!

However, as the saying goes “Desperate times call for desperate measures”!!

[JayCeeDee]

The VFM Addict wrote:

The biggest problem for TIG as I see it is that it is trying to built top down. No grass roots. Where will such come from if it all? I just can’t see an army of those who have previously never been activists appearing out of nowhere.

I don’t think it really needs to become a new political party at all – it just needs to become a re-defining force for Labour and Conservatives, bringing them both back to the centre and away from the extremes. Once this is properly and permanently achieved, the members can go back to their previous parties knowing they have achieved their purpose.

UKIP wanted us out of Europe and they achieved this because of Cameron’s arrogance with the referendum offer, the UK populations decision and the impending exit date. They are now irrelevant to the UK’s future having achieved their goal and are not dead and buried, but are a party without purpose any more.

TIG’s destiny may well lead them down the same path, but if it ends up with two parties working on behalf of the country instead of themselves, all the better.

 

 

[JayCeeDee]

Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

Lets get rid of this horrid monster that calls its self the labour party once and for all. It has not represented any workers in decades. Nasty Nasty Marxists since before I was born.

Don’t lose the baby with the bath water!!

You just need to get rid of the evil within that calls itself Momentum and any future versions of it. Believe it or not, Labour, as was originally envisaged, had the opportunity to do good – and did. Without sounding like a Communist Manifesto, there is a need for a side of Government that can hold the elitist party’s feet to the flames and protect the common man.

That could be Labour, UKIP,  LibDem or the Greens but they need to stand in the middle ground, like Tony Blair tried to do ( evil acts excepted ). That’s why it was called New Labour, re-inventing the original – the idea was that it would be fit for purpose for the 21st Century, distancing itself from the extremes mentioned in my previous post that were the late 70’s and 80’s. That’s why I got involved with the Union when I worked at BT – if you want to change something, you should do so from within. If you ban something, there are elements in the British psyche and population to whom that makes it more appealing!!

 

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