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February 19, 2019 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Is Labour now "#&cked" as was overheard yesterday during the TIG Launch? #30938
With a lot of the Conservative Party on the right wing and Labour’s Momentum on the Left, there is a huge gap in the middle for a “Centrist” party.
I actually held out hopes for New Labour when it got in, and it didn’t do too badly for a few years. When Blair decided it was time to go, they made a pig’s ear of the transition to a new leader and lost a lot of support along the way. Even long time Labour supporters couldn’t stomach Gordon Brown, and then having a “Financial expert” at the helm during the crash, that was the nail in Labour’s coffin.
We’ve had enough of one party in power ( left or right ) supposedly being kept ‘honest’ ( I use the word in its practical form, not its literal meaning ) by an opposition. They have all just spent their time in oppsition bitching about those in power. Confrontational politics of the ilk seen over the last 3 or 4 decades has done nothing for the betterment of this country other than provide grist for the gossip/tabloid mill.
Some people in the media are referencing the TIG group back to Shirley Williams and the SDP of the 80’s. Not one of the current batch have either the b*lls or the integrity she had. She thought she had seen a way out of the country’s problems and a fair percentage of the country agreed with her, but ultimately, apart from forming the starting point for the Lib Dems, it came to nought.
The less said about Derek Hatton the better, likewise Derek ( Red Robbo ) Robinson and Arthur Scargill. Collectively they did more to destroy industry which wrecked uncountable peoples’ lives.
February 19, 2019 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Dealing with a Housing Association, any experiences or advice? #30935When I first met the wife, she had problems with her ex, trying to access the flat. She got Banhams to change the locks and fit a reinforcing steel bar 1/8 x 3/4 from top to bottom, moulded around the staple/keep ( where the latch closes against ) fixed into the frame with 2″ screws.
It wasn’t pretty, but it worked. Couple that with a window lock top and bottom that is set into the door and ‘winds’ into the frame with a key. Provided it is a fairly sturdy door to start with, they’ll break their foot or shoulder before they gain access through the door.
That should fly – especially with the M2!!
Was it an overdue update or a “What the Hell” moment……………. or a combination of both!!
Good luck with the build.?
Yup!! Had one – gone now. Cheers Lee.
Bob – if there’s anything I needed to find out about any of the phones I’ve been interested in, I have always looked up what GSM Arena has to say about it.
Info on G6 Plus is HERE.
They let you do comparisons on three phones, side by side, great if you’re getting into the minutiae of each one.
I used it to great effect when looking up PM’s G5. And it’s still going strong.
Unless my imagination is going bananas again… Must check my med’s.
No, Bob – it must be true – I read it on the internet!!!???
Welcome.????
I bought THESE after Steve’s praise of them, back in May, last year. They have connected to the iPad and the phone with ease. battery life is good and they have three sets of the ‘in-ear’ rubber insets.
Sitting in bed with the iPad, watching movies for a couple of hours and they haven’t given me earache or a headache.??
Micro USB, like the phone, so when I charge the phone overnight, when I get up for the loo, I just swap them over and all is ready for next time.
………… I think though you miss out the word ‘angry’ because anger has been generated in volume by the last two years parliamentary gaming. Anger will always find a a means to vent and I am fairly certain that Joe Public thinks that government didn’t/couldn’t just get on and get it done because of those in parliament that wanted to reverse the result.
I don’t think peoples anger will be aimed towards the government alone, or the supposed Reversalists so to speak. They blame Parliament, ie the whole system – especially the current incumbents of Parliament – for the debacle and the dire situation we currently find ourselves in. Over recent decades the whole shebang has lost credibility, respect, integrity etc, etc. Confrontation Politics has been at the forefront of Parliament for the last few decades and had been fomenting and festering for a few before that. The opposition is supposed to be there to keep the Government on track, not to jockey for power for themselves. Self interest, both on a personal and party level has been the driving force for some time now on both sides. The country they are supposed to be leading has followed a poor runner-up.
I’m sick of the lot of them actually, and despair that were the current lot to be ousted, we would have as many, if not more, problems with whatever alternative presented itself and won.
I’ve said it before that I have been a lifelong Labour supporter, but with Jeremy at the forefront with Momentums’ hand up his back and driving his purpose, I couldn’t in all conscience vote for them and if they are hoping for the youth vote to create a ‘Canterbury’ effect, they are rapidly losing that as well.
As there was never a published Brexit manifesto, it is very difficult to say just what the ‘Leave’ voters actually voted for.
The whole thing, from both sides, generated Project Fear, Project Utopia and Project Bullsh1t.
Everybody harps on about honouring the result of the Referendum, but after however many months of the above, I reckon a very small percentage of the population were actually making an informed decision, because all that went before qualified more as dis-information!!
If ( when ) a second Ref comes about, they’ll be better informed, but a lot more confused!!
On reading this topic first thing today, I couldn’t see what was the problem. I needed to clear my cookies and cache so I CCleaner’d it.
On checking back, after signing back in to everything, I now have the problem:(.
It won’t kill me to suffer it, but might wind me up. A day of running odds and end errands today so I’ll re-check later.
Edit – it happened directly after posting this. It took a second or two to get the page loaded after pressing the submit button, after the refresh, it only took half a second for the page to load on the screen.
One of the problems with cars being written off ( as I’m sure Bob will attest ) is down to the exceedingly high cost of labour.
The other is recent safety cell design. Physically, the parts can be replaced or hydraulically pulled back into shape, but with modern safety cell design, once the cell has been compromised , however slightly, the entire cell ( ie body shell ) has to be replaced. This is why, even for a side impact that could be fixed with new doors and a ‘B’ Pillar, if the roof is damaged, the insurance will write it off.
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That stretch of road is a blackspot – 5 accidents recently ( can’t remember the time period.) Council already had a meeting agenda’d for the following day to discuss reducing the speed limit from 60 to 50.
The winter sun is the same for all, but it caught me out a few years ago, in a slow moving queue of traffic coming out from under a bridge. Blinded me enough to bump the rear end of the car in front that had braked before my eyes had had time to adjust.
There was a news flash last night and later on more coverage on BBC1. Then it was on BBC News, throughout today – we have been catching up on recorded programmes today as it was a slow dog day.
Doesn’t seem to have been hidden. They even interviewed the chap that helped him out of the overturned ( on its’ side ) car.
I’ve been migrating my logins away from my old aol email address – which did show up on the pwnd web page, so luckily it doesn’t carry across to my new email address, which doesn’t appear.
At the same time, but with a greater degree of difficulty, I’m migrating the wife across onto a free LastPass account to better integrate with my LP Premium account. So long as it is as easy to access her web accounts off LP as it is through the insecure browser security, I’m onto a winner. But not an easy sell!! It also makes it easier for her ( well me on her laptop ) to randomly generate secure passwords and still log in with just a few clicks.
Thanks for the heads up.?
There will be some winners and they will be the DUP and Northern Ireland for one. The DUP are milking this for all it’s worth and getting more money/investment/prioritising than they might otherwise have got or deserved.
The SNP are also sitting happily sowing/fermenting/taking advantage of discord so that in all the chaos that follows progress down the road to Independence ( whether the majority of Scots want that or not ) will be made on the back of all the carp that the UK will find itself in. They will be heroes in their own little empire!!
Turns my stomach, in truth, but so does a lot of political manoeuvring.
Don’t let them get away with an x-ray, Nolan. An MRI is what you need and you need to push for it.
About 8 years ago after hurting her back when my computer chair at the time gave way and jolted her back, she was in agony. The GP referred her for an x-ray. It showed what they described as arthritis on the base of the spine. She knew this was likely so as she had worked on the stall on a street corner for 35 odd years. She put up with the pain for going on 3 years.
When she asked the GP for a referral to a pain clinic she had heard about, they sent her for an MRI. This showed she had a disc out that had shrivelled over the years and couldn’t be manipulated back into place. It was lying against the sciatic nerve which explained the cramps in her leg, the spasms and the pain. It had been out too long and can now only be dealt with on the table, inserting nylon spacers that absorb the impact between the two vertebrae. She’s determined that that won’t happen until a wheelchair is the only viable option as she hates the thought of being out of action for three months on “take-it-easy rest”.
Moral of the story is, don’t let them get away with a cheap general picture. Get them to have a good detailed look at it with an MRI.
Best of luck.
Jokes about one’s own troubles/physical appearance were common.
So very true, Bob. Staring your mortality in the eye is very enlightening and empowering. Jokes were often self -oriented- almost taking the mickey out of yourself to lighten the mood!!
I always remember the occasion when one elderly lady who was on Chemo and was wearing an “ice-cap” for the duration of her infusion, saying out loud to the room ” The last time I wore a blue beret was in the Girl Guides, and I’m not saying how many years ago that was!!” The whole room just laughed together – Chemo is a very shared, communal experience. We were all in it together, some for better, some, tragically, for worse.
+1 !! It’s amazing how easy the options can be assessed, knowing where those pipes and cables run, if you need to saw a floorboard to get it up.
Lee – get some photos of the cable runs before you plaster – handy next time you want to hang a picture.
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