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The VFM Addict wrote:

What did terrify me though was the verdict of the young when asked – ‘Putting aside any support for a political party you may have, which of the following do you think would be best for the British economy?’    Almost twice as many chose Labour as chose the Tories.

Perhaps that’s because the Tories have screwed the country for the last nine years, and have allowed food bank use and child poverty to increase while austerity is supposedly helping us?

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Can’t post this as an image for some reason

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Richard wrote:

Something along the lines of, If you don’t like all that Jeremy embraces then you must support (so called not his real name) Tommy Robinson.

I follow a lot of left leaning people on Twitter these days, including a handful of famous comedians. None of them are scared to air their views on any political character. If they oppose a right leaning character like a Tory, they’ll get a few muppets hurling abuse, but they’ll also get a fair amount of decent debate. If they dare to criticise Corbyn though, they’ll usually get a relatively small amount of either agreement or decent arguments, but mostly they get something along the lines of ‘Oh, you’re a Tory then?’ or ‘Another Blairite warmonger’ or something similarly dismissive.

It’s really depressing 🙁

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I’ve had similar with the bike John. For me the tyres were at the limit. Technically they weren’t a fail, but I didn’t risk taking it out until they’d been replaced.

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I’ve just had a look through the member list and can’t find a user with that name. I’m guessing it’s the one that @bdthree got rid of here:

https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/spam-messaging/#post-30849

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Lots of freshly pinched jokes 😀

 

A distinguished young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the priest beside her…’Father, may I ask a favour?’
‘Of course, my child. What may I do for you?’
‘Well, I bought an expensive woman’s electronic hair dryer for my mother’s birthday that is unopened and well over the Customs limits, and I’m afraid they’ll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?’
‘I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you: I will not lie.’
‘With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.’
When they got to Customs, she let the priest go ahead of her. The official asked, ‘Father, do you have anything to declare?’
‘From the top of my head down to my waist, I have nothing to declare.’
The official thought this answer strange, so asked, ‘And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?’
‘I have a marvelous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.’
Roaring with laughter, the official said, ‘Go ahead, Father. Next!’

 

My wife and her WeightWatchers’ group went on a trip to New York at the weekend and on the Sunday morning, they all went to Tiffany’s for breakfast. It was just like that famous film.

Gone in sixty seconds.

 

Mike and Yvonne were 85 years old and had been married for sixty years.
Though they were far from rich, they managed to get by because they carefully watched their pennies.
Though not young, they were both in very good health, largely due to Yvonne’s insistence on healthy foods and exercise for the last decade.
One day, their good health didn’t help when they went on a vacation and their plane crashed, sending them off to Heaven.
They reached the pearly gates, and St. Peter escorted them inside. He took them to a beautiful mansion, furnished in gold and fine silks, with a fully stocked kitchen and a waterfall in the master bath. A maid could be seen hanging their favourite clothes in the closet. They gasped in astonishment.
When he said, ‘Welcome to Heaven. This will be your home now.’ Mike asked Peter how much all this was going to cost. ‘Why, nothing,’ Peter replied, ‘remember, this is your reward in Heaven.’
Mike looked out the window and right there he saw a championship golf course, finer and more beautiful than any ever built on Earth.
‘What are the greens fees?’ grumbled Mike.
‘This is heaven,’ St. Peter replied. ‘You can play for free, every day.’
Next they went to the clubhouse and saw the lavish buffet lunch.
‘Don’t even ask,’ said St. Peter to Mike. This is Heaven, it is all free for you to enjoy.’
Mike looked around and nervously asked Yvonne ‘Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol foods and the decaffeinated tea?’
‘That’s the best part,’ St. Peter replied. ‘You can eat and drink as much as you like and you will never get fat or sick. This is Heaven!’
‘No gym to work out at?’ said Mike
‘Not unless you want to,’ was the answer.
‘No testing my sugar or blood pressure or…’
‘Never again’
Mike glared at Yvonne and said, ‘You and your bloody Bran Flakes! We could have been here ten years ago!’

 

I watched curling for a few hours today and I must say I found it very boring.
Plus the women kept giving me funny looks through the hairdresser’s window.

 

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a beautiful blonde woman wave at him and say hello.
He’s rather taken aback, because he can’t place where he knows her from. So he says, “Do you know me?”
To which she replies, “I think you’re the father of one of my kids.”
Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, “My God, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery???”.
She looks into his eyes and calmly says, “No, I’m your son’s math teacher.”

 

A drunk man who stank of beer and cigarettes sat down on the train next to a priest.
The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half-empty bottle of gin was sticking Out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading.
After a few minutes the man turned to the priest and asked, ‘Say Father, what causes arthritis?’
The priest replies, ‘My Son, it’s caused by loose living, being with Cheap, wicked women, too much alcohol, contempt for your fellow man, Sleeping around with prostitutes And lack of a bath.
The drunk muttered in response, ‘Well, I’ll be darned.’ Looking a bit shocked the man returned to his paper.
The Priest, thinking about what he had said, nudged the man and apologised. ‘I’m very sorry he said, I didn’t mean to be unkind by being judgemental. How long Have you had arthritis?’
The drunk answered, ‘I don’t have it, Father.
I was just reading here that the Pope does.’

 

A teacher was taking his class of 12 year olds, and he asks them “Can anyone tell me what part of the body can increase up 3 or 4 times it’s normal size when stimulated?”
There is silence from the class, so he asks the question again. One little girl called Mary stands up and says, “You shouldn’t be asking questions like that to your class. I think it’s very horrible and I’m telling my parents who will tell the headmaster and he will give you the sack!
The teacher ignores her outburst and carries on, “Can anyone tell me the answer?”
One boy, Timmy, raises his hand and says, “The part of the body that increases in its size when stimulated is the pupil of the eye.” “Very good Timmy” the teacher replies.
He then turns to Mary and says, “I only have three things to say to you young lady. One, you have a dirty mind. Two, if you did your homework you would have known the answer, and Three, one day when you are a grown up you’re going to be very very very disappointed.”

 

Tired of constantly being broke, and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife (with himself as the beneficiary), and arranging to have her killed. A “friend of a friend” put him in touch with a nefarious underworld figure, who went by the name of “Artie.”
Artie explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was 5,000 quid. The husband said he was willing to pay that amount, but that he wouldn’t have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife’s insurance money. Artie insisted on being paid SOMETHING up front. The man opened up his wallet, displaying the single pound coin that rested inside. Artie sighed, rolled his eyes, and reluctantly agreed to accept the quid as down payment for the dirty deed.
A few days later, Artie followed the man’s wife to the local Sainsbury’s. He surprised her in the produce department, and proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands. As the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath, and slumped to the floor, the manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the scene. Unwilling to leave any witnesses behind, Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well. Unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings was captured by hidden cameras and observed by the store’s security guard, who immediately called the police. Artie was caught and arrested before he could leave the store. Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the sordid plan, including his financial arrangements with the hapless husband.

And that is why, the next day in the newspaper, the headline declared:

“ARTIE CHOKES TWO FOR A POUND AT SAINSBURY’S.”

 

I was going to donate blood today but they ask too many questions.
Like “Whose is this blood, and where did you get it?”
Anyway, donate one kidney and you’re a hero.
Donate five and the Police want to talk to you…

 

Asked the doctor “Do you think I’ll lead a long and healthy life”, he replied ” I doubt it somehow. Mercury is in Uranus right now”, I said ” I don’t go in for all that astrology nonsense”, he replied “Neither do I but my thermometer just broke”.

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Anonymous wrote:

I’ll be cycling to and from work most days, so that will tire me out,

A few of my friends are cyclists and runners, and they tend to take the long way home e.g. instead of the five mile direct ride home, add a mile or two and slowly build it up once you’re comfortable with each distance 🙂

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Well, I managed to fit the radiator, but without any fans…

I’ve mounted the two included fans on the bottom of the case blowing upwards at full speed towards the radiator at the top. Temps are up by about 15 degrees under load.

I’ve got a slimline fan on the way from Amazon to see if it fits in the top, and they’ve got more stock coming next week, so hopefully everything will be running properly soon.

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I haven’t had a chance to get on the computer yet today, so I’ll have a look now and see if I can find anything.

EDIT: I’ve had the message but the user is gone. Looks like @RSB has already been in and cleaned up ?

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Sorry about not replying to this sooner. I thought I had, but my reply isn’t here.

Thanks for the Ringworld reminder Bob. Someone (probably you) told me about it a while back, and I keep forgetting about it 🙂

I haven’t done much listening to anything recently. I’ve been having a rough few weeks, and Alice had been ill too. We seem to be taking it in turns. We’ve both had our birthdays too, so have been dragged out to celebrate, despite our protestations ?? Thankfully we both seems to be on the mend, so I’m hoping to spend some time in the garage this week with a good book and a selection of spanners 😀

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Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

n the mean time you may like to check Windows media streaming options which seem to have been turned off with the latest update.

Thanks Wof, this has worked 🙂

It’s let me browse through Explorer, and has let me use VNC with the hostnames again 🙂

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Bob Williams wrote:

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.

I’ll definitely agree with that. I didn’t look after my teeth properly when I was younger, so about ten years or so ago I went to the dentist to get them sorted. I knew they were going to be fairly bad, but most of them were intact. I’ve now only got three teeth behind my incisors on the left hand side – one on the top and two on the bottom.

One of the bottom teeth was broken, but it was dead, so obviously not causing pain. It was partially hollowed and the piece touching the tooth in front had come away, leaving a U shape from above. I went in expecting this to be filled, and the dentist pulled both teeth. He told me that the ‘good’ tooth had been rotted away from the inside by the broken tooth. I had a similar problem with the tooth next to my incisor on the same side, as the incisor had been broken when I’d been assaulted (giving me the sort of story that would keep most people away from the dentist… ). The dentist pulled the remains of the incisor (which, again, I thought was ok), and the broken tooth next to it. My wisdom tooth had cracked, so I was sent to the hospital to have it pulled along with the remains of the others.

The dentist told me not to worry, as he had a plan to rebuild my mouth, probably using false teeth or some sort of plug. I can’t remember the name of it, but it sounded similar to a crown. I had the teeth pulled and the follow up visits at the hospital, and was told to wait the usual six months for a checkup to make sure that everything had healed properly. I went back and the dentist had left the practice!

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Dave Rice wrote:

I believe if you enable SMS 1.0 the Computer Browser service comes back. I’m not sure if this means you’re actively using SMS 1 (I think not) or if the vulnerabilities associated with it are there (probably).

From what I can tell, it would bring back the vulnerabilities too. I saw a post yesterday that showed an alternate way of disabling SMB 1 but without causing the problems like this. I didn’t save it because I didn’t think it was related at the time, and now I can’t find it again.

Time to go digging through my history. Someone hand me a biohazard suit please, I’ve got a feeling it may be toxic 😀

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@D-Dan I was just teasing about taking that much time to avoid a reinstall. Nothing serious, ignore me ?

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Thanks Dave 🙂

I just tried VNC with the IP address and it connected. I thought I did it last night, but apparently not ?

My main system hasn’t got the Computer Browser service listed at all now, but my media system does and seems to be able to browse the network.

I know Computer Browser was running last night, as one of the possible fixes I found told me to check it. Tie to restart and cross my fingers…

EDIT: Just tried the IP address in Explorer again and it worked. I’m guessing that it’s down to me being tired and mis typing earlier though, rather than me fixing anything.

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D-Dan wrote:

Now, three hours of Saturday gone, but no reinstall needed. Do that with Winblows

Why? 😉

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I’ve tried both  The computer shows up in Explorer but won’t connect, and using the IP address opens Chrome and just does a normal internet search (I’m pretty sure I’m missing something but I’ve been too tired to think properly this weekend)

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Thanks both 🙂

I’d forgotten about the Infinite Monkey Cage. Funnily enough I just deleted about a few dozen episodes because I didn’t get on with gPodder. I’d set it up for the Infinite Monkey Cage and a podcast from an author I follow (Randolph Lalonde, if you’re looking for some new sci fi and fiction), but because I didn’t like the player, I deleted everything to start again. I could have saved myself a few hours of re-downloading the latest episodes… 😀

Ideally I don’t want anything that I have to pay for yet, especially not a subscription, as I may not get on with podcasts and audiobooks. I listened to the Science’s Epic Fails episode of Monkey Cage last night and realised I was missing bits when I was concentrating on something else.

I tried adding the Communion After Dark podcast, but it’s not showing me any episodes.

The Duke wrote:

Also if you like to read, as well as listen, kindle and Audible books have somthing called whisper sync, so you can read on one and it will syck with the other. So the book for example will start off from the page you left off on and vice versa.

Now that’s something that could be really handy. I’m constantly reading books, and usually through the Kindle app. If I can get to grips with listening without getting distracted, this will be brilliant 🙂

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It’s still happening here on Chrome on Windows 10. I’m about to clear my cookies and restart Chrome. I’ll edit this post once it’s done.

EDIT: It’s partially worked. Some threads refresh while others don’t. This thread didn’t refresh when I opened it, but did when I clicked the edit button.

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I’ve just checked the sites list, and there are definitely 15 sites that I’ve used on there, maybe 21. I’ve got a busy night tonight…

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