Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

13 minutes ago, PupCam said:

There used to be a joke that went round work along the lines of "Sociology degrees

Says more about your work colleagues than sociologists really. 

[polybear]

19 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Says more about your work colleagues......

 

A certain Bear being one of them.....

[Coombe Barton]

39 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Pupper's doesn't know Robert Dingwall, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University or indeed have access to the huge resource of data that no doubt he has.  

 

He has the same data that we have. I prefer the voices of the other scientists I quoted.

[Erichill16]

35 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

Pupper's doesn't know Robert Dingwall, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University or indeed have access to the huge resource of data that no doubt he has.  

 

Doesn't stop Puppers from not having a very high opinion of Professor Dingwall ......

 

There used to be a joke that went round work along the lines of "Sociology degrees are available in the paper dispensers in the cubicles of the toilets".  Perhaps slightly unfair and apologies to anyone here with a sociology degree ....... No offence intended.

 

36 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

 

There used to be a joke that went round work along the lines of "Sociology degrees are available in the paper dispensers in the cubicles of the toilets".  Perhaps slightly unfair and apologies to anyone here with a sociology degree ....... No offence intended.

There was a similar message in the university library toilets but the the one liked most was,

Some come here to sit and think,

some come here to sh!t and stink,

but I come here to scratch my balls,

and read the writing on the walls.

 

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, Erichill16 said:

There was a similar message in the university library toilets but the the one liked most was ...

Perhaps the most published poet of all time - at least in terms of publishing in alternative media.

[JohnDMJ]

On the above, ISTR a regular appearance in the Rag Mags of the late 70s, early 80s relating to some students not looking out of the window in the morning.

 

For my part, I had little time to look out of the window for most of the day being (theoretically) engaged on a course involving at least 30 hours of lectures with the expectation of doubling that in your own time! Relaxation came in the form of practicals in Dynamics, Tribology and Fluid Dynamics.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Barry O]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

... looking at patterns ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/first-day-of-summer/

I think that some of our experts need to do a course on forensic research of data. They seem to be unable to work out what is really happening but are quite prepared to say out loud some of their thoughts. Time they actually did a holistic review of the data available.. and they need to stop using the "we need more data" option. After all, they are some of our best academic experts...lummy!

 

Unfortunately none of them are engineers......

Baz

Edited June 1, 2021 by Barry O

[Barry O]

Been a long day in the sun up in the North East.

 

Goodnight all!

Baz

[simontaylor484]

Best graffiti in a toilet cubicle i have seen was 

 

Same old game same old caper

Bags of sh!t but no bl**dy paper

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[leopardml2341]

Goodnight folks.

[The Lurker]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The foot that I dropped the box on isn't hurting at all. Is that a good sign? 

 

Where there’s no sense, there’s no feeling?

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

The weather has once again been glorious, although a few clouds appeared in the afternoon, it still remained bright and very warm. 

 

As I mentioned earlier, after watering I continued working in the cellar, during this work I kept the French doors open all day, which made a pleasant change. Today I continued where I left off yesterday and cut a  thin piece of plasterboard to go next to the one I cut yesterday. These were then fixed to the wall using the ‘dot and dab’ method. The remainder of the sheet was then used to cover the section of wall next to the door, which is opposite. I then fitted the metal plaster beading to the corners around the window and above the door. After dinner I filled the gaps where the floor and the bottom of the plasterboard meet. This has been done as I found that if the gap was too big, it made fitting the laminate flooring awkward. The room temperature is quite stable so there won’t be as much expansion of the floor, like you’d expect in centrally heated rooms. I also filled the corners where the ceiling and wall meet too, as well as the corners and around the sockets, spur unit and switch, as I’d deliberately cut the holes oversize to ensure they fitted without needing to keep removing them and trimming. All that’s left to do is fit jointing tape, which I’ll do once the plaster has dried. So, after today’s efforts I now have 3 sections of wall that are now ready for plastering. 

 

The photo below shows how it looked earlier this evening. 

 

This evening I completed the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix, Sainsbury’s was fairly quiet this evening. I normally do this on a Monday evening, but it was delayed due to yesterday’s ban collar day. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[Dave Hunt]

One good bit of graffiti was added to a notice in a maternity ward stating, " Please be quiet, the first few minutes of life are critical." Underneath someone had written, "The last few minutes are fairly dodgy too."

 

Dave

[iL Dottore]

Good morning one and all,

 

Off to the dentist followed by a trip to the cardiologist for a stress test this morning. What fun! At least by at lunchtime I will have perfectly polished teeth and will know whether or not I have a “dickie ticker“ (I doubt that I do, as everything is rather atypical - but better safe than sorry).

Earlier, Gwiwer, referred to “c-rap” music. It never ceases to amaze me that how widespread and popular this so-called “music“ has become. When you consider the really great music that has come out of the black American community - jazz, soul, R&B, the blues (Delta, Chicago, etc.) and funk - one can but shake one’s head in amazement at how the talentless can rip off other peoples music (they call it “sampling“) spout some misogynistic, pro violence and epithet laden words over the “sample” and make millions, whilst real musicians (playing jazz, blues et cetera) who have spent years if not decades honing their craft labour on in obscurity. 

 

To paraphrase the great showman PT Barnum: one can never go broke underestimating the taste and intelligence of the general public.

Earlier in the posts of the last day or so, there have been some rather disparaging remarks made about Sociology. Sadly, there are too many people in Sociology who (in my rather biased opinion) really are “not fit for purpose“ and really do drag down the discipline. Properly applied with rigourous scientific discipline, Sociology is a useful branch of the social sciences.  Unfortunately, too many in the discipline are what I would call “third rate academics“ (and if I may be very contentious here, the tendency for many UK and US universities to – to put it politely - shy away from any contentious or non-politically correct/approved opinion, is only going to encourage the placing of third-rate academics in too many universities).

 

Puppers (and others) may enjoy the following joke: In the 70s a committed left-wing activist working in the civil service goes in front of a promotion board, which, like many boards of that time, was composed of old-fashioned ex- Colonels and Captains. The promotions board interviews the young man and reviews his extremely impressive qualifications and performance. After the interview, the board sends the young man out of the room while they confer. At the end of the deliberations the chairman of that particular promotions board, a retired Colonel, comes out and tells the young man that his application for promotion has been turned down. The young man, understandably, is angered and says “this is totally unfair! You know that I am very well qualified for the job. You’ve only turned me down because I’m a socialist“ At those words the Colonel turns bright red and stammers out the words “my dear boy, we are so terribly sorry, but we thought you said you were a sociologist“

 

So it goes...

 

Happy “Hump Day”

Edited June 2, 2021 by iL Dottore
Typo

[TheQ]

As for footballs landing in your garden , there is no legal requirement to return them nor let them in to collect it.....

Until you touch the ball, then it has to be returned or actually, offered to be returned.

In MK next to a play area we often received unwanted balls. We took the procedure of not returning the ball for several hours, that gradually reduced the number of incoming balls. Especially if they landed in the vicinity of the dogs teeth..

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

I am not too chuffed about a trend that is developing, which is to transmute supermarket loyalty cards into mobile phone apps.  The latest proponent of this bright idea appears to be Morrisons, whose Bedford emporium I visited yesterday to lay in stocks of their own brand custard powder.  To my shot-to-hell taste buds, 85p per drum is good value and little more than half the price of the brand leader.  Much of the world of custard is not what it was.  Where, for example, is Monk and Glass?  Much worse than the absence of this one-time staple is the presence of tinned custard, which cannot possibly be as thick and sturdy as the ideal that we all remember our mothers making back in the dim and distant.  Even school dinners got custard right!

 

If I may lob in my favourite piece of graffiti:  “Why is there no graffiti on this wall?” with, underneath: “Because Sir Isaac Newton hasn’t discovered it yet”.  That gem was in the gents in the Students’ Union at the University of East Anglia circa 1967.  I bet some spoilsport has painted over it by now.

 

Today I must write a report of the slide show given last night.  Ireland in the late 50s and early 60s was another world which I never knew.  I discovered what was left of it for myself in 1996.  A return trip to Dublin was one of the casualties of 2020 and is high on my list of aspirations for 2022.  My aim is not to view the bucolic byways of yesteryear – just as well really – but to explore the tram network, bankrupt myself in the shop of Claddagh Records and to march with other believers through the city centre wearing my rainbow boots.  What will go wrong in the 56 weeks between now and then?  

 

Best wishes to all, especially all the sick and missing.

 

Chris

[TheQ]

Schools get custard right? only if you enjoy a thin runny semi clear Liquid with large lumps in, often containing powder. All 5 schools I went to, produced a version of this...

 

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Hare,

4.5 hours sleep + 1 +1, so fairly good for me. More to the point a I found a couple of comfortable positions to which my back was grateful.

Ben the alarm Clock Collie want me up half an hour early this morning, I offered him outside but he refused.. He won't go out till I've taken SWMBO her morning tea and I've had breakfast.

 

Yesterday, the Boss did another Zoom interview for a deputy, it was still going on when I left work, the Boss has also produced an Excel chuff chart, showing his and my leave and our expected dates of  permanent departure..

 

SWMBO was not happy when I got home,, the car wouldn't start, so she missed her weaving group.. It got it started with lots of right boot, I suspect fuel evaporation due to the heat, pushing the liquid fuel back to the tank, it's happened before in this sort of weather..

 

Time I went down the lab and got on with it..

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Sunny morning here up in the North West Highlands so far. The birds are singing merrily and long may it be so.

 

Not really certain what we are doing today... I believe a trip to visit a relativenor two may ge on the cards.. no shark wielding today though.

 

Mugatea needs drinking so TTFN!

Baz

[polybear]

9 hours ago, PupCam said:

 

Pupper's doesn't know Robert Dingwall, professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University or indeed have access to the huge resource of data that no doubt he has.  

 

 

 

Found it....no laughing at the back now, Puppers.....

 

 

 

8 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

 

There was a similar message in the university library toilets but the the one liked most was,

Some come here to sit and think,

some come here to sh!t and stink,

but I come here to scratch my balls,

and read the writing on the walls.

 

 

The following appeared on the wall of one of the cubicles at work - originally from some RAF Base, somewhere......

 

Here I sit

Broken hearted

About to download when Taccy Bell started....

 

- The appearance of which generated a small spate of similar poetry, much to the Dept. Head's disgust.  He put a sign up on the wall, saying that he was somewhat dismayed that such graffiti should appear in a company of supposedly intelligent professionals.  The sign ended with the words:

 

".....so please desist (that means STOP)"

 

Someone wrote underneath the sign:

 

"B0llox"

 

He removed the sign shortly afterwards, strangely....

 

Bear's Plans for the Day:

 

To wash out the new oven as instructed and put the door back on, followed by the fitting of the cooker isolation switch.  Bear will should then have a working oven once more.

= Pizza

I also plan to make an appointment to visit the Granite Worktop suppliers (they're in Charlwood, Surrey - very near to Gatwick Airport).  (No idea what the M25 is like nowadays - the top section going clockwise over the bridge.  Anyone?)

 

I also have a dishwasher door panel to fit - once done I can check the alignment with the two kitchen units which stand either side is ok before securing the dishwasher with screws.

 

Buddy next door has asked Bear to assist him with loading his car with cr@p, followed by a dump run.  Bear may have the opportunity to get shot of some of his own cr@p too, space permitting.....

 

 

[leopardml2341]

Mornin'

 

Bright and sunny with a cool breeze here in South Derbyshire at the moment.

 

However, the local roadworks teams are out in force - but the planning coordinator seems to have gone AWOL, no less than four holes in the road in my immediate vicinity:

 

Whichever way you look at it that is ludicrous. The orange dot is almost outside my house and is a set of roadworks with three way traffic control and it is (perhaps not) surprising how many colour blind drivers there are - effin c@ckwombles.

 

Right, time for breakfast then a trip out to the blue and yellow Swedish shop for some blinds for mi summershed.

 

Hope today brings nice things for all.

[jamie92208]

Good moaning. It's grey and cloudy but still quite warm here. It even got warm enough yesterday to get the pool up to 25. It only dropped to 23 overnight. We may even get in it soon.  I even managed a bit of muddling. Wonders never cease.

 

Today is the 42nd time we've gone round the sun since Beth and I got hitched.  I had dark hair in those days.  However a card has been purchaded and is awaiting her.  I believe that a piecevif steak is to be sacrificed this evening.  

 

Beth will have her French class today and I will be spending a coup,e of hours watching an Orange techician installing phone and internet in the house we look after. It's a good thing that the new issue of Modern Railways has arrived, so I won't be bored.

 

Good luck to Captain Cynical, I suppose the good news would be that he actually has a heart.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie