Early Risers.

[Grizz]

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

This will probably upset a few ER posters and make others nod their head in sad agreement.

 

As @Grizz and @jjb1970 have implied the British Police in 2024 is (mostly) no longer fit for purpose - having been hijacked by careerists who have tied their colours to the mast of what are - laughingly - called "progressives"

 

As the careerists set how each force operates, so you have absurdities of Coppers threatening to arrest members of one religion for proselytizing, whilst completely ignoring members of another religion spouting much worse.  And for the average bloke in the street it seems that nowadays the only time you can get a copper to turn up (and then to threaten you with arrest) is to hurt somebody's feeling online.

 

Peter Hitchins, never one to shy away from controversy and upset people, put forward the notion that the existing British police forces should scrapped and a brand new, national, police force created to fight crime (what a radical notion!) built from scratch. If Sir Robert Peel could create a disciplined police force from scratch with none of the advanced tools and methodology we now have, a suitably determined individual could also do the same today.

 

That is a tantalizing thought...

As ever…eloquently put Doc. 

 

I would add that everywhere and everything has increasing become politicised. It is seen as a legitimate means to destroy democracy.
Such that democracy cannot be beaten for certain view points by conventional means, so use social media and any other method to intimidate, harass, bully and force large organisations and companies to public stating policies and political view points.
For example, increasingly.

Social media …..Demanding that these supposed ‘A’ political organisations must immediately come out and public condemn or support certain events or views of certain events.
 

To make no comment is utterly unacceptable, tantamount to a hate crime, and means that you are either for or against a certain view point and therefore part of the problem. Therefore YOU ARE the enemy. and as such you must be attacked and threatened as a legitimate target. Standing outside peoples houses, following or stalking them and their families..etc. 
 

If large ‘A’ political organisations don’t have a view point or don’t react quickly enough, this is then used as an example to state democracy doesn’t work so it justifies direct action. Usually by minority view points..( in some cases extremist view points).

 

Once this happens we are into the rabbit hole of ‘who’ is the most repressed ‘victim’ league table’. 
 

And the truth is whatever can be shouted loudest by increasingly aggressive means. 
 

Once upon a time the right to not hold a public view on a given subject was a stance that could be taken. ‘A’ political. It is a democratic fundamental. But now it is a tool by which those who would seek to destroy, corrupt, invalidate and or pervert democracy in its various forms, as a legitimate weapon. 
 

 

 

 

Edited March 5 by Grizz
Sorry auto correct spelling errors just keep happening.

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

A morning working at the Hospice; I discovered today that the driver I was working with finished 68th (2h 28m) in one of the Florence Marathons (out of 6000-odd runners) - his best time for the London Marathon is 2h 30m.....

It seems that's rather good.

 

ION.....

I was due a telecon from the Doc between 4pm and 6-30pm today.  So what happens?  She phones at 1pm and I missed it....😒

...though she has just called back (1440) and I didn't miss that one, luckily.

 

Bear gone.

 

 

[tigerburnie]

2 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

MY average is  13.7 litres per hundred kilometres which is the way  we measure it here . 

 

But, I've had it for 10 years  and have done 8000km in that time so it is amazingly frugal if you work out how much I've spent in fuel for it over that period!

Ten years!! and only 8k, I've done 105k miles in eight in the tiny uk, you don't get out much then or do you have a fleet of them ?

[Grizz]

Does anyone else’s phone send them messages about how many steps they have taken today? 
 

My iPhone started doing this in October last year. As far as I can remember I didn’t switch anything on or request monitoring services or download anything. But I have had several ‘upgrades’ in software, which is understandable. 
 

I suppose I need to trawl through and find whatever is doing it and switch it off. But I am curious what prompted it in the first place. Could this be data harvesting for future private medical insurance? 
 

 

 

[Grizz]

Oh dear…they broke the yellow bus. 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68479784

 

Shame, I quite like that one. 
Not as good as the General Omnibus livery though.

 

[pH]

10 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

The potential next president of the USA's  response at a subsequent press conference regarding the decision was written for him by  an AI generator that someone had accidently left out on the road and it got  driven over a few times and then got rained on, but the light on top still worked so they just used it anyway.

A former premier of this province used to give press conferences like that. The TV stations would tidy them up - in some cases, make some sense of them. They would have the assumed  words read by the newsreader, show resequenced clips of edited phrases etc. Eventually, one station just gave up and showed his responses verbatim.

[Grizz]

Appologies to Bear and others who are currently…er…. ‘Dietarily Challenged’….

 

But I loved this one and so our my cubs. We rode on it several times. 
 

[monkeysarefun]

34 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear here.....

 

A morning working at the Hospice; I discovered today that the driver I was working with finished 68th (2h 28m) in one of the Florence Marathons (out of 6000-odd runners) - his best time for the London Marathon is 2h 30m.....

It seems that's rather good.

 

ION.....

I was due a telecon from the Doc between 4pm and 6-30pm today.  So what happens?  She phones at 1pm and I missed it....😒

...though she has just called back (1440) and I didn't miss that one, luckily.

 

Bear gone.

 

 

 

 

 

It took me 3 goes to get below 4 hours (I think I finally managed  3 hours 59.57 seconds or something!) which had been my goal.   2hours 30 is a  blistering pace! 

 

I recall that one Sydney marathon I was in we'd got about 5 or so km in - start at Nth Sydney, run over the bridge, through Circular Quay and had got  around the Domain - ) when a little African guy came tearing past us in what seemed like a sprint. I recall his bright green shoes. Anyway I thought "Pfff he'll not keep that pace up, the noob!"

 

When I got home and watched the news on the telly it showed the winner - that black African guy in green shoes. He'd  gone to the wrong end of the Harbour bridge at the start, so had to run over the bridge to the startline , then commence the race, a quarter of an  hour or so after the official start time and he still beat us all!

[TheQ]

Used to do 60,000 a year when a field service engineer 30+ years ago.

Current car, about 13 years old , we are it's 3rd owners, genuine total mileage, 37'000 ish.

 

Afternoon Awl,

No report this morning, as although I was up early, the time just did a runner.

 

4.5  hours sleep, long awake 1 hours sleep.

 

Ben I'm in no hurry Collie took me on patrol,  dull grey not a lota wind, there are large amounts of daffs ready to open. Ground still soft occasionally squelchy.

 

Facebook added a group I have no interest in, that has thousands of posters, there were 20+ new posts this morning, deleted group.

 

Museum went well though muddling got interrupted twice , once with new posters to put up, then to reinstall a 1970s computer into its mainframe. As is usual with such things , it weighed enough for a four person lift, but there was only room for two people to get in there.

 

I need an eyelid inspection..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hroth]

16 minutes ago, Grizz said:

Does anyone else’s phone send them messages about how many steps they have taken today? 
 

My iPhone started doing this in October last year. As far as I can remember I didn’t switch anything on or request monitoring services or download anything. But I have had several ‘upgrades’ in software, which is understandable. 
 

I suppose I need to trawl through and find whatever is doing it and switch it off. But I am curious what prompted it in the first place. Could this be data harvesting for future private medical insurance? 
 

 

 

 

One of the reasons for not having an iPhone, I suppose, though Android phones are almost as opaque. 

 

My new Samsung tablet is similar, it moithered on about how often I used the device ( "You've used your tablet for 12 more minutes than last week"), its almost as if they don't want you to use it, though it was easy to get it to shut up!

 

[southern42]

' afternoon all from red dragon land.

Sunny again. <<Wowww!>> Double  figures, too, @10.0C.

 

Do I detect a tad of warming? It did not feel like it in the porch.

 

Toot on the flute. Beat box set at same tempo. Still puffing and panting along line2 but I did manage to play it, in the end, with its repeat. Continuing on from line1 failed miserably, today, so that will be my job to get right, tomorrow.

 

When the varnish dried on Mr Pinbadge Orangutan last night, the middle still looked a bit scuffed up, so I gave it another coat of varnish (total of 4 coats) before going to bed. It was still not quite right, this morning, so I gave it another two coats before going off for my toot on the flute. Came back and gave it just one more coat echoing my flute playing strategy of 4-2-1. Though maybe I could do with learning a different one:

 

 

Another mugadecaf time.

Take care. Be good. Don't rush it!

Polly

 

[Hroth]

Yeti had it's 13th birthday this month, 44k miles on the clock, all done by me...

 

I don't do a lot of driving!

 

[TheQ]

It appears Facebook is stuffed, the online monitor for it is deep in the red...

[jjb1970]

On the state of democracy etc, one of the most telling aspects is changed perceptions in the rest of the world. At one time many countries in Asia for example looked to Western Europe and North America for inspiration on governance, institutions of state and democracy. They are increasingly using the collective west as examples of how not to run countries. 

 

I had a very acidic comment from an associate in the government here today who observed that the German Air force offended the country by treating Chinese visitors to their display as a security risk* while talking about sensitive stuff on how to attack Russia on an unsecured line with the Russians listening in. He wasn't joking, the whole sorry train wreck has damaged Germany. Insensitivity to the locals was bad enough but doing it on the basis of security while showing total disregard for security with respect to something far more sensitive has made them look incompetent.

 

*the China reference has to be understood in the context that the dominant ethnic group in Singapore is Chinese. It's a touchy subject, think Scots getting annoyed when called English, or similar. 

[Gwiwer]

15 minutes ago, TheQ said:

It appears Facebook is stuffed, the online monitor for it is deep in the red...

And all other Meta platforms.  

 

We shall have to talk to each other with our voices instead. 

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

Ten years!! and only 8k, I've done 105k miles in eight in the tiny uk, you don't get out much then or do you have a fleet of them ?

 

Up to now its been  a showpony not a workhorse!

 

However, the idea is to one day when I can get enough time off,  - or retire - is  to head up north then out  west, and experience this huge brilliant  country with a V8 burbling away in front of me , and AC/DC, Midnight Oil etc cranked up to full, ( except that causes a problem because the twin  Subwoofers make the rear view mirror vibrate so much that I can't see out of it, although.... there is rarely traffic behind you once you get west of the great divide. )

 

My ideal holiday isnt a big cruise ship or a tour of museums , but an empty country road and a V8 to use on it - and it HAS to be a V8, after growing up with Mad Max and so on......

 

, its driving  into a tiny  town for a hamburger or a beer, and if there are no towns around when night falls, just sleeping in the tray of the ute, with the heavens bright and amazing above. 

 

Its pulling into a beach that goes for miles but has no one else on it. 

 

Its stopping at a camp site and eating tea  while trying to keep kookaburras, kangaroos, and goannas from stealing  it. 

 

We are truly lucky in what we have here, too few  locals bother to appreciate it. 

Edited March 5 by monkeysarefun

[Gwiwer]

37 minutes ago, Grizz said:

Appologies to Bear and others who are currently…er…. ‘Dietarily Challenged’….

 

But I loved this one and so our my cubs. We rode on it several times. 
 

I see its bright yellow class-mate has challenged an Oxford Street shop-front to a duel.  

[Hroth]

1 minute ago, Gwiwer said:

And all other Meta platforms.  

 

We shall have to talk to each other with our voices instead. 

 

Or arrange to meet face to face.

 

Oh wait...

 

🤪

[Tony_S]

2 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Up to now it’s been  a showpony not a workhorse!

Is your other car a Toyota?

[polybear]

41 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Used to do 60,000 a year when a field service engineer 30+ years ago.

Current car, about 13 years old , we are it's 3rd owners, genuine total mileage, 37'000 ish.

 

 

Rumour has it there's an April 1985 Honda CB750FD in a shed *somewhere* with 3600-ish miles on the clock..... 😉

[Hroth]

2 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Rumour has it there's an April 1985 Honda CB750FD in a shed *somewhere* with 3600-ish miles on the clock..... 😉

 

In a SHED???

 

[monkeysarefun]

11 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Is your other car a Toyota?

 

 

 

No!

[Grizz]

Just cut a 10mm slice in the tip of my right index finger with a Stanley knife. 
 

A surgical cut, probs 2mm deep. Worrying it didn’t hurt.

 

Last time i did something like this I used no nonsense industrial super glue and glued it shut, after first cleaning it up. There didn’t appear to be any side effects. 
 

Now my question is, bearing in mind that this isn’t medical superglue, is this exceedingly dangerous or an acceptable risk? I need it to stop bleeding and I need to be able to use my finger fairly quickly. 
 

Answers…not on a post card please….
 

 

[Hroth]

Go to A&E and wait for several hours.  By time you get seen it should have stopped dripping all over the floor...

 

 

[polybear]

3 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

In a SHED???

 

 

Oops.......four-letter word....

It is a big Sh*d though......

 

Now if a certain Bear had a garage (have I mentioned I haven't got one??) it's quite likely that it'd have rather more miles on the clock.....

 

1 minute ago, Grizz said:

Just cut a 10mm slice in the tip of my right index finger with a Stanley knife. 
 

A surgical cut, probs 2mm deep. Worrying it didn’t hurt.

 

Last time i did something like this I used no nonsense industrial super glue and glued it shut, after first cleaning it up. There didn’t appear to be any side effects. 
 

Now my question is, bearing in mind that this isn’t medical superglue, is this exceedingly dangerous or an acceptable risk? I need it to stop bleeding and I need to be able to use my finger fairly quickly. 
 

Answers…not on a post card please….
 

 

 

Brave Bears have been known to go for it.....medical types would no doubt frown (or worse) on such behaviour.....