RMweb Gold Hroth Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 8 hours ago 4 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: That in Australia, floorboards are commonly nearly as wide as doors. The shelves on the left are oddly spaced too! 3 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ozexpatriate Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago (edited) We had a short conversation here on the topic of veracity the other day. (It's relevant to the news cycle at the moment.) A pundit referred to a quote which I had not heard before. I found it apropos. Quote Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead. Jonathan Swift - 1710. (My emphasis - that was the referenced bit.) Not new, disinformation is. Edited 8 hours ago by Ozexpatriate 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Google Lens, which is a curious tool, found something quite similar: The cartography is a bit off. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 14 hours ago, Hroth said: @Chris Snowdon Roman Wall Blues? Is that the one about sentry duty at the dead of night during Saturnalia? 🤔 (Looked it up, not far off on the sentiment!) Yes, if I remember correctly, it's basically the grumblings of a bored and homesick soldier from Southern Europe or North Africa wondering WFT he is doing in the middle of the night, in the middle of what soon became Northumberland, in the rain. We were advised to read the poem as optional homework whilst studying The Eagle of the Ninth, but apparently the vast amount of correspondence found at/from Vindolanda suggests it's pretty accurate. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 3 hours ago, Compound2632 said: And some twirp speaking between the movements - treating us the TV audience with contempt. Wasn't like that on Radio 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 14 hours ago, BoD said: I don’t like poetry. If I have spent good money on a book I want the words to go all the way across the page. That’s the least you should expect. Fair enough. Can't argue with that! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 14 hours ago, DaveF said: I noticed this after I wrote my post a few minutes ago. The Tanfield Railway is just like it always was, very friendly and with lots of fascinating things to see. The electrics are still there, safely stored in one of the sheds along with lots of other nice things. They also have many interesting railway books (second hand) in their shop. David David, that's really good to hear. Not just about what's still there but also that the bookcases are still worth browsing. A lot of the smaller industrial museums around the NE seem to be suffering (not just financially, but theft and vandalism) at present, so hope they are doing OK - it sounds as if they are. 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 10 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: Is this a friend of yours ? Not as far as I am aware, just someone else who is "normal". 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold BoD Posted 7 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 7 hours ago 8 minutes ago, Chris Snowdon said: Not as far as I am aware, just someone else who is "normal". lol 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 3 hours ago, Compound2632 said: I think I need to give up this forum. I'm clearly turning into a grumpy old man. Take the revised format for BBC Young Musican which has resulted in the final including two performances of the same old warhorse. And some twirp speaking between the movements - treating us the TV audience with contempt. My dear fellow, you becoming a grumpy old man is a sign of maturity and wisdom. A process undoubtably aided by you frequenting these pages and learning from the best. For on ER you have experienced, wise and extremely talented grumps. Fellows who could be grumpy to gold medal standards for Britain (and elsewhere, as appropriate). Anyone who gets to our age (and I am assuming that you pretty much coincide with the demographics of ER) and is still euphorically skipping through life like Basil Fotherington-Tomas, has clearly done too many drugs in the 60s and 70s! 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 8 minutes ago, BoD said: lol Lots of Love??????? 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 6 hours ago Goodnight all. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago L 18 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: Lots of Love??????? Laugh out Loud or even better Live out Long. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 34 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: ... done too many drugs in the 60s and 70s! Isn't that the stage of life when the number of prescriptions written starts to increase dramatically? Sounds pretty normal to me. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 44 minutes ago, BoD said: lol ROTFL LMAO 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 13 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: Isn't that the stage of life when the number of prescriptions written starts to increase dramatically? Sounds pretty normal to me. I think you are being naughtily obtuse, Oz: I was of course referring to the 1960s and the 1970s! 30 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said: Laugh out Loud or even better Live out Long. I was being just a teeny tiny bit sardonic! I am aware of what LOL means, and a lot of other trendy/New Age/millennial/generation Z acronyms besides. “Know thy enemy“ and all that. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 6 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: I think you are being naughtily obtuse Possibly. 😉 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago 3 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: This I found incongruous. It is a photograph I took yesterday - of a wall. It's a bit of a headscratcher. The building on which it is applied, explains it a bit, but it still confuses. I do not know what the graphic attempts to convey, beyond "Australia". I'm impressed they included Kangaroo Island, King Island, The Furneaux Group, Groote Eylandt and Bathurst and Melville Islands. Meanwhile maps here often leave off Tasmania! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 4 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: This I found incongruous. It is a photograph I took yesterday - of a wall. It's a bit of a headscratcher. The building on which it is applied, explains it a bit, but it still confuses. I do not know what the graphic attempts to convey, beyond "Australia". Maybe it wasn’t mean to be an outline of Australia with giant floor boards to start with….maybe it was a much bigger picture of something completely different with floor boards….to start with? And the guys doing the clean up operation got bored….. had a few pints at lunch time and got like ‘all creative’ in the afternoon…..? 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago (edited) 1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said: Meanwhile maps here often leave off Tasmania! Like those world maps that omit Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu / New Zealand! (For some reason I find that funny - though were I a Kiwi, it would irk.) Edited 4 hours ago by Ozexpatriate 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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