Early Risers.

[Erichill16]

52 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Once, back when $20,000 was really a lot of money, I asked him what, if I gave him $20,000 , could he do for me in terms of enhancement He lLooked at me very slowly ,professionally evaluating the situation , sadly shook his head and said "absolutely nothing"

Reminds me of a Mrs Murton Show when she interviews a model (who i won't name)  that  had just had an expense ‘job’ done. Mrs M. said, and I’m paraphrasing,  ‘Well you must have looked a before hand’. The celeb thanked her for the comment, thinking it was a complement.  
Really, really cringeworthy. 

[jjb1970]

On cosmetic medical procedures, I recommend investing in tattoo removal clinics. Most passing fads are just that. People dye their hair in rainbow colours, get a ridiculous hair cut, go goth and lots of other things and when they grow out of it they move on. Even piercings aren't such a big deal if people decide they don't want rings and studs everywhere. However, I look at an awful lot of people now and can't help thinking 'I hope you're still happy looking like that when you're older'. Not so much tattoos that are easily hidden (though they may be just as much a cause for regret) but you see more and more of what seem to be called 'extreme' tattoos on hands, necks, faces and such like.

[PhilJ W]

All I can say about @iL Dottore's fellow traveler is just as well the aircraft was pressurised.

Edited September 7, 2023 by PhilJ W
fat finger syndrome

[iL Dottore]

25 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

On cosmetic medical procedures, I recommend investing in tattoo removal clinics. Most passing fads are just that. People dye their hair in rainbow colours, get a ridiculous hair cut, go goth and lots of other things and when they grow out of it they move on. Even piercings aren't such a big deal if people decide they don't want rings and studs everywhere. However, I look at an awful lot of people now and can't help thinking 'I hope you're still happy looking like that when you're older'. Not so much tattoos that are easily hidden (though they may be just as much a cause for regret) but you see more and more of what seem to be called 'extreme' tattoos on hands, necks, faces and such like.

As on many things, Pete Townshend and The Who were precognizanr.....

 

TATTOO by THE WHO

Me and my brother were talking to each other

About what makes a man a man

Was it brain or brawn, or the month you were born?

We just couldn't understand

 

[Bridge]

Our old man didn't like our appearance

He said that only women wear long hair

 

So me and my brother borrowed money from Mother

We knew what we had to do

We went downstairs, past the barber and gymnasium

And got our arms tattooed

 

Welcome to my life, tattoo

I'm a man now, thanks to you

I expect I'll regret you

But the skin graft man won't get you

You'll be there when I die

Tattoo

 

[Verse 3]

My dad beat me because mine said "Mother"

But my mother naturally liked it and beat my brother

Cause his tattoo was of a lady in the nude

And my mother thought that was extremely rude

 

Welcome to my life, tattoo

We've a long time together, me and you

I expect I'll regret you

But the skin graft man won't get you

You'll be there when I die

Tattoo

 

[Verse 4]

Now I'm older, I'm tattooed all over

My wife is tattooed, too

A-rooty-doot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot

Rooty-tootle-tootle tattoo, too

 

And the video

 

[iL Dottore]

An earworm to drive you bonkets....

 

[polybear]

Now you mustn't laugh now....this is a despicable act.....

No, really, this is serious now.....you just mustn't......

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-66741245

 

🤣

 

Oh Buggeritt, why not - best thing I've seen in ages.....

[Tim Dubya]

1 hour ago, BSW01 said:

When I went to the car to take Sheila to her zumba class, it and every other car on the street was covered in the Sahara rain, pah. 

 

I thought something was up yesterday (or day before) when I noticed that I couldn't see as far from the bus*as the haze was so dense.

 

*I can usually see Alfred's Tower, about 20 miles away in Bruton, from Odd Down in Bath on the bus, but could only see about 2 or so miles into the distance.

 

It all makes sense now.

 

[Hroth]

22 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

An earworm to drive you bonkets....

 

 

Only if you click the play button.

 

7 minutes ago, polybear said:

Now you mustn't laugh now....this is a despicable act.....

No, really, this is serious now.....you just mustn't......

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-66741245

 

🤣

 

Oh Buggeritt, why not - best thing I've seen in ages.....

 

6/10 for effort, something a bit more "staining" would have been better, laced with Stop'nGrow....

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. It continues to swelter today, 28C outside and 26.5C indoors. The goodies I won in a draw arrived lunchtime, a couple of diecast models and a tote bag. Neither of the models is to a scale I use but the tote bag will be very useful. Time to sort out dinner, a cold one, salad.

Edited September 7, 2023 by PhilJ W

[Barry O]

Start the tuk tuk!White smoke has been spotted.  Her indoors has spoken with an insultant today and will see her on Tuesday  afternoon.

 

Ten minutes later and even higher level of insultant rang to say she is being booked in to see another, different insultant as he reckons he needs to check that the gyne insultants have the right ideas.

 

Great! But can someone get a grip and physically do something....

 

Baz

Edited September 7, 2023 by Barry O

[DaveF]

Church was fine this morning, I had a good natter over coffee afterwards, mainly about photography.  After that I went to the small beach car park and had a pleasant walk and sat watching the world go by for a while.  There weren't many birds about today except for a number of cormorants paddling quietly along and sometimes diving, coming up with fish they had caught.  The beach and prom were much quieter today now that most people are back at work.  One school had brought a large group of young children down to the beach, both children and adults were enjoying playing games.

 

Back home I had lunch then sat and checked yet again what needs doing in the garden.  Then it was time for a read.

 

Steve has just been and we've decided what to do and how, I have enough slabs, they may need to get some more gravel.  A yew will also be trimmed- I did it a few years ago and it was hard work then.  Unless anything goes wrong it will be done on Wednesday - as Steve is taking time off at the end of the week to go fishing and the young man with him goes away on Friday, so they are having a week of "small" jobs.

 

Now it is tea time, then it will probably be more reading or TV.  At one time I would have been going to the Photographic Society tonight as the new season starts today.  I've decided I am no longer interested in competitions and practical nights - that would leave about 6 evenings I might want to go to between now and Easter.  Also most of the people I knew no longer go.  Yesterday I rang the secretary to explain why I will not be there, I was told I can change my mind at any time and just turn up for the odd meeting if I want to.  In a way it is sad but it is time I stopped doing things I no longer look forward to or enjoy.  To be honest it is also a relief not to have to go out at night, especially when the weather gets worse - deicing a car in the dark in winter is no longer fun.

 

I'd been going to the Photographic Society for over 35 years and had been on the committee for many of them and been President more times than I care to remember.  A while back I decided that as I got older I would stop doing things as and when I stopped really liking them, I've seen too many older people go to meetings and moan continually about things changing and generally being a pain, I don't want to be like them.

 

David

 

  

[polybear]

16 minutes ago, Hroth said:

6/10 for effort, something a bit more "staining" would have been better, laced with Stop'nGrow....

 

 

Very true, though I suspect that would risk a step up from maybe common assault(?) to bodily harm?

 

9 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Start the tuk tuk!White smoke has been spotted.  Herbindoors has spoken with an insultant today and will see her on Tuesday  afternoon.

 

Ten minutes later and even higher level of insultant rang to say she is being booked in to see another, different insultant as he reckonshe needs to check that the gyne insultants have the right ideas.

 

Great! But can someone get a grip and physically do something....

 

Baz

 

So is that now two appointments, or still one?  Still on the Tuesday (or better) though?  

[New Haven Neil]

9 hours ago, polybear said:

Were there any signs that Management "had a downer on him" after that for not querying the need for his attendance for so long?

 

 

No, he was a real asset as he was one of the few electricians who was up to speed on the LPG tankers - that's how he was eventually missed as there was a bit breakdown on one.  Electricians were two-ring rank officers BTW.  A lot of the old time 'leckys' were OK on the cargo ships fiddling on with Ward-Leonard sets and stuff, but the control systems on modern LPG reliquifaction vessels were not exactly their cup of boiling butane.

 

[polybear]

A 22 y.o. on "The Chase" has never heard of Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper or Ken Dodd.

Things are far worse than I thought.

 

edit:  And he just missed out on £30K....

Edited September 7, 2023 by polybear

[TheQ]

Trailer loads of Oder de  cowshed being delivered to the field around us...

 

 

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Trailer loads of Oder de  cowshed being delivered to the field around us...

 

 

By that well-known Euro-farmer Hooflung Dung 

[Gwiwer]

Evening all

 

It has been warm and no mistake. The amount of Saharan Dust in the air has been seriously troubling with much sneezing and watering of the eyes. The Sandman literally visited but was clearly on another timezone as I was already awake. 
 

Schools are back en masse with the usual first-week-of-term mums and dads clutching the paws of young offspring freshly clad in a new school uniform. 
 

Quite a fair few folk are still arriving home off holidays. Or in one case - the couple who asked me for the train to Wandsworth - received the blessings of the Gwiwer.  Spotting the airline tags I quipped “So you have come all the way from Doha for a holiday in Wandsworth?”  Which at least got a laugh from a couple just off the red-eye flight. 
 

There are now just 44 hours remaining rostered at the House of Fun which might be modified by overtime. I normally decline that but occasionally it’s for the greater good.
 

Thai takeaway tonight because it’s too hot to cook in our kitchen and theirs has industrial ventilation. A yellow curry produced just the right amount of response to the weather with light perspiration cooling me nicely.    

[polybear]

Bear here....

 

Now what did I do after hanging the curtains?  Er........

Er......

Oh yes, finally got the Alexa App to work on Izzy Mk.2 - when I was signing in they kept insisting on sending me an "Authentication Code" via text to my phone - which never arrive....🤬  I had this same problem some months back with Amazon** - but as they also email it at the same time there's a dodge to get around it - not so with Alexa.  I even went into the Amazon settings to turn off "2-Factor Authentication" but Alexa still insists on sending a bluddy code .....that never arrives.....🤬

In the end it took someone at Amazon Customer Services to fix it - which she has; she's disabled the need for a code so hopefully that's sorted it.

 

**When I asked Amazon back then they blamed the Mobile Phone Service Provider - who of course couldn't find any problem/explain it/fix it either....

 

Post din dins was taken up by playing with a new toy - Bear now has a Security Cam guarding Bear Towers, with a particular emphasis on detecting signs of Marauding Hippos or Cynical Supervillains; it appears to work rather well so far (I've yet to test the darkness performance) and requires no dastardly subscriptions either, so that's a Tick.  Forty Quid to you, Sir, plus the price of a decent memory card (another eleven quid).  It was one of the Which? Best Buys - and so far they were right on the money; even a luddite Bear was able to set it up with no (ok, very few) naughty words.  I'll call that a Big Tick.

One thing that Charlie Cam has failed to detect has been any signs of a Postie arriving to collect Bear's parcel, however.🤬 T0ssers - that's two days in a row now.  I'll not be beaten - it's got  personal now.

 

The latest achievement of the day has been to sort the three remaining pieces of stair carpet offcuts (one piece has been dumped - it was a useful length but probably no more than 14 - 16" wide, so unlikely to be of any use); the two remaining pieces are a bit wider so have some potential for mats etc. or maybe a replacement piece for a stair tread.  They've now been rolled, wrapped & labelled and have been despatched to Beamland for safe keeping.

 

BG

 

 

[Tony_S]

9 minutes ago, polybear said:

it appears to work rather well so far (I've yet to test the darkness performance)

One thing you may notice is that you get “line crossing’ events at night. I had set the active range to ignore cars driving along the road but their headlights cast moving shadows on my car parked on the drive. That was what was being detected. The only request I have had for cctv assistance was to see  if Rosie the Cat had been spotted when she went missing from her home for a day. 

[polybear]

Back again.....

 

One good thing (VERY Good Thing, in fact) about finally finishing the Great Refurb Programme, the Great Deep Clean Programme and just generally sortin', tidying and disposing of "stuff" means that the Muddlin' Room has gone from this:

 

May 7th:

 

 

To this:

 

Just now:

 

 

Now, if only I knew what to do with the space.....ponder mode engaged......

🤔

[The White Rabbit]

You'll never be able to find anything! 

 

 

Evening all,

 

More 'orrible paperwork today. When that was done, the email sort-out/delete continued. Making progress... I'm up to 2010! 

 

Three ursine snaps from these...  

 

[grandadbob]

Evenin' each,

I visited The Shed for a couple of very brief sessions but gave up because of the heat.  It was 29°C when I left at lunchtime and reached 32.4 when I checked at 16.00 hrs and it's now 28.5°C.    I think an aircon unit will be bought for next year.

Nottalot done at all today although a cold beer was enjoyed before dinner and I've just watered the garden.  Even that seems to have knackered me.

I did have a rather sombre chat on the phone with old friend and workmate that I haven't seen for several years.  He's now 83 and suffering from health issues having been in and out of hospital a few times in the past couple of years.  His wife is now in a care home suffering from COPD and dementia and his eldest son who was a workmate as well has COPD, emphysema and stage 4 cancer.  Once again my little problems have been put somewhat into perspective and I should count myself lucky.  

 

[Tony_S]

5 minutes ago, polybear said:

Now, if only I knew what to do with the space.....ponder mode engaged......

 

Is the model railway going on the worktop or in the central space?

[Gwiwer]

12 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Is the model railway going on the worktop or in the central space?

Why not both?

[DaveF]

I don't think the weather listened to the local forecast today.  There were a couple of light showers this morning so my car is covered in a layer of Sahara sand as others have mentioned.  It has been very humid and sticky and the temperature did better than expected, it reached 21C.

 

I've been watching the weather from my window, every few minutes "chunks" of thick mist go by on the very light breeze off the sea and the temperature is now 15C.  It felt quite cool when I went into the garden to pick some sweet peas and chrysanthemums about 45 minutes ago.

 

I've decided the evening will be Sudoku, book and music, there is nothing on TV I want to watch.

 

David