RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 Something which is always interesting and quite healthy is to consider other perspectives of the world. If you look at news, influences and opinion articles in other countries you tend to see a different view of the world. Different doesn't mean right or better (it may be, it may not be, it may be all b*ll*x) but it does demonstrate that there are multiple perspectives and others have reasons for how they view the world. 14 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 Too many trying to manipulate others. Good job I've got a good British name, so I'll be OK... 2 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 (edited) 35 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Its a f*&$*&ed up world mate! On another subject, I'm halfway through watching the Barbie movie right now - more enjoyable than expected! Mate, that’s exactly what I meant. Be open to things……..and right now you are open to ‘Barbie’…and that’s cool. The complete other end of the spectrum would be what I’m watching at the moment, ‘The Man in the High Castle’… Which is completely ‘fudged up’ right there. ….If Tango God Baby gets back, in this won’t be a billion miles wide of what could happen. Edited March 3 by Grizz Auto correct 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 Not surprising perhaps with all the rain in Southern California. But don't go drinking it, its saltier than seawater. 15 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 1 minute ago, PhilJ W said: Not surprising perhaps with all the rain in Southern California. But don't go drinking it, its saltier than seawater. Wow….😮 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted March 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: Too many trying to manipulate others. That’s the rub isn’t it. With some not motivated enough to try to think for themselves . Too busy lapping up whatever bile the algorithm that YouTube/X (nee Twitter)/Facebook*, delete as appropriate, so willingly and generously churns out. I know there isn’t a ‘golden age’ some 50-60 years ago of peace and tolerance, but God**, humanity could and should be a whole lot better than it currently seems to be. * declaring an interest, number 1 son works for Meta, Facebook’s parent company and he’s not happy with how the company is focussed. ** whichever one you adopt or don’t, as the case may be. Edited March 3 by 4630 12 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jjb1970 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 3 I am on EBay.sg looking for military grade gas masks. There's a glut of durian at the moment so they're as cheap as chips meaning Mrs JJB is taking full advantage. She had some yesterday and the kitchen still stinks of the stuff🙁 2 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 3 minutes ago, jjb1970 said: I am on EBay.sg looking for military grade gas masks. There's a glut of durian at the moment so they're as cheap as chips meaning Mrs JJB is taking full advantage. She had some yesterday and the kitchen still stinks of the stuff🙁 Please forgive my ignorance, but obviously as so often with food there is a great difference between the smell and the taste. May I ask is this a case of it tastes as bad as it smells? I realise that when asking this, it is all subjective, but that said, is it? 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post polybear Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 3 Bear here….. Well the maiden flight of the new shaver went rather well, so that’s a provisional Tick….time will tell…. Din dins scoffed (you don’t get many roast spuds in yer Sunday din dins for 100g 😢) ; Bear is currently indulging in a mid-race pitstop before tackling The Killer Hill on the Beary wander. As for “important paperwork” - well today’s progress on that score has been…..zilch so far. Maybe later…. Bear gone 15 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jjb1970 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 3 5 minutes ago, Grizz said: Please forgive my ignorance, but obviously as so often with food there is a great difference between the smell and the taste. May I ask is this a case of it tastes as bad as it smells? I realise that when asking this, it is all subjective, but that said, is it? Durian enthusiasts such as my better half will tell you it smells of ***t but tastes of heaven (a direct quote.....), my experience is it smells of ***t and tastes of ***t. I hate the stuff. 1 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 11 minutes ago, 4630 said: That’s the rub isn’t it. With some not motivated enough to try to think for themselves . Too busy lapping up whatever bile the algorithm that YouTube/X (nee Twitter)/Facebook*, delete as appropriate, so willingly and generously churns out. Throw in a large dose of brainwashing since Day One, being controlled by those in power (and intend to stay there - Russia/North Korea/Iran etc etc.) and people making oodles controlling others makes for nottalota chance of changing things. 8 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jjb1970 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 3 Lunch at an excellent Vietnamese restaurant, Hue style hot noodle soup, delicious. I have no idea if the recipe has ever seen Hue (though the people who run it are Vietnamese) but it is excellent. Something about SE Asian food is if the menu describes something as 'hot' or 'spicy' it probably is..... 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 ' afternoon all from red dragon land. Sunny 5.5C. Nice in the sun though I only went out to the bins. So lazy today but lunch is had and there is Henry to get into action before my toot on the flute. Just hope I can keep up with the beat, today! If 36 bpm seems slow, think of it this way, when I tap my foot it will be at 144 bpm to keep those 1/4 notes in time. In my earlier days of piano and Western flute music, 120 bpm could be noted above the score but I do not ever recall playing things at anywhere near that speed! "Do not do fast" became my motto. A right turn around, now. Best get a move on. Other things to do as well. Take care. Be good. Take it easy. Polly 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted March 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3 53 minutes ago, jjb1970 said: Lunch at an excellent Vietnamese restaurant, Hue style hot noodle soup, delicious. I have no idea if the recipe has ever seen Hue (though the people who run it are Vietnamese) but it is excellent. Something about SE Asian food is if the menu describes something as 'hot' or 'spicy' it probably is..... Is that a primordial soup? 🤔 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 7 minutes ago, Hroth said: Is that a primordial soup? 🤔 It didn't stay in the bowl long enough to find out. 2 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3 1 hour ago, jjb1970 said: Something about SE Asian food is if the menu describes something as 'hot' or 'spicy' it probably is... Aditi sometimes makes a soup like that. Not sure where she got the recipe but it is probably only safe to consume if you have blocked sinuses or a bad cold. Aditi doesn’t really like very spicy food but will do so for medicinal reasons. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pH Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 2 hours ago, Grizz said: Please forgive my ignorance, but obviously as so often with food there is a great difference between the smell and the taste. May I ask is this a case of it tastes as bad as it smells? I realise that when asking this, it is all subjective, but that said, is it? I have tasted durian once. If you’ve ever siphoned gasoline and accidentally got a mouthful - that’s the closest experience I could get to the taste. 1 5 5 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 2 hours ago, jjb1970 said: I am on EBay.sg looking for military grade gas masks. There's a glut of durian at the moment so they're as cheap as chips meaning Mrs JJB is taking full advantage. She had some yesterday and the kitchen still stinks of the stuff🙁 Selling well in Penang as well, not many left on this stall. Wasn’t feeling hungry and thought the security team on gangway wouldn’t allow me to take some onboard the ship. Pity 😉 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 3 Euuw - if it smells like *&^t then I'm keeping well away! Lunch out with friends was most pleasant, full of carbs I shouldn't have had but occasionally you need to be let off the leash. Oh it's tasty when you haven't had a trad Sunday lunch for quite some time. Said friend (the one marrying the Jewish girl) is setting up a new company (Meeja stuff for big US client) and it is all very scary for him - he's now the Big Boss rather than just driving creative content, but I'm sure he will succeed, the US company had basically told him to set up to cut out a middle-man firm that was impeding production values. So an interesting couple of hours discussing the trials and tribulations of setting up a company here, while dealing with US clients that don't understand we're not the UK. They got Inland Revenue in the UK involved, it's nothing to do with them but the Americans just can't get their head around it all. Luckily the IR folk here are on the ball with this one, always keen to assist creation of work. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 Afternoon Awl, No precipitation, which has been a nice change, notalota wind either though. Forecast 0 to 5 mph. and that was over generous. North westerly, which it wasnt it was south westerly to westerly.. sometimes. Race 1, course 3p, 2p, 5p... Unfortunately odd numbers are on the western side of the broad, so buoy 5 was in a total wind shadow.... General allcomers as so few had turned out in the light winds. Norfolk Punt, Solo, 2 yeoman and a variety of lasers. Started mid fleet. Drifted up to buoy 3 having over taken a couple of lasers, tack round the outside of another. Slowly over took several other lasers, up into 3rd at buoy 2, tacked and slowly drifted up to buoy 5, just as we were rounding a puffette of wind turned up, and we drifted sideways onto the buoy. Went a few yards down wind spun slowly around, had difficulty stopping the boat continuing spinning. Continued on , lost a couple of places, then regained them. Next lap a laser got in our way it didn't have rights and... It caused us to drift into that buoy again... Lost a couple of places while spinning slowly, did another lap, didn't make the places up finished. Race 2, course 3p, 4p, 2p, Np. Started mid fleet again, slowly, very slowly, ended up second to last by buoy 3, gained a couple of places on the way to 4, drifted even slower to buoy 2,, not to bad sailed to buoy N, tacked to head to buoy 3 lost a lot of ground, drifted and crossed the line 3rd to last.. Lunch time, we didn't go out again but a few lasers did. 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 On 02/03/2024 at 11:57, iL Dottore said: ...So, the Old and Still Nasty line up really is as follows Tom Torpedo of the Boat Strokers (aka @TheQ) on keyboards. Tomboy Harridan of the Pink Polar Bears (aka Polina Bear, cousin of @polybear) on drums. Beezer of the Psychotic Bimbler (aka @PupCam) on rhythm guitar. Screaming Eagle of Afterburner (aka @Dave Hunt) on vocals. Blunt Scalpel of the Döctörs of Destructiön (possibly @iL Dottore?) on lead guitar. Well. I've dug out the old photos: Tom Torpedo of the Boat Strokers (aka @TheQ) on keyboards. Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson - eat your heart out! 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 (edited) Tomboy Harridan of the Pink Polar Bears (aka Polina Bear, cousin of @polybear) on drums This photo was taken seconds before the infamous episode when she head-butted (and broke the nose of) a BBC reporter who was trying to take some of her cake. I think @polybear would have approved. Edited March 3 by iL Dottore extra text 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted March 3 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3 1 minute ago, iL Dottore said: Well. I've dug out the old photos: Tom Torpedo of the Boat Strokers (aka @TheQ) on keyboards. Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson - eat your heart out! Looks like he's found the Lost Chord! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdEF-Fcm9CM 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Beezer of the Psychotic Bimblers (aka @PupCam) on rhythm guitar. "It goes up to 11" was his catchphrase that so entranced the groupies... 3 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Screaming Eagle of Afterburner (aka @Dave Hunt) on vocals. Afterburner were never known for their subtlety... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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