Early Risers.

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

These scrotes that decide they should damage and deface any and all art forms and historical items need some serious punishment IMHO.

Flogging seems appropriate to me. Maybe they should publish their addresses and folks can go and exact the same "services" on their property!!!

Unnecessarily violent (and likely to get all kinds of do-gooders [of the legal kind] involved....)

 

Nope, the punishment should be simple, easy to apply and two-fold:

1. The guilty party's own property should be defaced, damaged or destroyed [as appropriate - depending on what they did] to the amount of the value of what the guilty party defaced, damaged or destroyed and/or
2. The guilty party is placed in the stocks to face the judgment of the populace (very democratic: one man, one rotten tomato!)

If they want to avoid having their own stuff being defaced, damaged or destroyed, then they can pay a fine at least equal to the value of whatever they defaced, damaged or destroyed, payable within one week. Non payment would incur both punitive interest on the fine and possibly prison time for "contempt of court"

 

Given that many of such pillocks are students who live at home and/or depend heavily upon the bank of Mum and Dad, the post-sentencing conversations around the family dinner table would be very interesting....

Edited June 19 by iL Dottore
Typo

[Tony_S]

12 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Given that many of such pillocks are students who live at home and/or depend heavily upon the bank of Mum and Dad, the post-sentencing conversations around the family dinner table would be very interesting....

There seem to be quite a few older people involved with these vandalising artworks and similar activities. 

Edited June 19 by Tony_S

[iL Dottore]

9 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

There seem to be quite a few older people involved with these vandalising artworks and similar activities. 

There'd still be interesting conversations around the dinner table.

 

I can't see many young people being terribly happy at mum/dad/aunty/uncle getting convicted and seeing the money set aside for Uni go in fines.

 

Besides, point 1 would affect the grey panthers as much as the young scrotes

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The TV schedules are up in the air because of the kick-ball so I did a bit of channel surfing. I found an episode of 'Waiting for God', IIRC it only ran for five seasons.

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

The guilty party is placed in the stocks to face the judgment of the populace (very democratic: one man, one rotten tomato!)

 

Personally I'd prefer a rotten veg stall placed next to the stocks,  where an individual can buy as many putrid objects as they like, all funds going to the restoration and conservation of the damaged heritage.  Perhaps it could be livestreamed on utoob too....

 

ALl we have to sort out is how LONG they get sentenced to the stocks!

 

🙂

 

It struck me, as I was going to bed, that perhaps the Druids might like to exercise their ancient art of Human Sacrifice to Sol....

 

Edited June 19 by Hroth
An extra thort...

[PupCam]

Evening!

 

4 hours ago, polybear said:

38HP in proper money, according to Alexa.

 

3 hours ago, polybear said:

38 divided by 3300**, so:

 

0.0115 nanoDeltics.

 

Apparently...assuming the Wikinumbers are correct.

 

(**1650HP x 2 Engines)

 

I think you'll find that is 0.01151515151515 Deltics  

 

According to my calculation  38HP is in fact 11,515,151.51515 nanoDeltics  (i.e. 10-9  Deltics).   Mind you, it's past my bed time  and it's really too late for complicated sums.

 

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Not only that, she'd brought in a box of posh choccies (Hotel Chocolat) for a certain Bear, as a "thank you" for working four days last week 😃.  Can't ever recall such a thing happening at the G.E. in 30 years....perhaps Puppers can though......

 

Are you having a laugh!

 

ION

 

"Send three and fourpence we're going to a dance"

 

Yes,  Alan's been doing the NHS again.  🙄

 

1) GP - Referral for another issue some time ago

2) GP Text - Includes link to confirmation document;   "Puppers you've been referred, you don't need to do anything at the moment.  If you've not been notified of an appointment by August tell us"   Last time I looked it wasn't August.

3) Stumbling around the NHS App the other day (i.e. I've not had a notification, I happened to be looking for something else) - Puppers! You've got an outstanding action, you need to book an appointment!

4) Puppers queries the contradiction with surgery - "Well, you've been triaged and now you need to book an appointment" (Nobody actually mentioned to me that I'd been triaged)

5) Puppers tries to book appointment using the App - "Select the clinic that best suits you" from a list of one (which wasn't the one I was expecting).

6) Puppers selects the one clinic from the list - "Sorry, there are no available appointments at that clinic"  (it may have said try another, I can't remember but that's not going to work is it!)

7) Puppers eventually manages to find a telephone number to a human to query this - "It's stated that there are no appointments available as the GP has marked it not urgent"

8) Puppers to self - "Well why the fxxx tell me to try and book an appointment then if there are no appointments?"     Clearly the process should have / has stopped at Step #2

9) Human to Puppers - "Well, there is a walk-in service at the clinic".

 

By the way, without going into any medical details, from where I'm sitting actually there is a degree of urgency so I might just walk-in!

 

Is it me?     I've got a great idea for a massive party in a brewery.    Anyone fancy organising it?

 

Night owl!

 

 

 

 

 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Ozexpatriate]

16 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

I've never seen  it at anytime break out in joyful singing and dancing like the Nth  Korean one does.

I'm put in mind of this while you happily clean the bus.

[Ozexpatriate]

Today is Juneteenth - a Federal holiday, so the Post Office and banks are closed but little else - though I did hear of one very large tech company having the day off. Many companies will shift the day off to July 5, a Friday, to create a long summer weekend.

 

Most people are still getting used to the idea of the Juneteenth holiday, being long accustomed to not having any holidays in the relatively short span between Memorial Day (end of May) to the 4th of July.

 

The next holiday is Labor Day - at the beginning of September and the unofficial last gasp of summer.

[polybear]

7 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Don't encourage him....

 

Just think - in a few year's time Bear could have his very own Wiki page.....

 

"Bear - inventor of the revolutionary new system known as the "Deltic Unit of measurement" - which went on to become adopted by every country in the World...."

 

Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

 

7 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Unnecessarily violent (and likely to get all kinds of do-gooders [of the legal kind] involved....)

 

Nope, the punishment should be simple, easy to apply and two-fold:

1. The guilty party's own property should be defaced, damaged or destroyed [as appropriate - depending on what they did] to the amount of the value of what the guilty party defaced, damaged or destroyed and/or
2. The guilty party is placed in the stocks to face the judgment of the populace (very democratic: one man, one rotten tomato!)

If they want to avoid having their own stuff being defaced, damaged or destroyed, then they can pay a fine at least equal to the value of whatever they defaced, damaged or destroyed, payable within one week. Non payment would incur both punitive interest on the fine and possibly prison time for "contempt of court"

 

Given that many of such pillocks are students who live at home and/or depend heavily upon the bank of Mum and Dad, the post-sentencing conversations around the family dinner table would be very interesting....

 

Couldn't we have rocks instead?  Pleeeeeese......

And since a fair few scrotes appear to be young 'uns with presumably nottalott then they forfeit all future entitlements to any benefits whatsoever - including University Grants.

 

7 hours ago, Tony_S said:

There seem to be quite a few older people involved with these vandalising artworks and similar activities. 

 

And those are the ones with the most to lose.

 

BG

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from a Charente that seems to have stayed dry. Several hours were wasted yesterday. 

 

Firstly I took my car for it's CT at 4.30pm only to fi d that I should have been there at 14. 30.  Something got lost in translation. 

 

Then I started trying to get my new laptop started up.  The first piece of software I wanted was Libre Office.  I then headed down a rabbit hole as I discovered that it is S mode and you can only download from the Microsoft store.  Several tries later I still can't get it out of S mode. 

 

On the plus side Beth cooked tea for the first time since her op 2 months ago.  Things are improving. 

 

Another physio trip this morning then if it stays dry some grass cutting. 

 

Jamie 

[BoD]

7 hours ago, PupCam said:

 

Yes,  Alan's been doing the NHS again.  🙄

 

1) GP - Referral for another issue some time ago

2) GP Text - Includes link to confirmation document;   "Puppers you've been referred, you don't need to do anything at the moment.  If you've not been notified of an appointment by August tell us"   Last time I looked it wasn't August.

3) Stumbling around the NHS App the other day (i.e. I've not had a notification, I happened to be looking for something else) - Puppers! You've got an outstanding action, you need to book an appointment!

4) Puppers queries the contradiction with surgery - "Well, you've been triaged and now you need to book an appointment" (Nobody actually mentioned to me that I'd been triaged)

5) Puppers tries to book appointment using the App - "Select the clinic that best suits you" from a list of one (which wasn't the one I was expecting).

6) Puppers selects the one clinic from the list - "Sorry, there are no available appointments at that clinic"  (it may have said try another, I can't remember but that's not going to work is it!)

7) Puppers eventually manages to find a telephone number to a human to query this - "It's stated that there are no appointments available as the GP has marked it not urgent"

8) Puppers to self - "Well why the fxxx tell me to try and book an appointment then if there are no appointments?"     Clearly the process should have / has stopped at Step #2

9) Human to Puppers - "Well, there is a walk-in service at the clinic".

 

By the way, without going into any medical details, from where I'm sitting actually there is a degree of urgency so I might just walk-in!

 

Is it me?     I've got a great idea for a massive party in a brewery.    Anyone fancy organising it?

I tried to hack into an NHS computer system. 
There’s a long waiting list for that too.

[tigerburnie]

Glorious start to the day for a change, has summer arrived in the land of the polar bear I wonder?

[pH]

11 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Glorious start to the day for a change, has summer arrived in the land of the polar bear I wonder?

The land of the polar bear? Angus? (That’s the land, not the polar bear!)

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Good moaning from a Charente that seems to have stayed dry. Several hours were wasted yesterday. 

 

Firstly I took my car for it's CT at 4.30pm only to fi d that I should have been there at 14. 30.  Something got lost in translation. 

 

Then I started trying to get my new laptop started up.  The first piece of software I wanted was Libre Office.  I then headed down a rabbit hole as I discovered that it is S mode and you can only download from the Microsoft store.  Several tries later I still can't get it out of S mode. 

 

On the plus side Beth cooked tea for the first time since her op 2 months ago.  Things are improving. 

 

Another physio trip this morning then if it stays dry some grass cutting. 

 

Jamie 

 

Have you tried this?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307

 

I've only encountered an S mode laptop once.

Never again!

 

ION

 

Sun is shining, birds are tweeting (they don't use X) recycling bin will be emptied some time today....

 

 

Edited June 20 by Hroth

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Appears my return to the UK has included bringing some sun and heat back with me.

 

@PupCam I await an appointment with a specialist about a problem with my hand.. deadline is the 6th August apparently at a private clinic. I am not holding my breath.

 

Grass cutting is scheduled and a bit of wire strangling may be undertaken.

 

A freshly prepared paramo will be cooked and eaten forvtea.. something to look forward to.

 

Enjoy your day!

 

Baz

[Winslow Boy]

8 hours ago, PupCam said:

Evening!

 

 

 

I think you'll find that is 0.01151515151515 Deltics  

 

According to my calculation  38HP is in fact 11,515,151.51515 nanoDeltics  (i.e. 10-9  Deltics).   Mind you, it's past my bed time  and it's really too late for complicated sums.

 

 

Are you having a laugh!

 

ION

 

"Send three and fourpence we're going to a dance"

 

Yes,  Alan's been doing the NHS again.  🙄

 

1) GP - Referral for another issue some time ago

2) GP Text - Includes link to confirmation document;   "Puppers you've been referred, you don't need to do anything at the moment.  If you've not been notified of an appointment by August tell us"   Last time I looked it wasn't August.

3) Stumbling around the NHS App the other day (i.e. I've not had a notification, I happened to be looking for something else) - Puppers! You've got an outstanding action, you need to book an appointment!

4) Puppers queries the contradiction with surgery - "Well, you've been triaged and now you need to book an appointment" (Nobody actually mentioned to me that I'd been triaged)

5) Puppers tries to book appointment using the App - "Select the clinic that best suits you" from a list of one (which wasn't the one I was expecting).

6) Puppers selects the one clinic from the list - "Sorry, there are no available appointments at that clinic"  (it may have said try another, I can't remember but that's not going to work is it!)

7) Puppers eventually manages to find a telephone number to a human to query this - "It's stated that there are no appointments available as the GP has marked it not urgent"

8) Puppers to self - "Well why the fxxx tell me to try and book an appointment then if there are no appointments?"     Clearly the process should have / has stopped at Step #2

9) Human to Puppers - "Well, there is a walk-in service at the clinic".

 

By the way, without going into any medical details, from where I'm sitting actually there is a degree of urgency so I might just walk-in!

 

Is it me?     I've got a great idea for a massive party in a brewery.    Anyone fancy organising it?

 

Night owl!

 

 

 

 

 

May I humbly suggest that in future dealings with the great and almighty institution that is the NHS - all praise the NHS, that you title your dealings as - the NHS does Puppers. Just a thought.

[Gwiwer]

21 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Appears my return to the UK has included bringing some sun and heat back with me.

Thank you on behalf of those who benefit. It is mostly cloudy and still with an icy feel to the breeze here. We are promised “a little warmer” through the weekend but at the cost of receiving sky-widdle. 
 

I have an unplanned watch this afternoon. A colleague became unwell late yesterday and I have been (self-)appointed as his replacement.

Which means the cottage might not be fully cleaned when Dr SWMBO returns tonight but she is aware of that. 
 

We plan to divert via the midsummer beacon lighting if her train is on time. We were there last year and enjoyed it. It seems a shame to skip it tonight so if GWR would kindly oblige and get her in punctually …..  

 

Now - where’s my duster?  After relocating the dust I should have time to apply the Shark. Maybe not much else. 
 

Avagoodun

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Just think - in a few year's time Bear could have his very own Wiki page.....

 

"Bear - inventor of the revolutionary new system known as the "Deltic Unit of measurement" - which went on to become adopted by every country in the World...."

 

Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

I’ll have some of what he’s smoking…..

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

We got up a bit late this morning, so much rushing round has been done, but we now seem to be back on track. There has been a change of plan for today, instead of my usual working in the garden or workshop that I’d planned, I’m going to do my shopping trip to the Trafford Centre instead, as tomorrow the plan is to go for a walk at RHS Bridgewater. Also, Charlie isn’t coming round today, he’s not fully recovered from last week’s festival, we are off to Waitrose this afternoon instead. But my first task of the day is to drop Sheila off t the church hall for her Zumba class. 
 

Back later. 

Brian

[iL Dottore]

9 hours ago, PupCam said:

ION

 

"Send three and fourpence we're going to a dance"

 

Yes,  Alan's been doing the NHS again.  🙄

 

1) GP - Referral for another issue some time ago

2) GP Text - Includes link to confirmation document;   "Puppers you've been referred, you don't need to do anything at the moment.  If you've not been notified of an appointment by August tell us"   Last time I looked it wasn't August.

3) Stumbling around the NHS App the other day (i.e. I've not had a notification, I happened to be looking for something else) - Puppers! You've got an outstanding action, you need to book an appointment!

4) Puppers queries the contradiction with surgery - "Well, you've been triaged and now you need to book an appointment" (Nobody actually mentioned to me that I'd been triaged)

5) Puppers tries to book appointment using the App - "Select the clinic that best suits you" from a list of one (which wasn't the one I was expecting).

6) Puppers selects the one clinic from the list - "Sorry, there are no available appointments at that clinic"  (it may have said try another, I can't remember but that's not going to work is it!)

7) Puppers eventually manages to find a telephone number to a human to query this - "It's stated that there are no appointments available as the GP has marked it not urgent"

8) Puppers to self - "Well why the fxxx tell me to try and book an appointment then if there are no appointments?"     Clearly the process should have / has stopped at Step #2

9) Human to Puppers - "Well, there is a walk-in service at the clinic".

 

By the way, without going into any medical details, from where I'm sitting actually there is a degree of urgency so I might just walk-in!

 

Is it me?     I've got a great idea for a massive party in a brewery.    Anyone fancy organising it?

 

Night owl!

May I offer my patented method of getting seen promptly by the NHS?

 

You’ll need:

• 1 bottle of vodka
• 1 bottle of strong ale
• Sterilium
• Betadine solution
• Sterile swabs
• Local anaesthetic (a sterile lidocaine gel would work)
• Disposable sterile scalpel
• Disposable, sterile, latex gloves (optional)

METHOD

1. Open vodka bottle, rinse mouth out with vodka, taking care not swallow any. Pour the vodka over your clothes.
2. Repeat with the strong ale, but this time keeping the liquid in your mouth for a good 5 minutes before spitting out.
3. Wash hands well, after drying wash hands with sterilium (a hand sterilizer)
4. After gloving up (if used), prep forehead with betadine - as per standard surgical practice
5. Numb forehead with local anaesthetic.
6. Using the provided scalpel, cut a shallow 2 - 4 inch incision into your forehead. NOTE cutting down below the subcutaneous fat level should be avoided. The resulting bleeding will be spectacular, but not serious.
7. Allow bleeding until both clothes and face are well covered with blood. Then apply compression with a clean hanky
8. CAREFULLY DISPOSE OF SCALPEL and tidy up
9. Present yourself at A&E covered in blood and reeking of alcohol
10. Depending upon the time of day and the accident and casualty unit selected, you should be seen within an hour or two, tops.
11. When being sewn up, ask the doctor about your real medical problem.

Simples!

 

Edited June 20 by iL Dottore
Forgot the sterilium!

[tigerburnie]

2 hours ago, pH said:

The land of the polar bear? Angus? (That’s the land, not the polar bear!)

When the sea freezes over and the Walrus haul out.........................................

[DaveF]

It's fine and sunny with a wind from the west so it feels warmer.  I shall be off to church in a few minutes, the churchwarden will be late as he has an appointment with the GP so I need to get things organised and take the all important milk for our coffee after the service.

 

As it would have been Dad's 98th birthday today I shall visit his grave later on.

 

Apart from that I need to sort out some recent photos of my own and catalogue them.

 

David

[monkeysarefun]

The little airfield at work got a visitor today, a visiting RAN MRH-90.

 

 

 

We get  the occasional Blackhawk, air ambulance and media chopper landing there.

 

The busiest it got was during the bushfires when it was used as a refuelling facility for the water bombing helicopters, the bush behind in the pic is the "start" of the Blue Mountains, 11,400 square km of flammable gum trees. In 1999  it was used by the media and emergency services in response to the  nearby Glenbrook Rail accident when an interurban passenger train collided with the rear of the Indian Pacific, killing 7 and injuring 51..

Edited June 20 by monkeysarefun