KeithMacdonald Posted Thursday at 17:54 Share Posted Thursday at 17:54 Shamelessly inspired by @Sidecar Racer ... KR with his daughters - 50 years after the previous picture of them all together. 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted Thursday at 17:56 Share Posted Thursday at 17:56 On this special day... 7 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimble Posted Thursday at 18:14 Share Posted Thursday at 18:14 Civic responsibility done, there was a lovely dog at the polling station so worth going! Made me smile 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted Thursday at 20:16 RMweb Premium Share Posted Thursday at 20:16 2 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: On this special day... That must what's known as RickPolling😁 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted Thursday at 21:24 Share Posted Thursday at 21:24 1 hour ago, melmerby said: That must what's known as RickPolling😁 He's the new MP for Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted Thursday at 21:27 Share Posted Thursday at 21:27 8 hours ago, kevinlms said: Same as for ISBN, they are supposed to be for a particular title/edition, but smaller publishers have been known to 'reuse' some of their block of numbers (often were I believe sold in small quantities) for newer books, after their initial purchase had run out. I found one of those. I bought a book on Abebooks from a bookshop who obviously used ISBN as a primary identifier. I thought I’d bought a book on a Canadian Interurban - what arrived was a cookery book. Both books had been published by the same firm and various sites showed them with the same ISBN. By a remarkable coincidence, at that time I occasionally played soccer on the same team as the owner of the publishing firm! He was very interested when I told him what had happened. However, before I heard what had happened as a result of him finding this out, he was injured in a game playing for another team, gave up soccer (we were in our 60s) and I never saw him again. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted Friday at 01:21 RMweb Premium Share Posted Friday at 01:21 3 hours ago, pH said: I found one of those. I bought a book on Abebooks from a bookshop who obviously used ISBN as a primary identifier. I thought I’d bought a book on a Canadian Interurban - what arrived was a cookery book. Both books had been published by the same firm and various sites showed them with the same ISBN. By a remarkable coincidence, at that time I occasionally played soccer on the same team as the owner of the publishing firm! He was very interested when I told him what had happened. However, before I heard what had happened as a result of him finding this out, he was injured in a game playing for another team, gave up soccer (we were in our 60s) and I never saw him again. It is possible on the other hand to find books with 2 (or more) ISBN and that's genuine! I have at least one. I heard of someone, who claimed a particular book had 4 ISBN - I must say that I'm not convinced! If a publisher goes broke and books are remaindered, they can be republished - which generally means a new dust jacket, with the new details (as per the rules), but the book inside for obvious reasons remains intact, with the original details. However, if the new dustcover is lost, you'll never know the new ISBN! So sometimes an ISBN search may not find the book you want, but a search by title/author will. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted Friday at 02:21 RMweb Premium Share Posted Friday at 02:21 8 hours ago, bimble said: Civic responsibility done, there was a lovely dog at the polling station so worth going! Made me smile One of the candidates? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted Friday at 02:43 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 02:43 21 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: One of the candidates? The Ruff-orm party😇 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jcredfer Posted Friday at 07:32 Share Posted Friday at 07:32 13 hours ago, bimble said: Civic responsibility done, there was a lovely dog at the polling station so worth going! Made me smile 5 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: One of the candidates? Certainly a great improvement on what was previously available... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted Friday at 07:46 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 07:46 Well, something’s making me smile this morning! How long that smile persists remains to be seen… 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted Friday at 08:08 Share Posted Friday at 08:08 19 minutes ago, 97406 said: Well, something’s making me smile this morning! How long that smile persists remains to be seen… Likewise until I found that our former MP as of yesterday has been promoted to the House of Lords. A great reward for doing a very average job. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted Friday at 08:10 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 08:10 1 minute ago, Jol Wilkinson said: Likewise until I found that our former MP as of yesterday has been promoted to the House of Lords. A great reward for doing a very average job. Jobs for the boys (and girls), innit! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted Friday at 08:18 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 08:18 Hundreds of helicopter valets to return to nursing😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted Friday at 09:48 Share Posted Friday at 09:48 On 24/06/2024 at 11:09, bimble said: It's their next election pledge, not only are we going back to Imperial measurements but also pre-decimalisation coinage. Pints, shillings and inches, that's what the country needs. We got the blue passports back after all! 😂 We could have had blue passports anytime we liked. What I remember about £sd was the old pennies that were worth bu**er all but were so heavy that you needed to reinforce your trouser pockets. OTOH the new(ish) two pound coins are very fine coins indeed. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted Friday at 11:11 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 11:11 1 hour ago, Pacific231G said: We could have had blue passports anytime we liked. What I remember about £sd was the old pennies that were worth bu**er all but were so heavy that you needed to reinforce your trouser pockets. OTOH the new(ish) two pound coins are very fine coins indeed. Bring back Ricketts, I say! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted Friday at 11:23 RMweb Premium Share Posted Friday at 11:23 3 hours ago, 97406 said: Well, something’s making me smile this morning! How long that smile persists remains to be seen… I don't find anything to smile about when an election has largely been decided by a disruptor, who shouldn't IMHO be anywhere near parliament. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted Friday at 11:50 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 11:50 25 minutes ago, melmerby said: I don't find anything to smile about when an election has largely been decided by a disruptor, who shouldn't IMHO be anywhere near parliament. Do you mean this fellow by any chance? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/02/nigel-farage-morphs-into-2000-ad-cartoon-villain-bilious-barrage 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted Friday at 11:54 Share Posted Friday at 11:54 29 minutes ago, melmerby said: I don't find anything to smile about when an election has largely been decided by a disruptor, who shouldn't IMHO be anywhere near parliament. I think the outcome would have been similar even if he hadn't crawled out from under his rock! 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted Friday at 12:09 Share Posted Friday at 12:09 41 minutes ago, melmerby said: I don't find anything to smile about when an election has largely been decided by a disruptor, who shouldn't IMHO be anywhere near parliament. I would say that the problem is not that he is a disruptor, but that he is the only disruptor. No one else seems to want to disturb the bland conformity of parliament and by extension the government. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebbles Posted Friday at 12:15 Share Posted Friday at 12:15 4 hours ago, Jol Wilkinson said: Likewise until I found that our former MP as of yesterday has been promoted to the House of Lords. A great reward for doing a very average job. The understood that she had only been made a Dame. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted Friday at 12:25 RMweb Premium Share Posted Friday at 12:25 1 hour ago, melmerby said: I don't find anything to smile about when an election has largely been decided by a disruptor, who shouldn't IMHO be anywhere near parliament. Didn't Spike refer to such people as 'A.R. Slicker'? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted Friday at 13:29 RMweb Premium Share Posted Friday at 13:29 1 hour ago, jcm@gwr said: I think the outcome would have been similar even if he hadn't crawled out from under his rock! 8% drop in overall vote doesn't sound healthy. Many people were just fed up with present day politics. One party doesn't increase it's vote share but gets more than 6x number of MPs but is only 4th in vote share The winning party only increased it's vote by 2% but gets a thumping majority. 3rd place party on vote share only gets 4 seats. This a case when first past the post gives a really freak result.☹️ 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted Friday at 13:38 RMweb Gold Share Posted Friday at 13:38 5 minutes ago, melmerby said: 8% drop in overall vote doesn't sound healthy. Many people were just fed up with present day politics. One party doesn't increase it's vote share but gets more than 6x number of MPs but is only 4th in vote share The winning party only increased it's vote by 2% but gets a thumping majority. 3rd place party on vote share only gets 4 seats. This a case when first past the post gives a really freak result.☹️ FPTP means that the last government got in based on the say-so of 29% of the electorate. This includes those who didn’t vote, and the majority of the people I know who didn’t vote are fed up rather than apathetic. I heard one quote that the only other European country that uses it is Belarus! The only silver lining this time is that disruptive party got 4 seats as opposed to a larger share. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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