Jem wrote:
Looks like the one Jessica Buettner (big powerlifting inspo) has on her arm to measure glucose levels in the blood - is that the same thing? Pretty cool 
They are but they only last approx 14 days and will cost £50. Not sure I can justify it.
KovacsC wrote:
Jem wrote:
Looks like the one Jessica Buettner (big powerlifting inspo) has on her arm to measure glucose levels in the blood - is that the same thing? Pretty cool
They are but they only last approx 14 days and will cost £50. Not sure I can justify it.
I have ordered a sticky cover that can extend the life by 10 days.. but I am not sure i can justify the cost.
Mimi wrote:
Sounds like you’re having a well deserved important time away. I’m glad you have a better room to sleep in, which will hopefully leave you more refreshed. How long has it been since you saw your friends last?
Almost exactly a year. The ladies are in regular contact on WhatsApp but it’s not the same as wandering through the gap in the fence every day to socialise.
Haha, that’s lovely. We have similar gaps in our fences. Well, we don’t have fences, but gaps in the planting. It’s nice!
I’m glad you got to visit and have a good catch up!
I’m glad you got to visit and have a good catch up!
This is summer.
are you still sitting there from your morning coffee?
Mimi wrote:
are you still sitting there from your morning coffee?
Yes. I have not moved
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
Heh, it's always the same in summer. Our most prolific posters don't really post here anymore either.
@Grim...
@Craster
@doctor Glyndwr
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
WOS opened up again. Were you not told?
DavPaz wrote:
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
WOS opened up again. Were you not told?
No but even if I had have been, I can't afford it.
Goddess Jasmine wrote:
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
Heh, it's always the same in summer. Our most prolific posters don't really post here anymore either.
@Grim...
@Craster
@doctor Glyndwr
I'm all up in the coil spring flu thread!
DavPaz wrote:
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
WOS opened up again. Were you not told?
Stuart Campbell walks out of the shower and the last 13 years melt away.
Kern wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
WOS opened up again. Were you not told?
Stuart Campbell walks out of the shower and the last 13 years melt away.
That would a *result*. Before Brexit, Covid, Trump and Boro still in the Premier League.
*Deep sigh*
Grim... wrote:
Goddess Jasmine wrote:
TheVision wrote:
When it's quiet on the forum like this, I do wonder if everyone has gone off to a new forum and not told me.
Heh, it's always the same in summer. Our most prolific posters don't really post here anymore either.
@Grim...
@Craster
@doctor Glyndwr
I'm all up in the coil spring flu thread!
Heh, yeah, but you don't post like you used to.
None of us post like we used to. Have you seen how funny we were ten years ago?
Summer reruns! But with poorly scripted and cheaply shot links by members of a minor teen band who have clearly not watched it so we can bill it as new material rather than a repeat.
Grim... wrote:
None of us post like we used to. Have you seen how funny we were ten years ago?
I'm still fucking funny, cocknose
A decade at Butlins awaits...
At the cricket with added fire.
Ooh nice. What did you think of it?
I’m not a huge cricket fan, but seeing good players smacking the ball around for three hours was great fun.
There was a really nice atmosphere in the ground as nobody really cared who won. They just wanted a nice night out with some food, drink and music to fill the gaps.
I’d recommend it if there’s a match you can get to.
There was a really nice atmosphere in the ground as nobody really cared who won. They just wanted a nice night out with some food, drink and music to fill the gaps.
I’d recommend it if there’s a match you can get to.
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
I’m not a huge cricket fan, but seeing good players smacking the ball around for three hours was great fun.
There was a really nice atmosphere in the ground as nobody really cared who won. They just wanted a nice night out with some food, drink and music to fill the gaps.
I’d recommend it if there’s a match you can get to.
There was a really nice atmosphere in the ground as nobody really cared who won. They just wanted a nice night out with some food, drink and music to fill the gaps.
I’d recommend it if there’s a match you can get to.
Sounds like that's hitting (ha) exactly the spots they want it to. I'm stuck with Northern Irish cricket for now, but might make the effort to get to a T20 over the weekend.
https://twitter.com/susborne/status/1418869135627407365
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— Simon Usborne (@susborne) July 24, 2021
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Not a great venue for lunch today, about 400 yards past Man U's football ground as I head through Trafford Park in route to Walkden. Torrential rain for most of my break. Two daft calls today. One to Lark Lane in Liverpool, which was quite picturesque, but I was sent the wrong part, and even if I'd had the correct one, it needs a security key to fit it and the store have lost their only copy. Engineers can't have their own key as it's to a device potentially containing great wodges of cash. The second is to tighten the screws on a till monitor, but it may be that they couldn't do it themselves as it's awkwardly positioned behind a covid screen. We shall see.
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I used to frequent Lark Lane when I lived nearby. Very bohemian.
I've still never been.
I used to work less than quarter of a mile from that parking spot.
I used to live less than quarter of a mile from lark lane.
There was even an overlap of those two facts.
I used to live less than quarter of a mile from lark lane.
There was even an overlap of those two facts.
BikNorton wrote:
I used to work less than quarter of a mile from that parking spot.
I used to live less than quarter of a mile from lark lane.
There was even an overlap of those two facts.
I used to live less than quarter of a mile from lark lane.
There was even an overlap of those two facts.
Spooky.
Last time I had a call in Lark Lane I didn't know the area and was struggling to find a parking space in the late afternoon. It was only yesterday that I discovered it was only a minute's walk from lots of parking spaces around Sefton Park.
The Walkden call was another screw up. It was a faulty screen issue. The store has spare parts it could have used ....... IF they were in working order, which they weren't, so I wasted time finding that out and then had to order replacements. Every job yesterday had a screw up of some kind.
I'm lunching at Sale water park again today. Along with the usual birds, dog walkers, etc. are three new paddle boarders. I can tell they're new because of their tense postures. They'll get better when they relax a bit.
Aaaaand one fell in while trying to splash another one, then the other one fell in anyway.
They've given up trying to stand, and are kneeling. And being followed by a line of Canada Geese. What fun.
And my photos have got mixed up.
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Aaaaand one fell in while trying to splash another one, then the other one fell in anyway.
They've given up trying to stand, and are kneeling. And being followed by a line of Canada Geese. What fun.
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And my photos have got mixed up.
MaliA wrote:
I agree with the Mumz, I seem to have missed the message
They could "dirty protest" it.
M&S in Altrincham exists in some kind of space/time anomaly. The entrance to the multistory car park is just over the road from their side entrance, but when you come out of the pedestrian exit you're nowhere near that, and the front entrance is a couple of hundred yards away. Douglas Adams could have used that for the basis for his next book, if he wasn't dead. Then again, he might still be alive on the side entrance side.
Just as I was walking in to M&S Handforth, there was an announcement on the PA by a well spoken mature lady, if the tone of her voice was anything to go by, stating "Would Mr P Careflea please return to the menswear department."
Happy goth?
Having a declutter. As I have too much stuff.
Found some old lamp shades and a some cameras.
Found some old lamp shades and a some cameras.
Ha! I can remember when we had to use cameras to take photos.
I've got three myself, a Ricoh 35mm with a part used roll in it, an Olympus C50 Zoom and an Olympus e-500 DSLR that I treated myself to when I got a big overtime payment during the great VoIP Phone Upgrade Project of November 06.
Don't think we have any unused lampshades left though.
I've got three myself, a Ricoh 35mm with a part used roll in it, an Olympus C50 Zoom and an Olympus e-500 DSLR that I treated myself to when I got a big overtime payment during the great VoIP Phone Upgrade Project of November 06.
Don't think we have any unused lampshades left though.
Warhead wrote:
Ha! I can remember when we had to use cameras to take photos.
I've got three myself, a Ricoh 35mm with a part used roll in it, an Olympus C50 Zoom and an Olympus e-500 DSLR that I treated myself to when I got a big overtime payment during the great VoIP Phone Upgrade Project of November 06.
Don't think we have any unused lampshades left though.
I've got three myself, a Ricoh 35mm with a part used roll in it, an Olympus C50 Zoom and an Olympus e-500 DSLR that I treated myself to when I got a big overtime payment during the great VoIP Phone Upgrade Project of November 06.
Don't think we have any unused lampshades left though.
I bought them for a project. Then got something else instead. Put them away for safe keeping, then forgot them.
Explicit? Is Puff The Magic Dragon about something other than I think it’s about? Are there words that I’ve not heard?
Marijuana.
Nooo… I mean, why? Apart from the word ‘puff’, none of the rest of the song makes sense in terms of drugs.
That can’t constitute making a single explicit, surely.
That can’t constitute making a single explicit, surely.
Mimi wrote:
Nooo… I mean, why? Apart from the word ‘puff’, none of the rest of the song makes sense in terms of drugs.
That can’t constitute making a single explicit, surely.
That can’t constitute making a single explicit, surely.
From Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon
Quote:
After the song's initial success, speculation arose—as early as a 1964 article in Newsweek—that the song contained veiled references to smoking marijuana.The word "paper" in the name of Puff's human friend Jackie Paper was said to be a reference to rolling papers, the words "by the sea" were interpreted as "by the C" (as in cannabis), the word "mist" stood for "smoke", the land of "Honahlee" stood for hashish, and "dragon" was interpreted as "draggin'" (i.e., inhaling smoke). Similarly, the name "Puff" was alleged to be a reference to taking a "puff" on a joint. The supposition was claimed to be common knowledge in a letter by a member of the public to The New York Times in 1984.
The authors of the song have repeatedly rejected this interpretation and have strongly and consistently denied that they intended any references to drug use. Both Lipton and Yarrow have stated, "'Puff, the Magic Dragon' is not about drugs." Yarrow has frequently explained that the song is about the hardships of growing older and has no relationship to drug-taking. He has also said that the song has "never had any meaning other than the obvious one" and is about the "loss of innocence in children." He has dismissed the suggestion of it being associated with drugs as "sloppy research".
The authors of the song have repeatedly rejected this interpretation and have strongly and consistently denied that they intended any references to drug use. Both Lipton and Yarrow have stated, "'Puff, the Magic Dragon' is not about drugs." Yarrow has frequently explained that the song is about the hardships of growing older and has no relationship to drug-taking. He has also said that the song has "never had any meaning other than the obvious one" and is about the "loss of innocence in children." He has dismissed the suggestion of it being associated with drugs as "sloppy research".
‘By the sea means by the C which means by the cannabis’. That entire thing is more than a bit of a stretch.
My parents set up a bluetooth record player so they can enjoy their old LPs. I was flipping through the classic "All Aboard" children's album I used to play constantly back in the day, and realised that "Goodness Gracious Me" and the "Banana Boat Song" were not really appropriate. As for the Rolf Harris tracks...oh dear.
Mimi wrote:
‘By the sea means by the C which means by the cannabis’. That entire thing is more than a bit of a stretch.
Yeah, it's absolutely batshit. It reads like some conspiracy guff you might see on facebook.
Kern wrote:
My parents set up a bluetooth record player so they can enjoy their old LPs. I was flipping through the classic "All Aboard" children's album I used to play constantly back in the day, and realised that "Goodness Gracious Me" and the "Banana Boat Song" were not really appropriate. As for the Rolf Harris tracks...oh dear.
I think George Formby is singing about his cock here, not sure though:
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