Early Risers.

[Winslow Boy]

18 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I managed to get myself ready and set off early for my 3pm in Leigh on Sea for my hearing test. The sound proof box was faulty but they have portable units for home visits. Anyway the test went well and pretty well confirmed by own belief/observations of the state of my hearing over the last year. It was however not just a case of boosting the default amplification but tweaking certain frequency bands. 
I got a cup of tea and a biscuit too!
Tony

Clear evidence of the North/South divide that. Preferential treatment obviously.

[Coombe Barton]

... We. Are. All. Descended. From. People. In. Boats. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/covid-different-trends-look-from-a-different-angle-admin-taking-a-long-time/

[woodenhead]

3 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... We. Are. All. Descended. From. People. In. Boats. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/covid-different-trends-look-from-a-different-angle-admin-taking-a-long-time/

Speak for yourself, my ancestors were fish that left the water. 😄

[Tony_S]

2 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Clear evidence of the North/South divide that. Preferential treatment obviously.

I am sorry to have to report that there is effectively no new audiology service locally. The referral waiting time for initial new tests is considerable. In some other NHS areas it is much better but the hearing aids available on the NHS are somewhat dated. Some people,need these aids in order to work,or communicate effectively. My problem was hearing broadcast sound or the beginning of any sentence Aditi said to me. It turned out my hearing was particularly deficient in the female speech frequency range. With no chance of getting a NHS appointment I went to a private provider. 

[woodenhead]

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

My problem was hearing broadcast sound or the beginning of any sentence Aditi said to me. It turned out my hearing was particularly deficient in the female speech frequency range.

Some might argue that's a superpower not a disability. 😄

[TheQ]

20 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... We. Are. All. Descended. From. People. In. Boats. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/covid-different-trends-look-from-a-different-angle-admin-taking-a-long-time/

I believe There's one or two that got through the channel tunnel before that route was blocked.

And some ancestors may have walked before the tide rose at least 100,000 years ago..

 

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

Back from the Hilly Wander and Tea all scoffed 😢.

Whilst walking away from the P.O. earlier I spotted a couple of Traffic Wardens nickin' a bluddy great stretch Limo parked in what is known as "the Service Road"  very close to the Co-op, despite it being marked with double yellows.

Soooo many drivers take the p1ss by parking there (usually those driving expensive cars) whilst diving in the Co-op; basically they're all lazy 'sterds who can't be ar5sed to walk 100 yards (or often less) from a legal parking space

As Bear walked past I uttered those immortal words "Well Done" to one of them; I think I caught them off guard by not hurling the usual abuse that they no doubt get every day.

 

ION.....

I see the Trial of The Orange One has finally kicked off.....only to be adjurned until tomorrow after just 30 minutes......cos' one of the Jurors had a Dental Appointment.  Hope he had a note from his mum.

 

BG.

[Coombe Barton]

10 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I believe There's one or two that got through the channel tunnel before that route was blocked.

And some ancestors may have walked before the tide rose at least 100,000 years ago..

 

Britain was completely unpopulated until about 10,000 years ago, so the people who walked were the Mesolithic strand lopers, who were supplanted largely by the people bringing agriculture - and they came in boats as the Channel had by that time reformed.

[PhilJ W]

20 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Britain was completely unpopulated until about 10,000 years ago, so the people who walked were the Mesolithic strand lopers, who were supplanted largely by the people bringing agriculture - and they came in boats as the Channel had by that time reformed.

At least 10,000 years ago.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/cheddar-man-mesolithic-britain-blue-eyed-boy.html

[woodenhead]

29 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Britain was completely unpopulated until about 10,000 years ago, so the people who walked were the Mesolithic strand lopers, who were supplanted largely by the people bringing agriculture - and they came in boats as the Channel had by that time reformed.

Which reminds me of a sketch by Stewart Lee where he talks of a certain leader of a certain political party asking the brightest and best people who arrived in boats throughout the ages not to come to Britain bringing their language, skills, cuisine and wares.

 

"The brightest and best fish need to stay in the sea and concentrate on making it aquatically prosperous"

Edited April 22 by woodenhead

[Tony_S]

When we did the history of Britain at school I was always concerned about what happened to the Beaker People. Fortunately I found out  a few years ago while wandering through a museum in Dublin. 

[iL Dottore]

I note that a number of posters want the authorities to "get off their **** and do what they are supposed to do" but to no avail.

 

However, it also seems that they are also afeared that should they "DIY" (so to speak) they will "get their collars felt" by the local plod and get banged up in the chokey.

 

My advice?

 

STOP THINKING LIKE A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN AND START THINKING LIKE A CRIMINAL!

 

As a multitude of UK newspaper articles repeatedly report, even brazen criminality (shop lifting, assault, etc) receives scant -  if any - police attention nowadays.

 

As long as you don't use the wrong pronouns, say that science is better than ideology or do 21 mph on a 20mph 3-lane motorway (amongst a few other things) then you should remain "under the radar" (so to speak).

 

And, in the very temote possibility you DO get nicked, claim that what you did was "an integral part of your culture" and claim you ate being persecuted "because of your beliefs". At the worst you may end up with 2 hours of community service!

[Grizz]

3 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I note that a number of posters want the authorities to "get off their **** and do what they are supposed to do" but to no avail.

 

However, it also seems that they are also afeared that should they "DIY" (so to speak) they will "get their collars felt" by the local plod and get banged up in the chokey.

 

My advice?

 

STOP THINKING LIKE A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN AND START THINKING LIKE A CRIMINAL!

 

As a multitude of UK newspaper articles repeatedly report, even brazen criminality (shop lifting, assault, etc) receives scant -  if any - police attention nowadays.

 

As long as you don't use the wrong pronouns, say that science is better than ideology or do 21 mph on a 20mph 3-lane motorway (amongst a few other things) then you should remain "under the radar" (so to speak).

 

And, in the very temote possibility you DO get nicked, claim that what you did was "an integral part of your culture" and claim you ate being persecuted "because of your beliefs". At the worst you may end up with 2 hours of community service!

 

Totally agree. Don’t think traditionally. You are playing by some else’s rules.
 

Also…think! These aren’t your b@llsh!t rules and it ain’t your game….but you can be better at playing it than they are! 

Remember you can always self identify as anything you like! 

 

Totally learnt that at the UK largest metropolitan transport organisation…..and I got a certificate…and everything! 

[woodenhead]

18 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

When we did the history of Britain at school I was always concerned about what happened to the Beaker People. Fortunately I found out  a few years ago while wandering through a museum in Dublin. 

What's wrong with just drinking out of our hands?

[Grizz]

21 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

When we did the history of Britain at school I was always concerned about what happened to the Beaker People. Fortunately I found out  a few years ago while wandering through a museum in Dublin. 

I take it that you don’t mean ‘Beaker’? 
 

He made it massive with a career in Death Metal….Ta Da! 
 

 

[Grizz]

Although Beaker’s career was totally upstaged by Cookie Monster’s career….OMG i have totally cracked a few ribs and busted my nose in the mosh pit to this classic. …

 

 

[polybear]

17 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I note that a number of posters want the authorities to "get off their **** and do what they are supposed to do" but to no avail.

 

However, it also seems that they are also afeared that should they "DIY" (so to speak) they will "get their collars felt" by the local plod and get banged up in the chokey.

 

My advice?

 

STOP THINKING LIKE A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN AND START THINKING LIKE A CRIMINAL!

 

As a multitude of UK newspaper articles repeatedly report, even brazen criminality (shop lifting, assault, etc) receives scant -  if any - police attention nowadays.

 

As long as you don't use the wrong pronouns, say that science is better than ideology or do 21 mph on a 20mph 3-lane motorway (amongst a few other things) then you should remain "under the radar" (so to speak).

 

And, in the very temote possibility you DO get nicked, claim that what you did was "an integral part of your culture" and claim you ate being persecuted "because of your beliefs". At the worst you may end up with 2 hours of community service!

 

At a time when the UK is desperately short of Docs. this F. nonsense is just plain Nutz:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0x0zzey7lpo

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Just been watching a piece on YouTube comparing the finales of various interpretations of Mahler's 2nd Symphony - as you do on a wet Monday afternoon...

 

Very impressed by the performance of the Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Stewart. Spine tingling. 

[woodenhead]

14 minutes ago, Grizz said:

Although Beaker’s career was totally upstaged by Cookie Monster’s career….OMG i have totally cracked a few ribs and busted my nose in the mosh pit to this classic. …

 

 

 

[polybear]

41 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I note that a number of posters want the authorities to "get off their **** and do what they are supposed to do" but to no avail.

 

However, it also seems that they are also afeared that should they "DIY" (so to speak) they will "get their collars felt" by the local plod and get banged up in the chokey.

 

My advice?

 

STOP THINKING LIKE A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN AND START THINKING LIKE A CRIMINAL!

 

As a multitude of UK newspaper articles repeatedly report, even brazen criminality (shop lifting, assault, etc) receives scant -  if any - police attention nowadays.

 

As long as you don't use the wrong pronouns, say that science is better than ideology or do 21 mph on a 20mph 3-lane motorway (amongst a few other things) then you should remain "under the radar" (so to speak).

 

And, in the very temote possibility you DO get nicked, claim that what you did was "an integral part of your culture" and claim you ate being persecuted "because of your beliefs". At the worst you may end up with 2 hours of community service!

 

And in the very rare event that you do get caught....and you do get hauled up in front of The Beak.....utter that cast-iron fool-proof defence.....

 

"iD told me to"

 

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

Britain was completely unpopulated until about 10,000 years ago, so the people who walked were the Mesolithic strand lopers, who were supplanted largely by the people bringing agriculture - and they came in boats as the Channel had by that time reformed.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints probably made by  antecessor. The oldest human fossils, around 500,000 years old, are of  heidelbergensis at Boxgrove in Sussex. Until this time Britain had been permanently connected to the Continent by a chalk ridge between South East England and northern France called the Weald-Artois Anticline, but during the Anglian Glaciation around 425,000 years ago a megaflood broke through the ridge, and Britain became an island when sea levels rose during the following Hoxnian interglacial.

Fossils of very early Neanderthals dating to around 400,000 years ago have been found at Swanscombe in Kent, and of classic Neanderthals about 225,000 years old at Pontnewydd in Wales. Britain was unoccupied by humans between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago, when Neanderthals returned. By 40,000 years ago they had become extinct and modern humans had reached Britain.

 

Dave

[Compound2632]

9 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

From Wikipedia:

 

Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints probably made by  antecessor.

 

According to No. 1 Son, geologists and in particular glaciologists are highly sceptical of that very early date for the Happisburgh footprints, for highly technical reasons that I only half-understood when explained to me and have now forgotten.

[Grizz]

6 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Britain was unoccupied by humans between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago, when Neanderthals returned. By 40,000 years ago they had become extinct and modern humans had reached Britain.

 

Yeaaaaah…..about that last bit. Totally sure that at least one has slipped through the net. 
 

You should have met some of the specimens I have had to work with over the years. 
 

Hey maybe if we got them tested……obviously for the benefit of science and stuff…..……

……..personally I’d recommend dissection as Plan A……….don’t even need a Plan B….

 

Hey don’t judge me….you've never them! 

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

I think either I have two broken shoulders, or the tree lopping yesterday with the mini chainsaw on a long pole thing has taken its toll on my 65 y/o muscles.  *&^%$£ I'm sore!  Hells bells.  Not doing that again in a hurry!

[iL Dottore]

59 minutes ago, polybear said:

.....utter that cast-iron fool-proof defence.....

 

"iD told me to"

 

Sorry PB, that wouldn't work - no matter who you claim told you to do it, you still have responsibility for your actions.

 

However.....

 

However, if you said to the Judge "a Polybear came to me in a dream and together with the Easter Bunny, Father Christmas and the Local GP* told me that it was the Holy Command of The Great God of Pasta Buitoni [may he always be al dente] that I do it" the Judge will regard you as criminally insane and send you to a nice comfy rubber room instead of a cold cell surrounded by dangerous scrotes...

 

* it perhaps doesn't need repeating that these are entirely mythical beings.,,