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3 hours ago, BR60103 said:

Today was our wedding anniversary (#49).

 

Congratulations to you both  - sounds like you had a great day.

21 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Perhaps the sheer size of the event meant some Horses were being used that had less experience of big crowds than others?  Just a guess.

Whilst this isn't a part of Saturday's event, it doesn't help when you get dumb people doing things like this - twice:

https://www.mylondon.news/news/kings-guard-shouts-woman-who-26184718

They had a period when they put ropes to stop people getting too close but that obviously did not work too well.  On an occasion watching training in Hyde Park it was surprising to see the number of people from a certain well known eastern nation especially who got right in front of the riders to take pictures - lucky they don't get injured and it would be their own fault although am sure some of the press would blame the riders or probably the police.

21 hours ago, polybear said:

And Chemists having a tough time apparently:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65481473

 

In other, other news....

Apparently today is Monday ......so who stole Sunday??

 

Bear Gone.

Apart from the [roblem of insufficient new pharmacists ...

Lloyds closing all their in-store pharmacies in S.........'s as well as others - typical when the owning company gets bought out by those just interested in money ... 

23 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

It very nearly did:

 

King's coronation: Horse loses control and crashes into crowds - YouTube

 

Agree unfortunately about the horse.

What about the RN 12 into 6 routine - came off absolutely brilliantly.

15 hours ago, Tony_S said:

When I returned to teaching, I was also in receipt of training sessions. Some were well done but there seemed to be a lot of resistance from some staff to being informed or “upskilled” which was disappointing in an educational establishment. 

One of the reasons for this may be that there are/were some good and interesting training sessions being provided but that 'your section had to do' X&Y' rather than what originally appeared to be a choice.  You can probably guess from above the 'enforced sessions' from already known trainer groups.

Surprisingly many memories of the Queen Elizabeth's coronation came flooding back while watching the coronation and personally some of the changes e.g. Lords not wearing all that regalia or perhaps not so may of them 'individually'' giving allegiance was a step in the right direction .  Also liked the archbishops short but precise sermon and its theme.  It seems quite general now that ministers 'read from the script' rather than just rattling it off from memory so re @iL Dottore was not totally surprised.

4 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

There is also a theory that  H sapiens brought with them a viral disease to which the Neanderthals had no resistance. There is a more recent parallel with the Conquistadors. When they landed in central America they bought with them smallpox which spread like wildfire among the native population. A similar thing could have happened 40,000 years ago. Also at the time there was global warming which drove H sapiens out of Africa and  removed a lot of Neanderthal food sources as well such as the woolly mammoth. Most likely it was a combination of all of those factors.

More recently the so-called 'Spanish flu' that was initially brought to Europe and thus the world via American soldiers in WW1.

9 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

I had a seagull do that a couple of years ago in Liverpool. Swooped down from behind and snatched a cheese roll from my hand. Fortunately he was very fast and skilled at it so no personal injury other than mild shock was incurred.

Gulls swopping down and tasking ice-creams is common on Jersey.  The kiosk owner has a notice to that effect on the kiosk and also tells customers to keep thewir ice-creams close to themselves.  SWMBOalso lost an ice-cream in this manner.

42 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Wasn't the Crocodiles fault that someone went into a known area wearing flip flops and came a cropper, should have known better.

As I see it because of the Australian Law there are now far too many crocodiles around as they basically have no predators other than man.  In many many years time the result will be that no one will be able to swim or fish in rivers, ponds or the sea and most other marine/river life will be found in crocodiles because of it ... just a thought.

HAppy birthday Stewart.

1 hour ago, BoD said:

I was doing my volunteering stint at a NT property today when a young(ish) gentleman asked “Did you used to teach at ******** school?”  I tried to deny it - but he had me bang to rights.

 

“You used to teach me” he said.

”… and my mam”.

”… and my gran”.

 

You can quickly go off people.

ERs is phenomenal in providing me memories so here's tree'

1 - a chance meetingabout 20 years or more ago "You taught me ny first notes on the tenor horn". someone wroking I believe at the foreign office; 2 In a then unknown town walked into a gym to ask ahow to get to to be greeted by "You taught me FAW at XXX". before telling her mates and giving me directions ; 3 working with the homeless at breakfast in a drop-in centre in anither West Midlands tcity a young XXX turned round when my voice was heard and also told ne that you taught me FA at XXX.

And the 'You taught my Mum"

Thank you @BoD for that reminder.

6 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... Another fisheye from Coventry Cathedral. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/drifting-uncertainly-and-thus-far-19-04-of-over-75s-have-had-the-spring-booster/

It is 'by invotation' that includes where you have to go and the time s available hence the current uptake is low but many are booked in the near future ... at least I hope so as although I responded as sson as received the arly dates and times were aready filled.

9 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

I think the problem is that the drinker has no idea of the volume consumed, and things get out of hand...

 

If it werein hand then the straw would not be needed!.

8 minutes ago, pH said:

 

Just a couplre of photographs ...!

14 hours ago, The Johnster said:

 

The reason he was chosen for the Tahiti 'Transit of Venus' gig with Bounty; he was probably the best navigator in the navy and of course had the kudos of having studied under The Master, and of course he knew the Tahiti Royal Family personally from his visits with Cook. 

It is a shame his man-management skills were not of the same order...

Agree with part 1 after all they had sailed 28000 miles before the mutiny because he kept a stern eye on things and of course the men were having a great time with the Polunesioan women and did not want to continue on the main purpose of the voyage.  We all know of  activists and of course the 1930s film painted him as such dire person and that has stuck.  There probably was some truth in his manner (disciplinarian) but it must also be remembered that many men were lost at sea for various ailments and he had lost none.  Historically look what happened to the mutineers ...

On 28/04/2023 at 08:38, jjb1970 said:

 

I'm guessing the overwhelming majority are either intentional or a result of silly behaviour. All the decks have handrails and increasingly open areas seem to be getting glass screens. Those arrangements can fail, but it's extremely rare, so most of those going overboard are either jumping, pushed or doing silly thing (getting a better look over the side, photos sitting on the handrails and such like).

 

It's increasingly problematic for the cruise segment (and others I expect), one of the attractions is to go out on deck and just enjoy being outside looking out to sea or whatever land the ship might be passing. Risk people now see such decks as a safety hazard they'd rather not have and want to either minimise them or have full height screening to prevent people going over the side. I can see why a risk manager might push that but I also find it quite sad as it fundamentally alters the experience and effectively walls us off from the world outside. Minimizing open deck also tends to be agreeable to the commercial people wanting to maximize space for cabins, bars, shops and to fill the upper deck areas with swimming pools, slides, theme ride type stuff etc.

Have enjoyed the odd cruise but if the above came in there is no way that I would take another and it horrifies at present to see so many decks with minimal 'outside' space.

Looks interesting.

@iL Dottore I was aware that drug resarch and validation etc. was extremely expensive but not that it was approaching billions. 

As you can imaging knew about the effects of aspirin and emergency and call outs to assess paracetamol (OD) overdose were very common, including a referal for a student who turned up for class with a toothache post laboratory days who didn't 'look right'  asked what and how much he had taken - needed a quick trip to A&E where they kept him in.  Salicylate and barbiturate OD were very common in the 60s and early 70s and in those days were manual analytical techniques.  Oddly in August 1973 we had the highest number of (positive) barbiturate OD results but for the rest of my career no further requests.  Also remember the scan on an emergency admission barbiturate level OD that was normally fatal.  In discussion with the requesting physician on the validity of the result it turned out that the admitted person had been on them for well over a decade!   An oddity that has just come to mind was a paraquat OD that proved fatal.

5 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Not certain if this would apply to across the water but certainly it applies here that is use it or lose it. You start the work in one financial year so that you can say that its coming out of that years budget but finish it in the next one. Sounds like someone - highways? got some dollars burning a hole in there pocket.

Wish they would use some of that 'excess' on properly filling-in potholes instead of the 'put something in it today and a couple of days later its been knocked out'.

Antibiotics yes, NBG for viral infections. @iL Dottore presumeably the full SPEC-CTS as specified at the time has already been carried out on the former 'are they good/bad' as antibiotics by the Abx network 'reworking' to see if the gap can be improved.

Big pharmaceuticals have to spend a lot on all of the above and of course the actual 'does it work appropriately' period is quite extensive.  Reminds, must be many years ago now,  that six 'guinea pigs' in London had a massive reaction to something that was on initial test and certainly for one of them at least became permanent .

There does come a time e.g. something like paracetamol where the company has recovered the cost many times over so paying a lot for nicely packaged tablets vs the low cost actual working ingredients to which the converse is these extra profits are ploughed into the enormous expense of cancer drug research.  Both are reasonable arguments.  Aspiring of course has been on the 'approved list' since 1898.

I'll leave it there as the next bit sounded like a rant.

Just look at USA, China and Russia as examples to see what an 'elected' HoS can be/do ... much better our, although inefficient, parliamentary system and the fact that we can criticise our politicians beyond reason without being clapped in jail or worse.  

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Having been on holiday last year in two no phone signal areas I did wonder about that. 
I did ask my brother who used to spend a lot of time on phone towers why the maps showing phone service areas didn’t match reality. He did explain. It must be very frustrating for people in certain low signal areas to learn about 3G masts being decommissioned when they never had it at all. My cousin lives in one of the parts of Solihull that always insist on the local,”village” name instead. The mobile signal is appalling, on any carrier. The locals have objected strenuously to any masts for all kinds of conspiracy theory health reasons. The new 5G mast was set on fire during the Covid outbreak. 

I suppose that they then complain that the signal is poor and that the company should 'do something about it'.

Lost me there @PhilJ Wjust heard a loud noise.

40 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

My father-in-law managed to do that at a mall in Mesa AZ. They got a taxi back to our house and I drove them back to the mall. They showed me where they had parked the car and I drove round to the diametrically opposite side of the mall and there was the car.

Thanks for the memory.  Arriving in Vancover in 1967 I headed for the tourist office and the first thing heard on entering was from a rather large American in those horrible Bermuda shorts who actually said " Dumb thing parked the car and cannot find it". "What was ut and where have you been walking" were the next two questions he was asked.   That was all I heard before someone asked if they could help - they were very helpful.

'Twas a great day and  in the same weekthat I picked up a recogbnised music magazine and saw one of my photographs published in it - small world and Victoria a great place in the sunny weather.        

The Qs response to the larger Fiat 500, saw a Mini Cooper yesterday that was almost the size of a large car.  The other problem is car parking, aside from exorbitant charges, they are far too narrow for current day cars.