Dave Hunt

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

.....so,rather than be unemployed she reinvented herself as a sociology lecturer. 

Some years ago in the Gents loos in UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology for the underprivileged) there were printed labels stuck to the walls in the sit-downs above the loo roll holders that said, "Sociology degrees - please take one."

Dave

8 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear recalls an interview with Ron Haslam:

 

"Why did you crash?"

 

Ron:   "The girl in the red dress f****d off...."

 

Apparently he'd been using her as his braking point marker.

 An RAF colleague had at one time been a police car driver in Bristol. He told us that a common trick played on newbie car passengers was to drive down the road by Temple Meads station that is a dead end at some furious speed until smashing into the wall at the end seemed inevitable, then brake hard when passing a section of fencing that had been left unpainted. This would stop the car just short of the wall, usually giving the passenger the heebie jeeebies and the driver much amusement.......

........until one day someone painted the fence. The driver had to explain the foreshortened police car.

Dave

51 minutes ago, Grizz said:

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! 

 

 

IIRC, the average European of today has something like 3 - 5% Neanderthal DNA.

Dave

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

4 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Does this mean that SWMBO now has access to all your ER posts?

Thank the Good Lord, no. If she had I wouldn't be typing this due to:

a. Not being very well after being ambushed by a baseball bat or similar, and..

b. Not being able to get into the house to use any of my electronic thingies.

Dave

4 hours ago, PupCam said:

Searching for the communication from the NHS telling me to go and book a Covid booster.      I'm blowed if I can remember what form it was in, I thought it was a text but no sign.   Perhaps I dreamt it?

Just ring 119 Puppers. That's what I did this morning and within five minutes had booked Jill and I in at a time and place that suited us.

Dave

I’ve just bought Jill a new iPad because her old one is now Neolithic and can’t update so more and more web sites won’t let it play. Unfortunately when I fired it up my iPhone was in my pocket so they immediately fell in love and started to share passcodes etc. I’ve now got to set about dissuading it from pursuing this love affair and become independent. Isn’t technology wonderful sometimes?

Dave

I always thought that special relativity was the reason that there are lots of funny people in remote parts of the Ozark mountains and suchlike.

Dave

I’ve watched a few of their games recently and there’s been some good rugby on show.

Dave

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

......, maybe when you get to know us all here better it may make more sense! 

You are leading the poor chap down the garden path, Neil. Since when has the traffic on ERs made any sense?

Dave 

10 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

They're the Paps of Scilla*.... 😃

 

* But not "Our Cilla"!

 

Known to generations of RAF aviators as Sally’s tits.

Dave

32 minutes ago, pH said:

Moving to the Pacific north wet of North America, back to an annual rainfall within a couple of inches of that where we grew up, came as a bit of a shock.

No surprises there then 🤣

Dave

5 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

The food scene in Britain is much more diverse than Singapore.  Singapore has superb local (Singaporean, Chinese, Malay, Indonesian south Indian and peranakan) food and the other SE Asian food options are superb, and there are plenty of excellent Japanese and Korean places. However looking beyond SE and East Asia people seem a lot less open to foreign food and it's noticeable that the three ethnic groups often stay within their own track. A lot of Chinese Singaporean people never eat Indian food for example. The usual multinationals are well represented (McD, BK, KFC, Pizza Hut, Nando etc) but good non-Asian food isn't that common. Our favourite is a Swiss place, marche movenpick which is very good.

There used to be a very good Italian restaurant on Orchard Road. Probably long gone by now.

Dave

5 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I only picked the picture because it had Sebastian Bach written on the cover.

 

It would have been better as Dau Twmp

Which two mounds are those then?

Dave

(OK, I admit I had to look it up)

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

Note that the brand is HUSTLER and the model RAPTOR 

Otherwise B58 and F22.

Dave

Ah, beaten to it by HH. Rats!

3 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Personally I am not a seafood fan but I still admire it when I see it served up. The "Seafood platter" would be our version of the "Full English Breakfast" as far as how it is held in reverence or whatever by our respective societies. . 

 

The seafood platter is a menu option for dinner time rather than breakfast,  best ordered when sitting on the deck of an RSL or surf club in a coastal town, watching the diehard  evening surfers ride the waves before the sun sets and the night sharks get them.

 

That brings back many happy memories of sunset feasts in Palm Cove north of Cairns.

Dave

10 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Same thing happens here from those who have never been here - we eat mainly bbq'd Witchety grubs  and pies  or  something apparently.  Actually being a hugely multicultural country so close to Asia and the South Pacific and  blessed with the ability to locally grow every type of fresh food our restaurants are brimming with diversity and authentic flavours as well as great fusion combinations.

Mind you, I think that the famous Aussie pies (including those 'floating' in soup, although mine always seemed to sink) are actually generally very good. And as for the seafood - yum yum.

Dave

In my early RAF days I knew a couple of the pilots who flew in the BoB film and one of them described the filmed scenes, despite some careful control and briefing, as 'raving dangerous.' I also know and once worked with (in fact, I was his mentor on his first squadron) one of the pilots who flew F14s in the original Top Gun (he was RAF on exchange with the USN) and was the one who can be seen flying past the carrier leaving a wake in the water. He earned himself a bit of a b0llocking for that when the film was released. Didn't do him a lot of harm though as he later became an RAF squadron commander.

Dave

In addition to my last post, don’t believe what you see in carp such as Top Gun.

Dave

Another nice day in North Hipposhire and for a change it’s not windy. We are scheduled for lunch at a rather nice restaurant to celebrate a friend’s ‘significant’ birthday for which occasion I have made a chocolate cake. The cake has already been delivered to the restaurant and armed guards mounted behind bear and hippo traps just in case.

Dave