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Today sees the celebration of my Sunset Strip* orbit of our closest star so I am being taken out for lunch with some friends near Oswestry. I may be some time.
* 77 for those not old enough to recall such things.
Best wishes to Beth and hopes for a swift recovery.
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As long as it does the job they can use whatever they like. I did know someone who tried to do it himself with cotton buds and made a right mess of his ear that ended up needing hospital visits so maybe that won’t be an option though.
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Pretty much what happened to our Lab/Collie cross Sam. He was 14. That was nearly six years ago now and I still miss him dreadfully.
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Off to the pharmacist shortly to have an earwax removal job, which will be only the second time I’ve ever needed it. Old age I guess (tomorrow will be my Sunset Strip birthday).
TTFN
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We have the same situation, The plumber we use responds very quickly should we have an emergency and is reliable for annual servicing as well as being reasonable with his charges. The only snag is that getting him to attend for non-urgent jobs is sometimes a pretty drawn-out process; for instance, we have a partially blocked radiator that needs attention but so far it has taken four months for him not to attend.
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54 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:
Personal experience or you know someone whose second cousin was on talking terms with the janitorial staff at the said establishment?
Personal experience; they were gold Abel Labels with black lettering.
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And on the warning cones in the Gents at Lime Street station that had the legend WET FLOOR on them, someone had added, "Please note this is not an order."
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16 hours ago, TheQ said:I suspect I've lost some high frequency hearing, I've increasing tinnitus, it's a high frequency whine. That may well be to do with the high frequency whine a lot of electronic equipment had when I worked on in those darkened rooms .
Many years ago I had to attend medical board at the RAF Central Medical Establishment in London following an accident in which I was knocked unconscious. The doctor who tested my hearing (who was an aviation medicine specialist) commented that my high tone range was not as good as it had been and asked whether there was anything I thought could account for it. I replied that maybe spending over thirty years working with and near jet engines could be a cause, to which he looked thoughtful and said maybe I could be right. That did little to foster my faith in aviation medics.
And like Q I have a nearly constant background high frequency whine in my hearing that although not really intrusive can be annoying in a quiet environment.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I’ve watched a few of their games recently and there’s been some good rugby on show.
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Had a trip out to Dorothy Clive gardens today and enjoyed both the flora and lunch outside at the cafe. I managed a reasonable amount of walking but after just half an hour during which there was some uphill stretches my legs felt like jelly. I hadn't realised properly until now just how unfit I have become because of not doing any proper exercise for years while my spine was giving me grief. Now I've had it largely sorted, though, I'm determined to get reasonably fit again. It'll be a bit of an uphill battle but a necessary one.
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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?
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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
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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 🤣
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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.
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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?
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(OK, I admit I had to look it up)
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1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:
Note that the brand is HUSTLER and the model RAPTOR
Otherwise B58 and F22.
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Ah, beaten to it by HH. Rats!
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The Night Mail
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Shouldn’t that be zwei und zweizig?
Dave
(The autocorrect tried to change that to zero and xeroxing 🤣