The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Pontius Navigator]

I know what you mean about the hospital parking charges; it was costing me £6.20 three times a week
at one point until some wonderful nurse pointed out that I could get a Renal Dialysis car park pass for
£25 that lasted a year.

They are a rip off. We got a 10 visit carnet which was perfect for visits that could last more than an hour. Then Lincolnshire changed crooks and the pass costs more and only lasts a year. Fing lottery.

But for cancer patients it is free. Now that did save a fortune with 3 weekly visits and now my regular check ups but it was never offered you had to ask.

[Pontius Navigator]

Who builds house in quarry? Who buys them? Who is surprised when the quarry collapses and finishes up in your back garden?

[1DC]

Went to Grimsby hospital for a blood test last week and had a first!! I was in and out in less than 15 minutes and qualified for A FREE CAR PARK. Usually £3-20..

[Woody]

Who builds house in quarry? Who buys them? Who is surprised when the quarry collapses and finishes up in your back garden?

More information please, could be a Darwin Award candidate.

[Pontius Navigator]

Heavy rains in Derbyshire brought down a quarry side into a new housing estate. Mud and soil reached back gardens, not big gardens. In one case a tree was resting against a house.

No injuries and no damage but now the residents are saying the council didn't want them.

[Sisemen]

In the meantime Australia is on fire. Catastrophic bush fires in NSW and Queensland with hundreds of homes lost and some lives lost, while we in the West are teetering on the edge and catastrophic weather conditions have been declared for today. A number of fires yesterday and today is predicted to be worse.

[reddo]

That's right Sisemen. We've been watching them closely. Our house is in Tewantin but so far, it's away from the fire front line.

[Sisemen]

NSW fire seen from the air this morning (Facebook photo)

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[Slasher]

Looks like a rough Summer for Oz this year Sise. The Fire season south of Narrogin to the Cape thru Albany might be a real doozy.

[Woody]

Freezing cold here again at Perry Oaks International, just watched a fog bank rolling in down 27R, temp must have dropped 5 C as it came in 🌫🌫🌫

[Magnus]

The fires seem to be coastal, and a westerly is keeping them that way for now. We have friends in central NSW, so are keeping an eye on things. Fingers crossed for more rain.

[TheGreenGoblin]

How's this for a simplistic hypothesis? Henceforth to be known as Gob's theorem...

I played around with some back of the envelope numbers and discovered the math solution to Gob’s Theorem (simplified):


Y’know it actually does solve out to Great White!

Throw a couple of bare breasts into it and you’d have Gob’s Law!

I like the way you used the the Fin series and Gill's conjecture in your masterful mathematical proof Slasher!

[Ibbie]

Morning from a sunny but cold coast. Only 7c for the early Ed walk this morning.

The NR who works at the local was being arsy and rude to people yesterday morning. It was his turn to open and set up for 11.00, but was lazy and refusing to serve anyone until he had, having arrived late. At 11.50, with him still refusing to serve, all the customers got up and walked to another bar, including MrsIB.

So last night I had a word with the owner. Seems the NR was supposed to do all the cleaning and bar set up by 11.00, not 12.00 that he was informing people was opening time.
The NR got a severe tongue lashing, told how important customers were, and was put on take away deliveries for the rest of the night.

[TheGreenGoblin]

NSW fire seen from the air this morning (Facebook photo)

Very good shot showing pyrocumulus!

These types of fires can also precipitate other severe weather phenomena including mesocyclonic tornadoes...

[Slasher]

I like the way you used the the Fin series and Gill's conjecture in your masterful mathematical proof Slasher!

No mathematical flies on you mate!

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Warmer aqui but not much nearly 15 from an overnight low of 11.
Don't seem to have the biting NNW wind either.

After a bit of spending one's dirty task is getting the planchas and grill out of the oven pride bag and cleaning them.
Ready for the ritual Bacon Buttie mañana.

Is all

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Hot and humid. This is good. Rain forecast early in the week. Our next door neighbour is a nutty Cloggy. If she finds a squirrel with a broken leg she wants to rescue it. Her husband is in the bush and understandably only comes home to watch rugby on the TV four times a year. We have a horse stuck in the mud, in the water 250 m away. She wanted us to get our gardener to come and see who the owner is. To see the brand he would have to swim 250 m in croc infested waters, he probably can't swim anyway, and dive underwater with goggles on to see the brand. She has been feeding a lone calf. The owner came to see her yesterday to thank her. He said that he couldn't afford to feed it. *****. So she continues to feed it. When it is nice and plump he comes and takes it for slaughter and gets 300 euro. She thinks that she is saving it.

Pelican city again. Hundreds of them.

Solar system problems again. Have asked for a new battery on Monday. Doubt it will happen. I don't think he will stock many £3,000 batteries.

See there is a pub in the UK where the Landlord will refuse to serve anyone tomorrow unless they are wearing a poppy. Excellent. Guess he will be selling them.

This hospital parking thing is outrageous. It is not as if anyone wants to be there under any circumstances. All the roads around must be chockers with parked cars.

[Ibbie]

Costa del Sol Hospital has reduced car park charges for a stay of under 48 hours to zero.

[Wodrick]

Its 1€ here probably forever.

[Magnus]

It was 0.5C this morning when I went out for the newspaper. Windscreen-scraping is visible on the horizon.