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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8081 Post by OFSO » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:38 am

Morning all. Getting used to the trains thundering by every fifteen minutes. No aircraft last night except a police chopper wandering round Feltham way. Arm stiff where the French travel vaccination was put in yesterday.

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8082 Post by Ibbie » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:47 am

Morning all.

Normal hot day . 24c at the mo going only one way...up. Yesterday was most unpleasant with very high humidity.

Highest temperature of the year, so far, has been guessed at for this coming Saturday.

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8083 Post by ribrash » Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:02 am

TheGreenAnger wrote:
Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:28 pm
ribrash wrote:
Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:15 pm
CharlieOneSix wrote:
Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:49 pm

Try https://ops-normal.org ?
That works C16.Its strange that something should change after a number of years.My PC is creaking badly.A new one is being delivered on Friday so that might cure it.I can log in one way or another. :-bd
The .com site/domain authentication certificate has expired or has been misconfigured.
This server couldn't prove that it's www.ops-normal.com; its security certificate is from sentry.corp.ventraip.net.au. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.
Seems to be working OK today. :-bd

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8084 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:15 am

ribrash wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:02 am
TheGreenAnger wrote:
Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:28 pm
ribrash wrote:
Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:15 pm


That works C16.Its strange that something should change after a number of years.My PC is creaking badly.A new one is being delivered on Friday so that might cure it.I can log in one way or another. :-bd
The .com site/domain authentication certificate has expired or has been misconfigured.
This server couldn't prove that it's www.ops-normal.com; its security certificate is from sentry.corp.ventraip.net.au. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.
Seems to be working OK today. :-bd
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8085 Post by Pinky the pilot » Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:03 am

Arm stiff where the French travel vaccination was put in yesterday.
Lucky it wasn't a German travel vaccination then.

I'll see myself out.
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#8086 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:37 pm

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8087 Post by OFSO » Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:01 pm

Mrs OF SO came home with a dressing-table-top mirror from John Lewis. It consists of the mirror, a base, a connecting tube and two small bolts. The instructions sternly caution that the assembly should only be undertaken by someone competent in DIY.

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8088 Post by Wodrick » Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:34 pm

G'day,
SM is outside hosing down the terraces in the 30c direct sun.
I am inside in the A/C making Tomato Jam.

Most places seem to be staying open on Monday, another holiday.

The guess is 32c today 30c and 60% at present.

Saturday has a guess of 38 or 39c and depending on the guess observed a bit cloudy, that'll be nice.
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8089 Post by llondel » Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:40 pm

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Morning all. Getting used to the trains thundering by every fifteen minutes. No aircraft last night except a police chopper wandering round Feltham way. Arm stiff where the French travel vaccination was put in yesterday.
Was that a vaccination against travelling in France or so you could travel safely in France?

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8090 Post by OFSO » Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:56 pm

The latter. The pox-and plague-ridden occupants of that land have no hesitation of breathing in your face, brushing against one, or shaking a sweaty palm, and with a current infection rate of three times England or Catalunia, travelling is a lottery.

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8091 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:15 pm

Slacking here this afternoon, as the temperature soars outside, watching the Pink Panther, you know the first of the Pink Panther films with the ever debonair David Niven and Claudia Cardinale. I had forgotten how beautiful she was, although I would have been in my nappies when she starred in the 1963 film... :)

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Good to see she is still alive and still an opinionated, liberal, and feisty lady... :-bd


Claudia Cardinale

Interesting factoid about the Pink Panther - Cardinale's voice in the film was dubbed by Gale Garnett, a Kiwi Canuck, who went uncredited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Garnett
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8092 Post by talmacapt » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:46 pm

Sold my town flat today, bought for wife's son to rent while a student and left fallow, odd guest and visiting relation, for 6 years, when he moved on.

Chap viewed it 30/7, offered 31/7, back and forth twice, agreed the price and did the paperwork, in his bank today.

Could have happened sooner but his bank couldn't get us in sooner.

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#8093 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:05 pm

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#8094 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:08 pm

Ah, Claudia Cardinale! The seductive scene where she was intoxicated, lay on a tiger skin and flirted with David Niven has been entrenced in my mind for more than 50 years! I didn't know her voice (so sexy in that scene) was dubbed....... :-o Certainly the best of the Pink Panther films.
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8095 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:10 pm

CharlieOneSix wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:08 pm
Ah, Claudia Cardinale! The seductive scene where she was intoxicated, lay on a tiger skin and flirted with David Niven has been entrenced in my mind for more than 50 years! I didn't know her voice (so sexy in that scene) was dubbed....... :-o Certainly the best of the Pink Panther films.

Amen to thar SIr! :-bd
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8096 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:45 pm

Aagh! Just looked out the kitchen window - we've been invaded! Run!
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8097 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:06 pm

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Aagh! Just looked out the kitchen window - we've been invaded! Run!
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8098 Post by Karearea » Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:41 pm

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Harvesting done and dusted here.

I have never seen it so early in Essex and I have lived here 23 years
What kind of crop, TGA? Wheat, barley, ...?
Barley-harvest around here can be late January to mid-February, or much later depending on the season's weather.

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#8099 Post by Rossian » Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:56 pm

I have a horrible feeling that I'm going to miss out yet another full moon this year. Last night the 99% full moon was beautiful and very bright. When am I going to get a chance to entrance my neighbours with my full-throated wolf howl(which I think is quite impressive). Thick bloody cloud until after moon set. I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy.

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#8100 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:54 pm

Karearea wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:41 pm
TheGreenAnger wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:06 pm
Harvesting done and dusted here.

I have never seen it so early in Essex and I have lived here 23 years
What kind of crop, TGA? Wheat, barley, ...?
Barley-harvest around here can be late January to mid-February, or much later depending on the season's weather.

-2°C here at the moment, blue dome day. Expecting 9°C.

Brilliant moonlight last night.

On with the dance!

Mostly wheat here this summer!
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