The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#981 Post by Ibbie » Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:56 am

Yes I will confirm it is FRIDAY.......a wet one here. It is persisting down and 23c.

Not a day for outgoing.

Glad that operation appears to have been a success HF.

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#982 Post by Alisoncc » Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:11 am

bob2s wrote:
Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:40 am
HF, should be ok as far as the tightness of all the joint is concerned,
Do have a bottle of Loctite in the garage somewhere. Could drop it in the post if worthwhile. :D

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#983 Post by OFSO » Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:59 am

Good news HF. I'M 15 minutes early for X ray so popped into café opposite on the corner. Most succulemt bloody delicious buttery croissant ever, consumed watching the girls go by. No flatbed Fords, though.

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#984 Post by Woody » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:07 am

OFSO wrote:
Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:59 am
Good news HF. I'M 15 minutes early for X ray so popped into café opposite on the corner. Most succulemt bloody delicious buttery croissant ever, consumed watching the girls go by. No flatbed Fords, though.
Obviously still nothing wrong with your eyesight :))
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#985 Post by Wodrick » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:27 am

'morning,
Good news *HF*
I have cloud breaking up, 23c for 28c.
Unmeasurable wetness overnight but the line of showers is passing to my north at present.

No idea what the day will bring.
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#986 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:45 am

Great news HF just don"t cough or sneeze.

GG best you get a Jerry can for your egg whisk.

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#987 Post by limeygal » Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:44 am

Great news HF. Glad everything went well. :YMHUG:

Woody-more good news, you is now back in gainful employment :-bd

New dog Reggie is coming along. Still very skittish, but he follows me everywhere. He is a very sweet boy. I bought him some toys that he is systematically destroying in the hall. Quite a sight when you come through the front door. Dismembered toys all over the place. I am doing a brisk business of reattaching body parts.

Finally stopped raining here. I think it ended up as about 13 days of rain all told. Now I have to tackle all the weeds that have popped up. Bugger.

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#988 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:47 am

HF TGIF
A house in Edinburgh bought for £175 in 1959 is now 'worth' >£800k, albeit with addition of mod cons such as central heating and a bit of loft insulation and better bathroom and kitchen etc.
UP, just £175?

Still, 62 years don't come cheap especially given the mod cons. Our last home of 32 years gained 8 fold but factoring in new kitchens (more than once), bathroom (twice), cloak room, new en suite from scratch, all internal and external doors, all windows, conservatory, terrace, drive, fixed appliances, insulation, decoration, carpets, garden planting and maintenance, hard landscaping, the list was endless.

I doubt we even broke even.

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#989 Post by k3k3 » Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:12 am

Before I was born my father was offered a house in Portsmouth for £400, but he couldn't afford it on his wage of £5/week.

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#990 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:16 am

Yup. £175. Exactly the same price as it was sold for in 1813. There was a sitting tenant who had to be bought off. He was a retired coalminer from Gorebridge. He was given a free flat in his hometown for a Pound in exchange for giving up his tenancy of the house. That flat cost £50.

A large house with 19 acres in Surrey was sold for £25k in 1969. Zoopla now estimates its market value at £4M.

In the Ted Heath coalminers strike the miners demanded a payrise of 35% which would have taken their pay up to £35 for a 40 hour week.

I remember a **** yuge fish supper in Lerwick cost 1/9d. That was in 1968.

It's not the value of houses or labour or food that's gone up. It's the value of fiat currency that's gone down.

In the 1730s Voltaire said “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero”. He was right. The Pound and the Dollar and the Euro are well on their way to returning to their true value.

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#991 Post by OFSO » Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:18 am

Yes Woody, my eyesight still up to par. I took a photograph this morning of the girls on the next table but one..... (The two fellows are on the table behind the ladies table...)
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#992 Post by k3k3 » Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:24 am

It would have been an awful waste of money if you had to take the film to Boots for developing.

I see that one Mk.IV Doris has positioned her crutch as a trap for the unwary.

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#993 Post by Rwy in Sight » Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:52 am

Woody good news your return so early back to Perry Oaks International

HF first dose of good news - I hope many more lot to come

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#994 Post by Pinky the pilot » Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:00 am

as it is a well kown fact that at our age all our joints get tight.
And we don't get tight in the joints anymore! [-X :D
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#995 Post by Ibbie » Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:12 am

Good news on the job front Woody.

It appears there will be a lot of refugees from Gatport available to your employers, now that the proposed new low cost subsid has bit the dust.

https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/british ... 2021-09-24

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#996 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:17 am

Woody wrote:
Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:29 am
Glad everything went well HF , I reckon that you’ll be turfed out today, as you correctly pointed out today is Friday and the NHS don’t seem to like working weekends :-o

For anyone who didn’t see my post yesterday Big Airways have recalled me back to Perry Oaks International from next Thursday :ymblushing:
Well done! Somerset West here you come eh? ;)))
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#997 Post by ricardian » Fri Sep 24, 2021 11:26 am

Wodrick wrote:
Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:27 am
'morning,
Good news *HF*
I have cloud breaking up, 23c for 28c.
Unmeasurable wetness overnight but the line of showers is passing to my north at present.

No idea what the day will bring.
Weather up here has been a bit draughty for the last 48 hours. However, the sun has appeared and things seem to be calming down. My octogenarian neighbour has just rescued her letter box (plastic bin at the end of her long driveway, weighted with a large rock) from the bottom of my garden where the wind had sent it overnight.
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#998 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:11 pm

Turned into a beautiful day after the foggiest of gloomy starts.. Sadly I have been sitting indoors looking at this kind of crap...

BEGIN
BEGIN TRY
SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @tbl_indiv VARCHAR(1024) = @tbl+'_indiv'
SET @SQL = 'IF EXISTS ( SELECT *
FROM sysobjects
WHERE xtype = ''U'' AND name = ''' + @tbl_indiv + ''') ' +
'DROP TABLE ' + @tbl_indiv
EXECUTE(@SQL)

I really must try and get a life... fog or not...



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#999 Post by Wodrick » Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:06 pm

We are slowly hearing of at least three burglaries overnight, all unoccupied holiday homes.
Worryingly one other which was occupied found burglars are "going equipped" and trashing the houses too.

In other news the overnight guess has changed to 90% thunderstorms. The line of showers still passing to my North at present.
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#1000 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:22 pm

CharlieOneSix wrote:
Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:57 am
Wo-hoo! Just booked a 90 minute walk-round presentation and test drive of the all electric Polestar 2 in Aberdeen on Sunday afternoon. Really looking forward to that - the motoring press are unanimous in its praise and I suspect the long range single electric motor version will be my next buy. Unfortunately the test drive is on the two motor version. 0-62mph in 4.7 seconds for that version and is something I don't need at 76 years old. 0-62mph in 7.4 seconds is quite adequate, only a second more than my Audi A6 Allroad, and several thousand pounds cheaper than the dual motor version.
I'll be interested to read your appraisal.

I've sat in the driver's seat for a couple of minutes while the owner showed me the MFD which is like a very large Android phone. I felt that the central console was very intrusive. It seemed to squeeze one's left leg in a way I've never experienced in any other car. I guess it's something that one would get used to.

Nicely engineered car. It combines Volvo's design cleverness with Chinese manufacturing skill. A good combo.

One word of warning though. Once you've driven and generally operated an electric car you'll never want to go back to driving one of those ridiculous piston-banging contraptions.

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