The Lemon Fool

moorfield wrote:

rikutafes wrote:I just found out about the existence of superbugs (bacteria that can't be killed by antibiotics) and the fact that they are spreading more and more. So if you get infected by them it's extremely hard if not impossible to get rid of them as they are practically immortal. Real scary stuff..

Quite so. We've all been obsessed with coronaviruses for the last two years, but antibiotic resistance is a huge problem that scientists have been warning on for years. A ticking timebomb, and harder to contain than by just locking us all up (viz. rat bourne plague).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60058120

On the plus side:

Engineered viruses can fight the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

https://theconversation.com/engineered-viruses-can-fight-the-rise-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-154337

Snorvey wrote:Form an orderly queue behind the gunsight.

No No me first
can they stand behind each other
two birds one ......

This makes me go "oooh" or even "Aaargh!"

Briton poses as worker to dangle one-handed from crane 1,200ft above Dubai

The Guardian

Adam Lockwood evades detection to scale crane atop skyscraper and cling from metal bar with just one hand

XFool wrote:This makes me go "oooh" or even "Aaargh!"

Briton poses as worker to dangle one-handed from crane 1,200ft above Dubai

The Guardian

Adam Lockwood evades detection to scale crane atop skyscraper and cling from metal bar with just one hand

Which bit? The dangling, or the posing as a "worker"?

We live in a pothole-ridden society, but.......
Last week, I reported a pothole outside my house (in a quiet suburban street) on the fixmystreet website, who forwarded it to the local council. The next day, the council sent someone round to mark the pothole with white spray paint, and the following day the workmen came and repaired the pothole, to a reasonable standard rather then a temporary bodge.

Now if that doesn't make you go oooh.....
doolally

doolally wrote:We live in a pothole-ridden society, but.......
Last week, I reported a pothole outside my house (in a quiet suburban street) on the fixmystreet website, who forwarded it to the local council. The next day, the council sent someone round to mark the pothole with white spray paint, and the following day the workmen came and repaired the pothole, to a reasonable standard rather then a temporary bodge.

Now if that doesn't make you go oooh.....
doolally

On a similar vein... http://theballreport.com/vandal-drawing-penises-and-balls-on-potholes/

Buy a tin of white paint
and before they come round mark up any other imperfections
That worked in my Dad's road a few years ago... he got three more done

doolally wrote:We live in a pothole-ridden society, but.......
Last week, I reported a pothole outside my house (in a quiet suburban street) on the fixmystreet website, who forwarded it to the local council. The next day, the council sent someone round to mark the pothole with white spray paint, and the following day the workmen came and repaired the pothole, to a reasonable standard rather then a temporary bodge.

Now if that doesn't make you go oooh.....
doolally

Do you not perhaps wonder who (or whose important friend/family) happens to live nearby, among councillors and/or council officers with the power to make things happen?

fixmystreet gets quicker results I have found, as it is in the public domain
so it's has the "name an shame" principal at work

pje16 wrote:fixmystreet gets quicker results I have found, as it is in the public domain
so it's has the "name an shame" principal at work

Or "I can prove that you already knew about it so I can sue you for the damage to my car" .


Julian F. G. W.

jfgw wrote:

pje16 wrote:fixmystreet gets quicker results I have found, as it is in the public domain
so it's has the "name an shame" principal at work

Or "I can prove that you already knew about it so I can sue you for the damage to my car" .


Julian F. G. W.

If you are a subscriber to to ubiqitous sue culture (which I am not)

pje16 wrote:fixmystreet gets quicker results I have found, as it is in the public domain
so it's has the "name an shame" principal at work

I wish I could agree. I've generally found responses to be quite slow. A major road junction a few miles away in south Glasgow has been reported by people more times than I can count over the past year, it would make an excellent substitute for the lunar surface. I guess the response depends on the local council.

--kiloran

kiloran wrote:--kiloran

I think you're right
I don't often sing the praises of Barnet
but a few years ago it (the blocked drain outside my house which could flood my front room) was still showing on Fix my street
and they (Barnet council) emailed me to ask "how well did we do"
I replied with a few well chosen words
and lo and behold they were outside the house at 5.30am the next morning fixing it
(That MUST be some sort of record)

kiloran wrote:I wish I could agree. I've generally found responses to be quite slow. A major road junction a few miles away in south Glasgow has been reported by people more times than I can count over the past year, it would make an excellent substitute for the lunar surface. I guess the response depends on the local council.

That but also "a major road junction" is always going to be a more complicated job than one that needs 2 men for an hour to patch a pothole on a side road. It may not even be the council's responsibility but the DoT (or Holyrood??), it may be part of a long-term plan where they're going to replace gas mains etc and then resurface it, you never quite know.

Although council budgets for this sort of thing are under huge pressure, I must admit that I've always had great results from Fixmystreet, for flytipping, streetlight outages, grafitti and potholes.

Snorvey - you think that's bad? For a while I had this vile thing slithering round my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wm_Jzx ... ulLockhart

Leothebear wrote:Snorvey - you think that's bad? For a while I had this vile thing slithering round my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wm_Jzx ... ulLockhart

GRRRR
I only looked at the youtube image, didn't even have to click play
Those annoying notes are in my head now
The rest of you have been warned
(I know that 's like the sign "Wet Paint do not touch")

Snorvey wrote:This maybe needs a thread of its own, but for the moment...... Songs that stick in your head

Having shaken off 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John (I don't even like his music), I have now inherited 'Ocean Man' by a band called Ween. It's catchy, but it annoys me. So I just thought I'd spread the love with you guys.

I even fall asleep with this playing in my head. On the brightside, it distracts me from the Tinnitus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaPiiFZu2o

I've developed tinnitus over the past month or so - very annoying!
For some reason 'Funeral Pyre' by the Jam has been running as an earworm loop for some time

Snorvey wrote:This maybe needs a thread of its own, but for the moment...... Songs that stick in your head

Having shaken off 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John (I don't even like his music), I have now inherited 'Ocean Man' by a band called Ween. It's catchy, but it annoys me. So I just thought I'd spread the love with you guys.

I even fall asleep with this playing in my head. On the brightside, it distracts me from the Tinnitus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaPiiFZu2o

A few years ago, I had Rolf Harris's Jake the Peg running around in my brain for a week or so. God knows what triggered that, I hate it.

--kiloran

Snorvey wrote:

AleisterCrowley wrote:

Snorvey wrote:This maybe needs a thread of its own, but for the moment...... Songs that stick in your head

Having shaken off 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John (I don't even like his music), I have now inherited 'Ocean Man' by a band called Ween. It's catchy, but it annoys me. So I just thought I'd spread the love with you guys.

I even fall asleep with this playing in my head. On the brightside, it distracts me from the Tinnitus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaPiiFZu2o

I've developed tinnitus over the past month or so - very annoying!
For some reason 'Funeral Pyre' by the Jam has been running as an earworm loop for some time

My GP recommended Earkalm spray (otc) and I've been taking Vit B12 for a while. Both seem to help a lot.

I coincidentally bought some B vitamins last weekend (good for hangovers)
I will check out Rearkalm.... erm Earkalm
(I genuinely mistyped that, would have ended up with Imodium I guess)

kiloran wrote:A few years ago, I had Rolf Harris's Jake the Peg running around in my brain for a week or so. God knows what triggered that, I hate it.

--kiloran

"Can you see what it is yet?"
"I think I can, Rolf, and I'm not sure I like it"

(c) some bookseller with a Facebook page...