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Things that make you go oooh thread....
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Climate change: 2022 was Scotland's hottest year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64174150
Amendment: 2022 was Scotland's least cold year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64174150
Amendment: 2022 was Scotland's least cold year.
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The Spanish Super Cup Semi Final between Real Madrid & Valencia.
Live from Saudi Arabia.
Football will pretty much whore itself out to anywhere with money these days eh?
Live from Saudi Arabia.
Football will pretty much whore itself out to anywhere with money these days eh?
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Whats that - the FTSE100 has closed at an all time high you say?
Surely some mistake.
Surely some mistake.
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Tedx wrote:Whats that - the FTSE100 has closed at an all time high you say?
Surely some mistake.
It's only 70 points off right now
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pje16 wrote:Tedx wrote:Whats that - the FTSE100 has closed at an all time high you say?
Surely some mistake.
It's only 70 points off right now
And will surely break through.
With the £ losing value, things naturally rise when measured in £.
The FTSE all-time high is just under 8000, yesno? So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk) it would have to be somewhere like nudging 13000 today.
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UncleEbenezer wrote:So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk)
I always thought we used Mars Bars
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pje16 wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk)
I always thought we used Mars Bars
Funny, I thought we measured milk in Albert Halls? Or was it double decker buses?
BJ
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pje16 wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk)
I always thought we used Mars Bars
The problem with Mars Bars is that they're forever changing the size of them to hit a certain price point.
Should stick to something with a consistent size over the years, like Creme Eggs.
Scott.
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swill453 wrote:pje16 wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk)
I always thought we used Mars Bars
The problem with Mars Bars is that they're forever changing the size of them to hit a certain price point.
Should stick to something with a consistent size over the years, like Creme Eggs.
Scott.
Nope, they have shrunk as well
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... dable.html
Nothing seems to escape the sneaky way that companies shaft customers
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pje16 wrote:swill453 wrote:pje16 wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk)
I always thought we used Mars Bars
The problem with Mars Bars is that they're forever changing the size of them to hit a certain price point.
Should stick to something with a consistent size over the years, like Creme Eggs.
Scott.
Nope, they have shrunk as well
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... dable.html
Nothing seems to escape the sneaky way that companies shaft customers
Er, no they haven't.
That article talks about Easter eggs and bags of mini eggs.
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Cromarty Firth and (Firth of) Forth to host first green freeports
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... 2#comments
BBC News - comments
Ian Blackford is well up for free port.
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Especially if it comes with free pie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... 2#comments
BBC News - comments
Ian Blackford is well up for free port.
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Especially if it comes with free pie
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Tedx wrote:Climate change: 2022 was Scotland's hottest year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64174150
Amendment: 2022 was Scotland's least cold year.
The Romans were growing grape-vines in Scotland 1500+ years ago. Before anthropogenic warming emissions. Before the GM crops of today again very recently made growing vines there just about possible.
You don't have temperature records going back to Roman times to support the assertion, do you/they?
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pje16 wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:So to surpass that when measured in something with intrinsic value (say, pints of milk)
I always thought we used Mars Bars
Marianne Faithful did (allegedly).
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DiamondEcho wrote:The Romans were growing grape-vines in Scotland 1500+ years ago.
Only as far north as Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_from ... ed_Kingdom
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I was thinking where best to post this, and then I realised we already had a thread titled 'Things that make you go oooh'....
Statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King unveiled in Boston -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDG2VXdqdc
Erm, 'Oooh' indeed...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
I was thinking where best to post this, and then I realised we already had a thread titled 'Things that make you go oooh'....
Statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King unveiled in Boston -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDG2VXdqdc
Erm, 'Oooh' indeed...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
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Itsallaguess wrote:
I was thinking where best to post this, and then I realised we already had a thread titled 'Things that make you go oooh'....
Statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King unveiled in Boston -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDG2VXdqdc
Erm, 'Oooh' indeed...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
I agree with a poster's comment
"If I drew that in Art Class, I would be sent to the Principal's Office"
It's a case of the emperor's new clothes
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Itsallaguess wrote:
I was thinking where best to post this, and then I realised we already had a thread titled 'Things that make you go oooh'....
Statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King unveiled in Boston -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDG2VXdqdc
Erm, 'Oooh' indeed...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
As a friend of the family who is in her early 20's would say:
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Just watching the Ben Miller programme on Channel 5. He is revisiting Nantwich, where he grew up, "No place like home".
He has just visited a "Secret Bunker" where provision was made for an underground control post in the event of nuclear war. This must have been the site of RAF Hack Green, a radar station for Ground Controlled Interceptions dating from the 1940s.
When I finished my reserve service as a fighter controller, in 1957, I was given details of my "War Posting", which was to Hack Green. I had a railway warrant to Nantwich and instructions to report there in an emergency with a general call up of reservists. I never went there but did visit similar sites during my reserve service. No mention was made of this earlier function of the site.
What an unexpected reminder of the past.
TJH
He has just visited a "Secret Bunker" where provision was made for an underground control post in the event of nuclear war. This must have been the site of RAF Hack Green, a radar station for Ground Controlled Interceptions dating from the 1940s.
When I finished my reserve service as a fighter controller, in 1957, I was given details of my "War Posting", which was to Hack Green. I had a railway warrant to Nantwich and instructions to report there in an emergency with a general call up of reservists. I never went there but did visit similar sites during my reserve service. No mention was made of this earlier function of the site.
What an unexpected reminder of the past.
TJH
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You know, watching Zelensky talk, it's almost impossible to imagine how you'd react if your country was invaded by a foreign state.
I guess the Falklands in 82 would be the closest to an invasion of our country and sure, the UK has fought wars abroad for a common cause....but if it was your land can you imagine how you would feel? Well you'd fight like terriers wouldn't you? Like demons. No hesitation whatsoever. Even in WW2 we were fighting in other countries - with the exception of Battle of Britain, and those young pilots had no fear despite overwhelming odds. I'm reminded of the Polish Spitfire pilots who flew in WW2, repelling an invading force - and by all accounts they were mental. They just wanted to kill the enemy and would do anything to do that.
Almost all of Europe has experienced invasion in modern times. In fact quite a chunk of the world has (with the notable exceptions on the UK and the Americas I think). I think invasion, even when repelled, fundementally changes a country.
Perhaps that's the difference between us and the Europeans?
Who knows.
Anyway, I don't know what the point of that ramble was, but it must be horrendous being invaded.
I guess the Falklands in 82 would be the closest to an invasion of our country and sure, the UK has fought wars abroad for a common cause....but if it was your land can you imagine how you would feel? Well you'd fight like terriers wouldn't you? Like demons. No hesitation whatsoever. Even in WW2 we were fighting in other countries - with the exception of Battle of Britain, and those young pilots had no fear despite overwhelming odds. I'm reminded of the Polish Spitfire pilots who flew in WW2, repelling an invading force - and by all accounts they were mental. They just wanted to kill the enemy and would do anything to do that.
Almost all of Europe has experienced invasion in modern times. In fact quite a chunk of the world has (with the notable exceptions on the UK and the Americas I think). I think invasion, even when repelled, fundementally changes a country.
Perhaps that's the difference between us and the Europeans?
Who knows.
Anyway, I don't know what the point of that ramble was, but it must be horrendous being invaded.
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