Isolated Blurt Thread

[loquere]

I believe it was a disused bathroom and the light bulb was out too.

Porta Podi

 

[MagicaPractica]

Porta Podi

I'm pretty sure it was inside and the staircase was missing.



I think I need a pan galactic gargle blaster tonight. Everyone needs their brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick occasionally, at least until the dolphins start whistling the Star Spangled Banner.

 

[Handley_Page]

Porta Podi

Do you mean a "Porta Potti" ? As in HERE ?.

I'm pretty sure it was inside and the staircase was missing.

I think I need a pan galactic gargle blaster tonight. Everyone needs their brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick occasionally, at least until the dolphins start whistling the Star Spangled Banner.

As I have only recently discovered that I am permitted to drink, a PGGB is a bit - excessive, maybe?
But I know a man who claims to be able to train Dolphins;, so at least you stand a chance of hearing the SSB. . . .

 

[YoursSINSerely]

I was just thinking . . . I miss you guys, and gals, and the ones in between.

 

[Handley_Page]

I was just thinking . . . I miss you guys, and gals, and the ones in between.

Well, Babs, perhaps you may be a little more visible in 2016 ?

 

[oggbashan]

Share holding

Shortly before Christmas, while dealing with family matters, I received a complicated letter about my shareholding that hadn't been updated for years. I put it aside to deal with after Christmas.

About 12 years ago I sold my shares - at a profit - but ex-dividend because it was too late to transfer the dividend. That dividend was in additional shares, a whole 3 of them with a face value of 25 pence each.

So I owned 3 shares. Every six months I would receive a cash dividend of a few pence. One cheque was for a whole three pence.

A few years later I sent the share certificate to a charity that accepted small leftover shares and would amalgamate them to sell in bulk.

It seems that they didn't, probably because three shares weren't worth bothering with.

In the meantime I moved house but because I had sent the shares to the charity I didn't notify the company of the change of address. I didn't think I needed to.

But apparently I'm still the registered owner and I haven't cashed eight years of dividends totalling...


...sixty-eight pence.

I had another letter on Friday asking me to respond urgently to the previous letter or to telephone the company registrar.

I have telephoned. I told them to give the value of the shares and accumulated dividends to their company's sponsored charity, which they would have done anyway if I hadn't responded.

No more cheques for a whole three pence!

 

[Handley_Page]

I had that trouble at one time with British Gas shares.
I ain't heard from them in a long time.
Presumably, the shares have gone to some charity or other. I hope so.

 

[loquere]

I had that trouble at one time with British Gas shares.
I ain't heard from them in a long time.
Presumably, the shares have gone to some charity or other. I hope so.

The stock markets going to hell. Thank God I burry everything in my backyard under my dog's neo-gothic manner, replica dog house.

 

[Gorza]

The stock markets going to hell. Thank God I burry everything in my backyard under my dog's neo-gothic manner, replica dog house.

I count that as three fingers of whisky for HP to down, or do we only play that drinking game on the Editors' Forum?

 

[Handley_Page]

The stock markets going to hell. Thank God I burry everything in my backyard under my dog's neo-gothic manner, replica dog house.

You mean 'Manor' ?

I count that as three fingers of whisky for HP to down, or do we only play that drinking game on the Editors' Forum?

I'll take the whisky, thank. Single malt, Islay or Jura for preference.
Thank you.

 

[trysail]

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/snow_model/images/full/National/nsm_depth/201601/nsm_depth_2016012405_National.jpg




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[trysail]

"Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

-Dr David Viner
Senior research scientist, Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
University of East Anglia
March 20, 2000
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[oggbashan]

"Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

-Dr David Viner
Senior research scientist, Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
University of East Anglia
March 20, 2000
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That is possibly true in East Anglia. They have had several winters since 2000 with no snow lying. But when the shit hits the fan? East Anglia isn't prepared or equipped to handle deep lying snow and grinds to a halt.

 

[Handley_Page]

That is possibly true in East Anglia. They have had several winters since 2000 with no snow lying. But when the shit hits the fan? East Anglia isn't prepared or equipped to handle deep lying snow and grinds to a halt.

Our more rural counties seldom are so prepared

 

[oggbashan]

Our more rural counties seldom are so prepared

In Kent our local farmers welcome snow. Many have snow blades to attach to their tractors. If the snow is deep enough they get paid by Kent County Council to clear the side roads that only the farmers use.

That's a useful cash boost in Winter.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I don't want winter ever again so I am planning a move to Florida. However, I figure I need to save up for 16 months before I can afford to, so I guess I will have to put up with at least this one and another next year.

On the plus side, I got a raise this week (my first one in close to ten years). So I can move in 16 months instead of 20

 

[Handley_Page]

I don't want winter ever again so I am planning a move to Florida. However, I figure I need to save up for 16 months before I can afford to, so I guess I will have to put up with at least this one and another next year.

On the plus side, I got a raise this week (my first one in close to ten years). So I can move in 16 months instead of 20

Well Done !

 

[MagicaPractica]

I don't hate my life, it's reasonably good, but it has become rather unreasonably complicated of late. I'm longing for a return to simplicity. Of course, there are some rather nasty ways things can get really simple, really fast so I suppose I should be grateful for where I am right now.

 

[_Lynn_]

I don't hate my life, it's reasonably good, but it has become rather unreasonably complicated of late. I'm longing for a return to simplicity. Of course, there are some rather nasty ways things can get really simple, really fast so I suppose I should be grateful for where I am right now.

Somehow I don't think the neighbors would appreciate it if I cranked up the music . . . especially at four in the morning.

 

[Handley_Page]

Somehow I don't think the neighbours would appreciate it if I cranked up the music . . . especially at four in the morning.

Wanna listen to music at high volume?
Try headphones, Madam.
Works for me.

 

[_Lynn_]

Wanna listen to music at high volume?
Try headphones, Madam.
Works for me.

But then I am stuck close to the computer tower.

 

[Handley_Page]

But then I am stuck close to the computer tower.

Long wires ?

 

[_Lynn_]

Long wires ?

That would work.

 

[trysail]

Any reading of 20th century Chinese history makes clear, solidifies and reinforces the idea that what China fears, more than anything else, is "upheaval."


Over the last fifteen years, a not insignificant number of thinkers have asserted that a centrally-planned economic system (of necessity, a totalitarian/authoritarian political system) cannot co-exist with a free market system. They are inimical to the point of systemic instability.


If that school of thinking is correct— in accord with Herb Stein's Law ( " If something can't go on forever, it won't " )— something's got to give.



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[oggbashan]

Choice?

My eldest daughter's birthday is this week.

Her 5-year-old nephew offered to make her a cake.

"You can have Chocolate Cake, or Lemon Drizzle Cake," he announced, "because those are the only two cakes I can make."

She chose Chocolate.