TxRad
Dirty Old Man
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2005
- Posts
- 45,152
Sounds like you need a remote camera. One of those wildlife ones with night vision or a flash.
Isolated Blurt Thread Again
- Thread starter oggbashan
- Start date
Sounds like you need a remote camera. One of those wildlife ones with night vision or a flash.
ElectricBlue
Joined 11 Years Ago
- Joined
- May 10, 2014
- Posts
- 18,428
Satan the worm is doing weights. Beware. It will happen just before dawn.
Handley_Page
Draco interdum Vincit
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2007
- Posts
- 78,287
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Last night I spotted a young urban fox trying to move the bucket. He failed but WHY would he dig a hole in the lawn which is surrounded with flower beds with some bare earth much easier to dig in?
Handley_Page
Draco interdum Vincit
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2007
- Posts
- 78,287
Maybe an electric fence ??
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
But that might affect the squirrels, hedgehogs, and my cat...
ElectricBlue
Joined 11 Years Ago
- Joined
- May 10, 2014
- Posts
- 18,428
Multiple reports, I reckon.
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Blurt 1 - Spam
On Monday evening my browser updated.
From Tuesday onwards it started putting most of my emails into Spam. I only noticed today because I was expecting a reply within 48 hours of a query and the 48 hours were up.
In three days I had 148 emails in Spam of which only four were really spam.
On Monday evening my browser updated.
From Tuesday onwards it started putting most of my emails into Spam. I only noticed today because I was expecting a reply within 48 hours of a query and the 48 hours were up.
In three days I had 148 emails in Spam of which only four were really spam.
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Blurt 2 - COVID UK tiers
The new tiers for the UK have been announced. I live in a low infection rate area but two high areas are nearby.
The whole county has been put in tier three - the highest even though some parts of it, like my district, have very low rates.
That was annoying enough but not unexpected because the UK government had announced that tiers would be by county levels, not lower districts.
But now I learn that one district in the county, that has overall higher rates than mine, is in Tier Two.
I'm even more annoyed now - as is my Member of Parliament.
The new tiers for the UK have been announced. I live in a low infection rate area but two high areas are nearby.
The whole county has been put in tier three - the highest even though some parts of it, like my district, have very low rates.
That was annoying enough but not unexpected because the UK government had announced that tiers would be by county levels, not lower districts.
But now I learn that one district in the county, that has overall higher rates than mine, is in Tier Two.
I'm even more annoyed now - as is my Member of Parliament.
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Household Lar
Having written my Winter entry Pandora, I thought I would like a Household Lar of my own.
I have just had delivered from eBay a small bronze statuette of Diana. She is assumed to be from about 300AD.
Almost every Roman family would have had a shrine for their household Lars, no matter how poor they were.
She now lives beside my computer.
Having written my Winter entry Pandora, I thought I would like a Household Lar of my own.
I have just had delivered from eBay a small bronze statuette of Diana. She is assumed to be from about 300AD.
Almost every Roman family would have had a shrine for their household Lars, no matter how poor they were.
She now lives beside my computer.
Last edited:
LoquiSordidaAdMe
Reader/Writer
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2017
- Posts
- 1,166
Dammit BBC One!
I watch BBC America and BritBox as an escape from American politics and all the horrible stuff on the local news. There's nothing quite as soothing as a British mystery where the murderer confesses everything in the penultimate scene, or a panel show where you can feel worldly and sophisticated for getting about half the jokes. And if there is any political commentary, well at least it's not about my politics.
But tonight I was watching a 2018 episode of Would I Lie To You when Rob Brydon and Richard Osman made a Trump/Mueller joke. It's bad enough that half the questions on the Big Fat Quiz are American, but now I have to be reminded of the shameful state of the union on BBC One. It's enough to make me consider a Disney+ subscription for my escapist television.
I watch BBC America and BritBox as an escape from American politics and all the horrible stuff on the local news. There's nothing quite as soothing as a British mystery where the murderer confesses everything in the penultimate scene, or a panel show where you can feel worldly and sophisticated for getting about half the jokes. And if there is any political commentary, well at least it's not about my politics.
But tonight I was watching a 2018 episode of Would I Lie To You when Rob Brydon and Richard Osman made a Trump/Mueller joke. It's bad enough that half the questions on the Big Fat Quiz are American, but now I have to be reminded of the shameful state of the union on BBC One. It's enough to make me consider a Disney+ subscription for my escapist television.
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Spam
Yesterday my wife was due a delivery from DPD.
She had a notification that it would be delivered between 1.45 and 2.45 pm.
But at 9.30 am she had a message to say they had been unable to deliver at 11.59 - two and half hours in advance!
"Please click on links to rearrange delivery." She didn't because the message was too soon and from an address in Italy.
The parcel arrived at 2.10.
But she had two more messages to say that delivery had been attempted and failed (also from Italy).
But if the first message hadn't been two hours before the time that delivery was said to be unsuccessful - she might have clicked through (except that out security sofware wouldn't let her if she had tried).
The scammers are getting more sophisticated.
Yesterday my wife was due a delivery from DPD.
She had a notification that it would be delivered between 1.45 and 2.45 pm.
But at 9.30 am she had a message to say they had been unable to deliver at 11.59 - two and half hours in advance!
"Please click on links to rearrange delivery." She didn't because the message was too soon and from an address in Italy.
The parcel arrived at 2.10.
But she had two more messages to say that delivery had been attempted and failed (also from Italy).
But if the first message hadn't been two hours before the time that delivery was said to be unsuccessful - she might have clicked through (except that out security sofware wouldn't let her if she had tried).
The scammers are getting more sophisticated.
Thefireflies
Virgin
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Posts
- 246
The other day I picked up an old story I’d started writing years ago but had abandoned, I mean put aside. I started adding to it just to see if it would take, and for a bit I came close to abandoning it again, then suddenly I had a flood of ideas and it did take, and now I want to write and keep writing to see how the story unfolds. But alas, life gets in the way and I can only write bits here and there, having to do all the other things of life. First world problems and all that…and I could be writing it right now, but here I am blurting about it instead! Turns out procrastination is another hobby of mine 
UtherVierDragon
Virgin
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2020
- Posts
- 23
Motherfugger. If not for that Schicklgruber fellow (and the Habsburgs, and the FPÖ) that may be the worst thing that the Austrians ever did (oh and Josef Fritzl, and H.C. Strache, and his raps in particular and - and maybe Austria just sucks period.)
Still that's gotta be good news for the tourism in Petting, Bavaria.
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Grr! My local council
I have a query about my garden waste bin.
I ring the main council telephone number. After a whole series of options - "because of Covid, no one from that department can take your call, please submit your query online."
So I send it to 'help' for that department.
Their automated response: 'no emails to this address are monitored. Please use one of the following links' - none of which is suitable for my query.
So now I am sending a letter by snail mail with a copy to my local councillor.
How to piss off the people who pay for you!
I have a query about my garden waste bin.
I ring the main council telephone number. After a whole series of options - "because of Covid, no one from that department can take your call, please submit your query online."
So I send it to 'help' for that department.
Their automated response: 'no emails to this address are monitored. Please use one of the following links' - none of which is suitable for my query.
So now I am sending a letter by snail mail with a copy to my local councillor.
How to piss off the people who pay for you!
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
******* Dart Charge!
My son-in-law's car died and is awaiting scrapping (when covid restrictions permit). He has replaced it.
But he could not register his new car for the Dartford Crossing as the previous owner hadn't deleted it, and he couldn't pay because the previous owner's account had zero funds.
My eldest daughter sold her car but the bank of Dad was paying her Dartford Crossings. So I have had to delete it after finding the new owner had crossed twice and I had paid for those crossings...
My son-in-law's car died and is awaiting scrapping (when covid restrictions permit). He has replaced it.
But he could not register his new car for the Dartford Crossing as the previous owner hadn't deleted it, and he couldn't pay because the previous owner's account had zero funds.
My eldest daughter sold her car but the bank of Dad was paying her Dartford Crossings. So I have had to delete it after finding the new owner had crossed twice and I had paid for those crossings...
Handley_Page
Draco interdum Vincit
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2007
- Posts
- 78,287
How very confusing. . . .
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Even worse: If you have not used the Dart Charge account for a year as at 31 Dec 2020 (and because of covid restrictions many hadn't), your account was closed and any credit lost, netting the dart account managers several million pounds...
oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2002
- Posts
- 56,017
Decimal Day 15 February 1971
On 15th February 1971, the UK changed from pounds shillings and pence to pounds and new pence,
I have a box of memorabilia that was going to be displayed in our local museum for the fiftieth anniversary but the Museum was (and is) shut for Covid restrictions. It contains souvenir coins - old and new - conversion tables, leaflets explaining the change, tea towels, and a mug showing the conversions.
I am now going to give it to the local Age UK base for use for those with dementia as a memory box.
I remember that the five and ten pence coins (equivalent and the same size as the old shilling and florin (two shilling piece)) were introduced in advance in 1968 to get people accustomed to them before the change. On the day the new coins were issued I got some from my bank. That evening I bought a pint of beer with a ten pence coin and got two (old) pennies change because the beer cost one shilling and ten (old) pence. Those were the days!
PS: I should have paid the extra two old pence. At one shilling and ten (old) pence, the beer was crap!
PPS: In 1968 I was more than old enough to buy alcohol in the UK (and would have been in the US too).
On 15th February 1971, the UK changed from pounds shillings and pence to pounds and new pence,
I have a box of memorabilia that was going to be displayed in our local museum for the fiftieth anniversary but the Museum was (and is) shut for Covid restrictions. It contains souvenir coins - old and new - conversion tables, leaflets explaining the change, tea towels, and a mug showing the conversions.
I am now going to give it to the local Age UK base for use for those with dementia as a memory box.
I remember that the five and ten pence coins (equivalent and the same size as the old shilling and florin (two shilling piece)) were introduced in advance in 1968 to get people accustomed to them before the change. On the day the new coins were issued I got some from my bank. That evening I bought a pint of beer with a ten pence coin and got two (old) pennies change because the beer cost one shilling and ten (old) pence. Those were the days!
PS: I should have paid the extra two old pence. At one shilling and ten (old) pence, the beer was crap!
PPS: In 1968 I was more than old enough to buy alcohol in the UK (and would have been in the US too).
Last edited:
Similar threads
