Isolated Blurt Thread

[oggbashan]

East Kent Earthquake updated

Social media and the local news has been ironic:

"Empty rubbish bin toppled" or was it the wind?

Coffee cups rattled. Some coffee was even spilled.

The crabs forecast it. They scuttled away in the hours before the earthquake.

Some are blaming Pfizer. The location is very close to the bay where Pfizer was discharging chemicals including Viagra for years. The fish behaviour was *unusual*. Perhaps that explains the crabs. They'd scuttled away for some Viagra-fuelled nookie.

 

[Handley_Page]

Social media and the local news has been ironic:

"Empty rubbish bin toppled" or was it the wind?

Coffee cups rattled. Some coffee was even spilled.

The crabs forecast it. They scuttled away in the hours before the earthquake.

Some are blaming Pfizer. The location is very close to the bay where Pfizer was discharging chemicals including Viagra for years. The fish behaviour was *unusual*. Perhaps that explains the crabs. They'd scuttled away for some Viagra-fuelled nookie.

I thought the Viagra-fuelled nonsense was the dumping of some goo in the Danube. . .

 

[MagicaPractica]

cheer up, mag.

I have, mostly, it was partly a tired evening thing and partly a frustration and preparing for change thing. Need to regain my focus for writing and life goals. It's a good weekend for that.

 

[Handley_Page]

My little electric scooter has stopped working.
The makers do not provide circuit diagrams and service manuals.
Booh - Booh

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I paid off my car last Saturday. And in celebration of not having a $500 invoice hanging over my head anymore I spent $680 up front for three months of personal training at the gym.

When I pay my credit card bill later this week things will be a bit tight...

 

[YoursSINSerely]

Who the fuck came up with this idea of working 40 hours a week? It sucks!

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Have you considered retiring to a life of debauchery, Babs?

 

[Handley_Page]

Who the fuck came up with this idea of working 40 hours a week? It sucks!

I think it was the Unions (it was, round here, anyway)
It made a pleasant change from 44 hours for the same wage.

Have you considered retiring to a life of debauchery, Babs?

Wonderful!

 

[TxRad]

Who the fuck came up with this idea of working 40 hours a week? It sucks!

My average workweek for the last 42 years was 84 hours.

Long hours but i laughed all the way to the bank.

 

[oggbashan]

My average workweek for the last 42 years was 84 hours.

Long hours but i laughed all the way to the bank.

Unfortunately for me, my working week was always many hours longer than my contracted hours and after the first six years I wasn't paid for overtime.

When I was a self-employed secondhand bookseller, my long hours were very unremunerative.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Well, if that wasn't the most horrifying 20 minutes of television I have ever seen...

 

[oggbashan]

I'm away until Saturday, or possibly late Friday.

I will not have internet access, or if I do, it would block Literotica.

Enjoy yourselves - just don't do anything that would upset the servants or frighten the horses.

That includes Morris Dancing.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm away until Saturday, or possibly late Friday.

I will not have internet access, or if I do, it would block Literotica.

Enjoy yourselves - just don't do anything that would upset the servants or frighten the horses.

That includes Morris Dancing.

You know, I always wondered about Morris.
His dancing was quite the subject of debate in the Pub at times. . . .

 

[glynndah]

I'm away until Saturday, or possibly late Friday.

I will not have internet access, or if I do, it would block Literotica.

Enjoy yourselves - just don't do anything that would upset the servants or frighten the horses.

That includes Morris Dancing.

You know, I always wondered about Morris.
His dancing was quite the subject of debate in the Pub at times. . . .

Whenever I see "Morris", this is what I think of:

http://www.catster.com/files/post_images/ba6ef35c5dfb3206709e2561f495420e.jpg

 

[Handley_Page]

Yes, Glyndah, but does he Dance ?

This is one lot. Notice that the stick moves are very akin to Quarterstaff play.

 

[SweetMaj]

The streets of Copenhagen aren't safe these days...

A party held once a year is going on as I'm writing this.

Very LOUD music from huge loudspeakers, drunk people (mostly youngsters), empty bottles and cans, loud voices. From time to time I hear an ambulance in the distance.

This yearly event is called: "Distortion" - I just looked it up in my dictionary, and I don't quite understand why they chose to call it that.

I'm not taking part in it, but now and then I take a look out my window from the second floor
and think to myself,

(Thank god it's not me!)

 

[Handley_Page]

The streets of Copenhagen aren't safe these days...

A party held once a year is going on as I'm writing this.

Very LOUD music from huge loudspeakers, drunk people (mostly youngsters), empty bottles and cans, loud voices. From time to time I hear an ambulance in the distance.

This yearly event is called: "Distortion" - I just looked it up in my dictionary, and I don't quite understand why they chose to call it that.

I'm not taking part in it, but now and then I take a look out my window from the second floor
and think to myself,

(Thank god it's not me!)

Come have a cuddle, my dear. . . .

 

[NaokoSmith]

LOL @ spellchecker. I said I would go for lunch with my students after our tutorial on Saturday if anyone is free. One enthusiastically recommended a local brassiere! I am very very sternly resisting the temptation to say I hope we are not the only two boobs in the brassiere.

 

[Handley_Page]

LOL @ spellchecker. I said I would go for lunch with my students after our tutorial on Saturday if anyone is free. One enthusiastically recommended a local brassiere! I am very very sternly resisting the temptation to say I hope we are not the only two boobs in the brassiere.

What IS a "Brasserie" ? Some sort of licenced cafe, right ?

 

[TxRad]

What IS a "Brasserie" ? Some sort of licenced cafe, right ?

I'm assuming they don't just let you hang out.

 

[glynndah]

I'm assuming they don't just let you hang out.

I hear their support staff is excellent.

 

[OzoneRed]

The streets of Copenhagen aren't safe these days...

A party held once a year is going on as I'm writing this.

Very LOUD music from huge loudspeakers, drunk people (mostly youngsters), empty bottles and cans, loud voices. From time to time I hear an ambulance in the distance.

This yearly event is called: "Distortion" - I just looked it up in my dictionary, and I don't quite understand why they chose to call it that.

I'm not taking part in it, but now and then I take a look out my window from the second floor
and think to myself,

(Thank god it's not me!)

When I was in college, we called it "Saturday".

 

[Handley_Page]

The streets of Copenhagen aren't safe these days...

A party held once a year is going on as I'm writing this.

Very LOUD music from huge loudspeakers, drunk people (mostly youngsters), empty bottles and cans, loud voices. From time to time I hear an ambulance in the distance.

This yearly event is called: "Distortion" - I just looked it up in my dictionary, and I don't quite understand why they chose to call it that.

I'm not taking part in it, but now and then I take a look out my window from the second floor
and think to myself,

(Thank god it's not me!)

Perhaps the name equates with the type of 'music' ?

 

[Noor]

I have missed you... find me pls.

 

[oggbashan]

****! Car problems

Yesterday I came back from a few days away. We visited a garden attraction on the way home and had lunch there.

When we wanted to leave the car wouldn't started with a message "Starting Prevented" - the immobiliser had operated. I tried for some time and then called out the Automobile Association emergency mechanic. When he arrived, the car started first time.

He tried his electronic diagnostics equipment but that showed no faults. To be sure we drove the whole way home without stopping the engine. As soon as we had arrived, I tried restarting the engine only to receive the same message "Starting Prevented".

I left the car overnight and used my other Volvo to get basic shopping.

This morning I tried again - "Starting Prevented".

I thought. What was different when the AA man started the car. My wife told me - the bonnet (US = Hood) and the two front doors were open.

I opened the bonnet and left it open. The car started first time, and every time. I shut the bonnet. The car still restarted. The immobiliser must have reset itself. So now, if I want to start my car, I have to open the bonnet, start the car, shut the bonnet, and then drive off...

Resetting the immobiliser would mean a visit to a Volvo dealer and a couple of hundred pounds charge. I'll keep opening the bonnet!