OneGuyFromBarlick

Great - `proper job'!

Stanley, a suggestion. In these bumped articles I know you have the original date at the end, 22 August 2000 in this case, but someone arriving at the top of this article for the first time will see the date of your post, Fri Jan 30, 2026 at the top and therefore start reading thinking it was writte...

`Family wants action after runner electrocuted' LINK Note this lower down in the article... ...Following Harry's inquest in December, the prevention of future deaths report said a fault had allowed the line to remain live when the cable fell from its usual height, but this had not been reported to t...

When Facebook launched about 20 years ago I thought about trying it out but they wanted too much personal information so I never joined.

Gloria, I'll leave this for others to offer help. I don't use Facebook and I'm on an Android phone so I'm not qualified to help. I also have a conract with Plusnet until June for abput £27 pcm, from which I could not escape without large cost. I have however switched to full fibre with Gigaclear, wh...

Irony! I guess NRA members and all US gun lovers are worried they might be next for getting shot!... `NRA and other US gun activists push back at Trump officials over Minneapolis shooting' LINK The National Rifle Association (NRA) has joined other US gun lobby groups in calling for a "full inve...

I thought this deserved a place in the jokes thread...

An update... `What we know about fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis' LINK Federal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second person to be fatally shot in the city during the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown this month. Loca...

The man is a weathercock. This inconsistency and unpredictability is damaging the cause of the US as long as Trump is allowed free reign. How long before the country realises and does something about it? Another example, from `As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a ...

Tripps wrote: ↑24 Jan 2026, 13:05 I see laser pointers even 'high power' ones, are readily available on eBay. Surely if there was such danger they would be banned?

It would probably take our government years to get around to banning them.

Of course I'm obsessed with Trump, he provides much better entertainment than Traitors etc. For example, having complimented Mark Carney on Canada recently making a trade deal with China he's now said "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all ...

Laser attack I do wish I was like everyone else and believed what I read on the BBC. It would be a lot easier. :smile: My BS detector is off the scale here. I don't believe any of it. Why don't you believe it, Tripps? Lasers dangerous to the eye are being sold in the UK because the foreign manufact...

Mrs Tiz and her geology pals are planning a visit to Grimes Graves to see the bell pits and that conjured up a thought that Trump is digging himself into a deep bell pit and could end up with the whole thing collapsing on top of him! :smile: Meanwhile... `Part of historic pier washes away in 'wild' ...

`US officially leaves World Health Organization' LINK The US has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the UN agency without one of its biggest donors. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order signalling the withdrawal a year ago, having criticised the org...

A Typhoon fighter taking off from Warton - that's spooky, I'm reading a book about the history of seaplanes and it mentions Blackpool as being one of the bases for the early flying boats protecting our shipping from U-boats and airships in WW1.

We still don't have full fibre to our house but we have a Plusnet contract until June. Our plan is to change ISP then if we've got FTTH and probably to Jurassic Fibre who have been responsible for much of the fibre work here in the SouthWest. However in the meantime Jurassic has become part of the I...

New to you, yes, but it's been in use since the 1800s.

Mrs Tiz has sent our contribution too.

I know Cathy likes to see pictures of snow while it's summer down under...
`Record snowfall leaves cars stuck and people stranded in Russia's Far East' LINK

US polititics in 2026... `California governor says he was blocked from entering US pavilion' LINK Amid a tumultuous day of news, California Governor Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration blocked him from entering the official US pavilion at Davos where he had been scheduled to speak. Newsom - w...

We sat on one of those benches in Seaton, Devon, to eat our sandwiches in July last year!... `Shingle returned to beach after Storm Goretti' LINK Work is under way to return shingle moved by storms on to a promenade back to a beach in Devon. Seaton Beach, owned by East Devon District Council, was im...

We listen to every episode of Americast because they delve wide and deep into all aspects of America, its politics and its people. What they're seeing now is more pushback against Trump from Republicans because he's letting down his core supporters to whom he had promised `no more wars', prices are ...

Pot calling the kettle black?... `Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity'' BBC Live Donald Trump says the UK's plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is an "an act of GREAT STUPIDITY". He says the deal - in which the UK wo...

Wendyf wrote: ↑01 Jan 2026, 16:21 Is this a new version Tiz?

Wendy, I'm sorry, I didn't see your post in response to mine about the BGS Viewer - too much New Year's distractions!
I think it is an updated version but might have been simply that it was originally only available on a PC and this version is adapted for mobile viewing.

Stanley wrote: ↑20 Jan 2026, 01:57 Adopt him, give him Balmoral and a fantasy title like Duke of Scotland.

I though that title was already taken by Alex Salmond but then remembered he's no longer with us.