OneGuyFromBarlick

I guess it's going to be a case of waiting for them to come on the day then telling them where we want the router, then them saying no can do and trying to work out the least worst plan for us. We could end up like some of Mrs Tiz's friends who are now not happy with what they've got.

I didn't realise that other countries had adopted the word but changed it to suit themselves. I wonder what Geoff would make of it!...

This seems like a good idea to me....
`Give newborns automatic library cards, authors urge' LINK

Stanley wrote: ↑15 Dec 2025, 01:52 The Hamas-run Civil Defence spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, told the BBC that four people were killed in the strike. He said multiple passers-by were also injured by the blast.

The Israeli IDF will just file it away under `justified collateral damage'.

Ian, thanks for all that information. I guess that your fibre comes from a pole rather than underground if it comes in by your back door? If the Open Reach box is fitted on the corner of our house where the trench ends it would have the inside box in the far corner of our lounge which is the worst p...

The road and pavement around our house are repeatedly being dug up by various utilities, especially the fibre installation workers. When our current broadband package ends next summer we'll ditch the phone landline and go to full fibre (or earlier if they force us to change). That has made us think ...

The paragraph below comes from a forum post that I saw when googling information about Powerline adapters. My experience with Powerline has been 99% positive. The 1% bad experience was my housemate complaining I was poisoning his food with wi-fi radiation (just before he put some food in the microwa...

This was mentioned in the general press at the start of December. This version is a bit more technical and less `hyped up', though it is a significant step forward in understanding how viruses infect our cells... `Scientists capture flu viruses surfing into human cells in real time' Science Daily Sc...

Whyperion wrote: ↑12 Dec 2025, 21:43 Musk needs to be reminded he is an immigrant (to the US)

As Trump's father and mother were, and most other Americans.

For dog lovers everywhere...

Kev, you won't have any Christmas crackers left at Xmas if you keep opening them at this rate!

I had a surprise the other day when the postman delivered a letter in this envelope shown below. It's about a class action for $1.5 billion. I thought Donald Trump was going to sue me for writing scathing comments about him on this very web forum! Thank goodness I was wrong. It's about a Copyright C...

The Trump administration is totally unpredictable and is acting like a rogue state..... How long can this go on for? I'd say it is a rogue state. It threatens to invade a sovereign state and to buy other states, it kills people illegally and destroys vessels in international waters without any evid...

This brings a new meaning to the phrase `special relationship'... `New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says' LINK Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's new US National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision. The 33-page document, unvei...

Tripps wrote: ↑06 Dec 2025, 18:05 The perps, of course, should be made to clean it up.

My Grandma would have said `rub their noses in it first!'

Remember my warning to our local main hospital via my friendly councillor about inadequate hand cleansing facilities at the entrances? As well as the worst influenza strain for many years it's also the norovirus season. A local school here had to close recently due to a norovirus outbreak.

...Further west of Lancashire I think something is slipping into the Irish Sea . The surface geology along the Fylde coast and out into the seabed is primarily siltstone, mudstone and boulder clay deposited after the last Ice Age. This is soft rock and relatively easy to erode and wash away, hence ...

My sister-in-law's sense of humour!...

Question I ask myself is "Were we programmed to fail?" No, I don't think so. We're in the Great Universe Game Show and have a chance to win but we're blundering along at the moment and failing to impress anyone out there who may be watching. Tripps could probably tell us the odds! :smile:

Thanks Wendy!

With a bit of luck this could unseat Netanyahu... `Crisis looms in Israel over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill' LINK An impending crisis over conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli army is threatening to undermine Israel's government and split the country. Public opinion on the issue has...

Having PFAS (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances) in our bodies is now normal no matter where we live or how we live...
`I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood - what can I do about it?' LINK