There lies the clue. Everything gets put out to a contractor these days, and the contractor will often be sub-contracting all or part to another business. The authoritarian regimes keep it in house.
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- 07 May 2024, 09:24
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398636
- 07 May 2024, 09:20
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20102
- Views: 2332691
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I know the photo has been on here before but my memory isn't good these days. Is it Eigg? The rock could be for use as rock armour to protect beaches from erosion. Or is it the rock quarried on Ailsa Craig for making curling stones?
- 07 May 2024, 09:15
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6900
- Views: 942705
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
The bike on the right of the photo looks like a serious machine! The saddle seems to be positioned very high and I can't see any cross bar - I guess that's because the rider wouldn't be able to get on if it did have one!
- 06 May 2024, 09:05
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 595520
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
I wonder if it was meant to be 'tactile waterproof jacket'?
- 05 May 2024, 09:23
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20102
- Views: 2332691
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Does it involve a Scottish island?
- 05 May 2024, 09:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398636
Re: Seen in the News
This is long but worth reading.... `North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger' BBC ...especially this paragraph about the missile they investigated: It was bursting with the latest foreign technology. Most of the electronic parts had been manufactured in the US and...
- 04 May 2024, 09:51
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 234
- Views: 95191
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
I found hardly any of my South African relatives on Ancestry even though I had their exact birth dates. You and Wendy suggested FamilySearch and I found many of them on that site. I've also found some more of my Lancashire ancestors who hadn't turned up on Ancestry. On Ancestry I chased ancestors of...
- 04 May 2024, 09:36
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20102
- Views: 2332691
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Confirming the power of a vacuum? Or is it an advert for medieval superglue?
- 04 May 2024, 09:20
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16603
- Views: 1933698
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
BBC Week in pictures: 27 April - 3 May 2024... BBC I noted this caption: A Kenyan girl next to a damaged car in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri, near Mai Mahiu. At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks in the Rift Valley. The Great ...
- 03 May 2024, 09:05
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398636
Re: Seen in the News
Sorry, I hadn't seen your dam message before I posted about it in the climate thread. :smile: The Russians are getting desperate now that the US has started sending more armour and missiles to Ukraine... `Russia using chemical choking agents in Ukraine, US says' LINK Here's a news story for Tripps. ...
- 03 May 2024, 08:55
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16603
- Views: 1933698
- 03 May 2024, 08:53
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2032
- Views: 359055
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Yet another dam collapse.... `Brazil floods: Dam collapses and death toll rises in Rio Grande do Sul' LINK A hydroelectric dam has collapsed in southern Brazil after days of heavy rains that triggered massive flooding, killing more than 30 people. Officials say another 60 people are missing in Rio G...
- 03 May 2024, 08:42
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567710
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
I think this story deserves to be in this thread...
`Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID' LINK
Some Tories are mad enough to want him back as PM!
`Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID' LINK
Some Tories are mad enough to want him back as PM!
- 02 May 2024, 09:28
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 589911
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
`New heat pump academy 'will create 8,000 jobs'' LINK An academy is training heat pump engineers and hopes to create 8,000 new jobs over the next decade. Clean energy company Aira has opened a northern academy training centre at Halfway, Sheffield, as part of its £300 million investment in the UK. T...
- 02 May 2024, 09:26
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2242
- Views: 331976
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
I'm gobsmacked! Scientists and technologists like myself around the world did all this in the 1980s and now it seems to have been forgotten...
`Scientists work to make healthier white bread' LINK
`Scientists work to make healthier white bread' LINK
- 02 May 2024, 09:22
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398636
Re: Seen in the News
I posted on this when it happened but at last there is more information. I'm glad to see the BBC had researched it and provided more evidence... `Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy' LINK Note this in the last few paragraphs... But several former Israeli soldiers who v...
- 30 Apr 2024, 09:13
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 589911
Re: ENERGY MATTERS
I read in The Times that sales of electric cars in the 1st quarter of this year have risen slightly in the UK and USA but have fallen in some of the big European countries. They fell by 14% in Germany but in March they fell by 29% because Germany ended its subsidy on electric cars. In China the rece...
- 30 Apr 2024, 09:02
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567710
- 30 Apr 2024, 08:46
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16603
- Views: 1933698
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Have you got one of those nets sold for use with garden ponds? A length of bamboo cane with a net on one end. It will give you a longer reach. Bring it down over the shrew, slip a sheet of card under, flip it over and bingo! One shrew taken into custody for its own protection!
- 29 Apr 2024, 18:35
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567710
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Dad joke!...
Why was a man thrown out of the Poultry Competition at his local Agricultural Show?
Why was a man thrown out of the Poultry Competition at his local Agricultural Show?
► Show Spoiler
- 29 Apr 2024, 10:43
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567710
- 28 Apr 2024, 09:30
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: May I recommend. . .
- Replies: 354
- Views: 49605
Re: May I recommend. . .
This is fascinating - we don't usually see much of Georgia (the country not the US state!)...
Bettany Hughes' `Treasures of the World',Series 3 Episode 3: Georgia LINK
Bettany Hughes' `Treasures of the World',Series 3 Episode 3: Georgia LINK
- 27 Apr 2024, 15:33
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4859
- Views: 567710
- 27 Apr 2024, 15:29
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398636
Re: Seen in the News
`Fells orchard to sell land' is an understatement - it's diabolical! They've uprooted a massive number of cider apple trees just so they can sell the land. `Brewing giant Heineken fells orchard to sell land' LINK What really annoyed me was reading this bit: The National Association of Cider Makers s...
- 26 Apr 2024, 08:49
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3784
- Views: 398636