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- 02 Jun 2024, 09:12
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6683
- Views: 969422
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
I stayed with Plusnet....County Broadband and Gigaclear will be disappointed, but 'better the devil you know', and the service is reliable and fast enough for me. . :smile: The salesman from Jurassic Fibre came to our door recently to `offer us a special deal' for their fast service. We got talking...
- 31 May 2024, 08:13
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 584739
- 30 May 2024, 10:30
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3812
- Views: 411236
Re: Seen in the News
We are going to see increasingly more dangerous landslides, mudslides and sandslides around the world - and they're getting close to home now. You might have seen the peatslide that happened in the Shetlands where land was being prepared for a large wind turbine. There was peat below where they were...
- 30 May 2024, 10:20
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6683
- Views: 969422
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Good news for a change...
`One of world's biggest botnets taken down, US says' LINK
`One of world's biggest botnets taken down, US says' LINK
- 30 May 2024, 10:18
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 584739
- 29 May 2024, 15:49
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 584739
- 26 May 2024, 08:28
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3812
- Views: 411236
Re: Seen in the News
See THIS BBC report for some very sad news. A pilot has died after a Spitfire crashed in a field close to an RAF station in Lincolnshire, officials said. Emergency services were called to the field off Langrick Road, Coningsby shortly before 13:20 BST on Saturday. The World War Two-era plane belong...
- 25 May 2024, 09:12
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20715
- Views: 1935628
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
What happens later today depends on whether Susan is visiting, they are back parked up at Edisford bridge in Clitheroe for a while. Ah, Edisford Bridge, as a child in the early 1950s we often went there in whichever old jalopy my dad was running at the time. Picnic on the bank, play a bit of cricke...
- 23 May 2024, 10:28
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12702
- Views: 1360475
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Why is it that every time I go away for a quiet time in Cornwall I return to find something very dramatic happening. It's been a credit crunch, a pandemic, a war and now a general election!
- 23 May 2024, 10:25
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7654
- Views: 879865
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
After decades of being told the very opposite - it is disconcerting to find that Fish very oil supplements may be dangerous , and I have a faint memory that after swearing by cod liver oil for years - didn't SCG stop taking it? What's a fellow to believe? :smile: It's Chinese research and has limit...
- 10 May 2024, 09:11
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2041
- Views: 365578
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
People talk about us facing potential climate tipping points but I increasingly feel that they are blind to the fact that in the last few years we've already passed a big one without realising it and we're now accelerating towards disaster. I'm not referring to the end of Earth or the extinction of ...
- 09 May 2024, 09:24
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2041
- Views: 365578
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
It's only one day since I posted about the future for humans and now here's more evidence, all from today's headline stories... `We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future' Guardian 1 `World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target' Guardian 2...
- 09 May 2024, 09:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3812
- Views: 411236
- 09 May 2024, 09:13
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 240
- Views: 99294
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
Not making it up. This article explains... LINK
- 08 May 2024, 09:45
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2041
- Views: 365578
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
I'm not a barnacle but I am worried! :smile: I think the human race has already past it's `survive by' date and we are on the way out. Perhaps we'll be the first Earth species to consciously make itself extinct. It's no wonder that there are rich people wanting to live on other planets but they're d...
- 08 May 2024, 09:08
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16652
- Views: 1964985
- 08 May 2024, 09:07
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 584739
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
Cathy, a very clever joke!
- 07 May 2024, 09:24
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3812
- Views: 411236
- 07 May 2024, 09:20
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20194
- Views: 2363208
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: 6932
- Views: 962253
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: 613351
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: 20194
- Views: 2363208
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Does it involve a Scottish island?
- 05 May 2024, 09:21
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Seen in the News
- Replies: 3812
- Views: 411236
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: 240
- Views: 99294
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: 20194
- Views: 2363208
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Confirming the power of a vacuum? Or is it an advert for medieval superglue?