OneGuyFromBarlick

May I add my 'welcome back' to the others. You've certainly hit the ground running - and and given the site a welcome injection of fresh content.
I can't imagine how you have kept away for so long.
I'd noticed you having an occasional look round, and I've seen Pluggy doing the same thing.

You're right, a complete dead-leg who flitted from job to job surviving by the skin of his teeth..... Now there's a word I haven't,seen used for decades. My late step father used it regularly, and it immediately brought him to mind. Thanks. Wiki shows it either with a hyphen or as just one word. No...

I heard briefly on the radio, that former Defence Secretary Sir Grant Shapps has beem given special permision to head up a startup company in Cambridge called Cambridge Hammer or some such. It is said to be concerned with defence of the UK from a missile attack. As a former Defence Secretary not too...

Sue wrote: ↑12 Aug 2025, 10:50 East means nothing to me

Never Eat Shredded Wheat


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Short Clough Resevoir?

Nice pictures - thanks. I see why you enjoy visiting so much. I'm just a little bit jealous.

I won't be immediately transferring to Corbyn's lot. Ditching a loyalty that started before most people were born isn't a question of stepping off one bus and boardig another. It's a bit more complicated than that.... :biggrin2: I'm most surprised (staggered) that either of you is about to resign f...

I posted a question on this chap on a facebook site called Oldham Past.
They said it was going for approval but it immediately vanished. I've tried again today, but leaving out the trigger word 'cripples', in case that was the problem.I'm awaiting approval again.

The news from Bradford is all good this year. It is the European City of Culture after all. This article in the Telegaph and Argus continues in that vein, and the whole matter is highly commendable. Community group's 20th anniversary Did you spot the 'elephant in the room' though? It's there in plai...

Until today the name Camus took me back to an 82lb (big) red fawn coloured greyhound, called Prince of Camus that was thrown off Salford as he was too big to cope with the sharp bends. Owner Harry Martindale took him to Belle Vue where he had some success - especially in very heavy going. I learned ...

Will you be transferring to Jeremy Corbyn's and Zarah Sultana's new venture which sounds as if it would suit your needs better? They haven't christened it yet - the best suggestion I've seen is "The Rum and Raisin Party" because he's a rum'n and shes. . . . Childish but fun. . . . :smile:

I had a bit of a Eureka moment yesterday. Google in its wisdom guided me towards an interview with the artist LS Lowry. I've grown to like and admire him - which was not always the case. The fact that he depicted Old Road Failworth -(the family seat) has stood him in good stead. :smile: During the i...

And answer came there none. . :smile: Beyond my pay grade. I'm not even sure that the initial premise of your question is true, and I don't think that the meaning of "anti semitic" has yet been definitively agreed. The gravity of the situation makes casual comment a bit offensive. Revenge ...

I have always said that it took me 40 years to learn how to get a good edge on a tool, there is much more to it than first meets the eye! Nice cobbles too. :smile: Anecdote - I was in the barbers a couple of years ago when Tony sent his daughter to post a small parcel. She asked him how much to ins...

You two are at the forefront of my thoughts at the moment.

Nice to hear some good news, and a bit of progress.

All best wishes from Tripps.

A big USA shipping line has banned the transport of EV's on its ships. The big inevitable catastrophe looms larger. I sometimes supspect Google is living in the spare bedroom. and watching me closely, with occasional forays into my head. It keeps seducing me into watching this. I got married in Autu...

We really are "down the rabbit hole" - as youtubers say -when a Minister who has done nothing wrong under current law has been forced to resign, because what she did will be illegal under a law which is yet to come into force. She will have a lot more peaceful life though in the next few d...

Not a word I'm likely to be using but it's interesting to know what it means! Thank goodness I have O level Latin (1957 - scraped through grade), and am thus aware of the word, and its derivation from the irregular verb Posse - to be able. :laugh5: 1 Possum I am able, I can. Possumus - we are able,...

Stop Press. . . Guido Fawkes once again well ahead of others with the news. Rushanara Ali has resigned as Minister for Homelessness and Democracy after allegedly evicting her tenants before quickly listing her East London property again at a higher rate, which would breach the terms of Labour’s inco...

A quote from the BBC article says- " Moderna and Pfizer's mRNA vaccines were tested in thousands of people before being rolled out and were found to be safe and effective." That is simply an untrue statement. . I'm getting bored with being on the "wrong" side of all these discuss...

Re Tommy Robinson Here is his version of the incident. Paddington incident He usges the Police to release the video which is in their posession, pleads self defence, and has been bailed. Quite relaxed "not a jury in the land would convict after seeing the footage". Interestingly his first ...

This person seems to me to encapsulate so much that is wrong with this country these days. Not sure what you mean by that. . . . Remember when this incident happened he was only days out of prison (seven months in solitary confinement), and subject to an immediate recall. Everyone who speaks to him...

quote=Tizer post_id=250429 time=1754123510 user_id=102] The earthquake is reported to have damaged the bases although, not surprisingly, little information is available . [/quote] As far as I can tell - the only verifiable fact in the story is that there was a strong earthquake. The rest is imaginat...

The news that Youtube is now second only to the BBC, as a primary source of 'News' got me thinking we need to reflect that in the site. I find myself watching it more and more - not mainly for news, just somehing interesting - to watch. There always seems to be something of interest. Following Stanl...

but it's logical. I'd better revise my understanding of the word 'logical' :laugh5: PS The defence expert Shashank Joshi has just said - in a BBC interview words to the effect that - There is no mention of whether the submarines involved are 'nuclear' powered or 'nuclear' armed. There is a big diff...