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by Tripps
26 Mar 2024, 15:43
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: May I recommend. . .
Replies: 341
Views: 47802

Re: May I recommend. . .

It's philosophy poetry and music this afternoon. I know at least two of us will enjoy this. The 'Nostradamus' of the 1960's - Total genius. :smile: "I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken". Predicton of the interwebthingy in general - and X (Twitter) in particular. :laugh...
by Tripps
26 Mar 2024, 15:17
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384355

Re: Seen in the News

I didn't realise that some "smart" meters did not communuicate by mobile phone. I thought they all did. The Google news fed to me daily, this morning contained an item about the "energy price cap" and the fact that the regulator was considering changing it. It was said one option...
by Tripps
26 Mar 2024, 12:17
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
Replies: 136
Views: 18897

Re: Wine Lovers Corner

According to the Tories all immigrants sponge off the state and are a pariah to society. Oh, hang on, that's about right for Rishy! If Carlsberg did inaccurate, hate filled, well off topic, posts - then this would be the likely result. PS On a point of information - I don't think you can be a 'form...
by Tripps
25 Mar 2024, 13:20
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16451
Views: 1908708

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

Can we stop worrying about the Chicken Pox now? I do hope so. :smile:
by Tripps
25 Mar 2024, 13:17
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384355

Re: Seen in the News

Stanley wrote: 25 Mar 2024, 03:53 I'm intrigued by your parallel with Barlick David..... Were we frowning on men and women mingling?
Actually I'm frowning on the lack of mixing. Look at the photos of the event for yourself - I'd say the adult M/F ratio is about twenty or thirty to one. Iftar
by Tripps
25 Mar 2024, 13:10
Forum: TV
Topic: GOOD TV
Replies: 3736
Views: 495793

Re: GOOD TV

Gold merit star for "Kosher Nostra". :smile:
by Tripps
25 Mar 2024, 10:57
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
Replies: 136
Views: 18897

Re: Wine Lovers Corner

Big Kev wrote: 24 Mar 2024, 22:10 I would highly recommend a rummage in Aldi's wine cellar
I see you have corrected the typo. I've spent all night wondering who Ali was and what was special about his cellar.

:laugh5:
by Tripps
24 Mar 2024, 22:29
Forum: TV
Topic: GOOD TV
Replies: 3736
Views: 495793

Re: GOOD TV

I channel hopped into BBC4 tonight - Daniel Barenboim doing Beethoven from The Albert Hall. That shows how bad TV is at the moment. All very pleasant and harmless, then it morphed into the EU national Anthem ! I don't like him - he didn't treat his wife Jaqueline DuPre very well as I recall it. He l...
by Tripps
24 Mar 2024, 22:20
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
Replies: 136
Views: 18897

Re: Wine Lovers Corner

PS - I've sent a complaint to Australia. That'll make them sit up. . . . :laugh5:
by Tripps
24 Mar 2024, 22:01
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: Wine Lovers Corner
Replies: 136
Views: 18897

Re: Wine Lovers Corner

Found it - thought we had a wine corner - took some finding though. :smile: A word of caution from my recent experience. I've resumed my drinking (modest you understand), having abstained for well over a year - I can taste it now. The market seems to have changed in the interim - perhaps due to budg...
by Tripps
24 Mar 2024, 12:27
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384355

Re: Seen in the News

If it wasn't ISIS it would likely be Chechens who've been attacking since the war in Chechnya. I remembered the Chechen revolt yesterday, and the fact that the Russians levelled Grozny in putting it down. It was a while ago, and didn't seem to be important to UK at the time. It looked like Gaza loo...
by Tripps
21 Mar 2024, 14:24
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: BOB'S BITS
Replies: 4417
Views: 499773

Re: BOB'S BITS

Stanley wrote: 21 Mar 2024, 13:50 But that's another story.
So is this. . . Fake Hitler Diaries

:smile:
by Tripps
20 Mar 2024, 15:27
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL
Replies: 2106
Views: 305503

Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

"There's no such thing as a free lunch". Free Iftar

Can there be a connection with Stanley's recent and rather personal observation -

"Not for the first time it struck me that David is one of the most rotund people I have ever come across! "
by Tripps
19 Mar 2024, 12:42
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3924
Views: 585595

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

We must move in different circles. :smile: I don't think I have ever heard the word rankles in ordinary speech anywhere. I'd consider it a writing word rather than a speaking word. A couple of examples of Rochdale usage which have stuck in my memory - I never heard any of them before I became involv...
by Tripps
18 Mar 2024, 19:05
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12565
Views: 1320356

Re: POLITICS CORNER

I have heard a whisper that the thing that is actually holding progress up is Diane refusing to attend an education course on Anti-Semiticism. I don't know if this is true but it sounds very likely to me Who is whispering to you? Diane Abbott says it isn't true. Someone's lying - her or your whispe...
by Tripps
18 Mar 2024, 11:33
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4757
Views: 553233

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

Not 'old fashioned' but definitely a woke joke. :smile:

Scot Squad
by Tripps
18 Mar 2024, 10:46
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3924
Views: 585595

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

I agree Rochdale speech had some idiosyncracies, but from my own experience, I wouldn't think rankle was one of them.


I think we decided in 2012 that 'hoo' applied only to females. :smile:

Hoo
by Tripps
17 Mar 2024, 22:44
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Replies: 632
Views: 83687

Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business

I think Stanley calls it "Doctor Green". Looks like it applies in Denmark too. :smile:


by Tripps
16 Mar 2024, 22:18
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16451
Views: 1908708

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

Indulge me (again) :smile: I came across this particularly well made video tonight. It's an aerial view of Whitworth. One click led to another and I found other videos with commentary, which spoke the name. All pronounced both the 'w's. I've passed through the place a few times, and remember going t...
by Tripps
16 Mar 2024, 18:17
Forum: Stanley's View
Topic: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 03
Replies: 4
Views: 1105

Re: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 03

Stanley wrote: 04 May 2019, 04:19 the monasteries found it as easy to communicate with Rome as London
How did that work then? I always find it difficult to visualise any meaningful correspondence system between Yorkshire and Rome and back, in the 16th Century within a reasonable time scale. :smile:
by Tripps
16 Mar 2024, 12:14
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7578
Views: 848210

Re: MEDICAL MATTERS

My hand is up.. and yours should be too! You heard it first on OG when it was launched at the end of January I'll put both hands up and surrender. Guilty as charged. I must be fading faster than I thought. :smile: The point you make would not be my main concern. That problem has been flagged up for...
by Tripps
15 Mar 2024, 16:49
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7578
Views: 848210

Re: MEDICAL MATTERS

Hands up anyone who knew about this new thing. :smile: I got my tablets delivered today (ordered Wenesday) and being an inveterate label examiner. noticed that beneath the pharmacy name and my address, was (in even smaller print size) a message stating that in future it would be possible to obtain s...
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 17:35
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3707
Views: 384355

Re: Seen in the News

Camilla hasn't quite mastered this upgrade from 'first floosie' to "Queen" yet, and neither have her loyal subjects. Just seen her at Cheltenham presenting a trophy, where she has no 'presence' at all, and the commoners were showing no awe, or even a little deference. In fact the jockey Ra...
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 16:57
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: 'Owt else or Any Other Business
Replies: 632
Views: 83687

Re: 'Owt else or Any Other Business

Stanley wrote: 13 Mar 2024, 12:53 I watched the video and didn't understand what was going on
I see.

It's a fairly new thing, and is called variously - humour, comedy, or parody. Don't worry - I doubt it will catch on. :smile:
by Tripps
13 Mar 2024, 16:51
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: OBITUARIES
Replies: 1882
Views: 334503

Re: OBITUARIES

Michael Culver has died aged 85.

If you want to feel really old - try this. :smile: I had vaguely heard and seen this chap, but only in the context that I remember seeing his father, Roland Culverlive on stage in a play in London in 1973.

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