OneGuyFromBarlick

Thin section rings that may be subject to gripping distortion are usually clamped to a backplate. makes life a lot easier and safer.

I'm always a bit suspicious when people especially politicians start quoting percentages (%).There's a world of difference between quantity and quality percentages. Mrs May obviously considers the 95% done and dusted but how many of the Conservative Party agree with her. Then we have the remaining 5...

Reminded me of the woodcuts by William Blake but these tended to have a religious flavour.

One of our religious instructor teachers, does this sound familiar? when on football duty would try to walk alongside you and pat you on the bottom as a sign of encouragement. Needless to say the distance from the changing rooms to the pitches were always carried out at the double before he emerged ...

What's left of English after Brexit?

Yesterdays visit to the Colne swimming pool raised what is almost becoming an annual event. A strong rumor circulating that the Conservative run council is hell bent on closing the pool. No mention that the shortage of funding is because of the cut backs from the Conservative government. Just more o...

Is that the chimney of Dotcliffe Mill, (top left). If so its an unusual design. Any comments?

Looking back to my previous post. ...' The main concerned appears to be the amount of lending to firms that are already up to their necks in loans that they may not be able to pay back. These loans are not always carried by the banks themselves but are sliced and diced into other complex derivatives...

As I have said " most grey tops have memories about things that the younger generation have never seen.". Weavers streaming out of the shed, Miners coming home still covered in coal dust, Railway siding shunting away all night, As you said Hard Times and thankfully most have them have gone...

Members to act like tin pot gods Its the old problem... 'There's nothing wrong with a system that put ME at the top. Why do I get the feeling that Mrs May is on a hiding to nothing, The Brexiters are making the situation that bad that they hope she will resign and hand the Premiership to one of the...

Stanley, Your kidneys will process fizzy drinks faster than plain water. I would suggest Lemonade rather than champagne. Don't want you to get up to any mischief.

Well I never! I would never have thought of that in a month of sundays. I haven't got a smart phone and nobody wants to talk to me anyhow.

You stick it on your smart phone and when it vibrates it giggles about and lights up. If this is wrong it will be right next week.

After years of Tebbit's 'on your bikes' and then behind 'closed bedroom curtains'. then the suggestion that unmarried mothers get themselves pregnant to get on housing lists, running together with the implication that all those on benefit are scroungers and should be looking for work. Also, promotin...

Clean GB week. A total misuse of statistics. quote... The UK has led the world to date in cutting emissions while creating wealth. Between 1990 and 2016, the UK reduced its emissions by over 40% while growing the economy by more than two-thirds – the best performance in the G7 on a per person basis....

Strategically placed on the base of a bath it stops you sliding about.

reinforced by all the history I've researched.... Also most grey tops have memories about things that the younger generation have never seen. This fact was reinforced when I went into the Nelson library and at the local history section asked if they had any photographs of the Reedyford Hospital whe...

A combination of Agony and Ecstasy. Attracted by TalkTalk's offer of broadband between set values at a reasonable cost I thought I'd give it a try. Our house does not have fibre to the door and the fibre box is some distance away. The end result was a rather feeble 9Mb supply to the new router, whic...

Off the Scottish coast? I was using the same kind of terminology you get in sales adverts-- Up to 50% off. which is anything as little as 1% to a max of 50%. My 'off' can mean anything up to 2000 miles. I may have been wrong with the name it could have been the Olympic, but that's another conspirac...

Sorry Stanley but they'll have to go. Mark my words.

It was the pull chain on Titanic's ships bell that was recovered as a keepsake just before it went Glug, glug, off the Scottish coast.

At midnight nothing exceptional happened During the Millennium bug crisis I talked to a number of software writers and they were under the same opinion that date changes were such a fundamental consideration that nothing would happen. But since the Establishment panicked and were offering loads of ...

Tripps wrote: ↑12 Oct 2018, 09:15 Numpty is a nice word - it's a sort of an insult, but still a bit 'cuddly'

A bit like velleity?

Try as I may to follow the various manoeuvers and shenanigans of the Brexit I'm getting to the point of total confusion. As for as I can see this confusion is all part of the master plan to give the impression that an acceptable deal is just round the corner where in actual fact its just a delaying ...

There is an Ordinance Survey map in Burnley library with nearly all the main points of interest, railways, coal, canals and factories all marked up in German. Probably similar maps exist for other towns.