OneGuyFromBarlick

As Inspector Morse famously once said - "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

and Tizer wisely said "Nullius in verba": On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society).

and finally - TRIPPS said "Believe nothing you read , and only half of what you see.

I think that's true. :smile: When Barlick returned to Lancashire. . . Safe to say - Ian's in Greece. There was a large contingent of "Warrington boys" at the grammar school. They travelled by train daily to Manchester. Nearest RC grammar school I guess. Another differentiator was their int...

Whe you look at a new topic on Youtube - it soon sends you several similar or related ones. This is sometimes a good thing, and can lead to interesting viewing. Is there any way to prevent it directing you to sites you have no interest in, and would rather avoid? I have had as much as I can take of ...

There's probably an essay in this if I had the abilities of Stanley or Bob Bliss. :smile: I'm familiar with the word "nesh" - since childhood - but my recollection tells me not until I was a teenager - say the 1950's, at the grammar school where there was contact with lads from a wide catc...

Goodness knows how it works - but it did for me. . . .


Puzzle

for my 82nd birthday, Paulette unearthed an out-of-print copy of another Campbell collection, entitled 37 Years on the Job. It’s mostly his short pieces, so it’s mainly miscellany, but it begins with a long, loving eulogy of his father, ‘the Lord,’ indicative of Patrick’s promise as a writer of ser...

Those of us who usually swim against the current got just the faintest buzz from this video today. Failed moon landing - again. I'm fairly sure the earth isn't flat - but there's just a feeling that everything went amazingly well in those days in 1969 using a computer that would struggle to work a m...

I suppose I must mention again that me and the Lord both had our suits made to measure at Abe Sacks in Spring Gardens, Manchester. I saw him there when I went for a fitting. Abe (jnr) told me he came when he was recording in Manchester, because it was as good as Savile Row, and a lot cheaper. :smile...

Probably the best such report I've seen. Exemplary. There has been another fire at a Philadelphia bus storage depot. The electric buses were in storage as evidence in an ongoing legal action - Oh the irony. I don't envy Governments dealing with this problem. An incident with major loss of life is su...

Just back from Tesco. Second visit of the afternoon. I needed stuff that Aldi don't sell so made the first visit. Bought a bottle of Whyte and McKays - on special due to Fathers Day. Usual wait at the till while the operator finished gossiping with the lady at the next till, - no sense of urgency or...

It's hard to keep up isn't it? I just know that UK is falling further and further behind in the world pecking order. I note in the news - non BBC of course - that Tommy Robinson (not his real name - Stephen Yaxley Lennon) is back in court charged with harassment. Rich irony there. He has pleaded not...

I had occasion to quote from this Kipling poem today -"the burnt fool's bandaged finger etc" which has once again gone 'wabbling' There's quite a bit of repetition on the board, and this, in its entirety, will stand repeating. :smile: Interesting that he assumes his readers will know the n...

I hurriedly wrote a quick report in French on our 4 weeks away ready for my french conversation class at Haslingden this morning. I know you do this as as a useful hobby rather than a chore, but it occurred to me that A.I. might now do this job. I've just tried Quillbot using one of Stanley's long ...

Seconded !

Did you develop and print these photos yourself or send then to Boots? I'd have thought there would be some suspicion of someone taking such photos, in those days, followed by a tap on the shoulder from Smiley's people.

This was fed to me tonight. I post it because it references Jonathon Hinder, and I've not read much about him lately. "MP for Pendley and Clitheroe). Sounds like he is getting a bit restless policywise. he's certainly up to speed with his woke jargon (Overton Window). I always mentally picture...

Good point well made. The incident has certainly hit the news with mentions all over the shop. When the chap who stopped playing in the world championship, after four consecuitive wins, because he got bored with winning it, blunders in time trouble, and gets beaten by the latest champion who is just...

If you score 99 in cricket then make a mistake and are out - you still keep the 99 runs. In chess however -if you are winning for most of the game - then blunder near the end you get nowt. Just happened to Magnus Carlsen. He is not best pleased, and resigned - by banging on the board, knocking over ...

Sir Keir Starmer promised to "smash the gangs" when seeking election. By implication this meant he would reduce or even stop illegal entry to the country by small vessels crossing the Channel. After almost a year in office I doubt a single such person has been prevented from arriving - yes...

Stanley wrote: ↑01 Jun 2025, 02:02 Am I right in thinking that the Hindu Doctor is suggesting that this incarnation isn't going to end well?

Purely hypothetical - for the purpose of attempted humour.

There have been major riots in Paris following a football match in Munich last night. I heard about it yesterday from the 'Alt Media'. The BBC are now ensuring that the whole world gets to know about it. Well - in the Congo at least. Good to see my TV Licence money so wisely spent. :smile: I would h...

I've posted this before - you will tell me when you're bored with it won't you? :smile: I put it on an army site (Facebook 19 Signal Regiment) over a year ago to little response, but it has sprung to life in the last few days. A couple of chaps who arrived in the unit after I left have appeared, and...

A Scot I once knew memorably used to say "Life is like a sewer- you only get out what you put in".

I am always a bit apprehensive when consulting a Hindu doctor - just in case he says " Ok old man- better luck next time." . . .

A police officer called the station on his radio.
I have an interesting case here.
An old lady shot her husband for stepping on the floor she just mopped.
Have you arrested the woman?

George Orwell '1984'. Book of the Century? He wasn't far wrong was he - and he'd never heard of Facebook or Tik Tok (X). :smile: “Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To...