'Owt else or Any Other Business

[Stanley]

I think you might be right David. I have noticed how much money some successful Youtubers in engineering have been spending and they either have wealthy parents or good income streams.

[Stanley]

Very strange posting on the site this morning because until the security issue is solved I think I am almost on my own. I say this because there are no posts and the number of page views of Bob's bits has shrunk to the lowest I have ever seen it. (Almost 500 yesterday and less than 40 this morning.)
All I can do is keep soldiering on and hope that the situation improves.....

[Big Kev]

So you're not lonely I'll post something in here

The text, in the image, is easier to read if you click on it to open.

[Tripps]

This lady never fails to raise the spirits. Quite charming and what a patient cat!

Mole's Adventures - when she's not in Wetherspoons shes decorating the cat. . . .

[Stanley]

Thank you for the spirit-lifter David. I needed it! (Have you seen what my hero Ronnie treated me to yesterday?)

[Stanley]

I've been reading some of the comments being made about Ronnie's fall from grace.... Much talk of new cues and tips but nobody mentioning the bleeding obvious.... It could be time he moved over and let someone else have the limelight.

[Stanley]

I just tripped over this on YouTube.....

[Stanley]

Ive been dealing with a bit of a mystery for a few weeks now. I noticed that when I put the plate on which my freshly roasted chicken was sat, in the fridge. When I went back later I had spilt some gravy which had congealed on the shelf and had to take it out and wash it.
Call me slow to twig what was going on, but this week I realised that I wasn't spilling it, it was leaking out of the plate.
I reached the end of my use of the plate this week and gave it a good wash before examining it for cracks. I couldn't find anything but the plate doesn't ring so I have cured it by binning it. I shall try a different plate the next time I roast a chicken and see whether I have cured the problem.....
It felt wrong binning what was to all intents and purposes a perfectly good plate. But I can't see any other explanation.

[Stanley]

I note that Kier Starmer keeps saying that the principle task of the Labour Government is to repair the hole in the public finances caused by the maladministration of the Tory Party. This is an accountant's view of the world and I disagree.
The main job of the party in power is always to manage the country in such a way as to give the best experience to the people who live here. This is not served by reducing the income of pensioners or cutting the cost of social support. It is best done by not spending money badly on waste, grandiose schemes or pandering to the wealthy who finance government.
This means spending on health and education before infrastructure and supporting anyone who is disabled or disadvantaged.
Unless this dawns on our leaders and they revise their approach they will not be in power for a full Parliament. There is no sign of this happening.
Before anyone starts shouting about there being no money.... I'm old enough to remember WW2 and we had no money then to finance a war but we did it by deficit-financed spending and paying the debts off with the increased income that resulted from winning the struggle and developing the country. This gives some clues as to the course open to us now. What Labour are doing is repeating the mistakes made by Tory governments over and over again and they will find they get the same results.
I said immediately after the election that as soon as we heard the words 'sound money' or their equivalent we could be sure we were doomed. QED.

[Stanley]

80 Years ago today, Mr Bowers, the headmaster of St Thomas' CofE Primary School, Heaton Chapel Stockport called everyone into the playground, told us that the war in Europe was over and that we had won. We could have the rest of the day off to celebrate. We all danced around in the yard shouting "We won the war!" which was about the size of it. I don't think anyone alive today can quite realise how happy and relieved we were.
Perhaps this also explains why the alarms of the present and threatened wars affects me so much. I've been there and done that and believe you me, you don't want to get anywhere near it!

[Stanley]

That seems to have frightened everyone off the site!

[Tizer]

I was born in the immediate aftermath of WW2 and still remember all the disabled men I saw every day, often still going to work to get the country back on it's feet. Besides those disabled men on the street there were all the unseen ones with mental disability. I remember one man who was visible - at the bus stop every morning, standing in the queue and constantly shaking. In WW1 one of my dad's uncles lost both legs but post-war he still got the bus from his home in Darwen to the centre of Blackburn then walked all the way to the shuttle works in Little Harwood - all on his `tin legs'.

[Stanley]

Yes Peter. There were many different versions of 'heroes'.

[Tripps]

These ladies were made redundant recently - partly due to changing fashions I know, but partly due to this Government's ridiculous incoherent Net Zero energy policy.
Someone needs locking up. . . .




PS for an even better video look here Moorcroft

I am intensely annoyed that these people who actually do the work with amazing skill, have lost their jobs - whilst pepole who comment on the job, make ridiculous laws and regulate the job earn a fortune.

[Cathy]

Thanks Tripps, I so enjoyed watching that last Moorcroft video. So sad that they have to close.

[Stanley]

Couldn't agree more David. As I said the other day, Starmer and Reeves behave more like accountants than states persons.....

[Tripps]

I listen to radio almost the clock round - many stations invite listeners to phone in. I came close last night.

Clive Bull (Mr Dependable) on LBC was doing 1970's TV programmes and mentioned the "Wheeltappers and Shunters Club". He was so misinformed it was painful to hear. He had never heard of a "wheeltapper" which is a bit of a problem in itself. I wanted to tell him that it was still being broadcast today on talking Pictures TV, after a six year run on ITV in the 1970's.

He said it was set in a fictional working mens' club, when in fact itv was shot in Bernard Manning's Embassy club in Rochdale Road, Harpurhey, Manchester. What he and most of his Southern based callers failed to notice, was that it was done in an ironic way, and in fact was a sort of parody of such a club. Colin Crompton the compere played that to a T. North and South humour obviously quite different.

Despite having had the phone number shouted at me thousands of times - I couldn't fully remember it - so he escaped my venom. Probably for the best. 0345 xxx973. . . .

PS I once heard Stanley phone in to BBC R4 (R5?) a long time ago when such a thing was a novelty, with a comment, so he has bragging rights in this department.

Here's a taste of it . . .

[Stanley]

"North and South humour obviously quite different."
From what I have heard of such London based programmes I suspect you're right David. Anything North of Watford is dragon country. I'd forgotten the phone in, it would be R4, that's all I ever listen to.....
My mind goes back to when they gave Wilfred Pickles a trial as a news reader.....
When Bancroft closed BBC News did an interview with me and Newton Pickles, the name Pickles must have an effect on Southern ears, the lady producer cut most of his contribution out on the grounds 'people wouldn't be able to understand him'
Again, Peter White, Her Majesty's Inspector of Ancient Monuments (NW) once listened to a conversation between me and Newton and said afterwards that 'he assumed we were speaking English'. I always think that such attitudes are a form of snobbery.

[PanBiker]

At least we don't put r's in where they don't belong, They obviously don't know the difference between a hard one and a soft one even though it is basic grammar.

mAster NOT Marster
cAstle NOT Carsle

and too many more to mention, bastardisation of the language in my view. I shout at the TV.

[Tripps]

I shout at the TV

fair enough if you find that it helps.


All part of the richness of language I'd say. Who's to say what's correct?

I asked a Geordie and he said "Ah divvent nar" - and "Howay man, I hope you have a propa canny time doon the toon!

I hadn't the heart to correct his awful use of English, and anyway, I'm quite happy with the current shape of my nose.

[Stanley]

Est bin mon bin? T'bin mon's bin and t'bin's none been sin sin

[Big Kev]

I had to 'bite the bullet' today and set up my own Disney+ subscription, they've finally realised that my Firestick is in a different house to my youngest offspring, I've used his login for the last two years

[Stanley]

It's taken them a long time to find you!

[Tripps]

Did anyone know that all BBC programmes had to have "Albert certification"

It is a mandatory requirement for all new commissions and recommissions of TV broadcast content including all Nations, Children’s, Education, BBC Film and non-News related Sport content :

Those who rely on the BBC for their daily news are extremely unlikely to ever hear about it.

I saw it here Question Time review


Good grief. Read it and weep. . . . . .

[Stanley]

I think I did know about it David. I rather think it was mentioned in a programme on World Service.
As for the clip of comments on Question Time.... The whole concept of listening to QT let alone writing a commentary on it baffles me so include me out. I'd rather spend my time on things like the excellent history lectures I am into at the moment on YouTube.
I think my pat hate at the moment is people who make a living by having opinions and then talking about them. I think the breed is called 'influencers'.