OneGuyFromBarlick

I just tripped over this short explanation and found it helpful.....

This came to mind the other day. It was played frequently on the wireless and I doubt if anyone of my generation missed it!
Manchester school children and the Hallé Orchestra in 1929. Music was very important to us in those days.....

And here's another favourite from those days.... Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill singing the duet 'Au fond du temple saint' from the Pearl Fishers.

I tripped over this..... quite brilliant!

I've had that clip fed to me as well - amazing.

Just had a reminisce back through this thread. fascinating.

The early posts on page 1 concerning diet were interesting. I suggested recently that SCG might not any longer be diabetic. He quickly denied it and said the blood tests indicated otherwise

From November 2016 - on a diet of mainly Mutton stews and Stuart's steak puddings ) we find

"It works for me as well David. I am no longer regarded as Type 2 but pre-diabetic".


I don't understand how a subsequent change to a zero carb diet can restore Type 2 Diabetes.

The diagnosis of Pre - diabetes has always seemed a bit suspicious. I suspect money is involved somewhere.

Discuss.

Stanley's diet certainly isn't zero carb, but don't forget that type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, it gets harder to maintain lower blood sugars.

Wendyf wrote: ↑19 Oct 2025, 15:56 don't forget that type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, it gets harder to maintain lower blood sugars.

It does indeed.

Wendyf wrote: ↑19 Oct 2025, 15:56 Stanley's diet certainly isn't zero carb,

Fair enough - delete 'zero' and insert 'low', though the regular 'meat and veggies x three' seems pretty close. I don't see how changing the diet to what it is now, can have resulted in a recurrence of diabetes.

I'll say no more - but I recall it was you who introduced me to the idea of low carb diet. A while ago, and memory fades, but I think you quoted a doctor from Southport (I think ) who was an early adopter. He did a rather severe variation, with only about 500 calories a day for a few weeks if I remember correctly. He 'cured' many patients of the disease.

Tripps, root vegetables contain a lot of carbohydrates, it's only green veg that don't. I don't often look at what Stanley eats but I notice he drinks plenty milk which is high in carbs as are tomatoes etc etc.
The very low calorie diet was introduded by Michael Moseley not the Southport Doctor.
A low carb diet helps hugely but it doesn't stop the pancreas failing over time. People who reversed their diabetes did it through weight loss.

I may have confused - to some extent - low carb with low calorie, though they are connected. Anyway here is the original article

The Doctor was one Dr Unwin from Southport. I do hope his name wasn't Stanley.

I think life's too short to worry about the carbohydrate content of a tomato.

Dr Unwin

On a lighter note - and back on topic, with some handy hints on veggie cooking.

Here's a video of someone buying a TV from Garlick' s in the 1950's

I eat more green veggies than root veggies and I think that's what saves me. (Plus the fact that meat is low carb!)
I fell in love with the ten year old violinist.....

Here's the latest from The Little Mole. I ike seeing how someone from elsewhere sees a town. Today she is in Skipton.

Certainly a different point of view..... I don't know if I could manage the full 26 minutes!

Thanks Tripps… ‘I’ managed the full 26 minutes and really enjoyed it.

Cathy wrote: ↑29 Oct 2025, 03:12 Thanks Tripps… ‘I’ managed the full 26 minutes and really enjoyed it.

Good - I'm pleased - and thanks for responding - Nice when a plan (well - half a plan) comes together.

Hard to believe this was 14 years ago......

I couldn't believe I was watching this. It's a direct attack on the Royals.... Have a look and see what you think.....

I think you have just found what can now be done with AI. Increase your BS detector level a bit higher, and like me, resolve to spend less time on Youtube.

PS -Shocking goings on at Number 10 earlier. . . . I haven't heard what was said.

PPS - I have now and it merits a warning. Good example however of not trusting any video content from the internet and especially Youtube.

Donald comes calling

David, my crap detector is fine thank you.... What was exercising me was the fact that such an obviously fictitious video could be produced and distributed. Don't forget that I was born and reared in an age when the Royal Family were almost as sacred as the CofE and even though that has changed I would have expected there to be some fear of resistance that would make such a production too dangerous to screen.
I can't help wondering if, somewhere in the background, a quiet whisper triggers a tax audit or something like that.
On the subject of increased use of AI particularly in manipulating images, the internet is full of examples and some, particularly those of technical subjects can be easily detected by those with some prior knowledge. I see them every day in articles about machinery and it spoils the videos for me.

Stanley wrote: ↑11 Jan 2026, 01:37 my crap detector is fine thank you....

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your take on the video. It seemed to me that you thought it was real.

That said - the quality of the material amazed me, and I must readjust my surfing to take into account the remarkable things that can now be done to a video by AI. It's a lot more realistic than I had thought. Sad to find that gorillas don't have a human sense of humour, and elephants don't gently pass back babies which have accidentally fallen into their enclosure.

Might as well give up Youtube then. . . .