Oztalgian
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What have they done to our food? Why doesn't it taste like it used to?
As we are well into autumn I thought I would try some new seasons apples so bought a couple of local varieties and looked forward to having them for lunch with a nice crumbly cheese. Beautiful colour, perfect shape, crisp and crunchy but absolutely no taste at all that could be described as apple.
Add to that tomatoes, exactly the same no taste at all. Oh for the days of going into my granddads greenhouse and the smell of the tomatoes alone would have the taste buds working overtime and the taste, sublime! Or going to the allotment and eating fresh picked peas, fresh pulled carrots with dirt on them (heaven forbid) or a particular favorite of mine broad beans straight from the pod.
Once again we have sacrificed what was good on the altar of economics and due to our demands for out of season products the plant geneticists have produced fruit and vegetables that have long shelf life for transport and that look good on supermarket shelves but have no taste.
Or is it just my ageing taste buds?
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Effing Google that keeps telling me to use Chrome, I already use it you stupid people go away and rework your algorithms.
Any ad on you tube that forces me to listen to it. Your products are on my never buy list.
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Adverts that slow up the loading of web pages and my enjoyment of YouTube.
TV stations that show the same advert multiple times in the same ad break, particularly during sport.
You idiots, it is a great way of getting me not to buy any of your products.
I have never ever bought a particular product because I have seen it advertised.
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trogg #70 you are quite right, "serry" was used extensively by many miners in the North Notts coalfield centred around Mansfield, it means "mate"
A-up then serry was a common greeting.
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Investigators have found the propeller in suburban bushland in the south western suburbs of Sydney not too far from a residential street.
Methinks most likely some kind of metallurgical induced failure or perhaps some forgotten locking tabs or wires.
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Certainly an influence on many and a rock'n roll pioneer, but he too had his issues, twice going to jail.
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Very, very slow again today, local time 11:30 am UK time 1:00am. It is taking well over two minutes to go from the current item back to unread content. Is there a quicker way?
Other UK news sites are fine?
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Damn and Blast I thought I was the only one with the secret recipe.
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Well remember trips to Forest away matches on the coaches in the 60's and 70's (no on board toilets in those days)
On the way back from the games and after several pub stops we had one driver who after stopping the coach at the side of the road or a lay by regularly waited until all the blokes were lined up along the nearside of the coach having a comfort stop and then drove off.
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Yesterday one of our regional airlines Regional Express (REX) SAAB 340 was en-route between Albury and Sydney some 550 km when on descent into Sydney the pilots made a PAN call indicating urgency but not a mayday.
The flight deck radioed ATC
"The prop has just fallen off the aircraft and standby for further instructions," the flight deck coolly reports to air traffic controllers.
"REX768 we've just had uncommanded engine operations and our propeller has just sheared off," a man on the flight deck told controllers.
"We've got normal controls, still be able to fly would require 1-6 right and we should be able to conduct a precautionary landing."
The propeller falling off an uncommanded engine operation ..... Do they have a button that tells the propeller to fall off?
Thankfully the plane went on to land safely with 16 passengers and 3 crew
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As an engineering apprentice it took me a while to get my head around how a Sturmey Archer 3 Speed Hub gear worked (Planetary gears) Apparently you can now get 14 speed hub gears.
If you have an enquiring mind and want to know how some seriously cool mechanical systems work check this out - lots to wander through with some great animations
http://www.mekanizmalar.com/transmission.html
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Watching it took me back to the early years of my apprenticeship as a toolmaker at the local technical college using Ward turret/capstan lathes that were long obsolete or hardly ever used in a toolroom.
Also saw some cold extruders making parts, I became very familiar with cold extruders making suspension components (ball studs) at a rate of 1200+ per hour. Even saw some hot upsetters that were making brackets in the movie. We used larger ones to upset axle flanges for axle half shafts for rear wheel drive vehicles. Alas like Raleigh no more, all gone to China and in October this year Australia's car industry will be gone forever with the closure of Holden and Toyota and the loss of skills at many levels in many trade and engineering roles. All sacrificed by stupid politicians and economists on the altar of free trade and global economic rationalisation.
When we have no skills to make or repair anything anymore the stupid will wonder what went wrong.
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I was using other sites, some from the UK whilst I was waiting for NS to do its stuff. No problem with them as to speed.
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I can't believe it is on YouTube already. Just watched it - Brilliant
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#4 Loppy, about an two hours ago it was taking between one and two minutes to go to the unread content page from the item I was reading.
Now it is taking less than 10 seconds. I am sure something must be happening in the background of the wee hours in the UK
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Loppy, I said exactly the same thing a few weeks ago but people said that they had not noticed it, never got an answer about back ups etc.
Maybe the elastic to Georgia and downunder gets a bit stretched and stops all the little '0's and '1's getting through.
Certainly is slow, painfully slow at times.
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Imps, Incredible room by loading through the tailgate hatch and the rear seats folded flat.
Adjusting the valve clearances with the .001 thou graduated shims between the top hat and the valves was an absolute pain in the arris.
The linkage between the gear lever and the gear box needed tightening regularly else the gear lever became more like a pudding stirrer than a gear lever.
Had one for 10 years in OZ only had to replace one head gasket, an overheating problem due to a bearing failure on the fan.
When I sold it, it still had the bag of cement in the boot at the front.
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I remember delivering both the Football Post (Pink) and the Football News (Green?) Never did understand why there were two papers?
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I can sympathise with you Banjo as I had a similar thing 5 years ago, the doc took the donor skin from the skin folds in my neck.
Going to the pub with something that looked like a yellow and green pan scourer stapled to your temple is not fun. Trying to sleep was almost impossible as turning in your sleep invariably gave the impression that you were trying to rip the skin of your face. I am left with a one and a half inch
diameter depressed scar which I used to tell the grandkids was where they took my horn off. Now they are older I have told them that it was a type of cancer caused by being out in the sun and that they must always put on sunscreen and wear a hat.
Fair skin from Nottingham and 40 years of Aussie sun do not result in a good mix but in those days we were not as "sun smart" as we are today.
This was the first of my three battles with the BIG C but am still looking at the grass from the right side.
Hang in there Banjo, I hear that the Margaret River wines are a good painkiller and keep the graft out of the sun.
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For those from Nottingham who are interested here is a database of paranormal activities in the shire.
For those further away you can search for your area. Some of the reports corroborate comments on this thread?
I came across it whilst looking for the car accident in Calverton, apparently there have been several reports of paranormal activity on Georges Lane Calverton.
Probably over active imaginations or the effects of too much Hobgoblin, Shippos or something similar.
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I see from Fly's comment that things have not changed. Back in the 60's "The Ramper" as it was known locally was notorious for accidents. Many were caused by impatient motorists overtaking in areas where there were three lanes. I remember that in certain sections the centre lane on the road had red coloured tarmac and was meant for overtaking if the other lane was clear. Unfortunately too many ignored common sense and overtook when they could not see if the road ahead was clear. This was due to the dips in road often combined with road junctions in the bottom of the dips (e.g. Blidworth Lane now Baulker Lane and Longland Lane into Farnsfield) An accident mentioned somewhere else on this site where a slower vehicle pulled out or was crossing the A614 and was hit by a vehicle travelling at speed down the dip. Another notorious junction was Mickledale Lane (to Bilsthorpe) and Inkersall Lane right near the Limes café where cars turning off the A614 often misjudged the speed of oncoming vehicles and were T-boned.
We used that road regularly when going to one of the great Dukeries estates for picnics in the 60's. Clumber Park was a particular favorite of mine.
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Enjoyed the poem Chulla but I had never heard the word progging in that sense? Had to look it up. Apparently it dates back to the late 16th century. I only knew progging as computer slang for writing a program.
This is the first new thing of many I will learn today
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Hello Loppy,
As someone who also uses the site in the wee hours of the UK do you notice that it is often quite sluggish, would this be back ups or something or is the server having a few zzz's too?
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Having stood on the equator in Indonesia, the tropic of Cancer in India, the tropic of Capricorn here in OZ. I suppose the Arctic and Antarctic circles should be next. Doubt that as I don't like the cold. Strangely enough I have never stood on the Greenwich meridian in London, maybe this year?
See Forest, County and Stags play again, see the Test Match at Trent Bridge.
Invent a time machine and go back to the sixties
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Things that pee you off...
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Bl**dy heck Loppy, your comments caused me to do a bit of research and I found out the following, quite scary! and makes you think about what we are really eating.
Are GM foods safe - The answer is we do not know
If you want to avoid most GM foods avoid heavily processed products, cotton, canola, corn and soy where you do not know the source otherwise eat certified organic products.