Brew

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  1. Supermarkets are HV customers and have their own substation
  2. Only in goal tho' cos he's got bionic legs now..
  3. Add my best to wishes to all the others Col and I hope recovery is better than last times...
  4. Col I wish you well mate and hope it all goes without a hitch...
  5. Not been there for a long time and probably wouldn't recognise it now; but yes I well remember the disgusting smell and taste of those rubber masks.
  6. I missed a link I meant to include in the above. University bans phrases such as 'mankind' and 'gentleman's agreement' in favour of gender-neutral terms | The Independent | The Independent
  7. An unusual way of writing but I accept I misunderstood the meaning. however I did not seek PC in your post, it's simply how it came across to me. That seems a bit disparaging, any evidence? It is, despite it's size a fully accredited university and a Professor, an acknowledged world authority in his field, tory supporter or not, is in a far better position than most to judge the depth and influence of PC in academia. Considering his field I'd say he has also an in-depth knowledge of scientific research. ??? Debunking the origins of organi
  8. You won't see any different your end. It's at the other end where the data flows to. Another way to collect info on your PC usage is the old TSR programs, You close a program but parts of it are still active sending reports of what you do, where you go and the things you seem interested in. Look at the processes still running in task manager, most will be seemingly innocuous and many have to be running. but who knows what they're doing? I closed Edge some time ago, yet there are still 5 instances showing, wh?. The official answer is to make programs start quicker and maybe t
  9. Your surprising use of the rather silly she/herthey/their personal pronouns is proof beyond belief she is right about the steady creep of political correctness. What does that actually mean? Where is the evidence? Evidence: "We want to get away from this dreadful political correctness in medical education that exists now". Professor Sikora was appointed dean elect of Britain's first private medical school at Buckingham University. Civitas: "The reports also set out policy recommendations for strengthening academic freedom.
  10. I refer my honourable friend to my previous answer...
  11. Why so? At that sort of age I wanted to be either a spaceman, a scientist or a bus driver, though I only actually knew what a bus driver did. And yes I read both the Wiki and her own website. Opportunist? or ambitious? Have you read her speech? I came away with a somewhat different view. Her use of the word 'woke' is inappropriate to purists, but as we both agree the word is used by various factions for different reasons and means different things. Quote: " So today conference, I am writing a review into the use of sex and gender questions in scient
  12. I see nothing amiss with that. Any business will increase their prices inline with increased costs to themselves, they'd go bust if they didn't Col advocated control of prices earlier; how? Short of nationalisation or a return to the old 'top-down' Resale Price Maintenance Act (a legally enforceable act where manufacturers set the price), (it ended in 1964 to be replaced with the Resale Price Act) - it can't be done Abolishing the RPM effectively ended price fixing by suppliers, opened the market to competition, and thus forced prices down. Strangely though books were
  13. We have no need to print photographs so bought a Dell, and a Samsung laser colour printers. that was about two years ago and only black toner in the Dell and nothing in the Samsung so far. Cheaper than inkjets and really fast. Prints directly from the phone too.
  14. Though I can't control or avoid it I hate the idea of my every move monitored and recorded. the cry of "if you do nothing illegal why does it bother you" doesn't wash with me. My finances are legal but I don't want every one knowing my business, so too my health, love life, pastimes, phone calls and messages etc. At uni, which is some years ago now there was a girl who worked for a loyalty card company. She even told me when my daughter moved out just from the info on a loyalty card. Other things she said were amazingly accurate Time and technology has moved and I've no d
  15. There's one supplier that gives the printer for free if you buy 2 or 3 sets of refills
  16. US? But does it make them any the less 'crooners'? Are they less entertaining? Munro was brilliant, Humperdink a much better voice then Jones etc, it's surely all down to perception and as for the song writer.... who cares?
  17. Did I miss something? She's been a member of the Tory party from the age of thirteen and as far as I know has never been a Labour supporter. She opposed Brexit but has accepted the will of the people, as she should. On this she has and, is entitled to, her views. Some see many nuances and variations, others take a more pragmatic view and see things in black and white. Following your lead I looked at the website. Are we looking at the same site? It's the website of a serving politician and I expected to see nothing untoward - I was not disappoin
  18. Usually when the PC can't see the printer it means it cannot find a suitable driver. Download the appropriate driver from the manufacturer, install it and Win 11 should find it.
  19. I've not seen a picture of Notintone Place as it was , only after it was converted to the Salvation Army care home and General Booth's preserved house. I think they allow visitors, maybe I'll go one day. I was born in the attic of the house directly opposite before we moved down, no idea why, and lived like troglodytes in the basement.
  20. Today must be one of those rare occasions then, and to imply anyone brings such things on themselves is an astonishing thing to say. She has blonde hair, wears sequins and smiles a lot so obviously she's vacuous and fair game for any judgemental critic. But lets not be jealous of her success - she's only a bimbo after all.
  21. Really? did someone get out of bed on the wrong side this morning? Does she honestly deserve such scorn?
  22. There's a can of worms just begging to be opened but it's a topic for politics rather than here.
  23. Whenever I've hit my thumb with a hammer, or picked up a hot soldering by mistake, for some strange reason my vocabulary becomes drastically limited whilst at the same rising exponentially in volume,,,
  24. What is the option if you don't? Council collection can, and do, refuse to collect for wrong items, they even refuse collection if the bin lid is not completely closed. For larger items? Use non-registered 'man with a van'? Fly tip? Follow the rules or there could be consequences, I'm surprised you don't see that. However... A long piece on recycling Col that is preaching to the converted, and again entirely misses the point. The council and its, at times, somewhat short sighted policies is simply an example of non-system thinking.
  25. It's a sad fact but we have to accept 'woke' has been utterly transmogrified by those who neither know nor care about its origins. I said some time ago words, their meanings and associations, can morph into something entirely different. As with the term 'gay' so it is with 'woke'. It is now a blanket term for excessive political correctness, an extremist interpretation used by zealots. As a pejorative expression, which rinsed and repeated as necessary, will become the norm and pass into common usage. Both left and right are bandying it about to disparage any opposition.