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  1. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    1 hour ago, philmayfield said:

    I would very much like to use this Speedo and am looking for somebody like a clockmaker who might be able to cut some gears for me anyone on this forum know of a retired person or enthusiast who could do this kind of work.

     

    Have you tried looking for model makers?

  3. Things you don't see anymore

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I don't know whether he has reduced the cost of policing or not. If he has it seems it's at the expense of police effectiveness. There is also the perception he is little more than a rubber stamp for whatever type crime is flavour of the month.

     

    "Burglars? mmm yeah OK but we really need to concentrate on people calling each other nasty names"

     

    The cost and the reduction thereof should not be his priority, he should be focussed full time on reducing crime not playing footsy with the accountants.

     

    Like Sir Mayfield I did not approve of creating another quango. Had they said OK the Chief Constable is now an electable office 'ala American Sheriffs then I'd go for that.

     

  10. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    39 minutes ago, Beekay said:

    Now your just baffling me with science Nonna !

    Mi habla Espanol, Italian, Nada ¡

     

    2 hours ago, nonnaB said:

     

    Just being skitty.

    Meno male che non siamo tutti uguale. Poverino o scemo. Quello che volete.

     

     

    Italian, French, Spanish... we seem to be up to our ears in polyglots... any more?

      

    
 
      
    
 

     

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  11. Fairham Comprehensive

    in Bread & Lard Island & South of the Trent

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    His nickname in our class was 'six foot of misery'... Don't know why, didn't know the bloke and he never took our class. He did once set a mathematical puzzle for the whole school which supposedly took him several hours with a slide rule. How the hell he expected us to solve it I've no idea but it was something to do with the magazine 'Mathematical Pi'.

     

    I did once see him use his size to good advantage. A lad called Brett had a short length of scaffold pipe and seemed determined to change the shape of someone's skull. Burnsy came steaming across the playground scattering onlookers like so much chaff before grabbing the pipe and frog marching one very surprised playground bully off to see Thom.

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  14. 'How does your garden grow?'

    in Kat's Gardening Forum

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    Checking the image info for one of Compos pictures reveals this little lot and not only is it designated as a text file it's size is given as zero bytes. There is nothing there...  Weirdness..

     

    3.googleusercontent.com/O0_4b3iYjPv55JKHp91PKIyKEVuTqNat9fea8XF6c41eyymVO0aZr9w1NMe75aDcCz2T_2GQOOPe_IVBMeacbPM-yuUUbeysI7M5Nc_km4EB83Wdx4cmUwOUJp-i3wC6gh3-zhcCDdQZdviyP56JLzyFf1ji4PYdEP7aKWOtPRANDSNrcyEFCmnSzb9Z476ITNffKOw4EXgibCzHARHYYN3aLs2-h1LnjCXcxaOdME2xNu3bIvHkrrhpVAlT2927rPaf3kvk_d4pbs_ASRG2rtU9I5_hCAHb2CdnYIjgTxx0FJRyZX6JO5cCFaziMF1WNd0fn6fGwqpE0yxqkY_qO7dCMccE4f2zWv2rr-jJLdd6IYK2RNRH-cNP7degQMWUhy9_8Yo4WtPm_tBFGpA2Ocv2Xm_9-dO1umdZYA5tmAxbFeU1VQNmcQ_ey8ZDwvcUPPkOfuBtBSFIx-9EJhDaSLrYRe_Aw1AtShJYEjQs__2E5XOLAwm1xdLVrCLnZMcBUMqxtxGLYrNOyzI7W9BEbVX4_c8mlrQ5YZnu7W_Sq4KM6UvX9MvSvo9woCMYKEKejECVJM_Lng4D80FXI_Uh5fxGsAZcQgd9cUIbwZS16iX6EMUGyqU4ku7N3-4gkIPJeHogpxponmivrER9VYb96NUuBFzUDVmS=w1280-h854-no

     

  15. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    There was a TV documentary years ago where they showed people taste testing dog food. Never understood why, dogs will eat anything and whether we like or not is immaterial I would have thought.

    One  of my sons class mates father was a senior manager and a Professor of veterinary science at Petfoods, all the tales of how strict they were are true.

  21. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    12 minutes ago, HSR said:

    DJ360..I was born in hospital in '62 & recall having gas as I child at the dentist! smile2

     

    I remember the smell of the face mask when they gave me gas and took my tonsils out. i also remember being sick when I came round, the blood was black... but the ice cream was nice..

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  22. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    59 minutes ago, denshaw said:

    I heard that posh meant Port Out Starboard Home, for those going on a cruise.

     

    Just to be pedantic, from the Oxford:

     

    Origin

    Early 20th century: perhaps from slang posh, denoting a dandy. There is no evidence to support the folk etymology that posh is formed from the initials of port out starboard home (referring to the more comfortable accommodation, out of the heat of the sun, on ships between England and India).

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  24. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    1 hour ago, MargieH said:

    BK,  are you saying I'm posh?  If you come to a meet up, you'll see I'm definitely not!

     

    She is really BK, 'onest. Lived in Woodboro' and everyfing. I allus tug me forelock and I'd doff me 'at if I could afford one...:P