Trooper74

29 minutes ago, Steve_M said:

Not casting aspersions on your good self. Apologies for any offence caused. I was merely attempting to highlight the contrast between the respect that your post shows, and the type of misplaced and disrespectful attitudes of a certain element. 

Sorry Steve .... Totally agree with you ... 

10 minutes ago, Steve_M said:

Shame there are those who are prepared to be complete arses about him taking a completely legal holiday. I despair sometimes. 

Not sure why you have included me in your post ...????

Goodnight Tom ... good innings, well played  ....  Our humour is what makes us British...

The thaw has started, the back garden, paved, is now a minefield of dog poo hidden and not so hidden by the snow ....  

6 hours ago, rennie said:

Good Morning 

My furnaces are not well again! 

Walking beam ?

I don’t like cats .... not at all .... ever ...

Cats love me, whirl around my feet, 1 eyed killer moggies from Cornwall curl up on me .... and purr ...  As soon as i walk in to a room with a cat that “Hates People”  ... It wanders over to me and starts stroking ME!!!

It’s a cat plot !!!!

How come he had his family with him ??

Dare I ask .....

Wonderful old soldier dies after massive fund raising effort.

Total respect .....

Surrounded by his devoted family ! really ?? ..DM ... surely not ...

9 hours ago, Tiggie said:

Love stuff like this. Makes me want to go out and get a barn find 

All our local barns have been converted into designer executive “grand designs” things ... ..... 

If your after a new 8 series BMW there the place to look  ....

On 25/01/2021 at 21:21, Steve_M said:

It’s a bit of a sad day for us today. Our 19yr old cat had to be euthanised after a long period of decline. Had you told me 19yrs ago how upset and emotional I would be over a cat I’d have laughed. Yet, here I am, looking over at “his” chair and missing him already. 
 

Silly old sod!

 

 

I took our dog, Corrie, for his annual jabs and he didn’t come back. Total renal failure .... 15 years old .... julie and i had the day off work and cried a bucket, bottle of red wine and more tears .... mad i know ..... 

17 minutes ago, Mickly said:

Yep, do the same for the Military & the Government.

Good idea .... In the Armed Forces of the UK, 4 ranks, the highest, 28 people, earn over £100,000 per annum ..The highest being £108,000. According to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body 2019 ... How many non clinical members of the NHS earn over £100,000 i wonder ...

Anyway .... back to Starships ... and huge explosions on launch pads ..... 

19 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

It's the same in the usa which was one of the reasons for the appeal of Trump. Too much crumbling infrastructure of basic things like roads, hospitals, railways etc. PFI was a failure as government  is hopeless generally at making commercial  agreements. Maybe after the pandemic there will be fresh ways of doing things, like the vaccine programme which looks like a success so far. But I won't hold my breath!

The UK infrastructure is like the NHS ... It doesn’t matter how much money you throw at it it will absorb it, get no better, and move on.

Fresh ways of doing things ... Sack everyone in the NHS on a contract with a basic value over £100k ... if we really need them we‘ll have them back as contractors at an hourly rate ... Apply the same criteria to Highways England and all other infrastructure groups ...  with me chaps ?

The problem with fresh ideas is just that .... we don’t like change in the UK ... otherwise we wouldn’t still have Boris and his bunch of murdering clowns ...

I’m with you SW .... but i doubt many others would be ...

Whats the space programme ever done for us !!

Velcro, super glue, cardiac devices, drugs, wine, the aqueducts,, peace ....

16 minutes ago, Bender said:

I told the wife I would be up for risking a possible 1way trip to Mars, I'm not allowed apparently.

You've already been there Bender ... Pizza delivery I believe ....

While i was still serving i applied for British Antarctic Survey duties .... And soon after found out my then girlfriend ( now wife )had also applied after hearing me talk about it ... 

That was a difficult afternoon ... a few tears, 2 bottles of wine ..  and an amazing evening .. !!! 

Neither of us was selected  ....

1 minute ago, skyrider said:

better take some cornflakes 

Hope they don’t take any snowflakes ...... 

There’s already a Tesla car on its way to Mars .... I wonder how long it will be before Rotherham Council can get a Parking Warden there ready for it .....

Girls aren’t away to uncle john’s this weekend so all 4 children at home .... Just Eat pizza delivered tonight ... cycling with girls tomorrow morning .. out on the motorbike with Connor Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning, weather dependant ...  

Can't wait for the sun and warmth to return ... “ Go camping when sun come back” is all we get out of our 3 year old ... 

182 KG of this ?

(heavy, isn’t it )

I buy Classic Bike mag every month ... I read it cover to cover ... I have access to free postage and packing ... who would like me to pass it on to them for free ?

1 condition ... you have to pass it on to another for free as well ....

Anyone interested ....

4 minutes ago, Stu said:

@onesea I think thats been read wrong! 

 

I think it says you may be immune for 5 months but you can still carry it as in if you came in to contact with an infected person you wouldn't have symptoms but could pass it on not that you would have it for 5 months 

I do believe that the “5 months” thing came from the project duration ... 5 months .... no further data available ...

So .. PHE .. and the BBC run “we’re all going to die” reports every night on the news ... 12 months ago it was a warning to us all ... 12 months later its a disgrace ....

“Tonight in a hospital in London people are dying of Covid” .... totally ignoring the much higher number of people that are dying of other things...

If your partner died of cancer, heart disease, strokes .... RTA ... the MSM don’t care ... sod cancer deaths ... a man that was tested positive for covid 28 days ago has been hit by a bus and died ... sod the rest of you ...

When did you see the amazing report, based on PHE / ONS figures, that in the last 12 months 680,002 people have died .. But only 100,000 with or of C-19 ... 

And breath ... I’m a cancer survivor with mild ( very) heart disease ... we don’t matter any more ......

Sorry ... if someone can hold the reins i’ll get off my high horse .........

PHE and SAGE are locked in a life or death battle with the Samaritans .... The Samaritans are pro life... SAGE and PHE are pro suicide ...

Which is why they work remorselessly to drive people into accepting death over life ... ..... ..... Go Samaritans !!!

3 minutes ago, Mickly said:

Here you go @rennie proper stuff at a good price: A proper hangover for £16 ( with Tesco’s clubcard )

Just check ... if manufactured by HP Bulmer its not cider ... it’s fermented apple based sugar alcohol derivative ... I watched that factories thing with Greg someone or other .... its not cider !!! not even close ... Hit the Sheppy's website .... https://www.sheppyscider.com

Your best friend has asked if she can have a quick ride on the back of my motorbike ... ...... .......