Bassingbourne55

I think you’ve all just run up huge debts on this here thread. The forum bailiffs are working on it!

This must be the longest thread I’ve started!
Anyway, recession now looks like it might turn into depression!
My work is connected with the property sector and I still see some new-build housing projects being started and I think ‘Nooooooo, they’ll be hard to sell, even at a big loss’.

We had the jack from our beach boules set stolen by a seagull. The same seagull had stolen another jack from someone else who was playing boules the previous day – we saw that happen too!

The follow-up to my original post is that this morning I came down to find sicked-up potato on the sofa!

I have trained my three cats to ‘sit’ on command, which is quite fun. It’s very satisfying at meal times to say ‘sit’ and see three cats lowering their bottoms to the ground in unison!

I’m wondering what the market for a decaffeinated and detanninated teabag would be.

One thing that will not happen to my home is flooding. It could get struck by lightning, the roof could be blown off in a storm, it could catch fire or be affected by subsidence but it’ll never flood!

We live at the top of a hill. A few years ago I contacted Direct Line about changing our house insurance policy to them – in fact I think they…[Read more]

I was looking up national anthems on YouTube while ‘researching’ for my original post. Among the gems I found a Cornish national anthem, which was rather a stirring song.
Cornwall, so it now appears, rather embarassingly, has never officially been part of England. When the Saxons, Danes, Angles etc. were all united under King Alfred, first king…[Read more]

get fvcked sassenach

OK, but only if you take Brown, Darling etc. etc. back north of the border!!

Anyway, Glasgow is now Scotland’s second city! I know it’s bigger than Edinburgh, but Edinburgh is the capital!

we colonised the falklands. we have no right to claim it, and we have no right to be there.

Everybody colonised somewhere. We got to the Falklands first. They were part of the British Empire before Argentina even existed as a state. Argenita lays claim to the Falklands although hardly any Argentinians have ever lived there except during the…[Read more]

When I was about 8 or 9, in the 1960’s, we had an overtly racist teacher who had previously been a PE instructor in the Army. We had two boys on an exchange visit from Kenya. This teacher overtly told us (when the Kenyan boys were not in the room) that he hated blacks and didn’t see why he should be nice to them. Mocking people was his greatest…[Read more]

Some of the richest oil reserves in the world are THOUGHT to lie under the seabed around the Falklands. Companies have been prospecting there for years. But the sea is much deeper than in other areas where offshore oil is drilled, so the technical difficulties of extracting any oil that might be found would need to be overcome.

Whether possible…[Read more]

Green taxation is fine as long as it’s applied to energy saving and generally beneficial projects.

Saving energy and moving to renewable energy are crucial as the supply of finite resources begins to dwindle, as it will.

I saw a case of a creationist working as a science teacher in a state school on TV – he was being interviewed by Richard Dawkins.

Religion should be treated the same as politics. Religion should not be beyond criticism, and now that the blasphemy law that protected Christianity and (I think, Judaism) has been repealed, it’s open season for shooting down religious myths.

There is so much to criticise about religion as a whole and individual religions that it’s difficult to…[Read more]

Bathing cats is not something to undertake lightly. I had to do that once. Although the cats didn’t like it, it didn’t harm them and I was unharmed too but the wallpaper wasn’t!!!

PS I didn’t bath the cats for fun, it was to apply a special shampoo for combatting fleas and lice as they both had skin allergies to these pests. Done on vet’s advice.

Even if his personal behaviour had always been cleaner than clean, I fail to see why anyone would ever have become a fan of Gary Glitter!!

Concerning another well-known former pop star who was jailed for committing crimes against children and still protests his innocence – back in the 70’s, there were ‘hearsay’ stories doing the rounds at school about the sort of things he got up to that were consistent with the crimes he was later jailed for. Sort of like…..’My friend’s brother…[Read more]

He deserves to have very close tabs kept on him wherever he goes and comes across as an extremely unpleasant old man even leaving aside the evil things he’s done.

It occurred to me that if he’d chosen a career in a more hard-edged sector of the pop industry, rather than glam-rock poputainment for teenyboppers – say punk, death metal or…[Read more]

or wood burners if we mined the sawdust ?

I also seem to remember reading that some early work as done on making diesel engines run on finely powdered coal dust. I’m talking about large, slow-revving stationary engines, not ones in vehicles. Fine, dry sawdust would probably work in one of these old engines too, but injecting a powder in…[Read more]

Re. the earlier toys / pram interface earlier on, it shows how factional wars start. I mean, the two of us were in agreement about biodiesel and renewable energy, the war was started over a disagreement about the safety of commercially available DIY biodiesel processors. But these things mus be subject to safety tests before they are allowed to…[Read more]