... borrowed from another place - but if the cap fits ... How many AB members does it take to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed. 14 to...
In case you are busy rebooting devices, holding a haddock on your head and placing tinfoil on your router - it's not you - there's a big outage - started about 15 mins ago.
Morning Ed - hope your rod is dangling at a jaunty angle? Threads like this are incredibly useful - the huge amount of dross on NFx and APr make finding the diamonds a shockingly irritating task :...
Your Pension Provider pays you every four weeks - rather than every calendar month. They offer a bonus double payment whenever your pension is due to be paid exactly on your birthday. Assuming you get...
All three browsers (Chrome/Safari/Firefox) on both iMacs and even my antediluvian Win10 laptop slowed to a crawl last night - a gradual process rather than a sudden event. Clearing the relevant caches...
Another round that Gness and I prepared for our weekly zoom quiz with my extended family : https://ibb.co/mqzjjhK No prizes - I'm off for a nap (my bad back needs a rest) and will post the full...
I'm not a big fan of the BMJ - far too closely aligned to the NHS establishment and not usually the first to raise concerns. For them to be publishing (and headlining) such direct and hard-hitting...
My extended family have a Zoom Quiz every week - I thought you might like to have a go at the questions that I posed yesterday - very loosely based on (and rather easier than) my favourite TV Quiz -...
In CB since I don't want it to be about any particular story (certainly not THAT story). I've been following the news even more closely than usual over the last few months, and find that my...
... would like to find some excuse for this second breach of lockdown - after he was well and back at work - and when (presumably) the 'childcare' emergency was no longer valid reason?...
Forty years ago today - a very sad loss when Ian Curtis took his own life - an end to his pain, but also an end to a stream of wonderful music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EdUjlawLJM...
I heard an interesting analogy today - which makes it clear why [i] everyone [i] wearing masks makes sense : Imagine we are all walking around naked from the waist down - eeurghh - and the bloke next...
If you are having issues with your partner and he/she threatens to walk out - simply order them a taxi for 8pm on a Thursday ... .... then it will look like the whole street is glad to see them go :)...
or dinner or supper [ or breakfast if you've only just got up ] Irish Corned Brisket here - just gone in the pot with some nice stock and loads of carrots and sweet onions. Spuds to be added in an...
There once was A Banker called Theland
He really was quite a big heel and
He likened Naomi
To a fat Dartmoor Pony
So now he's naffed off to New Zealand...
Who would you pick from the last 50 years as the PM you reckon would have done best in leading/uniting the country in a fight against a pandemic? I’d probably take Harold Wilson - certainly the...