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Post by farzooks on Dec 23, 2013 14:39:56 GMT
Having recently spent 6 months working in the predominantly Muslim country of Indonesia, I would like to say that the non extremist, the huge majority of Muslims, are the nicest people I have worked with. We need to be careful about categorising people, the Nazis were mostly Christians! Bingo! It's always the vocal, atteention-seeking and trouble-making minority that get all focus. I'm sure there were/are Christians who went down like a lead brick in furrin climes when they set about trying to change local ways to suit themselves. Not a way to be very popular, whoever they may be and no matter what background they're from. I suppose it's just a variation of NIMBY-ism, only it's now INMBYN-ism (It's Now My Back Yard). |
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Post by farzooks on Dec 23, 2013 14:32:46 GMT
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Post by farzooks on Dec 17, 2013 2:06:44 GMT
I'm not a great possessor of watches, just having got out of the habit of wearing them when several got mashed and bashed at work and found the various timepieces built into other devices were adequate most of the time. However, my taste has always been towards utilitarian, tough, rugged and reliable kit, and to that end I've been looking at ex-MoD service watches. I recall, years ago, the MoD released a batch of Brietling Navigators, which sold for about 30 quid a pop. Kicking myself for not getting one at the time. I'm looking at getting a UK Mod G10 Army or RAF variant, dead simple, reliable and only for telling the time with - no fancy extra dials for anything. Problem is, there are so many fakes on the market (some really good copies too, not fakes as such, just makers' own versions of the CWC one). This is the real thing.. cwcwatch.com/beware.htm and how to tell fakes. If you follow through to the Amazon and ebay official re-seller's sites you'll see how pricey they are new, although the cheapest one isn't too bad at £130. Even so, I'd be more inclined to buy a genuine ex-MoD used one at a fraction of that. Same thing goes with the Russian and Chinese military watches - the originals were very good, but demand from the West has caused back-street fakers to spring up all over the place and there is some right shit around. |
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Post by farzooks on Dec 17, 2013 0:36:29 GMT
I keep my Skype status as Invisible - friends can still call me but it certainly cuts out the pests. I occasionally get a phishing message, but Skype seem to have done something about that, as I haven't had one for months.
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Post by farzooks on Dec 14, 2013 20:42:58 GMT
Extremely mild here at the moment - keep waiting for the monster to break out of the cupboard and smash the kitchen up - where is winter?
An interesting thing came up - avid readers often fall prey to this (myself included). You read, know, and understand perfectly well what a particular word means, but only rarely, if ever, hear it used and sometimes you just damned pronounce it wrong when you go to show off your erudition. How embarrassing - and it's common enough, by all accounts. Decades ago, I saw a Python sketch about this, centred around a barrister who was entirely self-taught. It was hilarious.
For years I thought "supercalifragilisiticexpealidocious" was pronounced "bollocks". Oh, woe.
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Post by farzooks on Dec 13, 2013 19:59:35 GMT
...so get your ass out of here.
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Post by farzooks on Dec 9, 2013 1:24:32 GMT
step daughter has a couple of friends 16-17 yrs old whom don't know who nelson Mandela is? yes they think he's either Morgan Freeman or Martin Luther King, I kid you not  I was disappointed at the number of people who thought this was Mandela... Eny fule no it not - it Chef Mango Butta Welly.  |
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Post by farzooks on Dec 6, 2013 2:21:14 GMT
I'm all electric and love my igenix heater from amazon. Had it on all winter (not literally all the time) and they were £30-40 for a halogen heater. Don't cost the earth in electric and easy to put together. Better than the ones from the cheap shops in town. Might be worth ordering one in now  ....my only regret was getting a remote control one when I didn't need it Those 400W-per-element halogen heaters work really well. I was suprised how effective they are and because of that, reasonably economical - I bought one to replace a traditional two-bar electric fire and for half the power consumption the rooom was easily as warm. Obviously, there was no improvement in efficiency (electric heating is 100% efficient, that's a given), but there is most certainly an improvement in efficacy. Only drawback is the first two I bought were cheap ones, as that's all the local shops stock and I'll not buy another cheapy - those Igenix ones look better quality, although I see they also offer a couple of the cheap looking ones too. The element life and the switches on the cheap ones are short,also bad design leads to overheating of the plastic casing, with the rear case simply falling apart with the heat - luckily it didn't melt or catch fire. |
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Post by farzooks on Dec 5, 2013 20:49:26 GMT
Where's the Grinch at the bottom, armed with a laser to shoot the falling snowflakes?
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Post by farzooks on Dec 5, 2013 20:40:12 GMT
ummm. Bit grim here, brand new morrisons supermarket ( and costa coffee, cinema and Travelodge hotel) almost underwater earlier today   Thats WAS the carpark.... Heres the loading bay >  That's all salt water? A lot of those vehicles will be written off and the ones that aren't will be rotten heaps inside a couple of years. |
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Post by farzooks on Dec 2, 2013 0:53:30 GMT
People thought I was mad asking for a slow cooker for a wedding present. Don't use it much these days as work from home and fussy kids, but boy was it handy pre-children and out at work all day. Coming home to a lovely smell and dinner almost cooked was fantastic. May have to dig it out again. I got myself a soup maker. One like a kettle, its brilliant. 21 minutes and perfectly cooked cream of vegetable soup. Even took it to Beavers for them to make soup. Quite interesting as they had to bring in one vegetable so had no idea what it was going to taste like. I hate it when a favorite piece of kitchen equipment breaks. Sorry, there's one thing that doesn't chime - fussy kids? "Eat it or out ye go, laddie." |
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....my only regret was getting a remote control one when I didn't need it
