Does he raise & lower it at sunrise & sunset?

You could buy a bugle…

But people assume that if you work in IT, you know absolutely everything, lol!

This book is immensely helpful. I have a 2:1 in History with American Studies 😀

the imposters handbook[/url]

I’ve not watched these yet:

Warship, Channel4

Any good?

Interesting thread…

…But Zokes is coming across as the love child of Sharkey Ward and Lewis Page!

I sold 4 items on eBay 2 weeks ago. I sent them via collect plus who sub contracted to Yodel who wasted no time in making all four vanish.

Luckily one of the buyers had a contact at Yodel and after some behind the scenes goings on they turned up at a Yodel hub somewhere in the Midlands miles from where they should have been.Yodel have now successful ly delivered 3 and lost the fourth one but say it was delivered…

…I will tell the buyer to check the roof.

One of my colleagues fulfills nearly all the criteria to be radicalised

Give him a kitten, apparently trying to decide a name for it will keep him so busy he will forget all thoughts of destroying western civilisation.

…the thread just keeps on giving…

If it’s the one I did, the take home message appeared to be that kittens prevent terrorism.

Does it matter if the kitten is called Louise? Hopefully we can cross Swoosh off the list of possible suspects…

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@flashy

You’d never have sold it last month. People beware the IDEs of March.

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Call the cat Louise and tell everyone. You will have done your niece a massive favour by scratching that one off the list of possibles…

…in 6 months you will have everyones blessing to shoot the cat.

Well if doing lot’s of miles then a diesel makes sense, but 200 miles a week isn’t really that high ~ 10-11,000 miles a year at most.

If you are only doing that sort of mileage the fuel savings are negligible so isn’t a good enough reason to choose diesel over petrol IMO.

Of course if your Leon eats petrol then changing to a more economical car might make sense, but there are plenty of petrols with good MPG these days.

As everyone has said, the recall is completely ineffective, the only time it can even be remotely useful is if everyone is on the same domain and exchange server and you recall almost immediately.

The horse has truely bolted and them saying they are trying to understand who saw it is just wasting time/avoiding responsibility.

Legally speaking I have no idea where your wife stands. I am not sure if there is anything that can be done regarding the misuse of her computer accounts (company directors or not).

Depending on the industry an Ombudsmon of some sort might be interested in how this data was mishandled?

If she were to pursue this legally I would recommend gathering all evidence and speaking to a union rep (if she is a member). It is likely that any case would hindge upon proving someone else accessed her accounts (if the boss won’t cough to it); but gathering forensics from her work machine from a hostile employer without their permission might be difficult…

You missed something…

Gofasterstripes/hutchweb have it – It’s very unlikely to work.

The Laptop Win 7 licence will likely have been an OEM one, which is tied to the laptop motherboard/CPU combination.

The Windows 10 licence will therefore be the same and will reject activation on the new combination. You might be able to get away with doing a phone activation (you have to tap in long key). Microsoft do make provision for this – laptop motherboards are replaced under warranty etc. but technically you are in breach of the EULA by transferring to a new machine.

If you want to be safe just download a Win 10 iso and install that from scratch on the new machine. You can try and input the Win 7 licence key and if it works it probably means your Win 7 licence was the full product and not an OEM one. If it fails it will tell you where you can purchase a new key from.

Go with the Intel, the motherboard, CPU and RAM are much more recent designs and will out perform the AMD for most tasks.

Both are good enough specs for general office/web tasks and casual gaming.

If budget is tight consider ditching Windows 10 for Ubuntu MATE or similar, it should save £50 or so.

Seems the forestry commission are fed up with the bags too;

Stick and Flick – Forestry Commission have a poem[/url]

1,000 tons of dog-poo a day 😯

I still find it amazing that the first in-service dates for the Lancaster and the Vulcan were only 14 years apart; 1942 and 1956 respectively.

What is probably more amazing is that in 1982 the Vulcan’s which attacked the Falklands did so using navigation techniques and tools that a WW2 navigator on a Lancaster would have been familiar with.

The starlings got back into the soffits earlier than I anticipated this year. No chance to block them out, maybe next winter.

On the bright-side, it’s my neighbours wall they shit down not mine…

I love this pic of a Silence Twister under construction; it puts the kit into it, resembling an airfix model…

For the Tornado fans this book is a must. After reading it you start to realise why having the most maneuverable fighter no longer matters;

If the wife’s name is Louise no other excuses are required

Footage of a United Pilot on his way to the gate has also been leaked;

…if I can’t convince the wife that a Land Rover Defender is an ideal family car then I doubt a 60 year old Skyraider would be acceptable as a family plane…

I suppose I could convert it to look like the RN AEW model – at least a few extra suitcases could be stowed in the radome bubble 🙂

sell ’em into slavery to buy the hanger.

Well, the boy can be rather annoying at times…

Yeah, nice one Klunk, but the kids might get cold clinging to the under-cart 😀

Have got to say that if I were really able to afford an aircraft the DA42 would definitely be somewhere near the top of my list. The digital engine control systems, cheap (ha!) running costs, and mostly glass cockpit make it very appealing. There is a chap who puts recordings of his flights across Europe in one on youtube;

Jaunty17

Nice, an amphip flying boat, go anywhere ability. The kids will like that.

Not smart enough to have any morality over being trained to kill on demand without question?

…or smart enough to know that sometimes, some people need to be prepared to put aside their own needs and wants and to maybe even give their own life to help others?

Say what you want about the politicans you can leave the people in the forces alone.

Some of our countrymen are about to deploy to South Sudan as part of UNMISS. They are heading there to build a hospital – but I suppose in your world view it’s only so that autism enabling vaccines could be administered 🙄

Just got back to my hotel from warpigs. 2nd time this week but it’s on expenses and makes a mockery of my vegetarian diet, Oh well…

Flying home tomorrow, probably back in 2 weeks, thanks for the list

…because just about every nation on Earth (with only one or two exceptions like NK) has signed a treaty banning their use.

Even before this was signed the European public were so shocked by what the heard/saw from the trenches of WW1 that it became political suicide to talk about using them. This did not prevent governments anticipating their future use in the run up to WW2 however – and issuing protection/preventative measures to their citizens.

In pure military terms chemical weapons are ineffective against protected targets, at best they force your opponent to don bulky uncomfortable clothing & respirators. Trained soldiers will be fully protected in less than 10 seconds if they are already in an environment where it is anticipated such weapons could be used.

So in short, they are horrendous, ineffective against enemy combatants and above all else are against the rules so not cricket!

Hope that helps.

3 x 2 man tents and a small gazebo? No having the kids in my tent would be ace, not sure my wife would agree…

Going about stinking has a certain charm, it guarantees personal space on the tube for a start…

Never mind esports, the guys who churn out minecraft videos on Youtube for youngsters to watch are making a killing. Mine don’t do CBBC anymore…

A 3 year old cheap laptop can certainly feel like it has slowed down. Often the cooling design of them is poor and if dust has built up the thermal protection will throttle the CPU to protect it. This is on top of usual bloat and disk fragmentation etc.

A proper clean up, SSD, memory upgrade and fresh OS install can work wonders, but given that it probably has a cheap and nasty screen and keyboard why bother?

A decent laptop will have a screen that is good to look at, and generally nicer to work at. IME a £1k laptop will outlive several £300 laptops, so if you can afford a decent Dell/Apple, whatever, then you won’t regret it.

Laptops are now pretty much like kitchen white goods, you get what you pay for.

I wouldn’t worry too much. I’ve spoken with a couple of aviation types who have seen odd things, but would only admit it after changing career…

Both ex-RAF and very sane and down to Earth. It seems that Unexplained Aerial Phenomena is a thing that many acknowledge, shrug their shoulders, mutter and forget about.

These days it’s easier to say it must have been a drone rather than worry about little green men and rectal probes.

But before anyone else does…

Blurry photo or it didn’t happen 🙂

EDIT – beaten to it by Trimix

This story would be the same in my house. My daughter is now 7 and I made a comment a few weeks back that pretty soon she will be able to take herself to the Park (which you can see from a top floor window).

It didn’t go down well…

I was 7 (mid 80’s) when first allowed to go to the local park and shops – although my 8 year old sister was usually supervising 😕

That’s BACON you see there on the same plate!

Pah, that’s not bacon, that’s just the cheap fatty cuts. Let’s compare proper bacon to that;

Shrove Tuesday pancakes should look something like this;

There’s something not right with that picture…

GTX 970 Gaming card – check
Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS setup – check
Multiple Monitors – Check
3.5″ floppy drive – WTF?

Your neighbour knows you can get the original 1990’s Falcon games from gog.com right?

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Top-tip, don’t go to the website Ernie linked that pic from…