The history of the 007 theme tune is quite interesting. It was originally written for a musical called The House of Mr Biswas, set in Trinidad

I never knew there had been a musical of the book (novel be V S Naipaul). Intiguing,

NB the actual title is “A House for Mr. Biswas”

The Phd doesn’t realy help when you are so far off topic. He didn’t manage to find out that the bomb calorimeter energies for foods are corrected on a food by food basos to get nutritional calories.

The Atwater System

TBH though the only reason I opened this thread was wondering how you managed to ride at all after dying on all the previous ones 😉

That is one of the many health benefits of exercise

Difficult to define a dad joke. I understand it to be a joke suitable for small kids, preferably one which will also cause them embarrassment if their dad tells it while their friends are present. Not sure this qualifies:

What do you call a baby in a pile of leaves?

Russell.

Why so many people for 30mw?

I have not checked completely to see if this point has been made, but baked beans – try them with garlic and a splash of red wine, suitably cooked off.

Not for breakfast though in my view.

Lots of mentions of snot. I’d give it a go.

Children

I have those edifier speakers mentioned just up by there and a Wiim (not pro). Very happy with it, the wiim will play streaming services and live radio (not bbc sounds though) plus will link to my home server which has all my digitised cds, when set up as a minidlna server. The latter is really easy, you could set up any computer to do it. And the speakers are better than I need for keeping me company in the kitchen when I am cooking. I will ptobably get another wiim to put in the living room.

Well I have continued to think about this and a problem is distinguishing teens from early 20s as that divide occurred when I was at Uni and discovering loads of new stuff. This is in terms of when I first got into them, not release date.

But there is one, Strawbs – Hero and Heroine.

Other than that most stuff has more or less stuck with me. There is a lot of stuff from that time which I have later got into for the first time.

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I can get an EV grant of €3500 plus a tax rebate of €2000. These can only be claimed on new cars and not used so I guess it softens the big depreciation.

If my understanding of markets in general and the car market in particular is correct, purchase incentives are a cause of additional depreciation.

I have yet to rediscover “Life before death” by R D Laing. But on thinking if I had anything to contribute here I thought of that. Don’t know if I still have it, or would actually want to listen to it.

On a brighter note, Flanders and Swann have been a constant in my life since the 1960’s.

Cat foot warmer

“an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

I think “skill” is the key differentiator between a game and a sport, but you have to adopt a particular approach. Chess is regarded as a game because no skill is involved in performing the physical activity of moving the pieces (for able folk anyhow). Arguably the card game “snap” should be classified as a sport, as should shove ha’penny and the like. But there is the marzipan category of “games of skill”. E-sports are sports presumably because of the real – time element.

So darts, archery, rifle shooting and the like are sports.

Great film!

Montenegro

I am sure there are a few people on here who are in-laws, some of them female. Come on, let’s hear the other side of the stories!

Scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and toasted rye bread with fruit and veg smoothie and tea.

I’m surprised % of profit is common. Profit is a conclusion of accountabcy and any business ought to be able to arrange to run at zero profit if it tries hard. If I was a landlord I would go for a % of turnover. Or pasty.

Reach sites are pretty much unusable on a mobile. I don’t understand what the business logic of that would be.

Went into town with the Mrs for a bit of shopio and to look around the Christmas market and Winter Wonderland this afternoon/evening. No chance really.

Crystal Temperance Fount

I got so sick of over quoting and poor referencing in assessments that I binned take- home assessments in one module I taught (Law Masters). Students got a question in advance but could only take into the exam room a list of references they submitted in advance for vetting. It wasn’t perfect, but it was fairer overall I think. This was both for essay and problem type questions.

There was still the problem of the dissertation though.

In complex technical cases, the outcome frequently depends on the testimony provided by an expert, be it a medical specialist or a forensic scientist.

Essentially, these experts are expected to possess superior knowledge in their respected fields compared to legal professionals or laypeople, like jurors

Well this is not an accurate statement of what an expert witness is in the eyes of a court in E&W. The technical distinction between an expert witness and an ordinary witness is that experts are allowed to give their opinion (in areas within their expertise), ordinary witnesses aren’t.

Got in a fight
Owned a dog

Fried egg on top even better!

My favourite clothes are the ones where the brand is only on the label on the inside. Big oversized brand labelling is a sign of insecurity of both the manufacturer and the wearer.

I agree, but it is becoming more difficult. Even formal shirts often have a little logo embroidered somewhere on the outside.

finite pot of NHS money

As the usual people may post here, that is not really true. What is finite are the resources, human and material, to provide healthcare, which cannot be increased overnight no matter how much money is thrown at the problem. Hence all those Nightingale Hospitals doing very little as there were no extra suitably trained staff to work in them. They would have served as places for people to die with some semblance of care if things had got really bad (ie no lockdown perhaps).

I am not sure it would work. Zombies vs Gammons, or indeed Zombies vs Libtards, there is some potntial there.

Don’t keep a list but here are some recent visitors, either touching down or invading our airspace. Suburban/inner city garden.

Blue tit
Long tailed tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Goldcrest
Dunnock
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Sparrow
Robin
Blackbird
Magpie
Pigeon
Collared dove
Mallard
Crow
Jay
Black backed gull
Commom gull
Red kite
Nuthatch
Greater spotted woodpecker
Swallow
Heron (for the pond frogs)

And the local escaped White cheeked turaco who has been knocking around for the past 8 years and seems to be enjoying his freedom.

His dad’s fam wasn’t really greek, but his granddad was king of the place. Subtle bid for the house of Windsor to provide head of state and related services to the Greeks?

Thought I got whammed this morning but on a closer listen it was a cover version. Playing at a merry-go-round in Lille.

We don’t have a family argument

Scope for one of those “well known recently died people arrive in heaven at the same time” jokes. Kissinger going to heaven does stretch credulity a bit too far, I guess that would need to be worked in to it.

I am also a fan of the Oxford comma.

This issue has been dividing people since I were a lad. It is a useful skill in some situations, eg meat that needs carving and stabbing, and fish on the bone where it is important to do neither.

But it is also one of those secondary indicators of class by which some will judge us, which is unfortunate.

Naef blong Will

Blimey! Maybe I need to up my underwear game.

Condolences dirtyboy. Things do fall into a kind of perspective over time.

I would like to thank those who have contributed to this thread, I have found it helpful, largely in forcing me to think about planning ahead on more than a financial level for my own demise. Which is not imminent I suppose, but kind of just over the horizon.

Just been trying to organise my digital/physical music a bit and a noticed few things which slipped by the wayside –

‘Millionaires and Teddy Bears’ by Kevin Coyne
‘The Road of Silk’ by Pete Atkin/Clive James

Actually, anything by the above. Some on Spotify, but not all of it. 1970s stuff, what the more trendy grown ups were listening to when I were a lad. Coyne’s “the World is Full of Fools” had a particular impact on me as a young man. And listening to it again, it is just as relevant to me now. (It is a personal, introspective song, not a song about the state of the world. Listen to it when you feel that nobody understands you.)

Fully awake, been to the gym, coffee smelt and drunk. None the wiser tbh.