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Post by banjo on May 12, 2023 15:52:55 GMT
Amazon maggots, just absolute bottom feeding ordure.
Best Beloved wanted a book for her Kindle, I'm so fuming that I've already forgotten who wrote it or what it's called, but I do recall it was not completed at the time of the author's unfairly early demise, so number one son "finished" it. Alright, I guess that's kind of OK?
It used to be you could browse and buy on the Kindle, in fact you could even do so over 3G on her Kindle, but along with on device purchases, the south American jungle scrotes took away that facility sometime within the last year, so now you have to purchase on a PC (or in my case my Android 'phone) Only THEN you can download via the same WiFi you used to use to purchase on the Kindle directly onto the device.
Do you know the idiots at Amazon tried to persuade yer hippy to "upgrade" to a new Kindle that- woo-hoo- offers no more capability than her existing one does after its recent removal of capability. That's correct- the new ones don't have the browse and buy facility either, you still have to purchase on another device. Well I suppose they think it's "progress"? The cynical hippy is waiting for the unsuspected backdoor download that silently renders her Kindle device inop so you are forced to "upgrade"?
Me? I bought a "Nook" for £29 as opposed to the £149 I forked out for her Kindle, and the Nook has a backlight and you can load open source books which of course you can't do with Amazon's Kindle unless you do battle with "Calibre". Sure I know that Barnes and Noble shut down their e-Reader online presence, no doubt in the face of crushing monopoly by Amazon, but hey- it didn't change the Calibre focused way that I use it, and anyhoo- as I said it was only 29 squids.
Back to the plot then- the new book is £11-99 on Kindle, but wait- being forced to browse Amazon's web pages of treacle thick HTML content soup and funneled "gotchas" just to buy it, yer silly hippy noted that the same book on Kindle is £8-49 in Sangria lingo. Flip it's even slightly cheaper in Kraut. Next up- oh my days!- Amazon want £8-00 delivered next day free of charge all-inclusive for the HARDBACK.EDITION, yet they want £16-99 for the paperback? WTF? Who are these faceless cynical wallet gouging pieces of shyte?
They just encourage piracy and as such they get what they ultimately deserve. Stuff 'em.
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Post by banjo on May 12, 2023 18:23:41 GMT
Eurovision.
Hmm. A few years ago no one really gave a cr4p about the Eurovision Song Contest as we crusties knew it, and I believe with good reason. I smell massive steam-rollered hype to gather lemmings onto a tsunami over the crest of which shekels cascade into the coffers of some unidentified cabal of fiscally interested parties.
First up, it doesn't generally matter about the merit or otherwise of Old Blighty's scrambling efforts, it's always "nil pwunt" from certain countries' "judges". Secondly, as someone with a more than passing life-long interest in music; of the disparate examples of Eurovision "content" that has assaulted my cab doors, I have no recollection of hearing anything whatsoever of any note (pun intended) diddly Squat, Bu66er All.
You know there's a good reason why Floyd, Zeppelin, Who, Stones, Bowie, Blur, Beatles, Pulp, Jam, Radiohead, Joy Division, Thompson, Tears For Fears (and you get the idea) would never have sullied their kudos with any association with The Eurovision Song Contest or "Eurovision" as it has been re-branded.
Congratulations to a Puppet on a Made up Mind? Cliff who? Enjoy yourselves Scousers and with my unneeded blessing, but do report back after the gravy stroke. I will say that we have more chance of victory in this charade than The World Cup!
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Post by banjo on May 13, 2023 11:07:00 GMT
And anuvver sparsely veiled TV licence threat belly flops its weary path onto my doormat.
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Post by nob on May 17, 2023 6:51:01 GMT
It surprised me Sweden won the Eurovision when next year marks 50 years sine ABBA won, Oh yeh its being held in Sweden next year. What a fix.
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Post by banjo on May 17, 2023 7:13:59 GMT
Spot on nob. Welcome back to the carp by the way.
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Post by nob on May 17, 2023 12:22:47 GMT
Not too bad here Steve grass cut and the suns out, I brought it back with me.
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Post by banjo on May 17, 2023 21:56:47 GMT
My grass was a good 10" high before we headed south west nob, due to constant rain making it too wet to cut, and interspersed with sunshine making it grow like Topsy. I dread to think how high it'll be when I get home. I suspect it'll have gone to seed. Could be a strimmer job.
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Post by nob on May 18, 2023 6:59:19 GMT
Steve I have an old petrol rotary one that will chop any grass down, the cylinder is used after that. Just the strimming round the edges to do now.
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Post by banjo on May 18, 2023 7:37:18 GMT
It's true, even my 36 years old FlyMo will cut down anything in its path- it just floats over the top gradually reducing the height. The trouble is that as it approaches ground zero it partly rips out the grass and the rest it folds over flat due to the moisture. I go for a strimmer in such circumstances followed by a cut 1 or 2 days afterwards.
A cylinder cut would be out of the question- the ground in an 8-10 foot radius of the back door is like a moonscape of hollows thanks to our last golden retriever. The grass conceals it until you mow. The destruction was limited to that area by chaining her to the wall with the narrow sloped roof extension (coal storage?) as a shelter against the rain, and with Best Beloved's Dad coming round to collect her an hour later. She was a little boogah that one! I hated tethering her like that, but in addition to the carnage inside, she broke out of every attempt to restrict her to the garden. The damage indoors was withering- she pulled the whole dining room carpet up and relocated it in tbe kitchen, dragging the furniture into the bargain as just one example. She pulled off the door frame OGEE architraving for another. When BB's Pa got too old and stopped coming round, I set off on what would become a seven years stint of taking her to work in the VW Bus. No tea break or lunch break for the next seven years. When BB cut her hours to 3 days, she used to come and collect her but I still had no breaks. I was at work by 5-30 every morning to secure a place in the shade of the only tree in the car park, followed by an hour and a half's kip in The Bus with her before off into work.
Memories!
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Post by banjo on May 19, 2023 9:59:44 GMT
For at least the last half an hour I've had what looked to me like a Trafalga class submarine loafing its way across the horizon in my spotting 'scope. I won't say where exactly ... It doesn't show up on the marine tracking website that I use (www.marinetraffic.com) and above the surface I reckon it ought to otherwise the system is pointless, but I guess that's no surprise really. On the other hand, if it was that concerned about its visibility I reckon it would have found water deep enough to submerge by now? It's fascinating though because it's the first time I've seen a sub. out there in the congested shipping lanes. Ha-way 'n' thumbs-up the lads (and no doubt lassies too).
Edit: it has just disappeared around the point. I was really hoping to see it submerge- that would have really gilded the lily.
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Post by nob on May 20, 2023 8:19:09 GMT
Steve my lad was on a Trafalgar Class sub, we had a families day out from Plymouth, out and dived fired air from the tube they let me press the button, up on the fin for the return was great in open water, looking at ferries through the periscope. Sadly HMS Trenchant is now scrap. You couldn't buy that trip.  |
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Post by banjo on May 20, 2023 14:14:16 GMT
You know nob, I reckon that's up there with a flight on The Concorde for a bucket list, but upon reflection I reckon the sub has the trump card. After all, once inside, Concorde wasn't actually much different from a BAC 1-11 from a passenger's perspective, and no one can sense neither relative nor absolute speed inside an airplane, certainly not from the mach clock anyway.
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Post by nob on May 21, 2023 8:20:05 GMT
The Concorde used to come to the Finningley air show many years ago, very impressive at low speed and low altitude, certainly as noisy as a Vulcan.
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Post by banjo on May 26, 2023 13:35:05 GMT
Ah The Vulcan. Deceptively graceful lines concealing deadly firepower. Walk softly but carry a big stick.
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Post by nob on Jun 22, 2023 13:18:40 GMT
Well it looks like the Titanic/Atlantic has claimed five more lives. The sub lads I know hope it imploded when they lost contact and it was quick. RIP guys.
Update,, apparently it has.
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