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by Polisman
12 Jan 2020, 12:50pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'
Replies: 21765
Views: 848470

Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

al_yrpal wrote:People often leave well paid jobs to improve other aspects of their lives. Brexit is a bit like that. The so called experts continue to pour scorn on Brexit but time will tell. The 'experts' seem to have had a very chequered track record up to now.

Al


Brexit is a bit like 'absolutely nothing at all', and drawing any vague analogies to it is quite a useless exercise, because of the unprecedented situation the British Isles now find themselves inextricably landed with.
by Polisman
12 Jan 2020, 12:46pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Can you hear something?
Replies: 34
Views: 1252

Re: Can you hear something?

Cyril Haearn wrote:One wonders how much material is lost through aromas
Dolgellau used to have an interesting sheep smell from the tannery
I live near a muesli factory (chocolate or malt or honey or sugar, not unpleasant)

Can you smell something? How does Sailor smell?


There are various estimates as to the 'angels share' of evaporation from whisky barrels, but mostly its reckoned to be about 4-5% per year.

My Scots friends live in Dumbarton right along the river from a whisky bond. In summer the scent of rich peated malts is incredible, and the local trees are covered in a thin black layer of it. I often though to have a munch at a branch as I was cycling by en route to Loch Lomond! :lol:
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 9:56am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Has Trump just started WW3?
Replies: 121
Views: 4075

Re: Has Trump just started WW3?

He's an expert at obfuscation and deceiving those who want to be deceived. I think it's probably be another gun crime moment 'let's not talk about guns'. Genius, really.
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 9:47am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Dyson vacuum replacement.
Replies: 26
Views: 1111

Re: Dyson vacuum replacement.

A big thumbs up for the Vax. Super reliable and if looked after curiously indestructible!
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 9:20am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Has Trump just started WW3?
Replies: 121
Views: 4075

Re: Has Trump just started WW3?

Trump is always starting WW3. So the hyperbole is not really necessary. Constant conflict and populations in fear is the fuel that drives these nut bars, Boris Johnson included.

Until this 'strong man' ludicrous excuse for democratic rule ends, we will all of us be perennially in peril.
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 9:17am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Goodbye Old England - Jockxit. It's Time We Were Gone
Replies: 257
Views: 9406

Re: Goodbye Old England - Jockxit. It's Time We Were Gone

irc wrote:
Cunobelin wrote:
Bonefishblues wrote:Why is 54% particularly significant?



If a Scottish indyref gives a 50.1 yes vote then we will leave. One thing at a time though. Brexit first. Then the 2021 Scottish elections. Then if the SNP get a majority maybe early in the 2024 to 2029 Tory govt there will be indyref 2. It's been 300 years. Why the rush?


There's no particular rush, other than the Scots weary experience of ten years of Tory government, cuts and austerity, all which have ravaged the country. The prospect of another 5 years of the same and being dragged out of Europe against their collective will had made the Scots angry and impatient. I could see a new referendum either before the end of this year, or the middle of next.

It makes no difference which, as the transition period is absolutely bound to be extended by at least a year, if not three come December 31st.
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 9:13am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?
Replies: 1851
Views: 61899

Re: Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?

Oldjohnw wrote:The CS doesn't just employ Oxford Graduates.


Quite, but a move away from sourcing a high percentage of staff from that source has got to be a good one. People with real life experience and insight into how the world actually works and not just book learned theory.
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 8:51am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?
Replies: 1851
Views: 61899

Re: Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?

Paulatic wrote:I do see some sense in
bring in “super-talented weirdos” with “genuine cognitive diversity” and avoid senior civil service applicants with Oxford and Cambridge English degrees.

Ive said for 30 yrs if the Ministry for Agriculture had given me a job I could have saved them billions. :)
'Poacher turned Gamekeeper' but I remained the poacher.


It's quite a bold move to eschew Oxbridge graduates, and a welcome one. It's about time skills for government are recognised not just from academic backgrounds.
by Polisman
3 Jan 2020, 6:16am
Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
Topic: Bosch ebike motor
Replies: 17
Views: 2503

Re: Bosch ebike motor

Round our way the big problem is 4x4s and trial bike riders especially them. They tear up great swathes of tracks and turn them to mud baths in no time.

The local police do not give a toss about it. I really can't see them getting out of their comfy cars and venturing into the hills to hunt down people riding 500w ebikes either, and in fact I think the suggestion that they would do so somewhat laughable. There's anti bike sentiment everywhere, it's universal, and vociferous, adding ebikes to the mix, whatever sort is hardly going to change it.

On the scale of 'crime' I'm sure it barely even registers on a coppers radar. Sorry to burst your indignation, but ebikes aren't even in the ball park for rural police, and if you think they are, you're very much mistaken. They have much more serious and sensible work to occupy their time.
by Polisman
2 Jan 2020, 2:04pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Goodbye Old England - Jockxit. It's Time We Were Gone
Replies: 257
Views: 9406

Re: Goodbye Old England - Jockxit. It's Time We Were Gone

Quality bit of telly. But you can view the same up close and personal every year At the Scottish Highland games circuit. An experience never to be forgotten. And anyone can participate I in the events, I won a sack race a few years back, and a bottle of Glenmorangie for the reward. Now that's what I call competitive sport :lol:
by Polisman
2 Jan 2020, 1:57pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BT Scam?
Replies: 11
Views: 577

Re: BT Scam?

This happened with kids playing a mobile phone game a few years ago. They scooped up all the phone and email details, probably sold them to some dodgy Russians and targeted thousands to sign up to a monthly subscription of around £20 a month, which was almost impossible to cancel, unless you did so at your bank. Of course the kids appropriated their parents (or anyone's) credit cards whenever they got the chance :lol:

You can bet your guts some dodgy character, probably working in a perfectly legitimate company you deal with, has sold your details, and perhaps millions like you, out the front door of the company on a memory stick. They sell for a good bit of cash. Credit card numbers included. Happens every day of the week.
by Polisman
2 Jan 2020, 1:54pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?
Replies: 1851
Views: 61899

Re: Boris Johnson: Why is a proven liar in power?

Clarke had the makings (and the gravitas) of a major reformer, but look what happens in the Tory party when you try to rock the boat (even for the better)
by Polisman
2 Jan 2020, 1:51pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BT Scam?
Replies: 11
Views: 577

Re: BT Scam?

Mike Sales wrote:
Polisman wrote:Hmmm.. You probably just paid a quid or two to be connected briefly to a premium rate Indian number. If you'd have stayed on the line, you could be 80 quid down in a few minutes. These kind of scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and difficult to stop. Your operator won't help you here, even if you ran up a bill of thousands :shock:


I was off the line pretty snappily!


These scam numbers can be billed at premium rates up to £100 a minute.
by Polisman
2 Jan 2020, 1:50pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BT Scam?
Replies: 11
Views: 577

Re: BT Scam?

Unfortunately by proceeding with the call you've probably been added to their automated 'victim' database and the won't stop so easily. Do you have a black list facility with your operator. I can black list up to 500 numbers with Three. I haven't had a landline number in years because of these nuisance calls. It's just not worth it.
by Polisman
2 Jan 2020, 1:48pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: BT Scam?
Replies: 11
Views: 577

Re: BT Scam?

Hmmm.. You probably just paid a quid or two to be connected briefly to a premium rate Indian number. If you'd have stayed on the line, you could be 80 quid down in a few minutes. These kind of scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and difficult to stop. Your operator won't help you here, even if you ran up a bill of thousands :shock: