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LiW lives!

He is risen!

Back from the dead like the proverbial Tino.

Fist.

What sad days are these when the resurrection of a member fails to ressurect the thread?

Sicond.
Galted's alive!

Fist.

This is poor. Shouldn't be relying on the dead to post fist.

Sicond.

Apologies Tino. Just had a sneezing fit for about 1 minute. Always seems to happen at a certain time for no apparent reason.

How's it going? Is it cooling down there now? Will the rivers ever run again? It looks like Australia in parts of France and Spain. I did notice the Thames looked a bit low the other day too. Was that way out in west country near the headwaters? The last thing you want is blue-green algae blooms... kills the fish and wreaks havoc on the food chain. Hopefully it will bucket down soon and flush it all out towards France.

Pal Joey wrote:Sicond.

Apologies Tino. Just had a sneezing fit for about 1 minute. Always seems to happen at a certain time for no apparent reason.

How's it going? Is it cooling down there now? Will the rivers ever run again? Looks like Australia in parts of France and Spain. I did notice the Thames looked a bit low the other day too... was that way out in west country near the headwaters?

Much cooler now, Pee Jay. Still very little rain around, certainly in the South East but temperatures have dropped. We'll be moaning about the cold soon enough.

Yes, everywhere looks so yellow in Western Europe. We are really fortunate where we live as we are in the middle of nowhere and normally the surrounding area is so green and verdant but it now just all looks yellow, dry and crispy still. I've never seen it like this since we moved here which is a long time ago now. It is going to take some serious amounts of water to getting it looking lovely again.

How is the land of Certain Death at the moment?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:Sicond.

Apologies Tino. Just had a sneezing fit for about 1 minute. Always seems to happen at a certain time for no apparent reason.

How's it going? Is it cooling down there now? Will the rivers ever run again? Looks like Australia in parts of France and Spain. I did notice the Thames looked a bit low the other day too... was that way out in west country near the headwaters?

Much cooler now, Pee Jay. Still very little rain around, certainly in the South East but temperatures have dropped. We'll be moaning about the cold soon enough.

Yes, everywhere looks so yellow in Western Europe. We are really fortunate where we live as we are in the middle of nowhere and normally the surrounding area is so green and verdant but it now just all looks yellow, dry and crispy still. I've never seen it like this since we moved here which is a long time ago now. It is going to take some serious amounts of water to getting it looking lovely again.

How is the land of Certain Death at the moment?

You know, it was quite mild and spring-like this morning. Blue skies. Even saw some locals in shorts and t-shirts. Went across the harbour to pop in and see Mum and go out for lunch. However, by about 2pm it started to look ominous. Monster dark clouds.

When I hit the road on my way back it started bucketing down. Temp dropped from 23 to about 10 in under an hour. I just took the bins out (red and yellow this week) and there seemed to be a wind chill factor. Felt like 5. There's a big snow dump happening down south right now. Expecting some in the Blue Mountains just west of here. Actually just checked Katoomba. 0 deg... feels like -3 and snowing.

That probably explains my sneezing fit. I had dry heat blowing out from the unit and the heaters on and then the short walk down the driveway with the bins in the 'freezing cold' must have got the sneezing underway.

I'm not dead.

Galted wrote:I'm not dead.

I've taken you off my Foe list as well. What a day to be not dead.

All relatively quiet on the wildlife front at the moment.

Apart from a trapped whale (in the nets) up at the Gold Coast this morning. They freed it in an hour or so. They cut into to a major news story to show the moment it was cut free.

There's debate here about removing the shark nets at beaches (the Greens say they kill too much marine life) but I've just seen an expert on TV saying that since the ban on shark kills here (unlike the northern Pacific) there has been a population explosion... and the great whites are getting bigger. Baby sharks born around 2000 are now 5-6m (2,000 kg) monsters prowling the coastline.

The nets have been there since the 1930s and have probably saved many lives. Of course, there's the odd hole where a shark might slip through but there is constant monitoring with helicopters. That poor bloke who got attacked last year was just outside the nets so was taking a bit of a risk.

Morning all. Not dead yet

Pal Joey wrote:All relatively quiet on the wildlife front at the moment.

Apart from a trapped whale (in the nets) up at the Gold Coast this morning. They freed it in an hour or so. They cut into to a major news story to show the moment it was cut free.

There's debate here about removing the shark nets at beaches (the Greens say they kill too much marine life) but I've just seen an expert on TV saying that since the ban on shark kills here (unlike the northern Pacific) there has been a population explosion... and the great whites are getting bigger. Baby sharks born around 2000 are now 5-6m (2,000 kg) monsters prowling the coastline.

The nets have been there since the 1930s and have probably saved many lives. Of course, there's the odd hole where a shark might slip through but there is constant monitoring with helicopters. That poor bloke who got attacked last year was just outside the nets so was taking a bit of a risk.

100 million sharks killed globally each year. 100 million. The Great Whites are probably getting bigger as they've got less competition for food as we slaughter their cousins with mindless abandon. Far greater rate of destruction than recovery rates and I read a report a few months ago that suggested close to 10% of shark species are killed each year.

Humans really are rotten c*nts.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:All relatively quiet on the wildlife front at the moment.

Apart from a trapped whale (in the nets) up at the Gold Coast this morning. They freed it in an hour or so. They cut into to a major news story to show the moment it was cut free.

There's debate here about removing the shark nets at beaches (the Greens say they kill too much marine life) but I've just seen an expert on TV saying that since the ban on shark kills here (unlike the northern Pacific) there has been a population explosion... and the great whites are getting bigger. Baby sharks born around 2000 are now 5-6m (2,000 kg) monsters prowling the coastline.

The nets have been there since the 1930s and have probably saved many lives. Of course, there's the odd hole where a shark might slip through but there is constant monitoring with helicopters. That poor bloke who got attacked last year was just outside the nets so was taking a bit of a risk.

100 million sharks killed globally each year. 100 million. The Great Whites are probably getting bigger as they've got less competition for food as we slaughter their cousins with mindless abandon. Far greater rate of destruction than recovery rates and I read a report a few months ago that suggested close to 10% of shark species are killed each year.

Humans really are rotten c*nts.

Yes they are. Not just murdering sharks but basically anything that moves. Makes me feel ill.

What really angers me every year (around Christmas) is the sickening trend of people here crowding into the Fish Market (a monopoly run by one family who make millions over a few days) and buying disgustingly large quantities of seafood... most of which never gets eaten and is simply thrown out or left to rot. What gives these people the right (besides the dodgy licence they can cover in an hour of sales) to r*** the oceans of everything and anything that swims in there? We have a family policy - never to go to that place. But of course it is very popular with just about everyone else.

Pal Joey wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:All relatively quiet on the wildlife front at the moment.

Apart from a trapped whale (in the nets) up at the Gold Coast this morning. They freed it in an hour or so. They cut into to a major news story to show the moment it was cut free.

There's debate here about removing the shark nets at beaches (the Greens say they kill too much marine life) but I've just seen an expert on TV saying that since the ban on shark kills here (unlike the northern Pacific) there has been a population explosion... and the great whites are getting bigger. Baby sharks born around 2000 are now 5-6m (2,000 kg) monsters prowling the coastline.

The nets have been there since the 1930s and have probably saved many lives. Of course, there's the odd hole where a shark might slip through but there is constant monitoring with helicopters. That poor bloke who got attacked last year was just outside the nets so was taking a bit of a risk.

100 million sharks killed globally each year. 100 million. The Great Whites are probably getting bigger as they've got less competition for food as we slaughter their cousins with mindless abandon. Far greater rate of destruction than recovery rates and I read a report a few months ago that suggested close to 10% of shark species are killed each year.

Humans really are rotten c*nts.

Yes they are. Not just murdering sharks but basically anything that moves. Makes me feel ill.

What really angers me every year (around Christmas) is the sickening trend of people here crowding into the Fish Market (a monopoly run by one family who make millions over a few days) and buying disgustingly large quantities of seafood... most of which never gets eaten and is simply thrown out or left to rot. What gives these people the right (besides the dodgy licence they can cover in an hour of sales) to r*** the oceans of everything and anything that swims in there? We have a family policy - never to go to that place. But of course it is very popular with just about everyone else.

That is grim but good on you for not going.

Shark fin soup is the worst. Fins cut off, shark, still living is thrown back in the sea to slowly drown. All for nothing. What sort of individual can do that. Sickens me.

Yeah, was thinking of that too with the northern Pacific comment above.

I saw some horrible things on the streets of Saigon.

Witnessed an unforgettable action of a woman casually chopping a live eel (or water snake?) into segments with each part still flapping on the bench. It happened so quickly... only a few seconds... as I was passing by on the back of a taxi bike (looking towards the wrong side of the street obviously) but unfortunately there was also not enough time to turn away from the slaughter. You can't 'un-remember' those things.

Sorry Miss Jackson, I am four eels. Never meant to make your daughter cry, I am several fish and not a guy.

That just popped into my head, apologies, but, yes humans are generally a bunch of greedy pricks.

Glad everyone is alive and well.

My mate has now successfully completed his move to Sydney now, Peej, if you see a bald, bespectacled, ginger guy who looks a bit like the guy from "Salvage Hunters" say hi and make him welcome for me. I know Australia is a small place where everyone bumps into each other all the time.

rIck_dAgless wrote:Sorry Miss Jackson, I am four eels. Never meant to make your daughter cry, I am several fish and not a guy.

That just popped into my head, apologies, but, yes humans are generally a bunch of greedy pricks.

Glad everyone is alive and well.

My mate has now successfully completed his move to Sydney now, Peej, if you see a bald, bespectacled, ginger guy who looks a bit like the guy from "Salvage Hunters" say hi and make him welcome for me.  I know Australia is a small place where everyone bumps into each other all the time.

l*l
I'll keep an eye out for him. Is he in the legal profession? The bloke from Salvage Hunters looks like he runs a whole Government Department.
Surely your mate is not dabbling with antiques... is he?

Shark fin soup for lunch.

Glad LiW is hanging on. Losing him so soon after Rowley, Shah and Dave would be most upsetting.

Nah, he is an accountant for some medical firm, he does look like a civil servant o be fair.

He has quite a broad Bradfordian accent so you may hear him before you see him, people in Bradford can whisper across a ten acre field (as the saying goes around here)

Galted wrote:Shark fin soup for lunch.

C*nt.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Shark fin soup for lunch.

C*nt.

Don't worry, I don't finish the whole bowl. Just a couple of spoons then I empty into the sink.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Shark fin soup for lunch.

C*nt.

Don't worry, I don't finish the whole bowl. Just a couple of spoons then I empty into the sink.

I tend to use a plastic straw to drink mine, then wrap the leftovers in wet wipes and flush them down the toilet.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Shark fin soup for lunch.

C*nt.

Don't worry, I don't finish the whole bowl. Just a couple of spoons then I empty into the sink.

I p*ss in my my sink.

Ask rIck. He knows.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Shark fin soup for lunch.

C*nt.

Don't worry, I don't finish the whole bowl. Just a couple of spoons then I empty into the sink.

I p*ss in my my sink.

Ask rIck. He knows.

He does, can confirm.

rIck_dAgless wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:Shark fin soup for lunch.

C*nt.

Don't worry, I don't finish the whole bowl. Just a couple of spoons then I empty into the sink.

I p*ss in my my sink.

Ask rIck. He knows.

He does, can confirm.

That means that Tino is quite tall, unless he stands on the counter to do so.

Should make him easier to spot when next I visit the shire.

Fist.

Sicond.

I just hope he clears the washing up first

I used to live in a houseshare and the alcoholic landlord would stay with us from time to time. He once chucked up over a sinkful of dishes and then grew increasingly irate over the ensuing days that no-one bothered with the washing up.

He chucked up over a sinkful after having a skinful. Marvellous.

Fist.

Don't want to alarm everyone but it has been raining in London.  So far, thank the Lord, I haven't got wet though it's been most distressing watching the bins being put out as the people doing so are soaked.

I'll keep you posted on any updates.

I Bin Sicond

Update:

It's not good news, I'm afraid. The bins have been emptied and returned to the various bin stores but, as I was leaning over the balcony to watch them being towed past, I received some rain to the back of the head. Managed to get to a towel quickly enough to avoid any prolonged discomfort but the damage had been done.

Be careful out there.

Pal Joey wrote:I Bin Sicond

Bit disappointed that you think this is an appropriate time for puns, PJ.

I doubt you have any idea how dangerous nature can be, living in Australia.

Galted wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:I Bin Sicond

Bit disappointed that you think this is an appropriate time for puns, PJ.

I doubt you have any idea how dangerous nature can be, living in Australia.

Dangerous nature is my business, Galted.

What's the towing all about?

Is this the order of events for bin collection:

You leave your rubbish in a (random?) bin in the bin store. Or just toss it down the chute.
The truck arrives and they wheel the bins out (or put them on a trailer when full) and empty them.
They then put all the empty bins back on the trailer to take them back to the bin store? Is that how it works?

Obviously it's not personalised with your apartment number printed on the bin so getting them mixed up is not an issue. But they (the Garbologists) just have to make sure they return the same number of bins to the correct bin stores for each apartment building. Is that how it works?

Sorry... even though I lived in a high rise apartment I forgot how it works. I just used to drop stuff down the rubbish chute and then disappear down the corridor as quickly as possible... before the loud "BANG!".

Absolutely gushing here.

Raining pretty hard as well.

Pal Joey wrote:

Galted wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:I Bin Sicond

Bit disappointed that you think this is an appropriate time for puns, PJ.

I doubt you have any idea how dangerous nature can be, living in Australia.

Dangerous nature is my business, Galted.

What's the towing all about?

Is this the order of events for bin collection:

You leave your rubbish in a (random?) bin in the bin store. Or just toss it down the chute.
The truck arrives and they wheel the bins out (or put them on a trailer when full) and empty them.
They then put all the empty bins back on the trailer to take them back to the bin store? Is that how it works?

Obviously it's not personalised with your apartment number printed on the bin so getting them mixed up is not an issue. But they (the Garbologists) just have to make sure they return the same number of bins to the correct bin stores for each apartment building. Is that how it works?

Sorry... even though I lived in a high rise apartment I forgot how it works. I just used to drop stuff down the rubbish chute and then disappear down the corridor as quickly as possible... before the loud "BANG!".

Impressive knowledge, PJ.

We don't have a chute, which is lucky for the cat.

There's a bin store in the basement of each building.  The rubbish is collected on Tuesdays and the recycling Thursdays.  The bins are attached to each other lengthways and towed to the collection area next to the road by a little man in a little vehicle.  Once they've been emptied they're towed back in similar fashion.

I don't know if the bins are marked for certain stores, or if they just go by amount or use some form of sorcery, but it makes for gripping viewing.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Absolutely gushing here.

Raining pretty hard as well.

You having your bins collected as well?

Is your (Osama) bin laden?

Trust Julius to mecca pun out of a serious matter.

Galted wrote:Trust Julius to mecca pun out of a serious matter.

Yes, it islam entable.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Absolutely gushing here.

Raining pretty hard as well.

You having your bins collected as well?

If so, he better bring them back in soon.

Here, when we had the great deluge of rain, they left some of the bin lids open so when I went to wheel them back from the nature strip there was a soup slurry of scum and whatever bacteria was living on the inside of the bin sloshing around when I went to move it. About 3-5 litres worth in pretty quick time.

I had to tip it all down into the roadside gutter which was already carrying loads of street debris in the torrent of water. Tiny shards of glass, minute fragments of plastic, sweet wrappers, used tissues, plastic straws, bird feathers, the tops of take-away drink containers, twigs and small branches, unlucky insects... and all of that was just from my red bin. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination - if you've still got any.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Absolutely gushing here.

Raining pretty hard as well.

You having your bins collected as well?

No. That is a Monday Galted. I told you that when I was on holiday. Please try to listen.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Absolutely gushing here.

Raining pretty hard as well.

You having your bins collected as well?

No. That is a Monday Galted. I told you that when I was on holiday. Please try to listen.

I get a bit confused with your bins, Super's and my own.  Plus PJ's bin puns, and Julius's.

It's not very f*cking easy.

Not even moist here.

Moist now, fist.

Glorious in the Home Counties, riCK. Dry and sunny.

The racists residents in my village will be outside the little cafe moaning about the heat again. The heat and brown people.

Light cloud but a nice day so far. As someone who lives in a old 4 bed house with 4 of us at home fuel prices are going to be bad.

Still, had a recruitment agent chasing me yesterday (it's a shame, great job on paper, but too far away and the job ad on the website of the company has key phrases in CAPS - apparently they PLAY BIG etc). Then had a message from a guy who runs a company doing my kind of stuff who employs someone I know through working with him in the past - so will be having a chat next week. I also have an interview this afternoon with someone with the same name as me (it is not me - I already gave myself a job). Strange times.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:Glorious in the Home Counties, riCK. Dry and sunny.

The racists residents in my village will be outside the little cafe moaning about the heat again. The heat and brown people.

LOL out loud.

We've got some really important and tough decisions coming up this winter with the soaring energy costs. Either feed the children or keep the business running.

Does anyone want to buy a dress?

I see Will and Kate are having to move into a little cottage, so it's not just us suffering from the increase in energy prices.

Hope LiW finds a company of BALLERS and BLUE SKY THINKERS.

Galted wrote:I see Will and Kate are having to move into a little cottage, so it's not just us suffering from the increase in energy prices.

Hope LiW finds a company of BALLERS and BLUE SKY THINKERS.

Better. They are built on INFINITE THINKING.

Seriously they are a big company doing great things, but they should probably either change the person who writes their job ads, or at least encourage them to spend time out in the real world.