RANT THREAD

Oi !! :rolleyes:

Would anyone like to add anything?

Only that there’s already a thread on this subject that you could have found if you’d only googled it…

…and your post is full of spelling and grammatical mistakes!

I think the moderators should delete it!

Someone I expect we have all come across at one time or another ?, on numerous forums over the years.

The self appointed forum moderator

You’ve posted this in the wrong section.

You could have found the answer to you question with a simple Google search (with the emphasis on simple).
Giving endless quotes and links, even if you had asked for personal experiences

Being the first to tell you that there is already a thread on this subject, if you had made the effort to look.
(even though the original thread had an obscure title, not found by the search engine)

Telling the “actual” moderator(s) they should move, lock or delete a thread.

The online teachers, picking up on spelling and grammar

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Would anyone like to add anything ?

I was once told that the pre-paid envelopes used in junk-mail could be used to post any item of ‘mail’ and that the Post Office would charge the pre-paid account accordingly…

…the suggestion was that if you sent them a paving-slab…..they’d stop sending you junk-mail!

I’ve never tried it but I may ask in our local Post Office.

One thing I have done to stop one very persistent sender of junk-mail is to return the junk-mail to the ‘orders’ address rather than the ‘if undelivered’ address. This was after repeated returns of the junk-mail to the ‘if undelivered’ address were simply ignored; I’m sure it wasn’t even opened and just went straight in the bin.

Having moved house just over a year ago I am starting to get junk-mail from the previous owners now that their Post Office redirection has ended…

…I look forward to doing battle with the junk-mail again!

I expect we all hate junk mail ?

My small and insignificant way of getting back at some of them, is to post it all back to the sender if they
supply a pre-paid envelope. Putting even more junk mail inside if possible. 🙂

Against my better judgement, I watched BBC’s Question Time last night.

What an obnoxious woman Anna Soubry is. She constantly interrupts the other speakers, and pulls silly faces.
Can’t stand the woman.

No Alan, Mine are outside in the open, in a window box, where other flowers etc are planted. I have found out though that the larger one is faster to react than the smaller one.
Jim
Lincoln .7

Where are you looking?

Depends what you define as accurate, Alan.

In terms of when it’s going to rain for instance. I can look on “Will it rain today”, and it will show heavy
cloud formations. More often than not, it doesn’t actually fall from the sky.
Same with snow, it’s very unpredictable. I think they often err on side of caution, to avoid people complaining
they weren’t warned.

We have quite a collection of pine cones, gathered on our travels. I never think to look at them though.
I would have thought they need to be outside under cover ?

Depends what you define as accurate, Alan. There are certainly other forecasters with less sophisticated kit producing better forecasts than our bunch!

But they can’t beat Linc’s pine cones, that’s for sure!!;)

For several years now I have had two Pine Tree cones I took off a tree. They give at least 4 to 5 days “Warning” when the weather is going to change. When good weather is on the way, they open up, when bad, they close.
Think I will send the Met Office a couple, that should improve their forcasting !!.

Jim
Lincoln .7

It boils down to the fact that nobody caan give an accuate forecast
more than 24hrs in advance.

The predominant weather patterns affecting the UK are areas of low pressure of varying intensity crossing west to east interspersed with more settles periods when high pressure predominates. These low pressure systems have brought heavy rainfall and very strong winds over the decades.

What has now changed for our self-important overfunded meteorological office to ascribe stupid names to these low pressure systems? How on earth does that benefit us? Are they aspiring to emulate the hurricane seasons other parts of the world suffer?

If they spent their time on more accurate evidence based medium term weather forecasting rather than computer modelled speculation we might all be the better for it.

Look out here comes “Barney”!! Barney…….!!!!;)

i can confirm this to be true, had it done last Friday 🙂 along with a hot towel shave, which almost knocked me out with the amount of aftershave used

😀 If you used this treatment during questioning of a prisoner, you would have the entire Human Rights and Geneva convention people on your case:D

Isn’t it Turkish barbers who have a somewhat fiendish way of dealing with hairy ears?, the procedure (so I’ve been informed) is take two small clumps of cotton wool, dip into methylated spirit or similar, set fire to said cotton wool, then slap the damn things into both ears together, I am reliably informed that this does not result in internal combustion or heart attack and certainly clears hairy ears.

i can confirm this to be true, had it done last Friday 🙂 along with a hot towel shave, which almost knocked me out with the amount of aftershave used

I should imagine the Russians are less than pleased with the loss of their aircraft and citizens, yet seem more than untroubled by the fact one of their army’s missiles brought down Flight MH17 over the Ukraine.

Moggy

It looks increasingly likely that a bomb brought down the Russian aircraft in Egypt, though I do find Cameron’s proclamations a little premature. I’m conflicted here, to be honest. As long as there is any doubt around the bomb theory the BBC et al are basically serving as the PR wing of ISIS, in a perverted sense. ISIS are likely to claim any good in that part of the world as the work of their cunning and conniving schemes, but it doesn’t make it true! Remember all the ragtag groups that claimed 911 as their handiwork. I optimistically (in the loosest sense) hope that the aircraft crashed as a result of those repairs carried out after a tail strike, though that was back in 2001 apparently. It wouldn’t be the first time that botched repairs caused a bulkhead to blow out at altitude, and I imagine an explosive decompression and a bomb sound fairly similar over a cockpit voice recorder. From that sort of thing knuckles can be rapped, lessons can be learned, procedures can be introduced or revised. The alternative is the white-hot lunacy of ISIS, and I hate to think that they are getting credit where it certainly isn’t due. If nothing else I think the way ISIS is commonly reported is perhaps a little simplistic. Yes they are barbaric religious extremists, but they have too many resources, seem to act in too calculated a matter and just seem to be too widely spread for there not to be some sort of overarching power structure that we aren’t totally tapping in to. I’ve seen the Saudi royal family implicated, but you quickly end up in David Icke territory that way. Is it fair to say ISIS is misrepresented in the West to aid political agendas here? Who can say, but history could potentially suggest so.

All of this is small beer, apparently, anyway. If you watch the news you would think that the real story wasn’t so much dead Russians as inconvenienced sunburnt Brits. I think holidaying in ‘Sharm’ comes with its inherent risks, personally, and that anybody staying there shouldn’t discount them. You are paying Benidorm prices to holiday in Egypt, not that you apparently notice any difference in your gated esort, and in doing so you are spending time in a country that recently had a military coup that saw the president thrown in gaol. You are saving money by holidaying in a risky part of the world, so occasionally the **** will hit the fan; yet I’m supposed to feel sympathy for a pack of chavs stuck in an airport, because they keep sobbing that nobody knows what is going on. In that aspect I suppose they are quite correct, but whilst this uncertainty remains it is probably best that you don’t get on an aeroplane in an airport where it appears that you can bribe the security team and have anything placed in the hold. All of this overlooks the plight all those Russian families with dead relatives strewn around the Sinai desert, purely because our Kimberley has to spend a few more nights in a plush hotel. This whiny, lazy and complacent attitude will be the downfall of this country, I tell ye.

What were you reading the night prior to pranging your aircraft Moggs, Page 3 of the Sun?…………….:highly_amused:
Jim
Lincoln .7

I read Roadcraft every night before bed.

Moggy

Hey Moggy, your turning into a proper ‘Tom Topper’