http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPS2l5fQ55A&NR

The man behind the bear suit and other such items. His wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise

His inventions ‘Firepaste’ and 1313 paste seem astounding.

I have a feeling it may be the usual internet b/s, but i hope not, its too good to be true! 😀 😀 😀

Isn’t that the new health and safety gear, for wearing on building sites? 😀 😀
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Personal reponsibility.

can someone explain to this simple minded personage, what stops the normal average individual from becoming a drug addict and turning to crime. Is it a sense of responsibility that they have for others, as well as for themselves. Over the last 30 years, our culture has become to liberal, in it’s attitude to personal responsibility. With personal responsibility comes discipline, which seems to be lacking these days. Look at the problems our society faces, all because some individuals have no sense of morality and respect in their lives. Yes, morality, discipline , respect and personal responsibility, these, made Britain the great country it once was. I can see nothing but trouble in the future, if the rot is allowed to continue unabated.
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Of course, if the Government could persuade companies not to locate themsleves in major conurbations, but insteda encourage them to spread the UK employment more widely over facilities spread throughout the whole country, not only would traffic and travel congestion be eased, but many areas of the country currently suffering from the perils of acting as dormitory towns (rather than having their own local economy), might benefit by the increase in the local daytime economy.

That said, I wouldn’t want my green and unspoilt patch of the south downs to disappear under grey urban sprawl as it spills out of Brighton or Crawley

In theory I could avoid my 60 mile round trip by car every day, as I live near one railway station, and I work near one on the same line. However, the overcrowded, expensive, and noisy trains, which are frequently late (due to the ever growing list of excuses -Wrong sort of snow, wrong sort of rain, leaves on the line, rails buckled due to the hot weather, problems further up/down the line, trees on the line, staff absence, adverse weather etc etc etc), and the lack of frequent services (only two an hour), mean I would rather sit in my own car, listening to my choice of noise (radio), and without being forced to listen to loudmouths who seem to think that they need to shout into their mobiles (presumably out of a belief that all around them will be impressed).

Give me a decent public transport alternative, and yes I’d happily leave the car at home most days, but until the public service option is reliable, and costs no more per day/mile than my personal chariot then I’ll stay on the roads. Road charges might change my mind, but then I’ll simply ask to work flexi-time, or be based at home – at present my employer will not accept either suggestion, so instead I have little choice but to join the time-wasting and eco-unfriendly lemming-like rush each morning and evening.

Paul F

You could buy yourself one of those Harley Davidson Motorbikes. Get kitted up in bikers gear, including shades, grow a beard, build up your physique, and act real mean. I am sure bikers will be exempt from road pricing, and that would include you.
As regards the railways, during the steam engine era, this country used to have the best railway system in the world, where men were men and not wimps.
No problems with rails buckling, because they weren’t welded together, and there was none of this computerised signalling rubbish, just good old fashioned signal boxes. We used to take pride in our railways, because most of the freight was transported by rail, therefore it was important to have an efficient railway system. 😉

Sorry, Rosco, I don’t really see what is so strange, a camera failing isn’t a special event, it could happen anytime.

But I’m glad to see the thread back, it was a fave of mine 😉

Ok, but I forgot to mention, that the security personnel said it had never failed before. Why should it suddenly fail for me , well there may be a reason. Some people can cause electronic devices to fail, if they become a bit anxious or stressed, and that particular place , certainly made me feel anxious.
Such a person is called a slider, as I have found out, from a paranormal website.

On a different job, I had 3 computer touch screens, all exhibiting the same problem , they would not turn off, I had not come across this fault before, with this particular screen model. I replaced 2 of them with a known good spare, but this didn’t help. This was towards the end of a hectic installation, I was under a lot of pressure to get the job finished. Anyway I gave up with all 3 of them, and left it at that, unplugging them all.
No one came back to me, saying there was a problem with those particular touch screens. Now you have to admit that’s weird.
One last point, as a child I can well remember , always having problems with any watch that I had. The time would either slow down, or speed up intermittently, only by a few minutes, but enough to be a problem. These watches were the wind up type, not electronic.

andrewman

Nice of you to resurrect this old thread, with your spooky experience. I must relate the following weird experience, that happened to me late last year.

I had to have my photo taken by security, for a job I had to do. My boss who was with me, had his photo taken no problem at all. When it was my turn to have a photo taken, I looked at the camera, and much to the amusement of the security staff, the camera stopped working. Needless to say, my boss found it all very amusing, saying I had broken the camera. Eventually the security personnel managed to get the camera working again, saying it was something to do with a memory problem. The question is, because I was in a bit of a slightly agitated state, while having my photo taken, did I cause the camera or p.c. to malfunction. I wont say where it was, that I had the job to do, but it was a very important place.
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It will be opposed precisely for those ‘Orwellian’ reasons and good on George for writing that book way back in the day… And if it isn’t I’ll be Che Guevara’s uncle…:D

You can oppose it as much as you want, it wont make the slightest difference. Nobody opposed the proliferation of cameras, in Towns and Cities. So I don’t see much opposition to road pricing. After all, the British people love to pay taxes, and be tracked wherever they go.
The government wants to reduce, rush hour motorway congestion, and road pricing seems to them, the best way to achieve this.
They would also like to see, companies introduce flexible working hours for their employees, which would also help to alleviate rush hour traffic.
Bring back the good old days, when a lot of people were employed more locally, to where they lived.
No chance of that of course, as the service industry is the major employer, and a result of that is traffic, lots of it.
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Had a lovely Australia day family BBQ with lots of great Australian seafood and fine Australian wines

Glad you had a lovely time over there , did you take some photo’s that you could put on here.
I think we need a happy British day in this country, you know, make everyone feel proud to be British. 😀 😀
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I heard about this too…

I think it’s called “How to lose an election in one easy step” ?:eek:

Problem is, it’s a nice little money earner, and the opposition might do the same, sooner or later. This is a governments dream coming true, BIG BROTHER is watching you. No petition will stop this from happening, it’s coming, and no one can stop it.
It will be interesting to see, if this new technology catches, car tax and Insurance dodgers. As well as keeping an eye on illegal migrant drivers.
Happy motoring.
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