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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    So how does washing your dirty cycling clothing on a cold wash in a washing machine on the top of hill save the planet.
    As in the Ariel advert.
    Do these people in advertising believe no one has the ability to think.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,770
    You don’t need a pump to drain. 😉
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,770
    You do need to get the water up there in the first place though. Shhhh.
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    pblakeney said:

    You do need to get the water up there in the first place though. Shhhh.

    I wonder how they power the machines.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,341
    =
    webboo said:

    pblakeney said:

    You do need to get the water up there in the first place though. Shhhh.

    I wonder how they power the machines.
    Posterior + pipe + generator.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,341
    ...and beans and cabbage.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,902
    pinno said:

    ...and beans and cabbage.


    It's almost Christmas.

    Sprouts.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,341
    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    ...and beans and cabbage.


    It's almost Christmas.

    Sprouts.
    There you go. The way to power your washing machine on top of a hill.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,341
    Do you play Sprout tunes BT?
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,902
    pinno said:

    Do you play Sprout tunes BT?

    I've never developed that talent, even if I do f@rt prodigiously.

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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,866
    rick_chasey said:

    Same gap between Thatcher’s election and the war as now and Thatcher

    I think you need to check your dates/sums

    War started 1939
    War ended 1945
    Thatcher elected 1979
    Thatcher deposed 1990
    Now 2021
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,689
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Same gap between Thatcher’s election and the war as now and Thatcher

    I think you need to check your dates/sums

    War started 1939
    War ended 1945
    Thatcher elected 1979
    Thatcher deposed 1990
    Now 2021
    1979-1939=40

    2021-1979=42
    _
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,770
    Yeahbut while 1990 is in people's recent memory 1979 does feel a long time ago.
    Mention James Callaghan and a common response will be - who?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,538
    The one that makes me feel old is that the Falklands War was closer to the end of WW2 than today. I still remember it well whilst at the time WW2 seemed like ancient history. I think it is also partly as much of the equipment used in the Falklands was vastly different to WW2 but seems more like today's stuff (mainly due to the use of helicopters and jets I suppose, I think some of the ships were WW2 relics).
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,770
    I once remember reading that perception of time is a product of age.
    For example when you are 10 years old 5 years is 50% of your life so seems a long time. When you are 50 years old 5 years is only 10% so seems not so long.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,629
    Music is an even better way of feeling depressingly old.

    The "oldies" on the radio in the 80s were no more than 25-30 years old. Oasis were a thing 25 years ago.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,902
    First.Aspect said:

    Music is an even better way of feeling depressingly old.

    The "oldies" on the radio in the 80s were no more than 25-30 years old. Oasis were a thing 25 years ago.


    Depends what music one listens to... I listen to Bach, Brahms and Basie, and they're all old and dead, so I feel quite young still....

    Just ignore the fact that Frankie Goes to Hollywood is also almost equidistant between the end of WW2 and now.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    focuszing723 said:

    I'm glad for the pilot, but when a £90,000,000 F35 jet crashes in the sea, is it insured?

    https://www.forces.net/news/what-you-need-know-about-f-35b#:~:text=How much do the jets,grand total of £190m.

    Sailors saw a red cover floating in the sea after the stealth jet splashed into the Mediterranean.

    A source said: “They knew almost right away.

    “The covers and engine blanks are supposed to be removed before flight.

    “The ground crew do it and they are incredibly strict.

    "Then the pilot walks round.”

    The Navy pilot tried to abort take-off but ran out of runway so had to eject.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16829088/royal-navy-fighter-jet-crash/

    Sounds like a £90,000,0000 million pound mistake.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,770
    edited November 2021
    focuszing723 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    I'm glad for the pilot, but when a £90,000,000 F35 jet crashes in the sea, is it insured?

    https://www.forces.net/news/what-you-need-know-about-f-35b#:~:text=How much do the jets,grand total of £190m.

    Sailors saw a red cover floating in the sea after the stealth jet splashed into the Mediterranean.

    A source said: “They knew almost right away.

    “The covers and engine blanks are supposed to be removed before flight.

    “The ground crew do it and they are incredibly strict.

    "Then the pilot walks round.”

    The Navy pilot tried to abort take-off but ran out of runway so had to eject.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16829088/royal-navy-fighter-jet-crash/

    Sounds like a £90,000,0000 million pound mistake.
    How many zeroes is that? 😉
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,341
    pblakeney said:

    focuszing723 said:

    focuszing723 said:

    I'm glad for the pilot, but when a £90,000,000 F35 jet crashes in the sea, is it insured?

    https://www.forces.net/news/what-you-need-know-about-f-35b#:~:text=How much do the jets,grand total of £190m.

    Sailors saw a red cover floating in the sea after the stealth jet splashed into the Mediterranean.

    A source said: “They knew almost right away.

    “The covers and engine blanks are supposed to be removed before flight.

    “The ground crew do it and they are incredibly strict.

    "Then the pilot walks round.”

    The Navy pilot tried to abort take-off but ran out of runway so had to eject.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16829088/royal-navy-fighter-jet-crash/

    Sounds like a £90,000,0000 million pound mistake.
    How many zeroes is that? 😉
    Something close to UK's national debt.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Maybe someone can educate me, because I don’t like being ignorant, but I don’t understand the outrage that’s occurred here:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59397737

    A photograph, commissioned by Dior, of a very striking young woman has become “they’re trying to say we all look like this”. I’m keen to not tell people how to feel, but I struggle to see beyond the artistry.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,629
    briantrumpet said:



    Depends what music one listens to... I listen to Bach, Brahms and Basie...

    Of course you do.

    Somehow I imagine you sitting on a green leather upright chair, wearing a red velvet smoking jacket, with a gramophone in the background playing a record shaped like a taco.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,619
    Ben6899 said:

    Maybe someone can educate me, because I don’t like being ignorant, but I don’t understand the outrage that’s occurred here:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59397737

    A photograph, commissioned by Dior, of a very striking young woman has become “they’re trying to say we all look like this”. I’m keen to not tell people how to feel, but I struggle to see beyond the artistry.

    The basis is that people think it reflects poorly on the country ("sinister eyes") and plays to a western stereotype i.e. ignoring all the beautiful eyes in China. By doing so they are, of course, eye shaming someone. It's a ridiculous position, but I'm sure some people will be sympathetic.

    North Korea tries to police the photos tourists take. They don't like tourists taking photos that they think reflect North Korea badly e.g. poverty, buildings under construction. The reason for this is they feel the western world focuses too much on the negative stuff and only publishes the stereotype that North Korea is poor. If there was a North Korean twitter people would be outraged by the publication of negative photos. It is a similar thing although in the case above the negative thing happens to be an actual person.





  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,314
    Ben6899 said:

    Maybe someone can educate me, because I don’t like being ignorant, but I don’t understand the outrage that’s occurred here:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59397737

    A photograph, commissioned by Dior, of a very striking young woman has become “they’re trying to say we all look like this”. I’m keen to not tell people how to feel, but I struggle to see beyond the artistry.

    It does seem odd, I was expecting to find somewhere in the article that they'd edited the eyes to make them smaller, but that doesn't seem to be the case
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  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    How the migrants on that raft got through on the phone to authorities in both France and UK.

    I am surprised they weren't just directed to a website "Where you can find answers to common questions".
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,619
    Why the BBC doesn't cover the world chess championship in any way.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,494
    TheBigBean said:

    Why the BBC doesn't cover the world chess championship in any way.

    Good point. There is plenty of good online coverage though.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    edited December 2021
    Chr1st, even they look bored.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    And, any old computer with the right software could thrash them.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    Checkmate!

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