chrisp65

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Based on my resolutely unscientific hunch, I'd say the majority of the planet regardless of race, colour, creed, whatever, is homophobic and has women as second class citizens.

I think we live in a relatively small enclave of what we see as enlightenment. I'm not sure women and gays have anything approaching equality in China, or Nepal, or Sikh areas of India, or catholic south america, or Papua New Guinea or the Isle of Man or Northern Ireland. All to greater or lesser degrees. But don't presume urban UK 2015 is the norm.

when you start up a 'grubby little addiction for pensioners and deadbeats' thread for your scratchcard based posts, I'll stick my parsnip n sprouts junk in the correct recepticle

so I've sat here all day minding my own business

4:00pm I decide to treat myself to a long rolling low level fart

4:01pm a delegation of 3 technicians arrives from around the corner to ask me to decipher my scribbles on a drawing

welcome! welcome all! sit! breathe!

little baby pre amp as an experiment - keyring for scale!

£40 because it was previously reserved for a no show customer so had a big neon reserved sticker half ripped off the box!

Thank you Mr Tallon, please feel free to order some speakers and fail to turn up for them too.

--update-- wired up and it sounds bloody lovely

super chuffed with this, I've already got a decent working unit here, I really am just fiddling to make it nicer from here on in

that's Christmas, birthday and anniversary prezzies sorted for a while!

ahh, I can't do the root around in the soil - I have what is technically known as ..... mud

We've put years into the soil in this allotment, it started off as 'impossibly bad', we've gradually worked and worked it up to it's current status of 'a bit crap'.

There are parts where less than a spade depth down there is a table of clay, which means 30% of our patch floods in a light drizzle. Luckily, the allotment is oversized so we've learnt where we can grow what, where to use raised beds and where to just chuck some pumpkins on the surface.

right wing coup and military dictatorship 1964 - 1974 says hi!

things were so much better when the colonels told people what time to clear the streets of an evening

First crop of new potatoes from the garden.

Lightly sautéed in butter - from the garden to the plate in just under 20 minutes or so. Beautiful.

Stripped the last of the broad beans yesterday, blanched and frozen in the chest freezer out the garage.

Tonight, that now empty bed gets onions!

I might lift a plant tonight then, and see what my potatoes look like. My gut feeling is that it's too early for mine, they were stuck in very late.

On a general nature observation - a once thriving grass snake community appears to have disappeared. We used to have dozens upon dozens of them. Haven't seen a single solitary one in 12 months.

To think that only a month ago Nick Robinson was missing out on the election coverage due to his illness.

Now he's recovered enough to be on stage at Glasto as the Chemical Brothers.

loving the giant robot

I'd mistakenly thought it was just an open conversation.

No biggy.

 

 

That's the thing, the majority of us are good people. Almost 2 billion Muslims, yet people are associating Islam with the very small minority of terrorists rather than everyone else.

And even then, these terrorists can't be classed as Muslims when they carry out the atrocities that they do. 'Save a person, it's as if he has saved the whole of mankind. Kill a person, it's as if he has killed the whole of mankind'.

With 2 billion Muslims do you think this community should be doing more to wipe out the extremists operating under the same/similar religiosity banner?

What ate you doing to stop the racist attacks in America?

 

I don't think he's having an open conversation or answering supplementary questions from others.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for the white people of Germany to apologise for the murder of 9 blacks in an american church.

I don't think I consciously know anything by him, but the little bit of Kanye I saw last night, no more than a few minutes, made it clear it wasn't my cup of tea. Which is fine.

The Mothership however, oooh, I loved that.

each to their own, be boring if we all liked U2 and 1D 

meh, moving on

If Greece does collapse down to the next rung of the disaster ladder it could be interesting to see Germany's reaction to hundreds of thousands of economic migrants arriving from within the EU with just enough bus fare to get to northern europe, a bag of clothes, and a legitimate EU passport.

 

Just got gogglebox on, I've never watched it before but it is utterly pointless, I can't believe people would actually watch it.

I'm watching someone watching telly, it's blatant that it's all half scripted as well by the looks of it

People are retarded. Now you get to watch them be retarded.

 

somewhere out there, there must be a programme, giving people's reactions TO people giving their reactions on gogglebox

I'd be confident that exists

 

That's the thing, the majority of us are good people. Almost 2 billion Muslims, yet people are associating Islam with the very small minority of terrorists rather than everyone else.

And even then, these terrorists can't be classed as Muslims when they carry out the atrocities that they do. 'Save a person, it's as if he has saved the whole of mankind. Kill a person, it's as if he has killed the whole of mankind'.

With 2 billion Muslims do you think this community should be doing more to wipe out the extremists operating under the same/similar religiosity banner?

 

How much do you think they are doing?

Who should be organising this, and from where?

How much do you think the 150 to 200 million shi'a support ISIS?

take dollars!

Ima not gonna let him finish.

 

I too got on a tube shortly after the bombings. I flew on a half empty plane shortly after the towers.

But I have no faith that the authorities that would be nominally looking after me on a north african holiday would have the ability, desire or wherewithall to genuinely try and protect me. I'm not asking for guarantees, I'm doubting the ability of a north african government to even understand what's needed to competently try and safeguard a north african beach.

Go and take a quick look at a map of north africa and tell me you'd be confident people were able to look after you.

By people I assume you mean in an official capacity ? I.e police , govt etc ?

I wouldn't necessarily rely on those people in my own country

Call me naive but I have a faith in humanity that if I was in a foreign land and trouble like this broke out the local people would look out for me

I say this based on my encounters in places many people would call "hostile " ...

 

I possibly didn't fully expand the thinking behind that last line. The point was to look at the geography.

In crude terms, you are on a coast line of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Syria. I know that's quite a long line, but why would you currently book a holiday anywhere along that line?

I don't think an individual Tunisian is more or less capable or honourable than anyone else.

I do suspect that given a choice of being 'protected' by the UK authorities, or north african authorities, on average I'd still stick with the UK version. 

I don't even feel the need to complete a set by a band. I have the third of the three complete Beatles multi CD boxes. I have no need for the first two.

There's a Johnny Cash set of 5 or 6 albums out, I have 1,3 and 5.

I have every Jam single, some in multiple formats, but only four of the albums.

Switzerland

Good driving, scenery, toblerone.

For your favoured temperature, select an altitude.

If you drive from UK you can notch up a tick list of 7 or 8 countries without trying too hard.

so the speed selecter, bottom left, operates a lever at 14 which slides the arm 11 up and down so the idler wheel at 1 hits the spindle (silver conne by the 3) at any variable point.

The top of the wheel rotates the platter around.

The platter weighs an inconceivable amount, maybe 4 or 5 kilos on its own. The solid timber case and electric motor must weigh another 4 or 5 kilos. This is a lump. But mounted on really bouncy springs that self level to an extent.

Switched on and rotating, it's absolutely silent. You have to look at it to know it's on.

Flicking through the TV channels and just got Glastonbury

Some long haired ginger bird warbling badly on stage

Switched it off after about a min

But there appears to be thousands of people watching/ listening to her and having fun .. Presumably they all have MP3 players in their ears and can't hear what im hearing

57% of them probably think its the Foo Fighters

I too got on a tube shortly after the bombings. I flew on a half empty plane shortly after the towers.

But I have no faith that the authorities that would be nominally looking after me on a north african holiday would have the ability, desire or wherewithall to genuinely try and protect me. I'm not asking for guarantees, I'm doubting the ability of a north african government to even understand what's needed to competently try and safeguard a north african beach.

Go and take a quick look at a map of north africa and tell me you'd be confident people were able to look after you.