Admiral Draper's Really Really Boring and Totally Pointless Snippets of Information
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: apogee
Age: 65
Posts: 59
Amazes me how some people want to have dominion over urban wildlife so it doesn't interfere with their sensibilities or make them have to wash their cars occasionally..
Don't feed this, don't feed that. Mass culls of starlings and sparrows next? Don't forget the foxes. Swans?
Get a life, Try to get along with nature. Fining the elderly for feeding birds far from an airport or other critical, susceptible infrastructure is dumb ass foolish.
We make exceptions to that here for bears and coyotes.
Ever try cleaning bear pooh off the hood of your car?
Don't feed this, don't feed that. Mass culls of starlings and sparrows next? Don't forget the foxes. Swans?
Get a life, Try to get along with nature. Fining the elderly for feeding birds far from an airport or other critical, susceptible infrastructure is dumb ass foolish.
We make exceptions to that here for bears and coyotes.
Ever try cleaning bear pooh off the hood of your car?
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 55
Posts: 5,743
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Bedford, UK
Age: 66
Posts: 1,200
For some reason, perhaps to test Newtonian physics, I measured the altitude of the sun yesterday at 1pm BST with a steel rule to get a shadow. Having messed up my arctans once or twice, am happy to confirm answer was 62 degrees as is appropriate to my latitude. Sleep easy out there.
Thought police antagonist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Where I always have been...firmly in the real world
Posts: 920
For two days now, ones phone thingy has been sending dire warnings of thunderstorms and one had been looking forward to flash ! crash ! entertainment ( from the ground, one once had a meeting with a Cb in the air which could have prematurely ended ones existence on Earth...I know, but Jesus didn't want me for an angel or sunbeam it seems ) but today they was cancelled !
One thunks the Met Hofffice should do away with all this computer malarkey and buy some pine cones instead !...and stick their bonces out of the window and have look as well.....one once made this helpful suggestion to a met officer in Germany....he was "most upset ".....although one did add some further helpful suggestions about a new career for him and his vision and brain link as well....
One thunks the Met Hofffice should do away with all this computer malarkey and buy some pine cones instead !...and stick their bonces out of the window and have look as well.....one once made this helpful suggestion to a met officer in Germany....he was "most upset ".....although one did add some further helpful suggestions about a new career for him and his vision and brain link as well....
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Coasting South
Age: 65
Posts: 53
Here's a pretty accurate site for locating funderstorms.
https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzo...ex.php?lang=en
https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzo...ex.php?lang=en
Join Date: Aug 1998
Location: Ex-pat Aussie in the UK
Posts: 4,543
The wife has been sufferieng a bit of a bad back after lifting up some wheels from her Discovery, when swapping the Winter tyres for Summer tyres a couple of weeks ago. Day before yesterday she also had a big leg and core session in the gym.
She is now hobbling about the house, grimacing evertime she has to bend.
I've always told her that this exercise malarky isn't good for you.
She is now hobbling about the house, grimacing evertime she has to bend.
I've always told her that this exercise malarky isn't good for you.
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 165
At the risk of upsetting some ( a lot? ) of people I have decided to post something about a certain
day in December. For the last week or so one of our local supermarkets has had on sale a stocking
filled with dog treats.The stocking is clearly marked with the intended festival's name. I won't post the
actual name out of respect but I am sure you can guess which one I mean .
day in December. For the last week or so one of our local supermarkets has had on sale a stocking
filled with dog treats.The stocking is clearly marked with the intended festival's name. I won't post the
actual name out of respect but I am sure you can guess which one I mean .
Thought police antagonist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Where I always have been...firmly in the real world
Posts: 920
Originally Posted by Nervous SLF
At the risk of upsetting some ( a lot? ) of people I have decided to post something about a certain
day in December. For the last week or so one of our local supermarkets has had on sale a stocking
filled with dog treats.The stocking is clearly marked with the intended festival's name. I won't post the
actual name out of respect but I am sure you can guess which one I mean .
day in December. For the last week or so one of our local supermarkets has had on sale a stocking
filled with dog treats.The stocking is clearly marked with the intended festival's name. I won't post the
actual name out of respect but I am sure you can guess which one I mean .
