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Messages - Mister Rog

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General Discussion Area / Re: Spare A Tought....
« on: 19 March 2024, 00:23:00 »
Growing up in Norn Irn, I barely heard mention of Paddys day. It just didnt seem to be a big thing.
No the whole fickin world goes mad for it for some strange reason.  :-\

It's a big thing in the U S of A, so it spreads.
I have to say that when I was in school in Wales St David's day was marked (pointy hats and leek eating contests etc) and these days some shops etc will have some posters and whatever, but really not much in pubs restaurants etc

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Macron hasn’t ruled it out.

I think he is spot on when he says Europe cannot allow Ukraine to lose. There is still a lot of inertia to overcome. Probably better to finish it before the US presidential elections in case Trump gets in and ditches Europe.

Maybe “ our troops” could do support jobs like maintenance with Ukranians on the front line.

Does Europe (and the UK) have the stomach and resources for all out war with Russia?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 18 March 2024, 20:48:48 »
Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel). 73. Short battle with Cancer apparently.  :(
My kids went to school with his kids, and Daughter was friendly with his son in their teen years.
He came round ours once and entertained us with his excellent piano playing.
I thought he would follow his Dad into the music business, but apparently he became a Solicitor, which seemed a waste.

As an aside, his bass player Paul Jeffries and his new wife were killed in the Lockerbie Pan Am flight bombing on their honeymoon.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mark Drakeford
« on: 14 March 2024, 23:58:45 »
the problem is actually caused by us anyway realy when you look at it . not us individually but as a collective group of "people, drivers ,etc ". most laws and penalties , fines etc are only made because  we cannot be relied upon to actually drive sensibly in the first place . if nobody ever speeded then there would never be any speedlimits cameras or fines !.pretty obvious realy and relates to many other laws too.   but putting 20mph signs up doesnt actually do anything and seems to actually make some drivers actually go faster .(certainly round by me they do !) you struggle to drive 20 in a 20 zone without being tooted or overtaken . ive not got a problem with any speed limits especially if they show a reduction in accidents

I dislike Dripford, but the 20mph thing is the least of my problems with him.

Right outside my house the speed limit is 20, and has been for quite some time. It's like a race track. Not just boy-racers with their modified Corsas, ordinary people who if you met in a pub you would regard as sensible, drive like lunatics. Crossing the road is hard. I'd contribute towards a speed camera.

I blame modern cars. Remote and isolated from the outside World. Overpowered, yes, overpowered. Just why do we need top speeds of 130+ mph and 150/250 + BHP? Please explain. I would add that I've had more than my fair share of speeding tickets.

High speeds on motorways are one thing. No pedestrians, a high speed environment. 30/40 mph in an urban area is bloody dangerous.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rochdale
« on: 03 March 2024, 00:40:28 »
George Galloway would fade into insignificance, ignored in parliament and unable to do anything for his constituents, if it wasn't for the fact that the MSM are hanging on his every word. We all know that the BBC, ITV and SKY are left wing organisations and, by putting Galloway front and centre on every broadcast, they are propagating their own agenda.
Does he seriously think he would have been voted in in a white majority constituency?
Hopefully, he will disappear as quickly as he arrived in the next general election. Meanwhile, let's see if the idiot Lyndsay Hoyle allows him to put forward questions at PMQs.

Don't underestimate him. Agree or disagree he is incredibly eloquent and persuasive which is why he is where he is. In a somewhat perverse way, it may be good for Sunak and Flip Flop Starmer to have some competition as neither are very good on the floor of the house. The wake up call here is that Islamic influences are gaining hold on a suposedly secular government.

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General Discussion Area / Re: American elections
« on: 09 February 2024, 00:02:06 »
Even at the last US election I was staggered that Trump and Biden were the best that the good 'ol US of A could come up with.

And now, with a UK general election looming, I ask myself the same question.

It seems that politics has been reduced to having to try and choose from the least bad, not the actual best


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General Discussion Area / Re: Police for sale?
« on: 04 February 2024, 23:30:25 »
Back in the 80s and 90s I had nice new cars that frequently got nicked

For quite some time I've had a car buying policy of NOT having cars that anyone would want to nick. Omegas, Volvos etc

It works  :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: Gas Chamber
« on: 26 January 2024, 06:09:37 »
Back to Alabama.

Why is it so hard to kill people?  ???  It seems the Yanks opps it up regularly with the wrong drugs or the wrong mix of drugs, and now are resorting to clamping a gas mask on this fella and making him breath nitrogen.  :-\

What's wrong with good old fashioned hanging? I read an account once of an execution in an English prison in the 1950's. The condemned man's cell was next to the execution chamber and there was a secret door between the two. Apparently it took just seven seconds from opening the secret door to dropping him.  :o  I'd imagine by the time he realised what was happening he was falling through the hatch...  :-X

Alternatively, maybe they should just take the condemned to the vets, who never seem to have any trouble despatching animals.  ::)   :)

Some years ago there was a TV programme with Michael Portillo called something like "How To Kill A Human being".

Fascinating stuff, but my wife was just a little too interested in it  ???

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 09 January 2024, 13:04:58 »
Welsh Rugby player JPR Williams 74

Legend

Can we all stop putting ages please, I'm getting worried  ::)

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Excellent interview with Jim Ferguson. :y

I was always happy to support an EU which was solely interested in trade and free movement. As soon as it became deeply political, I had worries so that's why I voted for Brexit. Seems my fears are coming true, but Brexit may not stop it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIJeqseEec

Same here. If the EU was just about trade, I would be in favour. But it's not.

A lot of the Remain camp bat on about passports, import duties, paperwork, and other relatively minor inconveniences. It's all peanuts compared with political and military control.



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General Discussion Area / Re: The knobs leaving😁
« on: 17 December 2023, 23:35:04 »
Yes!  Drakeford is going…..   they’ll be singing in the valleys tonight🤣🤣

Singing maybe, but they'll still vote for the next Labour incompetent whoever it is.

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General Discussion Area / Re: I am Good
« on: 30 November 2023, 00:31:44 »
Years ago, well many years, such things would have concerned me. But not now.

During the Covid lockdown I decided that I wanted a new PC, I just went to HP and bought one at the price I was happy to pay. You can drive yourelf nuts fretting over exact specs. It's the same with cameras and HiFi kit. Whatever you buy,  it will all be out of date in 6 months anyway  ::)
Does it do what I require ? = Yes
Job done

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General Discussion Area / Re: Christmas adverts.
« on: 28 November 2023, 23:57:54 »
I was at an outdoor Christmas Market (on 19th November FFS  ???) and the music being thrust at us included "The First Noel" which has the words "born is the king of Israel".
Fortunately no radical Palestinians around   ::) But I was happy to see that the organisers had not gone all Wokey



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General Discussion Area / Re: HIFI
« on: 24 November 2023, 19:05:37 »
I have a Yamaha RX-V 640 RDS which is probaly now over 20 years old and was a good spec in its day.

With it being Black Friday different deals are been offered.

Richer Sounds being one of the offers have got me tempted on a new reciever. Thinking of investing  in a Denon AVR

Any Denon fans on the forum?

Denon and Marantz are pretty much the same company, Marantz being a tad more upmarket (Expensive!).

I'm a fan of both as during lockdown I spent some RBS PPI cash on some new kit. If you have any interest in online streaming and and a whole pile of other stuff, some Denon and Marantz kit had a system called HEOS. It's pretty good. You may think that you don't need or want it, as I didn't, but I'm totally sold on it now. (Yes, I do know about Sonos but it is seriously expensive and I like Denon/Marantz quality).


   


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General Car Chat / Re: I need a bigger car
« on: 05 November 2023, 16:15:54 »
I can recommend the Volvo V70.  :y

It's a comfy old barge with acres of space with the back seats up or down and the D5 motor has plenty of grunt.  :)

If the V70 is too big for your needs then the V60 would be worth a look.  :y

Even the 161hp D3 V70 has enough grunt for me and is pretty good on economy. But care needed there is also a 134hp D3 which probably has less ooomph.

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