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« 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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Yes! Drakeford is going….. they’ll be singing in the valleys tonight🤣🤣
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?
I can recommend the Volvo V70.
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.
Get a dashcam.
You're driving along, early evening, low sun, and rain, heading North so sun is behind. Within the speed limit and no drink or drugs.
A person runs out and hits the offside front quarter of your car. Head through windscreen. An eye witness turned out to be unreliable. Now of course the "experts" will have an opinion but as far as the police are concerned it's hard evidence that matters. A dash cam may or may not have recorded the actual impact, but it will show what did NOT happen IE: a front-on collision, and it will also have recorded other circumstances and events.
This is not me, but someone I know who is now a mental wreck due to the uncertainty, and serious injury of another.
He was actually 82 years old .
Getting back to Gary Moore.
He came from a couple of miles from me in East Belfast. He was left handed but played guitar right handed. Im the same.
Unfortunately for me, thats where the similarities end.
A mate of mine used to live next door to his parents. His Dad was a Taxi driver and a drinker, so my mate used to pop round and to visit Mrs Moore in the evenings and "keep her company".
I saw him in a very small venue (about 200 people) in Shepherds Bush about 15 years ago. The stage was only about 3 feet high and I stood right at the front. In fact he stood on my fingers at one point.
I was transfixed watching him play, and could only conclude his secret was simple. An overdose of God given talent.
How he played guitar didnt seem humanly possible to me.
He was, technically at least, the greatest Ive ever seen.
This is a good demonstration. Worth sticking with it for the whole ten minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMdbsmuhLZ0
Ahh, I’m a million miles away, classic👍
My first gig was Ulster hall Belfast January 1974, where the live version of A million miles away was recorded for the Album and film Irish tour 74.
Belfast Loved Rory, because in those days hardly anyone would come near the place, but he came and played several nights every January.
Saw him seven times, and to this day, he was by far the best live performer I have ever seen. He blew the roof off the place every night.
Met him very briefly to get his autograph, and off stage he was the quietest most humble person you could ever meet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxiEMpcI83E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKU3Y9IbI08
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ek2alPDHkSM&si=r9IHXfwFkG0Z0fIA
Best guitar playing with unparalleled emotion enthusiasm skill he actually runs out of frets on the second solo, not to mention the incredible drumming, bass, singing, a true masterpiece in my world👍 I could listen to it indefinitely.
I worked in the NHS for 10 years, and then in the medical industry supplying goods and services to both the NHS and the Private Healthcare Sector for 40 years.
The amount of waste in the NHS is jawdropping. Partly due to incompetence within, and partly due to abuse by the public. I could write pages. Just two examples (I will not identify any establishments or people)
Asked to tender for replacement equipment with specification. I knew the customer and knew what was needed, the specification was excessive and increased the cost by thousands. I was told to meet the full specification. We got the order. On delivery the end user asked about all the extras that had been ordered. I explained. The extras got shoved in a cupboard never to be used or seen again.
Equipment training at a major teaching hospital. After basic training this is done "live" at a real clinic with patients. Five patients booked, not one of them turned up, just one called to cancel at short notice. Cost: The sterile consumables that had been prepared: A morning's pay for one consultant surgeon, one senior nurse, one nursing assistant, and me. Plus of course the waste of appointments that could have been used for others. This never ever happens in private hospitals as the patient or their insurance company is paying.
The NHS is not underfunded. It will happilly swallow all cash that it is given and still ask for more. It is badly managed, and taken for granted by the public. It is a political hot potato, so no Government dares to undertake the radical change required. It was fine in 1948, but not now.
Incompetent managers like to build empires, thus the DIE jobs.