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General Discussion Area / Re: Prize speakers dead ...........

« on: 14 September 2012, 22:54:59 »

This thread needs some bottles. 

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26795734/Valve%20Amplifier/IMGP5757.JPG

Aah - the soft glow and warm sound of tubes, so redolent of the days of single party government, Fleet Street, the Third programme and the Home Service, two channel quality television, - well one channel since it would have been difficult to justify the epithet upon ITV - a proper civil service staffed by educated people and the satisfaction of living in a sovereign nation unsullied by the avarice of unelected bureaucrats from far off lands.

Happy days indeed.

Not to mention the nightly Horlicks.

Quite so, before retiring to a bedroom devoid of a television or computer to dream of one’s exploits that day and other great things all within in the fold of what was always expected to be this great nation- solid, reliable and unshakable.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Prize speakers dead ...........

« on: 14 September 2012, 22:33:09 »

This thread needs some bottles. 

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26795734/Valve%20Amplifier/IMGP5757.JPG

Aah - the soft glow and warm sound of tubes, so redolent of the days of single party government, Fleet Street, the Third programme and the Home Service, two channel quality television, - well one channel since it would have been difficult to justify the epithet upon ITV - a proper civil service staffed by educated people and the satisfaction of living in a sovereign nation unsullied by the avarice of unelected bureaucrats from far off lands.

Happy days indeed.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Prize speakers dead ...........

« on: 14 September 2012, 20:22:21 »

Still using my DM2A's through the Quad 44/405 and FM3 tuner to listen to the Third programme every day.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kate gets her puppys out for the lads

« on: 14 September 2012, 19:31:37 »

I have absolutely no interest in the Royals or Celebs doing what ever they do. People who buy these magazines/news papers need to get a life. If sad acts didn't buy these publications they wouldn't be in business & all this crap wouldn't happen.

I must say I have a degree of sympathy for that opinion Pete.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kate gets her puppys out for the lads

« on: 14 September 2012, 10:54:40 »

How horrible for the poor woman - one of them has gone all black and hairy.  What the hell has she been doing?

Do you see the way she is restraining the left hand one - something is radically wrong here?

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hello

« on: 14 September 2012, 09:55:30 »

How do you do K, welcome.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: hello

« on: 13 September 2012, 22:11:13 »

How do you do John, welcome.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Margaret Thatcher death T shirts

« on: 13 September 2012, 15:52:19 »

Scargill used & abused that loyalty in the most cynical way and he should be reviled for it imo,but of course the left wont let that happen as it wouldnt fit their mindset. Instead they still try to portray him as a great general in the class war.
I would imagine it was very difficult for miners at the time to see the big picture,and those who did had a very hard time of it.
It tore families,friendships and communities apart.There was even a murder within a family over it iirc.
Scargill needed dealing with and the unions needed most of their power removing and forced to be reasonable representatives of their members aspirations,rather than class warriors who were going to overthrow the evil British capitalist state.

My Grandfather always claimed that once the unions started using their membership to work at politics, rather than use politics to work for their membership it was always going to end badly. And he was  a man who was heavily involved(albeit locally) in his union from the day he got home from the army in 1944 until the day he died in 1992, at which point he'd been retired for twenty years.

We cannot put all the blame for the wrecking of British industry on the unions though. For instance, a quick look at how BMC/BL/Austin Rover/Rover 'developed' it's obvious that the inept, incompetent management was equally culpable.

For instance, a quick look at how BMC/BL/Austin Rover/Rover 'developed' it's obvious that the inept, incompetent management was equally culpable

Yes, an important point Nick.

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General Discussion Area / Re: iPhone 5 Next Week 12th September Wednesday...

« on: 13 September 2012, 08:50:15 »

I've just watched a report on Bloomberg about the unveiling of this device - it seemed more akin to a preacher imploring the disciples of technology to fall and worship before the altar of this must have device than anything else.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Central heating on ..........

« on: 13 September 2012, 08:23:06 »

daytime still hot here.. but nights are cold.. after next week temperatures will drop.. but still there a month to open the heaters..
 
time to fly southern hemisphere I think

Yes, before too long you'll want the high temperatures experienced there recently back again cem.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hi new owner from ireland

« on: 13 September 2012, 08:04:49 »

How do you do RR, welcome.

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General Discussion Area / Re: How to steal a beemer

« on: 12 September 2012, 21:12:59 »

Who'd wana steal one 

Anne Robinson, apparently 

I would 'steel' Ms Robinson in a heartbeat.

Den,book yourself an appointment at specsavers ffs ! 

I'd only be looking at the back of her head, son so it wouldn't matter - no-biggie.

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General Discussion Area / Re: How to steal a beemer

« on: 12 September 2012, 21:07:15 »

Who'd wana steal one 

Anne Robinson, apparently 

I would 'steel' Ms Robinson in a heartbeat.

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General Discussion Area / Re: UK banks to exclusively bailout French, Spanish, Italian and Greek banks

« on: 12 September 2012, 21:02:32 »

The Chinese have been fiddling their books for years and someday in the not so distant future their bubble will burst in spectacular fashion!!!   

Quite correct - China will have her own homegrown problems to face  in the not too distant future.

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General Discussion Area / Re: pigeons

« on: 12 September 2012, 20:57:07 »

Yes frustrating enough - without doubt; however the net effect of such activity is increased by an order of magnitude when living across the road from a nunnary and its several hundred inhabitants. 

There you go I've corrected that for you DD.

That would be as near heaven or its constituent parts that Uncle Denny is ever likely to get.