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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Microphone turned off here and camera doesn't work.  No Alexa.  Quel horreur!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Anybody accessing the camera on my laptop will be disappointed too.  I use an external monitor so the laptop lid is almost shut.  Picture of a black cat in the coal cellar with the light off comes to mind.  :D
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What with mobiles listening and tracking your every movement, laptops watching and cameras on practically every street corner it's surprising that any criminal can make a living these days.
    I can remember when surveillance video cameras were introduced into shops. People were up in arms about civil liberties and privacy. For all the observation, we are no safer. Criminals can rob you blind from their bedroom without even changing out of their pyjamas.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    In a car park in town yesterday and watched a guy park his fancy sports car centrally over 4 parking bays!  Presumably worried about getting his precious car dinged or scratched by the great unwashed.  Suggestion - if your care is so delicate keep it locked in your garage.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd be tempted to park my old banger right up close and personal👺
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Did he pay for 4 spaces? Conversely two times now when I've  parked at the local nature reserve I've picked a spot in the corner of the carpark where there's plenty of room on both sides to get both kids and the pram out only to find someone has squeezed into the tiny space between me and the hedge when I get back so I can barely get a door open. Both times the carpark has been empty and has space for about 30 cars.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A newsreader just referred to Basil Brush as a ........ GLOVE PUPPET!?!?!?!🤯😱🤭😭

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I heard that. I was traumatised. All my illusions shattered.
    I did think it was a lovely message about "Mr Derek" though.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Did anyone else find Lenny the Lion a bit sinister?
    Thunderbirds puppets were less wooden than the human substitutes
    Being an urban child, I found the woodentops a trifle strange whereas Bill and Ben fostered my interest in gardening - really.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I loved the Woodentops ... it was a mirror of my childhood except my dog was a golden retriever, not “the biggest spotty dog you ever did see” ... the only difference is that Bro and I weren’t twins and we didn’t have a baby in the family. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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