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📢 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XVI 📢

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  • Well my train has been cancelled because of flooding on the line north of Barrow. Instead of a 20 minutes standing room only train journey in a packed train little little after 4:10 I've got a train 40 minutes later that's used to be empty enough to get a seat. No idea whether it'll be packed or not. I guess very packed. What joys of train commuting. Add to that I've broken my brompton mudguard. I'm not happy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Hostafan1 said:
    Can I be curmudgeonly about "DJs" latest habit of talking over the intros of songs right up to, and sometimes beyond, the start of the lyrics?
    Didn't they start this as a way to stop people copying the songs onto tape when that technology became more common? It's probably fair to say they can stop now.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I can remember them doing it in the 60s!  Nothing new.
    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
  • Yes I used to tape records from the radio and tv … we didn’t have a record player … I had loads with a bit of Tony Blackburn waffling over the intro 😂 

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited September 2021
    Don't know if this link will work but I was only saying a few days ago that with everyone let out, why can’t we see the doctor,  they’d rather make a phone call, at the time of their choosing rather than see someone face to face.
    A&E are overwhelmed with people going in with things the doctors should be dealing with.

    https://www.change.org/p/govuk-sajidjavid-restart-face-to-face-gp-appointments

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    We have to pay 18 Euros for a trip to the Emergency Dept!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We travelled from London to Pembroke, stopping at various service stations that I wished I had noted for the journey back. What was stunning ( too strong a word but more than surprising) was the mask wearing. Some almost 100%. Some none. It seemed to be related to the condition of the tarmac. Potholes - no masks. Smooth - masks. 
    The body mass of the customers seemed to have some significance too.
    In Ireland, they are much more covid aware. In a restaurant, if sanitizer wasn't already on the table, it arrived with the condiments. De rigueur in shops, vaccination checked before going into pubs etc.
    This side of the irish sea - nothing.  It was slightly embarrassing to be wearing a mask .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    There's no reason to be embarrassed about wearing a mask. In England it is mostly down to personal choice, so if you want to wear one, wear one.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I did wear it but in some places, it was just me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • We wear masks unless in the open air away from other folk.  My OH even wears one cycling to work, and wears them all day in the shop.  👍

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





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