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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ignorance @Nanny Beach?  Those predictions are based on a theoretical model predicting reduced solar activity in that decade and the people suggesting that will mean a new Ice Age don't realise that solar activity is already in a low cycle.  Even if the model is correct the reduced activity won't cause enough of a cooling effect to counteract all the CO2 causing global warming.

    On the other hand, disaster movies seem to be easy money because people enjoy being scared - in a cinema where it's safe.
    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
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Despite going to bed at 20.40 , I only managed about 5 hours sleep. 
    I've been up since 4am and just about to head back to bed.
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    True . My husband is watching a western. No 💩.
    He got annoyed w/o when I mentioned it. No sweat . Clean clothes and shiny hair. I bet when someone inevitably gets shot, there will be no blood to ruin the costumes.

    Has he commented on the 6 shot revolvers which never run out of bullets?
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I see war criminal Tony Blair is to receive a knighthood for his services to the country.  :|  I assume it wasn't for his role in creating the 2008 financial crash though. 
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Trouble is,all the "modelling" is done by different modellers, same with the Covid modelling. Hosta (hope things are reasonable for you) 5 hours I bloody wish!!!!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m another one who doesn’t sleep,  I read till about 1.30 - 2am if I then sleep for 4 hours I’m over the moon.  Will go off in the morning though, wrong time! 
    My daughter and her family don’t sleep either,  the eldest boy is up best part of the night,  that’s why she got him a holiday job in Tesco, shelf stacking from 11pm to 8am,  she said he’s up anyway, may as well be earning.   He loves it,  over £400.00 a week. 
    Her husband often dozes on the settee then gets up at 3m and goes to work, says he can get more done before anyone else gets there. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    edited January 2022
    Beer has always been sold in pints, with or without the crown stamp.  So his big success has been allowing goods to be sold in pounds and ounces.  Earth shattering that is not.  One greengrocer near us has always been happy to provide pound of whatever, he just can't price it up as such.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    France and Belgium went decimal under Napoleon, over 200 years ago but I can still ask for "une livre" or a pound of something in many market stalls. 
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I've always been able to buy fish, cheese, meat, fruit and veg etc in pounds and ounces ... even down the road at the W'rose butchery counter ... 'three quarters of a pound of beef skirt and a piece of ox kidney' is handed over without a problem  ... the butcher at the farm shop knows exactly how many gms half a pound of mince is  ... and yes, beer has always been sold in pint glasses and mugs ... and our milk comes in glass 1pint bottles ... more proof that Boffle is a self-obsessed idiot ... as if we needed any 🙄

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Surely this wonderful achievement should be celebrated on the RTBC thread🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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