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  1. I remember going to the Joiners for a midweek gig with my flatmates, to see some band I'd barely heard of, basically because I had nothing better to do that evening. Turned out Radiohead were actually quite good.
  2. I was out walking with the family near Wickham last summer and a group of people came towards us and one of the guys smiled and said hello. I recognised him from somewhere and thought it must be someone I vaguely knew. It took me a minute but a quick look on Google images confirmed that it was actually Hugh Fisher. I don't know him at all - he was just being a nice, friendly guy. I'd have stopped for a chat if I'd realised sooner, but the moment was gone. It would've been a bit undignified for a star-struck 50 something year old to be going chasing after him!
  3. Grateful for any informed opinion on this scenario. Quotation accepted for a domestic building project that includes the provision of lighting and power points. Contractual document detailing agreed price and detailed scope of work (including electrics) is signed by both the contractor and customer. Work commences at the agreed time a few months later. At the point that the basic structure is in place, the contractor advises that having only just made a detailed assessment of the necessary electrical work, it isn't possible to use the existing house electrics infrastructure (as had initially been assumed at the time of quote and contract agreement) and the additional work required will incur an additional cost to the customer of £1K. Is the customer obliged to just cough up, or are they entitled to say 'no - you did an assessment and offered a list of work at a price that has been contractually agreed. The fact that you failed to carry out a proper initial assessment of the cost of the electrical work is of no concern of mine and I will only pay the price offered and agreed in the contract.' Thanks in advance for any useful opinion.
  4. Just upgraded our TV - which was embarrassingly overdue. Our old Sony Bravia must have been 15 yrs old and was not in any way 'smart'. All connectivity to iPlayer, Netflix etc was through an equally ancient BT box, using the Youview platform, which had an integrated hard drive for recording shows. I see that to record TV on our new LG TV, I need to get an external Hard Disc Drive to connect to the USB slot. Anyone got any suggestions of specific models or minimum spec I should look for? Can I go for something cheap and non-branded off Ebay, or is that false economy?
  5. I think you're missing the point. If you're bothered about 80 billion animals a year living miserable lives and being slaughtered so that most humans can eat meat, rather than some of the resources needed to feed those animals going to the 800+ milion humans who are hungry, meat substitutes seem like at least part of the solution. Obviously many of these products are just junk food, like the meat products that they seek to replace. Also, if you believe/are bothered about climate change, eliminating animal products from your diet is the single most effective thing you can do to mitigate your personal impact. Animal agriculture causes more greenhouse gases than all the world's car/plane/shipping/train emissions put together. Meat consumption obviously has health benefits for humans, but none that can't also be found in a non-meat diet. Of course, meat also has well documented links to a number of serious health issues. The vast majority of meat consumed is a cheap factory farmed product - very difficult to describe anything about that process as 'natural'. Dairy products too - milk production starts with a farmer sticking his/her fore-arm up a cow's arse. I wouldn't call that 'natural' myself.
  6. https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2023/10/12/54315/mike_yarwood’s_daughters_front_new_film_about_his_rise_to_fame_and_sudden_disappearance
  7. Scant mention in the obituaries of the Invisible Man, in which he starred. I loved that program as a kid.
  8. IF we pull the plug on Martin, I hope we do something radical like appoint someone with plenty of managerial experience. Young and enthusiastic don't seem to be attributes that have served our purpose over the last three appointments. Hate to say it, but I can think of a very experienced, rather rotund person who would stop the defensive rot and get us winning ugly....
  9. He was a huge TV star in the 70s. I remember he once did a sketch impersonating Lawrie McMenemy. He then seemed to just completely disappear in the 80s.
  10. Golactico

    Che Adams?

    It's very beneficial for him if he signs a new 3 year deal and then gets an ACL injury in training the next day.
  11. The UN chief is saying we have reached the era of 'global boiling' and called for redoubling of efforts to phase out fossil fuels. However, it appears that the most inconvenient of all inconvenient truths is that changing the global food system should be the real priority. It seems that all fossil fuel use could stop dead tomorrow and we still would not achieve the 1.5 degree limit, due to what we eat and how we produce it. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357
  12. I occasionally flick over for the comedy value. Everything about it just feels a bit grubby. I can't help wondering whether some of the presenters know that it's a joke of a channel, but just go with the flow for the pay check.
  13. His death 30years ago has to throw some doubt on this.
  14. Here's Matt expanding on his theory. One piece of 'evidence' he cites is 'people getting their bank accounts suspended'. This is no doubt a reference to Nigel Farage's bank account woes, ignoring the fact that it was very quickly established that far from being deep state interference, Farage simply didn't have enough money to maintain the account in question.
  15. Exactly! This new guy will surely be a nightmare.
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