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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 24, 2018 8:44:49 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Aug 24, 2018 11:55:21 GMT
I believe the only thing that is still safe is breathing, and that's under review. Of course even that depends on your location.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 24, 2018 13:51:02 GMT
and don't hyperventilate !  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 31, 2018 10:56:39 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Aug 31, 2018 11:24:02 GMT
Great!
Now watch us stupid Brits keep it just to be contrary.
Drives me mad, it getting dark so early in the day.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 31, 2018 11:26:45 GMT
Just wait for Faridge or some other idiot starting up a bandwagon to protect our beloved GMT
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Post by Slinger on Aug 31, 2018 13:18:05 GMT
If the EU choose 'Summer' Time, as seems likely we will obviously choose to go with 'Winter' Time, thereby remaining permanently out of step with them and give drunken British holidaymakers in Spain the perfect excuse to claim "jet lag" for their condition instead of just "stupid."
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Post by MartinT on Aug 31, 2018 14:58:47 GMT
Jet lag for one hour time difference, LOL!
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 31, 2018 15:10:52 GMT
Don't get too excited - there's no agreement yet! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 31, 2018 15:13:07 GMT
Don't get too excited - there's no agreement yet! I'm delighted it is even being considered. Can't think of any who want to keep it |
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 31, 2018 15:17:04 GMT
Don't get too excited - there's no agreement yet! I'm delighted it is even being considered. Can't think of any who want to keep it You don't live anywhere where there's a major seasonal difference in daylight hours throughout the course of the year. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 31, 2018 15:32:41 GMT
I'm delighted it is even being considered. Can't think of any who want to keep it You don't live anywhere where there's a major seasonal difference in daylight hours throughout the course of the year. The Finns are the ones who started it off. |
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 31, 2018 16:00:45 GMT
You don't live anywhere where there's a major seasonal difference in daylight hours throughout the course of the year. The Finns are the ones who started it off. The Finns get so little light in the Winter it makes sod all difference to them whether the clocks go forward or back. Helsinki is more or less on the same Meridian as Shetland. And you have to bear in mind that Helsinki is just about as far South in Finland as it's possible to go.
Drop down a few hundred miles from Shetland, and you have Central Scotland, where the majority of the population live, and it's there that's being considered with the daylight saving time shift. Things like kids going to school is a major consideration - dawn is around 8:45am in the middle of December in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 31, 2018 16:02:43 GMT
I live in hope
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 31, 2018 16:57:42 GMT
I happen to agree that the forwards/backwards hour shift thing is a waste of time. If we drop the hour shift, we'll need to permanently live on GMT. The darkness in Mid Winter should dictate where we should be setting noon. There's no reason to change anything then in the Spring and Summer months.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 1, 2018 11:47:45 GMT
SOURCEIt's a start, and about time the English NHS followed suit. My wife, who was disabled, had to pay regularly when attending hospital appointments, even though she had a Blue Badge. I've always thought it was a disgusting state of affairs, that people were charged (again) for being sick.
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 1, 2018 14:39:10 GMT
Agreed.
Needs to be sorted asap
The other problem is the sheer number of cars queuing to get in.
Frimley can have queues half a mile down the road.
Chertsey a doddle by comparison, but you can still queue so long you are late for appointments.
The money tees me off so I look for a way around it and park a little further away and walk in.
Yesterday waling in I noticed how many 1000s of cars there were parked up in Chertsey - and this just for staff. Acres and acres of car parking.
Signs saying your car will be clamped if you don't have a staff pass.
I wonder how deep the answer is as I cannot see there are anywhere near that many staff. If there are do they need to be there at the same time ?
Blue badge must be one exception to charges. What about those patients who can't walk far who don't have a blue badge ?
If all hospitals need so much car parking space how it be cut right down ?
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Post by Slinger on Sept 4, 2018 11:46:34 GMT
Another "thing" about hospital parking is that a lot of hospitals don't have enough parking for staff, believe it or not, and I've read more than one account of already financially-strapped nurses having to pay for off-site parking out of their crap wages.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 4, 2018 12:29:19 GMT
As there are international footy matches this weekend most teams are at a loose end. Not, however, Liverpool and Celtic.
For those that don't follow the beautiful game, Jürgen Klopp took over the management of Liverpool FC from Brendan Rodgers, who now manages the Scottish team, Celtic.
Footballers don't spend all of their time being money-grabbing bastards, and this is not really a rarity, just another example of people being happy to use their skills to benefit others.
It doesn't stop there either. Mo Salah, one of the top three or four players in the world at the moment, has donated £500,000 to a hospital in Egypt near the village he was born in so that they can purchase a bone marrow machine. He's also agreed to pay the medical fees of a young fan who is suffering from cancer, as the boy also needed a bone marrow transplant.
Sadio Mané, another of Liverpool's front line, has donated £200,000.00 to build a secondary school at Bambaly in his native Senegal.
It's nothing to do with any of this story really but both men are devout Muslims and by their deeds are helping (re-)shape the perception of Islam on Merseyside, and far beyond.
I can only speak for "my" team, Liverpool, but players (and I mean famous first-team players, not the reserves) regularly visit hospitals, children's homes, and the like, as well as donating time, money, and items of kit, to junior teams around the area. I have no reason to think that this does not go on all over the country.
I just thought it would be nice to show a positive side to the game I love for a change.
If you get a chance to see it, Channel 4 showed a superb documentary called Mo Salah: A Football Fairy Tale, which tells the story of the young boy who made nine-hour daily round trips using 10 buses, just to train with his club in Cairo, five days a week, while still trying to get some schooling, and some sleep.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 7, 2018 14:14:15 GMT
Waterstones Buys FoylesThis is a good move to help preserve book shops. I well remember how eccentric Foyles was in my youth, with books being very hard to find due to their being sorted by publisher(!), and the need to queue three times (one to get a chit for payment, two for paying at the payment kiosk, three for collecting the book after payment). It's hard to imagine why this was considered good business practice into the 1980s. However, rather like the Tower Records classical section in their Piccadilly Circus heyday, Foyles was wonderful for roaming around and discovering things lying in the piles. The most haphazard, annoying but intriguing store of them all.
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