WBMT.....What baffled me today

JohnC6 said:
Two years 8 months seems a long time for a 'death by dangerous driving' offence to get to court but that's what's happened here.
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Neither can I imagine why it should take so long.

This would seem to be an example of procrastination by some or all of the parties involved.
 
The test would be to see if there was a general delay in cases coming to court, such as by an ongoing COVID delay.
 
I'd hate to have no sense of humour. This morning, UBS delivered a tin of garage floor paint..I'll be starting that job now.. and I saw the driver coming down the drive so I went to the front door.He got there a second before I did and rang the bell. I opened the door and said, "Sorry to keep you waiting" and smiled. The bell was still echoing. He said, "Oh, that's ok, I've only just rung the bell".:rolleyes:

Talking about doorbells. There's a current advert on LBC Radio that includes a door bell which sounds exactly like ours and,no doubt, many others. I've actually started to go to the door. It was doubly annoying when doorbell sounds were on the radio when we had the Retrievers. They would bark, and they are very loud, and run to the door. They couldn't understand why either myself nor my wife didn't open the door.
 
I saw a guy with a tattoo of Brad Pitt on his calf??
 
JohnC6 said:
Talking about doorbells. There's a current advert on LBC Radio that includes a door bell which sounds exactly like ours and,no doubt, many others. I've actually started to go to the door. It was doubly annoying when doorbell sounds were on the radio when we had the Retrievers. They would bark, and they are very loud, and run to the door. They couldn't understand why either myself nor my wife didn't open the door.
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My aunt had a budgie that would mimic the telephone ringing! Bloody thing would chirp chirp all day and we would nearly always go to the telephone, just in case!!
 
Pet food manufacturers who add things to the food allegedly to make them more desirable to the animals when really its about appealing to the owners.

We found a brand of dog food that our dog liked and did not upset his stomach but it now has added 'herb gravy' and he won't touch it.

I feel like writing to the maker to say, "given the chance my dog will eat fox s**t at every opportunity, do you think he is going to be impressed by herb gravy? Can you make a version with added two day old mouse or cow pat?"

Dave
 
Tringa said:
Pet food manufacturers who add things to the food allegedly to make them more desirable to the animals when really its about appealing to the owners.

We found a brand of dog food that our dog liked and did not upset his stomach but it now has added 'herb gravy' and he won't touch it.

I feel like writing to the maker to say, "given the chance my dog will eat fox s**t at every opportunity, do you think he is going to be impressed by herb gravy? Can you make a version with added two day old mouse or cow pat?"

Dave
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Maybe added to alleviate ‘Dog Breath’, perhaps a drop in sales will persuade them to go back to the old recipe?
 
Tringa said:
Pet food manufacturers who add things to the food allegedly to make them more desirable to the animals when really its about appealing to the owners.
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How many pets do you know who spend money on pet food? How many owners do?

Of course all pet food marketing is aimed at owners.
 
Some dogs definitely have their favourite foods. I watched something a while back looking at animals and how many taste buds they have. Humans have thousands many more than dogs and cats only have about 500 but even cats can be picky at least with their food at home.
 
In our experience cats eat what is given to them, if they are hungry.

A lot of cats (and dogs) are overweight, many unhealthily so.
 
Pound Coin said:
In our experience cats eat what is given to them, if they are hungry.

A lot of cats (and dogs) are overweight, many unhealthily so.
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When I first met my ex wife she had a totally ruined Tibetan Spaniel that was getting minced steak fried in butter for his dinner. She claimed it was the only thing he’d eat, apart from cooked fresh salmon. I was horrified, firstly that she’d spend that much on feeding a dog but also how clogged up his arteries must be getting. Under protest she eventually switched his diet to dry kibble, which he ate with no problems at all. Talk about killing with kindness.
 
Some years ago we visited with our two children a friend of my wife who was a vegetarian and imposed this diet on her two children and dog. The children looked pale and unhealthy to us and the dog seemed very lethargic. She gave us a vegetarian lunch and we had pre-warned our children not to express their true thoughts on what was offered. We tried to leave early but she insisted that wait to greet her husband. He arrived and looked very different and a healthy red complexion. Out of his wife's hearing, he explained to me that he was a travelling salesman for a German company and was accompanied by a German engineer on his rounds. He mentioned that Hans really liked British food and roast beef was his favourite. I asked him if they had lunch together normally and he squirmed, I was left with a strong impression that he ate a hearty non-veggie lunch when working so was not bothered what his wife did at home. As soon as we were under way, my children were pestering me to stop at the first non-veggie cafe.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
Some years ago we visited with our two children a friend of my wife who was a vegetarian and imposed this diet on her two children and dog. The children looked pale and unhealthy to us and the dog seemed very lethargic. She gave us a vegetarian lunch and we had pre-warned our children not to express their true thoughts on what was offered. We tried to leave early but she insisted that wait to greet her husband. He arrived and looked very different and a healthy red complexion. Out of his wife's hearing, he explained to me that he was a travelling salesman for a German company and was accompanied by a German engineer on his rounds. He mentioned that Hans really liked British food and roast beef was his favourite. I asked him if they had lunch together normally and he squirmed, I was left with a strong impression that he ate a hearty non-veggie lunch when working so was not bothered what his wife did at home. As soon as we were under way, my children were pestering me to stop at the first non-veggie cafe.

Dave
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Dave Canon said:
Some years ago we visited with our two children a friend of my wife who was a vegetarian and imposed this diet on her two children and dog. The children looked pale and unhealthy to us and the dog seemed very lethargic. She gave us a vegetarian lunch and we had pre-warned our children not to express their true thoughts on what was offered. We tried to leave early but she insisted that wait to greet her husband. He arrived and looked very different and a healthy red complexion. Out of his wife's hearing, he explained to me that he was a travelling salesman for a German company and was accompanied by a German engineer on his rounds. He mentioned that Hans really liked British food and roast beef was his favourite. I asked him if they had lunch together normally and he squirmed, I was left with a strong impression that he ate a hearty non-veggie lunch when working so was not bothered what his wife did at home. As soon as we were under way, my children were pestering me to stop at the first non-veggie cafe.

Dave
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Some years ago, my nephew persuaded me to go veggie after explaining what meat does to your well being. What he didn't tell me was that he takes a pile of supplements. I stuck with it for a few months. I can't recall what problems I had but ended up at the surgery . They sent me for various tests including one to see what my immnue system was like. Along the line they discovered that my iron levels were too low and put me on iron tablets and said I should abandon the veggie diet and eat meat. I took the prescription to the pharmacy and told the pharmacist why I was having to take the iron tablets. She said that I need only eat meat twice a week to keep vitamin levels up.I completely abandoned the veggie diet and was soon back to normal. My wife has never forgiven my nephew..lol. I have..,it was my decision but I was annoyed that he didn't tell me about his intake of pills. My sister..his mum.,when I tolkd her about going to the doctor asked me if he'd told me about all the supplements he takes. No.

Also..my wife told me what a faff it was having to cook veggie meals all the time. We do have them sometimes but not as part of a diet, just for a change, especially those high in pulses..good roughage.
 
I went almost vegi in my 20's, now in my 60's. I have eggs if they're in bought things or in something someone's made but I don't use them in cooking myself and I occasionally have fish and chips but that's it, no red meat or birds but I do have milk, butter, yogurt and cheese. I seem to be pretty healthy and I exercise most days.

I don't find cooking vegi a faff on at all. We share the cooking and I prepare most of my own meals when I'm home alone or we're having different things. I/we often make enough to have left overs which make several meals. I have one take away a week... Pizza! :D Last nights meal was fried rice with peas, corn and tomato with two types of soya sauce and Thai sweet chilli and tomato ketchup.

I remember my sister who was at the time a nurse telling me that they got a lot of vegans in hospital with problems caused by heir diet, she said it's ok for a time and then it has an effect. I think it's a question of getting a diet right as there are many people in the far east who seem to manage very well on a vegetarian diet.
 
If you eat fish, you are NOT vegetarian!

Mrs Nod's been vegie for close to 40 years - ovo-lacto I think it's described as since she eats eggs and dairy. The hardest thing to avoid seems to be gelatine, which crops up in all sorts of unexpected places.

For ease of cooking, we almost always eat vegetarian at home but the occasional ready meal and batch of chilli does creep in. Eating out several meals a week keeps my meatatarian belly happy.
 
Nod said:
If you eat fish, you are NOT vegetarian!

Mrs Nod's been vegie for close to 40 years - ovo-lacto I think it's described as since she eats eggs and dairy. The hardest thing to avoid seems to be gelatine, which crops up in all sorts of unexpected places.

For ease of cooking, we almost always eat vegetarian at home but the occasional ready meal and batch of chilli does creep in. Eating out several meals a week keeps my meatatarian belly happy.
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I know :D

woof woof said:
I went almost vegi in my 20's, now in my 60's. I have eggs if they're in bought things or in something someone's made but I don't use them in cooking myself and I occasionally have fish and chips but that's it, no red meat or birds but I do have milk, butter, yogurt and cheese. I seem to be pretty healthy and I exercise most days.
me and then it has an effect. I think it's a question of getting a diet right as there are many people in the far east who seem to manage very well on a vegetarian diet.
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I haven't had fish and chips for 6 months or more but I do occasionally. When Mrs WW returns from her travels we're having a couple of nights in Whitby and may have them then. Possibly at Quayside. As above I don't use eggs but it's difficult to avoid them in other peoples cooking and bought stuff.
 
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I ordered something from B&H camera shop in States, couldn't get the part in UK. Whilst looking on their site picked up an Angler diffuser for £4.39, might be ok for a bit of macro shooting. Just checked on Amazon and they are £23.10 each. Pretty good margin I thought.
 
Probably not the first.... but insurance!!!

Went through the process of getting my son's insurance after he passed this week. Being 17 its expensive!!!

But - Having insurance to start tomorrow was 1650, two days later 1535, three days later 1550, 2 weeks later 1400....

Even worse, as I went to buy I noticed the date he got the car was wrong (said not bought yet, we did in fact get it in April). No other change and price went up 1000 - yes, crazy!!! So the fact he has had the car (and driven under a leaner policy) adds all. Luckily found a fully comp policy through someone else for the same money (that was TPFT)
 
I had a strange fault today.

When I got up his morning I noticed that all our security cameras had paused and wouldn't restart. I tried turning the box off and on but that made no difference so although my tablet went online without a problem I tried turning the router off and on but that didn't clear the problem. I tried the Ring doorbell and saw that that didn't work and also all of our Tapo smart bulbs weren't working off the phone or tablet either. I rang Virgin and they ran a test which unsurprisingly found no fault.

So, the Virgin TV on demand and internet stuff all worked as did my phone and tablet but the cameras, doorbell and smart bulbs didn't. How odd. A bit later they worked again but intermittently and then they all just worked as normal. I've never seen this before.
 
woof woof said:
I had a strange fault today.

When I got up his morning I noticed that all our security cameras had paused and wouldn't restart. I tried turning the box off and on but that made no difference so although my tablet went online without a problem I tried turning the router off and on but that didn't clear the problem. I tried the Ring doorbell and saw that that didn't work and also all of our Tapo smart bulbs weren't working off the phone or tablet either. I rang Virgin and they ran a test which unsurprisingly found no fault.

So, the Virgin TV on demand and internet stuff all worked as did my phone and tablet but the cameras, doorbell and smart bulbs didn't. How odd. A bit later they worked again but intermittently and then they all just worked as normal. I've never seen this before.
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Sounds very odd. ip adress table screwed up? Conflict or router firmware updaes. Virgin routers are notoriously crap.
I have nest and tapo cameras, nest smoke / carbon monoxide sensors and Ring. Occasionally lose signal but nothing like you describe. I'm with B T.
 
Why my phone and tablets should work online and the cameras, bell and lights all failed I don't know. I'm hoping it was a one off.
 
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I hope nobody here is going to suffer from premature treejaculation this year.
 
My wife likes to have a christmas tree all lit up and each year I manage to play her along with the 22nd. being the longest time I've managed to get away with it at which point I have to go up into the attic to get it, along with a box full of lights/decorations. I then have to untangle the three sets of lights cables, no matter how carefully I box them back up, and leave it to her as she loves to decorate the tree. Makes a very good job of it,I have to say. They come down on January 1st.
 
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My wife will be disappointed this year when she goes looking for the tree etc, I dropped it up at the tip rather than it going into storage, yes I’m 100% baa humbug, and proud of it.
 
Does anyone else get a feeling that their skin is wet when it isn't?
 
When I had my first CT scan the nurse told all that would happen, including the sensation of wetting myself when the dye was inserted into my bloodstream, guess where I looked first after the scanner pulled away?
 
mj4456 said:
When I had my first CT scan the nurse told all that would happen, including the sensation of wetting myself when the dye was inserted into my bloodstream, guess where I looked first after the scanner pulled away?
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Well you were lucky being warned about the sensation, they forgot :thinking: :rolleyes: to tell me. Had a bit of a fright:)
 
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It would also be nice if they would warn you about the involunatry action that can happen during a colonoscopy, which can come dangerously close to an even worse involuntary action :oops: :$
 
Storm Claudia went through today. BBCNews..Radio4.. LBC Radio.. Five Live..all pronounced it "Clowdia"as in 'cloud'. Yet they pronounce Claudia Winkleman.. Clordia. Needless to say they call her Winkle rather than Vinkle. There's more reason to call that storm Clordia because the French Met Office named it.

They refer to Epstein as Epsteen . EI, in german is 'i' and' ie' is 'e'.When film producer Harvey Weinstein was in the news his name was pronounced Winesteen..not Vinestine. The first three letter are correct but not the last three. Strange. Yet, we say Albert Einstein..so why not Epstein...Weinstein.. 'ine' .?

I suppose the simple answer is that we anglicise names. Having lived in Germany for three years I just find it a bit annoying. Maybe the people themselves anglicise their names,too.
 
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On a few occasions at the hotel we stayed in over the last couple of weeks in Madeira, a young couple with an 18 month old daughter sat at an adjacent table. They looked like they were from southern Europe ...olive-skinned. I noticed that the little girl,who was just about able to walk holding a parent's hand, had a stud in one ear and a round 'stud' the size of small button in the other. I asked my wife how they made them stay on. She said ear-piercing. The reason I asked was that whilst being aware that females have their ears pierced and a pin is pushed through the lobe with a stud or whatever on the end, I couldn't believe that a parent would do that to such a small child. It must hurt .My wife told me it would have been done using a local anaesthetic. I was shocked tbh... and a bit angry. My wife then told me that it's quite common. What ? At 18 months old ? She said that some parents have it done to babies. Unbelievable. No child should have that done to them until they decide themselves and only when they reach the age of..say..14..minimum. To do that to a baby, and in this case an 18 month old child is, imo, a form of child abuse. The reason I mentioned where they were possibly from..,ie southern Europe. is maybe it's a tradition there. I can understand, but still don't agree, that it happens in tribes from the likes of the Amazon or deepest, darkest Africa etc..but Europe ?

It's illegal in the UK to tattoo anyone under the age of 18 so why is it legal to punch a hole in a bay's ear or that of a small child ? Even on a practical level, as the child's ear grows that hole is not going to be where it is at the time of piercing. It's like tattoos, what are those going to look like when a person gets old and their skin shrinks and wrinkles ?

I can't understand why there isn't a law against ear-piercing here...or even Europe for that matter, as we share a common culture .
 
And a huge number of baby boys are mutilated soon after birth.

An ear piercing smarts for a couple of minutes, aches for an hour or 2 then settles down.
 
Nod said:
And a huge number of baby boys are mutilated soon after birth.

An ear piercing smarts for a couple of minutes, aches for an hour or 2 then settles down.
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A debate that goes on and on. There's a reasonably neutral discussion of the subject here...

https: // en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Foreskin

(To avoid conflicts about the page header illustration, I've made the link "cold")
 
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Nod said:
An ear piercing smarts for a couple of minutes, aches for an hour or 2 then settles down.
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For some but many get later infections as did my granddaughter. We never let our daughter have piercings when she was small and after she was in a position to decide for herself she did not bother. However her own daughter was demanding piercings at 8 years old ("all he friends are having this"). They eventually gave in when she was 9 but it would not have worked with us.

Dave
 
Nod said:
And a huge number of baby boys are mutilated soon after birth.

An ear piercing smarts for a couple of minutes, aches for an hour or 2 then settles down.
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My bold...How do you know that ?

Circumcision is carried out in the Jewish community..as a sign of the covenant of their god, Yahweh, if that's what you're referring to, so for religious reasons, which is wrong, as a lot of religious practices imposed on the faithful are. ..especially children. Years ago, it was carried in non-Jewish communities for what were believed to be health benefits. It has quite a history beyond that. It was carried out in the West for health reasons in the late 19th to mid 20th century.


Here's a copy/paste.

"The rise of germ theory led to concerns that the foreskin harbored dirt and secretions (smegma), which doctors believed contributed to infections. Circumcision was promoted as a more hygienic option in an era when regular bathing and personal hygiene products were not as widely available or utilized as they are today" So.. you could say that parents wanted it for their sons with good intent .I certainly don't condone such practices for religious reasons either but when I posted my criticism I was talking about 'fashion'. I anticipated someone bringing up circumcision and maybe should have said something about it.

So..because ear piercing causes pain..you prefer to call it 'smarts' for just a couple of minutes and aches (aching is pain) for an hour or two, you're quite at ease for it to be carried out on babies,small children and youngsters. I'm very much opposed to it.

I found this information from the medical profession.

"Body piercing, and particularly ear piercing is becoming increasingly common in young children who may not be capable of properly caring for the pierced site. This may result in infection at the site and embedding of the earring. Infection and the subsequent necessity of removal of such earrings can cause considerable pain and distress. There is also a proven risk of inducing nickel allergy in these children which can be a problem in later life. The potential for serious infection such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV is not appreciated by the parents of these children.
 
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