WBMT.....What baffled me today

broc said:
Sat having a late lunch, noticed the packet of 'crackers' my wife was sampling were made in Canada...... for goodness sake, can we not even make crackers in this country anymore?

It started me wondering, would shipping the grain to the UK & making them here (assuming we cannot produce the right sort of flour ourselves) have a lower carbon footprint than shipping ready made produce?
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Yup. I'm sure we make crackers.

There was a piece on TV a while back on countries swapping stuff and the example they used was UK and Germany and potatoes. They said we imported and exported about the same to each other.
 
Loud bangs? Brings back memories of a camping trip before Mrs Nod... :whistling:
 
woof woof said:
Yup. I'm sure we make crackers.

There was a piece on TV a while back on countries swapping stuff and the example they used was UK and Germany and potatoes. They said we imported and exported about the same to each other.
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I think you'll find that it's all about filling in numbers re the balance of trade.I imagine it's quite complicated.
 
JohnC6 said:
I think you'll find that it's all about filling in numbers re the balance of trade.I imagine it's quite complicated.
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You might be right but I'm not sure the likes of Asda/Other consider trade balances. I think it may be down to variants and preferences such as Maris Piper v Something Else which there may be a market for in some areas and maybe slight differences in harvesting and delivery dates.
 
WBMT?
The British Antarctic Survey plane has been circling around MK for the past half hour ..
(Now moved on) What do they know that we don't?
 
Cobra said:
WBMT?
The British Antarctic Survey plane has been circling around MK for the past half hour .
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Was it the 4 engined Dash or one of the 2 enginedd Otters?
 
Might be subcontracted to the OS.
 
Maybe it's intending to go to Cambridge ..an hour by road, I see. The HQ are there. Just a guess because it does seem strange.
 
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Maybe it's intending to go to Cambridge ..an hour by road, I see. The HQ are there. Just a guess because it does seem strange.
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It must have got lost around all the roundabouts it was spotted in the area for a good couple of hours ..
someone even suggested that it was another sky penis drawing exercise :D
 
Interesting piercings if that's a rooster!!!
 
Train tickets are baffling me.

I haven't been on a train for a few years and have just booked a journey and received 12 credit card sized "tickets" and I find them just about indecipherable. Surely they could make these clearer. Printing "This is your train ticket" clearly on the top would be nice.

In the past I've just sat in my seat and handed the lot to the guard when he comes checking. I think I'll do the same again as it saves the inevitable "No, that's not your ticket."

They obviously can be clear, the email is perfectly clear.

Oh, and the train is over twice the cost of the central London hotel.
 
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woof woof said:
Train tickets are baffling me.

I haven't been on a train for a few years and have just booked a journey and received 12 credit card sized "tickets" and I find them just about indecipherable. Surely they could make these clearer. Printing "This is your train ticket" clearly on the top would be nice.

In the past I've just sat in my seat and handed the lot to the guard when he comes checking. I think I'll do the same again as it saves the inevitable "No, that's not your ticket."

They obviously can be clear, the email is perfectly clear.

Oh, and the train is over twice the cost of the central London hotel.
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Yes..It's like having a hand of cards in a card game. Why 4 tickets ? I just look at the departure and destination names so I'm not giving the return ticket on the outward journey..usually to London but sometimes Bath I can get a train from here to Bath get off at Bath photograph a steam loco as it arrives ,stops and departs and get the train back. Easy-beazy. £10 return would you believe it. Senior Rail cards are good value .Due to Covid, though, haven't been on a train for 18 months.
 
Cobra said:
It must have got lost around all the roundabouts it was spotted in the area for a good couple of hours ..
someone even suggested that it was another sky penis drawing exercise :D
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There was a light aircraft overhead a few days ago that drew a smiley emoji in the sky but whilst it was calm at ground level there must have been some breeze up there.. 1500ft ?..and it was no sooner drawn than it was breaking up.

There's another possibility re your plane. We had the same scenario here in December last year when a B52 bomber did many circuits and quite low. I learned later that it was having engine problems and had to fly to RAF Fairford..20 miles away and was using up fuel. I was able to know when it was about to fly overhead again using Planefinder so I was ready with the lens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-55192428

I got this shot.
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This has been baffling my wife and myself for a good while. Each time my wife goes into Morrisons or Sainsburys she gets a mild rash on the underside of her left arm. How can that be ? She reported, mentioned it, really..not a complaint... to Morrisons and they have no idea. A true mystery.
 
WBMT?
Sometime during the night something has crawled into the center of my shuttlecock fern (descriptive name)
and chewed off at the base, 4 fronds.
Its a tough woody type fern, and the fronds are around 3-4mm at the base.
There are much "Softer" types in the area ..
Why that one, ? and why do it?

edited to add it looks like they had been clipped off almost a clean cut rather that a strip and chew..
 
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You know that you sometimes get an email from Amazon asking if you can answer a customers question because you have the product.
Got this one today

"When i asked where was this fan manufactured i was told the usa or the uk why want i told the truth that it is made in china "​

Tempted to reply, did you ask a politician or an estate agent?
 
broc said:
Sat having a late lunch, noticed the packet of 'crackers' my wife was sampling were made in Canada...... for goodness sake, can we not even make crackers in this country anymore?

It started me wondering, would shipping the grain to the UK & making them here (assuming we cannot produce the right sort of flour ourselves) have a lower carbon footprint than shipping ready made produce?
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We went on holiday to Alaska a few years ago. Part of the trip was going up to a lake at the top of a glacier where we had some amazing fresh salmon cooked on an open fire. Best tasting fish I’ve ever had. Anyway, I got chatting to the guy on grilling duty and he told me most of their fish catch gets sent over to China for processing and then sent back. :eek: It’s apparently still cheaper to do that than having it done in Alaska. The carbon footprint must be enormous.
 
WBMT?
A grown man, late 30's possibly early 40's
riding a scooter ( foot powered) around Tesco express earlier.
Seriously? wtf.
 
My son (mid 40s) decided to try our granddaughters new scooter on Boxing Day 2019, he scooted down our drive (approx 10m) wobbled & fell off landing on his 'stern' . He put on a brave face as he got up, but suffered back ache for weeks afterwards.
 
After reading this today I'm still wondering, once again, why exceptionally clever people..and Elon Musk is exceptionally clever..he doesn't just have the capacity to recall facts but has the ability to design is the co-founder of PayPal.. agree to do such a stupid thing as to name his latest son, with his partner the Canadian musician, singer/songwriter Grimes) X AE A-Xii . It's pronounced X Ash A-12. :rolleyes: Infact, the original name, at the end, was 12 but they made an announcement not long afterwards that 12 would be replaced by Xii.

I say 'agree to' because it was the idea of his partner 'Grimes' (Claire Elise Boucher) and based on the name of her album 4Æm.

[Musk has 5 other children by two wives]
 
JohnC6 said:
I say 'agree to' because it was the idea of his partner 'Grimes' (Claire Elise Boucher) and based on the name of her album 4Æm.
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I wonder if either of them will be surprised when their offspring gets older and comes after them with an axe (of the woodcutting kind). :tumbleweed:
 
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We regularly see RAF Transport jobs over the East Exeter area. Apparently, the airport is an emergency landing field and the pilots have to practice with it. That's the story I've been told at any rate... :thinking:

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I don't know if this really baffled me. Sort off.

The local newsagent had a cock up with holidays and ended up having no one to deliver newspapers so as compensation for collecting your own they're free... So off I toddled to the shop on Monday to hopefully get Sundays and Mondays papers for my mam. They didn't have the Sunday paper my mam usually reads as for whatever reason the supplier doesn't allow them to keep them beyond Sunday so I just had to take whatever Sunday paper they had and they only had one so that's what I got. I don't read newspapers so I just passed it on to my mam... who later complained that it's front to back naked women... and it is.

Maybe it's an age or experience thing :D but I've seen plenty of naked ladies in my life and I'd want a newspaper to have something else in it, news maybe? I only glanced (honest) but I think I saw adverts for porn sites in there as well as posed pictures and "stories." Admitted there was nothing pornographic in the newspaper and I suppose we'd see the same or maybe more explicit in TV dramas and movies.

The whole thing did just baffle me a bit... who'd buy this "news"paper? No answer required, as I say, it all just baffled me. In these more careful and respectful times I can't imagine taking that newspaper to work with me or even home with me.
 
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AndrewFlannigan said:
Apparently, the airport is an emergency landing field and the pilots have to practice with it.
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It looks for all the world someone is exiting the mid section door :D
 
It'd be a nice idea to paint and open door and emerging figure on that door.
 
woof woof said:
It'd be a nice idea to paint and open door and emerging figure on that door.
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Don't give them ideas! A mate of mine, an ex-RAF doctor, has more than once expressed the opinion that aircrew are insane. All that differs is how well they conceal it. Come airshow time and the real them emerges...

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I've just finished reading Ed Macy's book "Apache." Well worth a read and shows they have a sense of fun too. I'm going to order "Dressed to kill" which is by a female Apache pilot.
 
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I wonder if either of them will be surprised when their offspring gets older and comes after them with an axe (of the woodcutting kind). :tumbleweed:
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Exactly. I know a family who's kids, 10- 12 years of age..are named after biblical characters. I Googled them.

Jedediah. A Hebrew name derived from Yedidyah meaning 'friend of God' It was the second name, given by God, to the prophet Nathan to pass on to King David and Bethsheba for their second son, Solomon.

Jeshurun Another Hebrew name. Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel used for the Tanakh (All 24 Books of the Hebrew Bible which include the Torah.. the five books of Moses) It's believed that the roots of it come from ..upright, just or straight. That's putting a bit of a moral burden on the lad isn't it......lol There's a couple of other suggested alternative sources one being a diminutive form of the name 'Isreael' the other..'to see' My guess is the first one.

Josiah. He was the 16th king of Judah who, according to the Hebrew Bible, instituted major religious reforms.He is is credited by most biblical scholars with having established or compiled important Hebrew scriptures during the "Deuteronomic reform" which probably occurred during his rule. He was born in Jerusalem in 648 BC and died in 609BC..so only 39.

I'm not usually given to swearing but.... ffs ! :rolleyes:

Just as an aside, there's a difference between the Christian Bible (Old Testament) and the Jewish Hebrew Bible. Tanakh. As the Jewish scholar Moshe Goshen-Gottstein put it, where Christians see the Bible as a story about God, humanity and salvation, Jews read it as being about God, people and land and all about God's call to Abraham to become the leader of a great nation..Canaan, later named Israel after Abraham's grandson. There's no grand narrative and certainly no coming of Jesus. Adam and Eve, for the Jews, is a minor theme. Their God is YHWH the biblical pronunciation is Yahweh and the Christian God is..er.. well 'God' . So.. the reason I outline this difference is that what perplexes me is that this family are practicing Christians. I must ask one day..The last time I spoke to the mum she said her friend was "studying the relationship between God and animals" Really ? I was very tempted to say "Well that shouldn't long, then" but my wife has made me promise to keep schtum which I find quite stressful. :D
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
We regularly see RAF Transport jobs over the East Exeter area. Apparently, the airport is an emergency landing field and the pilots have to practice with it. That's the story I've been told at any rate... :thinking:

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Just in case you aren't familiar with the names of the RAF transport planes that's an 'Atlas' A400M https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircraft/atlas-c1-a400m/

We had another RAF transport/refueler plane at 4000 ft over here today heading for RAF Brize Norton,Oxon. It's a revamped passenger plane the Airbus A330 https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircraft/voyager/


This reminds me of the crashes of the new Boeing 737. This is the crash of the A400M in Spain. Spanish Airfoce.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a400m-idUSKBN1D819P

Boeing 737's known problems to the manufacturer..... https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/7205...fore-plane-crash-in-indonesia?t=1628630898174

Boeing knew that there was a problem with one of the safety features on its 737 Max planes back in 2017 – well before the Lion Air crash in October 2018 and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March. But it did not disclose the issue to airlines or safety regulators until after the Lion Air plane crashed off the Indonesian coast, killing all 189 aboard.

I think there was also an issue about not telling the pilots about an automated system re stalling.
 
I see the same A400M at the same times as AF but I'm usually on the golf course while it's doing its bumps and grinds/touch and gos. If I am at home when it's floating around, it tends to be to the South, silhouetted against the sky! Got a few shots of it but none worth sharing.
 
Some women wont finish some things... Mrs WW (and she's not the only woman I've known who does this) will never finish a bag of crisps or bar of chocolate, she'll always leave a tiny amount and hand it to me to finish.

I suppose this is psychological and that if you eat 90% of a bar of whole nut the calories don't count if you didn't finish the whole bar? :D

She eats far more crisps and chocie than me but apparently I have to cut down as I eat too much? I finish more bags and bars, yes, but she eats more :D
 
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Marc said:
I was reading through some posts on a Facebook group last night and I went to click 'previous replies'. As I moved my mouse over one over the posters, I accidentally clicked 'Add Friend' so I immediately cancelled it. Literally a few seconds later, he sent ME a friend request!
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You should accept. Who knows where this could lead? :D
 
The idiot that called our office yesterday; it's not a publicized number.
Seems he'd called a company last week. but couldn't remember which company, or why he'd called them, so he was punching in random numbers he thought might be right, then asking the callee who they were and what they did, in the hopes of jogging his memory...
:roll:
 
People who slow down when they spot a speed camera !!

I regularly drive towards Horsham, just past the bottom of Toat Hill there is a speed camera, been then as long as I can remember.
The speed limit is 40mph, about half a mile from the camera as you come down the hill, just about every time some slows to 30 when they see the camera..........................Why ?
 
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