WBMT.....What baffled me today

I regularly drive towards Horsham,
More decades ago than I care to remember I went out with a girl from Horsham. She described it as "the place that people living in the pits call the pits". :wideyed:

I declined her invitation to go home with her. :naughty:
 
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 ?
I suspect that many don't actually know what the speed limit is for the stretch of road they're on and, when they see a speed camera, they panic and hit the brakes.

There's a similar one on my commute where the limit is actually 50!
 
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Why somebody I have never met called me "mate" when making a general enquiry. I am not his "mate" and I don't want to be!
 
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 ?
Yes we get that here too really frustrating
 
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
My ex wife has friends who’s surname is Green. They’ve called their son Gilbert. :oops: :$So not only has the poor b****r got to put up with a terrible old fashioned first name, he’s also apparently named after a piece of snot. The parents claimed they just thought it was nice having an alliterative name and didn’t realise what it meant. The lad has been calling himself Gil since he was about 10 or 11.

I also remember listening to a radio program when I was a kid in the 60s, called Does The Team Think? a comedy panel show where a team of celebrities made funny comments about questions asked by the public. One bloke posed the question “does the team think that parents should think seriously about the consequences before naming their children?” It turned out the bloke was called Norman Conquest.
 
I was introduced to a German kid at school whose name was Axel Grees - OK, so a lost in translation example.

However, one of my sons went to school with a kid called Dwayne Pipe - the parents should be horse-whipped for that. :facepalm:
 
My ex wife has friends who’s surname is Green. They’ve called their son Gilbert.
A local guy, a very minor celeb, many years ago , called his son Richard, it even made the local press.
Yep surname of Head :D
 
It does seem some parents don't think about the name they are going to give to a child, or say it a few times to see how it sounds.

When I worked for the Inland Revenue I was telephoned now and again by a bloke who worked for Equity about various tax issue for actors. His name was Michael Cane.

I hope anyone with the surname Pell doesn't call a daughter Jemma. It will cause confusion if she ever has to introduce herself In French.

Dave
 
It's difficult to make this out but I hope you can sort of see that it's an imprint of wings on a window. Now again a bird slams into the window and sometimes we get a good impression of the wings but this is from a fly of some sort. It must have smacked into the window at speed as it killed itself and was stuck there, head mashed.

Fair enough, but the house wasn't doing 70mph on the A1 so I'm amazed this creature managed to fly so fast it mashed itself against the window.

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I don't know what it was, it looked something like a hover fly but not quite and smaller. Whatever it was it must have been a hard core speed freak.

How odd.
 
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Having read of some of the names that are given I think there's a good case for some people to change their first name...or even last name as it's legal to do so. Maybe easier said than done. Not administratively but if you've got to your late teens maybe it's too much of a challenge ..psychologically. Not so bad for females as they will get a change of name when they marry.

I recall the Radio4 comedy programme.. ' I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' that used to include 'arrival announcements' to a Ball or some large official event .

Please welcome the Honourable Lord and Lady Gunn and their daughter Iona

Mr & Mrs Day and their daughter Holly

Sir Peter and Lady Cope and their son Horice

Lord and Lady Roids and their daughter Emma

Sir Peter and Lady Teak and their daughter Anne

Mr & Mrs Bull and their son Terry
 
It's difficult to make this out but I hope you can sort of see that it's an imprint of wings on a window. Now again a bird slams into the window and sometimes we get a good impression of the wings but this is from a fly of some sort. It must have smacked into the window at speed as it killed itself and was stuck there, head mashed.

Fair enough, but the house wasn't doing 70mph on the A1 so I'm amazed this creature managed to fly so fast it mashed itself against the window.

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I don't know what it was, it looked something like a hover fly but not quite and smaller. Whatever it was it must have been a hard core speed freak.

How odd.

Sadly, I picked up dead Collared Dove one day that crashed into the glass of the patio doors. There was no blood so I assume it must have suffered a broken neck. A pidgeon flew into the back bedroom window a couple of mornings ago . It flew off, though.I keep the blinds on the dining room patio doors half closed..let the light in but don't allow a bird to see right the way through the living room to the road/trees at the front.
 
let the light in but don't allow a bird to see right the way through the living room to the road/trees at the front.
Also they see the reflection of the sky in a window, particularly if its a bright day. If being chased, they see the house, and assume that the sky is there, so they usually climb fast, hitting a solid object hence the "angel wings ghost imprints"
 
I've been told that pigeons make such good ghosts because they have very dusty feathers.

We get a fair few window strikes but almost all recover before we get to them. Only had one fatality so far this year - a baby Goldie who hit an upstairs window and landed in the middle of the conservatory roof. Had to get a ladder out to get it down. We also get deliberate hits when the birds are taking flies off the glass - these strikes are much quieter!
 
WBMT?
I ordered 3 items from Amazon Sunday,
I could have opted for next day, ( Mon) with prime.
But I opted for the one packet thing.
Arriving weds. No big deal, no rush items.

It now seems the are arriving separately, on Weds.
So I pay for prime next day, but end up with separate items 2 days later.
I'm not falling for that again.
(that's the second time that's happened in as many months)
 
(that's the second time that's happened in as many months)
Being mean, I always go for free delivery from Amazon, where available. The baffling thing is, roughly 4 out of 5 times the items arrive the following day! :thinking:
 
Being mean, I always go for free delivery from Amazon, where available.
I joined Prime awhile ago to continue to watch something.
It was the only place it was available.
Now that's done, I think I'll probably drop it.

The baffling thing is, roughly 4 out of 5 times the items arrive the following day! :thinking:
I've had that a few times in the past pre-prime too.
As I've mentioned before I have a distribution warehouse about 5 miles away, so its usually pretty quick except the Amazon EU stuff.
But even some of that arrives next day with prime.
 
Being mean, I always go for free delivery from Amazon, where available. The baffling thing is, roughly 4 out of 5 times the items arrive the following day! :thinking:
I used to do that as well, it's very rare that I'm in that much of a hurry for anything. The main reason I have Prime is for Prime Video plus it gets me a couple of quid a month of Amazon Music.
 
WBMT?
The cost of something.

£3.20 / Kg
or
£1.00 / 500g
Tough call that one :D
 
Can only assume that their warehouse has too many 500g packs. Time to stock up on the smaller packs if it's something you use!
 
£3.20 / Kg or £1.00 / 500g
Tough call that one :D
This happens a lot with supermarket prices, so it's always worth checking the price per weight. Most times buying bigger packs helps, but I regularly find the opposite and end up buying multiples. (y)
 
WBMT?

That one job that needs doing.
You know, the one that should take about half an hour, and a couple of hand tools.

3 hours later job done, and you find yourself clearing away, just about every power tool
you own ... Baffling ...
 
WBMT?

That one job that needs doing.
You know, the one that should take about half an hour, and a couple of hand tools.

3 hours later job done, and you find yourself clearing away, just about every power tool
you own ... Baffling ...
Or was it a case of Murphy's law......not that one but which one???.....work expands to fill the time available for it :thinking: :thinking: :thinking:
 
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Jobs often expand - one thing leads to another and before you know it, you've got a box of bits and 10 minutes to reassemble the bloody thing!
 
Just something that needed modifying, it was more labour intensive than I thought it'd be :rolleyes:


I'd allowed an hour for a half hour job ...
Yep sod's law and all that.

Jobs often expand - one thing leads to another and before you know it, you've got a box of bits and 10 minutes to reassemble the bloody thing!

It is the bits left over once it has all be put back together that can cause more angst :lol:
 
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Jobs often expand - one thing leads to another and before you know it, you've got a box of bits and 10 minutes to reassemble the bloody thing!
It is the bits left over once it has all be put back together that can cause more angst :LOL:
Just modifying something, in the woodwork line, no bits left over (y)
 
It is the bits left over once it has all be put back together that can cause more angst :LOL:


According to "The Meaning Of Liff" by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, those bits are called "Exeters". I may resemble that remark!!! (I do usually find where the extra bit's supposed to go and put it there.)
 
Jobs often expand - one thing leads to another and before you know it, you've got a box of bits and 10 minutes to reassemble the bloody thing!
So we had a log burner installed, need to paint the chimney breast to cover the replastering so we decide on a change of colour for the room, best do a little prep work me thinks, you know to do a proper job.
Now I need to explain that before we bought the house it had been "renovated". I use the term extremely loosely.
4 weeks later the new pre-primed MDF skirting has been sanded to remove the yellowing gloss and a ton of grit painted onto them and primed and top coated.
The walls have been properly sanded as they should of been when they were skimmed and the bodged plastering around the covered top to the chimney.
The bay window sill initially had a light sand as we plan new windows down the line, once we discovered the lumps and bumps was glossed over plaster we sanded a bit further, in doing so the 4 inch wide plastic strip covering half the window sill came away and uncovered a completely rotten back half. Out comes the entire window sill with a good chunk of plaster from the wall.
New window board is cut to fit and ive patched the plaster ready for skimming, just trying to decide best way to fix the window board and might be able to chuck some paint around next weekend.
 
What a nightmare :(

just trying to decide best way to fix the window board
If you are going permanent, No more nails ( the original one) is brilliant.
"Grabs" immediately. and sticks a myriad of things to walls.
 
According to "The Meaning Of Liff" by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, those bits are called "Exeters". I may resemble that remark!!! (I do usually find where the extra bit's supposed to go and put it there.)

Ah! I did not know that :D

Thankfully I don't recall necessary left over bits but one I knew of was in the 70's a neighbour was working on his Ford Capri.

When I saw him later after a few hours he mentioned an unknown (to him) piece of metal left over.

I was a thin washer like piece with clear holes for bolts and 'mechanism' to go round. To me I was reminded of a shim washer, I told him that it was likely a key item and best if he strip down and put it in place. NB I cannot now recall but it was either oil filter/pump assembly or akin important part of the engine.

We chatted a few days later and he hadn't bothered. I have a vague memory that he sold the car shortly afterwards!
 
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NB I cannot now recall but it was either oil filter/pump assembly or akin important part of the engine.
You've just reminded me of the time I saw an oil filter lying in the middle of the road, followed by a long black streak that petered out after half a mile or so...
 
That’s the reason I always check the oil filter on my car has been torqued up correctly, it’s impossible to get it tight enough by hand, pity some of the techs don’t read instruction manuals.
 
Walked round to my car this morning and out on the road and pavement was a load of broken glass, looked like the toughened windscreen glass.
Got aa broom and dustpan and swept what I could up, being small pieces some is still stuck in the road surface and pavement
crevices but most is gone.
In amongst the debris was a Peugeot badge which I compared with neighbour's car and looks like it is from the rear
door and rear screen, never realised they are toughened glass.
Baffled as to what could have happened, glass was spread over the pavement and road where it was parked and over quite a wide area and I swept up almost a bucket full of broken glass, just wish they had cleared it up and not just driven off
 
Possibly slammed the hatch shut when there was something sticking out too far.
 
Possibly slammed the hatch shut when there was something sticking out too far.

That makes sense, the way it had exploded all over the place (y)
 
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