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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 20th 2022, 6:20 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

To be honest, I have no interest in the World Cup this year, and it's all down to the fact that it's in Qatar only because they bribed their way to get it, and then killed over 6,000 immigrant...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 19th 2022, 9:15 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I suspect I will watch very little of it, I'm unhappy that it was ever given to Qatar, which was heavily influenced by financial considerations (a polite way of saying bribery), the treatment of the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 19th 2022, 5:54 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Highest temperature today was at RAF Conningsby in Lincolnshire, 40.3 degrees.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 12th 2022, 2:52 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

CRACKERJACK
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 3rd 2022, 2:06 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Isuspect that Amazon have some sort of algorythm on twitter, I put a comment about getting one genuine email from Amazon and my next e mail was also from 'Amazon' stating my account had been locked,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 24th 2022, 8:56 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I saw one when I lived in Spain, we had a road down to the beach which went under a main road, everytime we had a real downpour it flooded, and it could do it very quickly, went round by it one day...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 13th 2021, 8:01 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Saw this yesterday didn't know where to put it, but this part of this thread seems apt....
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 21st 2021, 12:36 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Definitely, and a big indicator in some forms of cancer and also in osteoporosis.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 9th 2021, 8:29 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Same in my parents household, either one like that or one that opened and closed like a book.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 8th 2021, 3:54 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

They're also in the UK, but the advantage of the pulley one was that the drying clothes were lifted out of the way and left the floor area uncluttered.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 8th 2021, 1:19 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

It was just called 'pulley' in our house when I was a kid.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 8th 2021, 7:18 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I've really no idea why that poem has remained in my memory, possibly because it's all a lot of nonsense words, but intriguing words nontheless.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 8th 2021, 7:01 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

T'was brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
all mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgrabe.

Not copied and pasted, but remembered from childhood, and I'm 75.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 21st 2021, 9:10 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

And very dangerous according to statistics. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/victorian-alps-disappearance-friends-went-031954953.html
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 27th 2021, 2:42 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Karma

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56224144
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 26th 2021, 9:40 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

In the UK you have to pack your own groceries in every supermarket.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 17th 2021, 5:46 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I keep getting letters from my bank saying they were offering me a loan, but I'm too old to get a loan from them, and they must know that. You have to be of working age.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 23rd 2021, 11:47 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Well done Bernie, wish more would do things like that.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 17th 2021, 5:37 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Despite not living there ever, my bank is classed as the branch where I was working when I opened it. However I do register my moves whenever, but they don't change the record. My cheque book that I...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 17th 2021, 10:51 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Why would you need to actually visit a bank, I've been into my branch once since I moved here and that was to change address. everything else is done on-line.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 7th 2021, 7:24 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I had a friend who was a bell ringer, and he and his cousin bought each other bell ringers diaries each year, well, his cousin did, all my friend did was re-wrap the one his cousin sent him and send...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 30th 2020, 10:08 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Everything that could identify anyone is blurred out, faces of people, car number plates etc. Just ensures those who should be somewhere else can't be identified, The very first images didn't have...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 25th 2020, 8:16 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

You need to do the BE quiz, that helps. https://www.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=44158
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 29th 2020, 2:05 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

My last amazon order, three thins, had delivery dates from next day to 4 days. all arrived the next day. I do use prime.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 28th 2020, 1:42 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 647,175
Posted By mikelincs

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

On the 'My Profile page, scroll down past the threads and Karma noticces and you will find 'Who Quoted me' links are there.
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