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Watching s3 of Bosch today and the wife says that the character is an American version of Rebus with nicer weather and nicer looking people. I may have to get one of the books to try it and see if it's the same quality of read as the Rebus books.

I spent 3 months on a course with some Hong Kong Chinese squaddies and they told me to just do it that way rather than look like a snobbish Englishman. (showing some of my age there!)

Use them like a shovel with the bowl at your mouth and you'll be fine. At least that's how I was told to do it...

No wonder fly tipping is on the rise, our council now charge £40.50 for a bulky item disposal. More than twice the price of a few years ago. And don't dare try to go to the tip unless you want to treated worse than at Heathrow security desks. FFS...

We’re currently going through Bosch and enjoying it. It’s annoying how it mixes paid-for and inclusive stuff. At least Netflix, if it’s there it’s free.

When everyone buys Tesla cars ?

Applaud at the huge savings in healthcare from the removal of all the direct pollutants in our town centres, and recognise that they're probably still in net positive revenue out of it. Happy to help.

My uncle died. He's the first of my parents' generation on either side. The first little chink in the "if they're all alive then I'm fine" protection we all have.

I don’t run for many obvious reasons, mainly because TV tells me that my chances of finding dead bodies is very high if I go out running.

As Nortel started to struggle, it cut corners on things. It then cut prices to reflect those cut corners. It then had to cut corners and quality even further. Customers then left because they were buying critical infrastructure stuff and rubbish cheap stuff usually isn’t good enough.

When I worked at Nortel Networks, we were chasing work so hard that it was 3-4 days out of a week abroad, and not at a single country either. A typical week would be: Monday: first flight out to Amsterdam, last flight back Tuesday: first flight out to Madrid, last flight back Wednesday; office Thursday: first flight out to Munich, last flight back Friday: getting complained at for not being in the office when I'm in Copenhagen on a firefighting client visit, last flight back. It was a rare time we got to stay overnight in a place but it was nice to get home at night. I was delighted to be made redundant when Nortel went bankrupt and closed.

As a reminder, this thread is meant for pictures taken by you. That’s a more than decade old rule that should be followed on the sole exception of instructional or photos of significant importance.

A sea eagle just flew right past our villa here in Malaysia at no more than 15m off sea level. We’d been told to watch for them as they’re partial to the young monkeys that hang around the villa roofs! It was staring right at our villa so I guess it was looking for its tea. Long gone by the time I’d grabbed my phone for a picture

We’re on holiday in a rather nice resort in Malaysia. One thing that’s annoying is the English people. Specifically the two English couples and their children. There’s Japanese, Korean, Australian and German families I can identify and their kids are immaculately behaved. They’re occasionally heard but it’s having fun and being happy, nothing wrong with kids like that. The English families’ brats are destructive little excrements and their parents don’t give a damn. One little boy brat at breakfast this morning poured a whole jug of apple juice on the floor when ignoring his mum’s whiny plummy Surrey accented “David, leave that, mummy will get it for you”. Their daughter, about 5-6ish then took a cake off the plate of the Asian couple on the table next to them with an ignored “Anna, apologise now!” followed up by nothing more from the mum. The kids were running around the narrow pathways between tables annoying everyone and it was clearly just them being brats rather than any other reasonable excuse Then there’s the pool areas by the main hotel. One is an adult only pool next to the spa that’s meant to be for relaxation. There’s a larger pool designed for families and with a more open environment. One of the English couples were at the adult pool with their brats and refused even quieten their kids down when requested by the spa manager. Whiny “do you know how much we paid for this holiday, we’ll go where we want!” I was only there while waiting on my wife at the spa and it was excruciating in how bad it made English people look. And these weren’t the stereotypical working class English folk, these were well-to-do folk in a rather posh hotel and they enjoyed reminding people of their place. Thankfully the place is well spaced out so hopefully we don’t have to see them or their offspring again while we’re here. Apart from that, it’s an amazing holiday in a lovely part of the world. We’re off to a quiet guided nature hike today ?

Deliberately on this thread rather than the climate change one... Listening to the news just now. If those extinction rebellion folk cause my holiday in June to be cancelled by closing Heathrow using illegal drones then I will treat them and their entire "cause" as worthy of the same contempt I give Nigel Farage. We ****ing well need this holiday, we've saved and spent a lot of money on this holiday and I can't reschedule because I'm already overcommited doing work trying to save my little bit of the NHS until well into October. Ruin my holiday and you will have crossed the line permanently and irrevocably.

Like the episode before. Mass genocide... slow artsy shot of a white horse ... mass genocide ... miraculously swept pathways through the genocide Almost like the producers watched Schindler’s List and materially failed in understanding how to drag in viewers with emotive small scale content in a mass scale scene.

GoT/Star Wars comparisons anyone?

Game of Thrones final episode comments

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RIP Doris Day at the grand old age of 97

Apparently it's Monty Python Status Day. ? And for some reason my brain is now happily singing away "sit on my face" even though it's not on that list.

The problem is the author of the books has been on a jolly since 2011 and he gets all indignant when pushed when he’ll get around to writing the closing books. It’s been written from nothing but past storylines now by show scriptwriters rather than adapted from novels.

Do you know how copper wire was invented? Two Yorkshiremen fighting over a penny.

At least it did it before you bought the new TV. Sod’s law suggests that it happens just when you’ve used your spare cash.