tonyXIII

I don't know if this is a rant, but it is related to smart meters. I've recently seen loads of adverts on TV along the lines of: Fred had a smart meter installed and, with the energy he saved, he was able to power his mobility scooter for 1200 miles. That has to be ######! Changing the device that measures your energy consumption cannot, of itself, reduce your energy consumption. As a trained scientist, I am confident in my logic. Can someone point out a flaw in my logic? Please? Because my blood pressure rises every time I see these lying adverts.

I was going to joke about the spelling of aquarium, but I'm sure it was just a typo. It is a bizarre headline.

Ah, but did you inhale? Or, more to the point, are you inhaling now? Try to enjoy your evening.

Fabulous! (Darling!)

Are you working your way round all of them??

As are the RU internationals. Should be a perfect fit. ?

Is this just normal market fluctuations or is someone manipulating the price? I ask because the price of oil is Putin's 'achilles heel', though he probably doesn't care as he wouldn't suffer personally.

So don't watch it then.

Mate,that's the first interesting bit of basketball I've ever seen.☺

A glass of 5 star Metaxa certainly puts lead in your pencil. ?

Which Metaxa? There is 1 star (I think, but I've never seen it), 3 star, 5 star and 7 star. I'm open to correction if someone has actually seen another version. IMO, the 5 star is best.

Bloody hell, mate! I thought I had it bad supporting Man City and Salford, but Villa and Swinton! Wow! No one deserves that much pain! FWIW, I first started supporting City in 1960, long before the current good spell started, and Salford in 1975, long after the last good spell.

Sounds like a fair analysis of the British diet. ☺

Like clwydianrange, I don't know what to say. "Good luck, however it turns out" seems inadequate. If you need a shoulder for support, there's plenty here.

While we're ranting about TV, 1) why do modern dramas include scenes shot in pitch blackness? I get the idea that it's night if you turn the lighting down. You don't need to turn it off completely. 2) why do modern dramas include scenes in which the conversation is so quiet that spies with the latest eavesdropping kit would fail to pick anything up? (Disclosure. My wife swears I am deaf. I don't agree, she needs to speak up.) 3) then the adverts come on and the sound is loud enough to knock you off your chair. Grrrrr!

Sorry the pics are so big. I guess I need to crop them first. The first shows the vinegar/soap and the second is my wife's wine glass. I'm going to repeat the experiment, altering a couple of things - soap before vinegar so they mix better and I'll put the vinegar/soap mix in a glass vessel rather than the metal one I used. I am going to murder the damn things.

Not exactly an unqualified success. I can't seem to insert photos, but the vinegar/soap trapped a good few while my wife's wine attracted lots. I'll try to post the photos from my laptop tomorrow. I'll keep the experiment going for a few more days.

I like the idea of zapping them. It just seems fitting. I've never heard of the vinegar soap solution. It makes sense, so I'll try it. Thanks.

Vinegar flies. I know they are also partial to wine, but the barstewards are attacking my glass of whisky. I don't want to use fly spray because it could taint the whisky and it's not that effective. I'm thinking flame thrower, but it might seem a bit extreme.

I know what you mean. I long for the good old days when my mum would take me to Doc Murphy's. No phone call, just go. We'd sit in his waiting room, get our lifetime's worth of cigarette smoke and, when it was our turn, we'd walk into the Doc's surgery to find ourselves shrouded in a fug of pipe smoke. A different world. But I do agree that the system of booking appointments is poor (or, it was poor when I last lived in the UK).

Ha ha! That reminds me of a joke. Q.how do you make a small fortune? A.start with a big fortune. If you don't know what you're doing you can quickly turn a sizeable sum of money into nothing. Oil pipelines? The ante is probably in the tens of billions.

Is it haram for dinosaurs to eat Muslims? Sorry for my blasphemy. I just can't resist temptation.

Is that your kayak? ?

Not snow, but weather related. The view from my balcony right now. The air is full of sand from the Sahara. The tree centre-top is 200m away and the houses beyond it are 400m away. At least it's warm at 27 or 28 celcius.

Oh my! That brings back nice memories. Wooden raquets. Whatever happened to them?