Spidey Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Get a smart meter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyscoot Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 1 minute ago, Spidey said: Get a smart meter I'm in a flat so can't get one as the meter isn't in the property apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 1 minute ago, andyscoot said: I'm in a flat so can't get one as the meter isn't in the property apparently. Yup.. there are a few constraints - access is one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Wehrner von Braun who was the rocket scientist behind the NASA programme died today 16.06 in 1977. BBC 4 are showing the last part of 6 of Chasing the Moon tonight, coincidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 C'mon @GURNER Dust off the laptop it's nearly time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graveyard johnny Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 many statues have been locked away around the uk and the statues thread on here has also been locked away see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 On 16/06/2020 at 22:44, Bleep1673 said: Wehrner von Braun who was the rocket scientist behind the NASA programme died today 16.06 in 1977. BBC 4 are showing the last part of 6 of Chasing the Moon tonight, coincidence? Rocket scientist and pretty much all round war criminal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Jack Dempsey was born 125 years ago today . The man idolised by Mike Tyson , unsurprisingly since he was so ferocious and brutal Gene Tunney was convinced he was trying to kill him in the ring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, DavidM said: Rocket scientist and pretty much all round war criminal I don't agree that he was a war criminal, anymore than Luftwaffe bomber pilots were. He/They targeted civilian populations much as the same as Bomber Harris did in Germany, was he prosecuted for his war crimes? Harris killed more than von Braun did. Edited June 24, 2020 by Bleep1673 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 17 hours ago, DavidM said: Rocket scientist and pretty much all round war criminal Describe a war criminal. Von Braun was a scientist who had a secret, rocket propulsion, he was not complicit in any of the Nazi extermination progammes, neither was he aware of them, von Braun surrendered to the US forces, and surrendered his rocket technological ideas as soon as he was captured, he didn't try and make a run for it, like many Nazi's, or hide in a bunker, he had an idea, and was willing to share it with a free world. USA jumped at the chance. Soviet Union got the papers first though, that is why Gagarin was first man into space, and Sputnik was the first man made satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Bleep1673 said: Describe a war criminal. Von Braun was a scientist who had a secret, rocket propulsion, he was not complicit in any of the Nazi extermination progammes, neither was he aware of them, von Braun surrendered to the US forces, and surrendered his rocket technological ideas as soon as he was captured, he didn't try and make a run for it, like many Nazi's, or hide in a bunker, he had an idea, and was willing to share it with a free world. USA jumped at the chance. Soviet Union got the papers first though, that is why Gagarin was first man into space, and Sputnik was the first man made satellite. Really ? Up to 20,000 people - slave labour - died making those weapons from a concentration camp he visited up to 15 times Edited June 24, 2020 by DavidM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, DavidM said: Really ? Up to 20,000 people - slave labour - died making those weapons from a concentration camp he visited up to 15 times and how many of those would've died in the labour camps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Just now, Bleep1673 said: and how many of those would've died in the labour camps? I’ve no idea but that’s not much of a defence is it ? As time went on late in the war he was so far in he couldn’t do anything , but he made his choices to get that far . He was so obsessed with his work he just carried on regardless . He was just to valuable and of too much use to stand trial 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 4 minutes ago, DavidM said: Really ? Up to 20,000 people - slave labour - died making those weapons from a concentration camp he visited up to 15 times I am not putting him up as a hero, but he wasn't a nasty Nazi, otherwise why would the USA/NASA employ him? Unless they are complicit in Nazi exploitation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, Bleep1673 said: I am not putting him up as a hero, but he wasn't a nasty Nazi, otherwise why would the USA/NASA employ him? Unless they are complicit in Nazi exploitation Ah, now I see the foil in my argument, the USA has always been anti-semetic, anti-black, anti-hispanic. sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Just now, Bleep1673 said: I am not putting him up as a hero, but he wasn't a nasty Nazi, otherwise why would the USA/NASA employ him? Unless they are complicit in Nazi exploitation Understood . The western allies employed many ‘nasty’ Nazis , as did the soviets . They wanted the skills they had . It’s a really interesting area of study , what happened at the end of the war . One war quickly morphed into another , with different enemies and different friends 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 At the risk of making this thread too exciting and fascinating, I've just bought a new kettle. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graveyard johnny Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 4 hours ago, Futtocks said: At the risk of making this thread too exciting and fascinating, I've just bought a new kettle. on that subject the last 4 people to reach 100 in the care home where my sister works have never drank tea or coffee see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolford6 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Sean Dyche is the only Premiership manager earning more money than any of his players. Under Scrutiny by the Right-On Thought Police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wholly Trinity Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 I just made up a python joke: !==≠ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolford6 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 I went to a farm yesterday where the cows "milk themselves". They voluntarily enter a booth where a robotic machine cleans the udder, laser guided suction tubes lock onto the teats and the milk is sucked into a holding tank with a test-tube sample taken from each cow's delivery. Under Scrutiny by the Right-On Thought Police Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 15 hours ago, Wolford6 said: I went to a farm yesterday where the cows "milk themselves". They voluntarily enter a booth where a robotic machine cleans the udder, laser guided suction tubes lock onto the teats and the milk is sucked into a holding tank with a test-tube sample taken from each cow's delivery. I saw a documentary about a farm like that, I think it might have been one of those inside the factory things or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, Wolford6 said: I went to a farm yesterday where the cows "milk themselves". They voluntarily enter a booth where a robotic machine cleans the udder, laser guided suction tubes lock onto the teats and the milk is sucked into a holding tank with a test-tube sample taken from each cow's delivery. Double post. Edited June 30, 2020 by The Hallucinating Goose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Warrior Dragon Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 I am 70 today. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I just bought an electric toaster. More than 50 summers in this vale of tears, and I've never owned one before. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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