I have had a PM from a Winston about putting $26 million into my account, anyone else had one. ?.
Scooploop need to know so I have reported it to them.
Anything !
An open Group where anything can be discussed by anybody, as long as you are polite, respect others opinions, and behave !!!
Open Loop 976
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This is taken from an article sent to me by Constance Craig Smith about Jane Birkin.
‘If you're too young to remember the Sixties, then you'll have heard of her thanks to the Hermès handbag which is named after her. A Birkin bag costs the same as a small car, and even getting on the waiting list for one is a challenge. Victoria Beckham is said to own more than 100 Birkins in different colours.‘
What a waste of money ! If people earn a lot of money and pay their tax then fine but the indulgence of having at least £10,000 of 1 type of bag let alone all the others. I looked up Birkin bags, the first one that came up was£65.000 , ridiculous, repugnant and immoral.This discussion is now closed.
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The government approach to everything (Edited)
Imagine if any student wrote an exam paper in the way the government has handled the issue of marking the exams. They’d write "The main cause of the First World War was the Mona Lisa, which was written in 1985 by Catherine the Great". Then they’d insist this was “fair and accurate” following a “robust process”, until 15 million people screamed it made no sense. Then the student would say it wasn’t his fault because his computer was broken.
If the Premier League hadn’t been completed this year, Liverpool should have been given fourth place, because, in spite of them being 137 points clear at the top, that’s where they normally finish.
This is so efficient, no students need to bother learning anything, they’re just given the grades that school got before, so the schools can be turned into flats.
This should be the rule in every other area as well. So to make the justice system fairer, each town has to send the same number to prison every year. If Luton sent less this year than in 2018, the local council takes 40 random people out of Lidl and gives them all six years for armed robbery.
But the way they dealt with these exams seems to fit a pattern. Because this government had the same approach for increasing NHS fees for foreign nurses. A decision the prime minister might as well have responded to by saying: "I am sick and tired of foreigners coming over here and saving my life as a sneaky way of earning money off our health system. If they can’t be bothered to pay for the privilege, they don’t DESERVE to save my life."
Eventually, someone spotted a flaw in this proposal so they abandoned it, and replaced it by announcing an end to the furlough scheme, because we could no longer afford to let people stay at home and not work, just because they’d been ordered to stay at home and not work.
Boris Johnson was probably about to make a traditional Conservative speech, saying: "If someone has been put out of work because I’ve ordered them to stay at home, they should go and look for work somewhere else. Maybe there’s a job in the toilet, or underneath the settee."
Instead, they abandoned that and announced instead that all schools would reopen in June, which would also be when the world-beating, game-changing track and trace would be ready, until they abandoned both of those.
So they announced there was no need to wear a face mask, as they made no difference, until they amended that slightly to "Everyone HAS to wear a face mask". Then every minister said something slightly different, such as: "In shops you must wear a mask and play a flute" or "if you have breathing difficulties you must wear one over your arse."
So these people calling for Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, to resign are being thoroughly unfair. He was simply following the rules of his government, in proposing something mad, sticking to it despite the opposition of everyone, then cancelling it while saying no one could possibly have foreseen the thing that everyone foresaw.
But they seem to get away with it, so they’ll probably carry on like this. Next week they’ll announce prisons will be turned into aquariums, and long-term prisoners have to paint themselves yellow and orange and pretend to be tropical fish.
Then they’ll abandon that, saying no one could have predicted the findings of a report that concluded prisoners don’t have gills.
But never mind, because to save money on expensive training, heart surgeons will be chosen by the national lottery, though you’ll be restricted to liver transplants if you needed the bonus ball.
To save further public money through efficiency, the library service will be merged with the navy, and the romantic fiction D to H section will be used as an aircraft carrier.
And none of them responsible for these schemes will ever resign. Priti Patel could be filmed making balaclavas out of the queen’s corgis to sell to the Continuity IRA to raise money for the Campaign to Fill the Sea with Plastic and Particularly Poisonous Whale-Killing Mercury, and she’d say she’d done nothing illegal, and Johnson would say he’d drawn a line under it, and what the British people wanted was to see her get back to being an incompetent psychopath as soon as possible.
In spite of all this, they remain slightly ahead in the polls, as if around 40 per cent of the population has now forgotten there are any other parties. So you might as well ask them which moon they’d prefer to go round the earth.
We’re now run by a government that’s the equivalent of a car mechanic where, when you take your car for a service, they tell you they’re going to set it alight. You tell them that doesn’t seem right, but they insist this is a well thought out policy, it’s even been approved by Chris Grayling, and "we lead the world in repairing things by incinerating them". Then, one month later, when it’s revealed there are three thousand charred vehicles blocking the entire town, they announce they’re reviewing their policy, but it’s not their fault, no one will resign, and in a poll, 41 per cent say they would still vote for them to carry on "fixing" their vehicles.
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Can you name 2 plays by dramatist David Hare?
He has probably written more than two, but you have to name the two that are written on my question
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New Spitting Image in catch-22 (Edited)
If they take the proverbial out of their BAME characters as much as the white ones, they will be accused of racism. So they may as well not have them in the show. But if there are no BAME characters, they will also be accused of racism.
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I would tell you my favourite corona virus joke but.........It would take you 2 weeks to get it. 😁
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Smile please. Zoom out - zoom in with Cosmic Eye
A magical journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Are9dDbW24
To download to keep, click: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AtxiPFXpEKB_gadO8N8We1fL5zAQ1A?e=feDydo then click Download at the top. -
World-wide car production 1950-2019
Very clever animated graph showing world-wide car production 1950-2019: https://para-rigger.posthaven.com/top-ten-car-producing-countries-1950-2019
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Hello! Is this Gordon's Pizza?
No sir - it's Google Pizza.
I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.
No sir - Google bought Gordon's Pizza last month.
OK. I would like to order a pizza.
Do you want your usual, sir?
My usual - you know me?
According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called
you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses - sausage -
pepperoni - mushrooms and meat balls on a thick crust.
OK - that's what I want .
May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta - arugula
- sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat, gluten free, thin
crust?
What? I detest vegetables.
Your cholesterol is not good, sir.
How the hell do you know?
Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical
records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.
Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take
medication for my cholesterol.
Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly.
According to our database, you only purchased a box of 30 cholesterol
tablets once, at Drugsale Network, 4 months ago.
I bought more from another drugstore.
That doesn't show on your credit card statement.
I paid in cash.
But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.
I have other sources of cash.
That doesn't show on your last tax return unless you bought them using
an undeclared income source, which is against the law.
WHAT THE HELL? ! ! ! !
I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention
of helping you.
Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google - Facebook - Twitter -
WhatsApp and all the others!! I'm going to an island without
internet - cable TV - where there are no mobile phone service and no
one to watch me or spy on me !!
I understand sir - but you need to renew your passport first. It
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Edward and Pip helping to bake........
Nice cooler day to bake some lovely Simon Hopkinson's delicious cheesy biscuits and the reward, to get to eat one with a lovely cuppa.....what a great day!
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Maybe see them over London 5.30 ish
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Travel back in time with Street View on Google maps
See your old car, your garden before the new owner paved over it, or in my case when it was neat and tidy, etc. Here's how:Type address into google search.
Click on map that appears.
Zoom in to address on map using plus sign bottom right.
Click on menu top left next to address.
Click Street View.
Click and hold on the yellow person bottom right, and drop on your house location.
Now swivel the view by clicking on the page and moving the mouse with the button held down until you see your point of interest.
If the timeline feature is available for the location you have chosen, you will see a clock in the bottom of the black box top left, click that to see a timeline slider. Click the plus sign bottom right of the preview window to see a full page view.Enjoy. -
When the astronauts went to the Moon for the first time, a speech was prepared in case they didn't make it back home. To highlight the threat of misinformation being spread online, experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent more than six months creating a video of an event that never happened. Artificial intelligence was used to recreate his facial movements: https://moondisaster.org/
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My dual fuel energy tariff with Shell Energy finishes at the end of the month, so I've had a look round. The cheapest appears to be a company called Outfox The Market. They are quoting me £65 a month. I'm paying Shell £85.
The only very slight downside is my Smart meter will no longer be smart and I will have to manually submit meter readings by email. That's not a problem.
I believe its only the electricity meter that has a working display when you have a dual fuel tariff.
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Edward and Pip patiently waiting.......... (Edited)
Edward and Pip expecting the storm to come while sheltering under some very fine Tits!
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Fun for all (but me) group (Edited)
If you are a member of the Fun for all group, would you let me know if the administrator is still with us, as I am getting no response?
I'm in! Thanks for help.This discussion is now closed.
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Now fluffy hair is racist (Edited)
If the t-shirts are racist and been taken off sale, how comes the books are not racist and still on sale? Maybe because its not racist to have fluffy hair and Tesco are just "apologising" so the woman thinks she's been listened to.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/08/tesco-apologises-selling-childrens-top-unacceptable-message-about-black-mermaid-13102286/This discussion is now closed.
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China reports NEW unknown disease spreading across Asian country deadlier than COVID-19
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I've just heard from Elbot that he was hijacked, but he is now safe and sound, and would like to continue chatting with you: https://www.elbot.com/
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Especially after what the b.....d did to my feeder, lol
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Seen announcement on TV --- your free licence end July but no further notice.
Googled and here is the result.
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The pitfalls of having one Indian facebook friend
So Joggy is my friend on facebook, which is nice.
But since she went on my friend list as the only Indian, it seems that half of India now wants to be my friend. I got about 250 requests waiting on top of the 100+ I accepted last night. -
Edward and Pip enjoying their fishing 'trip'
Much cooler day and Edward already has a 'bite' Pip waiting to bring in the catch, lol
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Last week MPs voted to pass the Trade Bill without the amendments to uphold the UK’s high food standards.
While this isn’t the outcome we wanted, we want to say a big thank you to the 25,000 people who emailed their MP. Our team here at Which? was overwhelmed and heartened by your support and dedication.
During the debate several MPs mentioned the emails - it sent a powerful message about the importance of food standards and the strength of public feeling on this issue.
The Trade Bill was not our only chance for change and we're not going to stop fighting now. We'll keep you updated on proceedings as the Bill progresses through the House of Lords in the autumn. We still have time to protect our UK food standards.
With trade talks ongoing between the UK and US we look at what current food standards are like across the pond. We’ve compared the two countries' farming methods, from welfare to antibiotic use and explain what you need to know.
UK vs US farming
Thanks and best wishes,
Which? campaigns team
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If you visit the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org, you can go back in time to see a website how it was on a particular day, and, depending on the site, a particular time on that day. Here is the BBC website, click the year, then the day and time on the calendar: https://web.archive.org/web/*/bbc.co.uk
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Woman sacked for helping elderly customers pay for shopping.
A woman who had worked in a bakery shop for 40 years has been sacked.
The shop manager had decided that customers had to pay by card only, but most of the older customers that were only buying one small bloomer loaf and a teacake, only had cash. So the woman serving them was taking their money, and then paying using her own card.
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Too hot for Edward and Pip! (Edited)
Edward and Pip were going to go fishing but have collapsed for a snooze in this heat by their fountain, lol
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Have a titter! (Edited)
Having witnessed the sad shenanigans that have been taking place recently, I think it's time for a titter; here is a world map showing amusing 'rude' place names. Don't worry if your browser says the site is insecure; I have checked it with 79 virus scanners* : http://really-rude.glitch.me/
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Have found that when I press more -- less sometimes the "thanks for down voting" flashes. I always put it right. But as the down voter has been mentioned before just like to point out how it can happen.
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Does not matter your gender or what age you are
If you are into cyber bullying you have gone too far
In bad behavior your actions seem small
In fact you are not a good person at all
To have to behave in such a manner it does seem
That you are one who suffers of low self esteem
You have to be full of self loathing to behave in such a way
Like every other cyber bully in the World of today
A cyber bully does not have anything on which to feel pride
Because of his or her bullying their victim has committed suicide
They try to build themselves up by putting others down
Such people are never an asset to their side of the town
A cyber bully will never become the person of the year
And of too many deaths due to them of late we do hear.This discussion is now closed.
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Do something and let them know
For the Supermarkets who have not pledged not to stock our standard of food. If they get a lot of emails with message "I will not shop anymore with you" they get the message.
Please note---one only has to send one email.
I just send one and passed it on.
Thank you for emailing major UK supermarkets asking them not to stock low-quality meat.
If you get a reply from any of the stores, please will you share it with the 38 Degrees team via this simple online form? That way, together, we can hold them to any commitments they make:
https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/7616/send_response
The more of us who contact these supermarkets, the more likely they are to feel the pressure. Please let your friends and family know about the campaign, so they can add their support. There's an email below you could forward if you like. Or, you could share the campaign on Facebook or Twitter:This discussion is now closed.
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Tonights dinner is going to be Stagg dynamite chili con carne with long grain white rice.
I have an already opened pot of sour cream in the fridge. The use by date on it is 10th July. So I must've opened and used some before then. It looks and smells ok. Should I use it tonight?This discussion is now closed.
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Another one, but I like my cash.
I just signed the petition "Protect ATMs and access to cash in the UK!" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.
This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/protect-atms-and-access-to-cash-in-the-uk?bucket=email-blast-23_7_2020_flt_banked_wider_send_cby&share=73879872-22cd-43ef-8f45-8150b3547930&source=&utm_campaign=23_7_2020_flt_banked_wider_send_cby&utm_source=
Can you also take a moment to share the petition with others? It's really easy – all you need to do is forward this email or click these links:
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Thank you!
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What do you think? Is it necessary or pointless? Should it be just mainland Spain?
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Testicles Can Suffer Damage From Coronavirus Without Actual Infection, Study Says
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25937/20200604/testicles-suffer-damage-coronavirus-without-actual-infection-study.htm?fbclid=IwAR0Islof1L324gvYkURWjNGMZlm4XIgW3I3avnsOar8uEVL5JDE_LsJ-Ip0