Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I was thinking about the film The Graduate and wondered if Dustin Hoffman ever made it up with the outlaws ?

 

[Tribansman]

My portion of corn flakes this morning weighed 75g, exactly the same as yesterday.

Mind blown.

 

[DCLane]

Off to Cheshire over the next 3 days - with no staying over due to restrictions. Son no. 2's got a team camp, the first since February last year except for a team selection day in August, on Sat/Sun and then a TT on Monday.

So if you're over there and see a pile of JRC Shutt Ridley's Junior male riders bombing about he should be somewhere with them

 

[randynewmanscat]

I'm not paying for the heating & lighting,

There once was a man who presented the weather forecast on the TV. He nursed pints of mild in my local during the winter to save on heating his home, he actually told me that.
For almost three years he got to save even more on his bills.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Wild ducks, you shoot them, but not with a gun to kill 90 birds at once.
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There was me thinking the main plank of the American economic miracle was productivity.
I could do with a gun like that though, for the cuckoo infestation in the nearby forest.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Amazon Fire Tablet 8th generation whatever that means.Got to say I did hit the start procedure in a fit of temper.But my thinking was what is the worst I could do.If it's breaking up I will have to get another tablet,and not Amazon.So off I went,and it's running superbly.I was going to get a Lenovo from PC World,if I had killed it.Not happy with Amazon,it's weird I go looking for stuff to buy shoes,neck tubes,tablets and for days after advert after advert comes along.

My partners favourite gripe when we chat on the phone.
I usually flush the browsers on my gadgets when I get sick of seeing images of sprag clutches and Haskel pumps so that I can enjoy the surprise of random adverts for trilby hats and video games.
YouTube is spectacularly weird, sometimes I get served French ads, sometimes English.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There was me thinking the main plank of the American economic miracle was productivity.
I could do with a gun like that though, for the cuckoo infestation in the nearby forest.

Are the cuckoos menacing ''host'' species?

 

[randynewmanscat]

Are the cuckoos menacing ''host'' species?

I don't know but they do have form for it, so yes they will be.
They are currently menacing me. Today I have a duet to serenade me. Fat pigeon in a nearby tree vs cuckoo hiding from potentially angry gun toting humans in the forest. They sound weirdly similar, one goes cuck--oo, the other oo---ooh. Different voices and inflection but equally annoying.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I don't know but they do have form for it, so yes they will be.
They are currently menacing me. Today I have a duet to serenade me. Fat pigeon in a nearby tree vs cuckoo hiding from potentially angry gun toting humans in the forest. They sound weirdly similar, one goes cuck--oo, the other oo---ooh. Different voices and inflection but equally annoying.

As it's a French cuckoo it's only saying hello. Or do you also shoot when people say coucou to you?

 

[randynewmanscat]

A mundane question, folks.

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If I lop a foot or two off the top of this thing, will it stop it growing taller, or just make it grow bushier?
It's presently about 15' high and 8' wide.

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Jeezo! I missed this one. If you cut it then it will reward you with the most vigorous growth from everywhere below the cut.
I would get rid when you can. A nice Acer or other tame replacement, maybe a trained cherry tree.
Quick, cheap and dirty is felling it to a stump and drilling the top and fill the holes with raw glyphosate periodically. It'll die eventually and start to rot, dig it out then.
Or find someone with the smallest mini excavator and sort it in an afternoon.

 

[randynewmanscat]

As it's a French cuckoo it's only saying hello. Or do you also shoot when people say coucou to you?

Shoot from the mouth if they turn up saying that when they said they would be round at 10 and turn up at 11:15 for sure.

 

[Illaveago]

Amazing ! 2 Saturdays in a row !
Yesterday was Saturday and another one today !

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Amazing ! 2 Saturdays in a row !
Yesterday was Saturday and another one today !

You too? I spent the whole of yesterday thinking it was Saturday. I think it was because all the workmen were absent and it was quiet.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Fast cars and Imperial College - this Guardian article made me think of you, @Reynard - https://www.theguardian.com/busines...esla-rival-who-wants-to-save-the-planet-lucid

 

[biggs682]

Well it's grey but dry outside.
Second day off and 72 miles covered