The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Cooling off

 

[welsh dragon]

I think the heat is confusing me!

It couldn't be you're age could it?

 

[ColinJ]

It couldn't be you're age could it?

More likely mostly the things that I did to myself/happened to me on the way here...

When I was a student I had about 10 metres of shelves full of technical books and magazines and I could probably have told you from memory which one a particular article was in, what it said, and roughly what page number it started on. These days I would struggle to remember which room the shelves were in!

I have just scared myself by using Street View to look at the view opposite my student flat. There are lots of new buildings in that part of Salford (just before it becomes Manchester city centre) so obviously I wouldn't recognise them, but I really ought to remember what the 18th century church less than 50 metres away looks like!!!

 

[ColinJ]

It gets worse...

Hospital? Nope!

Cathedral? No!

Railway arches? Oh, hang on, yes - I remember them!

 

[PaulSB]

Have you multitasked to the wrong place?

Nope! Dirk originally posted "Andy" and corrected to "body."

 

[classic33]

I now have my bike back. Rubbish bike shop. Charged me £39 for doing sod all.

And they said when the battery goes that's it you have to buy a new one. No mention of the fact that they can be repaired.

Chalk that one up to experience and won't go there again.

Who has the knackered battery now?

 

[classic33]

Just had to do a double take.Thought you said land mine.Barnard Castle Spec Savers here I come.

I've two!
Bought from Kranks and used to protect my bikes.

 

[Dirk]

Nope! Dirk originally posted "Andy" and corrected to "body."

Predictive text is a pain!

 

[classic33]

I’m with Zen Internet, the broadband package shows broadband and landline as two component parts of the monthly fee. I think Virgin media is the only provider that doesn’t use the BT Openreach wires to supply internet ( unless you use mobile phone internet)

Not true in Kingston upon Hull! BT do not operate there due to an historical monopoly by Kingston Communications, now KCOM!

BT are now Openreach, and technically have nothing to do with landline phones, unless as part of a broadband package.

 

[classic33]

We have lift off
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Shouldn't that be "Dive, Dive, Dive!".

 

[classic33]

Edit: 37° now!
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QUESTION:
If this is considered to be a normal human body temperature....... why does it feel so hot?!

Simple answer...
"If your body and its surroundings are at the same temperature, there is no temperature difference, which prevents heat transfer between these two entities. Your body is, therefore, unable to get rid of the excess heat it produces which is why you feel hot at 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit)."

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just finished watching Only Connect
3 right in the first round
naff all in the 2nd
a few idea on the walls
then 3-4 on the missing words

better than last week - my week is not officially a success!!!

now it's University Challenge

 

[Sterlo]

Not true in Kingston upon Hull! BT do not operate there due to an historical monopoly by Kingston Communications, now KCOM!

How true, we like to be different over 'ere

 

[Sterlo]

I think that they were (or are, if there are any left!?) a creamy white?

Should have read a bit further. There are very few of these boxes left now, we've got the naff looking open plan ones, I think the spice heads used to use them so they cleared them plus nobody really used them, except as urinals on a Saturday night. These are from outside what is still referred to as Telephone House in the city centre. We've also got some gold ones, a hangover from London 2012 when Luke Campbell won a gold in boxing and got them painted in his honour!

 

[ColinJ]

BT are now Openreach, and technically have nothing to do with landline phones, unless as part of a broadband package.

OK... Not true in Kingston upon Hull! Post Office Telecommunications, thereafter BT, and thereafter BT + Openreach do not operate there due to an historical monopoly by Kingston Communications, now KCOM!