The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Why do want to slow down time.

I thought that you might be right in suggesting that the verb was the wrong choice so I checked my excellent Chambers Crossword Dictionary app...

retard /ri-tärd'/
transitive verb

1. To slow
2. To keep back development or progress of
3. To delay
4. To postpone (rare)
5. To delay the timing of (an ignition spark)

intransitive verb

1. To slow down
2. To delay

...

[© Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. 2014]

I think that does the job. Or rather, it will do in just under a week's time!

 

[classic33]

I thought that you might be right in suggesting that the verb was the wrong choice so I checked my excellent Chambers Crossword Dictionary app...

retard /ri-tärd'/
transitive verb

1. To slow
2. To keep back development or progress of
3. To delay
4. To postpone (rare)
5. To delay the timing of (an ignition spark)

intransitive verb

1. To slow down
2. To delay

...

[© Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. 2014]

I think that does the job. Or rather, it will do in just under a week's time!

Can't delay time, it marches on regardless.

 

[ColinJ]

Can't delay time, it marches on regardless.

We just play with what we call it.

Apparently, each town and city used to have its own local time. Moving from one to another was generally slow. (The fastest you could do it would be on horseback.) It was only with the advent of the railway that it became obvious that times needed to be nationally/internationally synchronised.

 

[classic33]

We just play with what we call it.

Apparently, each town and city used to have its own local time. Moving from one to another was generally slow. (The fastest you could do it would be on horseback.) It was only with the advent of the railway that it became obvious that times needed to be nationally/internationally synchronised.

And you're in a town that used to have to seperate times. More than once it was used as a defence when someone was accused of doing something. The Town Hall used to have two clocks inside.

Alas, those days are gone.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My 'bessie' is coming to watch the match later..... he is a lifelong Man Utd fan (season ticket holder until recently) whereas I am sensible and support LFC .

Well done to you for supporting the disadvantaged members of society
I believe that you can apply for support for missionary work.
(although that comment might just have lost me a job a few years ago when I got an interview for a job within sight of Old Trafford!!!!!)

 

[Dave7]

Well done to you for supporting the disadvantaged members of society
I believe that you can apply for support for missionary work.
(although that comment might just have lost me a job a few years ago when I got an interview for a job within sight of Old Trafford!!!!!)

To be fair he is a one of a rare breed.....a fair supporter. YES....very much a Utd fan but always willing to acknowledge good play from the other team.

 

[Tenkaykev]

A lovely ride out on the Brommie to visit the egg lady. Pleased to note that the Jam Lady next door has reopened, there's a lovely range of home made jams with fruit from her garden. The two cottages stand alone on the Cowgrove road and I believe them to be enchanted, as each time we visit they seem to be at a different distance along the road🤔
Stopped for a bite to eat at Le Petit Prince in Wimborne on the way home, saw a Peloton of 20+ roadies hammer past as we pootled along, and finally arrived home just as the rain started.

 

[numbnuts]

Chicken curry with homemade naan bread, the naan bread was a first for me

 

[Dirk]

We just play with what we call it.

Ah......but do you subscribe to the 'A theory' of time, or the 'B theory' ?

 

[classic33]

Ah......but do you subscribe to the 'A theory' of time, or the 'B theory' ?

C) String theory.

 

[Dirk]

Yummy! Child's portion - £5.95

 

[Dirk]

C) String theory.

String theory isn't about time......

 

[ColinJ]

Ah......but do you subscribe to the 'A theory' of time, or the 'B theory' ?

C) String theory.

I should read up on that kind of thing, but I always have too much to do!

I need to nip out to the shops before they close, but I am waiting, trying to dodge the rain.

I should be writing my competition story, but got distracted by the world track cycling championships. I forgot they were on, so have gone back on iPlayer and am watching the coverage from day 1. I must UNdistract myself because the story has to be submitted by midnight tomorrow.

And then I keep thinking up ideas for the 'puzzle game that time forgot'. The biggest puzzle about the game that I am writing is why I am bothering to do it! It would have made sense if I had got it finished in a reasonable time frame, but I will already be a pensioner by the time it is ready! (And the reality is that it probably won't make me much money anyway. I'm hoping that it will at least be enough to pay my rail fares to Devon 3 or 4 times a year. Anything beyond that would be a lovely surprise.)

 

[ColinJ]

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Yummy! Child's portion - £5.95

There must be some very large children down there!

Actually, the local chip shop here used to do something similar with their portions. The "children's" portion was like a normal adult portion. The "small adult" portion was a very generous adult portion. The standard portion was enough for 2 hungry adults!

 

[Dirk]

There must be some very large children down there!

Actually, the local chip shop here used to do something similar with their portions. The "children's" portion was like a normal adult portion. The "small adult" portion was a very generous adult portion. The standard portion was enough for 2 hungry adults!

2 x Sunday lunches and 3 1/2 pints of local ale - £25. Can't moan at that!