Another pointless thread

Lubbyman
Posted 11/01/2021 - 10:39 Link
K10D wrote:
Odd how this developing new order has killed off enormous area's of business and other area's don't have enough resources to meet the rising demand.
Such things happen. What did all the farriers and stable hands do when the infernal combustion engine replaced horse power? Saw somewhere that the same thing happened at the end of the Bronze Age. Makers of bronze things went out of business, shortage of makers of iron things.

Steve
K10D
Posted 11/01/2021 - 12:23 Link
Lubbyman wrote:
K10D wrote:
Odd how this developing new order has killed off enormous area's of business and other area's don't have enough resources to meet the rising demand.
Such things happen. What did all the farriers and stable hands do when the infernal combustion engine replaced horse power? Saw somewhere that the same thing happened at the end of the Bronze Age. Makers of bronze things went out of business, shortage of makers of iron things.

Steve
Quite true Steve, I wasn't thinking that far back this morning! VERY busy roads this morning around York.
Too far from a shore.
bforbes
Posted 11/01/2021 - 12:40 Link
K10D wrote:
Lubbyman wrote:
K10D wrote:
Odd how this developing new order has killed off enormous area's of business and other area's don't have enough resources to meet the rising demand.
Such things happen. What did all the farriers and stable hands do when the infernal combustion engine replaced horse power? Saw somewhere that the same thing happened at the end of the Bronze Age. Makers of bronze things went out of business, shortage of makers of iron things.

Steve
Quite true Steve, I wasn't thinking that far back this morning! VERY busy roads this morning around York.
people still need their chocolate!
Hardgravity
Posted 13/01/2021 - 09:36 Link
bforbes wrote:
people still need their chocolate!
And beer Barrie,, don't forget the beer..

..and Gin...

...and Whisky, I think I need to stop now.

For a drink, of coffee...
Cheers, HG

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womble
Posted 13/01/2021 - 10:57 Link
Hardgravity wrote:
For a drink, of coffee...
It seems as though every other person I pass out walking is holding on to a coffee cup at the moment.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
Lubbyman
Posted 13/01/2021 - 11:38 Link
womble wrote:
It seems as though every other person I pass out walking is holding on to a coffee cup at the moment.
It keeps the hands warm. Personally, I prefer gloves. You can't spill gloves.

Steve
Hardgravity
Posted 13/01/2021 - 15:10 Link
womble wrote:

It seems as though every other person I pass out walking is holding on to a coffee cup at the moment.
But WHERE are they getting them?

Just before lockdown/3 we were on a canal towpath and there were Costa and MacD cups, but the nearest outlets were miles away!!!
Cheers, HG

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K10D
Posted 13/01/2021 - 21:35 Link
Spending the remains of today, my birthday, drinking an Ausie red, listening to Leningrad (Storm Front).
Too far from a shore.
bforbes
Posted 13/01/2021 - 21:58 Link
K10D wrote:
Spending the remains of today, my birthday, drinking an Ausie red, listening to Leningrad (Storm Front).
Many happy returns
Following a mistaken identity in the fridge I'm drinking Bourbon and Burdock
K10D
Posted 14/01/2021 - 07:51 Link
bforbes wrote:
Following a mistaken identity in the fridge I'm drinking Bourbon and Burdock
I've often missed and taken other things. Normally my foot or a blurry floor.
Too far from a shore.
Benz3ne
Posted 14/01/2021 - 07:57 Link
K10D wrote:
Spending the remains of today, my birthday, drinking an Ausie red, listening to Leningrad (Storm Front).
Penblwydd Hapus - happy birthday! That sounds like a winning combination to me.
LennyBloke
Posted 14/01/2021 - 21:57 Link
Anyone see the Channel 5 Natural History Museum programme tonight? Narrated by a forum member I believe
LennyBloke
K10D
Posted 15/01/2021 - 07:26 Link
LennyBloke wrote:
Anyone see the Channel 5 Natural History Museum programme tonight? Narrated by a forum member I believe
Not guilty.

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Too far from a shore.
davidwozhere
Posted 16/01/2021 - 01:05 Link
Cor. Good on yer Bill !
Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass

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Hardgravity
Posted 16/01/2021 - 11:08 Link
Is it me, or are EBay prices a lot higher than they were before Christmas and UK'Freedom'?

I know they fluctuate through the year but...
Cheers, HG

K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.

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