Another pointless thread
Posted 22/12/2011 - 22:11
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Gwyn wrote:
besides I know a cat turd when I see one.
You certainly know it when you smell it! Unfortunately it doesn't have much of a smell until your hand goes into it or you have trampled it over your carpet and a pleasant hour planting daffodil bulbs becomes a hellish afternoon of scrubbing and disinfecting... besides I know a cat turd when I see one.
I still love cats, but I do agree they need to be kept indoors really... As for stray cats, I wonder if our grey squirrel vigilantes would keep some ammo spare to help deal with that problem?
Posted 22/12/2011 - 22:17
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TOZZA27 wrote:
Cyril has NEVER pooped as far as I can tell - he occasionally wees if he gets excited !!
Cyril has NEVER pooped as far as I can tell - he occasionally wees if he gets excited !!
TOZZA27 wrote:
Sadly the world WE have allowed to evolve means that there is little or no responsibility taught to the youngsters so littering of all kinds has become prevalent - don`t get me started............
I'm afraid round here the adults set a bad example, it's just sheer laziness. The thinking is 'I pay my taxes so I'm entitled to litter, the council will pick it up'. You can hardly blame the kids from following their example.
Sadly the world WE have allowed to evolve means that there is little or no responsibility taught to the youngsters so littering of all kinds has become prevalent - don`t get me started............
Posted 23/12/2011 - 08:22
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I see the RSPCA, has an advertisement on this web site, but cant really see the point, I will explain.
We have had since approx mid summer, a cat spending most of its time in our back garden, or sitting by our back door. My wife has asked around and put notes though the letter boxes of the houses in the area, to try and find out if anyone is missing a cat. etc etc etc
You wont get any help from the RSPCA Chris, they claim they don't have enough funds, we had the same problem this summer, we contacted every cat sanctuary we could find and also the RSPCA, the latter were the least help of all, total disinterest, at least the local cat rescue offered to pay towards the cost of her spaying, link
I see the RSPCA, has an advertisement on this web site, but cant really see the point, I will explain.
We have had since approx mid summer, a cat spending most of its time in our back garden, or sitting by our back door. My wife has asked around and put notes though the letter boxes of the houses in the area, to try and find out if anyone is missing a cat. etc etc etc
Posted 23/12/2011 - 08:29
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When we were kids if a cat had unwanted kittens there was always some one with a bucket of water to drown them. This was usually done before the kittens became "lovable". It was surprising how many of us would magically appear at a drowning. The only cats in our neighbourhood belonged to somebody and we knew whose cat was whose.
Posted 23/12/2011 - 11:42
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Hardgravity wrote:
There were fantastic clouds over West Yorkshire yesterday.
I missed them!!
Spotted them too - a string of lenticular clouds, one in particular looked amazing- but was driving on the motorway with wife+kids+dog and couldn't stop. By the time I could they were obscured by less amazing clouds
There were fantastic clouds over West Yorkshire yesterday.
I missed them!!
Posted 23/12/2011 - 12:09
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At sea when doing weather reports to radio in we used a book containing pictures of clouds so we could give a more accurate description, a better guess of the cloud height etc. A lot of the photographs used had been taken ashore and featured chimney pots, rooftops and other non sea-going items. It was amazing how off-putting these were where there was no horizon.
Posted 23/12/2011 - 15:12
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The Green Thing. In the line at the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the shop or off licence. They sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized and refilled and re-used. So it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have lifts and escalators in every shop and office building. We walked to the local shops and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go to a supermarket. We bought fruit and veg loose - and washed them at home. We didn't have to throw away bins full of plastic, foam and paper packaging that need huge recycling plants fed by monster trucks all day, everyday.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 3kw -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down (mostly hand made or hand knitted) clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing shipped from the other side of the planet. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then shops repaired things with funny things called spare parts - we didn't need to throw whole items away because a small part failed.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power and hand clippers for the hedges. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a brightly lit, air conditioned health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity and then drink millions of bottles of that special water from those plastic bottles.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a plastic cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new plastic pen, and we replaced blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole plastic razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest fish & chip shop.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a young smartass.
Take care.
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the shop or off licence. They sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized and refilled and re-used. So it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have lifts and escalators in every shop and office building. We walked to the local shops and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go to a supermarket. We bought fruit and veg loose - and washed them at home. We didn't have to throw away bins full of plastic, foam and paper packaging that need huge recycling plants fed by monster trucks all day, everyday.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 3kw -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down (mostly hand made or hand knitted) clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing shipped from the other side of the planet. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then shops repaired things with funny things called spare parts - we didn't need to throw whole items away because a small part failed.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power and hand clippers for the hedges. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a brightly lit, air conditioned health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity and then drink millions of bottles of that special water from those plastic bottles.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a plastic cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new plastic pen, and we replaced blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole plastic razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest fish & chip shop.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a young smartass.
Take care.
Chris R.
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Posted 23/12/2011 - 15:21
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ChrisR wrote:
The Green Thing. In the line at the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the shop or off licence. They sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized and refilled and re-used. So it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have lifts and escalators in every shop and office building. We walked to the local shops and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go to a supermarket. We bought fruit and veg loose - and washed them at home. We didn't have to throw away bins full of plastic, foam and paper packaging that need huge recycling plants fed by monster trucks all day, everyday.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 3kw -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down (mostly hand made or hand knitted) clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing shipped from the other side of the planet. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then shops repaired things with funny things called spare parts - we didn't need to throw whole items away because a small part failed.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power and hand clippers for the hedges. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a brightly lit, air conditioned health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity and then drink millions of bottles of that special water from those plastic bottles.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a plastic cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new plastic pen, and we replaced blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole plastic razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest fish & chip shop.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a young smartass.
Take care.
Shame the older generation weren't green for environmental reasons rather than just being tight and shame they were crap at educating their kids.
The Green Thing. In the line at the supermarket, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the shop or off licence. They sent them back to the plant to be washed, sterilized and refilled and re-used. So it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have lifts and escalators in every shop and office building. We walked to the local shops and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go to a supermarket. We bought fruit and veg loose - and washed them at home. We didn't have to throw away bins full of plastic, foam and paper packaging that need huge recycling plants fed by monster trucks all day, everyday.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 3kw -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down (mostly hand made or hand knitted) clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing shipped from the other side of the planet. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then shops repaired things with funny things called spare parts - we didn't need to throw whole items away because a small part failed.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power and hand clippers for the hedges. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a brightly lit, air conditioned health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity and then drink millions of bottles of that special water from those plastic bottles.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a plastic cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new plastic pen, and we replaced blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole plastic razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their parents into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest fish & chip shop.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a young smartass.
Take care.
Lurking is shirking.!
Posted 23/12/2011 - 16:24
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Hardgravity wrote:
I've just spent the last month watching dog owners not clean up after their hounds.
The resulting £80 fixed penalty has been greeted with torrents of abuse.
If you have a dog you need to be responsible for it.
Cats on the other hand, foul in my garden under the bushes. We don't have neat flower beds so the resulting visits aren't too much of a problem.
I grew up with dogs, have a cat and can see the advantages of both, especially at 3.30 in the morning when the cat feels hungry!
Merry Xmas Tony, enjoy the break.
Oh have you never had cat crap left on your paths then?I've just spent the last month watching dog owners not clean up after their hounds.
The resulting £80 fixed penalty has been greeted with torrents of abuse.
If you have a dog you need to be responsible for it.
Cats on the other hand, foul in my garden under the bushes. We don't have neat flower beds so the resulting visits aren't too much of a problem.
I grew up with dogs, have a cat and can see the advantages of both, especially at 3.30 in the morning when the cat feels hungry!
Merry Xmas Tony, enjoy the break.
i'ts the male cats that never bother to cover their mess up unlike the female cats which crap under your bushes!
Most dog owners are responsible and clear up after their animals unlike a great many cat owners who rely on the cat flap, or turn their cats out to crap in everyone elses gardens!
Posted 23/12/2011 - 16:36
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....we replaced blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole plastic razor just because the blade got dull.
I had an uncle who had mastered the art of re-sharpening razor blades on a piece of "sea glass". How many other skills have been lost to time, along with common sense and imagination
....we replaced blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole plastic razor just because the blade got dull.
Posted 23/12/2011 - 17:27
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Early carpenters used to smooth wood with the scales off the
sides of a fishes skin No throw away saws in them
days either... they used to spend a couple of hours
re-sharpening once a week or send it to the saw doctor
I was born after the war, but remember seeing shoe leather used
as hinges on garden sheds Old cotton bobbins used as
door handles
I also remember seeing in old ironmongers all kinds of mind
boggling stuff such as pan repairers which consisted of two
washers with a bolt through them to clamp the washers against
the side of the pan
The ironmongers also sold perforated zinc mesh to cover meat
safes to keep the flies out.... no fridges in them days
Some parts of Wigan are still like that!
sides of a fishes skin No throw away saws in them
days either... they used to spend a couple of hours
re-sharpening once a week or send it to the saw doctor
I was born after the war, but remember seeing shoe leather used
as hinges on garden sheds Old cotton bobbins used as
door handles
I also remember seeing in old ironmongers all kinds of mind
boggling stuff such as pan repairers which consisted of two
washers with a bolt through them to clamp the washers against
the side of the pan
The ironmongers also sold perforated zinc mesh to cover meat
safes to keep the flies out.... no fridges in them days
Some parts of Wigan are still like that!
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Cyril has NEVER pooped as far as I can tell - he occasionally wees if he gets excited !! The pigeons are a bit "colourful" during the cherry season !!! I never could understand the not cleaning up after a dog attitude - especially in a public area - at least when we were kids and there was no such thing as Sheba or Iams , dog muck was chalky and solid and easily removed or avoided.
Sadly the world WE have allowed to evolve means that there is little or no responsibility taught to the youngsters so littering of all kinds has become prevalent - don`t get me started.........................
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