I would like to extend my thanks to Patrick Barron and DJM of this Parish for their insights into the financial world of today. My A Level in Economics and Public Affairs did not prepare me for the complex activities and financial finagling we see now. I understand the effects of moving off The Gold Standard; the printing of huge amounts of fiat money being the most obvious.
Talking of understanding – I would appreciate an article on GPS. I know about triangulation (what is the term for more than one satellite? – I saw reference to twelve being used!).
How is the mapping translated into the real time voice directions? How are changes (accidents, road diversions, wrong turnings etc) taken into account?
So much to absorb in the Modern World.
‘The more they gazed, the more their wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew’ Oliver Goldsmith.
Had a surprise when I logged into my bank (HSBC). All the people depicted were white! For years it has been asians and dindus. Is there something cracking in the corporate world?
Unfettered mass immigration – the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan proceeding apace. Some say Camoron sped up the process but I think it started way before. Whatever, we are in deep shit.
Am wondering if there is any interplay between Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib – seems to have gone quiet on the Lowe front. The newish leader of UKIP talks the talk but it still appears Reform could be the only opposition in the near future.
I was amazed to learn that there are more than two thousand staff in The Cabinet Office. What on earth do they all do?
I have had to bin my computer, hard drive buggered. Was talking to the owner of the Computer Business in Town and he is unjabbed and mentioned turbo cancers etc. Apparently he was counted as a key worker and under a lot of pressure to get the jabs. His wife told him not to do so thank goodness. I gave him a note with the GP link on it and asked him to have a look. We are all ambassadors for reality and the truth. Go forth and spread the word!
Saw a dad with his toddler on his shoulders, both laughing away, great to see, takes me back to the early days with my four.
Does anyone think banks and other organisations using foreign call centres are really saving anything? I have had a few conversations lately and, ok my hearing has deteriorated but I have great difficulty understanding the operators. It took a couple of minutes for instance to realise one guy was taking about vehicles. He pronounced it with a W – weicles! In my bank there are usually two or three staff waiting around to help with queries – they could be used on the ‘phone?
I am getting very fed up with the ‘security’ involved in doing even simple things on-line. Passwords, OTPs, Capta puzzles – crazy, crazy and all takes up valuable time and for me a struggle if I am using the mobile.
Saw a poster down town – Refugee and asylum seeker LGBT support group! Obviously not aware that 99% would chuck ‘em off rooftops. It makes you wonder.
In my time in Tunisia I saw the hypocrisy of a lot of the muslim world. Booze is available and I heard of one young chap who smashed himself up in a motorbike accident when he was pissed. The most performed op over there is hymen repair. They frown on homosexuality but the richer arabs have their young dancing boys. I have seen youths strolling about obviously dressed to attract male tourists. Unfortunately they try to change our ways, especially on drink. That fatuous prawn T. May assured us that ‘They will not change our way of life. What a cretin – it is their whole intent!¬
I recall though, in Bahrain, we had to go to the RAF mess at Muharraq for a pint. Don’t recall having a problem drinking in Libya or Aden (though it was probably on camp) or even in Jordan on holiday.
There was a discussion about sex and socks. Here is my take on it – I did try to warn you!
Don’t have sex with your socks on (channelling Noel Coward)
Don’t have sex with your socks on
Say people in the know
Don’t have sex with your socks on
It’s frightfully De Trop.If you have sex with your socks on
Your tootsies will be hot,
But if you have sex with your socks on
She’ll think you’ve lost the plotDon’t have sex with your socks on
It’s not in nature’s p0lan
Having sex with your sex on
So demeans a man.Don’t have sex with your socks on
So your efforts will bear fruit
Don’t have sex with your socks on
Just wear full birthday suit!
Postscript
I have just heard from my daughter about Rob, my grandson who died of a heart attack at the age of 33 at his home in Taiwan late last year. He was probably jabbed and had broken an ankle two weeks before.
The post-mortem result was Dilated Cardiomyopathy. I understand that it can develop over a long period and has several warning symptoms.
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