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14 minutes ago, zzzak said:
Highly localized global cooling.
Where is that?
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46 minutes ago, Skippy said:
I reckon you shouldn’t hold your breath @XTreme
I doubt if the Enfields could get this far......except on a Grua!
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31 minutes ago, boboneleg said:
It was far too wet to walk through the woods or down to the river today so we drove over to Warmley to walk along the cycle/pestrian path ...............
No. this bloke is not giving himself a blow job !! It's a drinking fountain ...........
Although there were plenty of wild primroses along the route, one suspects that these are not native ..............
and back to the signal box . We walked about 4 miles all told.
They've maintained the signal box? Anything else still there?
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13 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
Ignore the knuckledraggers
I haven't no and from the looks of that photo I'm not sure I should
I have read about Franco's stolen babies. His policy of taking babies and children from their parents (often immediately after being born in hospital and telling the parents they were dead) and placing them with more 'appropriate' families, a policy that carried on well after his death on to the 90's. Horrifying.
They've certainly have a lot of shit to unpack, possibly too much.
Read about it....Franco asked Hitler to bomb a town in Spain.
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20 minutes ago, Six30 said:
Not got to touch my clocks they will right for 6 months as from tonight
Well you haven't been on the bikes since last October so there was no need to switch them.
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Lawrence Okolie on tonight @Six30
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6 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
Thats nice of you, thanks.
I looked it up not long after we arrived here last year when it stayed dark in the morning for what's seemed like forever. Time zones it seems have always been a political not a scientific decision in every country and lots have had their hours changed for one dump reason or another.
Whether Spain stayed neutral would be a hot topic so I'm staying away from that!
They've been weighing up whether to change back forever but apparently El Pais says polls show the Spanish people overwhelmingly do not want it to switch back.
What that reading led me onto was what Franco actually did which somehow was irrelevant and unreported in the UK. The Pact of Forgetting has a long legacy. I very much hope they can traverse facing such a painful thing without too much pain.
You read about Guernica?
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10 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
We shall see what version of "No pasa na" airport parking unveils tomorrow
So when are you and Mr Slowly venturing up this way then?
Your accommodation is waiting!
What you reckon @Skippy?
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@Slowlycatchymonkey......you may not know why Spain is an hour ahead of Britain!
"It was 1940 and World War II was raging. Nazi Germany occupied Norway, Holland, Belgium, then France. Fascist Italy had already joined with Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer wanted Spain's support next.
So on Oct. 23, 1940, Hitler took a train to the Spanish border to woo Spain's Fascist dictator, Francisco Franco.
But Spain was in ruins from its own Civil War in the late 1930s, and Franco didn't have much to offer. He stayed neutral, but switched Spain's clocks ahead one hour, to be in line with Nazi Germany.
Ever since, even though Spain is geographically in line with Britain, Portugal and Morocco — its clocks are on the same time zone as countries as far east as Poland and Hungary.
Now, more than seven decades later, the Spanish government is weighing whether to change them back."
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Just put the clocks forward on the bike and the car after looking at YouTube tutorials.
Yes.....we've had the car 5 years and I still need a YouTube tutorial to do it!
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15 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
What does that mean?
I hear de nada (you’re welcome/no problem) a lot. Google translate says thats “nothing happens”
Literally translates to nothing happens but it encompasses things like "it's not important", "it doesn't matter", "no problem" or "I'm too fucking lazy to do it now".
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7 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
@Skippy’s got it all wrong hasn’t he. Retiring to Spain, enjoying the sunshine, playing golf, riding his bike off road and chillin.
He’d be having a much better time if he carried on working at a desk, drove backward and forwards buying teabags, pellets, hay, spending his money only his adoring daughter in law and occasionally visiting a decaying corpse in some ruins.
Yer wotta ponce
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3 minutes ago, Pedro said:
I have to admit to having been spoiled by sitting on GSs.
Nothing gets close Pedro!
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1 minute ago, Skippy said:
Today this is me
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You fucking ponce!
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41 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
Well it’ll happen when it happens so it doesn’t really matter too much does it
No pasa na (should be no pasa nada).......that's another one you'll here a lot.
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2 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:
You can go and visit him in hospital wheres your sense of adventure
In and out same day Fred!
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2 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
They will still know the wait time for the consultant and the wait time for general surgery.
Or they should.
All i had was "No se"......a very popular phrase here as you've probably found out.
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8 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
more like choking oddly enough.
That's the cough!
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2 minutes ago, Six30 said:
Keep us updated
Yeh....will do!
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8 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
Ask em Pete. They’ll know the approximate waiting times and I have know idea why but we always feel better about it when a rough time is known.
I've got to see a consultant first.....I've only seen the GP so far.
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2 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:
Put the optimate on the bike, did the dishwasher and it’s wiped me out, time for a nice cup of tea and a sit down, it’s only sensible
Still coughing?
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Tym
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I do keep in touch with him on FB.
He's fine and just doing his thing.