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 Key   Unread Messages   Read Messages     Last Update: 14/02/2026 21:01:29 
 Messages  Author  Time 
A Viking's Advice For Modern Men...[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:29:23 
>> Invade Britain by boat then rape and pillage?
 Hamsterwheel  19:36:54 
The view from the port tonight......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:23:00 
IT's shoved in our faces, whether we like it or not......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:42:42 
>> Down your throat Shirley
 Denc 🗡  17:34:20 
>> Open wide
 Hamsterwheel  15:54:43 
Yorkshiremen......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:31:45 
4.5 m subscribers.....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:16:06 
Cool......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:13:07 
Be glad you don't live there......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:00:02 
>> Unlike the 'climate crisis', this a real world environmental problem.
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:02:15 
Kill Putin…....[more]
 Denc 🗡  14:10:36 
Took (not to0) little Seiko out today......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:05:48 
>> My mate says ... Fendi umbrella, v chic...
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:35:58 
>> It's not. It's a cylindrical bag.
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:39:31 
>> Handsome chap......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:10:00 
>> You never see the white of the eyes, which is a little odd....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:23:14 
>> Can’t figure out why you don’t get another one
 Hamsterwheel  14:26:43 
>> We have talked about it but as it's me who would do all the work, I declined.
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:16:55 
😡 Have driven halfway up Olympus to a mountain village full of excellent ... [more]
 Hamsterwheel  13:33:41 
>> Ends next month here.
 Free Thinking Doggie  13:59:58 
TWAT......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  22:14:18 
>> "Johnny Depp owes me one for Edward Scissor hands"...[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  22:22:12 
>> MacArthur Park...[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  22:24:58 
Live From Daryl’s House....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  21:58:19 
This is (was)...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:45:27 
Listening to Rubber Soul. What a great record.
 Free Thinking Doggie  19:30:08 
I may have mentioned this before....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:28:39 
>> You should have tried the IBM so called Aptitude test for Salesmen. 100 questions ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  22:28:58 
>> I did one for the Inland Revenue software people....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:26:30 
>> Bit taxing ?
 Hamsterwheel  12:00:46 
>> Indeed. I passed but got a better offer elsewhere.
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:28:54 
>> I've known a few salesmen... they all had one characteristic in common.....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:25:29 
>> Selling large scale computers is not quite the same as flogging second hand ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  13:55:45 
>> Here’s a few IBMers from my era…...[more]
 Denc 🗡  14:14:45 
>> These guys were in software sales, late 80s.. Some big piss ups.. I seem to ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:13:52 
>> Software sales is nothing like the same thing.
 Denc 🗡  14:16:28 
>> As you may recall I did that with CSY a bit , though we sold a whole system
 Denc 🗡  14:17:19 
>> Selling a computer system in the 70s involved reorganizing the ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  14:19:21 
>> Audited an insurance brokers in about 1987 that still had a comp.
 Hamsterwheel  14:28:02 
>> Players first two 370 computers ( we often sold two for back up ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  14:36:34 
>> I was 27 when I sold them.
 Denc 🗡  14:39:08 
>> I devised a 50 question test for CSY. Hundreds sat it. Only 2 people got over 30 ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  22:31:14 
>> Of course, in an interview situation, it's interesting.
 Free Thinking Doggie  21:59:47 
>> easy!...[more]
 🌞🤢  20:19:33 
>> OK...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:39:42 
>> It's actually really interesting how we all have our own method, but arrive ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  21:38:09 
>> I do it thus:...[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  19:08:18 
>> In other words, I calculate the position in degrees of both hands, then subtract ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:56:23 
>> .. and I got the job.
 Free Thinking Doggie  19:10:40 
>> For a laugh, I sent it to two old mates....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:48:51 
>> And that had what to do with the job?
 Hamsterwheel  18:30:52 
>> Problem solving....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:46:25 
>> 48 degrees ...[more]
 Hamsterwheel  19:03:37 
>> Nope....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  19:04:06 
>> As I said.
 Hamsterwheel  19:11:38 
>> You failed.
 Free Thinking Doggie  19:14:25 
>> I got 84 but swapped the digits as I stated to avoid givythe answer to ... [more]
 Hamsterwheel  19:44:08 
>> The answer btw is easier to work out than that but I have had a few gins, hic...[more]
 Denc 🗡  23:04:40 
>> It’s just 6 degrees for each minute between the hands.
 Denc 🗡  02:06:55 
>> In the interview, I just thought 12 into 60 = 5 .. from there ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:28:28 
>> It’s just there’s 14 minutes between the hands x 6 = 84. ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  13:46:14 
>> How do you get the number 14?
 Opisthocomus  14:02:39 
>> Eh? The hour hand is at one minute to seven and the minute ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  14:06:54 
>> Can you do the calculation for 13 minutes to 7 in your head?
 Opisthocomus  14:17:31 
>> More complex because the hour hand would be at a ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  14:23:58 
>> That’s why 12 minutes to is easy.
 Denc 🗡  14:24:33 
>> Yes, it's why Graham used that number. Later after ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:38:30 
>> But the hour hand would be one second before one ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  14:31:17 
>> We got some crazy answers.
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:30:43 
Met a friend last night, she was with her young son, who is now studying at ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:32:52 
>> Yes, great. Having the State know how you spend every penny and your location at ... [more]
 Hamsterwheel  18:31:53 
>> I was under the impression that you were in favour of such developments.
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:57:15 
>> I wouldn’t want to live in Shanghai thanks.
 Denc 🗡  14:58:41 
>> Me neither, but this guy is early 20s, speaks Mandarin as well as English and French.
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:35:09 
>> Similar to maybe moving to NYSE in the 60s. I'd fancy it if 40 years younger....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:39:15 
>> I would rather live in London if I wanted to live in a city , or Munich ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  18:21:53 
>> Yes but it depends on age I think. Big city buzz is very attractive when ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:29:52 
>> I didn’t find much buzz in Shanghai , boring.
 Denc 🗡  22:21:09 
>> You went to the wrong places. We stayed at an hotel that was ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  09:03:05 
>> In the 1990s, London was THE place.
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:59:35 
>> And mid/late 1980s!
 Mike Mike  19:33:44 
>> Thing is Mike we all have our great memories of a place (at a certain time).....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:18:38 
>> Or Monaco , mini city
 Denc 🗡  18:22:21 
>> Or Nice come to think of it. Not much better than there.
 Denc 🗡  18:25:15 
How does this work? Booked a hotel in Athens for Sunday night through Expedia. ... [more]
 Hamsterwheel  14:15:25 
>> Because they've got a surge in enquiries so they are hoping people will cancel so ... [more]
 Occhio Pazzo 🇬🇧  17:47:37 
>> Ha, ha, we do not do that.
 Denc 🗡  18:23:06 
>> Yes I thought that.
 Free Thinking Doggie  18:12:53 
>> Mebbe, but the hotel is on all the booking sites and its own so still seems odd ... [more]
 Hamsterwheel  18:04:18 
>> No one wants to cancel a booking. Bird in the hand etc. plus you will soon get ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  18:24:24 
>> Your reputation precedes you
 Denc 🗡  14:25:50 
>> It does indeed seem to be pretty fully booked
 Hamsterwheel  15:18:52 
Senior Goldmans exec resigns after Epstein files release. More to come I expect....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  13:57:35 
A measure of how crazy things have got......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  12:48:32 
Delayed CPI 13:30 today, no doubt a market mover.
 Free Thinking Doggie  12:28:38 
>> Tame number. Not what I wanted...
 Free Thinking Doggie  13:36:42 
>> Futures nervous with 15 m to go.
 Free Thinking Doggie  13:14:32 
What Muslim take over…....[more]
 Denc 🗡  12:15:07 
Puts English potholes into perspective. ...[more]
 JonH🍕  11:23:26 
>> Is this Tangier ?
 Free Thinking Doggie  11:57:45 
>> Yup. Some roads like that here in the mountains after the huge storm a few years ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  11:40:59 
>> that's still open like that!? no warning? crazy.
 LP12  17:43:55 
Total Nightmare.....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  10:59:13 
>> I am sure you would be welcomed.
 Denc 🗡  12:12:24 
>> However the GDP per head is roughly the same as the Dominican Republic and go ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  12:17:36 
>> Beautifully done 👍
 Hamsterwheel  11:23:04 
'It has been a life-changing experience for me. I never thought such evil was ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:08:43 
>> Meanwhile, Valentine cards for “refugees” from schoolkids. No really! Amazing!...[more]
 Occhio Pazzo 🇬🇧  11:04:36 
>> The teachers are the products of decades of Marxism indoctrination....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  11:43:39 
>> “share the love” not a clever thing to spout amongst those doctors and engineers.
 Hamsterwheel  11:25:27 
>> Problem is most of the teachers are nice middle class people, who don't ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  12:00:44 
>> Nothing to see.......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:32:43 
>> “The files never crossed my desk” squeals Keir
 Hamsterwheel  09:04:35 
>> Saville was a crafty old goat, would not surprise me if he had something on Starmer.
 Free Thinking Doggie  09:40:28 
>> My view (as evidenced recently) is that Keir just incompetent.
 Hamsterwheel  10:08:45 
>> The trouble with homosexuals is that they spend their lives telling lies, ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  10:40:26 
>> Shared a house with a Scottish guy years back, was exactly like that.
 Free Thinking Doggie  10:42:17 
What’s the difference between a circus and a brothel?...[more]
 Hamsterwheel  07:25:41 
>> I think I first heard that one in 1986. Might have been 85. Old Jokes Home.
 Occhio Pazzo 🇬🇧  08:08:29 
Fukcwit of the month 11 - Hove Albion 3...[more]
 LP12  00:01:55 
Added another 5 to the living room Sonos set up. Definitely worth it.
 Denc 🗡  22:46:50 
>> 5 wot?
 Hamsterwheel  10:07:32 
>> A Sonos 5 speaker....[more]
 Denc 🗡  12:00:39 
>> I have white ones btw
 Denc 🗡  12:45:24 
>> Made in Turkey
 Hamsterwheel  13:30:45 
>> Are they? The packaging is a work of art and the things are very high quality....[more]
 Denc 🗡  14:22:45 
>> a white sound bar 🫣 all black is so much better!
 🌞🤢  20:33:43 
>> Yuk
 Denc 🗡  22:50:36 
>> Nice. Attention, need 2b vertical when used as a pair
 LP12  17:40:50 
>> They don’t start vertically
 Denc 🗡  03:05:17 
>> White as in 🦷
 Hamsterwheel  15:18:12 
>> Speakers we assume.
 Free Thinking Doggie  10:23:50 
Storm.....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  22:18:15 
Arsena1:1
 Hamsterwheel  21:55:07 
>> brentford away a good side though
 fglass  23:29:16 
>> Slip sliding away.
 Denc 🗡  22:02:40 
She showed me her room.......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  21:54:41 
A 10% + decline on silver in 24 hours...
 Free Thinking Doggie  21:23:16 
The best pizza in Nice......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  20:25:00 
>> Look good them. Proper bases, most important bit
 Occhio Pazzo 🇬🇧  17:51:41 
>> Very nice. What on the Bianca pizza? Just cheese?...[more]
 JonH🍕  11:19:56 
>> Yes 4 cheeses, no tomate. Very, very good. ...[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  11:46:17 
>> Carte......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  11:54:37 
>> Too much dough.
 Denc 🗡  22:00:14 
>> The best. Owner / chef is from Napoli. Really superb....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  22:20:08 
>> Nasty doughy ring with no topping that most leave. Ugh.
 Denc 🗡  22:48:06 
>> If you are in Eze , at the top of the hill , called the Eagles Nest or ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  22:57:14 
>> Been there years ago, for drinks only. Spectacular location....[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  10:00:28 
>> French cannot touch the Italians. Most French places haven't a clue when ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:08:04 
>> Or much else actually.
 Free Thinking Doggie  08:16:20 
>> More Octo than Quatroformaggio
 Hamsterwheel  22:12:09 
>> Knife and fork? Shameful
 Hamsterwheel  20:54:46 
>> What would you suggest ?
 Free Thinking Doggie  21:15:38 
>> It’s not difficult ...[more]
 Hamsterwheel  21:20:14 
Brian?!!??
 Opisthocomus  20:11:43 
Greetings men from Norman Isand aka Treasure Island where I am in the bar waiting ... [more]
 Denc 🗡  19:34:33 
>> They made you walk the plank then?
 Hamsterwheel  19:40:18 
Been quite a day here...[more]
 Mike Mike  18:46:51 
>> After the stuck police car was pulled out by the Unimog...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:50:04 
>> Sue them for grass reinstatement!
 Hamsterwheel  20:07:29 
>> Haha yes I said to the guy it would have been better to use the grenadier - ... [more]
 Mike Mike  20:41:48 
>> Frogmen just in case...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:47:57 
>> Getting a boat ready just in case...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:45:43 
>> A few fire engines and a couple of commander types in electric vehicles of course...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:44:25 
>> First two police cars...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:42:58 
>> Unimog going to pull out stuck police vehicle ...[more]
 Mike Mike  19:40:39 
>> It’s only taxpayers money.
 Denc 🗡  22:47:28 
>> Relatives eh?
 Hamsterwheel  18:54:52 
In some ways, Britain now resembles China during the Cultural Revolution......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:17:17 
>> Sadly his message got lost in a silly word choice
 Hamsterwheel  19:09:07 
>> How long before the government introduces the two minute hate ? NM...[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:20:54 
>> The hate session includes the participants, such as the character Julia, ... [more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:24:41 
As I kid I had one of these sets......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:09:16 
>> Mine was fastened on to the dining table
 Hamsterwheel  15:16:39 
>> Yes, was gravity powered.
 Free Thinking Doggie  15:17:59 
Meanwhile, in Canada......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  13:54:18 
Peter Clack on the role of the oceans......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  13:38:18 
>> Some data on water......[more]
 Free Thinking Doggie  14:28:16 
Driving across the ridge this morning to get to the beach and the car suddenly made ... [more]
 Hamsterwheel  11:44:14 


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