Shingles? You WIMP!!!
here in Casa Pug,there has been ZERO heating for two months now,as the friggin’ govt determine what/where/how/why the old-and-VERY-defunct boiler can be exchanged. Oh,it’s an easy job to take out a combi boiler and replace it-I could do it AND have everything running and warm within one day…but you just would not credit the bullshit and red tape that goes with doing so! Therms,output,bars,mw’s,environmental balance,blah blah…and all because I reside on a small island. If I lived in the middle of Birmingham,surrounded by crap and traffic,nobody’d give a flying fu…er…hoot. So;carry on the battle until you win,gumbud-it’s the season for Shingle Bells,so give’em Hell,mate-and emerge triumphant!
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I was living in Victoria [OZ] a few years back and awoke to this scene one cold and chilly morn!!
I also had a lovely combi boiler Pug who use to cook me Stir Fry Combi for breakfast!!
Forgive me if I’m wrong but… the dark object by the garden gate looks to be the head of a DODO, the body having been buried.
Please Mrs Butler (Allan Ahlberg)
Please Mrs Butler
This boy Derek Drew
Keeps copying my work, Miss.
What shall I do?
Go and sit in the hall, dear.
Go and sit in the sink.
Take your books on the roof, my lamb.
Do whatever you think.
Please Mrs Butler
This boy Derek Drew
Keeps taking my rubber, Miss.
What shall I do?
Keep it in your hand, dear.
Hide it up your vest.
Swallow it if you like, my love.
Do what you think is best.
Please Mrs Butler
This boy Derek Drew
Keeps calling me rude names, miss.
What shall I do?
Lock yourself in the cupboard, dear.
Run away to sea.
Do whatever you can, my flower.
But don’t ask me.
remind you of anyone?
Don’t mind that RJ fella Gummy, that is a beautiful and most unusual picture, snow in Australia, besides we all know Dodo’s only live in New Zealand.
I wonder who ate the last Dodo?:shock:
Consider yourself lucky you weren’t in Hobart,gumbud.
I was there once when motorcycles were banned from the roads because of ice! Yes…actually banned. Hmm,I thought-THIS isn’t the sundrenched Antipodean heaven I was expecting…so I ‘legged it’ out of there pdq and went to Hong Kong…where it was PISSING down,as if rain was free!
…It sounds bloody ridiculous,but it’s totally true,that getting back to Vancouver,was the warmest part of that trip!
Nah…keep they ‘sunny climes’.
Gimmee a place where y’KNOW what the season’ll bring.
[as long as tornados,hurricanes & tsunamis ain’t included]
Just found out I am stuck in a moment, that’s not so bad, there are worse places to be Stuck.
Oh dear - JEM!!! - we need this sorting out before Xmas - we need the true definition of “a moment” - spitfire often doesn’t say much but when he does he often creates a quandary [ and there’s another one to throw in the pot]
I thought dodo was an internet provider???
I thought she were a song singist.
Umm…if I may,chaps?..
Etomologically,‘a moment’ is actually 1.5 minutes,gumbud.
Alternatively known as 90 seconds [for those who insist on metric measurements]
However,‘back in the day’,an hour consisted of 40 minutes.
Each of those minutes was made up of 40 ‘moments’.
However,they pesky Romans changed all that-what have the Romans ever done for us?
Incidentally,the phrase ‘one moment’ is to do with the gravitational constant and its relative effect on any area of space containing measureable gaseous or solid volume and the effects upon that matter-errm…I shall now stfu. …sorry…
I am SO bored! [hashtag sigh]
I’M back! [but still bored sh~tless]
IF anyone gives a hoot,the other ‘time-term’ in common use today,which everyone knows and nearly everyone has at some point used,is ‘a jiffy’
This term,‘jiffy’,was a term thought of by a chap named Gilbert Newton Lewis.
He came up with the word jiffy’ as the name for the time it takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds).
Yuhh…that’s where ‘jiffy’ came from.
I believe he died in 1946,so never got to know of the common usage of his originally technical term.
Ummm…I’m waiting for some govy GONK to come inspect my preparations and flu for the new combi boiler I’m waiting to install. Ergo,my intense boredom.
I’ve played four types of guitar,recorded two tracks,walked the pooches along the beach,gone for coal,made and lit the fire,cleaned the windows and written this crap-and STILL that prat is ‘on route’!!!
Can you believe,I’ve had THREE calls from his office so far this morning-because he’s lost?!?!?!?
LOST! - Trying to find a fkn ISLAND!!!
Oh,dear…remind me again why we ‘average’ dumbos have such little faith in governments???
Ah, so that is what is meant by a mo. But etemology? I thort that was the study of flutterbyes.
Oh…just in case…
A picosecond is one trillionth of a second.
Plus-if anyone accidentally finds themselves interested;
A femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second.
An attosecond is one quintillionth of a second.
A zeptosecond is one trillionth of one billionth of a second.
[that’s equal to 0.000.000.000.000.000.000.001 seconds]
The numeral 1,is twenty-one 0s after the initial decimal point.
…and I have just proved why anyone with a doctorate in astro-physics has more pencils,notepads and scribble-sheets than friends…
Ok-I’ll tootle off and play my Hofner again.
Sorry chaps…
Re Moment.
Well put Pug, I see moments differently though.
“Moment” is a very important word, one can be snuffed out in a moment, life and death decisions sometimes have to be made in a moment, and according to the bullshit experts on the beginning of the universe, the big bang happened in a moment, to me that theory is worse than believing that the earth was flat, but I won’t go on about that, I’m in good humour and I want to stay that way.
Now when you add ‘The’ to moment it takes on many meanings, like in the song “The moment that your lips met mine and that first exciting time I held you near…” according to Marty Robbins that is the moment he fell in louvre, then Perry Como went on to have “Magic moments” As the years go by the moments turn to “Memories” and eventually fade away altogether.
Yes we all had our moments and as we age it gets harder to step back into the moments, but one can still step back into the movements, why only last night as I was taking the bin from the back garden I stepped into the dogs crap, and me wearing me new Christmas carpet slippers to try them out, yuk! As I came back into the house with one slipper on and holding the offending one at arms length, she gave me such a look “I just hope you don’t think that slipper is going into my washing machine” talk about mind reading, they are genius’s at it, It took me half an hour to scrape off the stuff and hand wash the slipper in a tin basin.
Moments can never be measured, there is no official time span for a moment, when a shop assistant or someone on the phone tells you to “Hang on a moment” it can be for any amount of time, and when your final moment comes it will only be the beginning of the greatest adventure of all, well it has to be, nobody’s come back to complain about it have they?
No-that’s ENTemology,Fruity.
Ah-the thing there,Jem,is that you’re using the word ‘moment’ as an ajective,not a noun-which is perfectly acceptable as an emotive description of unmeasured time,but falls seriously short of scientific accuracy…y’see? Hearts and their emotive resonances have NO concept of reality…which is why the ‘Big Bang’ theory remains just that.
If anyone with an I.Q. greater than their boot-size gave it any depth of thought at all,that whole theory falls into it’s own mire.
Anyway Pug me lad I’m excused all that hard stuff as I never got pass 4th class in primary school.
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I would like to wish all the scribblers and their kit and kin a very happy Christmas and a happy new year.
Thank you all for keeping me amused and cheering me up with many good laughs, it’s a pleasure to know you all.
I have to give you credit for the excellent behaviour all through the year, you all deserve a lump of sugar each.
Thank you most sincerely.
Now yis can all get pissed and have a good time, and the best of luck to ya.
well thank you Jem but I think a happy and well worked crew is down to a good captain as yuZ iZ - we can be a petulant crew at times and the ship does need steering so well done to yuz too and I am glad you have mastered postimage [easy ain’t it just]
I would also like to thank our good mate google without whose help many of us would have become incoherent and faltered