Toadfish Monastery

This seems alright, though "don't ask" needs to be higher in my opinion.

http://www.thepresentfinder.co.uk/buy/good-day-bad-day-tumbler_1768.htm

Quote from: Griffin NoName on June 13, 2015, 03:55:48 AM
The Telegraph crossword is so much easier than the Guardian's.

You think?


I suppose all the typesetting errors in the Grauniad make it more difficult.

Quote from: Griffin NoName on June 11, 2015, 01:59:14 AM
How great to see you Beagle. You have been missed. Though I assume the free time is due to a change in family circumstances for which I send condolences.

Thank you.  Yes I've now run out of parents, and relatives in general in fact. If I had the energy it would probably be a good time to breed some more, but I'll probably do the Telegraph crossword instead.

Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 11, 2015, 05:45:50 AM
Beagle! So good to hear from you!

Thank you. I'm glad you remember who I am; it's all a bit of a blur to me.

Yes, sorry about that. Things got rather hectic for a few years (full time job and two parents simultaneously with chronic terminal diseases).
it actually seems rather odd to have spare time again. I've even found time to get a girlfriend (she's a nurse, at my age it's probably best to combine the two roles, and being able to work a defibrillator might well come in handy).

What's been happening here?

42 days 1 hour 8 minutes.  But I did pop out for a while.

ARM System Developer's Guide

Pretty much everyone in the UK is a BP shareholder (at least everyone with some sort of pension), They account for a significant part of the FTSE 100, and similarly of companies which pay dividends.

I think the Torygraph's gripe is that when the American Occidental's Piper Alpha rig blew up in the North Sea here (killing 167) there wasn't the political grandstanding that we're seeing now, but that may be more that Mrs T was less into emotional reactions than is expected of politicians these days.

BP aren't trying to use the $75M limit, but maybe Transocean are.

Pink Floyd/Everything
The Doors/Everything
Neil Young/Harvest,After the Goldrush,Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust
Stones/Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed
Joy Division/ Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Substance
New Order/Technique
Jimi Hendrix/Electric Ladyland
Air/Moon Safari
Tangerine Dream/Stratosfear, Rubycon [sic]
Kraftwerk/Computer World
Bowie/Station to Station, Low
Simon and Garfunkel/Greatest Hits
Velvet Underground/The Velvet Underground
The Who/Who's Next
Pet Shop Boys/Everything (except Disco 2)
Chemical Brothers/Exit Planet Dust
Deep Dish/Junk Science
Placebo/Once More With Feeling
Alphaville/Forever Young


Fairly typical for my age I suspect, except I've never liked the Beatles or Bob Dylan.

The list from 1970 to 1990 is pretty much the albums we considered significant at the time in the UK I think. After that, I sort of lost track so have no idea.
Reggae was quite big in the UK around 1980 which isn't reflected here. But (institutionally racist that I am, probably) it all sounded the same to me; maybe the list author felt the same.

Send for Mr Willcock.

It was Winston Churchill who stopped the last ID card system and it will be the Tories again who cancel the current one here, aided by the hippies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Liberal Democrats.

I got my passport redone last year. It wasn't too bad other than the special sizing rules for the photo. Had it been an adult first one it might have involved an interview. Got a new one within two days.

I think a lot of the rules are to stop someone arriving from somewheremadlytheocraticistan one day and hopping off on a British passport with exploding CKs the next, (though the "pillar of the community" chain of verification was there 30 years ago when I got my first one).  Also to try and stop Mossad cloning them. Probably eating a pork chop in front of the official will be next on the requirements list.

It's always possible it will change under the Con/Lib Great Repeal Bill.  Depends if you think verification by good reference is more or less intrusive than a huge who's who ID database I suppose.

As for the banks, I rather hanker for the days when they were run by Captain Mainwarings rather than Walkers (obscure Brit reference), and a lot of the utility documentation stuff is now money laundering prevention. I thought that was EU rather than UK rules, but maybe not.

They've only been in power a day and already youth unemployment is the highest ever. ruddy Tories

Quote from: Griffin NoName link=topic=2276.msg109675#msg109675I can say this without fear of reprisals as we lack the scrutiny of Beagle, sad to say

Abolition of ID cards, restrictions on the DNA database, and on internet monitoring and CCTV, taking the lowest paid out of taxation altogether (G.B. even taxed those on minimum wage). What's not to like.