They have it intriguing us at the moment and a little skippy. Enough to keep you interested. I'm looking forward to the second one and the pace picking up.
The Brit awards were a bit predictable. There is a Dell that means a lot to me, great memories, excitement and fun, but not the winner of best British album or best solo female artist. 'Hello' erm, no thanks goodbye.
Here's a bit of fun. It's a 360° view of a lap of the Irish NorthWest 200 course. You're riding pillion on the back of a road racing bike: If you want you can just sit there like a good pillion passenger. It might even be better first time round. Now run the video again and, if you're watching full screen or inset on a PC, grab the picture and swing it around. If you're watching on a Smartphone you can lean into the corners or move the picture with your finger. Try to find the chasing bike and follow him with the camera, or, if you want to be a budding road racer, look over the shoulder of the rider and try to see the corner coming up, and as you go round it move the picture so that you can see better up the road you're heading towards. Even an ordinary biker doesn't look at what is just in front of him or her, but looks well up the road, subconsciously gathering much more info than a car driver would need. A road racer, on the other hand, may be looking a quarter of a mile up the road up high speeds purely for the road placement aspect. The video gives a pretty good impression of very high speed bike riding, although the reality is that there's not anything like the bouncing around because a person's body helps smooth out the bumps, whereas the brilliant 360° camera was mounted on a rigid pole.
Wade in the Water by Ramsey Lewis! Who's that Lady ..... The Isley Brothers On the Road Again .... Canned Heat
I wonder how much support Tony Blackburn's colleagues on BBC radio 2 wlll give him given the corporation's decision to sack him to due differences of evidence given in the enquiry into Savile et al? Reading the story on the webpage who would want to work for the BBC when the guy has done no wrong?
I hope this isn't politics - it's certainly not meant to be and I'd ask people to try not to force politics into it. Yesterday about 1pm I suffered excruciating heart pain, enough that my wife called an ambulance. Four minutes after she called a chap arrived at the door and banged an ECG machine onto me. Five minutes after that a full size ambulance arrived, lights-a-blazing. Ten minutes after that we set off for hospital with me connected to a different ECG. Arrived at hospital and sat for about five minutes before I got onto a trolley and was hooked up to yet another ECG. Then they took me through to another area and hooked me up (I hope you're getting the picture) to another EGC machine. Then they decided it probably wasn't a heart attack, could have been a tear in the aorta (rather serious) so they popped me through for a CAT scan, where I was popped onto another ECG. Back to the previous spot and the previous ECG machine. Eventually, after a lot of bloods and thingies (medical term) I was released about 9pm with a good conduct medal and a minor problem identified (that was probably unrelated to the pain but is worth keeping under tabs). The point I wanted to stress was how different this could have been elsewhere. The ambulances turned up promptly and didn't ask me how I was going to pay. In the hospital I couldn't have had better care and (again) I wasn't asked if I was insured or was going to pay. I was discharged without an insurer or cheque-book in sight and passed back to the good care of my GP who (again) won't charge me. So, let's rejoice, without any points being made, that the NHS isn't too shabby. We should relish it. Sometimes it's worth being grateful for what's under your nose every day. However, I could do with them coordinating ECG machines as pretty much every one of them used different sticky pads, so almost every time I had to have the last set torn free from my tender flesh. About seven sticky pads each time. I reckon the nurses enjoyed it; sadists, the lot of them. Vin
I helped a chap in Ireland after a tractor fell on him (yep, really), but he wouldn't let me call an ambulance as they charge, so we drove him to the hospital. He was OK, but he might not have been. My sister-in-law waits until she is very sure she needs a doctor before going to a GP as they charge for consult and she is poor. Some of this may be good as people often rush to a doctor unnecessarily, but money shouldn't be a factor....the chap with the tractor accident could have broken something or damaged his spleen.
The NHS gets a LOT of bad press , but although it could be improved I and Family have real reason to be thankful it exists . It is BRILLIANT & the Staff nurses at SGH where I go , do NOT stop !
Just a heads up, but you can edit your own posts and delete or change what you've posted. Just in case you were unaware of that feature
If you look at your post that you want to change, just below it there is a button with Edit in red writing and a little picture of a pencil. Next to that is a Report button (also in red writing). Just hit the edit button and you can edit or delete how you see fit.
I see what you mean , but it seems to be forcing me to enter a message . will leave it for the mods . Thanks anyway
Yeah the downside with the edit feature is that it doesn't let you completely delete it. You have to still have something there. Even if it's just a full stop (.)
Just watching Christopher Hitchens interview . He said of one person , if he had an Enema , he could be buried in a matchbox . I will have to remember that
Man the Saville cover up by the BBC is disgusting. The "but no one knew, not even close mates" is a pile of lies. Blackburn has been sacked by the BBC for differences he told to the enquiry.
Ofcom saying BT have to make Open Reach have to open to all rival networks. I still say it isn't right they have the monopoly. Ofcom have said if BT don't step up their game they will split the company up.
Well said sir. i'm biased as a retired nurse, and my wife still works in the NHS, but the non-stop slagging off of the health service and it's workers has become rather nasty over the last few years. I know better than anyone that not all Drs and Nurses are great (I was involved myself in getting a horrible nurse struck off some years ago) but most want to do a good job and work beyond their scheduled hours to do it. If we lose that goodwill and professional pride it will be the most vunerable patients who suffer. Glad you're ok matey.
