Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

Put mine on the line by liking it.

 

They are making a film about a man who truly deserves the accolade. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/yo...ife-film-Nicholas-Winton-Anthony-Hopkins.html

Remember seeing a programme about him which ended with anyone in the audience who was alive because of what he did being asked to stand up. Very moving.

 

In cinemas from Monday.


I'll be going to see this rather than Saltburn.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/cause-behind-beer-goggles-debunked-by-scientists-13039502

The old, 'corr, she's got good facial symmetry' excuses debunked...

 

If this is true i've made some **** decisions in the past.

 

Aha.
'Tis the old "You don't look at the mantelpiece whilst poking the fire" syndrome/effect.
Got a drawer full of the T-shirts have we ? Nudge, nudge, , say no more !!

 

*Cough* Also a good episode on Futility Closet

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2020...icholas-winton-and-the-czech-kindertransport/

I ploughed through about 400 episodes in the last year. Need to find something new to listen to now while walking the dog.

 

The BBC has a hell of a back catalogue that's been keeping me going on dog walks for a couple of years.

A thousand episodes of In Our Time, I'm also cherry-picking The Reunion and Short History Of...

For something lighter there's over 300 episodes of the Elis James and John Robins show.

 

Fuming! Sorry, but I need to vent!!!
I experienced the WORST customer service today at a shop in town. I don't want to mention the name of the shop because I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed. Last night I bought something from this shop. I paid cash for it. I took it home and found out it didn't work.
So today, less than 24 hours later I took it back to the shop and asked if I could get a refund. The girl in the shop told me “NO” even though I still had the receipt. I asked if I could get a replacement instead then.
Again this person told me "NO." I asked to talk to a manager now as I'm really not happy and I explained that I had just bought the item, had got it home and it didn't work.
The manager just smiled and told me to my face that I was "OUT OF LUCK."
No refund.
No FREE replacement.
I'll tell you what...I am NEVER buying another Lottery Ticket from there again

 

Yeah I get you. I once bought a ticket for a tenner from Omaze to win a house. Draw was on my birthday. Naturally I thought they would do the decent thing and let me win. The hell they did some other dude won. Believe me the Charity are losing out from me now due to their thoughtless actions.

 

Courtesy of sky news.
Breaking news.
New Zealand becomes one of the first countries to welcome in 2024.

 

what a coincidence, it was one of the first last year too……

 

Which Country is last because I want me life to last longer.

 

American Samoa.

 

The first island to reach 2024 is Kiribati in the pacific, which is just west of the international date line. Interestingly the international date line isn’t straight, it zig zags through the pacific, so some islands bizarrely experience the new year more than 1 day after others as they are further east, but on the wrong side of the international date line. Midway island welcomes in the new year 25 hours after Kiribati. That may seem strange, but we live in a country that moves the clock twice a year…

 

Sounds warm there.

 

It is, but the aceragre life expectancy is about 10 years less than for you in the UK so moving there may not help your plan

 

Massive obesity problem.