Canny lass

Good idea for a competition Maggie!

Come on you lot, get your thinking caps on!

Name rings a bell, HPW. What subjects did Mr. Routledge teach?

19 hours ago, bluebarby said:

Just a bit of an after thought, just imagine what Dan Gooch could have achieved with a Westridge education.......................

There's quite a few who would have benefitted from  a Westridge education!

Loving your posts!! Are you from the top end of Plessey Street, Bluebarby? You can message me an answer if you don't want to post here. I'm pretty sure we know each other.

On ‎2016‎-‎01‎-‎19 at 13:11, Malcolm Robinson said:

Dangerous position deporting people because of their language skills.........look around here and listen to the banter in the pubs and clubs....English??  certainly not to some!  

Seems like Cameron has his Eye on the Geordies!

http://newsthump.com/2016/01/19/newcastle-population-facing-deportation-after-failing-to-learn-english/

I see we've digressed from dogs and gone over to  Pus .... something else, so here's Princess Dumpling, Duchess of Nordlid.

A Japanese couple were arguing wildly about how to have highly erotic sex.

Husband: "Sukitaki. Mojitaka!"

Wife: "Kowanini! Mowi janakpa!"

Husband replies angrily: "Toka a anji rodi roumi yakoo!"

Wife, on her knees literally begging: "Mimi nakoundinda tinkjouji!"

Husband shouts angrily: "Na miaou kina Tim kouji!"

I can't believe you lot sat there and reading this! You don't know a word of Japanese!

You'll read anything as long as it's about sex ... You all need serious help!!!

I didn't mean extravagent in terms of Money, rather in terms of what I considered to be reasonable and appropriate.  Not sure if I have any passwprds at all, other than for bedlington.com, that haven't been chosen by me and I have no problem remembering them with the aid of a short sentence. I've just never been able to come up with a sentence that fits the password I was given. You on comission for Lastpass?

Another mystery solved! Well done!

Me and Maggie want one!! Not an' Anna' obviously - maybe a Mario or a Roberto or even a good old Fred would do at a pinch!

Where was I? Oh yes

Nationality and immigrant status of suspects:

Reporting from The Spectator (TS), erring on the side of caution, would have us Believe that all suspects "appear to have been" Arab or North African, adding - as if to strengthen the hypothesis - that they "spoke neither English nor German. Only Arab/Arab looking and North African nationalities are reported on by Daily Express DE), The Observer (TO), The Guardian (TG) and Sunday People (SP) while The Independent (IND) mentions only "some Syrians". The New York Times (NYT), on the other hand, reports on eight different nationalities, including not only Arab and North African but even - wait for it - Serb, American and would you Believe it, German! The only publication to Think outside the box, as it were.

On the question of immigrant status TS remains cautious, claiming that suspects are "possibly some of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived last year". In total, seven of the publications take up the question of immigrant status, with only The Guardian choosing not to report on it. The Sunday People states that the immigration status is not known. Whether this lack of knowledge applies to the police in general or merely to SP cannot be determined from the text. Of the remaining publications, DE says that 18 of their reported 32 suspects are "immigrant" and NYT  seems to agree, at least as far as numbers go, specifying that 18 of 32 are assylum seekers. The Independent, which reported only two arrests, is less specific saying that the "suspects" are "mainly migrant and assylum seekers" and "some Syrian refugees". TO is also adopting a somewhat vague reporting strategy in claiming that police investigations are "focusing partly on refugees and immigrants". The International stands a little apart from the crowd, being the only publication to evoke the notion of 'illegality' among the immigrant suspects. Well done  International. You've got a real scoop there!

Again, I am forced to ask the question; Who should we Believe?

The only conclusion that can be drawn with any degree of certainty is that seven of the eight publications (if not all) are reporting incorrect information.

Following Pete's link above to orthumberland.gov.uk you can find Spring View (not Spring Mount) on the far right of the map at 4.21 - First Edition OS map c1860.

On the Third Edition OS map c 1920 4.30 you can read:

4.37 Although Spring View still survives as a reminder of the Bedlington iron and

engine works, Holly Mount had gone as had workers cottages associated with both

houses, to be replaced by modern housing behind Front Street East and a new

retirement home on the main street itself at the entrance to the old town.

Coach Lane had a mention on this site March 13 2014 in 'Old Places in Bedlington' when  it was said that "Walker Terrace was on the first left Before going down Bedlington Bank. I Think it stood next to a street called Coach Road. That old big sandstone house for retired clergymen, is it Spring Mount was at the end of the Road".

On ‎2016‎-‎01‎-‎14 at 12:53, threegee said:

I don't see that 3 minute clause anywhere in the contract @Canny lass!   And, don't blame the shipper when your delivery office has a long queue - change your mail handler!

If you can't guess your own password then it's probably the right password, and you'd be moving in the wrong direction.  Anyway, please send me your bank account number - purely for testing purposes.

Writing passwords on scraps of paper is something else that went out in the middle ages.  Use a secure password manager like Lastpass. They are generally free on a PC, and there's a small sub for the mobile platform.  If you use it on both platforms then the magic increases exponentially.

Password change? Have a look in your control panel and you'll find all sorts of interesting settings, including resetting that.  If all else fails then PM a moderator - THAT will take more than 3 minutes though.

I clearly didn't see it either! That should have read "few minutes" just as Maggie has pointed out. However, I am not apportioning "blame" to anyone - merely doing as I was requested in your post of 12 January  at 23.19 "if you have any problems or observations please post them on this thread".

I'm sure your advice on password managers is sound but  a password manager seems a bit extravagant for managing ONE password. My others, of the same type - mixture of small and capital letters combined with numbers in a random manner cause no problems. I can Always make up some kind of sentence that helps me remember the sequence, but then again - I've usually chosen the sequence myself. On this occasion I did not and fantasy eludes me.

Like the new set-up, by the way!

On ‎2016‎-‎01‎-‎10 at 16:41, threegee said:

Apologies to The Spectator for ripping off more of their text than is reasonable under copyright law, but a significant number of people on this thread need an excuse not to face reality.
 

 

Full article

Why should we Believe this anymore than we should Believe anything else that's been written on the subject of New Year's Eve in Cologne?

The reports in the English speaking press have been as varied as they have been many. Let's take a look eight publications and compare their content, 5 - 11 January, in relation to New Year's Eve in Cologne. For the purpose of the excercise I've chosen: The Spectator (TS), The Daily Express (DE), The Observer (TO), The Independent (IND), The Guardian (TG), The International (INT) Sunday People (SP) and The New York Times (NYT). Together they represent a cross-section of news publications both in type - quality press or tabloid press - and political affiliation: left, right or centre. It could have been many others but choice is limited by the possibility of access to archived information via Internet and the cost of accessing it. I've taken a look at the reporting of: the number of filed complaints, the type of offence, the number of offences of a sexual nature, the number of suspects and their nationality and immigrant status.

Number of complaints filed:

Reporting on filed complaints varies from 60 (TG) just five days after the event, through "dozens" (TS) and 150 (also TS, same article) nine days after the event to 516 eleven days after the event. Some, but by no means all, of these differences can be attributed to the fact that complaints have continued to be filed several days after the event. The differences in reporting can clearly be seen in the editions of January 8 when DE reported on 106 filed complaints (made by 90 people), IND reported on 120 complaints and SP reported on: "60", "at least 90" and "more than 90" - all in the same article! Moving on to January 11, The Observer (TO) reported the number of filed complaints as being 516 (of which 395 are reported to have occurred during the week-end of 9-10 January). This enables the reader to deduce that the total number of complaints filed as per January 8 must have been 121 and, just to add to the confusion, the same article reports on the police giving their account of filed complaints as being 133! Who should we Believe?

Proportion of filed complaints related to sexual offences:

Again, the reports are varied. The Guardian reports on both "a huge amount" and "1/3" (read 20) of the 60 filed complaints as being of a sexual nature. This was however in the early stages of the reporting. Three days later, January 8, IND is reporting both a vague "more than 100" and a very specific "120" cases - both in the same article!  But, one day later, The Spectator gives is a lower figure, 112 (of the 150 filed complaints), as being sexual in nature. Meanwhile, back at the NYT, only three offences related to sex are being reported on. January 11, TO will have us Believe that 40% (206) of it's 516 reported cases are sex related, which equates to 48 cases if we, for ease of comparison, use the deduced figure of 121 from January 8. Even INT is now reporting that 40% (151) of its 379 filed complaints relate to sexual offences. Both  Sunday People and Daily Express aren't speculating on the number of sex crimes. Who should we Believe?

Types of offences reported:

All eight publications reported on the varying types of crime committed. These covered a wide range of offences from the more generic and evocative "massed sex attacks" and "vicious attacks", reported on by - you guessed it - The Spectator - to the somewhat milder "mugging" and "harassment" reported on by The Guardian. In between there are reports of theft, assault, sexual assault, pick-pocketing, robbery, sexual abuse, rape (INT and TS reported on 2 cases and TG on one case),sexual molestation and fighting. IND also reported on "pushing around" - if that's now a crime in a 2 000 man strong crowd on a New Years Eve in Germany! The Daily Express, bless its cotton socks, actually reported that there were no sexual offences among the 18 immigrant suspects! Who should we Believe?

This is what journalism (I'm almost ashamed to use the word in this context) will have us believe about the offences comitted on New Year's Eve in Cologne. I'll come back later and tell you what they want us to believe about the "alleged" - innocent until proved guilty and all that - perpetrators of these offences - but only if you behave yourselves!

Good Points Mercuryg! Myself, I wondered about the impact on Britain's roads of all those people who, like Mr. Edmonds, are "fortunate to have more than one home" but return to visit family at Christmas or return to live in their 'second' home during the summer months when their host country gets too hot. Ironically, that second home is standing empty for up to ten months a year when it could house a family, or be pulled down to create building space, thereby alleviating some of the 'fullness' they complain about. 

However, you don't need to own two homes to add to the congestion on Britain's roads. You can equally well be just a UK emigrant - that's to say, an immigrant in some other patriots country - a bit like myself and a few others on this forum, together with millions of others dotted around the World.

For this Group of immigrants, seeing family usually involves the use of a hire car (Mr. Edmonds has no doubt a second car standing in the second garage of his second home) and I must admit to having driven from Heathrow to Bristol, thereby adding to the congestion, on numerous occasions. Perhaps it was Little old me who held up Mr. Edmonds! A personal apology will be winging its way to him within the hour. 

That goes for me too, HPW but keep your rest periods to the minimum or your pay will be docked!

I forgot to mention - I've been waiting for an hour for the e-mail that was to be delivered within Three minutes to enable me to reset my pass Word. I've found the old one now but would still llike to change it as it''s long and cumbersome to remember. It therefore requires my being permanently logged in or scraps of paper cluttering up my desk and a great deal of effort on my part to see that these don't end up in the waste paper basket. Can I change my password - please?

Definitely different! I must just have a Little experiment here to find out if I now can

• cut and paste
• quote
• post a picture

Experiment 1) If you hit the Discussion Tab you'll get things in the familiar forums format

Cut and paste seems to be working nicely now, thank you.

Experiment 2)

22 hours ago, threegee said:

If you hit the Discussion Tab you'll get things in the familiar forums format - this should reduce the shock of the new.   Other missing features will creep back as time is available.

Quote seems to be working nicely too, Halleluja for that!

Experiment 3) post a Picture

Yes! that's the first time I've been able to do that!

I'm sure my posts will be much more interesting now - and possibly longer. I'll try to contain myself!

Now, if you could just sort out my wayward Capitals I'd be delighted.

Thank you all for your very kind thoughts! I had a pleasant day wallpapering the guest room. I got some nice presents too, including - 12 mosquito nets, 90 doses of tetanus vaccine, 90 doses of measles vaccine, 90 doses of polio vaccine and 150 packets of nut Cream to combat malnutrition and all have been sent to Children who need them most! And - perhaps my favourite - a new knitted hat. It's purple. PURPLE I tell you!!

Eggy, I'm well impressed with your language skills! Most people write 'gratis', using only one T, making me 'free' on my birthday instead of congratulating me!

And Foxy, I hope your not being 'impittent'!

Nothing new there, I'm afraid Pilgrim. Swathes of hot air, vast rippling belches, falling into black holes and causing outbursts - not to mention the Deep red light or things being clinched as a belch rather than a gulp - together with the Close proximity of a super massive black hole ( I read something completely different there! I must have been distracted by that AAS meeting directly above) are what my day, and that of several others,  is made of!

I'm afraid you've lost me on the second paragraph, 3g. La-la lands, Babies and Red Arthur? However, moving on, I fail to understand why you've bothered to canvass votes for the proposal if half a million is as good as it gets on gov.uk. The required amount to get this off the mat and onto the table is one million - not a lot in a country withover sixty-three million inhabitants.

I'm almost lost on the third as well as I don't actually recall saying that you know of anyone who is anti-immigrant.

We would appear to have differing views on the meaning of anti-immigration. For me the Word 'immigration' holds no notion of time (other than permanency of Residence). The same can be said of Anti-immigration - it holds no notion of time. You can be anti immigrant for one day, one week, five years or throughout your Life. 

"now silver is an interesting thing ... a very effective thing for bacterial issues" and yet silver coins were one of the greatest sources of infection for Babies. Says Worlds about the actual silver content in British coins, don't you Think?

Pot. permang! Now there's a name that conjures up memories of scrubbing Purple fingers till they almost bled. Used in medicinal baths, among other things, during my time. Gave the patients a rather nice, rosy sort of glow.

Oh, happy Days!

Now that's what I call class as well! Oh to have the Power to be able to do that!

I can't agree with you about the bus ticket though, I'm sure the research you suggest would reveal many interesting things. My daughter almost died at the age of 3 months due to the widespread custom of pressing a silver - bacteria covered - coin into the hands of new Babies. However, the text on a bus ticket can reveal all sorts of things about the bus Company!

Wholeheartedly agree, Pilgrim but the study of linguistics does not recognise a literary masterpiece as anything other than a peice of text. We even analysed the text on bus tickets for some professors! True!

Robert Frost, Maggie! One of my favourites. Love the open ending of The Road not Travelled.

Pilgrim, if you but knew the hours I'd spent labouring over various interpretations of sections of TDC you wouldn't be surprised at my recognising it. Because they are so numerous the many and diverse interpretations provide what linguistics professors deem to be an unending source of material for probing the depths of syntactical influence on semantic content. There was a time when I could recite passages in my sleep! Not any more but odd lines can ring a bell.