Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Hoboh]

Funny no one came back on that Bruce

maybe that's because it was at least 6yrs ago and so isn't all THAT relevant to the possible melt-down being predicted for this coming winter? just a thought...

I can't believe anyone could be critical of Labour having so much foresight, 6 years before the event. Good ole Harriet and team.

Don't be daft they are all sold off for private wards by now.

[Dujon]

Today I'm just disappointed.

I run a weather site and upload local weather data each few seconds to my host's server. The host has been operating since 2002 and I've been using his services for the last six or seven years. The owner, Alan Shaw, is supposedly located in Manchester, Lancs although the servers are physically sited in Houston, Texas. Yesterday morn I tried to access my site. No response. It is still inaccessible. So I checked with a weather site forum of which I am a member and am aware that many fellow members use the same service. It seems that everyone's in the same boat.

Many are already bailing out and finding new hosts. I'm going to leave it for another day or two - just in case - but it's not looking good. The thought of the work involved in finding a cheap host, re-registering with my domain name registrar, adjusting all my FTP information and then uploading all my web site is somewhat daunting. The worst part will be advising all my e-mail contacts of the changed addresses.

It looks like it will be a few fun days.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Today I'm just disappointed.

I run a weather site and upload local weather data each few seconds to my host's server. The host has been operating since 2002 and I've been using his services for the last six or seven years. The owner, Alan Shaw, is supposedly located in Manchester, Lancs although the servers are physically sited in Houston, Texas. Yesterday morn I tried to access my site. No response. It is still inaccessible. So I checked with a weather site forum of which I am a member and am aware that many fellow members use the same service. It seems that everyone's in the same boat.

Many are already bailing out and finding new hosts. I'm going to leave it for another day or two - just in case - but it's not looking good. The thought of the work involved in finding a cheap host, re-registering with my domain name registrar, adjusting all my FTP information and then uploading all my web site is somewhat daunting. The worst part will be advising all my e-mail contacts of the changed addresses.

It looks like it will be a few fun days.

Oh well. In the grand scheme of things at least you've been happily married for forty-four years....

[malcd1]

Today I'm just disappointed.

I run a weather site and upload local weather data each few seconds to my host's server. The host has been operating since 2002 and I've been using his services for the last six or seven years. The owner, Alan Shaw, is supposedly located in Manchester, Lancs although the servers are physically sited in Houston, Texas. Yesterday morn I tried to access my site. No response. It is still inaccessible. So I checked with a weather site forum of which I am a member and am aware that many fellow members use the same service. It seems that everyone's in the same boat.

Many are already bailing out and finding new hosts. I'm going to leave it for another day or two - just in case - but it's not looking good. The thought of the work involved in finding a cheap host, re-registering with my domain name registrar, adjusting all my FTP information and then uploading all my web site is somewhat daunting. The worst part will be advising all my e-mail contacts of the changed addresses.

It looks like it will be a few fun days.

Oh well. In the grand scheme of things at least you've been happily married for forty-four years....

Where did Dujon say he had been "happily" married for forty-four years?

He said he has been married for forty-four years but only one of them could have been happy.

[William the White]

Today I'm just disappointed.

I run a weather site and upload local weather data each few seconds to my host's server. The host has been operating since 2002 and I've been using his services for the last six or seven years. The owner, Alan Shaw, is supposedly located in Manchester, Lancs although the servers are physically sited in Houston, Texas. Yesterday morn I tried to access my site. No response. It is still inaccessible. So I checked with a weather site forum of which I am a member and am aware that many fellow members use the same service. It seems that everyone's in the same boat.

Many are already bailing out and finding new hosts. I'm going to leave it for another day or two - just in case - but it's not looking good. The thought of the work involved in finding a cheap host, re-registering with my domain name registrar, adjusting all my FTP information and then uploading all my web site is somewhat daunting. The worst part will be advising all my e-mail contacts of the changed addresses.

It looks like it will be a few fun days.

Oh well. In the grand scheme of things at least you've been happily married for forty-four years....

Where did Dujon say he had been "happily" married for forty-four years?

He said he has been married for forty-four years but only one of them could have been happy.

Is this insight based on personal experience?

[Worthy4England]

More stunned than angry or happy, apparently a cab firm in Heywood offers white drivers on request, as there are some folks who refuse to get in cabs with non-white drivers (allegedly after the grooming scandals, in which a number of the convicted were non-white)...

[malcd1]

Today I'm just disappointed.

I run a weather site and upload local weather data each few seconds to my host's server. The host has been operating since 2002 and I've been using his services for the last six or seven years. The owner, Alan Shaw, is supposedly located in Manchester, Lancs although the servers are physically sited in Houston, Texas. Yesterday morn I tried to access my site. No response. It is still inaccessible. So I checked with a weather site forum of which I am a member and am aware that many fellow members use the same service. It seems that everyone's in the same boat.

Many are already bailing out and finding new hosts. I'm going to leave it for another day or two - just in case - but it's not looking good. The thought of the work involved in finding a cheap host, re-registering with my domain name registrar, adjusting all my FTP information and then uploading all my web site is somewhat daunting. The worst part will be advising all my e-mail contacts of the changed addresses.

It looks like it will be a few fun days.

Oh well. In the grand scheme of things at least you've been happily married for forty-four years....

Where did Dujon say he had been "happily" married for forty-four years?

He said he has been married for forty-four years but only one of them could have been happy.

Is this insight based on personal experience?

Not mine. My wife's.

[Harry Genshaw]

More stunned than angry or happy, apparently a cab firm in Heywood offers white drivers on request, as there are some folks who refuse to get in cabs with non-white drivers (allegedly after the grooming scandals, in which a number of the convicted were non-white)...

A former colleague of mine, and a complete knob if ever there was one, lives in Heywood. He refuses to get into a mini cab if it has an Asian driver. He was doing that long before the child exploitation scandals. Bizarrely, he's mixed race himself . He keeps me entertained on Facebook with his Hoboh esque ranting. No prizes for guessing which political party he stood for in the recent Rochdale council elections

[Prufrock]

Someone in the Guardian today, whose point I want to sort of understand, about guys hitting on girls constantly and not letting them be, genuinely wrote and had published this sentence, "Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.". *sigh*.

[Bijou Bob]

Send it off to The Eye for Pseud's Corner!

[Worthy4England]

[Bruce Rioja]

This Harry Roberts business, I'm not sure what to make of it. He's due to be released after 47 years in the nick after the utterly horrific murder of three Policmen in 1966. He's now 78 and will be freed into a world that he won't recognise. The Met Police Fed are understandably upset by it calling the decision a "scandalous, hurtful and abhorrent decision".
I really can't see how anyone benefits by Harry Roberts being released.

[Worthy4England]

This Harry Roberts business, I'm not sure what to make of it. He's due to be released after 47 years in the nick after the utterly horrific murder of three Policmen in 1966. He's now 78 and will be freed into a world that he won't recognise. The Met Police Fed are understandably upset by it calling the decision a "scandalous, hurtful and abhorrent decision".
I really can't see how anyone benefits by Harry Roberts being released.

I don't think whether anyone benefits, is part of the criteria, it's whether he's a threat to society within the parole rules, and they've adjudged that he's not. I'm torn on this one. I don't think the deterrents for murder should be any different if you're a policeman than if you're anybody else, and I actually think they're both too easy on the perp. For me, you kill someone, we lock you up and don't let you out, (other than the manslaughter thing).

[Bijou Bob]

I'm too young to remember the crime, but I do remember being possibly the only person in the away end of grounds not singing the song about him.

On an altogether different but linked note, I saw the letters ACAB scrawled on a door in Morecambe the other day. I've not seen that for over 20 years.

[Worthy4England]

What's ACAB?

[Bruce Rioja]

What's ACAB?

It's a shit song by Genesis, isn't it?

It stands for All Coppers Are Bastards

[bobo the clown]

This Harry Roberts business, I'm not sure what to make of it. He's due to be released after 47 years in the nick after the utterly horrific murder of three Policmen in 1966. He's now 78 and will be freed into a world that he won't recognise. The Met Police Fed are understandably upset by it calling the decision a "scandalous, hurtful and abhorrent decision".
I really can't see how anyone benefits by Harry Roberts being released.

I don't think whether anyone benefits, is part of the criteria, it's whether he's a threat to society within the parole rules, and they've adjudged that he's not. I'm torn on this one. I don't think the deterrents for murder should be any different if you're a policeman than if you're anybody else, and I actually think they're both too easy on the perp. For me, you kill someone, we lock you up and don't let you out, (other than the manslaughter thing).

Where you get 5 years but let home after 10 months to wander about a lot and repair your bog door while you write your memoirs. Thank God we aren't in South Africa.

If you don't allow the death penalty then life should e a proper long time. Current rules are pathetic. That said, & he shot two cops in cold blood & his mate shot the third, while out on an armed robbery and he was pretty notorious he deserved a proper long time ... and he's served it. 47 years is, by anyone's account, a 'proper long time'.

[William the White]

This Harry Roberts business, I'm not sure what to make of it. He's due to be released after 47 years in the nick after the utterly horrific murder of three Policmen in 1966. He's now 78 and will be freed into a world that he won't recognise. The Met Police Fed are understandably upset by it calling the decision a "scandalous, hurtful and abhorrent decision".
I really can't see how anyone benefits by Harry Roberts being released.

I don't think whether anyone benefits, is part of the criteria, it's whether he's a threat to society within the parole rules, and they've adjudged that he's not. I'm torn on this one. I don't think the deterrents for murder should be any different if you're a policeman than if you're anybody else, and I actually think they're both too easy on the perp. For me, you kill someone, we lock you up and don't let you out, (other than the manslaughter thing).

Where you get 5 years but let home after 10 months to wander about a lot and repair your bog door while you write your memoirs. Thank God we aren't in South Africa.

If you don't allow the death penalty then life should e a proper long time. Current rules are pathetic. That said, & he shot two cops in cold blood & his mate shot the third, while out on an armed robbery and he was pretty notorious he deserved a proper long time ... and he's served it. 47 years is, by anyone's account, a 'proper long time'.

He served that long because he killed two cops.

Would have been a lot less if it had been two clowns...

[Worthy4England]

What's ACAB?

It's a shit song by Genesis, isn't it?

It stands for All Coppers Are Bastards

Ahh - not sure I'd spot one of them or not. Can understand the sentiment (although I wouldn't say "all"), having dealt with a few over the years albeit many years ago...Lying seems to be endemic. I have lots of sympathy with the job they do, not always the way they do it.

[Andy Waller]

What's ACAB?

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