Today I Heard.....

BobClay

Well-Known Forumite
I was talking to a mate in the pub the other day (it was 'today' at the time .. :teef:) who's a bit of a weather geek. He has his own weather station connected directly to his PC which measures and stores all the usual variables: pressure, wind speed/direction, rainfall, temperatures etc etc) and packs them all away into neat graphs and tables which he constantly displays to his utterly pissed off missus. (If he's got an anorak, it's a canvas one.)
He's been doing this for over 20 years and he tells me he's never known a November like this one. He'd recorded the average rainfall for November in the first week !! Looking up country they're getting it much worse than us, but it's rain rain feel the pain down here too.
Todays forecast:
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Mikinton

Well-Known Forumite
Tell me about it.

I spend a couple of hours each Thursday evening and around 5 hours late last Saturday afternoon stood in a field filming (with equipment that's a faff to set up at any time it looks like it may rain). Thursdays have been quite bad and last Saturday was dreadful. I'm filming again this evening and it's not looking good, but at least this Saturday is looking like it might be dry.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Tell me about it.

I spend a couple of hours each Thursday evening and around 5 hours late last Saturday afternoon stood in a field filming (with equipment that's a faff to set up at any time it looks like it may rain). Thursdays have been quite bad and last Saturday was dreadful. I'm filming again this evening and it's not looking good, but at least this Saturday is looking like it might be dry.
I think it was 1994 when I cut someone's grass every Thursday morning from March to November and it was always dry. It once even snowed in the afternoon, but the mornings were 100% reliable.
 

Carole

Well-Known Forumite
Yesterday I went to Wildwood Co-Op recycling to take some cardboard and the guys were there with the truck taking away the mountains of cardboard.

“make the most of it love, it’s going in the next financial year”.

I commented on why would they get rid of something that’s obviously well used, and anyway, shouldn’t recycling be encouraged?

his reply “if they can come here, they can go to St Albans Road”

Now, I don’t know if it’s just the Wildwood recycling that’s going or all the smaller facilities in the area but in my mind it’s extremely short sighted.
It’s one thing to drop off your glass and cardboard if you’re on the way to the shop or the park, it’s just a few extra minutes to do this, it’s quite another thing to schlep across town in the traffic.
Yet no doubt they’ll wonder why there’s in increase in fly tipping.
 

Lucy

Well-Known Forumite
We're getting additional bags to put our cardboard in. Unfortunately budgeted cost cutting has to be done, despite it likely increasing the fly tipping cost. It's only going to get worse with the central government funding being cut.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Yesterday I went to Wildwood Co-Op recycling to take some cardboard and the guys were there with the truck taking away the mountains of cardboard.

“make the most of it love, it’s going in the next financial year”.

I commented on why would they get rid of something that’s obviously well used, and anyway, shouldn’t recycling be encouraged?

his reply “if they can come here, they can go to St Albans Road”

Now, I don’t know if it’s just the Wildwood recycling that’s going or all the smaller facilities in the area but in my mind it’s extremely short sighted.
It’s one thing to drop off your glass and cardboard if you’re on the way to the shop or the park, it’s just a few extra minutes to do this, it’s quite another thing to schlep across town in the traffic.
Yet no doubt they’ll wonder why there’s in increase in fly tipping.
Bloody foreigners! Use your own facilities in your own borough.
 

Noah

Well-Known Forumite
Bloody foreigners! Use your own facilities in your own borough.

Longish trip to Bilbrook, so less environmentally friendly. Crossing another boundary the tips in Cannock & Rugeley are closer. Most of the car park corner recycling centres are pretty useless. Suspect that in the SBC area it is largely the contractors they use cutting costs & services to maximise profits.
 

BobClay

Well-Known Forumite
Go for the obvious shortcuts:
Irish …. Paddy
Welsh … Taffy
Scot … Jock
Geordie … wye aye pet
Brummy … arrr keeeed
southeast England … wanker
Cornwall …. Denzil

:heyhey:
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
There are 2 at hubby's works, both pronounce their names differently.
Many Irish people will pronounce their own names, particularly surnames, differently when on the Big Island, to avoid confusing the "natives" and having to correct things every few minutes. I do it myself - it can have unfortunate consequences, such as getting my own name wrong at a Garda checkpoint and having to correct myself - I got away with that, because the interrogator knew my uncle.

Examples:-

Cahill, Mahony, Spillane, Costello,


I knew a Nigerian who insisted on being known as George, as much as I actually know of the truth is that his real name began with a D.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Many Irish people will pronounce their own names, particularly surnames, differently when on the Big Island, to avoid confusing the "natives" and having to correct things every few minutes. I do it myself - it can have unfortunate consequences, such as getting my own name wrong at a Garda checkpoint and having to correct myself - I got away with that, because the interrogator knew my uncle.

Examples:-

Cahill, Mahony, Spillane, Costello,


I knew a Nigerian who insisted on being known as George, as much as I actually know of the truth is that his real name began with a D.
So, does that mean your name that we all know you by, (Facebook) isn't your 'real name'??
 

BobClay

Well-Known Forumite
My old dear was Irish. Her maiden name was Ryan. I looked up the origins of this name (name origins can be really fascinating) and one explanation was that this derived from 'Rhinelander' and originated deep in Germany.

I explained this to my Mum and ended by saying: "So Mum, it would appear you're a kraut !"

...


I've still got the scars. :mad:
 
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