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James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 05:35 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:10:10 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:52:15 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:23:07 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:


I recorded two episodes of songs of Praise a few weeks ago.
My tastes on what I want to watch can vary in.


How odd. Most people hate certain types of program and always have.


I can see no logical reason to hate certain types of program I might choose not to watch them or dislike them.


Most people have a preference, they might like or hate: soaps, science fiction films, romantic comedies, documentaries, etc, etc. This usually doesn't change throughout their entire life. Certainly not on a regular basis.

As for songs of praise it's not something I've watched before and as a work collegue is a singer and her chior was in two episdoes I decide to record them rather than sit through them.
I was going to offer her the right to sing a track written by a friend of mine as I thought a chior version might sound quite good and to give then something to sing about other than God. I played her the youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1ECZOJI6Q

but she declined my offer :-)
I thought it quite appropriote as Jesus was meant to take the blame for us sinners.


I avoid anything even slightly to do with god. I have a notice on my door saying "No religious nutters".

--
Auctioneer, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Bod[_3_] April 20th 17 05:45 PM

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On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014


I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 06:14 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than that.


Bod[_3_] April 20th 17 06:51 PM

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On 20/04/2017 18:14, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently
said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the
centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014

I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?


I didn't see phones I saw videos.

Eh! are you being silly? Were the videos originally taken on phones
*with* camera stabilization*?

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 06:55 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:51:06 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:14, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently
said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the
centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014

I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?


I didn't see phones I saw videos.

Eh! are you being silly? Were the videos originally taken on phones
*with* camera stabilization*?


My point is either it's rubbish, or not many have it, because I've seen loads that are very wobbly, and no stable ones.

--
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway

Bod[_3_] April 20th 17 07:02 PM

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On 20/04/2017 18:55, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:51:06 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:14, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently
said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than
that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the
centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014

I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?

I didn't see phones I saw videos.

Eh! are you being silly? Were the videos originally taken on phones
*with* camera stabilization*?


My point is either it's rubbish, or not many have it, because I've seen
loads that are very wobbly, and no stable ones.

So you don't know if they had image stabilization or not. They probably
didn't by the sound of it.
You can't judge until you've seen one with I S.

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 07:08 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:02:53 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:55, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:51:06 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:14, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently
said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than
that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the
centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014

I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?

I didn't see phones I saw videos.

Eh! are you being silly? Were the videos originally taken on phones
*with* camera stabilization*?


My point is either it's rubbish, or not many have it, because I've seen
loads that are very wobbly, and no stable ones.

So you don't know if they had image stabilization or not. They probably
didn't by the sound of it.
You can't judge until you've seen one with I S.


What surprises me is that they don't ALL have it.

--
If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?

Bod[_3_] April 20th 17 07:10 PM

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On 20/04/2017 19:08, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:02:53 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:55, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:51:06 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:14, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod
wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently
said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than
that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it
gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the
centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so
there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone
Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014

I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?

I didn't see phones I saw videos.

Eh! are you being silly? Were the videos originally taken on phones
*with* camera stabilization*?

My point is either it's rubbish, or not many have it, because I've seen
loads that are very wobbly, and no stable ones.

So you don't know if they had image stabilization or not. They probably
didn't by the sound of it.
You can't judge until you've seen one with I S.


What surprises me is that they don't ALL have it.

They all will eventually.

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 07:30 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:10:39 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 19:08, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:02:53 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:55, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:51:06 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 18:14, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:45:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 17:33, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:25:25 +0100, Bod
wrote:


Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently
said
"or an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough..
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than
that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays, so why not on selfie
versions? It's called something like "steadyshot". Maybe it
gets
confused as most of the image is jumpy, yet the face in the
centre is
not. You'd think they could easily adapt the programming.

Most cameras nowadays have image stabalisation built in so
there's
little need for such a device for most purposes.

So why isn't it on selfie stick ones?

They've had it for years:

15 smartphone cameras with optical image stabilization - Phone
Arena
www.phonearena.com ۼ News
14 Dec 2014

I've yet to see a video from one that looks stabilized.

Did the phones that you saw have image stabilization then?

I didn't see phones I saw videos.

Eh! are you being silly? Were the videos originally taken on phones
*with* camera stabilization*?

My point is either it's rubbish, or not many have it, because I've seen
loads that are very wobbly, and no stable ones.

So you don't know if they had image stabilization or not. They probably
didn't by the sound of it.
You can't judge until you've seen one with I S.


What surprises me is that they don't ALL have it.

They all will eventually.


But the technology has been there for decades.

--
Girl with skirt up run faster than boy with trousers down!!

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 07:35 PM

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:53:21 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:41:09 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:12:06 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:

Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.


You must be popular with your neighbours.


Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.


Why bother? 99.99999% of alarms are false. Alarms are a ****ing nuisance.

And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.

Remote burglar alarm.

Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.

And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.


Why are people scared of dogs?


Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?


Spiders are disgusting, a lot of snakes are poisonous. Mice, that doesn't make sense.

It's the way we evolved presumably.

Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.


I tried that with mine, all 5 did nothing.

Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.


You wont do that with the big dogs.


A rock slammed into their face would stop them.

Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.

And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.

Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.

I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't hear
the
neighbours when I'm in bed.

I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.


Armoured glass?


Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,


Most people aren't that stupid.

it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.

Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.


So kinda burglar proof. The noise blocking sounds good though, makes you wonder why all windows aren't made of it.

Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.

Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.


Unfortunately I cannot.

Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the flat
below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.


I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music which he
played until 4am at parties.


I can sleep thru that fine.


Music sends me to sleep, but only if I can hear it properly. If can only hear the bass it wakes me up.

I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers against
the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.


Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.

And **** all over my car.

I was thinking your head.

Nar, that's never happened.

I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.

I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.

Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.


Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I ignore
those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.


I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.


What is a "silly" bird call?


I'll record one. Remarkably silly.


[waits]

His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me they were
going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)

That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(

I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported me to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control". They
came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them to fine them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all the time
and
they don't care?

I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.


They complained about you because of a snake?!


Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.


Not really your fault then.

Did they think it was your pet?


Nope.

Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?


It was just her, he's not that stupid.


Women are of lower intelligence.

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Bod[_3_] April 20th 17 07:44 PM

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On 20/04/2017 19:35, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:53:21 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:41:09 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:12:06 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:

Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.

You must be popular with your neighbours.


Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.


Why bother? 99.99999% of alarms are false. Alarms are a ****ing nuisance.

And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.

Remote burglar alarm.

Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.

And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.


Why are people scared of dogs?


Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?


Spiders are disgusting, a lot of snakes are poisonous. Mice, that
doesn't make sense.

It's the way we evolved presumably.

Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.


I tried that with mine, all 5 did nothing.

Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.


You wont do that with the big dogs.


A rock slammed into their face would stop them.

Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.

And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.

Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.

I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't hear
the
neighbours when I'm in bed.

I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.


Armoured glass?


Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,


Most people aren't that stupid.

it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.

Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.


So kinda burglar proof. The noise blocking sounds good though, makes
you wonder why all windows aren't made of it.

Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.

Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.

Unfortunately I cannot.

Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the flat
below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.


I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music
which he
played until 4am at parties.


I can sleep thru that fine.


Music sends me to sleep, but only if I can hear it properly. If can
only hear the bass it wakes me up.

I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers
against
the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.


Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.

And **** all over my car.

I was thinking your head.

Nar, that's never happened.

I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.

I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.

Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.


Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I ignore
those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.


I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.


What is a "silly" bird call?


I'll record one. Remarkably silly.


[waits]

His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me they were
going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)

That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(

I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported
me to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control". They
came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them to fine
them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all the time
and
they don't care?

I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.


They complained about you because of a snake?!


Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.


Not really your fault then.

Did they think it was your pet?


Nope.

Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?


It was just her, he's not that stupid.


Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.

Richard[_10_] April 20th 17 07:45 PM

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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ...

En el artículo ,
escribió:

the smell attracting predators (the kittens haven't
learned to bury it yet).


Mine used the tray from the day it was put down. Only one little
accident. Mornings are funny, I empty and clean the tray and put it down
with fresh litter and they all charge for it. Synchronised pooing
ensues.


Perhaps a little too much info, but at least Pounder will be happy as a pig
in **** that they don't use his award winning garden.


More pics coming RSN.



James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 08:04 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:26 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 19:35, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:53:21 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
...
Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.


Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.


You have frequently commented on their lack of driving ability.

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One's on the cover of Playboy and the other's on the cover of National Geographic.

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 20th 17 08:08 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:45:35 +0100, Richard wrote:

"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message ....

En el artículo ,
escribió:

the smell attracting predators (the kittens haven't
learned to bury it yet).


Mine used the tray from the day it was put down. Only one little
accident. Mornings are funny, I empty and clean the tray and put it down
with fresh litter and they all charge for it. Synchronised pooing
ensues.


Perhaps a little too much info, but at least Pounder will be happy as a pig
in **** that they don't use his award winning garden.


Award winning my arse.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d89cxd9nln...ycle..jpg?dl=0

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Track officials began to suspect he might be juicing.
His personal best time recently broke the record held by Chuck Yeager.

Rod Speed April 20th 17 08:47 PM

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I recorded two episodes of songs of Praise a few weeks ago.
My tastes on what I want to watch can vary in.


How odd. Most people hate certain types of program and always have.


I can see no logical reason to hate certain types of program I might
choose not to watch them or dislike them.
As for songs of praise it's not something I've watched before and as a
work collegue is a singer and her chior was in two episdoes I decide to
record them rather than sit through them.
I was going to offer her the right to sing a track written by a friend of
mine as I thought a chior version might sound quite good and to give then
something to sing about other than God. I played her the youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1ECZOJI6Q


**** you're ugly...

but she declined my offer :-)
I thought it quite appropriote as Jesus was meant to take the blame for us
sinners.


Rod Speed April 20th 17 09:03 PM

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What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.


This is to protect the kittens from infection
(their immune systems won't be fully developed)
and from the smell attracting predators
(the kittens haven't learned to bury it yet).


Surely she should carry it or bury it or something?
Digesting it is only going to make her ill.


It doesn't with cats and dogs.

Imagine what would happen to your gut if you
were to eat all the **** 5 of your babies produced.


Cats work differently to humans.


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I recorded two episodes of songs of Praise a few weeks ago.
My tastes on what I want to watch can vary in.

How odd. Most people hate certain types of program and always have.


I can see no logical reason to hate certain types of program I might
choose not to watch them or dislike them.
As for songs of praise it's not something I've watched before and as a
work collegue is a singer and her chior was in two episdoes I decide to
record them rather than sit through them.
I was going to offer her the right to sing a track written by a friend of
mine as I thought a chior version might sound quite good and to give then
something to sing about other than God. I played her the youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1ECZOJI6Q


**** you're ugly...


He must be drinking some malformed whisky.

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A: Because you have to be a complete prick to be a Morris dancer.

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Or for pursuing criminals who are running away from
the cops either. Corse a ****ing great alsatian is likely
to be a seen as a tad more threatening by the average
running crim too.

I'm pretty certain a similarly sized lion/tiger would be
considered
more threatening.


;-)

That could work as long as the handler wore armour, had the
beast
on
a
(long / strong) lead and the laws on keeping dangerous
animals
was
changed to allow the Police animals to actually kill crims
(as
I'm
not
sure the recall command would work as well on a lion as it
would
on
a
dog). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/10...rning-hug.html

Cool.

Is it just me, or do cameras mounted on someone so they stay
still
and
the
surroundings move seem rather odd?

Yeah, the worst of them can make you a bit sea sick.

But there isnt any feasible alternative when there is
no camera operator to keep tracking what matters.

Could have some kind of fancy gyroscopic thing or an electronic
alternative to make the camera stay still.

Trouble is that it then wouldn't be looking at
what the wearer of the camera is looking at.

That's the whole point of those action cameras, they track
what the person whose head its attached to is looking at
and that does usually produce the best result, even if it
does have the downside of making some a bit seasick.

The big professional shoulder mounted
cameras the pros use do produce a much
better result, but cost a hell of a lot more too.

It can look the same way, just reduce the wobble.

Trouble is that there isnt the room for a decent gyro stablised
system in a head mounted camera and you'd need an external
power pack with its associated cabling even if it was possible.

Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently said "or
an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays,

Like hell it is in the sense that you get as good a result as with
the massive great shoulder mounted pro cameras the pros use.


But better than the wobbly selfie shots we see.


Nope, not with head mounted cameras that
see the background move around a lot.

so why not on selfie versions?

Because it doesn't work when the camera moves around that much.


I've seen it work well on a roller coaster etc.


That's a different situation, everything the camera
can see is all moving in the same way all the time.


So the camera could just ignore the centre.

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Like opening a cat flap. You just push. There's no complicated
handles
or catches, but every single bloody time they stroke it, claw at it,
try
to rub it different ways....

Cant say I have ever had cat that does that.

50% of cats I've had do that.

The other stupid thing they do is two try to go through at once, which
usually results in the destruction of the catflap.


You've never seen two people approach a door together .....


Yes, one says "after you".

Just walk through damn it!

Didn't some of Dave the drunk's cats do that ?

Maybe they stole some of his whisky.


Yep I know about catflaps I was paid £100 and given a free catflap for
this video I put on youtube they featured part of it in america on the
Animal planet channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUBgEZ5fteU&t=18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHNeKgu1k34


How come that doesn't happen here? I've got only TWO cats from other
people that come in my house. And six cats of my own. The two are from
my next door neighbour and someone a block away.

But it's a lot easier to train a cat or kitten to use a litter tray
than a
dog.

Presumably because they are a lot more fussy than dogs.

What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.


Interesting as scientists have found some adult fish become more youthful
if they eat the **** of young fish.
As yuo probbaly dont believe me or fiund this a s weird as I first did.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ish-feces.html

Oh and doing similar by injecting the blood of young mice into older mice
made older mice live longer.
A bit like Countess Elizabeth Báthory perhaps.


Related to stem cell technology probably. But would you eat your baby's
****?


He doesn't have a baby.


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Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.

You must be popular with your neighbours.

Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.


Why bother? 99.99999% of alarms are false. Alarms are a ****ing
nuisance.
And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.

Remote burglar alarm.

Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.

And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.

Why are people scared of dogs?

Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?


Spiders are disgusting, a lot of snakes are poisonous. Mice, that
doesn't make sense.

It's the way we evolved presumably.

Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.


I tried that with mine, all 5 did nothing.

Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.

You wont do that with the big dogs.


A rock slammed into their face would stop them.

Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.

And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.

Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.

I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't
hear the
neighbours when I'm in bed.

I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.

Armoured glass?

Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,


Most people aren't that stupid.

it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.

Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.


So kinda burglar proof. The noise blocking sounds good though, makes
you wonder why all windows aren't made of it.

Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.

Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.

Unfortunately I cannot.

Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the
flat below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.

I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music
which he
played until 4am at parties.

I can sleep thru that fine.


Music sends me to sleep, but only if I can hear it properly. If can
only hear the bass it wakes me up.

I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers
against
the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.

Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.

And **** all over my car.

I was thinking your head.

Nar, that's never happened.

I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.

I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.

Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.

Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I
ignore those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.

I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.

What is a "silly" bird call?

I'll record one. Remarkably silly.


[waits]

His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me
they were going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)

That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(

I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported
me to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control".
They came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them
to fine them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all
the time and
they don't care?

I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.

They complained about you because of a snake?!

Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.


Not really your fault then.

Did they think it was your pet?

Nope.

Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.


Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.


We both know that he is incapable of getting a woman.




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the smell attracting predators (the kittens haven't
learned to bury it yet).


Mine used the tray from the day it was put down. Only one little
accident. Mornings are funny, I empty and clean the tray and put it
down with fresh litter and they all charge for it. Synchronised
pooing ensues.


Perhaps a little too much info, but at least Pounder will be happy as
a pig in **** that they don't use his award winning garden.


More pics coming RSN.


I must really have hurt you with my last post.



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Like opening a cat flap. You just push. There's no complicated
handles
or catches, but every single bloody time they stroke it, claw at it,
try
to rub it different ways....

Cant say I have ever had cat that does that.

50% of cats I've had do that.

The other stupid thing they do is two try to go through at once, which
usually results in the destruction of the catflap.

You've never seen two people approach a door together .....


Yes, one says "after you".

Just walk through damn it!

Didn't some of Dave the drunk's cats do that ?

Maybe they stole some of his whisky.

Yep I know about catflaps I was paid £100 and given a free catflap for
this video I put on youtube they featured part of it in america on the
Animal planet channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUBgEZ5fteU&t=18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHNeKgu1k34


How come that doesn't happen here? I've got only TWO cats from other
people that come in my house. And six cats of my own. The two are from
my next door neighbour and someone a block away.

But it's a lot easier to train a cat or kitten to use a litter tray
than a
dog.

Presumably because they are a lot more fussy than dogs.

What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.

Interesting as scientists have found some adult fish become more youthful
if they eat the **** of young fish.
As yuo probbaly dont believe me or fiund this a s weird as I first did.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ish-feces.html

Oh and doing similar by injecting the blood of young mice into older mice
made older mice live longer.
A bit like Countess Elizabeth Báthory perhaps.


Related to stem cell technology probably. But would you eat your baby's
****?


He doesn't have a baby.


Doesn't need to to figure out it's disgusting.

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What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.


This is to protect the kittens from infection
(their immune systems won't be fully developed)
and from the smell attracting predators
(the kittens haven't learned to bury it yet).


Surely she should carry it or bury it or something?
Digesting it is only going to make her ill.


It doesn't with cats and dogs.

Imagine what would happen to your gut if you
were to eat all the **** 5 of your babies produced.


Cats work differently to humans.


Cats are pure minging!

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to come back when called, not so

All the kittens with the exception of one now come when called.

They don't even recognise their own name.
It's a real rocket scientist cat that can do that.
They actually come when you make noises that indicate food is
being
served.

I have 5 cats. If I yell one of their names, that one and that one
only
will run out of the cat flap. Mind you, maybe it realises it's the
one
that was misbehaving.

Yep, nothing to do with its name, everything to do with
your tone of voice and what it knows its been up to.

You can prove that trivially any time by
shouting YOU ****ER instead of its name.

Dogs are just as stupid, they don't come to their owner if they don't
feel
like it.

Depends on the dogs. You'll never get cats to respond
to the commands of their owners like the best of the
herding dogs do. They don't ever ignore their owners.

One thing cats are no good at is learning simple physical activities.

Dunno, that russian circus fella clearly knows how to do that.

Not clear how long it took him to get them to do that stuff tho.

Like opening a cat flap. You just push. There's no complicated handles
or catches, but every single bloody time they stroke it, claw at it, try
to rub it different ways....

Cant say I have ever had cat that does that.


50% of cats I've had do that.


Presumably those in your area are ****ed in the head that way.


Maybe. Most Scots are thick.

The other stupid thing they do is two try to go through at once, which
usually results in the destruction of the catflap.


Wouldn't happen with one I made.


Very big flap? The standard size happens to fit nicely where one pane of glass was in the door.

Just walk through damn it!


Didn't some of Dave the drunk's cats do that ?


Maybe they stole some of his whisky.


Why would that make them walk straight thru ?

Surely they'd be legless like he is ?


I thought you meant his would go through in pairs like mine and fall over each other. I think. I can't remember, I've imbibed too much vodka.

But it's a lot easier to train a cat or kitten to use a litter tray than
a dog.


Presumably because they are a lot more fussy than dogs.


What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.


Plenty of dogs eat their own ****.


That makes them even stupider.

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Or for pursuing criminals who are running away from
the cops either. Corse a ****ing great alsatian is likely
to be a seen as a tad more threatening by the average
running crim too.

I'm pretty certain a similarly sized lion/tiger would be
considered
more
threatening.


;-)

That could work as long as the handler wore armour, had the beast
on
a
(long / strong) lead and the laws on keeping dangerous animals
was
changed to allow the Police animals to actually kill crims (as
I'm
not
sure the recall command would work as well on a lion as it would
on
a
dog). ;-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/10...rning-hug.html

My ****ing great alsatian left that for dead.

He'd jump up and nip you on the cheek as a greeting.

Trouble is that he'd do that with visitors who showed up enough too
and
it was very difficult to predict when he was going to decide that
they
were welcome visitors and do it for the first time with a
particular
visitor. With a huge great dog like that, it could give them a bit
of
a
fright.

If he never harms anyone, what's the problem?

No problem, its just better if the more timid
of the visitors don't get an unpleasant surprise.

Nah, it teaches them not to be afraid of dogs.

It doesn't teach them anything, those who are afraid of dogs
are even more afraid of dogs after that, because they decide
that they are even less predictable than they thought.

That's their problem.

It is indeed, but I'd prefer to not have them **** their pants at my
place.

Humans are bigger and more intelligent than dogs. Being afraid of them
is
pathetic.

You'd be afraid of him when he's well away.

One party trick was to look out the kitchen window and
say to the dog 'some burglar is stealing your BONES'

He'd go absolutely ****ing bananas.

I tried to get someone to go out in the backyard in that situation,
I recon I would have stopped if I had told him to, but no one was
ever game to try it, even those who knew a lot about dogs.

Huge great dog, massive across the chest and quite
spectacular when going absolutely ****ing bananas.

I used to have one Italian neighbour who used to borrow garden tools.
As
with most dogs, mine went ****ing bananas when he showed up, because he
was obviously terrified of dogs. Wasn't long before he wasn't even game
to knock on the door and ask to borrow anything.

Oh dear. I have no problem with any dog. Very few attack me.

I've only been bitten twice, once when I was still a young
kid wandering around the lion cages when the circus was
in town. I didn't even notice that there was a dog chained
up under one of the cages until it bit me on the leg.

Those that do get my foot in their face.

That would be a great way to end up ****ed over very comprehensively
indeed if you were ever actually stupid enough to try it with mine.

There's a reason the cops use them and not one crim ever
gets away with doing something like that with those.


We can use tools, they can't.


Have fun finding a tool other than a gun that works I that situation.

And it would need to be a shortened shotty too.


Brick, stone from a rockery....

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Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.

You must be popular with your neighbours.


Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.


Why bother?


Because we have all been burgled at one time or another.

The house one house away has just recently been burnt
to the ground by a complete ****ing loony, fortunately
when the owners were away on holiday.

99.99999% of alarms are false.


It isnt as high as that with most of the neighbours.

Alarms are a ****ing nuisance.


But do get the neighbours here checking when
they go off because we all know each other very
well indeed some of us for over 50 years now.

And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.

Remote burglar alarm.

Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.

And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.


Why are people scared of dogs?


Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?


Spiders are disgusting,


Only if you are neurotic about spiders.

a lot of snakes are poisonous.


Hardly any of them are.

Mice, that doesn't make sense.


Neither do the others.

It's the way we evolved presumably.


Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.


I tried that with mine, all 5 did nothing.


Sure, but yours are clearly damned weird. Not one of the cats
in those videos of Dave's do anything like yours do with cat flaps.

Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.


You wont do that with the big dogs.


A rock slammed into their face would stop them.


Nope, you'd get savaged picking up the rock.

Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.

And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.

Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.

I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't hear
the
neighbours when I'm in bed.

I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.


Armoured glass?


Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,


Most people aren't that stupid.


Yes, but the law requires that with patio doors because some
are and the results can be very dramatic when they do that.

it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.

Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.


So kinda burglar proof.


Yep.

The noise blocking sounds good though, makes you wonder why all windows
aren't made of it.


It does cost quite a bit more.

Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.

Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.

Unfortunately I cannot.

Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the flat
below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.


I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music which
he
played until 4am at parties.


I can sleep thru that fine.


Music sends me to sleep, but only if I can hear it properly. If can only
hear the bass it wakes me up.


Makes no difference to me. Dripping taps etc either.

I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers
against the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.


Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.

And **** all over my car.

I was thinking your head.

Nar, that's never happened.

I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.

I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.

Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.


Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I ignore
those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.


I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.


What is a "silly" bird call?


I'll record one. Remarkably silly.


[waits]


Didn't hear any yesterday.

His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me they were
going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)

That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(

I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported me
to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control". They
came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them to fine
them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all the time
and they don't care?

I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.


They complained about you because of a snake?!


Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.


Lot of a jungle, actually.

Not really your fault then.


True.

Did they think it was your pet?


Nope.

Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?


It was just her, he's not that stupid.


Women are of lower intelligence.


That one certainly is. Rabid god botherer too.


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the smell attracting predators (the kittens haven't
learned to bury it yet).

Mine used the tray from the day it was put down. Only one little
accident. Mornings are funny, I empty and clean the tray and put it down
with fresh litter and they all charge for it. Synchronised pooing
ensues.


Perhaps a little too much info, but at least Pounder will be happy as a
pig
in **** that they don't use his award winning garden.


Award winning my arse.
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Fark, where are the plastic butterflys ?

Must be ****ing mad to have white gravel around the grass, must
be a complete ****ing waste of time when mowing the grass.


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Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.

You must be popular with your neighbours.

Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.


Why bother?


Because we have all been burgled at one time or another.


I haven't. What kind of place do you live in?

The house one house away has just recently been burnt
to the ground by a complete ****ing loony, fortunately
when the owners were away on holiday.


Are Aussies all neanderthals or something? Don't you have a police force? From what I've heard they seem to concentrate on the easy **** like speeding motorists.

99.99999% of alarms are false.


It isnt as high as that with most of the neighbours.


It is here. Annoying alarms with no burglar in sight. If I call the police they don't care. First question they ask is "can you see a burglar". If not, they don't bother coming out. It's up to us to take the alarm off the wall with a brick.

Alarms are a ****ing nuisance.


But do get the neighbours here checking when
they go off because we all know each other very
well indeed some of us for over 50 years now.


And here we realise that the electronics are too sensitive and have probably detected a cat touching a pane of glass.

And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.

Remote burglar alarm.

Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.

And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.

Why are people scared of dogs?

Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?


Spiders are disgusting,


Only if you are neurotic about spiders.


More legs than body, simply wrong. Ever had one enter your mouth while you're sleeping? I'd rather they didn't exist on the planet.

a lot of snakes are poisonous.


Hardly any of them are.


Prove it.

It's the way we evolved presumably.


Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.


I tried that with mine, all 5 did nothing.


Sure, but yours are clearly damned weird. Not one of the cats
in those videos of Dave's do anything like yours do with cat flaps.


And mine aren't stupid enough to react to a dead vegetable.

Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.


You wont do that with the big dogs.


A rock slammed into their face would stop them.


Nope, you'd get savaged picking up the rock.


I'd like to see them try.

Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.

And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.

Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.

I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't hear
the
neighbours when I'm in bed.

I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.

Armoured glass?

Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,


Most people aren't that stupid.


Yes, but the law requires that with patio doors because some
are and the results can be very dramatic when they do that.


Why does the law protect the stupid? All that does is make the next generation even more useless than the current one.

it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.

Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.


So kinda burglar proof.


Yep.

The noise blocking sounds good though, makes you wonder why all windows
aren't made of it.


It does cost quite a bit more.


How much more?

Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.

Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.

Unfortunately I cannot.

Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the flat
below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.

I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music which
he
played until 4am at parties.

I can sleep thru that fine.


Music sends me to sleep, but only if I can hear it properly. If can only
hear the bass it wakes me up.


Makes no difference to me. Dripping taps etc either.


Now those really annoy me.

I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers
against the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.

Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.

And **** all over my car.

I was thinking your head.

Nar, that's never happened.

I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.

I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.

Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.

Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I ignore
those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.

I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.

What is a "silly" bird call?

I'll record one. Remarkably silly.


[waits]


Didn't hear any yesterday.


[waits more]

His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me they were
going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)

That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(

I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported me
to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control". They
came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them to fine
them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all the time
and they don't care?

I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.

They complained about you because of a snake?!

Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.


Lot of a jungle, actually.

Not really your fault then.


True.

Did they think it was your pet?

Nope.

Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.


Women are of lower intelligence.


That one certainly is. Rabid god botherer too.


Oh dear. They ought to eradicate all god worshippers. Bring back Hitler.

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the smell attracting predators (the kittens haven't
learned to bury it yet).

Mine used the tray from the day it was put down. Only one little
accident. Mornings are funny, I empty and clean the tray and put it down
with fresh litter and they all charge for it. Synchronised pooing
ensues.

Perhaps a little too much info, but at least Pounder will be happy as a
pig
in **** that they don't use his award winning garden.


Award winning my arse.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d89cxd9nln...cycle.jpg?dl=0


Fark, where are the plastic butterflys ?


He does go on about those. I think he's mentally insane.

Must be ****ing mad to have white gravel around the grass, must
be a complete ****ing waste of time when mowing the grass.


He has some odd obsessions, including gates. Gates with no locks so people can get in anyway, so utterly useless.

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Yorkshireman: "Ayup, lad, I need to talk to thee about me cat."
Vet: "Is it a tom?"
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Or for pursuing criminals who are running away from
the cops either. Corse a ****ing great alsatian is
likely
to be a seen as a tad more threatening by the average
running crim too.

I'm pretty certain a similarly sized lion/tiger would be
considered
more threatening.


;-)

That could work as long as the handler wore armour, had
the
beast
on
a
(long / strong) lead and the laws on keeping dangerous
animals
was
changed to allow the Police animals to actually kill crims
(as
I'm
not
sure the recall command would work as well on a lion as it
would
on
a
dog). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/10...rning-hug.html

Cool.

Is it just me, or do cameras mounted on someone so they stay
still
and
the
surroundings move seem rather odd?

Yeah, the worst of them can make you a bit sea sick.

But there isnt any feasible alternative when there is
no camera operator to keep tracking what matters.

Could have some kind of fancy gyroscopic thing or an
electronic
alternative to make the camera stay still.

Trouble is that it then wouldn't be looking at
what the wearer of the camera is looking at.

That's the whole point of those action cameras, they track
what the person whose head its attached to is looking at
and that does usually produce the best result, even if it
does have the downside of making some a bit seasick.

The big professional shoulder mounted
cameras the pros use do produce a much
better result, but cost a hell of a lot more too.

It can look the same way, just reduce the wobble.

Trouble is that there isnt the room for a decent gyro stablised
system in a head mounted camera and you'd need an external
power pack with its associated cabling even if it was possible.

Someone with exceptional intelligence called James recently said
"or
an
electronic alternative".

There is no electronic alternative that is cheap enough.
If there was, they'd be selling like hot cakes.

Sony invented it decades ago.

But even theirs don't have it, so its more complicated than that.

It's on every single video camera nowadays,

Like hell it is in the sense that you get as good a result as with
the massive great shoulder mounted pro cameras the pros use.

But better than the wobbly selfie shots we see.


Nope, not with head mounted cameras that
see the background move around a lot.

so why not on selfie versions?

Because it doesn't work when the camera moves around that much.

I've seen it work well on a roller coaster etc.


That's a different situation, everything the camera
can see is all moving in the same way all the time.


So the camera could just ignore the centre.


Nope, because if it makes the background stable the center
would move around just as much as the background currently
does and would be even worse to watch because what you
want to watch is whats in the center.

Its never going to be feasible to eliminate the problem
with optical stablisation, it has to be physical.

Even if a very fancy image stablisation system completely
separated the stuff in the center from the background
and handled them completely separately and completely
automatically, you'd still have a problem with the bits of
the background that arent visible behind the stuff in the
center which would need to be visible once the stuff in
the center is optically moved.

Yes, it would be possible to do that in real time
with the best of the supercomputers made, but
its not going to be possible to have those in a
head mounted action camera.

It isnt even possible to video the background
and center stuff separately either, the two
lenses are too close for that and even if you
used some form of gigantic stick for the
background camera, the perspective would
be ****ed and it wouldn't work on someones
head mounted camera.

Pro movies do it by doing the action in from of a
colored screen and filming the background separately
and merging the two images in post processing but that
isnt going to work with a head mounted action camera.


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What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.


This is to protect the kittens from infection
(their immune systems won't be fully developed)
and from the smell attracting predators
(the kittens haven't learned to bury it yet).


Surely she should carry it or bury it or something?
Digesting it is only going to make her ill.


It doesn't with cats and dogs.

Imagine what would happen to your gut if you
were to eat all the **** 5 of your babies produced.


Cats work differently to humans.


Cats are pure minging!


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to come back when called, not so

All the kittens with the exception of one now come when called.

They don't even recognise their own name.
It's a real rocket scientist cat that can do that.
They actually come when you make noises that indicate food is
being
served.

I have 5 cats. If I yell one of their names, that one and that
one
only
will run out of the cat flap. Mind you, maybe it realises it's
the
one
that was misbehaving.

Yep, nothing to do with its name, everything to do with
your tone of voice and what it knows its been up to.

You can prove that trivially any time by
shouting YOU ****ER instead of its name.

Dogs are just as stupid, they don't come to their owner if they
don't
feel
like it.

Depends on the dogs. You'll never get cats to respond
to the commands of their owners like the best of the
herding dogs do. They don't ever ignore their owners.

One thing cats are no good at is learning simple physical activities.

Dunno, that russian circus fella clearly knows how to do that.

Not clear how long it took him to get them to do that stuff tho.

Like opening a cat flap. You just push. There's no complicated
handles
or catches, but every single bloody time they stroke it, claw at it,
try
to rub it different ways....

Cant say I have ever had cat that does that.

50% of cats I've had do that.


Presumably those in your area are ****ed in the head that way.


Maybe. Most Scots are thick.

The other stupid thing they do is two try to go through at once, which
usually results in the destruction of the catflap.


Wouldn't happen with one I made.


Very big flap?


Nope, one made from a sheet of 1/8" sheet of aluminium
with a rod welded to the top edge that acts as the hinge.

Coupla cats trying to get thru that a once wouldn't damage it.

The standard size happens to fit nicely where one pane of glass was in the
door.


There is no pane of glass in Daves door.

And the panes of glass in my patio doors are 4'x7'6"

Just walk through damn it!


Didn't some of Dave the drunk's cats do that ?


Maybe they stole some of his whisky.


Why would that make them walk straight thru ?

Surely they'd be legless like he is ?


I thought you meant his would go through in pairs like mine and fall over
each other. I think. I can't remember, I've imbibed too much vodka.


True.

But it's a lot easier to train a cat or kitten to use a litter tray
than a dog.


Interesting Mike's latest that his are already so
instinctive that they swarm to the tray when
he puts clean litter in it and have a **** fest.

You'd never get puppys doing that.

Presumably because they are a lot more fussy than dogs.


What revolts me is my cat eats her kittens ****.


Plenty of dogs eat their own ****.


That makes them even stupider.


Its got nothing to do with intelligence, they evolved
like that. Just like cats did with kitten ****.


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Or for pursuing criminals who are running away from
the cops either. Corse a ****ing great alsatian is likely
to be a seen as a tad more threatening by the average
running crim too.

I'm pretty certain a similarly sized lion/tiger would be
considered
more
threatening.


;-)

That could work as long as the handler wore armour, had the
beast
on
a
(long / strong) lead and the laws on keeping dangerous animals
was
changed to allow the Police animals to actually kill crims (as
I'm
not
sure the recall command would work as well on a lion as it
would
on
a
dog). ;-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/10...rning-hug.html

My ****ing great alsatian left that for dead.

He'd jump up and nip you on the cheek as a greeting.

Trouble is that he'd do that with visitors who showed up enough
too
and
it was very difficult to predict when he was going to decide that
they
were welcome visitors and do it for the first time with a
particular
visitor. With a huge great dog like that, it could give them a
bit
of
a
fright.

If he never harms anyone, what's the problem?

No problem, its just better if the more timid
of the visitors don't get an unpleasant surprise.

Nah, it teaches them not to be afraid of dogs.

It doesn't teach them anything, those who are afraid of dogs
are even more afraid of dogs after that, because they decide
that they are even less predictable than they thought.

That's their problem.

It is indeed, but I'd prefer to not have them **** their pants at my
place.

Humans are bigger and more intelligent than dogs. Being afraid of
them
is
pathetic.

You'd be afraid of him when he's well away.

One party trick was to look out the kitchen window and
say to the dog 'some burglar is stealing your BONES'

He'd go absolutely ****ing bananas.

I tried to get someone to go out in the backyard in that situation,
I recon I would have stopped if I had told him to, but no one was
ever game to try it, even those who knew a lot about dogs.

Huge great dog, massive across the chest and quite
spectacular when going absolutely ****ing bananas.

I used to have one Italian neighbour who used to borrow garden tools.
As
with most dogs, mine went ****ing bananas when he showed up, because
he
was obviously terrified of dogs. Wasn't long before he wasn't even
game
to knock on the door and ask to borrow anything.

Oh dear. I have no problem with any dog. Very few attack me.

I've only been bitten twice, once when I was still a young
kid wandering around the lion cages when the circus was
in town. I didn't even notice that there was a dog chained
up under one of the cages until it bit me on the leg.

Those that do get my foot in their face.

That would be a great way to end up ****ed over very comprehensively
indeed if you were ever actually stupid enough to try it with mine.

There's a reason the cops use them and not one crim ever
gets away with doing something like that with those.

We can use tools, they can't.


Have fun finding a tool other than a gun that works I that situation.

And it would need to be a shortened shotty too.


Brick, stone from a rockery....


Wouldn't work, you'd get savaged trying to find the brick or rock.


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Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.

Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.

You seem to lend a lot of tools.

Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.

Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.

I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.

You must be popular with your neighbours.

Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.


Why bother?


Because we have all been burgled at one time or another.


I haven't.


You will be.

What kind of place do you live in?


Just the same as most people where burglarys do happen.

The house one house away has just recently been burnt to the ground by a
complete ****ing loony, fortunately when the owners were away on holiday.


Are Aussies all neanderthals or something?


Nope, this one was quite literally barking mad. She was 'living'
up in the roof of what you lot call a council house because she
believed that her place was inhabited by demons. That's why
she torched the place next but one to my place, she believed
it was too.

Don't you have a police force?


Corse we do, but it isnt possible for cops
to avoid everything like that happening.

From what I've heard they seem to concentrate on the easy **** like
speeding motorists.


They didn't with this one and caught her quite quickly.

99.99999% of alarms are false.


It isnt as high as that with most of the neighbours.


It is here.


I don't believe that.

Annoying alarms with no burglar in sight.


Sure, most of ours are too, but nothing like that high a percentage.

If I call the police they don't care.


I go and check myself to see if it's a false alarm or not.

First question they ask is "can you see a burglar". If not, they don't
bother coming out.


And that is the sensible way to operate.

It's up to us to take the alarm off the wall with a brick.


Ours time out. It's a legal requirement.

Alarms are a ****ing nuisance.


But do get the neighbours here checking when
they go off because we all know each other very
well indeed some of us for over 50 years now.


And here we realise that the electronics are too sensitive and have
probably detected a cat touching a pane of glass.


It was like that for a while, but retweeking the system fixed that.

The last time the grandkids had been there for a birthday party.
Everyone had left and after a few days the helium had leaked
out of a balloon up on the ceiling and it drifted down to the
floor and set the alarm off.

On one other occasion you could see where someone had tried
to jemmy a window and had got scared off by the alarm and had
put a chair against the back fence and gone over it on the way out.

On another occasion the crim was visible on the surveillance
cameras that were installed after the previous incident.

And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.

Remote burglar alarm.

Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.

And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.

Why are people scared of dogs?

Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?


Spiders are disgusting,


Only if you are neurotic about spiders.


More legs than body, simply wrong.


No reason to be scared of them.

Ever had one enter your mouth while you're sleeping?


I don't sleep with my mouth open.

I'd rather they didn't exist on the planet.


They likely feel the same way about you.

a lot of snakes are poisonous.


Hardly any of them are.


Prove it.


Look at the stats.

It's the way we evolved presumably.


Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.


I tried that with mine, all 5 did nothing.


Sure, but yours are clearly damned weird. Not one of the cats
in those videos of Dave's do anything like yours do with cat flaps.


And mine aren't stupid enough to react to a dead vegetable.


But clearly some are.

Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.


You wont do that with the big dogs.


A rock slammed into their face would stop them.


Nope, you'd get savaged picking up the rock.


I'd like to see them try.


Plenty of crims not only see them try, they feel them do it.

Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.

And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.

Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.

I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't
hear
the
neighbours when I'm in bed.

I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.

Armoured glass?

Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,


Most people aren't that stupid.


Yes, but the law requires that with patio doors because some
are and the results can be very dramatic when they do that.


Why does the law protect the stupid?


Because they can be kids who don't know any better etc.

All that does is make the next generation even more useless than the
current one.


We do in fact do a lot better than cave men did.
They couldn't drive cars and fly planes etc.

it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.

Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.


So kinda burglar proof.


Yep.

The noise blocking sounds good though, makes you wonder why all windows
aren't made of it.


It does cost quite a bit more.


How much more?


Its 45 years since I priced mine. I doubt you can even
buy them like that, so they would be custom windows
whose frames wouldn't even take glass that thick.

Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.

Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.

Unfortunately I cannot.

Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the flat
below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.

I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music
which
he
played until 4am at parties.

I can sleep thru that fine.

Music sends me to sleep, but only if I can hear it properly. If can
only
hear the bass it wakes me up.


Makes no difference to me. Dripping taps etc either.


Now those really annoy me.


They don't have any effect on me.

I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers
against the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.

Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.

And **** all over my car.

I was thinking your head.

Nar, that's never happened.

I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.

I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.

Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.

Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I
ignore
those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.

I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.

What is a "silly" bird call?

I'll record one. Remarkably silly.

[waits]


Didn't hear any yesterday.


[waits more]


Still none, and since its sposed to drizzle a bit today, unlikely to be any
today either.

His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me they
were
going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)

That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(

I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported me
to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control".
They
came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them to fine
them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all the
time
and they don't care?

I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.

They complained about you because of a snake?!

Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.


Lot of a jungle, actually.

Not really your fault then.


True.

Did they think it was your pet?

Nope.

Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.

Women are of lower intelligence.


That one certainly is. Rabid god botherer too.


Oh dear. They ought to eradicate all god worshippers. Bring back Hitler.


Bit hard, the corpse was burnt and we havent worked
out how to clone humans from burnt bones yet.


Rod Speed April 21st 17 03:12 AM

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the smell attracting predators (the kittens haven't
learned to bury it yet).

Mine used the tray from the day it was put down. Only one little
accident. Mornings are funny, I empty and clean the tray and put it
down
with fresh litter and they all charge for it. Synchronised pooing
ensues.

Perhaps a little too much info, but at least Pounder will be happy as a
pig
in **** that they don't use his award winning garden.

Award winning my arse.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d89cxd9nln...cycle.jpg?dl=0


Fark, where are the plastic butterflys ?


He does go on about those. I think he's mentally insane.


Better than bodily insane or spiritually insane I spose.

Must be ****ing mad to have white gravel around the grass, must
be a complete ****ing waste of time when mowing the grass.


He has some odd obsessions, including gates. Gates with no locks so
people can get in anyway, so utterly useless.


Not completely useless, they work fine for keeping dogs in the yard.


Bod[_3_] April 21st 17 05:39 AM

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Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.

Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.


You have frequently commented on their lack of driving ability.

That in itself is not a definition of lower intelligence.

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 21st 17 10:13 AM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:39:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:26 +0100, Bod wrote:

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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.

Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.


You have frequently commented on their lack of driving ability.

That in itself is not a definition of lower intelligence.


Of course it is. Not being able to drive makes you stupid.

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:26 +0100, Bod wrote:

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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.

Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.

You have frequently commented on their lack of driving ability.

That in itself is not a definition of lower intelligence.


Of course it is. Not being able to drive makes you stupid.

Erm, plenty of men can't drive.

Bod[_3_] April 21st 17 10:42 AM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:39:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:26 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 19:35, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:53:21 +0100, Rod Speed

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"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.

Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.

You have frequently commented on their lack of driving ability.

That in itself is not a definition of lower intelligence.


Of course it is. Not being able to drive makes you stupid.

"Women motorists are set to outnumber their male counterparts on the
road, it has emerged".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...vers-soar.html

James Wilkinson Sword[_4_] April 21st 17 12:39 PM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:35:35 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 21/04/2017 10:13, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:39:01 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 20:04, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:44:26 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 20/04/2017 19:35, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:53:21 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:



"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message
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Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?

It was just her, he's not that stupid.

Women are of lower intelligence.

Only in your own mind.

You have frequently commented on their lack of driving ability.

That in itself is not a definition of lower intelligence.


Of course it is. Not being able to drive makes you stupid.

Erm, plenty of men can't drive.


10 times less than women. Guess what sex the driver in the video I just emailed you is.

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