Posted 20 Nov 2021 4 hours ago, burningtiger said: I went to Brandenburg airport yesterday and the cost of buying 0.3L water from heinmann had increased from 1 euro to 1.50 euro in since my last trip a less then 2 months ago 50 % inflation! OMG! I am pretty easygoing with money but really resent this monopoly as you cannot carry water in especially when all the drinking water was recently not fit to drink at airport. Water is essential for good health and even more now then anytime, what a bunch of capitalists money sucking parasites. Share your annoyance, it's a complete racket and not sustainable either 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 Nov 2021 The other day, I decided that I wanted to wear a watch with a black strap. Put on the first one - battery dead. Put on the second on - same. Put on the 3rd one and guess what? Dead battery. I've never had more than one watch battery go dead at the same time. Bizarre. (I wore a watch with an orange strap.) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 22 Nov 2021 Blaming the Bundesgerichtshof, my bank sent me (and every other customer I assume) a 92 page, small printed, document to sign. Apparently, all the current T&C's and prices for services are listed and haven't changed. But now they have to inform us. Fascinating reading what charges they have managed to define, truly flummoxing stuff. opening the door for me: 1,62c Holding it open : (mornings)2,71c (afternoon) 3,77c Cleaning the door before my appointment : 2,19c 92 pages...really!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 24 Nov 2021 First female Swedish prime minister resigns after a few hours: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59400539.amp Wow. That was short. Who’s next? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 24 Nov 2021 Wonder what the world record is, Luke?😂 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 It's this pesky odd ball rank I currently have. I've been staring at this for 24hrs but I am none the wiser. Someone more intelligent than me please educate me... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 I had to look for it, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Yer_Face 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 https://www.beatport.com/track/in-yer-face/15174570 Here it is! If you can listen to it for more than about 20 seconds, you are more tolerant than me😂 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 2 hours ago, Chelski said: It's this pesky odd ball rank I currently have. I've been staring at this for 24hrs but I am none the wiser. Someone more intelligent than me please educate me... It's better than shaddap you face - on so many levels 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 Better than 666! Many of us old timers on here had that staring us in the face!😂 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 8 minutes ago, john g. said: Better than 666! Many of us old timers on here had that staring us in the face!😂 Hmm... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 But still engraved on your head?😂 By the way ( and brilliantly staying on topic in the flummoxed thread!), I am also a JG and born in 1952! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 26 Nov 2021 53 minutes ago, john g. said: But still engraved on your head?😂 By the way ( and brilliantly staying on topic in the flummoxed thread!), I am also a JG and born in 1952! No...they are 9's. If they were 6's, they would have little lines under them. The JG52 is for Jagdgeschwader 52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_52 A friend of mine, the late Ulirich Steinhilper, was a Bf 109 pilot assigned to JG 52. He was shot down over Canterbury in October 1940, the same month he became an ace. He spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Canada and made so many unsuccessful escape attempts that he became known as the Ausbrecherkonige von Kanada. After the war, he worked for IBM in Germany and was credited with developing the concept of word processing. IBM in the States wasn't interested in the concept (no place for it in business), but IBM in Germany continued with the concept. Uli wrote three books about his wartime exploits and I met him and his wife Lore several times for lunch in Stuttgart. He was concerned that he would be remembered for his breakout attempts and not the work he did after the war, specifically with IBM. I convinced him to write a fourth book and helped him proofread the manuscript. I had to deploy, so I couldn't finish helping with the manuscript, but one of his sons took over. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 27 Nov 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/59185757 Calling Lukeskywalker! Footie match in Portugal starts despite one team only having 9 players ( Covid-related )! Amazing. ( Scroll down a bit to the Benfica match!)👍 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 27 Nov 2021 I hear you. Pretty weird. In England you can actually start with 7 players: https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-3---the-players 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 27 Nov 2021 It was different at school, Luke😂! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 29 Nov 2021 Never really noticed that threads get new titles... When was this Brexit thread called "Brexit bring no fuel to Britain?" 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 29 Nov 2021 If you click 'edit this topic' you can see that was the title at 06:38:29 on 27.Sep.2021. It changed to it's current title at 09:43:13 that same day. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
