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I would once again like to nominate myself for room 101. Getting an 83” TV off a pallet yesterday ready for delivery and I fell backwards landing in my right wrist. Carried on working but by the last two hours I couldn't move anything without pain. Went to A&E wrist x-rayed nothing broken. Went to work this morning in a lot of pain got a phone call from the hospital "we want you to come back in. Your x-ray was focussed on you wrist but we've seen something at the base of your thumb" so another couple of x-rays and confirmed I've fractured my scaphoid. 55 years old and my first broken bone and a tiny one at that. Director at work said a proper rugby injury. He played rugby for years.
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Cricketbat70 said:
I would once again like to nominate myself for room 101. Getting an 83” TV off a pallet yesterday ready for delivery and I fell backwards landing in my right wrist. Carried on working but by the last two hours I couldn't move anything without pain. Went to A&E wrist x-rayed nothing broken. Went to work this morning in a lot of pain got a phone call from the hospital "we want you to come back in. Your x-ray was focussed on you wrist but we've seen something at the base of your thumb" so another couple of x-rays and confirmed I've fractured my scaphoid. 55 years old and my first broken bone and a tiny one at that. Director at work said a proper rugby injury. He played rugby for years.
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I wish you a speedy recovery, all the best.
 
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GSV Ethics Gradient said:
2025.

Lost a very dear friend in February, my dad in March, Mrs GSV's dad last month and another dear friend has recently been hospitalised with life-changing injuries. The year just keeps on giving...
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My deepest sympathies, fingers crossed, 2026 is the exact opposite of what you've just experienced. I hope moving forward, you and yours and those close to you will have good health, happiness and sunshine.
 
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This morning it was gusty and pouring down with rain, another dreary start to the day. Winter makes me miserable, oh I wish I was a polar bear!

Today was my wife's day in the office, it's usually about a ten minute walk to get to the rail station.

I told my missus you're not going out in the rain so I offered to drop her off. We were on a 20 MPH road restriction, the parking on either side of the road was crammed with Mummy SUVs, dropping their kids off to school.

I was driving within the restricted speed but was aware on some parts of the road, I was doing a little over the speed, maybe 25 MPH.

I saw in my rear mirror an Audi driver, full beam on, racing up to my rear end. I'm thinking you can't be serious, what an idiot. I braked a few occasions to put him off but the Audi driver decided to race on, on a 20 MPH restriction zone and with audacity he overtook me.

Wife and I looked at each other, What?
We gave him a big wave and a sarcastic smile as he passed by.

He didn't get far because bottom of the road he was caught in a busy junction, I drove to the side of him to get a closer look and my hands was itching to gesticulate.
Shock horror, he was a SHE!

She looked straight ahead, avoiding my gaze. My God, was she on her time of the month?
I was expecting better from the fairer sex.
I know this isn't about Vietnam but Bob Dylan was right,
"The Times They Are A-Changin' "
 
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Jasonovich said:
I was driving within the restricted speed but was aware on some parts of the road, I was doing a little over the speed, maybe 25 MPH.
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I was reading this article earlier - probably more suited to the car thread:
BBC News - Evan Davis: Why so many people break 20mph speed limits - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk

Evan Davis: Why so many people break 20mph speed limits

After receiving a speeding ticket, Evan Davis explores why so many people have broken 20mph limits across the country.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Seems funny now, how dated the BBC's Tomorrow's World has become but classic TV nonetheless.

View: https://youtu.be/EPD1IKC3myA?si=djzrpCcEcBXIICNM
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That and TOTP were required viewing Thursday nights.

Nephew worked for BBC a few years back, so we had nice stroll round the television centre.
Good to see where it all happened, though by that time most studios were no longer in use.
We ended up in a viewing gallery, watching them record Mock The Week.
Mostly luxury flats on the site now 😕
 
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Gray said:
That and TOTP were required viewing Thursday nights.

Nephew worked for BBC a few years back, so we had nice stroll round the television centre.
Good to see where it all happened, though by that time most audios were no longer in use.
We ended up in a viewing gallery, watching them record Mock The Week.
Mostly luxury flats on the site now 😕
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Really poignant what you say Gray.

TW followed by TOTP, and my late father pretending not to be interested when Pan's People came on!

Sad really, what's happened to the BBC. There was a time it defined comedy, such as Fawlty Towers, Monty Python...Rick Mayall and what's his name in the Young Ones and Not the Nine O'clock News...Black Adder so many.
Look at it now, it's just a hub for collecting revenue, nothing else.

They can't make comedy anymore in fear of offending someone!
 
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...my late father pretending not to be interested when Pan's People came on!
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Funny, it's only watching the re-runs that I've come to appreciate how good the Ruby Flipper girls were....at their job!
Great bodies, often with exposed bum cheeks and pretty faces on top, yes....but if you can watch the dancing itself - they're really good - complex moves, great synchronicity and all usually in high heels.
 
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The Guiness Book of World Records. Just been reading a piece in Delayed Gratification about how awkward they were about recognising Fauja Singh as the first centenarian to complete a marathon. His coach is quoted as saying 'We came to the conclusion that Fauja Singh lost nothing by not being in a book next to the woman with the longest toenails. Guiness can do one, frankly.'

I'm torn between liking the trivia that seems to be officially recognised and shaking my head. DG also tells us that on September the 20th, the record for most coconuts smashed with one had in a minute was broken, and stands at a scarcely believable 125. Or that on August the 31st, the record for running marathon in the most pairs of underpants fell to Aussie Daniel Byrnes. Quite how one wears 53 pairs of scants at one time (or why), let alone runs in them, is beyond me.
 
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Sooooooooo, this is very super unique.

Why do the British say we're across the pond when it's an ocean not a pond, or even a lake? But here in the states we call ponds lakes, strange. We have housing tracts with a small 1- or 2-acre ponds, but the housing tract will call it a lake. Technically ponds are generally the smaller and shallower than a lake, resulting in less surface area. They are pretty much bodies of standing water with no movement. A pond is also shallow enough, so sunlight reaches the bottom. The light allows plants to grow at the bottom, too, as well as on the surface. This stuff is all the opposite of a lake. All the man made "lakes" in housing tracts are actually ponds according to the true definition. All of that means that an ocean cannot remotely be a pond.

Why is do the British say they have a boot instead of trunk in their car? I have boot, but I wear them, I don't wear a trunk unless I am dressing up as an Elephant. Which segues into why the British have a bonnet instead of a hood for their cars...both terms are actually odd since they are both related to clothing.

The actuality of all of that, doesn't bother me the least bit! LOL!!

What does bother me the most is why we now have to text people instead of calling them and talking to them. It takes 10 time longer to communicate by text then it does by phone. This is supposed to be the era of fast communication, but instead we text msg, that is pure lunacy. What makes texting even worse than the time element, is the distraction, a lot of accidents, property damage, injuries and deaths have happened due to texting.
 
The blather that goes with calling any company - I'll nominate Domestic and General because I've just been on the phone to them. To authorise a repair, they need so many serial numbers which have things that might be 1s or Is, or 0s or Os, that alas calling is necessary. If I had any hair, I'd be tearing it out if I had to listen to a single utterance from this list in the next few hours:

- Your call is important to us.
- All our operators are busy, and we will answer your call as soon as possible. (No you won't - as soon as possible is now.)
- Data protection blather.
- Directions to our website.
- Your call may be recorded....
- In order to provide the best possible customer service... (I'll decide that, thank you very much...)
- Please hold the line.
 
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I want to put windows 11 into room 101. Yesterday evening my son was looking for a specific set of photos from a motor racing event we went to in 2022. All our photos I download to my NAS and none of our PC's have ever had any trouble opening them until last night and my laptop said photos were in an unsupported format. They were in bog standard jpeg. I can only assume a recent update has screwed windows 11 again. For crying out loud jpeg of all formats my laptop has always opened them in the past.
 
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I want to put windows 11 into room 101. Yesterday morning son was looking for a specific set of photos from a motor racing event we went to in 2022. All our photos I download to my NAS and none of our PC's have never had any trouble opening them until last night and my laptop said photos were in an unsupported format. They were in bog standard jpeg. I can only assume a recent update has screwed windows 11 again. For crying out loud jpeg of all formats my laptop has always opened them in the past.
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I had a similar issue on Win 11 with Adobe Lightroom and some of my photos, particular the RAW photos with new Nikon extension. The original RAW version works fine.

There is a little work around...try this
Copy Jpeg image and paste it onto a Word doc, then right click on the image and Save As
 
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