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  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?:
    "  airspeed velocity..." Hmmm.
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you have Tree Frogs in your area.:
    Tree-frogs no - they are not a British and Northern European species."Ordinary" frogs though (I don't know their species beyond that). My and my neighbour's gardens have small colonies of frogs and we've built ponds for them.I'm rather concerned though as...  moreTree-frogs no - they are not a British and Northern European species."Ordinary" frogs though (I don't know their species beyond that). My and my neighbour's gardens have small colonies of frogs and we've built ponds for them.I'm rather concerned though as there did not seem much spawn in the pond this year, and I have seen or heard hardly any of the creatures so far. There were lots last Spring.   
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What is a venue that should never have a non-smoking section? Humorous answers, of course. ~:
    A kipper factory.
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What were the squares coming out of the sun that our Gov blacked out all except one?:
    Impressive image of a huge natural event!
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to If Putin's desperation at humiliating himself war-wise continues will nuclear war be the result? Will anyone be left on the planet? :
    I don't think so, and we can all hope and pray it never happens.#Would anyone be left after an all-out thermonuclear World War III?Oh of course there would. I'd think most of the world's population would survive, though in what sort of world is anyone's g...  moreI don't think so, and we can all hope and pray it never happens.#Would anyone be left after an all-out thermonuclear World War III?Oh of course there would. I'd think most of the world's population would survive, though in what sort of world is anyone's guess, or nightmare.The Russian president can't launch any weapons himself, only order their use; but the question is whether his generals would obey such an order or refuse.It is alarming though that the Russian Federation is still developing inter-continental ballistic missiles, that can carry multiple warheads either nuclear or high-explosive. They tested one recently, launched from and landing in Russian territory - they did follow the international agreement to tell NATO in advance.  less
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Where is a place you would not or should not find gravel?:
    In the living-room carpet.Why that?The question reminded me of my girlfriend and I once taking a walk around the much-vaunted "Poundbury" near Dorchester (S. England). This pseudo-village is a huge housing estate sprinkled with various business premises, ...  moreIn the living-room carpet.Why that?The question reminded me of my girlfriend and I once taking a walk around the much-vaunted "Poundbury" near Dorchester (S. England). This pseudo-village is a huge housing estate sprinkled with various business premises, built in what I call "Nouveau Pastiche" style - which at least is an effort to break away from lots and lots and lots of identical houses.Living about twelve miles away from it, we visited it when its first phase had just been built, out of curiosity; and decided we'd not live there even if we could afford its Nouveau Pastiche prices.  Its small terraced houses have tiny back gardens, no obvious car-parks near them, and front doors that open straight onto narrow pavements.The pavements were dressed in fine gravel... Just right for being carried on your shoes into your home!  less
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Mobile homes. Have you ever seen one moved?:
    More accurately "portable" than "mobile", but yes, many times to and from the holiday and residential parks around here. Not as wide as that in the photo though. A lot of portable buildings are divided down the centre, and carried half on one trailer, so ...  moreMore accurately "portable" than "mobile", but yes, many times to and from the holiday and residential parks around here. Not as wide as that in the photo though. A lot of portable buildings are divided down the centre, and carried half on one trailer, so can be moved along the ordinary roads without too much trouble.  
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Which direction is your preferred direction to feel the wind and breezes blowing from?:
    The South-West: relatively warm and humid air nearly straight from the Atlantic Ocean.
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Why is it called 'quicksand' if you sink into it slowly?:
    The drowning in a silo? An awful death.
    • May 11
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Work horse. Hunting dog. House cat. Lame duck. White elephant. Hot dog. Cold turkey. :
    Loan shark.Tomato spider - sometimes used within our family when we were young, for the fruit's calix.Ear-wormGolden Lion - a quite common, old pub name, in England. Along with various White Harts, Black Dogs, etc. Nodding donkey - a nick-name for the bea...  moreLoan shark.Tomato spider - sometimes used within our family when we were young, for the fruit's calix.Ear-wormGolden Lion - a quite common, old pub name, in England. Along with various White Harts, Black Dogs, etc. Nodding donkey - a nick-name for the beam-pump often used on oil-wells holding little or no natural gas-pressure. Vaulting-horseClothes-horse (airing frame)Saw-horseCatch a crab - all right, that's three words, sorry! A rowing term. Fire dogs - log supports used long ago, in large, open fireplaces."Soup Dragon" (The) - how well do you know children's TV shows?Lounge lizardSpinning jenny - Early textile-trade machine citing now-archaic synonym for "donkey" or "mule". Also, "tinman's jenny", a workshop tool.Snowman - yes, we 'oomans are animals, biologically!"Iron Man" - it's a sports event."Black dog" - Sir Winston Churchill's nick-name for the effects he suffered, of clinical depression.Dark horse - of a person surprising everyone in some way."Iron horse" - 19C USA colloq. for "railway locomotive". I ...    less
    • May 4
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Which species has the most efficient digestive system?:
    Of multicellular animals, probably the Eyelash Mite. It lives only on sebaceous oil, so does have a rather limited diet,  but excretes nothing. I suppose it must have waste-products but perhaps simply water and carbon-dioxide it can lose as part of i...  moreOf multicellular animals, probably the Eyelash Mite. It lives only on sebaceous oil, so does have a rather limited diet,  but excretes nothing. I suppose it must have waste-products but perhaps simply water and carbon-dioxide it can lose as part of its respiration.  
    • May 4
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What have you ever used a length of rope for?:
    I have used ropes and thin cords in lots of things...Securing loads on trailers or in vehicles.As part of lifting-tackle in various situations.Lashing sticks together for garden plant-support frames.Additional guy-lines for tents.Temporary fences in publi...  moreI have used ropes and thin cords in lots of things...Securing loads on trailers or in vehicles.As part of lifting-tackle in various situations.Lashing sticks together for garden plant-support frames.Additional guy-lines for tents.Temporary fences in public events like village fetes.In caving, either as life-lines or for abseiling down and "prusiking" back up the rope to negotiate "pitches" (vertical drops).  
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Have you ever gone spelunking?:
    No, I have never been "spelunking". However... I have been "caving" many times, over many years.As far as I can determine the word "spelunking" was coined by two American cavers in the 1930s, to sound clever. The root if I can remember the correct sp...  moreNo, I have never been "spelunking". However... I have been "caving" many times, over many years.As far as I can determine the word "spelunking" was coined by two American cavers in the 1930s, to sound clever. The root if I can remember the correct spelling, is Spaeleos, Greek for "cave", but where they found that strange "unk" syllable is anyone's guess.The word never caught on outside of the USA, and although journalists tended to keep using it to seem clever, American cavers themselves eventually relegated it to denigrating novices (they'd never been beginners themselves, of course) and dilettantes. I have never seen it in any American cavers' literature. "Speleo" appears in the umbrella term for the science of caves and their contents: Speleology (again that should have the "ae" but I forget which side of the first 'l'). So the professional or amateur cave-researcher is a "speleologist" - but the words are not used to describe "just" caving and cavers.  In fact many of them simply use the ordinary w...    less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Why is it called 'quicksand' if you sink into it slowly?:
    I think Jane S has the nearest answer: a reference to the sand being "alive".The use of quick to mean alive is archaic for normal use although it does appear liturgically. There is nothing special about the sand itself. The deposit is "quick" thanks to be...  moreI think Jane S has the nearest answer: a reference to the sand being "alive".The use of quick to mean alive is archaic for normal use although it does appear liturgically. There is nothing special about the sand itself. The deposit is "quick" thanks to being saturated with water, creating a fluid. I have read the advice for someone caught in it, is to lie flat, and float on it... but I'd rather not put it to the test.Although grain is dry, there have reportedly been a few awful cases of farm-workers drowning from falling into a silo full of grain.  less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Here’s a photo of the weirdest utensil or implement in our kitchen here. What’s a similar example from your kitchen?:
    I've no photo of it but our family loved the Tastee-Toaster our parents owned. I saw one once on a car-boot sale stall, where the seller was as baffled as the browser by it: two shallow, circular cast-aluminium dishes held together by a hinge opposite a l...  moreI've no photo of it but our family loved the Tastee-Toaster our parents owned. I saw one once on a car-boot sale stall, where the seller was as baffled as the browser by it: two shallow, circular cast-aluminium dishes held together by a hinge opposite a long handle on each, with a clip to hold them closed.Naturally I came to their aid and explained this toasted-sandwich maker to them - a type used on a gas-ring. Being circular the by-product was a lot of spandrels of bread, but one does not waste food, instead one adds them to soup or uses them in a bread-and-butter pudding.  less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Among homeowners* in general, what do you think are the most popular colors for the home’s exterior paint and/or exterior trim?:
    Grey. And more grey. Along with white and stainless-steel.So it appears on too many new and refitted houses around here (my part of Southern England) now, where even attractive 1930s style homes are being larded with ugly faux-timber plastic planks the co...  moreGrey. And more grey. Along with white and stainless-steel.So it appears on too many new and refitted houses around here (my part of Southern England) now, where even attractive 1930s style homes are being larded with ugly faux-timber plastic planks the colour of warships. I have no idea where and why this fad originated, but the overall effect is very industrial.One fad that does seem on the wane is for timber garden decking. One possible reason for the decline of this costly pretention, if that is happening, is that can be dangerously slippery when wet, despite the grooves routed into the surfaces. Another may be the amount of maintenance it needs to prevent the timber from rotting; and unless you have a trade account as a builder, farmer or similar, you cannot buy decent wood-preservative like creosote nowadays.  less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Did you buy or build anything cool for your yard this year?:
    I recently put up an "insect hotel", a Christmas present from relations. So far the invertebrates have not found it, but I expect some will in due course.
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you have a professional who takes care of your lawn?:
    No: all my own work, on the few square yards of what I call a "lawn" more politely than in accuracy, and with a manual mower not a noisy electric or petrol one.
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you hire a professional to fix your plumbing and do electrical work?:
    I can carry out basic plumbing and simple electrical work to a point, but anything to do with the gas-fired central-heating / hot-water boiler has to be by a "Gas Safe" accredited fitter.Similarly there are stringent regulations in the UK about electrical...  moreI can carry out basic plumbing and simple electrical work to a point, but anything to do with the gas-fired central-heating / hot-water boiler has to be by a "Gas Safe" accredited fitter.Similarly there are stringent regulations in the UK about electrical installations. These don't ban amateur installers per se, but the work has to be inspected and passed as safe, professionally, before use.  
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to There is an intruder in your house. For those who don't own a firearm, what would you use to deter him/her?:
    Certainly not me. I am not brave, tough or foolhardy enough to try! It'd almost certainly have to be creep quietly out and ring 999.
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you repair your own vehicles or hire someone to do it?:
    Not now, except for very simple things. I have nowhere to park except in the narrow street, and modern cars are so difficult to work on I have to entrust it to a garage. I cannot even find a published service manual for the thing.The last repair work I di...  moreNot now, except for very simple things. I have nowhere to park except in the narrow street, and modern cars are so difficult to work on I have to entrust it to a garage. I cannot even find a published service manual for the thing.The last repair work I did on my present car was replace the battery - enforcing my making an improvised extension-handle to reach the 'Torx'-head screw holding one of the clamps deep down in a recess. And as for changing what the Owner's Handbook calls a "Cabin Air Filter", I have never managed to find it! (I have the car given a service along with its annual, compulsory "MoT Test" of roadworthiness.)  I have though fitted it with a reversing-camera, a huge help when parking along my street at times.Yet in years past I have carried out all sorts of repairs and maintenance on assorted motorcycles, cars and vans I've owned.  less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you like tools? :
     Not so much "like" as appreciate and respect them. It's what they are for that matters more to me, and I like to use the right tool for the task, and use it correctly.Nevertheless I do have some affection for three I own. One is a small lathe made p...  more Not so much "like" as appreciate and respect them. It's what they are for that matters more to me, and I like to use the right tool for the task, and use it correctly.Nevertheless I do have some affection for three I own. One is a small lathe made probably in the 1950s, which was my 18th Birthday present from my parents. (It was not new but was in very good condition. Dad had bought it from someone at work.) The other is a manually-operated shaper now probably more than 100 years old, and still serviceable - I last used it only recently.The third is a carpenter's beam compass I had inherited from our Dad. Initials and a date stamped on it show its origin - the retired cabinet-maker who had been our neighbour back in the early 1960s. Very close examination shows the brass fittings on it to have been hand-filed, and very carefully. The date corresponds to him possibly having made it as an apprentice-piece at the start of a 40-year career in his trade.  It is more than a treasured relic: I have used it a...    less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Some people absolutely love using text technology. What is some information that you believe should ONLY be sent via text?:
    The simplest and briefest - appointment reminders, meeting confirmations, quick one-off questions, that sort of thing.
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to How often do you bring in your mail and toss it all in the recycling bin because it's all junk?:
    I would think so, and indeed they do!I bought a pack of bandsaw blades from a tool-retail chain called 'Machine Mart', and it's thrown any number of advertising e-posts at me since then, without having a clue what else I am likely to buy from it, nor when...  moreI would think so, and indeed they do!I bought a pack of bandsaw blades from a tool-retail chain called 'Machine Mart', and it's thrown any number of advertising e-posts at me since then, without having a clue what else I am likely to buy from it, nor when or how often!  
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Will you give a good reason to use a desktop computer instead of a smart phone? :
    A decently-sized screen enabling me to examine complicated web-sites easily (though that does not necessarily make them easy to navigate!), and to use software like word-processors, photo-editors, spreadsheets and CAD properly.A real keyboard with finger-...  moreA decently-sized screen enabling me to examine complicated web-sites easily (though that does not necessarily make them easy to navigate!), and to use software like word-processors, photo-editors, spreadsheets and CAD properly.A real keyboard with finger-sized buttons.Convenient scrolling and pointing.  
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What are some inanimate (non-living) objects that ONLY function* properly when COMPLETELY submerged in water?:
    Some types of pump.Sonar (marine type).
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What was the last new technology miracle put in your face that you refused to embrace?:
    Since posting that above, my sister told me of an amusing incident when she and her husband were doing the standard grandparents' thing: babysitting.Although her husband does have a telephone equivalent of a "smart"-speaker, neither are especially gadget-...  moreSince posting that above, my sister told me of an amusing incident when she and her husband were doing the standard grandparents' thing: babysitting.Although her husband does have a telephone equivalent of a "smart"-speaker, neither are especially gadget-conscious or IT-skilled, unlike son-in-law, who works in commercial IT fields and seems to have fitted even voice-operated lamps in their home.Sister said at one point they heard a strange sound in the room, and could not fathom out what it was, nor its source.Grand-daughter could, aged all of three, and playing with a puzzle on the living-room floor. Without batting an eyelid she glanced up, commanded "Google! Off!" and resumed her puzzle as the sound obediently ceased.  less
    • May 2
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Can you think of any off hand reasons why a person should not go crocodile riding?:
    Oh, you needn't worry about falling in the water. The crocodile will soon pick you up, using its mouth....
    • February 21
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to When is last time you rode in a taxi?:
    Similarly to Element's!My accident was a nasty fall at home, ooh, back last March now. I was still in pain in my thigh next day so rang the NHS triage number. Upshot was an ambulance ride to hospital ten miles away for an X-ray, which confirmed I'd broken...  moreSimilarly to Element's!My accident was a nasty fall at home, ooh, back last March now. I was still in pain in my thigh next day so rang the NHS triage number. Upshot was an ambulance ride to hospital ten miles away for an X-ray, which confirmed I'd broken no bones so must have torn a muscle or tendon.Hardly able to walk far, no easy way to return home, so the hospital paid a taxi for me. (If a walking patient, I could have gone home very easily, by two buses, from the hospital entrance to a stop a hundred yards from home.) It took me about two or three months to mend myself.   less
    • February 21
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Instead of confusing your mechanic trying to describe what you think is wrong with your vehicle, would you just tell him take it out for....:
    Last time, the mechanic plugged an electronic gubbins into a socket I'd not known is there, somewhere below the dashboard, and found the fault that way. It was a fault in the throttle control unit - oh for the days of a Bowden cable; or on three vans I ow...  moreLast time, the mechanic plugged an electronic gubbins into a socket I'd not known is there, somewhere below the dashboard, and found the fault that way. It was a fault in the throttle control unit - oh for the days of a Bowden cable; or on three vans I owned years back, mechanical rods and levers from pedal to carburettor. On one van, their joints were badly worn, causing severe lost-motion, so I made and fitted simple brass bushes, and this restored the mechanism to nearly as good as new.   
    • February 21
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you have a driving habit that irritates other drivers? When I see a red light ahead, I release the gas pedal and cruise to a stop.:
    Judge that gentle approach right and with luck you don't need come to a stop, as the lights change just as you reach them!One of my local traffic-light sets is hidden just over the brow of a hill, and unless I have to stop behind someone on the way up any...  moreJudge that gentle approach right and with luck you don't need come to a stop, as the lights change just as you reach them!One of my local traffic-light sets is hidden just over the brow of a hill, and unless I have to stop behind someone on the way up anyway, I use the gradient to help slow my car.  
    • February 21
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Have you ever ridden on a ferry?:
    Various, from a pedestrian ferry by rowing boat across the local harbour (about 100 yards, at most), upwards. All the "upwards" carried vehicles as well as pedestrian.Including the chain-ferry across Poole Harbour entrance (Southern England). Poole Harbou...  moreVarious, from a pedestrian ferry by rowing boat across the local harbour (about 100 yards, at most), upwards. All the "upwards" carried vehicles as well as pedestrian.Including the chain-ferry across Poole Harbour entrance (Southern England). Poole Harbour is the worlds' second largest natural harbour, although only part of it is useable by anything bigger than a shallow-draught rowing-boat, and much of its fringes are remote mud-flats and marshes. So the road alternative to the 100 yards or so of ferry-crossing can involve well over 20 miles of driving - as many car-driving or bus-using, local, regular ferry passengers found when a breakdown put it out of action for some months last year.Across the English Channel to France several times (various routes, once by hovercraft but those stopped back in the 1980s or 1990s). Over to Ireland twice.Isle of Skye to the Scottish mainland - the Kyle of Lochalsh bridge takes most of the traffic but the ferry offers a considerable short-cut if you are driving back Southward...    less
    • February 21
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to When was the last time you upgraded your personal, hand-held, electronic communication device?:
    I'm going to have to change my portable 'phone at some time in the next year, here in the UK, but when is another matter.The 'phone companies and government have agreed to switch off the 3G system before 2033, but not exactly when, so it will probably som...  moreI'm going to have to change my portable 'phone at some time in the next year, here in the UK, but when is another matter.The 'phone companies and government have agreed to switch off the 3G system before 2033, but not exactly when, so it will probably something of a patchy transition.I only hope I am not going to forced to buy an expensive "smart"-'phone and costly contract!It's not only telephones though. It will affect instruments like the Kindle, and more seriously in the UK, so-called "smart" utility meters, for gas and electricity. These measure consumption and use integral radio-telephones to transmit the readings to the utility company's customer-accounts department. The justification was one you might expect from politicians who probably don't know an ampere from a volt: it will help you economise on your electricity and gas use by showing your consumption of them. You could determine that anyway from the conventional meter. At the moment you can have these set to read every month or more (I think mine i...    less
    • February 21
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Is 'art' in the eye of the beholder? :
    Oh,it's all very much a matter of taste, but I once recall the art-critic Brian Sewell - he of the plummy accent so refeened it was almost self-parody -  dismiss some painting or other as, "Yes, it's a nice picture, but of course, it's not art!"The m...  moreOh,it's all very much a matter of taste, but I once recall the art-critic Brian Sewell - he of the plummy accent so refeened it was almost self-parody -  dismiss some painting or other as, "Yes, it's a nice picture, but of course, it's not art!"The most rarefied of the high-price art world seem to be quite upset when someone outside their circles says "My four-year-old could do better" and suchlike, but they miss the point that we ordinary mortals might or might not like the subject, but can see and appreciate evident technical skill as well as obvious imagination.  less
    • February 10
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What was the last new technology miracle put in your face that you refused to embrace?:
    One of those "smart"-speaker gadgets. Smart in appearance perhaps but not in the colloquial sense. It's only a box of electronics.Not really "in my face" though.This was in the first lock-down, in 2020. The girls next door but one must have been suffering...  moreOne of those "smart"-speaker gadgets. Smart in appearance perhaps but not in the colloquial sense. It's only a box of electronics.Not really "in my face" though.This was in the first lock-down, in 2020. The girls next door but one must have been suffering from lock-down cabin-fever, for I could hear them in their back garden, nagging poor Alexa to "play xxxxxx!" Where xxxxxxx was invariably another track by what must have been the dreariest pop singer / group going! It wouldn't have been so bad if they'd have let Alexa play the whole song, but they didn't seem to.It gave me two earnest desires.1) I did refrain from doing so: shouting across the intervening garden, "Alexa! Play Gotterdammerung! All of it!"2) Vow never to buy any such gadget, even to listen to The Ring Cycle.  Or come to that, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.  less
    • February 10
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to What do you do, if anything, with lotion at the bottom of the bottle?:
    If it's liquid soap I add a little water to eke out some of it, then either refill the pump-action bottle from a non-pump bottle, or pour the residue from the original to new dispenser. I waste as little as possible!
    • February 7
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Have you ever used masking tape for its original purpose...to mask walls and molding corners when painting?:
    I've used it for holding the paper on a drawing-board, but can't think of any unusual uses I've put it to.
    • February 7
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Do you still have a landline telephone?:
    Yes.A modern one with number buttons, but as I use a PC for a lot more than just chatting or looking at bus time-tables it makes sense for me to have a broadband Internet + telephone service.I have a portable telephone too but it's a basic, voice primary,...  moreYes.A modern one with number buttons, but as I use a PC for a lot more than just chatting or looking at bus time-tables it makes sense for me to have a broadband Internet + telephone service.I have a portable telephone too but it's a basic, voice primary, text secondary instrument on PAYG, and not connected to the Internet.Apparently BT (my provider) is planning to install optical-fibre cables right to everyone's home in the next few years. That might please the gadget-conscious demanding every last Gb/s data speed for their Alexas or whatever. They don't consider though the question I'd like to ask: will that mean having to replace my landline 'phone with one powered from the house mains and left permanently switched on so I don't miss calls? In practice I probably would switch it off at night or when I am out. However, apart from the low but continual electricity consumption it enforces, that would also remove the measure of protection from power-cuts given by the present system, in which the line is powered f...    less
    • February 7
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Accents. For a movie made outside of the UK yet containing ONE performer from England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales, would you want that:
    Oh, a good one, naturally!A few weeks ago BBC Radio Four ran a 5-episode drama about an English tennis star suffering from an inoperable brain tumour, electing to be preserved cryogenically in a laboratory in Seattle. The drama led via her collapsing on c...  moreOh, a good one, naturally!A few weeks ago BBC Radio Four ran a 5-episode drama about an English tennis star suffering from an inoperable brain tumour, electing to be preserved cryogenically in a laboratory in Seattle. The drama led via her collapsing on court in an international match played in the USA, to her being what, quite...? in Episode One. Then it jumped ahead to shortly after her having been revived from that "what, quite" condition, in what soon revealed itself as a somewhat dysfunctional, dystopian, not very "united" United States not very many years from now.I think the BBC had bought it from America.For the story spanned too short a time for the character in fully-revived and apparently-cured form to have picked up an American accent. Yet the lead actress did sound English in the first episode or two, but it gradually became clear she was an American unable to sustain an assumed Southern English accent for long!  less
    • February 7
  • Durdle
    Durdle replied to Since the 9 milimeter bullet is so popular in USA why not just convert to total metric system altogether?:
    I expect as time goes on you'll be keeping the SAE tools only for the vintage vehicle restoring!Years ago I worked for an electronics company that did a lot of sub-contract work for the UK's MoD, principally Royal Navy equipment. As a result of NATO many ...  moreI expect as time goes on you'll be keeping the SAE tools only for the vintage vehicle restoring!Years ago I worked for an electronics company that did a lot of sub-contract work for the UK's MoD, principally Royal Navy equipment. As a result of NATO many of these items had a right mixture of fasteners: UNC/UNF, BA and sometimes ISO-Metric! At the same time, probably due to UK companies being bought up right, left and centre by the USA, British-built cars started to use UNC & UNF fasteners. At least the SAE and the equivalent British Standards systems are consistent within themselves. (BA is an oddity in being a metric system based on an old Swiss thread series, and sized by geometrical progression; but specified in inch dimensions in the reference books.) One significant difference apart of course from the thread details is that the SAE and ISO-M spanners are all stamped with the hexagon size, whilst the BSW/BSF and BA ones bear the size of the fastener itself.The standard ISO-metric fastenings dimensions don't ...    less
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    Durdle replied to Has GPS ever given you completely wrong directions when you were trying to locate an address?:
    Not that far out no, but certainly some peculiar detours.Once, not far from my destination in an industrial-estate in an area of the country I had never previously visited, the virtual (virtuous?) lady in the box told me to turn right. So I turned right, ...  moreNot that far out no, but certainly some peculiar detours.Once, not far from my destination in an industrial-estate in an area of the country I had never previously visited, the virtual (virtuous?) lady in the box told me to turn right. So I turned right, slightly surprised but not too worried to now be in a housing-estate."Take the next turn left"... I obeyed."Turn left". (Errr, eh?) Meekly, I did as I was told."Turn right"..... That's right, "she" had led me in a large rectangle and now wanted me to turn back onto the busy main road I had been on, 100 yards from where I'd been told to leave it, and barely fifty yards from a blind bend........My GPS, or "Sat-nav" as it is called here (from 'Satellite Navigation') - 'Sat-nag', a friend calls it - sometimes finds it hard to keep up. A few years ago I tried to use it to reach the race-course at the Northern English city of Doncaster. Now, you'd expect a race-course to be out on the fringes of the suburbs. Not this one. It's as good as in the city centre.The last si...    less
    • January 11
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    Durdle replied to Since the 9 milimeter bullet is so popular in USA why not just convert to total metric system altogether?:
    It is a bit of an oddity that small-arms tend to be of mm bores, but artillery in inch-sizes; but it probably reflects where they are made.Anyway, the USA is probably a lot more metrificated than you might think!Scientists and many professional engineers ...  moreIt is a bit of an oddity that small-arms tend to be of mm bores, but artillery in inch-sizes; but it probably reflects where they are made.Anyway, the USA is probably a lot more metrificated than you might think!Scientists and many professional engineers in the USA already do use the metric system, especially if working on collaborative projects. In fact science and most engineering now uses the SI development of the Metric System.Almost any manufactured item you import into the USA will have been made to metric dimensions even if specified in inch units to special order. Buy anything mechanical, such as vehicle, made elsewhere in the world and you will need metric, not UNC/UNF, fractional-inch, spanners to service it. I read something recently that surprised me - that the Jan 1st 1919 edition of the Model Engineer magazine reported the US Government had received over 58,000 petitions regarding adopting the Metric System - and only 426 were against it! (The UK started going metric officially, in the 1970s.)  less
    • January 11
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    Durdle replied to Are there countries in the world that do not have a document that is their equivalent to the US Constitution?:
    The United Kingdom does not have a single Constitution paper, leading to a  common misconception even among Members of Parliament that "we do not have a written constitution".We do -  but it is spread over very many documents written over some h...  moreThe United Kingdom does not have a single Constitution paper, leading to a  common misconception even among Members of Parliament that "we do not have a written constitution".We do -  but it is spread over very many documents written over some hundreds of years, starting with Magna Carta!  
    • January 11
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    Durdle replied to How would you be able to tell weather it is sunny or raining outside if you happened to be stuck down in somebody's basement?:
    Listen for the pattering of rain on window! My home is double-glazed so I don't usually hear that directly, but do hear larger drops hitting the uPVC frames.Sun shine though? Feel the black-out screen to find if it's warm?
    • December 21, 2021
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    Durdle replied to If someone developed a wind-up car would you be interested?:
    Spring wound by a turbine revolved by water from a garden hose..... Not for me - my water-supply is on a meter!
    • December 21, 2021
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    Durdle replied to Do you think we will ever have wind powered vehicles?:
    I recall a long time ago, that "land-yachts" were fashionable. They looked like 3 or 4-wheeled dinghy-launching trolleys fitted with a seat and a dinghy's mast and rigging, and were generally sailed along expansive, flat sand beaches or on flat meadows of...  moreI recall a long time ago, that "land-yachts" were fashionable. They looked like 3 or 4-wheeled dinghy-launching trolleys fitted with a seat and a dinghy's mast and rigging, and were generally sailed along expansive, flat sand beaches or on flat meadows of short grass.They are still around - 5 seconds of Google revealed illustrated ads for them, and for land-yachting "experiences".'Him in that tatty old pick-up would make more progress by harnessing the dog to tow it!  
    • December 21, 2021
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    Durdle replied to In this age of throwaway technology, what is a product you prefer to have repaired rather than just buying the newest version?:
    Almost anything should be repairable until it wears out fairly and completely!
    • December 21, 2021
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    Durdle replied to Do you take advantage of those 'buy 2 get another one free' kind of sales?:
    No, unless it's something I know I will need again.Two for a small reduction yes - usually foods.
    • December 21, 2021
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    Durdle replied to Do you live near a hill that is good for sledding and tobogganing? Have you tried going downhill standing on the toboggan?:
    I live on a hillside but it's too gentle for downhill tobogganing.Besides, sufficient snow falling and lying for long enough is rather rare here!
    • December 21, 2021
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    Durdle replied to If people built their houses in circle/round shape instead of square/rectangular, do you think that shape stand up better in strong winds? :
    Thatched roofs have wide eaves (the overhang) but very rarely if ever have the rainwater goods I think you mean. They don't seem to have problems with water in the foundations though, probably because the rain is shed evenly along the length of the slope....  moreThatched roofs have wide eaves (the overhang) but very rarely if ever have the rainwater goods I think you mean. They don't seem to have problems with water in the foundations though, probably because the rain is shed evenly along the length of the slope.  Those in the photo are also on a gentle slope which will help lead some of the water away.  
    • December 21, 2021
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  • About Me: Single, ov­er-60, SW ­England re­sident, wi­th fairly ­wide range­ of intere­sts & ­musical ta­stes - but­ I'd be no­ good in a­ pub quiz ­'cos I kno­w very lit­tle about ­TV, gadget­s called i­-something­, competit­ive sports­, many ent­ertainment­s & &q­uot;so-cal­led celebr­ities!

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  • We Can't Say We Didn't Know....

    Model Engineer magazine, originally published with & Electrician...  moreModel Engineer magazine, originally published with & Electrician in the title, is as its name implies, for a readership with a lay but reasonably broad grasp of engineering principles and related science.The latest edition (Vol.225 No.4643, 17 July 2020) publishes two extracts from its early-20C predecessor; the first on international affairs, the second on the "Enviroment" as it was not called then.'1) Fulsomely praising the technical inventiveness and ingenuity of what he called the "Chinese race" the editor commented,    ".... The prospect of China becoming the workshop of the world is, perhaps, too remote to contemplate, but that China may be someday a formidable competitor in things mechanical is worth a passing thought." The date? 1904. (ref. ME&E Vol.XI No. 179; 29 Sept. 1904.)Particularly prescient for the magazine's modern readers, since most of the small lathes and other machine-tools now sold to model-engineers are made in either Taiwan or the People's Republic...    less
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  • A Science Self-Test - Just For Interest

    Just For Interest. Try it from your existing knowledge. No cheat...  moreJust For Interest. Try it from your existing knowledge. No cheating by looking it up! Please: No publishing answers until I have given them in due course, to be fair to anyone else trying seriously to test or extend their own knowledge. 25 Basic Science Questions with an environmental slant, now you have saved the planet and whales, achieved zero-carbon by last Michaelmas, and are walking everywhere with a paper shopping-bag-for-life autographed by Aunty Greta.
     No trick questions but some are worded slightly indirectly; most are simple , some obscure; but all are of upper school- or interested lay- level. I am of course aware there are Answermug users with a far deeper, possibly professional, knowledge of these subjects than mine! I would also agree that whatever is or is not happening in the world, we cannot be complacent. World-wide we are heading for very serious difficulties whatever those turn out to be; and as some of these questions suggest, neither the problems nor "ob...    less
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  • How Well Do You Know Your Ghosts, Mysteries and Myths, Old And New?

    'Tis the time of year for ghost-stories, real and fictional myst...  more'Tis the time of year for ghost-stories, real and fictional mysteries, myths and the like - ancient and right up-to-date. Test your own knowledge with these ten questions, just for fun ! (Hint: not all are "paranormal".1)     In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the first manifestation experienced by Ebenezer Scrooge was;
          a)     Eerie echoes from the cellar, from him slamming his front door,
          b)     The face of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley,
          c)     The face of his deceased father.
     
    2)     In 1917, two young English girls took photographs of fairies widely acclaimed as genuine by photography experts and others including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Did they?
     
    3)     What is so unique about the sea area often called the ‘Bermuda Triangle’, to lead to its reputation?...    less
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  • Is This how To Exploit Fear and Ignorance?

    The following are all genuine quotes from a mail-order household...  moreThe following are all genuine quotes from a mail-order household gadgets catalogue, dated, "Christmas 2019". The prices are reduced by 20% in that edition, with the full price also given in the booklet, as legally required. See how many flaws you can spot in them, and identify them: none are above school-level physics. One statement is correct but simply a definition, the rest are all dubious to say the least. If you counting, some are repeated from item to item, but I counted around 10 specious statements. 1) and 2) are from the section's introduction.So spend almost £162 and you, your family and your precious electronic equipment will all be safe... won't they? '1)    “… noticed your mobile phone gets hot during long calls? The heat is actually thermal radiation… several types of radiation that it emits. ….  All … personal electronic devices … emit harmful radiation” '2)  The lab-tested shielding membrane built into ...    less
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  • Reason & Solution for Strange Strike-through Problem.

    Unwanted striking-though of part of message, appearing automatic...  moreUnwanted striking-though of part of message, appearing automatically when I press Send: reason and how to remove it, please? (Tried "Help" but that's all artificial FAQs, so no help!)  
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  • Where's The Sense In The Destruction? (iPhones &c)

    A review on the radio this morning, of the day's papers, touched...  moreA review on the radio this morning, of the day's papers, touched on the tale of a woman who smashed her children's iPhones, with the result that their family became much happier, more cohesive and communicative.It also produced two other, conflicting third-party results; one promoting wanton waste, both sharing a theme of utter childishness and stupidity. One of these results was a (sadly predictable?) barrage of insults and abuse on social media. The other was confessions of similar actions, with some owners admitting to throwing their instruments under vehicle wheels (did they clear up the mess?) or into canals (more litter - a few prosecutions would not come amiss).By all means get rid of the device you felt apparently necessary to own in the first place, but wouldn't it far more constructive to sell it, or at least give it away, than wantonly destroy a costly, perfectly serviceable, instrument someone else could use, and perhaps use rather more sensibly?For the record, I have a basic port...    less
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  • Irresopnsible Or What - How To Put Mineral Oil In Sewers?

    Generally I ignore the side-bar ads though I know they pay ...  moreGenerally I ignore the side-bar ads though I know they pay for the site. However I couldn't let this go without comment.It was a list of assorted suggested uses for the well-known water-repellent, WD-40, shown by its Material Safety Data Sheet to be a mineral-oil based mixture.As wells as the ingenious and the blindingly obvious ideas, the advertising feature suggested using it as an adjunct to toilet cleaners, and for cleaning shower-heads. In other words, squirt mineral-oils down the drain, despite consistent, highly publicised warnings not to do so at all from chemical manufacturers, regulatory bodies and water companies!Come on AnswerMug, get that nonsense off the site and advise WD-40's manufacturers that some ignorant advertising company is promulgating a highly irresponsible (and in some countries possibly illegal) misuse of their chemicals.   less
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  • Why Are Inbstruments Designed To Make Life Easy, Becoming Ever Harder To Use?

    Such as portable telephones? Bounced into buying a brand new por...  moreSuch as portable telephones? Bounced into buying a brand new portable telephone - I need only to make voice calls and text messages, and then briefly and infrequently; I am not one of those teenage girls who spend all day acquiring RSI by tap-tap-tappety-tap on little blocks of plastic. Nor do I believe in walking round supermarkets and into pedestrians by concentrating on shouting at a block of plastic glued to the ear. - I ended up with a nightmarish contraption, an LG something-or-other: the model label is inside, found only by taking the back off and removing the battery.Its text feature is better than the old multi-letter press-buttons, but that's about it....It took me a while to find instructions (see above on identifying it, as I'd lost the packaging), but these revealed the telephone aspect is only peripheral. LG  lists it as an application rather than main function.It's also bulky, so less portable than the previous generation, at about twice the area; and surpri...    less
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  • Anyone Seriously Believe This Rhubarb? (The message, not numbers.)

    I quote from an item on the BT Internet's news service:"Accordin...  moreI quote from an item on the BT Internet's news service:"According to NetMarketShare, Windows 7 remains the most popular operating system on PC, with 44.81% of the market share in February 2018. WIndows 10 is slowly increasing but still comes in second with 28.19%. "I do not question the statistics, but does anyone else see the flaw? You will if you are not so taken in by advertising blurb that you fail to realise what is carefully concealed.  
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  • A Board Game Problem - How Many Possible Playing Routes?

    A typical board track-game has a single, rigid route of numbered...  moreA typical board track-game has a single, rigid route of numbered squares, controlled by die throws, with certain actions given in some squares - e.g. "Snakes & Ladders". One track from start to end even if you must return somewhere, miss a turn or advance N squares, etc. as ordained when landing on those given pointsNow set the game on THREE separate, identically-sized, rectangular boards of 3:2 proportions; EACH marked off into 6 squares by a longitudinal centre-line and two cross-lines at thirds length. Label the boards (for this question on the game's geometry) A, B and C. Label each meeting-point of line and edge, 1 - 6, consistently on all 3 boards so every "port" is unique, A1 to C6.Do that with the individual board in landscape mode; 1 on the left-hand end, number clockwise so the RH end is 4, round to 6 at bottom left.  All 3 boards the same apart from identity-letter. The track is drawn on these lines such that when one board is set against the othe...    less
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  • Has Microsoft Dropped A Clanger With WIN-10?

    I've known MS operating systems since Microsoft-DOS  (Disc ...  moreI've known MS operating systems since Microsoft-DOS  (Disc Operating System) days: I've used DOS, 3.1, 5, NT, XP (I think MS' best), now 7, and have had an unfortunate brush with 10.Also used briefly, a SUN computer giving a half-way house between command-line and windows (not "Windows TM") screens;  and my first PC was an Amstrad with CP/M O.S. BTW the windows "graphical user interface" as it was pretentiously called, was IBM's invention, not µSoft's Has MS lost its way with WIN-10 though?   -- The home-page of my ISP, BTInternet, always has links to sets of instructions to deal with all sorts of obviously common WIN-10 problems that should be minimal or non-existent if the system was designed, written and tested properly before publication.   --  A correspondent on another forum tells me his computer often freezes with the floods of WIN-10 automatic "up-dates" over which the user has no control - to be fair he also said the Internet speed is ver...    less
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  • The Internet - Developed To Allow Companies To Refuse Enquiries?

    Unless of course you want to buy something!However... Unless&nbs...  moreUnless of course you want to buy something!However... Unless the company is Hewlett-Packard and you want to buy their printer cartridges because the blighters have programmed their printers to reject refills and third-party ones. I've tried their sales web-site - it does not work.Definitely though if the printer has suddenly decided to crop randomly, images put into documents; and you'd like the manufacturers' help in putting it right.  (This is what inspired me here - I found the HP Printer sites b++++y useless and very patronising, so marked its customer-satisfaction questions one-star only and told 'em so in the 'Comments' box.)Definitely if you wish to solve a service problem with an ISP (BT in my case).Or need help with specialist software that does work, but you can't understand how to use particular features because the officially-written pdf manual doesn't tell you, and the supposed training CD contains curious errors that result in you deleting the exercise it's had yo...    less
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  • Why Does Mickeysoft Insist on Making Life Difficult?

    As a club committee-member preparing for the AGM I took every ca...  moreAs a club committee-member preparing for the AGM I took every care to save my Report as a Word document (.doc) so the Secretary and others can collate it with other Officers' Reports. So what did M-Soft do? Only converted it automatically to a b++++y docx image! I can't even edit it, if I wanted to, on my own PC because it's now read-only and in only WordPad. It took me ages to find it because Windows had saved it as a so-called "down-load" even though on the originating PC, and not in my chosen directory and folder. If I want to convert a docx file to a doc format for further editing or collating, I'd have to pay an expensive subscription to Adobe for the converter - I don't trust Adobe anyway because its Flashplayer for a start, never loads properly. Over £30 a month I think, for something I'd need only a few times a year. This was never previously necessary - saved files stayed as you chose, in the folder you chose. It's a scam!    less
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  • What's The Daftest Side-Bar Ad You've Seen When Using AnswerMug?

    Answering another question just now, I scrolled down to the ramm...  moreAnswering another question just now, I scrolled down to the rammel that infests the bottom of the screen below the AnswerMug window. Among the usual collection of insignificant rhubarb necessary only to fund AM, was this gem I quote as accurately as I can. Below a portrait of a smiling, attractive woman was the caption:      "Top Ten Dating Sites In Abbotsbury"Abbotsbury is a village in West Dorset (England), famous for its Swannery; but whether it is the dating capital of Britain, I cannot say.Who the Hell designs these advertisements?  less
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  • Who Owns Breitbart and What Are Its Aims?

    I'd not heard Breitbart (sounds German) until a guest on today's...  moreI'd not heard Breitbart (sounds German) until a guest on today's BBC Radio 3's Private Passions briefly mentioned being viciously attacked by this "outfit" he called it, after he had given a lecture by invitation on the International Law aspects of climate-change, to the UK's Supreme Court.Our Supreme Court is the UK's top appeals court. It is not the same as the US one although misleadingly copying the name, and until recently was The Law Lords, judges also sitting in an advisory capacity in the House of Lords, but separated fairly recently for clearer separation between Parliament and Judiciary. Cases that reach that high, beyond Appeal Court level, may well test the Statute Law as well as the facts of the individual case. Further of course, these lawyers may have to advise Parliament on international law: the UK is a signatory to and active in, an enormous number and range of treaties, organisations and agreements. The guest was the British barrister Philippe Sands, a leading expert o...    less
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  • Why Are Software Publishers So Shy?

    I need to establish if one particular UK agent for a particular ...  moreI need to establish if one particular UK agent for a particular software company, is still trading.I tried to e-post to him a simple sales question, but it bounced, and I can't determine if that means the address no longer exists.I need only to ask the software firm itself two basic questions: "Is ...... still one of your UK agents; if so is the e-post address I'd used, current?"You'd think they be pleased to help what might mean another sale, but no... Customers do not matter to the IT trade beyond the purchases. After that you're on your own and if you have problems with the quality of the goods or services, or you need technical advice ... tough.I have tried the publisher's own web-site but it carries no contact details whatsoever. Lots of product ads; but no phone number, no e-mail address, no postal address. Instead, as with so many other IT and telecomms firms, it fobs you off with a list of set technical questions and a supposed "users' forum" (these admit...    less
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  • What are Microsoft and Adobe Up To?

    I've had problems with e-posted 'Word' and 'Excel' files being c...  moreI've had problems with e-posted 'Word' and 'Excel' files being converted to a strange default file-type signified by an 'x' after the normal suffix. These are locked, un-useable images.I need occasionally to collate reports etc to help me at a club's committee meetings. These arrive as e-post attachments from different people so in a mixture of styles, software editions and files, but I want to put them in one neat style in one document I can print and archive properly. Today I tried to save two, both .pdf files so images unreliable to print, and difficult or impossible to edit, place in or render compatible with, proper documents.However, whatever handles pdf files offers saving them in several other forms including ".doc", even offering British rather than US English, though that would not have mattered there. Only, the "Convert" button merely opens a sales page expecting me to pay £££/month to subscribe to an outfit called Adobe for what should be a basic MS-"Wi...    less
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  • Heading Cartoon: Am I Missing The Joke??

    Come on someone, put me out of my misery! Well, all right, ...  moreCome on someone, put me out of my misery! Well, all right, it's not that dramatic and certainly not serious. I'm just intrigued, in a totally light-hearted way.So:What on Earth is that Sandra & Woo cartoon at the head of the page about?We see a young woman who, to use the correct, modern Claire in the Community lingo, seems to suffer from Acute Species Dysphoria; and her boyfriend, a nut-cake addict who believes he can cast magic spells with ordinary cutlery. I hope the so-called "religious right" don't get him - you know, the supposedly-grown-ups who had severe attacks of the vapours over the children's Harry Potter stories. Go on - I don't get the joke! Does it refer to an American children's game or something?:-)))PS: Claire in the Community: a BBC Radio Four situation-comedy that started as, and still is, a newspaper cartoon strip, about a team of urban social-workers and their own personal problems, sorry, "issues". Claire is the team-leader who prissily spouts all the rig...    less
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  • Scams Masquerading as Genuine Advertisements?

    Like many sites this is partly supported by companies placing ad...  moreLike many sites this is partly supported by companies placing advertisements in the margins of the Home and other pages. Some are eerily local to you as user: one waffles about " Opticians... " apparently threatened by some technical development in their trade. I saw one regularly on EP, telling me things like "Sarah lives four miles from you" - it was a lie of course, but it opened a dating-site that showed it knew roughly I live, within perhaps 50 miles anyway. The advertising-agencies use your approximate location bought or gleaned from the web-site. One though, advertised a "Simple trick to see if you've ever had PPI" (Payment Protection Insurance, usually for mortgages.) I know I do not, and when I did I was not a victim of a miss-selling racket the banks ran for a while, but I selected it out of curiosity. My security software 'Bulldog' promptly leapt up, snarled at it as dangerous, and blocked it.Possibly, Bulldog is very wary of anything mentioning money on non-https web-sites ev...    less
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  • Locations?

    What's happened to the location in the profiles? The profile for...  moreWhat's happened to the location in the profiles? The profile form asks for it but it no longer appears on the public information part. Or have I missed something?  
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  • Lost Features

    E-posted notifications. These used to have direct links to AM - ...  moreE-posted notifications. These used to have direct links to AM - you still had to sign in but at least the links worked. They no longer work. The most recent was from Just Asking, and reads "Click here to reply / profile / 145." It is not a link, and I have not been able to find the message on Am itself.The message does not tell me how to find "/profile/145". It does not tell me whose profile.  Why have those links been cut and why do notifications still carry an instruction to use them?Member IndexThe list is and always was purely random by default, but offered Aphabetical and Recent sorting options. You could find individuals on the Membership list by choosing "Alphabetical", estimating which page number carrying the name, then homing in from there by the page-number arrows. Why have these index options been removed? 
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    Why does correcting have to be by violence? And if that's a quote, no, I don't accept the say-so of unknown Late Bronze Age tribal elders! :-)
    September 1, 2016

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    Greetings Tate99 from a fellow Briton (S> Dorset) and nudist! Best Wishes, Durdle.
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    Welcome to AM - and to a goodly number of us interested in spanking whether we advocate or oppose it in reality or think it best kept as a game for consenting adults! Best Wishes, Durdle (also in UK) 
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    Thank you for the compliment, Timothys Knickers. I should say I am not a full cross-dresser but like occasionally to wear a nightdress or miniskirt, at home only. Much of the time, if warm enough, I like to be nude or nearly so.  Best Wishes, Durdle.
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  • Capes
    Capes
    Hello Capes. Welcome to Answer Mug! Durdle here: 64 nearly, also a Briton (in Dorset), here similarly. My profile groups list gives you some idea of me but I am happy to chat on many other topics too if they interest me and I feel I know enough about the topic. I will add that despite the implications I don't like the idea of spanking children, especially with any weapon, but feel the traditional spanking has a place for adults, as long as it's consensual! Best Wishes, Durdle. 
    July 30, 2016

  • VPLUK
    VPLUK
    I don't even try to look convincing - I don't cross-dress often and than only partly, in the home. liking the feel of the garments. Sometimes sleep in a nightie.
    July 29, 2016

  • Marc
    Marc
    Not so much a comment as a question, Marc. I am uneasy to say the least about spanking children but what of adults feeling they need similar punishments in a therapeutic way?
    July 29, 2016

  • harbourboy
    harbourboy
    Hi Harbourboy. Welcome... come on then, elucidate on your specialist subjects! Best Wishes, Durdle.
    July 30, 2016

  • Steve Tomms
    Steve Tomms
    Hello Steve. UK too - Dorset in fact. And like to be nude or, occasionally, in panties. As for human behaviour - yes, I agree it is fascinating... and bewildering at times, frustrating at others, but never the same twice! Best Wishes, Durdle.
    September 16, 2016

  • Uncle UK
    Uncle UK
    Welcome to AM, Dominic, as one of the rather few fellow-Britons on here (I live in South of England). I am not sure about the spanking of children, though I've nothing against adults being spanked if they wish, erotically or as therapeutic punishment. Regards, Durdle.
    September 6, 2016

  • NudiSuzie
    NudiSuzie
    Hello NudieSuzie. Thankyou - would love to be your friend! Best Wishes, Durdle.
    August 31, 2016

  • Tawser22
    Tawser22
    What's your take on adult, consensual, spanking?
    September 9, 2016

  • RB1954
    RB1954
    May I ask, what is your take on adult, consensual spanking, e.g. in a "DD" relationship or as a sort of punitive therapy?
    September 9, 2016

  • harry
    harry
    Hello Harry. Greetings from Dorset! Lubrication by Beer - definitely. Naturism - Oh yes. Spanking - well, I don't support genuine CP but have been fascinated by it since boyhood, and later by the adult-fun variety. Chatting - I can be chatty! Best Wishes, Durdle  
    July 28, 2016

  • french_delph
    french_delph
    Hello French_Delph. I don't favour spanking children but if it must be done I think it must be by hand only, and only enough to make the point. Am interested in spanking generally and think it has a place for adults who feel they need a little discipline and punishment. Best Wishes, Durdle.
    July 30, 2016

  • fatherfigure
    fatherfigure
    I'm probably of similar age to you then, my fascination with spanking goes back to boyhood but no I don't think the world would be better for beating children! And yet... Adult, consensual spanking - fine, and it's odd that now I feel I ought receive the occasional, belated spanking, firm hand not weapon, I did not receive and would not have wanted in boyhood, for immature failings I believe originated at that time! Best Wishes, Durdle
    July 29, 2016

  • Legion
    Legion
    Hi Legion! I reckon your Miss Hamilton might have done me some good! :-) (Doubtless others too!) Cheers, Durdle 
    July 30, 2016

  • Michael
    Michael
    18 and 20. Adults, with the full choice of protection from assault by law.
    September 1, 2016

  • Stonehenge43
    Stonehenge43
    Hello Stonehenge. Welcome! I'm 64 and an ex-EP user but left it when parts of it started to become really sleazy or stupid. My profile gives a fir idea but I'm happy to chat about a wide range of subjects in which I am interested or can give reasonably knowledgeable facts or opinions. You mention Adultmug. I know what you mean. I ignore the worst, some of which I find unpleasant, but do dip into some of the other threads on it. I'm slightly bi and interested in nudity and adult-consensual spanking, so am not quite a shrinking violet. I did make one or two penfriendships (e-mail) from EP but they've fizzled out, thanks to losses in house moves, changes of computer and perhaps laziness by me! How about you? Your interests, music etc? Best Wishes, Durdle. (after Durdle Door).
    July 30, 2016

  • Eva amirhom
    Eva amirhom
    A sad story, Eva. Yes, you were wrong to do what you did but you have realised that, not everyone in the world will hate you, and I hope you will find forgiveness and happiness. Durdle.
    July 29, 2016

  • Stonehenge43
    Stonehenge43
    I would be very happy to chat about whatever we find of mutual interest, but I can't send a private message unless I add you as a friend first. may I do so, please? regards, Durdle 
    September 9, 2016

  • sjf47
    sjf47
    welcome to AM and its Naturist section! AM Male, 63 and live in Dorset. Cheers, Durdle
    July 28, 2016

  • Pofan1201
    Pofan1201
    That's not "spanking" , that's whipping, and cruel! What effect did it have on you in adult life?
    August 14, 2016

  • Pofan1201
    Pofan1201
    Hi Pofan. Interesting: many people who admit they were beaten severely as children become adults either wanting to give or receive similar in games between consenting adults, or are turned off spanking and CP entirely. You evidently became sexually submissive, but were you aroused by either the whipping or the submission at the time or in remembering it later? Sorry, I'm not quite clear by what you mean as a "switcher" - switching between what? I appreciate bare bottoms including my own as well, but unfortunately mine has aged with me and is now a bit soft and sagging.   Regards, Durdle
    August 15, 2016

  • Pofan1201
    Pofan1201
    Thank you very much Pofan. Would love to be friends with you! Best Wishes, Durdle.
    August 15, 2016

  • Elshara Silverheart
    Elshara Silverheart
    Thank you for the compliment Elashara. I'm not sure what it means, but please do tell me what in particular influenced you. Best Wishes, Durdle.
    June 9, 2016

  • sp4sp4
    sp4sp4
    Hello Sp4sp4. I too was on EP, though I left it well before it folded. "Drawn too deeply." I know the feeling. I think I was tempted too far into some EP fora, so am becoming fairly selective on what I view on here and chosen "stop following" on some already.  Is this why you've not listed any groups? You have a point, using private e-mails. Best Wishes, Durdle.
    September 16, 2016

  • Stuart
    Stuart
    Hi Stuart. Thank you very much for your greetings, and have mine to you! I oppose real CP but have been interested in spanking since boyhood, and have enjoyed quite a few gentle, erotic, spanking games. Best Wishes, Durdle.
    September 16, 2016

  • Aaron
    Aaron
    I couldn't agree more about being naked, Aaron!
    September 9, 2016

  • Solopleasure
    Solopleasure
    Hi Solopleasure. Best Wishes, Durdle
    July 30, 2016

  • Sophronius Pupoid
    Sophronius Pupoid
    I hope you didn't damage the jerboa embryos....
    September 21, 2016

  • Joanne1966
    Joanne1966
    Love to be in a night-dress or nude. I like Sharon1717's comment too!
    September 9, 2016

  • Sophronius Pupoid
    Sophronius Pupoid
    Thank you very much for your comment! Sophronius. Yes, my nickname is from Durdle Door. One of my sisters held her wedding-reception at Pennsylvania Castle, well before it reverted to a private house. The new owners have hosted garden fetes there though. 'Moonfleet' was one of our set books at school, and I remember the passage about the two leading characters escaping from Ringstead (I can't remember if that name was used in the book) by using a very steep cliff path. That path, or an equivalent, exists, up White Nothe, some 400 feet high, and someone showed it me a few years ago. I was glad to have climbed it, but I found it frightening and would not care to try it again! The normal path from the car-park to that area of beach is gentler and not at all exposed. I suppose I'm nearly local! Our family moved to Weymouth in 1959, when I was 7, when Dad's work was moved.
    September 22, 2016

  • Nudistdad
    Nudistdad
    Hello and Welcome, Nudistdad. I'm single but not a father (seem to be collecting quite a tribe of first and grand nephews & nieces though!); but like you enjoy being nude around the home. There is a naturist beach not far from me, and I used to visit it fairly often, but I have leg problems now that make the long, steep path to it a bit too much. Can still be undressed at home, as I am now, though!   Best Wishes, Durdle
    August 14, 2016

  • Donny
    Donny
    I oppose using CP on children - especially the sort of gratuitous violence with assorted weapons described on the site - but what is your take on adult-only, consensual spanking, be it erotic, for some sort of punitive therapy or stress-relieving, curiosity or indeed to reprise personal or vicarious past experiences? Regards, Durdle. 
    September 9, 2016

  • caned4doz
    caned4doz
    Hello Caned4doz. Overlapping (!) interests. I'm not as educated as you. Don't smoke, but do drink (moderately) and not religious. Am interested in science and have a wide range of musical tastes though can't play an instrument. Fitness more by walking and manual work and play than by speed! I too am interested in discipline and do have regressive tendencies and sometimes feel I ought to be spanked for my immature faults.
    July 29, 2016

  • caned4doz
    caned4doz
    Hello Caned4Dozen. Thank you for the Friend request - certainly! This site is confusing - I've not managed to work out how the Friends and Messages parts work! Anyway I think this part is public. For example I can see the messages between you and Forever shorts, on this page. AM does not seem to have a private-message system, at least not obviously so. All it does it let you separate individual conversations from the forum section. I will say I oppose genuine CP - some of the accounts on this site are of frankly appalling cruelty. Yet it was seeing one or two real instances at school, and finding descriptions and images in history-books, that nurtured my interest. The regressive streak I said I have surfaced really quite recently, in my 50s I think, although I had experimented with self-spanking since "discovering" it in my teens - when no doubt I had a rather more smackable bottom than now, had the right circumstances to introduce me to spanking fun, come along!
    August 1, 2016

  • caned4doz
    caned4doz
    I advocate discipline - a system of behaviour - but not in its euphemistic malapropism for corporal punishment of children. However I believe for a consenting adult, there need be no bar beyond sensible, individual boundaries to being spanked ( or slippered or caned) appropriately in a therapeutic or punitive sense, as well obviously as purely erotically. In the last situation it might even be a foreplay activity. Similarly, some adults find release in being under regressive discipline, with or without physical punishment. (Discipline and punishment are NOT synonyms: the latter is for wilful breaking of the former.) 
    September 7, 2016

  • Cravingyourtouch
    Cravingyourtouch
    Welcome Cravingyourtouch. Mot only the women of the household who would benefit from a little suitable discipline at times! Regards, Durdle (in Dorset) 
    July 29, 2016

  • spanko28
    spanko28
    Do you like adult (consensual) spanking too?
    September 9, 2016

  • NaughtyNicola
    NaughtyNicola
    About You: sexiest lingerie a gurl can find - indeed, and very nice too!  
    September 1, 2016

  • NaughtyNicola
    NaughtyNicola
    A pleasure Nicola - and I like your profile picture too!
    September 7, 2016

  • NaughtyNicola
    NaughtyNicola
    Not a full cross-dresser myself and I've few femme clothes, but I like to sleep in a nightie now and then, or wear something at least like a loose-fitting miniskirt. Love to be nude, too! The long-legged lass in that Timothy's Knickers pic fg5 you've commented on, looks as if she's about to be spanked!
    September 7, 2016

  • Killkenny11
    Killkenny11
    That's two of us from Dorset , then, Kilkenny! Welcome to AnswerMug! Cheers, Durdle - and I won't need to explain my inspiration for that nick-name.
    July 29, 2016

  • SJS
    SJS
    Hello SJS I'm uneasy about the idea of spanking children - discipline yes, punishment or at least a reprimand if they break that discipline yes, but need it be physical punishment? If it does I would hope it be by hand only, not weapons as some parents seem to think clever, and only enough to make the point. What of adult, consensual spanking though! I can see that as therapeutic or stress-relief, and eminently suitable for someone who is of middle-age upwards but rather immature or regressive. Regards, Durdle (Dorset - as the nickname may have suggested!)  
    July 30, 2016

  • tonyparker1
    tonyparker1
    Hello Tonyparker1  Thank you for the invitation. I too was on EP but abandoned it a few years ago. I'm a little older at nearly 64, also short and slim, well, nearly slim. Slightly bi, and enjoy being nude though knee troubles limit my excursions such as to an unofficial naturist beach not far from my South Dorset home. Also interested in spanking fun. Various interests and fair range of musical tastes. Best Wishes, Durdle (my nickname is from a feature on the Dorset coast.)
    July 29, 2016

  • tonyparker1
    tonyparker1
    Hello Tonyparker. I thought I'd left a message but it doesn't appear here so perhaps I didn't. Anyway your Profile Information describes me too, almost exactly - I am 64, and with a  slight tummy. I live in S.Dorset - hence my nick-name (from famous coastal feature). Welcome to AM!   Best Wishes, Durdle
    July 30, 2016

  • softlywaking
    softlywaking
    Thank you for the compliment, Softlywaking. Regards, Durdle.
    June 14, 2016

  • missspanking
    missspanking
    Welcome to AmswerMug, Missspanking. No shortage of people here interested in spanking, whether approving or not of beating children, or are like me, approving only of adult consensual spanking. Best Wishes, Durdle
    July 29, 2016

  • 2Pink1s
    2Pink1s
    Thank you for that brief private chat this afternoon. It was unexpected and I enjoyed it though I don't really understand how to use it. Best Wishes, Durdle.
    September 20, 2016

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