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830 - and counting!

So where are they...?

It's OK. I'm used to holding conversations with myself!!

830 - and counting!

So where are they...?

Lack of vision...

So... Just at the very time that the Japanese were starting to build their Shinkansen network - we had Transport Minister and motorway construction king, Earnest Marples - very ably assisted by his puppet, Beeching - slashing our railway network to pieces and ripping out our finest mainline from the Midlands to the Capital.

Had we electrified the London Extension of the Great Central Railway in the 1960's, instead of running it down and finally closing our newest and by far the best main line from the Midlands into London - we would have had a ready-made HS2

Stupid, stupid, stupid!!

On 26/1/2553 at 6 นาฬิกา 36 นาที, Gold Coast College said:

I've got a question for you admin..

I already have 10 posts. Is it ok for me to post my signature now?

Would you ban me if I do so?

I was just asking, because I've already encountered a lot of forum sites that if I post my signature with less than 10 posts made,they instantly banned me in their forum site. And I can do nothing about it.

The "Photography Course" link in your signature doesn't work.

It appears to be a dead link. ("Not Found")

Please update your signature block with a live link.

I will remove the existing link from your signature block as I can't have too many dead links on the site. (It's bad for my search engine rankings...)

I was going to entitle this thread "Where are the Men of Vision", simply because the person that I had in mind was the late, great Sir Edward Watkin (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) - who, as far as I am concerned, was one of the last and, indisputably, among the greatest visionaries that this planet has ever known.

You can do a Google search, just as easily as I can. But, just to make it easy for you, you can click on this, if you want to know more:

Wikipedia - Sir Edward Watkin

Frankly, I really don't mind whether the next great visionary - if ever there is one - is, female, male, gender neutral,  LGBTQ (or whatever they call it) - as long as they revive HS2 and basically reroute it, as closely as humanly possible, along the route of the former London Extension of the Great Central Railway.

All linked in to the Channel Tunnel, of course - exactly as Sir Edward Watkin had it all schemed-out in the 1890's!!

On 22/3/2548 at 7 นาฬิกา 36 นาที, Eduardo said:

Forthcoming edited version,

Poet and playwright. The Philippines Islands.

March 12, 2005

2005... Now that's a blast from the past!

Come back, Jim! We miss you!!

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Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

Cheshire Cat! Where are you now?!

15 years later, and the link to the Chemicool site still works.

Well, I'm glad something does, anyway!!

If anyone comes across any more dodgy links on this website, please do let me know - and I will delete them as soon as I get to know about them.

It must be all over now...!?!!

Well... Having not responded to any adverts for "seniors" looking for love in Axbridge, I have now stated getting a constant stream of adverts from people who would love to help me plan for my funeral!!

Uhh?! I don't even remember posting this...!!!

I've just started reading a book called "Men Explain Things to Me" by Rebecca Solnit.

The dedication reads:

(my emphasis)

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For the grandmothers, the levelers, the dreamers, the men who get it, the young women who keep going, the older ones who opened the way, the conversations that don’t end, and a world that will let Ella Nachimovitz (born January 2014) bloom to her fullest

Well... Having a mother, a sister, two nieces and three wonderful daughters, I would say that you can count me in there!

This is a very interesting book. Deadly serious in places but laced throughout with Rebecca's ferocious humor!! (I'll try to find a better word than "ferocious" to describe her sense of humor - but that will have to do for now...)

One thought that struck me as soon as I started to get into the book is that men explain things to me too. I think it must me a "man thing"?

So don't worry, Rebecca. It's not just women that men try to explain things to.

They do it to each other.

All the flippin time!! 

I have lost count, for instance, of all the men who have been explaining to me recently about the new coronavirus. As if I'd never even heard of it?!! Okay, okay... So I have been locked-down on a ship for the best part of five months now. But we do have internet on here. And I can actually read the news.

Nice!

Now you just need to upload these to your new album in the Gallery!

And for all of my dear Filipino and Filipina artist and photographer friends...

We don't usually hold an "exhibit..."

We hold an "exhibition," OK?

An exhibit is usually just one of many individual items, which may or may not be exhibited in an exhibition of several, or indeed, many other items. 

Kasi...!!!      

To all my very dear American friends:

"Maths" is short for "mathematics,"

whereas...

"math" is short for "mathematic." (sic.)

So, could we please put the "s" in the abbreviation for "mathematics?"

It's MATHS - not "math" - OK?!! 

Thank you!!

Don't wipe your bum... Wash it!!

And avoid wasting toilet paper...

The bum-washer...

A simple bit of plumbing can reduce the necessity for panic buying every time you think there may be a shortage of bog roll!?!!

And, I would venture, it's a lot more hygienic.

I think I'm highly modern because I now use a laptop, with an external mouse - instead of a desktop computer!!

Where did we get the term "herd immunity" - as applied to human epidemiology?

I thought animals came in herds and human beings in crowds?

Well, let's not go down the same road that we have with our cellphones - where they are starting to rule our lives.

We need to make sure that what we create serves us - not the other way around...