Jerry_Atrick

If you are a professional who truly believes in what our ideology is based on fact or just grounded, one's expressions are usually not of discomfort

Ther's surrogacy, adoption, and this: "Interestingly", Stephen Fry has something positive to say about gay parenting:

An interesting news feed., the West (at least Europe) may slowly be waking up: https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-poland-wont-rule-out-nato-force-in-ukraine/live-68479837?mobileApp=true

His responses are one of someone who knows they are on the wrong side of history

Even when I worked it out the brain was flipping it back

I nevre watched Star Wars.. nor *uck Rogers..

Would that not create an eternal (and in the ase of this place, and infernal) loop?

"I like big butts and I cannot lie" Is the second line, "When I embark on them, they make me fly"?

I must admit to not listening to the song.. I am a grump old bar steward.

Mine is scheduled to go for 4 months, but I will extrapolate accordingly.. Mine has already done the cross-year duration.

Well, therre ya go. Learn a new thing ever day. Ne'er heard of Sir Mix A Lot (I was guessing he was a baker until I googled hom, because of the refeence to those buns). Whilst I don't fidn the rear ends particularly attractive - grabbing hard silicone just isn't the same as the real deal, if they left their tooshes au-naturale, both of them, but especially the one in the black would get my attention. Thinking about it - and one has to - as it is, it would certainly be a bumpy ride.

none spared, by the sounds of it.

Being a Philistine from Melbourne, we only got Four 'n Twenty when I was a kid. Sort of along the football, meat pies, kangaroos, and holden cars: But I preferred my pies with a little hot stuff: And washed down wit Big M (Blueberry or Blue Passion or whaetever it was called was my favourite): (sadly I couldn't find the ones with Jana Wendt and the milk running down her... ahems...) Anyway, in the 80's lunch time pies in the CBD and office districts became a bit of a gastronomers delight.. they were fantsstic (not cheap); mainly indepdent shops for the lunch time trade - Beef & Burgundy was one that stood out for me, Steak and Mushroom was a nother and the pastry was proper stuff.. I love pies - especially on a hot day. And one of my faves is (or was) four n twenty stock standard pie. Hard to get in Melbourne ready to eat; When I was last in Melb, 7-11 had these crappy mince beef pies that were cheaper than four n twenty; as did the take away shop at Moorabbin airport. Hardly any milk bars these days, and those that were around didn't have pie warmers, anyway. I didn't check the office districts/CBD as both the last times I was I was in Aus, was only a couple of days each time (one a funeral, one my mother's 80th). Only foudn the four n twenty at Coles Express (yeah, Coles may be ripping off people, but you can still get good Aussie kwality pies). Normally when I arrive at Tulla, there is a BP station on the way out where I stop to grab my Four n Twenty hit; the last couple of times, as my brother picked me up at the airport, I was whisked right past that BP without a chance to see if there was one waiting for me... Oooh.. Really.. If they are Doner Kebabs, then the mince lamb could be anything. Yeah you get a sald, I guess.. Would you like a garnish with your horse and rat combination that is also full of salt, etc.. And I recall a story on here how the curries they have had did not really resemble food, but there were tins of something that they found were in it. Here, I never have a Doner kebab.. If they are marinated lamb steaks or checken breasts heaped on teh rotisserie, yeah they are lovely... But otherwise, er... no thanks..

I don't think I have ever been to Orpington

Going in once too many would seem to be the root cause of the problem

Sorry for resurrectign an old thread and taking it away from the drift. but this presenter is one of my faves over here; he succinctly nails it every time:

An ex manager of mine and I meet up once a quarter-ish to have lunch and while the afternoon hours away ove a couple of bottles of wine. We both take the afternoon off work (though he just finished up at his last place). He lives in Wimbledon Village and, when in London, I stay in Richmond - so we are not too far from each other. This time, we ate at Scotts, which is a bit fancier than where we notmally eat, which are not quite hole-in-the-walls, but also not really fancy. We take turns seeking out restaurants and booking them; both of us saw Scotts opened in Richmond (the pedgree is Ronnie Scotts, a famous Jazz bar and eaterie in London), so we decided to heck with it; let's go. Sadly, as we went for lunch, the live jazz was not on (it isn't played in the restaurant, but upstairs). Ironically, it is next to the first office I worked at when I moved here, and back then, it was one of a chain of bars restaurants where I met my partner (well, I met her at work but got to know here there). So, very happy memories, indeed. Back to the pub where I lodge at... A couple of more for the road... The sun was even out! Can't ask for more.

I agree.. As much as I don't like it is Murdoch owned, it is by far the best real estate site I have seen in Aus, UK, and USA.

One task at a time.. Schedule them realistically (taking into account dependencies).. Never look at them all at once... pray (or become prey).

Everyone complains about his age. He is relatively fit - fitter than Trump; he has better mental acuity than Trump - he has a stutter which gives the impression he is not entirely compis mentis. But if you do listen to his content and focus less on the mode, it is usually far more coherent than Trump. Yeah, he gaffes occasioanlly, but has anyone noticed how Trump does consistently and with increasing regularity, gaffes and seems to have a permanent parity error in his brain mistaking Nikki Haley with Hillary Clinton, and Obama for Biden? One of the problems for Biden is that he does come across as slightly more frail than Trump.. But, short of a MAGA maniac assasinating Biden or someething like the development of cancer, my bet is on Biden outlasting Trump...

The new heating oil tank arrived today to replace the one that failed just after we spent a gawd awful amount of money fixing the heating, leaving us now almost 4 weeks without heating and it has been effing cold in the mornings until the wood fired stoves warm up (I am actually a pyrophobe on account of my leg going up in flames as a kid, so have to wait for the partner to light the things). Hopefully the plumber gives us a date to install the rest of the plumbing and fit bathrooms today or Monday, and it should be done within the month. Sparky lined up to change the switch boards, and install the latest RCDs or whatever they are these days. I have a sneaking suspicion, we may be going to South Yorksire at the last minute this weekend; if not definitely next weekend. The kitchen company we are using is based there and we want to see and touch the kitchens before ordering (our frends bought a kitchen off them - very reasonable, but high quality finish - much better than others in their price bracket). The study (in the vid above) is stripped. We are going to plug holes in the floor (or is that flaw) with offcuts this week. The flooring company has kindly donated some to us) and the flooring company and will be providing the carpet for the study. Having said that, SWMBO may well decide she wants hardwood flooring. Things will hopefully start moving fairly quickly soon...

True.. It's a bit like airfields here, which are disappearing at an alarming rate (Popham, which is the unofficial mecca of LAA (equivalent of RAAus) covered aircraft us under threat. As an airfield, it is worth, I dunno, a couple of million £. But, with planning permission to put a new estate on it, its value rises to about 20 fold (c. £40m). Council that previously opposed redevelopment suddenly are supportive of it.. the club there are scouring the verges of the roads for discarded brown paper bags... Developers here land bank airfields because John "two-Jags" Prescott, despite promising to rezone airfields as greenfield in a planning law revam about 20 years ago, left them in as brownfield (these are colloquial rather than their legal terms). Brownfield sites are easy to get planning permission for once due process has been performed. Look up Plymouth airfield. It was purchased by a developer under the promise of developing the airfield for aviation uses, subject to an armadeggon clause. After allowing the facilities to fall into almost disrepair, they triggered the armageddon clause and shut the airfield down. At least the council and a well funded lobby group (of which I have tipped in a bit) are fighting back. Thsi will go to a central planning tribunal, who, as long as the develope have complied with the conditions of the armageddon clause, will probably hold as brownfield, they can develop on it. That will hand them a tidy profit even after 15 years or thereabouts as a land bank.

Peroperty prices here generally fell last year, which wasn't great news to me as we are fixing this place up to sell (it is too big and too bloody expensive to keep running). However, this year, they have up-ticked a bit, so it is looking better. In terms of farming propery, when I moved down here, decent arable or grazing land was fetching about £6K/acre without a dwelling on it; slightly higher with a dwelling (getting planning permission to build on a farming property without a dwelling on it is difficult, and it usually comes with a condition, the proeprty must remain being used as an agricultural enterprise). These days, land sells for about £13k - £15k / acre, but it depends on quality. Just look at this; askign $15K for .67 of an acre without planning permission. Absolutely nuts: https://www.onthemarket.com/details/14221249/ Just noticed, if you look at the map; to the right of it is a place called Kings Hall - was the primary/junior school (went to year 😎 the kids went to.