:laugh: People round our way seem to have an awful lot of neighbours!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

That speaks volumes. I was in our local Co-op on Monday and they're still doing twofers and threefers on all sorts of things. Madness.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

That's encouraging! Will try ALDI in a bit - I'm pretty sure Thursday is when they get their deliveries.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Ralph - I knew it! I used to have a bird that pecked at my window, which was as bad as it was inexplicable, but a metal pole? You have my deepest sympathies. To think that people complain about cats eating the wildlife ... :)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Oh for some bum fodder! Supplies are running low chez moi. There's not a roll to be had round here thanks to the panic buying prannies who hoarded it all. A simple solution for the future - force anyone who buys over x number of toilet rolls to take out additional fire insurance at utterly exorbitant rates. And then shoot them just to reinforce the message.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

They have a nine o'clock in the morning, too? :wtf: Is there actually a reason for that?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Happy to answer but an inevitable (for me) consequence of not working is that I'm rarely up in time for the CCC!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Here's an app idea for anyone who's bored: Shazam for bird songs. I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise, I only know it by its Latin name of tweetius illegitemun

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Nice clue!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

It doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that it's hard to get parts for your Model T Ford these days, the thing came out in 1908 and nobody would really expect a car to last for over a century. Nobody is really blaming Ford for no longer producing replacement parts. The Model T was produced for the best part of 20 years and presumably parts were freely available for a good while after the last one rolled off the production line in 1927, so it isn't hard to imagine early adopters running their cars from 1908 through to the 1930's and beyond. A few decades on, cars just don't last that long. Not necessarily because they're less well made but because new features (whether they be for safety, comfort, performance, emissions or whatever else) come along with increasing rapidity and often become expected and/or legally required. Yesterday's bonus features become today's "must-haves". Now if someone tried to fit 40 years worth of motoring innovations into an old Ford Cortina, they'd pretty soon realise that it would be a bit of a struggle to integrate anything more advanced than a seat-belt because the framework simply wasn't built to anticipate the "mod cons" of the future. Is that Ford's fault? No. You can't really blame people for a lack of precognition. So what have Ford done about it? Well, they'll take your old car and recycle it in exchange for a discount on a contemporary model. They've been doing it for years. Does anyone complain about this? Does anybody say "You should be giving me a 100% discount as I bought this thing in perfectly good faith in 1972?" It seems a pretty reasonable thing to do and no-one has been making a fuss about it. Then someone in the electronics business does something similar - "keep using the old one of you like or chop it in for a discount on the new state-of-the-art model if you'd prefer that" - and they're public enemy number 1. Go figure ...

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

We have a winner!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Sorry for lateness (25 and a bit hours thereof), 'tis a long story: Motionlessness. One birth in a hundred? Quite the opposite. (10)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Ah, sorry, I assumed it was yours after getting musefan's yesterday - will think of one quickly.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Many apologies all. Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune etc. If it's any consolation, the clue I had lined up was so poor that I've already forgotten it!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Sander Rossel wrote:

This is a fairly recent application written by someone with over 30 years of experience in software development :((

Sounds like someone from pre-RDBMS times who is still doing exactly what he used to do when he started out with C-ISAM or something of that ilk. Probably thinks he's bang up-to-date 'cos he does the odd bit of VB6 and no longer keeps his code on 5 1/4 floppies.

Sander Rossel wrote:

And he's not even the worst software developer I know :WTF:

That's SCARY!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

I suspect (hope even) that you don't go for a walk without clothes; so you're you're probably even more dependent on technology than you realise! :)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

My sister was once asked by a ten year-old pupil: "Miss, did they have technology when you were young?" She told him that she's have to search her memory banks and get back to him.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

I don't have to wait 24 hours, I'm enjoying that comment every 5 minutes!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

See above - obviously not as lemon squeezy as I thought!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

I think they should game-ify it. 10 points for a squirrel, 30 for a raccoon, 100 for a bear, 200 for a salmon etc. with people being allowed to trade points for driving and/or cookery lessons.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain