Coronavirus - Keeping it light :-)

[telectrix]

I was stopped last nite by Plod and breathalysed when I'd only had a pint earlier on. "81" he sez. "that's a fail"..........


" turn the bugger the right way up then , you plonker.it's 18. a pass."

 

[OnlQQker]

 

[Rockingit]

Re. The Eurovision Song Contest.

pfffft last again!

well, not quite. As one of the big five, the UK get into the final automatically and don’t need to enter a semifinal.... we came 26th out of 39....


for anyone thinking why do we bother?
England hasn’t won the World Cup football since ‘66, but they keep on entering that.

The U.K. music/TV industry has no great desire to win Eurovision, and even less since Brexit, all the other nations know it - and here's why....

Money. What a lot of people don't know is that it's the tradition that the winning country then get to host the next year, and hosting means just that - ALL the costs. And these are huge, I mean genuinely eye watering sums not only in the logistics/travel/publicity but all the technical production as well. Bizarrely, it's far cheaper unit per unit for lesser countries to host due to lower costs and overheads than it is for the larger ones. Some time back, Ireland won it twice in a row and had to refuse to enter a third time in case they won it again and they literally couldn't afford it.

There's now also a double whammy because since brexit, artists can't just drop into the UK anymore (nor vice-versa can I into Europe ?) to perform without needing a work visa and the bureaucracy and costs behind it - and frankly that's just an embarrasment.

The bottom line being the BBC can't afford it, the government would get minced under-writing it, the British music industry has no interest in making otherwise obscure overseas artists look good, so instead we need to remember that it's just a little bit of TV to make mockery of.

 

[littlespark]

Out of all the entrant to Eurovision, I think UK has the best chance of hosting it.
As a Big Five, we contribute financially anyway, hence getting the automatic final.

The dodgy voting has been going on well before Brexit was a thing. Was one of the reasons Terry Wogan stepped down as commentator.
Greece and Cyprus always give each other the 12..... always.

Ireland won 3 years on the trot.... 90, 91 and 92 I think.

Uk last won in ‘97 and I think we’ve been top ten only a handful of times since.

To lose is one thing..... to lose with absolutely zero points stinks of prearranged vote rigging.

Well done though to Italy, another Big Five.
The band reminds me a bit of The Darkness.
Better than Finland’s other rocky entry that sounded more like Linken Park.

 

[pirate]

Update: Ordered the correct battery from the supplier @telectrix suggested. very good service, arrived promptly and is the correct item. It's labelled as "Ample" and a quick google search suggests they are into EV battery swapping...
anyway, tomorrow will see me cleaning up the corroded terminals and installing the batteries and, hopefully, restoring the AVO to working condition.
It'll then sit on my display shelf beside the hand-cranked Megger and other items, but i expect it will also be fully functioning. Hate seeing such stuff going to landfill! What I love about the AVO is the replaceable fuse in case you make a mistake, and the fact that spares are carried on-board...useful, unless your face has been blown off!
Restoring the leather carrying case is a job for another day...maybe I'll ask the Repair Shop lady to work her magic on it!
Just a tiny foot-note...thanks to all you contributors on here, it has made life in lockdown so much better for me, and I bet it has done the same for many more...

 

[Julie.]

......
Just a tiny foot-note...thanks to all you contributors on here, it has made life in lockdown so much better for me, and I bet it has done the same for many more...

Yeah, it's a helpful group:

 

[Moley]

I'll just take my clothes off and do a selphie.

 

[pc1966]

In my case it would be more like weakly nudes!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Should have done this earlier, for those interested in seeing the space station, register on this site and get automatic notifications: International Space Station - https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

 

[telectrix]

I'll just take my clothes off and do a selphie.

be careful not to crack the lens.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Can't ask in the Arms, so I will ask on here, do any of you have a cordless lawnmower, opinions on make and model please, only a small patch of grass about 150m2 at the front of our place on the other side of the Road that we like to keep tidy, need to carry/bump it down steps to the place of use, recommendations please.

I have made my recommendations to the OH, who does the gardening, but as usual it has fallen on deaf ears, my option says a powered drive model and walk it up the driveway and then down the lane to the grass, but then like most husbands until someone else says so we are ignored.

 

[telectrix]

here you go. but it won't pour your beer for you. you need to do that yourself.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flymo-1200-Lithium-Ion-Robotic-Lawnmower/dp/B00C70LUQ4

 

[pc1966]

here you go. but it won't pour your beer for you. you need to do that yourself.

What a brilliant invention, combined robo-gardiner and robo-barman!

 

[pirate]

Re my previous posts about the AVO meter, I spent a while cleaning it, especially the battery connectors, then installed the new batteries...sadly, it doesn't work. Whenever I select any "on" position the needle goes FSD. Oh well, it still looks nice on my display shelf...but if anyone has any suggestions to fix it, I'd be very happy to hear them!

 

[OnlQQker]