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Henry - 23-3-2024 at 14:02

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Yeahg their big hits were Beep Beep Love and Hey Girl.

Off to prepare for my Holiday In Berlin.


Have a good time in Berlin. City breaks are great, especially for a country bumpkin like myself. I'm just back from short breaks in Edinburgh and most recently Aberdeen where I saw a concert by a young Scandinavian jazz trio.

BBP - 24-3-2024 at 10:12

In the category "way to go stupid" I dropped the battetry of Dad's eectric bicycle on my toe. It only fello over but ah 1,5 kg it is quite painful.

ursinator2.0 - 24-3-2024 at 17:41

Electric bikes are killer machines, i'll stick with my regular ones - hope, you are fine anyway ;-)

BBP - 25-3-2024 at 20:33

Heck yeah. I had to cycle Dad's bike when we went to hospital for an appointment and they wanted to keep him there - he told me to put it into 3rd gear. I did - and very soon in second - and then first gear, utterly terrified of that thing.

Unfortunately the family suffered another blow. The wife of dad's eldest brother died last Sunday, it barely registered with us how badly ill she was but she succumbed to a heart attack. She was 74 Dad's in shock, not only because she meant the world to my uncle, but also because he will probably not be able to continue living on his own. Dad had expected after last year's events that he'd be the first of the five to go.

Plook - 25-3-2024 at 22:12

Bonny sorry to hear about the loss to your family...:(

polydigm - 26-3-2024 at 01:03

Quote: Originally posted by Henry  
Long may you stay fit and healthy Sir.
That is the plan. My main philosophy at the moment is getting on with what I enjoy and not putting it off because you never know. One of my wife's cousins in the UK was found dead in his flat a week ago and he was only a year older than me.

polydigm - 26-3-2024 at 01:04

Bonny, I'm very sorry to hear about your loss.

BBP - 26-3-2024 at 21:34

We're still waiting for news around the funeral...
while I'm planning BF and my stay in Berlin. Dad didn't want us to give it up.

Plook - 27-3-2024 at 00:08

That's great I agree with him, you need to live your life!

BBP - 29-3-2024 at 20:07

Tickets are printed, train tickets are bought and loaded, all I need to do now is pack my stuf and then make it a not too late night.
https://youtu.be/FccwMLnWPls

Plook - 30-3-2024 at 00:39

Have fun, get some pictures...:)

Eddie RUKidding - 30-3-2024 at 18:43

No sale in Cohuna - was close had local Vet interested in buying house and was on second viewing during open house yesterday (Saturday) but next doors Bogan boy was home during viewing for interested Vet- she was disappointed as really wanted the house but explained to our agent that doing shift work as vet she could not live next to that) and bogan bastard boy played loud gansta rap music and made lots of noise throwing scrap metal in to skip bin in their front yard (skip bin has been there for 6 months). Another buyer is coming next week to look hopefully more luck

Think we wont do any more open house viewing- just gives next door heads up as to when to be bastards. Will tell real estate to do inspections by appointment only. Agents was really pissed off with next door as they went out of their way to disrupt viewing.
Another reason for me to flatten Bogan Boy next time I go to FuCohuna.

Hells Angels as tenants is on the cards again 😉

Plook - 30-3-2024 at 19:43

Those dam bastards...:swear:


Eddie RUKidding - 30-3-2024 at 21:07

Yep definitely planet of the Apes but another is looking at it next week..............

Woke up at 4.30am couldn't sleep is really getting to me and Mrs Eddie
Been youtubing The Party Boys and Tim GAxe lol

Eddie RUKidding - 2-4-2024 at 04:59

Hope no one has OD'd o Easter Eggs. :devil:
I'm off for the rest of the week to my eldest Sons wedding in Adelaide which should be good.

At least it wont be like the wedding in the OZ movie Dimboola - filmed near my old home town of Horsham lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvTvlGIKVK8

polydigm - 2-4-2024 at 05:23

We don't normally eat much chocolate, but Julie always manages to get carried away with specials approaching Easter. I am looking at a rather large bowl of left overs.

Eddie RUKidding - 2-4-2024 at 06:34

Sounds good to me poly, now I need to make room for the wedding feast lol

Plook - 3-4-2024 at 01:37

Enjoy Eddie!

BBP - 4-4-2024 at 17:07

Guess who's back!

Plook - 4-4-2024 at 20:34

Welcome back Bonny...We want pictures please...:)

BBP - 4-4-2024 at 21:34

They'll come in good time! I need a new good picture upload site though.

Eddie RUKidding - 5-4-2024 at 04:16

Back wedding went well - No Dimboola incidents at all lol

Except maybe my facial expression ;)


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Plook - 5-4-2024 at 17:23

Eddie - The picture attachment is broken...it don't work no more...:lol:

Henry - 5-4-2024 at 20:11

Is that you in the middle Eddie?

Eddie RUKidding - 5-4-2024 at 21:08

Yes unfortunately - I was not even drunk, as Henry has found if you change the file extension to jpeg it works lol

Some more pics

Eddie RUKidding - 5-4-2024 at 21:17

Eddie RUKidding - 5-4-2024 at 22:31

More wedding Pics- note Best man is youngest son

Plook - 5-4-2024 at 23:09

It's amazing how normal we all look for being Freaks...:lol:


Kapt Kirk was the exception

I miss the good Kapt and Dean...:(


Eddie RUKidding - 6-4-2024 at 08:38

You wont Believe it but me and Mrs Eddie ran into an Ex Pom called Paul at the Kingston Hotel who was also at the 1970 Isle of Wight Rock concert - the same as Mrs Eddie and saw Jimi Hendrix do his last show.
Paul particular liked Country Joe and the Big Fish at he concert.
He was only 12, Mrs Eddie was 13 lol.
Paul got done for sailing his uncles yacht across from Portsmith without permission and got nabbed by the police when they tried to sail back as the Uncle reported the yacht stolen lol
Mrs Eddie got grounded for 2 months as she was not meant to be there either- said she was at friends place in Gosport :biggrin:

Plook - 6-4-2024 at 19:55

For the wedding of Kat and I, my daughter got that same redwood frame with the cloth draped on it that the wedding you attended had...:)

Eddie RUKidding - 6-4-2024 at 20:13

Nice one Plook, here it was likely to be timber from the local River Redgum tree (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), an incredibly hard wood that will blunt the toughest saw. think its called a weed in your part of the world but its Australia favourite tree type downunder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_camaldulensis

Red gum is so named for its brilliant red wood, which can range from a light pink through to almost black, depending on the age and weathering. It is somewhat brittle and is often cross-grained, making hand working difficult. Traditionally used in rot resistant applications like stumps, fence posts and sleepers, more recently it has been recognised in craft furniture for its spectacular deep red colour and typical fiddleback figure.

Henry - 8-4-2024 at 00:44

Redgum were a decent band too.

There is something special about that shot of father, son and daughter in law. If I was creative I'm sure that I could come up with a hundred captions.

I noticed that the original photo had a strange file extension but Xubuntu opened it automatically in GIMP.

Henry - 8-4-2024 at 00:58

Quote: Originally posted by Eddie RUKidding  
You wont Believe it but me and Mrs Eddie ran into an Ex Pom called Paul at the Kingston Hotel who was also at the 1970 Isle of Wight Rock concert - the same as Mrs Eddie and saw Jimi Hendrix do his last show.
Paul particular liked Country Joe and the Big Fish at he concert.
He was only 12, Mrs Eddie was 13 lol.
Paul got done for sailing his uncles yacht across from Portsmith without permission and got nabbed by the police when they tried to sail back as the Uncle reported the yacht stolen lol
Mrs Eddie got grounded for 2 months as she was not meant to be there either- said she was at friends place in Gosport :biggrin:


Hilarious. Can you imagine the outcry now if a young person took charge of a yacht. My closest thing was hitchhiking with my younger brother to the Motocross
Grand Prix. We were 12 and 11 or 13 and 12, something like that. It was hellish in the camping area with drunks driving transit vans within inches of our tent throughout the night and then we got attacked by older loons who had been glugging party cans of Harp Lager. It was a horrible night that has put me off camping at moto events for life. It is the same people there nowadays, just fifty years older.

The racing was good the next day though. Graham Noyce I think it was.

Eddie RUKidding - 8-4-2024 at 03:29

Nice one Henry.
Yes was great wedding
Re Isle of Wight
I've even got a DVD of that concert but have not been able to pick out Mrs Eddie, she also told me she got in without a ticket lol

Henry - 8-4-2024 at 15:02

Yes it looked like a happy day.

Have you seen the Miles Davis Isle of Wight video on YouTube? It was after Bitches Brew was released. Mrs Eddie might be on that one, certainly she wouldn't have forgotten it. Absolutely incredible and great sound quality on the video too.

I've now played In the Court of the Crimson King a few times. My jaw dropped the first time I heard Epitaph. That beautiful melotron opening was Barclay James Harvest's signature sound through to the late Seventies, ie for as long as they were good. Much of the rest of Epitaph sounded very similar to what they were doing in 1971.

Arguably their best studio album, Time Honoured Ghosts from 1975, has a track called Moongirl which is lyrically similar to Moonchild.

In other words BJH owe an enormous debt to King Crimson.

Eddie RUKidding - 8-4-2024 at 22:59

Indeed it was - have Andy and Kate (youngest son & best man at wedding & partner) here in Kingston now for a few days before they drive back to Brisbane- Kat has not been to SA before so will be showing her the sites around here. Gets confusing having Matt & Kat (just married) and Andy and Kate- I tried not to get there names mixed up lol.

Sounds like BJH followed KC closely. I've got several KC LP's but not In the Court as I have not been able to find a vinyl copy for reasonable dollars but have a copy of the young person guide to KC- which has a lot of Court on it.


Miles Davis funny you should mention - will have to check it out on utube- I brought a 2nd hand CD of the Legacy version 50years of Kind of Blue- 2 CD & 1 DVD the other day for $4 bucks lol

BBP - 9-4-2024 at 22:00

Gosh I love that record album.

It's been a rough couple of days getting back to work, as the tourist indusrty is getting busier and busier by the day now and I'm still trying to get back into work mode after Berlin. I still need to upload my pictures and write down my story about it.

Eddie RUKidding - 9-4-2024 at 22:42

That Lp is certainly a fav of min too - will have to dig it out and play it again.

Br good to hear your stories from Berlin Bonny.

BBP - 14-4-2024 at 09:16

While we're still waiting on the Berlin photos and road trip report, here is the video I made of Dir En Grey:
Click here since I don't allow embedding on this one.


Which shows why, for this band, the ladies queue for hours in advance. If you go on time to the concecrt you'll get trapped in the mosh pit and if you go too late, like I did, you don't see a thing - but at least the sound is good.

BBP - 16-4-2024 at 11:18

Dad's celebrating his birthday today, he's 69. Hurray!

polydigm - 16-4-2024 at 12:28

Happy birthday Ed!!

Plook - 16-4-2024 at 14:07

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Dad's celebrating his birthday today, he's 69. Hurray!


Tell him I said happy birthday Bonny...:)

BBP - 18-4-2024 at 21:47

Thanks guys!

Unfortunately he's had some hopefully minor medical issues (I'll spare you the details but he once made a topic about it) that was extremely painful for him. H's on the mend but not a happy bunny,

BBP - 24-4-2024 at 19:52

Dad's sort of recovering but still grumpy. I'm trying to hang on but work and Dads situation are making it hard.

Eddie RUKidding - 24-4-2024 at 21:24

Keep in there you will get thru

BBP - 26-4-2024 at 21:41

Dad's almost back to his regular eating pattern and I showed my "good side" at work by doing a bit of overtime. Desperate times and not enough people.

Plook - 27-4-2024 at 21:40

Good to hear your dad is making some progress, hang in there Bonny.

BBP - 28-4-2024 at 10:44

Doing what we can! Today that's laundry, washing up and taxes.

Eddie RUKidding - 28-4-2024 at 22:46

Does that make for very clean Taxes :D

BBP - 2-5-2024 at 19:50

Got a rent increase notification today - a pretty significant one. Not happy.

Spent an hour talking to BF on the phone. I'm planning to stay over at his for a couple of days during Assumption.

BBP - 4-5-2024 at 08:47

I'm covering the emergency hotline this weekend - never looked forward to Monday this much. I'm basically stand-by outside office hours.

Plook - 4-5-2024 at 15:06

Back in the 2003-5 when I worked at North Star we had a pager that one person had to wear on the weekend to be on call for an account out of Germany that was providing internet service world wide.


You got paid more to wear it but you had to respond to a call on site within 2 hours. No matter where you were and what you were doing you would have to up and leave.


It was great if it didn't go off because you got paid to wear it, but if it did you could be in for a long day or night or both.

Eddie RUKidding - 4-5-2024 at 22:34

So could you bring down the Internet World Wide- just asking lol

BBP - 5-5-2024 at 10:10

Last evening I had 5 calls in one hour - I thought "if this keeps up the like 25 euros I'm paid for this are no way near enough". May 4th is WW2 remembrance day and I was worried I couldn't be silent for 2 minutes at 8 o'-clock, but after that the calls stopped and I didn't receive any others the rest of the night.

Eddie RUKidding - 5-5-2024 at 23:26

Not good, maybe you friends could call you or an autodialler :freak:

BBP - 6-5-2024 at 20:05

Unfortunately I was called at 2AM today...


with a stupid question.


WHich may be preferrable over a client who's in deep doodoo at that time of night, but still annoying.

Eddie RUKidding - 6-5-2024 at 22:15

Tell them the answer is 42 :cool:

polydigm - 6-5-2024 at 23:00

We became grandparents in January. They live in London, but have just been over here to visit family. We had them here for just over two weeks, it was great to see them and interact with our granddaughter, but things have now returned to normal. I still got plenty of practice in while they were here, but I need to knuckle down to get my first album finished by the end of June.

Eddie RUKidding - 6-5-2024 at 23:25

Keep on keeping on Poly

Henry - 7-5-2024 at 19:53

Apparently bands in the UK only get paid £350 for a gig and even then only if they're doing covers.

It doesn't seem like a career for working class folk.

Plook - 7-5-2024 at 21:24

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
We became grandparents in January. They live in London, but have just been over here to visit family. We had them here for just over two weeks, it was great to see them and interact with our granddaughter, but things have now returned to normal. I still got plenty of practice in while they were here, but I need to knuckle down to get my first album finished by the end of June.



Congratulations on the granddaughter!

Eddie RUKidding - 7-5-2024 at 23:39

My Super Fun has been off line for 2 weeks and I keep getting emails from the CEO advising of progress to get it back on line ...............
Latest excuse is that its a Google Cloud issue- So I emailed back with the Rolling Stones song - Get Off Of my Cloud

An update from UniSuper CEO Peter Chun
7 May 2024
Dear Mr Eddie RUKIdding
,

Thank you once again for your patience during this outage.

Our team, in partnership with Google Cloud, worked throughout last night and today, and have continued to make progress towards getting our systems back online.

Restoration of services
We remain on track for the progressive restoration of member services starting Thursday, 9 May 2024. Please note, as previously advised some services will still be limited as we continue the restoration.

Several FAQs are available on our website, and these are being refreshed regularly.

What happened?
Members have rightly been asking us what happened. Google Cloud has issued a statement today which confirms again that the fault originated within their service as a ‘one of its kind’, unprecedented occurrence. You can find this statement below.
https://youtu.be/QYgJZ79FmBo

Eddie RUKidding - 8-5-2024 at 21:41

My pension super fund is still down ...............
Luckily I pulled most of it out 6 month ago...............
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-08/unisuper-week-long-ou...


UniSuper members worried about superannuation balances as provider outage enters 7th day

BBP - 10-5-2024 at 20:55

Congratulations Poly, great news!


Back from the BF! Hoping I can soon visit him again.

polydigm - 13-5-2024 at 19:59

Quote: Originally posted by Henry  
Apparently bands in the UK only get paid £350 for a gig and even then only if they're doing covers.

It doesn't seem like a career for working class folk.
Luckily, our move to the UK is part of a retirement plan. I worked as a teacher of maths and physics because I knew there was never going to be any money in music.

Eddie RUKidding - 13-5-2024 at 23:20

I've suggested to Mrs Eddie that we go to the UK for a year or so and she can be a bartender, as she has 9 years work history in the UK with 1 more she would qual for UK pension- pays more than OZ, plus I could get free Beer...

Mrs Eddie was not a supporter of that idea :bald:

BBP - 14-5-2024 at 21:19

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by Henry  
Apparently bands in the UK only get paid £350 for a gig and even then only if they're doing covers.

It doesn't seem like a career for working class folk.
Luckily, our move to the UK is part of a retirement plan. I worked as a teacher of maths and physics because I knew there was never going to be any money in music.


Well, that. I wish I realised the consequences a bit earlier. :bald:


I'm under the weather, bad cold with hoarse voice. Doesn't combine well with a talking profession.

BBP - 16-5-2024 at 20:23

Got off the hook talking for two days, doing mail work instead. Still coughing and hoarse though.

Eddie RUKidding - 16-5-2024 at 23:50

Sounds like a good idea Bonny - hope it helps
I've been done in for last 3 days with food poisoning from neighbor's gift of some lemon slices.
I still shudder at the thought of them.........

Luckily for Mrs Eddie she does not eat sweets so didn't partake but I can still blame her (sort of) as the slices where a return gift for some Onion Bhaji that Mrs Eddie gave the neighbor the she had made.

BBP - 17-5-2024 at 23:45

Found an OV traffic card on someone's name. Took a bit but thanks to Google and Meta spying on everything we do I now know his full name, former name, birth date, height, weight, handedness, what sports team he plays for and what elementary school he went to.

This feels weird.

Eddie RUKidding - 18-5-2024 at 00:22

Former name, is he working as an agent lol

Plook - 18-5-2024 at 01:10

Quote: Originally posted by Eddie RUKidding  
Sounds like a good idea Bonny - hope it helps
I've been done in for last 3 days with food poisoning from neighbor's gift of some lemon slices.
I still shudder at the thought of them.........

Luckily for Mrs Eddie she does not eat sweets so didn't partake but I can still blame her (sort of) as the slices where a return gift for some Onion Bhaji that Mrs Eddie gave the neighbor the she had made.







I'm sorry but I couldn't resist...:lol:

Eddie RUKidding - 18-5-2024 at 01:44

Scared the Shite out of me - hope it did have Lemon Squeezer in it :freak:

polydigm - 20-5-2024 at 00:24

Bonny, that's not just weird it's wrong. It's good that you mentioned that, because it's a real example that our data does get around where it shouldn't. There are supposed to be all kinds of safeguards built in so that the only items of your data that get shared and to whom, are those for which you give permission, and the receivers of that data are bound to keep it private. What's the protocol where you work?

BBP - 20-5-2024 at 11:48

Basically every potential data leak is to be reported straight away. Sometimes, if we need to check in for clients, we have more data than we need and we're not allowed to store it.

I contacted the young lad's hockey club and they requested I mail them the OV card.

In other news, I bought a concert ticket to see an artist I first saw live in 2001. Floor Jansen.

Plook - 31-5-2024 at 00:20

Boom goes the dynamite in New York...:guitar2:

Eddie RUKidding - 31-5-2024 at 00:43

House arrest maybe...............:lol:

BBP - 2-6-2024 at 18:18

BF just left again. In my youth I was a fan of Dutch symphonic metal group After Forever - my boyfriend was a fan of symphonic metal group The Gathering. The front women of those bands, Floor Jansen and Anneke van Giersbergen, had a double bill in Eindhoven yesterday.

Which was good fun, although a tad more pop-oriented than I had anticipated.

Calvin - 2-6-2024 at 21:59

It was just "there", not doing anything, so I deleted the Unmoderated site. I never came up with another purpose for it, and with a server change the outdated forum software did not look right anymore.

Eddie RUKidding - 2-6-2024 at 22:07

Which site was that..........

BBP - 2-6-2024 at 22:16

Aww sorry to hear that, I had some great times in the past there with Catpuke and Dove Grey.

Calvin - 2-6-2024 at 23:18

No worries, it's been a dead forum for years now.

BBP - 3-6-2024 at 19:21

One of the major tour operators FTI went bankrupt - meaning serious work ahead today. Had to call dozens of people to inform them their booking for tomorrow is cancelled.

Eddie RUKidding - 3-6-2024 at 21:57

Seems to be sign of the times :duh:

BBP - 4-6-2024 at 20:41

Sadly it's the way of the world. We'll see how things will work out but for now, there's plenty of work to do for us.

BBP - 5-6-2024 at 20:53

The incessant rain is taxing the people in Germany, where already 5 people are kille due to high water.

It's been dry now for four days, and pleasant and sunny to boot. The rain has caused the first mosquito wave to break out a month before it usually comes. There are pools and ponds everywhere - consequently there are a lot of aquatic birds appearing in the city. I hear frogs in places that were previously just field.

And there's a snail infestation in my province.

Eddie RUKidding - 5-6-2024 at 21:29

Just a cold and sometimes wet (not often has been relatively dry) winter here

Plook - 5-6-2024 at 23:00

105 in the Nor Cal today :shocked:

Eddie RUKidding - 6-6-2024 at 19:34

Heading to Cohuna (Fucohuna) to pick up the VW New Beetle, tentents have moved into our house there last weekend- still listed for sale as investment property- the real estate market in Rural Oz has tanked- interest rates are to high forcing people into the rental market.



https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-cohuna-1441...

Plook - 7-6-2024 at 00:16

The house is really nice Eddie

BBP - 8-6-2024 at 19:42

When you cycle for 30 minutes to a shop, want to buy something - and discover your wallet's still at home...

...you know you're a Ploeg.

Eddie RUKidding - 8-6-2024 at 20:26

Quote: Originally posted by Plook  
The house is really nice Eddie


Thanks Plook - it just the neighnours that suck ;)

Henry - 13-6-2024 at 19:00

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by Henry  
Apparently bands in the UK only get paid £350 for a gig and even then only if they're doing covers.

It doesn't seem like a career for working class folk.
Luckily, our move to the UK is part of a retirement plan. I worked as a teacher of maths and physics because I knew there was never going to be any money in music.


It is a shame and probably accounts for the lack of innovation these days where the the talent pool is reduced to the children of millionaires. I'm currently returning from the Isle of Man TT and every night there was a different band in the campsite marquee massacring numerous ancient pop and rock songs. I'd much sooner hear some original music from a middle aged jazz / art rocker or anything else really. I took my evening beers by my tent at the other end of the field.

Henry - 13-6-2024 at 19:05

Quote: Originally posted by Eddie RUKidding  
Quote: Originally posted by Plook  
The house is really nice Eddie


Thanks Plook - it just the neighnours that suck ;)


Sorry to hear that your Cohuna nightmare continues Eddie. At least you can get some money coming in for the time being.



Eddie RUKidding - 13-6-2024 at 21:43

Quote: Originally posted by Henry  
Quote: Originally posted by Eddie RUKidding  
Quote: Originally posted by Plook  
The house is really nice Eddie


Thanks Plook - it just the neighnours that suck ;)


Sorry to hear that your Cohuna nightmare continues Eddie. At least you can get some money coming in for the time being.





Thanks- Is good to have it rented out. The property market is Rural & Regional Australia has collapsed, in Cohuna nothing has sold there this year- the sad state of the economy and too many interest rate rises have spooked the market. Houses are still selling in the captial cities for now but any more interest rate rise could caused a market collapse I believe with Australia being one of the most unaffordable places in the world to buy housing..........
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-13/housing-affordability...

BBP - 14-6-2024 at 13:47

Visited the vet, no, the doctor, for the first time in four years, for the same reason, and with pretty much the same results.

I'll spare you the reason besides mentioning I'm now immune to horror movies.

(goes off to play Cradle of Filth)

Plook - 14-6-2024 at 19:27

Good news, I used to watch a lot of those movies not so much anymore but I am a huge Sci-Fi kinda guy...:D

BBP - 14-6-2024 at 19:53

Netherlands has a major scarcity in medicine - for a long time a vague idea but I found out today when I needed medication for the issue I hinted to in my previous post - I need it today, it'll be available from July 3rd. If I hold out for that long, I won't need it anymore.

Discovered how insane the medicinal scarcity is when I looked it up - medicines for schizophrenes, epilepticcs, diabetics - the list of scarce medication is highly long.

Henry - 17-6-2024 at 18:42

Meanwhile in the UK there is medicine that my doctor says I need but the local NHS region won't allow her to prescribe. So I have to purchase it from a grubby online pharmacist at great price.

Bit by bit our societies are deteriorating in the provision of health services, roads, social security, housing, living standards, employment security etc etc. I've seen it happening since the late Seventies and it is happening throughout the western world. And the people who understand and care about it are effectively disenfranchised.

It is all pants and it is cold and wet outside today too. Beer is required.🍺

Eddie RUKidding - 17-6-2024 at 22:30

Yep the standard of living and services (forget tech its a smoke screen), has been steadily declining for decades and the gap between the wealthy and the rest has increased beyond doubt.
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