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  1. DavidinSouthampton

    [Politics] Sting

    Bribery?
  2. DavidinSouthampton

    [Technology] Anyone else playing Wordle?

    Wordle 1,177 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 first of the day? Where is everyone?
  3. DavidinSouthampton

    [Football] Ron Yeats RIP

    He was there when they were promoted from Div 2 under Shankly.
  4. DavidinSouthampton

    [Football] Ron Yeats RIP

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c62348nw4yqo as someone who was a Liverpool fan in my early interest in the game in the mid 1960s, this bloke was a legend….
  5. DavidinSouthampton

    [Technology] Anyone else playing Wordle?

    Wordle 1,176 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 good start to the day!
  6. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] What is your favourite aircraft

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spanish_EAV-8B_Harrier_II%2B_%22Cobra%22_(27448607244)_(cropped).jpg Hawker Siddeley ((Harrier) Jump Jet. i used to work in the Aircraft industry 30plus years ago - only admin, nothing exciting - and went to the Farnborough Air Show one year. Three of these...
  7. DavidinSouthampton

    [Technology] Anyone else playing Wordle?

    Wordle 1,175 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 a bit of thought needed between 3 and 4 the thought occurs as to whether, from our current competition, we have a select band of people going off to play against Johnny Foreigner somewhere?
  8. DavidinSouthampton

    [Politics] Small boats, smashing the criminal gangs and the UK job market

    Personally I don’t have a problem in this area! Maybe I’m too woke. I’m longing to be arrested for inciting people to burn down an asylum seekers’ hotel.
  9. DavidinSouthampton

    [News] The Grenfell Report.

    We have a Prime Minister who is a former very effective head of the Crown Prosecution Service. I was talking to my brother-in-law, who has been a fairly senior bod in the CPS, at a family party last week who confirmed how good he was. And Starmer has the sort of values which I hope will mean...
  10. DavidinSouthampton

    [Technology] Anyone else playing Wordle?

    Wordle 1,174 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 two 3s in a row. Not too shabby!
  11. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] Books you gave up on

    I’ve heard it on the radio and I seem to remember it was on the TV fairly recently too. His way with words astounds me!
  12. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] Books you gave up on

    I have now by my bedside a book of his collected works. It’s wonderful stuff.
  13. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] Books you gave up on

    Except there’s a lot goes on after he dies, so it’s not “in the end”. note - this is a statement of fact, not a misguided attempt at evangelism to the heathen hordes which inhabit this place! ;) :angel:;)
  14. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] Books you gave up on

    On the “books you think you should read theme…… 10 years ago we were in a cottage in West Wales for Mrs DiS’s 60th birthday. There was a copy of Under Milk Wood on the coffee table and I thought maybe I should give it a go. I don’t like poetry, and I thought it was a poem. It’s not a poem, and...
  15. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] Books you gave up on

    Candide by Voltaire is wonderful! In English or in French…… in my opinion.
  16. DavidinSouthampton

    [Misc] Books you gave up on

    I did the Woodlanders for O-Level - pre GCSE - in 1968/9 and loved it. Another book I loved, reading it for my degree course in French, was Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, but I can imagine plenty of others wouldn’t get very far…. Even in English. the book recently that I started and didn’t...
  17. DavidinSouthampton

    [Technology] Anyone else playing Wordle?

    Wordle 1,173 3/6 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 first of the day? (Edit - no, just missed it) quite pleased with a 3
  18. DavidinSouthampton

    [Music] The Infinite Jukebox

    Doobie Brothers - Jesus is just alright.
  19. DavidinSouthampton

    [Technology] Anyone else playing Wordle?

    Wordle 1,172 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 oh well! Can’t really complain.
  20. DavidinSouthampton

    [Music] The Infinite Jukebox

    Midnight Rider - the Allman Brothers Band

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