and I'm already sick & tired of Christmas adverts on the telly.

$DEITY I wish I had a bolt-hole where I could retreat to for the next two months.

Mr. Grumpy.

Thanks for remembering to remind me.

A girl I know once told that her parents were seriously considering buying a Cold War 'Bunker'... 'somewhere' in the Nothumberland Hills...

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 05 November 2021, 09:20:40 PM
A girl I know once told that her parents were seriously considering buying a Cold War 'Bunker'... 'somewhere' in the Nothumberland Hills...

I seriously considered into one in Fife.
Damn good value per square foot, and excellent potential as a secure data storage centre.

The ass tail and has fallen out of that market with the shift to cloud.
I'm relieved I'm not stuck with a large £120,000 hole in the ground / former government continuation and communication centre.

On the other hand, I may have missed out on the absolute future of heat exchanger sites.

Quote from: Raider4 on 05 November 2021, 08:08:39 PM
and I'm already sick & tired of Christmas adverts on the telly.

You have my permission to get rid of the telly. Having never had one, it's a freedom I'd glady invite everyone to share. Plus it saves you the TV tax which can be better spent on military books to read and wargames figures to paint.

Likewise, until the advent of DVDs. May have to watch V for Vendetta this evening.

Ok this calls for BAHHHHHH HUMBUG bloody Christmas. Or Beltaine or Saturnalia.

Quote from: sultanbev on 05 November 2021, 11:08:28 PM
You have my permission to get rid of the telly. Having never had one, it's a freedom I'd glady invite everyone to share. Plus it saves you the TV tax which can be better spent on military books to read and wargames figures to paint.

Never had a TV either but you have to have a licence for iplayer, which the wife insists on using.  So a few years ago after a lifetime of not having one we had to join the throng.  Time to defund the BBC.

Regarding the iplayer........What does the BBCmedia player do ?...anything, nowadays ? 

The BBC ?......I'd have to say that I still trust them more than any other 'media' (HAH !!!) outlets...which really doesn't say much.
They're far from perfect, but they still DO seem to try and keep as impartial as possible........which is just about IMpossible nowadays.

I've had to give up on certain BBC 'news' radio shows......and listen to folk slagging each other off.....they just seem to want to try and get two completely opposing views to start an argument.

The World has gone too 'binary'.

Cheers - Phil.

There are at least 4 academic studies that clearly show the BBC are biased towards the establishment status quo, I have boycotted them for at least a decade now.
I do find it funny that many outraged keyboard warriors out there still think the BBC is a den of leftwing socialist subversives 

Quote from: sultanbev on 06 November 2021, 10:55:04 AM
I do find it funny that many outraged keyboard warriors out there still think the BBC is a den of leftwing socialist subversives 

Course it is - everybody knows that. Look how they make our estimed PM appear to be an idiot.....whoops he does that himself. 

I am currently involved in trialing a new TV box for my employer.

The trial means that I have had a number of TV packages for free, plus the telephone and broadband package as well ( all employees get the broadband and basic tv)

It does not include Netflix or Amazon Prime. 

But the current tv and phone bill would be a whopping £160 a month !!!!!! were I to subscribe to what I have been given.  I am not sure how any normal person affords this , or when they would get time to watch even a small percentage of the stuff avaliable.

Quote from: Techno II on 06 November 2021, 10:46:56 AM
Regarding the iplayer........What does the BBCmedia player do ?...anything, nowadays ?  :-

The BBC ?......I'd have to say that I still trust them more than any other 'media' (HAH !!!) outlets...which really doesn't say much.
They're far from perfect, but they still DO seem to try and keep as impartial as possible........which is just about IMpossible nowadays.

I've had to give up on certain BBC 'news' radio shows......and listen to folk slagging each other off.....they just seem to want to try and get two completely opposing views to start an argument.

The World has gone too 'binary'.

Cheers - Phil.

The BBC went through several years of completely forgetting about journalistic window theory.

"If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and find out which is true."