A friend of mine greets every man he’s not met before with, “Hello, are you married or happy.”

A friend of mine greets every man he’s not met before with, “Hello, are you married or happy.”

In the UK I tend to record most programmes on commercial channels (BBC does not have adverts). When watching the recordings I have become pretty adept at running the fast forward button to avoid them. I’ve found that most advert slots are exactly four minutes long. In practice this is around 16 minutes per hour.
Strangely if the show is broadcast in the middle of the night, the advert slots can be just two minutes long.

[quote=DeanS]The smoothest landing I can recall, among a few thousand, was a female captain at the wheel. Touch down was barely noticeable.[/
Both my Grandson and his wife who are pilots disagreed with my remarks about smooth landings which I thought were good.
They both said putting the aircraft down firmly was the safe way to go and how they are trained.
My grandson said that a recent 737 crash occurred when the pilot ‘greased’ the plane down onto a wet runway and then aquaplaned off it. The aircraft tyres had not touched the runway with sufficient force to break through the water and adhere to the tarmac.
So always expect much firmer landings when runways are wet.
I certainly didn’t know that.

I’ve just forwarded this to my grandson.
When they get to do it during the current pandemic, he is a pilot with the European travel company TUI and his wife pilots Airbuses for British Airways.
I can’t wait to tell them what an easy job being a pilot really is.

Each year I’m usually in South Africa for six months and the UK for six months. Whilst I’m away I keep vehicle batteries on four vehicles attached to one of these conditioning devices. They are not chargers in the true sense of the word. The just sit there monitoring the condition of a battery. When the on board devices, e.g. clocks and alarms use power and the level of charge drops, these devices kick in and gently lift the level of charge back to almost fully charged. Then they switch off and again monitor the battery until the charge level falls. I’ve been using them for many years without a single failure.

accumate battery conditioning float charger

Each year I’m usually in South Africa for six months and the UK for six months. Whilst I’m away I keep vehicle batteries on four vehicles attached to one of these conditioning devices. They are not chargers in the true sense of the word. The just sit there monitoring the condition of a battery. When the on board devices, e.g. clocks and alarms use power and the level of charge drops, these devices kick in and gently lift the level of charge back to almost fully charged. Then they switch off and again monitor the battery until the charge level falls. I’ve been using them for many years without a single failure.

accumate battery conditioning float charger

We recently held a very successful on AGM on ZOOM that lasted almost two hours.
There were almost 40 contributors. The chair had the ability to mute all or individuals to maintain control if necessary, but I think everyone was able to contribute what they wanted to.
A neat feature was the ability to vote on motions with boxes for ‘yes’ or ‘no’ responses.

I’m hearing that Partytime is very good for small numbers to chat together. It’s not for business or very private communication, but for general chat seems good. I’ve not had a chance to try it yet, but I’m told it works fine across all platforms.

I’m hearing that Partytime is very good for small numbers to chat together. It’s not for business or very private communication, but for general chat seems good. I’ve not had a chance to try it yet, but I’m told it works fine across all platforms.

For when you're truly bored

1. If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? 🤔

2. Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C? 🤔

3. Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?🤔

4. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?🤔

5. Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years to fully work.🤔

6. Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty.🤔

7. The word "swims" upside-down is still "swims"🤔

8. 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.🤔

9. If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them🤔

☹️Four great confusions still unresolved:

1. At a movie theatre, which arm rest is your's😃?

2. If people evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still around😳?

3. Why is there a 'D' in fridge, but not in refrigerator🤨?

4. Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made😱?

Move forward to 26 March 2053. A red letter day for John. He used the last toilet roll bought by his parents in 2020.

In our local Supermarket two days ago, the surfaces at every till were wiped down with disinfectant after every customer. There was hand sanitizer at each checkout point being used by the assistant after every customer.
Shelf stackers also carried and used sanitiser frequently. Trolleys we’re also being disinfected, with wipes available for handles. There were also assistants outside the stores dispensing sanitizer to customers hands as they entered. I therefore think that whilst the information about how long the virus can live may be pretty accurate, it was going to have quite a battle to reach this time scale in this store.

Some sites identifying hoaxes, list this as one.

What’s wrong with the comment in the Chit Chat section, or hadn’t you noticed where it had been posted.