Shit you just learned (probably from the internet.)

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How cruelly you dash the visions of the mind garden.

Quite, I’m in fucking tatters!

Sorry :grin:

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https://skyaboveus.com/climbing-hiking/Marie-Paradis-Henriette-dAngeville-First-Ascent-of-Mont-Blanc-by-Mountain-Climbing-Women

Should have been a meatwoman part 1 (as we are going woke).

She then arranged for 6 guides and 6 porters to accompany her. The latter were required to get 2 legs of mutton, 24 cooked chickens, 2 loins of veal, a barrel of wine, 6 lbs / 3 kg of chocolate up the mountain, not to mention a large fan should they need to fan her, a small fan should she wish to fan herself, and a mirror so she could straighten her hat.

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Lopwell breakfast

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@dom
Is she after your job?

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Vinyl and air fryers, The Abattoir ahead of the game again!

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That weird stuff like this is created:

Style over substance?

Wank!

A closer inspection reveals the tone arm houses a sensor rather than a needle, one assigned not for playback like a traditional turntable, but assigned to calculate the overall running time of the CD

What load of old fucking wank! TOC controls what’s literally just a piece of plastic with some added marketing lies added for style magazine wankers - and it gets it wrong as CDs read from inside-out! GAH!

Chu’s Vivia was awarded a Red Dot Award for its novel approach to music playback, but currently remains a concept.

And there it will die and be forgotten forever.

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An opinion or instruction ? Either way, bang on the money.

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Wally nightingale,the Stuart best of the sex pistols wrote I did you know wrong. He sued for royalties which were awarded to him the day after he died from a heroin overdose in 1996.

Talk about a double whammy

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There’s 80,000 giant redwood trees in California, and - rather astoundingly - 500,000 in the UK!

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There better not be any of them within the confines of the South Downs National Park or they will be history.
There are quite a few golf courses, which although privately owned. are within the boundaries of the park and have had to remove ‘non indigenous’ trees some of which were 30 to 40 years old

The Woodland Trust says the conker tree is ‘an introduced species’ Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) - Woodland Trust. I don’t know if there were ever any of those in the South Downs but it’d be a helluva job to remove them from around here.

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I’ve not clicked the link for fear of discovering conkers are Belgian, which would be the end of me.

Brace yourself - Balkan/Turkish, apparently.

Similar story with sycamore - spread ike the proverbial weeds, but more insidious are the endless different hybrid Prunus spp. and related cultivars and crossovers - most of them sucker like crazy, and even if you cut them to the ground, spring back-up: need hefty amounts of herbicide to finish for good!