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A good tip everyone. Always send your elephant through the 'Nothing To Declare' channel.
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Cats will be cats I guess. I think you just need to be patient. Your moggy will evolve into the perfect mosquito hunter in a few hundred thousand years or so.
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Always keen to improve international relations. Make sure you put your safety belt on
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I had to pay about $120 for excess weight (for my luggage, not for myself )
Exporting elephants eh? Bet your luggage looked suspicious ambling through the terminal.
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Sounds like a great place. Bit far to walk though
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It's all me at the moment. I should hear in the next month whether I'm a suitable candidate for world domination... ahhh... I mean, stewardship of Swindonian Institutions.
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What? Of band I was in? Good grief, the official discography of Red Jasper doesn't even list the releases I was part of. The first three...
Englands Green & Pleasant Land
Pull That Thumb
Sting in the Tale
... are all collectors items and therefore too priceless to even consider distribution to the public. There is also the question of maintaining public order, as scenes of hero worship outside my home (which is on a busy street undergoing gas pipe repair) isn't going to please the local authorities.
So it looks like my copies are hermitically sealed for future generations. One day... maybe tomorrow, maybe a thousand years from now... people will play my records and say...
Switch it off! The player canna take it Captain! She's breaking up!....
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I agree. Sometimes you just need to see what's over the next hill, and sometimes it's suprisng what you find.
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What is a ghost? Is it a remnant spirit? A recording of past events imprinted on the solid reality of our surroundings? A fold in space that allows vision of past events? or just bats in the belfry?
In mosty cases I suspect its no more that our pattern recognition system working overtime. There was one case in England recently though where a cctv caught some guy in tudor costume peering out a fire escape door. When checked out, the guards found that no-one had accessed that part of the building. Spooky!
Actually, come to think of it, didn't someone take a photo of a phantasm staring out of a window just recently?
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Thats good to know. I get a warm feeling that in two hundred years from now, millions of school-kids in their flood shelters will be sitting down to cyber-lessons with their virtual teacher discussing the deep, inner meanings and relevance of a twenty-first century blogger named Caldrail. Should be nice short lesson then
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Brilliant. Now I'm poor again. Sheesh...
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Understand where you're coming from. As for me, I'm jumping on the bandwagon. I'm writing a novel about Ug, the Neolithic detective, finding out who killed the Neanderthal next door with scientific logic and reasoning. I'll be rich beyond my dreams...
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What did those women look like? Well... like a bunch of women out jogging really. I suspect one or two of them enjoy their own reflection, but actually there wasn't one that caught my eye. Is that why she called me a nutter?
Actually that doesn't bother me. The world needs nutters. How else could she possibly justify being superior if it wasn't for nutters like me? Silly woman ought to thank me. I've given her life meaning.
I also think I've become a bit more aware of these snide opinions. There was a time I would have blasted past in a red sportscar and not even noticed her. But I daresay she would have said a few words about that too
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You have my sympathies. i suspect though, Mr Obama's expensive plans have more to do with actually doing something, rather than making expensive plans, paying for it, making a big noise about it, then forgetting it ever took place.
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The problem is that Grodon Brown wanted to appear as a brilliant Chancellor. Every so often we saw a press release or some politican repeating that mantra. There was always enough money it seemed. If you looked closely, he was txing everything b the back door. Pensions were taxed for the first time for instance. Insurance and travel taxes increased. Fuel duty raised to 75% of the price at the pumps. You pay tax first then claim back whatever benefits your situation allow (if you know about that).
The thing is, whilst appearing beneificent, he was running up huge expenses and borrowing money to pay it off. So inevitably he was keen to move to No10 as soon as possible and avoid the criticism that he wasn't as good a chancellor as he made out. A lot of people are fooled - on another website, I got called a tory spokesman for criticising GB. Yeah right.
Labour came to power saying the old ways were over. They weren't the party of high taxation any more. Yet now we find our tax bill is the highest ever.
Dangnabbit, Neph, you win again!
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Yes, but politicians only race until they get there, then they stop and do nothing.
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What is this? Libraries in England charge patrons money to borrow DVDs? Like Blockbuster Video stores? Do all libraries in England now do this, or just yours? -- Nephele
The government have required agencies to make a profit for some time now. Here's an example...
When I qualified for my New Zealand PPL, they sent my license in the post within two days at no cost, aware that I was there on holiday and wanted to do some flying around their islands.
Two years earlier, a UK PPL cost me more than two hundred pounds once I'd done all the requisite flying and exams, and I had to wait a couple of months for it to arrive.
It seems the romanesque attitude of screwing the public for every penny has become well rooted in our society now, and we have the current government to thak for that.
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And he still hasn't gotten rid of bendy buses.
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I'm glad to see not everyone is taken in by his posturing.
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Typical of independent british youngsters really. They become inconsiderate and territorial very quickly, and the bolshier ones tend to assume they can do as they like, having been freed from the tyranny of parents and desiring above all else to have a good time. They're everywhere.
The worst thing is that if you make a stand concerning their behaviour they get malicious, because they see any restriction on their activities as a personal affront. It really is selfishness. They just can't see it from anyone elses viewpoint.
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Yes, I have heard that americans throw cars away readily. Perhaps it's like New Zealand? Whilst I was there, I learned to recognise the houses of Maori's. They were always the ones with two rusting cars on the drive.
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No, I just wouldn't be able to keep a straight face. Actually, I don't have the 'professional demeanour' they're looking for. Its all image really.
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A lesson in life? Assuming he still has it after wrapping himself around a lampost, and I know what I was like as a driver at his age.
Actually, I think watching him speed by enjoying the car would be too much for me to bear. Besides, I like the numberplate and it doesn't cost me anything to retain it if I SORN the vehicle.
(SORN = Satutory Off Road Notification, a legal requirement to register cars that aren't licensed for use on the road)
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With regard to job descriptions, its all about assumed prestige. By making the job seem incredibly difficult or technical (by using lots of obscure words in novel combinations) you attract people of the required mindset, or at least so the theory goes. Personally, I think people who write job descriptions like that are petty officious individuals whose own importance revolves around the use of a dictionary in their desk.
With regard to chocolate, I sympathise. So to the lady I once upset and who specified Terry's Gold as suitable recompense, I must apologise unchocolatedly.
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Seriously - we were living the Spinal Tap dream. Everything you see in the film mirrors the sort of nonsense we went through.