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On a non-profit basis for the duration of the pandemic. Presumably we'll all be under Bill Gates' and his 9-foot shape-shifting lizards mates' mind control by then, so it won't matter to us what they charge after that.

I'd rather be boiled in oil than have any dealings with BT ever again.

I did for many years in local bands. When the drummer in my last band reached 75 and decided he really couldn't be arrassed with carting his drums around and loading them in and out anymore we knocked it on the head. My last gig was five years ago when we played at my daughter's wedding, which...

The smartest thing in my house is the cat.

I subscribe to this guy's channel: Engel's Coach Shop. For those of you unfamiliar with him, he's a wheelwright and coachbuilder, building and repairing horse-drawn buggys and carriages in Montana using traditional methods. He brings out a new video evey week and there's something about his...

Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands". Now there's a song that brings back memories. Back in the late 70s I'd been with my wife-to-be for five years. We were a couple of hippies, living the bohemian life of the day back then. She was a croupier in a night club, I was playing guitar in bands...

Oh, I agree. The conspiracy-theory obsessed friend I mentioned did have a couple of things right. He used to cover the webcam on the workshop PC with blu-tac because he said people were watching him. That turns out to have been quite possible - just not the people he thought (he is convinced...

Rorschach knows best. Actual first-hand experience counts for nothing. Best not bother, you're wasting your time.

He's the same age as my son. How would you feel if your son started talking about aircraft contrails seeding mind-controlling chemicals, or 5G phone masts linked to coronavirus, or 9-foot shape-shifting lizards running the world?

After my wife died 15 years ago I changed my lifestyle and went back to what I had been doing before I met her, working as a technician at a guitar store, fixing amps and guitars. The other guitar technician there was a young guy who was brilliant at his job - possibly the best guy I have ever...

My dad was in the RAF. We lived in married quarters at RAF Waddington during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. We watched the standoff between the US and Russian fleets unfold in the Atlantic each night on the TV. The world was literally teetering on the brink of armageddon. I asked him one night...

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I don't understand why EVs are so expensive. (well, I do, it's what the market will tolerate). When you compare the motor in an EV (which is only a little more conmplicated than a washing machine's) and a modern internal combustion engine with all it's myriad components, fine tolerances and...

I was in sales for 35 years and in a couple of jobs drove 50k miles or more a year. I definitely got driving out of my system. When my wife passed away I changed my job/lifestyle and the most I have driven since 2005 is up to London a couple of times. Most of the shopping I do is within walking...

I emailed Cinch asking them, if it wasn't too much trouble, to tell that bearded bloke who does their TV adverts that in America they say 'Anyways' while here in the UK we say 'Anyway'. I got a very nice reply from Alannah from their Customer Service Team saying "Thank you very much for your...

You're hilarious. You really think that the Post Office and the BBC maintained a group of engineers and a fleet of vans with expensive equipment that was regularly updated for continuously changing technology - 405 to 625 lines, colour, valve to transistor to solid state etc., etc - for over 50...

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So, you're a TV engineer too are you (as well as an eminent epidemiologist)? The technology did work. The later systems could detect a working TV within an arc of about 5 degrees, with a range of 50-100 yards, and with the database of TV licences the vans carried, the engineers were able to...

The technology definitely worked. I trained as a TV engineer in the 70s and I know that for a fact.

That was in the old days when TVs had CRTs (cathode ray tubes). Detector vans detected the radiation put out by the scan coils that were part of the circuitry, which ran in that part of the circuit at 10kV or more. No more CRTs, no more detector vans.