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06 May 2020, 12:25 pm

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high and tight haircuts.

why do you say that?



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06 May 2020, 7:10 pm

Using the internet to pay for goods.


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06 May 2020, 7:24 pm

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Using the internet to pay for goods.


Why would you want to interfere with my ability to collect toy cars? It's not like I'd deprive you of your trains. :cry:


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07 May 2020, 2:32 am

Dylanperr wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
high and tight haircuts.

why do you say that?

[i should have specified "high and tight hairs in civilian life"] it is my opinion only, one that i am entitled to, just like you are entitled to a contrary opinion- i never liked brutal short hair, the kind where you can see just stubble and nearly bare scalp. i don't like the way it looks, never did. there is a reason military people here developed the military haircut, having to do with hygiene in rugged environments - in more normal environments there is no reason a civilian should cut their hair that short.



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07 May 2020, 9:24 am

The habit of writing "shouldn't of been" when you mean "shouldn't have been".



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07 May 2020, 9:49 am

Doctor Beeching.



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07 May 2020, 9:54 am

funeralxempire wrote:
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Using the internet to pay for goods.


Why would you want to interfere with my ability to collect toy cars? It's not like I'd deprive you of your trains. :cry:


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Aww. Why not send a cheque?

It is mainly that I tried it and was told off by my bank as people hacked in and spent a few thousand pounds of money I didn't have and I ended up being blamed for it. It happened despite me using a lengthy password, so I soon realized how easy it was to hack into someones bank account and I have done all I can to avoid making any online payments. I will write checques or order over the phone by card. My view of the internet is that it should be used like a convenient mail order catalogue, where one sees the goods one wants to buy and then one sends a cheque. Some goods I would love to buy but can't as the online companies do not give an address which leads me to another point. If their address is not available, how can one trust that it is a legitimate company? If something goes wrong and the online company does not co-operate, you have no office to go and visit. You don't really have a way to resolve it as you have no way to meet the staff involved in person.


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07 May 2020, 10:02 am

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Doctor Beeching.


A very missunderstood man due to the press coverage. He actually saved the railways if one looks into the situation they were in. He also was the man who invented (Uhmm. Invented is not exactly the right word) the standard containers we see today, which on the railway were known as "Freightliner" and were used foe railway, road and shipping transportation. He was the man behind it. (Containers were not new but prior to Dr Beeching they were very small and there was no real standard size. Dr Beechings vision involved large stackable containers built to a size that would fit onto lorries, trains and ships).
The ones who saw Dr Beeching as a curse did not see how if it wasn't for that man, the losses the railway network was making in those days, there would be no railway left in Britain today.


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07 May 2020, 10:09 am

Mountain Goat wrote:
maycontainthunder wrote:
Doctor Beeching.


A very missunderstood man due to the press coverage. He actually saved the railways if one looks into the situation they were in. He also was the man who invented (Uhmm. Invented is not exactly the right word) the standard containers we see today, which on the railway were known as "Freightliner" and were used foe railway, road and shipping transportation. He was the man behind it. (Containers were not new but prior to Dr Beeching they were very small and there was no real standard size. Dr Beechings vision involved large stackable containers built to a size that would fit onto lorries, trains and ships).
The ones who saw Dr Beeching as a curse did not see how if it wasn't for that man, the losses the railway network was making in those days, there would be no railway left in Britain today.
very interesting factoid , neat to know the history behind those big containers Conex es


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07 May 2020, 6:12 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Mountain Goat wrote:
Using the internet to pay for goods.


Why would you want to interfere with my ability to collect toy cars? It's not like I'd deprive you of your trains. :cry:


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Aww. Why not send a cheque?

It is mainly that I tried it and was told off by my bank as people hacked in and spent a few thousand pounds of money I didn't have and I ended up being blamed for it. It happened despite me using a lengthy password, so I soon realized how easy it was to hack into someones bank account and I have done all I can to avoid making any online payments. I will write checques or order over the phone by card. My view of the internet is that it should be used like a convenient mail order catalogue, where one sees the goods one wants to buy and then one sends a cheque. Some goods I would love to buy but can't as the online companies do not give an address which leads me to another point. If their address is not available, how can one trust that it is a legitimate company? If something goes wrong and the online company does not co-operate, you have no office to go and visit. You don't really have a way to resolve it as you have no way to meet the staff involved in person.


Because sending a physical piece of paper isn't necessary, complicates things, increases the amount of time involved and has the potential to get lost, not to mention it represents a waste of resources.

I'm willing to accept the risks that you describe as ultimately trivial and the anxiety over the potential for those risks as a very small cost for all of the advantages of internet transactions.

It's the difference between knowing that the human body isn't suited to dealing with high speed collisions, and refusing to get in a car, train or other powered form of transportation because 'potentially, I might be at greater risk of injury.' Indeed, but once you've driven to get your groceries and got them all in one trip, walking back and forth between home and the store one bag at a time will never seem like a viable alternative again.


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08 May 2020, 4:54 am

Shaved heads on some people (especially SJWs and Skinheads).



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08 May 2020, 8:54 am

this is bound to ruffle some feathers , but if the cellphone had never been made , Would eliminate
alot of these arguements. And lose so ease of living but corded phones ar least you knew where you were calling too. and less use in criminal activities . but just my thoughts ... coming from a time before cellphones existed .


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08 May 2020, 8:39 pm

Why not go further? Societies.


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09 May 2020, 5:24 pm

things that kill or mame others



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09 May 2020, 5:57 pm

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things that kill or mame others


But I really need my hands to live. :?


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09 May 2020, 11:17 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Dylanperr wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
high and tight haircuts.

why do you say that?

[i should have specified "high and tight hairs in civilian life"] it is my opinion only, one that i am entitled to, just like you are entitled to a contrary opinion- i never liked brutal short hair, the kind where you can see just stubble and nearly bare scalp. i don't like the way it looks, never did. there is a reason military people here developed the military haircut, having to do with hygiene in rugged environments - in more normal environments there is no reason a civilian should cut their hair that short.


my dad LOVES those haircuts, he used to have my brothers get military haircuts all the time.
he loves anything that has to do with military -- regardless of country, though..

my brother (nice one) says the same thing as you (auntblabby). also the ones with partial shaving
he actually said he instantly thinks of stalks of broccoli when he sees those haircuts ..
and he seemed really disturbed by it. he brought it up many times last year.

my brother-in-law has one now.. because he and my sister cut his hair at home due to lockdown. he actually looks fine.

i do not mind those

however..
do not like the haircuts that have half hair and half shaved, in any area of skull, but the hair part is long..

because to me it looks nothing but ugly.. the starkness of it.. yet nothing to salvage it aesthetically.


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