Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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If you had a time machine that would take you back to a random date between 6 and 7 hundred years in the past but all you could could travel with were a pair of shorts, how would you convince people that you were from the future?

Smile?

Haha, That's actually a great answer.

[Rod Paradise]

If you had a time machine that would take you back to a random date between 6 and 7 hundred years in the past but all you could could travel with were a pair of shorts, how would you convince people that you were from the future?

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Interesting one Red.

I'd copy Prison Break and have a lot of tattoos with mixture of instructions & formulae, and some important relevant history. Assuming I'd come back in the same place my History would be some point after the aftermath of Bannockburn & the manoeuvring over the Scottish throne in the century after (coded to save some genius thinking they could just make some informative leather....).
One of the instructions would be for a simple sluice box for gold panning and I'd be the man providing the sudden influx of riches. Gold from the Wanlockhead area (about 8 miles from me) provided much of the coinage minted in Edinburgh and was part of the 2 crowns made in the 16th Century, so finding it, and having a better way of collecting it could make me a valuable man.

I'd also (if it didn't break the time paradox)  look at carving some kind of message to myself to let me know if it worked in the rock of the places I know I'd see.

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If you had a time machine that would take you back to a random date between 6 and 7 hundred years in the past but all you could could travel with were a pair of shorts, how would you convince people that you were from the future?

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Interesting one Red.

I'd copy Prison Break and have a lot of tattoos with mixture of instructions & formulae, and some important relevant history. Assuming I'd come back in the same place my History would be some point after the aftermath of Bannockburn & the manoeuvring over the Scottish throne in the century after (coded to save some genius thinking they could just make some informative leather....).
One of the instructions would be for a simple sluice box for gold panning (not invented till the 1800's) and I'd be the man providing the sudden influx of riches. Gold from the Wanlockhead area (about 8 miles from me) provided much of the coinage minted in Edinburgh and was part of the 2 crowns made in the 16th Century, so finding it, and having a better way of collecting it could make me a valuable man.

I'd also (if it didn't break the time paradox)  look at carving some kind of message to myself to let me know if it worked in the rock of the places I know I'd see.

Some really great ideas there Rod. I especially like the paradoxical 'Message to self'.

Of course your plan is disqualified because you wouldn't be allowed to take the ink, it would disappear en route. (Come to think of it, I hope Longines Hampsteads are pukka)

[Rod Paradise]

I'm not going if I lose my tats!!

I could do the studying I suppose (although at 51 I'm probably too old for the 14th Century....).

[Rod Paradise]

I was wrong about the sluice box btw - was a different sluice invented in the 1800's, simple rocker boxes and sluices go back to the point we don't know when they were first used.

[Karabiner]

Just show them the M&S label on your kicks.

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I've just learned that the Costa Concordia was 4x as big as the Titanic. 

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Jump around, jump around, get up get up and get down.

[tikay]

Jump around, jump around, get up get up and get down.

Music does not get better than that.



I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe
If your girl steps up, I'm smacking the hoe
Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs
I got more rhymes than the Bible's got Psalms

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Jump around, jump around, get up get up and get down.

Music does not get better than that.



I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe
If your girl steps up, I'm smacking the hoe
Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs
I got more rhymes than the Bible's got Psalms

Yep. A modern day Keats.


I knew there was poetry in your soul somewhere, it was just a case of finding the level.

[EvilPie]

AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

I already hate anything that makes your clean clothes smell scenty, this silly mare just tips me over the edge.

Hi Tom

Spotted this elsewhere but thought your own thread was the best place to respond.

Ever tried an Eco Egg?



Doesn't leave any smell on your clothes and also stops your washing machine filling with gunge. Strangest thing about it is it actually works..... I've been using them for 4 years now, even cleans dog blankets.

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The fragrance free one looks like just the job Matt but I live in an all girl family and I'm fighting a losing battle against scenty things.

They spend their lives spraying and smearing themselves with fancy ass chemicals. My only victories to date are banishing Ferbreze, other scented softeners, and Glade plug-ins.

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Does anyone have hands-on experience of cordless hair and beard trimmers please?

Making decisions based on on-line reviews is becoming less useful because so many companies pay for good reviews.

It also pisses me off when the article starts with headlines like, "The 25 best hair & beard trimmers"
 
How the feck can you have 25 best ones?

[Doobs]

AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

I already hate anything that makes your clean clothes smell scenty, this silly mare just tips me over the edge.

Hi Tom

Spotted this elsewhere but thought your own thread was the best place to respond.

Ever tried an Eco Egg?



Doesn't leave any smell on your clothes and also stops your washing machine filling with gunge. Strangest thing about it is it actually works..... I've been using them for 4 years now, even cleans dog blankets.

We had the Eco Eggs for a couple of months, but I wasn't convinced.  They kind of worked, but some things smelled a bit.   The kids were younger at the time, and our washing machine was old, so maybe we'll give them another go. 

Do you use stain removers and anything to clean your machine every so often?

I do dislike all the stinky stuff too, but luckily my missus isn't a fan either, so we do ok.  My pet hate is liquid handwash.  We have the stuff everywhere apart from one bar of simple soap in the en-suite.  Handwash seems to be just an overpriced bunch of unnecessary chemicals put together to look and smell "nice".  Half of them seem to have something in them that makes my hands itch, particularly the "anti-bacterial" ones that she insists on.

I have watched the kids use it, and they pretty much put it on and wash it off in a couple of seconds.  My missus thinks squirting the bottle is more hygenic than using soap that has sat around, but I can't be arsed arguing about it, as she is the most stubborn person on Earth bar nobody.  She isn't ever changing her mind with the Covid around. 

[tikay]

"...she is the most stubborn person on Earth bar nobody..."



RAISE