Preparedness for when

pineapple

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

...and for today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQ937a-OdI

I was thinking 'good on him'. Except then I realised that the video pre-dates the latest Paris attack. Still made me smile though. Wonder what the reaction would be on London underground?:rotfl:

Frugalsod

pineapple wrote: »

I was thinking 'good on him'. Except then I realised that the video pre-dates the latest Paris attack. Still made me smile though. Wonder what the reaction would be on London underground?:rotfl:

Well I suspect that they would have ignored him and pushed past him to get off at the station regardless.

Well it looks like the backlash for Turkey has started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeelbn3mvs

There is also a Russian boycott of Turkey starting. Not good for the tourist trade there, but I do not think even cheap prices would encourage me to go there now.

pineapple

Frugalsod wrote: »

Well I suspect that they would have ignored him and pushed past him to get off at the station regardless.

It's the British way of things innit
There used to be a well known character in Headingley, Leeds dressed like a cowboy and sometimes even on a horse. Well one day he got on a bus (without the horse) and burst into 'You are my one true love'.
The whole bus made like he wasn't there including me - and I was the person he was serenading.

Frugalsod

SHTF Australian Style

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12018167/Australian-police-rush-to-a-house-after-suspecting-a-domestic-violence-incident-find-a-man-screaming-at-a-spider.html

Frugalsod

pineapple wrote: »

It's the British way of things innit
There used to be a well known character in Headingley, Leeds dressed like a cowboy and sometimes even on a horse. Well one day he got on a bus (without the horse) and burst into 'You are my one true love'.
The whole bus made like he wasn't there including me - and I was the person he was serenading.

It reminds me of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYYo49R_ZS0

mardatha

Went back to dentist again today, she says it's a dry socket+ infection. Got more antiBs. Was thinking in the car what on earth life is going to be when we have no antibiotics any more. I've been in awful pain for a week, honestly worse than childbirth. What on earth did people do in the past?

moneyistooshorttomention

Frugalsod wrote: »

Well it looks like the backlash for Turkey has started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeelbn3mvs

There is also a Russian boycott of Turkey starting. Not good for the tourist trade there, but I do not think even cheap prices would encourage me to go there now.

That doesn't surprise me.

I'll admit to not feeling that sympathetic to Turkey at this moment - courtesy of the reaction of their fans in that football match recently when asked to respect a "show of solidarity" with the French for the recent attacks.

Not that I've had many holidays anyway - but I did have Turkey high up on my "must make sure I go there for a holiday BEFORE...." list and duly had a holiday there some years back. Its now on my "boycott the whole of that area when it comes to holidays list". I based that "haul it up the list and have a holiday there quick - whilst its still reasonably westernised" on comments from a Turkish guy I knew many years ago. He told me that his country was going to change from secular to heading towards hardline Islamist in a few years time. My assessment of him as a person wasn't a positive one - but he was intelligent and I believed he had weighed up the evidence and that would be the case. Well - as it turns out he was right and I'm glad I went there back BEFORE...

Shame.....as I do like the food and the countryside...darn it:(

Early New Year resolution - I must watch that English language Russian tv station I've got on Freeview sometimes - in order to catch up with what their pov is on the current rash of Bad News.

Mygawd - those photos of Putin's War Room recently were "Something Else = Agh!" - and it wasn't a lot of consolation to realise that they had obviously shown them to us to prove "We are organised. We will be ruthless in defence of our national self-interest". Yep...I think I had realised that one....

I've definitely got the impression of Cold Ruthless Focus from Putin's direction. I had severe doubts anyway as to whether he has any "humanity" much in him and he certainly doesn't have any of our "British inefficiency" in him (darn it.....).

moneyistooshorttomention

mardatha wrote: »

Went back to dentist again today, she says it's a dry socket+ infection. Got more antiBs. Was thinking in the car what on earth life is going to be when we have no antibiotics any more. I've been in awful pain for a week, honestly worse than childbirth. What on earth did people do in the past?

Well - I found one answer to that the other day.

I had a problem literally "blowing up" on my skin (cant recall the name they gave it now - sorta like a huge boil)...

I just went to the doctor to check my analysis of what it was was correct and took their prescription off them for antibiotics.

I didn't use it though - I just looked up my books and googled as well and decided to use garlic. As I recall - I just swallowed down some heavy duty garlic capsules for some days and threw more garlic than normal into my cooking for a few days.

Result = Cured and I don't think it took much longer than the antibiotics would have taken in the event.:D

Frugalsod

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Not that I've had many holidays anyway - but I did have Turkey high up on my "must make sure I go there for a holiday BEFORE...." list and duly had a holiday there some years back. Its now on my "boycott the whole of that area when it comes to holidays list". I based that "haul it up the list and have a holiday there quick - whilst its still reasonably westernised" on comments from a Turkish guy I knew many years ago. He told me that his country was going to change from secular to heading towards hardline Islamist in a few years time. My assessment of him as a person wasn't a positive one - but he was intelligent and I believed he had weighed up the evidence and that would be the case. Well - as it turns out he was right and I'm glad I went there back BEFORE...

Shame.....as I do like the food and the countryside...darn it:(

Early New Year resolution - I must watch that English language Russian tv station I've got on Freeview sometimes - in order to catch up with what their pov is on the current rash of Bad News.

Mygawd - those photos of Putin's War Room recently were "Something Else = Agh!" - and it wasn't a lot of consolation to realise that they had obviously shown them to else to prove "We are organised. We will be ruthless in defence of our national self-interest". Yep...I think I had realised that one....

The Turkish president is pushing for an islamic state and is also pushing for a rebuilding of the Ottoman empire, so will be looking to invade Syria and Iraq at some point. Turkey has been giving a lot of support to IS in the hope that they can benefit from all the chaos created. So our leaders are hoping to benefit from some Falklands factor or that it will keep the population distracted from their other crimes, that plus look like leaders on the world stage to boost their earnings potential once ceremonially kicked out of office.

RT is actually better at news because they are not manipulated by the Home office. That said I do think they are biased over Ukraine issues but much less so than in Syria where our news is pretty awful and in many cases completely inaccurate.

Frugalsod