So what have you done today..?

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by figaro, Mar 17, 2012.

  1. It's not so great in a van, but looks interesting enough, as are parts of the A272?
     
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  2. spent many a happy evening in Petersfield usually ending with a kebab in "the square". The thing that I always found uncanny was there was just never any trouble in any of the pubs right up until midnight and beyond. It was almost spooky as everyone seemed to go to bed at 10 o'clock. The Steep road you all mentioned starting at "Bell Hill "off the 272 is also one of my favourites for its twists and turns and goes past one of my favourite pubs going back 50 years, I featured it on here before I think. Another nearby lovely run, starts near Goodwood/mid Levant, the B2141 which goes all the way to South Harding. Also another really good pub roughly halfway along that route although it's changed a lot now, the "seating area "seemed to stretch on forever.
     
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  3. I just looked it up -its a Yelloh Village site. Lots of facilities. Is it better -for you- than before- with its new improvements?
     
  4. I want to "laugh" because of the battery terminal, but won't because of the NIP. Sometimes we need two emojis!
     
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  5. I think the A272 is possibly never at national limit :( but I may be wrong. Haven't done it on 2 wheels for ages...
     
  6. It is what it is and there's no point in getting upset. Nothing that I can do if doing 58 here is considered such a terrible crime. It shouldn't be 50 anyway and the camera van guys know it, so that is why they hide here!

    It's 50 because of all the pedestrian crossings and houses that appear to be invisible. And at 11:45 am it is peak time for all the kids not walking to school!
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  7. Not sure, can only drive at 50mph on a NSL A road. I think maybe only on the straights it's 60 rest it's 50, 40, 30's.
     
  8. Out trying to steal the virtue of the Ladies but not in your home town there Chris?
     
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  9. Our old pitch has gone, to make way for the new improvements, the takeaway is now where the shop used to be, the new shop is a lot larger, with a larger range of stock, there is now an entertainments stage with a grandstand

    The place is a lot better visually, although the parking for new arrivals is smaller than it used to be, again, to make room for the improvements

    Overall, it like it
     
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  10. How middle class!
     
  11. Extracted my honey, 60lbs this year, (106 jars) down on last year but I lost 2 hives over the winter. I was left with one so I bought a new nucleus of bees which have done well. I need to let them build up a bit more then hopefully next year I can the third hive running again.
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  12. Who? Them, or me?

    Definitely not them - they're more "Love Island" than "Love Actually" :D
     
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  13. I got a bit of a codeine habit in 2020 after I partially dislocated my shoulder and it trapped the ulnar nerve when it popped back in (reaching up to tuck my left ear into my helmet, of all things).


    That's because you were taking opiOIDS, ie: resembling or similar to, but not a perfect match for, opiATES such as heroin. It's a bit like comparing a Lexmoto 300 to a MotoGP bike.
     
  14. Heroin is semi-synthetic, i.e. an opioid, hence the cooking in the jungle bit, smelling of vinegar. Morphine diacetate.

    Though the strength of fentanyl is hard to credit, it is clearly many times as powerful as heroin - by weight, presumably - it, as the lead player in the 'opioid crisis', is not remotely like dihydrocodeine. Apart from the difference that opiates are derived directly from the poppy and opioids from the laboratory, and they all cause addiction and essentially the same withdrawal, the intensity of which depends on the quantities you'd worked up to, 'opioid' doesn't mean a lot. Fentanyl and dihydrocodeine aren't like comparing a Lexmoto - which I presume is a bike - and a 999, as comparing a product of homo sapiens and that of some race from another galaxy who developed faster-than-light travel a million years ago but now use matter transmission. Possibly to supply the USA.

    Zomorph is morphine in sustained release capsules; oramorph is liquid morphine. I first had oramorph in hospital after crashing the Triumph. I was so bored when the nurses offered it I eagerly accepted just to pass the time. Zomorph I'd never come across before mum got cancer, but after she died I kept back a box for my own pain relief, but it was next to useless. Yet clearly, injected, morphine works well for dulling the pain of, say, having a leg blown off. And cancer pain. Not back pain.

    Dihydrocodeine is a better painkiller than straight codeine, though codeine is better for toothache, but the difference isn't massive. They all work by mimicking endorphins, are highly addictive because they reduce awareness, not only of external troubles but of one's growing dependence; and because withdrawal is so awful.

    If it weren't for the fact that by such methods you become as bad as the enemy - like ending fascism by rounding up the fascists and putting them in death camps - I'd say all opiate/opioid pushers should be shot on sight. It's a kind of slavery.

    In my 20th century horticultural life I enjoyed papaver somniferum for its aesthetic quality.
     
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