I just can't understand why anyone wears a walkman out in the countryside.
We all escape from and to different things. Music is a very important part of my life.
Fair enough, companionship is important to me when walking, but I seem to be in a minority in this respect, at least in urw.
You're never alone with a mobile phone (reception permitting). I like to be either with my wife or with a few friends - I wouldn't like walking in one of those coach party setups that the ramblers do. I'm quite happy alone too, though I enjoy chatting to the wife via modern technology from a scenic hilltop viewpoint, particularly when she's in work! I can even show her the view she's missing. -- R o o n e y
"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone
Probably. I'm also honest enough to admit that at times I'm rather arrogant, or at least can't accept other people's points of view. If I feel on principal that something is intrusive, then I struggle to accept that any- one else can think differently, and not be wrong. If they aren't wrong then I am, which I can't accept either. This has suddenly just scared me, since it sounds disturbingly like a religious fundamentalist position!
It would be a dull old world if we all agreed about everything. -- R o o n e y
"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone
"Rooney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]
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No! You are, so there!
PS - what will you be driving?
Yet again, you have the creepy knack of being able to reply to my posts minutes after I have made them. Thus adding to my belief that you are in fact a housebound bitter old man living on the fifth floor of a block of flats in Tower Hamlets.
"Rooney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]
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No! You are, so there!
PS - what will you be driving?
Yet again, you have the creepy knack of being able to reply to my posts minutes after I have made them. Thus adding to my belief that you are in fact a housebound bitter old man living on the fifth floor of a block of flats in Tower Hamlets.
Ian.
It's all down to modern technology, and the German server. Are you still running a meths-burning PC? And why are you using Mailgate!?
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ps. Why do you ask?
I would like to be able to recognise it, of course! -- R o o n e y
"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone
"Rooney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]
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It's all down to modern technology, and the German server. Are you still running a meths-burning PC? And why are you using Mailgate!?
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ps. Why do you ask?
I would like to be able to recognise it, of course!
Even so, you still have to be logged on at the same time as I am. And that happens with worrying consistency. Mailgate is fine. It's a hang up from the days when I was employed as a contract net surfer and needed a convenient back door into newsgroups. Though my contract didn't actually *say* that.
"Rooney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]
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It's all down to modern technology, and the German server. Are you still running a meths-burning PC? And why are you using Mailgate!?
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ps. Why do you ask?
I would like to be able to recognise it, of course!
Even so, you still have to be logged on at the same time as I am.
As always.
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And that happens with worrying consistency. Mailgate is fine. It's a hang up from the days when I was employed as a contract net surfer and needed a convenient back door into newsgroups. Though my contract didn't actually *say* that.
Ian.
That is exactly why I'm not telling you.
Aha! -- R o o n e y
"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone
"Rooney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]
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It's all down to modern technology, and the German server. Are you still running a meths-burning PC? And why are you using Mailgate!?
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ps. Why do you ask?
I would like to be able to recognise it, of course!
Even so, you still have to be logged on at the same time as I am.
Does that make you a bitter old man living on the fifth floor of Jarvis House, Shuttleworth House or Trent View? -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"
Forsythia and daffs in my garden, to the horses in the field beyond. Everything is yellow and green at the moment.
Yellow and green horses... somewhere near a mind-altering chemical spill, perhaps? ;-)
Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
It's a completely different experience, but quite how isn't something I can put into words. I notice more walking on my own, and the rest of the world no longer matters, it is so easy to forget about any other problems and worries when out on your own. If there's no-one else around then this feeling is magnified; walking over Carrock Fell and High Pike last week I only saw two people, from a distance.
Walking with other people is great when you've got a long, dull trudge along the road back to the car :-)
I didn't say I have never walked on my own! I prefer to do the short exercise walks on my own, but there is a clue in your last sentence, I wouldn't drive (say) 60 miles to the Yorkshire Dales on my own, stopping for a decent meal on the way back, and cruising through great countryside as the sun sinks. (And gets in that bloody awkward side window position which is hard to block with the sun visor). :-) -- Gordon Harris
I noticed that Message-ID: <[email hidden]> from Graham Seed contained the following:
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Good point. I sometimes have *hunt the phone* when it hasn't been left on the charger. If you ring it and it's hidden in the chocolate biscuit tin (kids eh?) you won't hear it anyway.
Sorry I'm late with this but I'm behind due to heavy workload.
I have the most stupid cordless phone in the world. It has a pager facility so you can find it if it gets lost. However, I have little hearing in one ear so I can only find the thing by judging the volume of the sound. But the tone they have used for the pager is a tone which starts from zero and gradually gets louder until it repeats.
I can hear it - I know it's in the room - but finding it often has me running round like a headless chicken.
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