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Yes of course I did. xxx

 

Of course you did Gal.
I posted that just in case some of our American/Canadian/Mexico etc Friends didn't know how Bonfire Night/Guy Forks Night came about in the UK. XXX

 

We will do a whole thread for it in the UK section. xxx

 

Thanks Gal.XXXXX

 

Come 'State Opening' can we repeat it - Cemtex isn't as detectible as Gunpowder and you don't need as much it. We could 'cop the lot' of them !!! - REPUBLICANS RULE OK !!!

 

We don't celebrate Guy Fawkes Day in America but it looks like fun.

 

Some bonfires are exceedingly dangerous. In Northern Ireland on 12th July each year the Protestant community celebrate the 'Apprentice Boys' march and firework displays, however they insist on building such large bonfires very close to housing estates.

 

For all sad words of tongue or pen-the saddest are these--it might have been. (John Whittier.)

 

I can't find the quotes thread.
So I will post here.

 

so many people see these words and they don't connect. that is the scariest danger, that people forget why they matter.

 

So true, so true. We have the wisdom of the past at our disposal, and most simply ignore it in favor of 'entertainment'.

 

I don't ignore.
But sadly the World has changed.

 

the world is always changing. that is precisely why those particular words are so important.

 

They certainly are my lovely.
Lest we forget.

 

What ships?
I see no ships, only hardships.

 

"...What ships? I see no ships..."

C.G., I can tell you where they are. There are 83 giant container ships floating outside just two of our (US) major intake ports from Asia, not to mention any others. When one does get in, there aren't enough trucks available to send the containers on their way, and they're just stacking up on land. Our store's shelves are unusually low or empty, (possibly in the UK and Euro also?)

And despite the simplistic-minded wackos wanting to point fingers, there is no one person or group or thing to blame. CNN did a good multi-view analysis over the weekend. It seems that our distribution system has become so complex and interwoven that a glitch here and one there, and the whole system locks up. Co-operation is great, until it stops co-operating.

 

Yes, it is the same in Southampton UK.

 

Oh well time for bed said Zebedee

 

what is to blame, is a concept called "just in time" which meant relying on flow of incoming materials and supplies, instead of warehousing any back up supplies at all, to continue operation when supplies get delayed. because, oh, that could never happen, and look at all we'd save by not having the maintainence and labour of keeping a stock on hand of anything we might ever need to continue production. i think the idea started in japan, or a university somewhere, or maybe a university in japan. i remember how it was all the big economic rage when it was a new idea. nothing can ever go wrong. no method of transport ever breaks down, as if, as if, like the idea of a train or a truck or a boat ever having mechanical problems, or delays from adverse weather, its like everyone just ignored that these are like everyday things in the real world. but of course. economic theories live in a mechanically purfect imaginary world, where nothing like the imperfections of the real world ever exist. and so the whole world came to rely on what is really an insane assumption, that was waiting to happen, that couldn't possibly happen, except then everybody got sick, and the whole thing came withing and inch of complete colapse. not really that non-obvious to anyone who has ever worked in the realities of transportation.

oh yes, markets always drive such wonderful and perfect logic.

 

"....as if, like the idea of a train or a truck or a boat ever having mechanical problems, or delays from adverse weather, its like everyone just ignored that these are like everyday things in the real world...."

Exactly what I'd meant when I said, 'one glitch here, oops, another there, and the whole system locks up.'

Does no one have any 'common sense' anymore? Or is it all a game they're playing on their computer screens? I fear it's the latter, and we're all screwed.