On a positive note...

Good Samaritans Use CPR to Revive Baby Deer Found Floating in the Middle of a Lake

 

I like this topic because I don't always say this, but I don't think the power of positive thinking can be overstated. It will make a difference for you if you let it.

The first thing I saw when I looked at CNN's website this morning was this headline:

Not inevitable isn't totally positive language, but I think the underlying message is good. He's saying we're not definitely screwed, and that this can improve if we do what we've learned.

I honestly have a new routine and can't even remember what the old normal was, but when this is over I think it will be nice to shake hands again.

 

A very good idea for a thread Zen.
Well done!

For me the fact that Premier League Football is kicking off in the UK next Wednesday, and every league game is being shown on live TV.

Premier League fixtures and TV schedule: How to watch, which are free and Sky Pick channel | Daily Mail Online

Some you have to pay for, but a hell of a lot not.
I pay for Sky TV and Amazon Prime TV and some are being shown on national BBC, so a feast of football coming up.
When will I get out and smell the roses?!
That's the worry!
I have a 75" Samsung QLED TV and the picture is amazing, particularly in 4K and UltraHD.
I can't wait!
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Premier League fixture and TV schedule CONFIRMED: How to watch rest of the season, which games are FREE and what channel is Sky Pick?

• Premier League restarts on June 17 following 3-month shutdown due to covid-19
• Amazon Prime, BT Sport, Sky Sports and BBC to show remaining 92 fixtures
• Sky will have a channel called Sky Pick for free-to-air Premier League games
• Get all the latest Premier League news ahead of the restart right here

The Premier League countdown is on for the restart of English top-flight football as millions of fans eagerly anticipate its return, following a three month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The action gets underway midweek with Aston Villa v Sheffield United and Manchester City vs Arsenal on June 17, those four teams playing their games-in-hand to level up the table for a final nine matches each.

In the first full round of fixtures, runaway leaders Liverpool will continue their campaign in the Merseyside derby against Everton.

 

Lovely..
A lovely thread.
I read good news on the site Ever Widening Circles. Check it out for an uplift

 

Virginia VS Loving was a landmark case, and Civil Rights was the first cause I ever marched for, with my dad in 1965.
I recently watched a movie based on the case, entitled 'Loving'. It's on Netflix, and I highly recommend it

 

Our on the ball mods banned another idiot.
However, I have not laughed as much as much in months as I did watching his fairy tale on the link.

 

Did they work that one out one Friday night in the union bar.

It is almost as crazy as the guy who they awarded a PhD for his research on twin electron fluorescence.
His final (totally correct) conclusion was that it was totally random and of no possible use to anyone.
I could have told him that when I was 13 and playing with light bulbs.

 

I have 2 vividly contrasting memories of union bars.

The first was at Reading, when they opened the new union building that included a theatre that would rival anything anything in London's west end
During my visit to finalise the set up of the sound system, the students were discussing their first production and needless to say, opinions were varying between a Shakespeare play and a pop concert. Needless to say, I suggested an opera and they took my suggestion really seriously.
I never knew their final decision

The second was my visit to Brunel for the exciting job of checking that the plumbing in their new £30,000 bathroom upgrade met hygiene and building standards, they had based their design on work that I had done on refurbishment at Heathrow.
Unfortunately, I was unable to make it on Friday in time for the Freshers opening night, so I drove over on Saturday morning.
What I walked into was like something out of a war zone. In the guys toilets, their was not a single wash basin, toilet roll, soap dispenser or washbasin that had not been ripped off the wall. and only one of the toilet pans was not smashed. The girls room was sealed off, due to police forensic officers investigating an alleged rape.
My return visit the following week was also cancelled due to the whole area being sealed off following a stabbing the previous night.
I never bothered after that.
The problem was that in the interest of making money, the union management had allowed students to invite friends. All the low life that was barred from every bar and club in town, along with the drug dealers had decided to make the union bar their new local.
The level of stupidity and lack of common sense among academics sometimes defies belief..

 

That sounds like something that I would have said. I can always manage to put both feet in it at once and make Jane cringe.

You made me laugh, remembering the new Odeon open air cinema that Rank designed and built in Lagos. They tore up the original plans that already existed and started again, saying that the screen still needs to be at the front of a cinema, even if you are sitting on the floor on mats.
The first Odeon design was rejected due to lack of windows. When the architects asked why a cinema needed windows, they got the immediate reply
"To escape when (not if) the building catches on fire".

They finally managed to complete the building without a single fire and the engineers had a week to install the lighting and projection equipment.
To prevent damage, the screen was delivered and installed on the morning of the opening night, much to the amusement of the local people involved.
Despite having been treated to protect it from the rain, no one had bothered to visit other cinemas in the area and see that when the bad guys appear, the entire audience is jumping up and down hurling everything in sight at the screen. On many films, the screen (a white painted wall) had to be washed down and repainted several times a week, The Odeon screen that was manufactured at Boreham Wood studios cost £5,000 to manufacture and ship.

Then came the opening night.
The engineers were getting impatient waiting for sunset to line up the projection equipment and just as they were finishing, some idiot turned a light on that reflected right across the screen. More panic and rushing around, before one of the guys setting up the opening casually asked the projectionists if they knew where the switch was to turn off the moon. Needless to say, the original designers had taken this into account, hence the sideways screen.

Rank abandoned the whole project and the building was demolished.
I said that the whole thing should have been filmed and edited into the latest UK blockbuster.
I am sure that it would have won the BAFTA award for best comedy since the 1930s.

 

The public was recently invited to submit names for 50 vehicles that remove ice and snow from public roads in Scotland. By next winter, they'll be painted like the names and images on WWII bombers.



Here are some of the most creative submissions chosen as part of the naming project:

1. You’re a Blizzard Harry
2. William Wall-Ice
3. Brinestone Ploughboy
4. Sweet Child of Brine
5. Tam O’Salter
6. Lord Coldemort
7. Carrie Bradthaw
8. Spreddie Van Halen
9. Icesweeper Willie
10. Sleetwood Mac

As an homage to the late Sean Connery, five of those submitted/selected had James Bond themes:

• On Her Majesty’s Slippery Surface

• Coldfinger

• Dr. Snow

• You Only Grit Ice

• License to Chill

 

Really good news from the US. New rules for dumping heavy metal polluted ash from coal fired power plants is going to shutter dozens of coal plants across the country. This will reduce carbon emissions, make fish from rivers safer, and speed the transition to renewable energy….and keep 336,000,000 pounds of pollution out of public waters. For my entire life a wealthy few have exploited community resources for private gain. “Clean coal” was a myth created to keep the few enriched; there is no such thing. For the few naysayers, Biden has been spectacularly successful at undoing some of the worst vestiges of the nightmares from the previous administration.

Unregulated capitalism has a legacy of poisoning the earth and its creatures including humans. America has a responsibility to be at the lead to heal the earth.

 

Thank you for that. They would do well to watch their step-- Revelation 11:18 warns that God's intention is to "bring to ruin those ruining the earth"

 

Oh, I wish I could've seen that one. I could use a good laugh!

 

Zamboni’s Daddy among the submissions?

 

Really looks like comedy stuff. LOL !