Re: The Devil makes work for idle hands
I am not sure who I have the greatest crush on, Susie, or Jude!
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On 22 May 2021, at 23:01, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I think a lot of people in the UK are feeling paranoid and with justification because it feels as if our current ¡°government¡± is out to get us!
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Susan
On 22 May 2021, at 19:53, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dear All,
I¡¯ve figured it to be a good investment to get anti-malware software. Everyday I get at least one virus in the bin & I¡¯m beginning to wonder if it will get into the double figures & scams too are proliferating.
Dr Henry Kissinger Nobel laureate said, as regards President Richard Nixon:
¡°Even paranoids have enemies.¡±
Be on your guard friends!
Hugs John
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Re: The Devil makes work for idle hands
I think a lot of people in the UK are feeling paranoid and with justification because it feels as if our current ¡°government¡± is out to get us!
Best
Susan
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On 22 May 2021, at 19:53, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dear All,
I¡¯ve figured it to be a good investment to get anti-malware software. Everyday I get at least one virus in the bin & I¡¯m beginning to wonder if it will get into the double figures & scams too are proliferating.
Dr Henry Kissinger Nobel laureate said, as regards President Richard Nixon:
¡°Even paranoids have enemies.¡±
Be on your guard friends!
Hugs John
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The Devil makes work for idle hands
Dear All,
I¡¯ve figured it to be a good investment to get anti-malware software. Everyday I get at least one virus in the bin & I¡¯m beginning to wonder if it will get into the double figures & scams too are proliferating.
Dr Henry Kissinger Nobel laureate said, as regards President Richard Nixon:
¡°Even paranoids have enemies.¡±
Be on your guard friends!
Hugs John
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I have a cookbook which was issued by an Australian magazine, recipes that can be either meat or veg based as the main ingredient. I confess, I am rarely energised to do a proper cooking session these days. I do use a pressure cooker, though, and stuff it as full as it can go, when I want to make a casserole of diced meat drowned in lashings of veg. Best
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Lot of it comes down to diet John. You need to get more greenery and wholefoods into you. Hard I know in covid times and I have to say at times I get fed up of never ending cooking. Friend said to me that she never realized when she got married that it meant she'd have to think up something for dinner every night for the rest of her life :-) ?I went back to basics re diet many years ago when I was ill with chronic fatigue --- not unlike long Covid they reckon. I now know to do my shopping around the supermarket outskirts and only dive into the middle lanes where the food products are for herbs and stock and dry goods and I try to do a not out of a packet not out of a tin philosophy.?
Jamie Oliver's Veg TV shows have been great over covid stay at home period ?-- and there's his book called Veg I have been meaning to buy. There's also some great whole food recipes on forksoverknives website - don't have to be vegan to enjoy them. ?It is a never ending job cooking at our place. I've been a bit slack in recovery but getting there.?
Jude
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Lot of it comes down to diet John. You need to get more greenery and wholefoods into you. Hard I know in covid times and I have to say at times I get fed up of never ending cooking. Friend said to me that she never realized when she got married that it meant she'd have to think up something for dinner every night for the rest of her life :-) ?I went back to basics re diet many years ago when I was ill with chronic fatigue --- not unlike long Covid they reckon. I now know to do my shopping around the supermarket outskirts and only dive into the middle lanes where the food products are for herbs and stock and dry goods and I try to do a not out of a packet not out of a tin philosophy.?
Jamie Oliver's Veg TV shows have been great over covid stay at home period ?-- and there's his book called Veg I have been meaning to buy. There's also some great whole food recipes on forksoverknives website - don't have to be vegan to enjoy them. ?It is a never ending job cooking at our place. I've been a bit slack in recovery but getting there.?
Jude
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Just for my own interest I was assembling photos taken of a group of townhouses interiors I was interested in into a set of slides. Viewed one with agent and loved it but missed out, and another coming up shortly...allegedly.
I discovered if I opened a Keynote document and dragged photos into the side column it just makes individual slides .... Yeah!
Then I tried the same in powerPoint -- ?no such luck.
So I had a go at writing an automator action to do what Keynote does so easily......well I put it together and it worked...sort of... in that I got them all into a slideshow in the end.... however it bobbed up for the first half dozen seeking permission to take control of the Mac to do so ?-- I said yes six times and then it suddenly decided oh blow this so to speak and rattled the rest of the 20 into slides without asking :-) :-)
I just fell about laughing.
Obviously if I wanted to do that on a regular basis I would have to write a better action in some way giving it better permission somehow - though I had ticked the box pertaining to that. Plus in the case of this set of pix they were a bit large and I probably should have done an automator to resize before I dropped them into my ?Multislides automator.?
But it kept my brain busy for the arvo yesterday completing the task I set myself. ?In the end though I thought well I can just make them up in Keynote and save them to .ppt later if I wanted ?:-)?
Always more than one to skin a cat as they say.
Jude
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Dearest Jude & Peter, & others, I feel very ASHAMED TO BE SO DEPRESSED. But the truth is I am. It comes & goes. I woke up in the critical unit at Queens Medical Centre & didn¡¯t care if I lived or died. Chris may know this more than I, but I think it is a sin against God to commit suicide, but I have attempted it several times now John Phd
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I¡¯m sorry. I feel very guilty & ashamed for sharing this with you, but my depression has become overbearing. My Taxi driver today said he heard of a case where a man wanted to commit suicide:
¡°& she said go ahead I¡¯m sick of hearing about it¡±
He tied a rope round his neck & the bed & jumped out. He was paralysed from the neck down. He asked her to kill him & she pushed him off a bridge in front of a truck. Only his mobile phone showed what she had done. She got life, but onely served 10 years
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Joke, which might get me in trouble
What the hell it¡¯s been tough week! The Lone Ranger & Tonto were through the badlands of America, when they came across very aggressive apache¡¯s The Lone Ranger said: ¡°We might be in trouble here Tonto!¡± & he replied: ¡°What do you mean ¡°WE¡±:¡± So they let Tonto go, but kept the Lone Ranger & Silver locked up. The chief said in 3 days you die! The next day, the Lone Ranger asked to speak to his horse Silver. Silver nodded & within 6 hrs he came back with a beautiful buxom blonde on his back, & they went into a tent together. The next day the Lone Ranger whispered into Silver¡¯s ear. In 4 hrs Silver came back with a more beautiful, buxom Red head. The chief said: ¡°You indeed have a very intelligent horse, but tomorrow you die!¡± So the Lone Ranger asks: May I speak to my horse alone in a cave?¡± The Indian Chief agrees to this & the Lone Ranger gets as close up to Silvers ear as possible & shouts: ¡°FETCH POSSE!"
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Re: Boris Johnsons next step:
Oh, yes please!!!
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On 19 May 2021, at 18:34, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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Re: Boris Johnsons next step:
If only . . .
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On 19 May 2021, at 18:34, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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Boris Johnsons next step:
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Well to be fair to me I was on a fair dose of Codeine at the time, so not at my sharpest. Fortunately, I can manage on over the counter medicines now.
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On 19 May 2021, at 03:14, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
I think as you get older you have to keep your wits about you so as not to become a target in any case.
On 19 May 2021, at 9:32 am, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
?Well my wallet had be stolen from a taxi a few days earlier. I hadn't activated the credit card yet but it did leave me feeling a bit jumpy. I would say I don¡¯t think any of us can be too careful, Dr¡¯s, ex MI5 have been close to falling for these scams, they are getting more & more sophisticated. I¡¯d really like some of them to try & collect my credit cards & have the police in my apartment. They particularly pick on the vulnerable especially. It¡¯s like stealing from the collection plate!
On 19 May 2021, at 00:19, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Been a spate of daft emails and recorded phone messages throughout covid - think it¡¯s because scammers now have lots of time working from home - no wonder they don¡¯t want to go back to work in an office.
We¡¯ve been getting American drawl over the phone saying they are from Amazon rather than unintelligible usual Phillipino chatter.
I abused one chatterer who was trying to tell me he was from Telstra our phone provider with a tall tale and I said not to talk rubbish to me and waste my time and he hung up!
Just ignore them John.
Jude
On 19 May 2021, at 4:31 am, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: ?
These are getting more & more sophisticated. These people could earn good money in an honest job. The only explanation is pure greed & a complete lack of conscience.
I even received an email saying my new ?400 iPhone order was complete & would be delivered in 24 hours, as I¡¯d recently had my wallet stolen, I was worried. They stood to gain nothing except cruelty. The fraud office at my bank told me it was doing the rounds.
John
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I think as you get older you have to keep your wits about you so as not to become a target in any case.
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On 19 May 2021, at 9:32 am, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
?Well my wallet had be stolen from a taxi a few days earlier. I hadn't activated the credit card yet but it did leave me feeling a bit jumpy. I would say I don¡¯t think any of us can be too careful, Dr¡¯s, ex MI5 have been close to falling for these scams, they are getting more & more sophisticated. I¡¯d really like some of them to try & collect my credit cards & have the police in my apartment. They particularly pick on the vulnerable especially. It¡¯s like stealing from the collection plate!
On 19 May 2021, at 00:19, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Been a spate of daft emails and recorded phone messages throughout covid - think it¡¯s because scammers now have lots of time working from home - no wonder they don¡¯t want to go back to work in an office.
We¡¯ve been getting American drawl over the phone saying they are from Amazon rather than unintelligible usual Phillipino chatter.
I abused one chatterer who was trying to tell me he was from Telstra our phone provider with a tall tale and I said not to talk rubbish to me and waste my time and he hung up!
Just ignore them John.
Jude
On 19 May 2021, at 4:31 am, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: ?
These are getting more & more sophisticated. These people could earn good money in an honest job. The only explanation is pure greed & a complete lack of conscience.
I even received an email saying my new ?400 iPhone order was complete & would be delivered in 24 hours, as I¡¯d recently had my wallet stolen, I was worried. They stood to gain nothing except cruelty. The fraud office at my bank told me it was doing the rounds.
John
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Well my wallet had be stolen from a taxi a few days earlier. I hadn't activated the credit card yet but it did leave me feeling a bit jumpy. I would say I don¡¯t think any of us can be too careful, Dr¡¯s, ex MI5 have been close to falling for these scams, they are getting more & more sophisticated. I¡¯d really like some of them to try & collect my credit cards & have the police in my apartment. They particularly pick on the vulnerable especially. It¡¯s like stealing from the collection plate!
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On 19 May 2021, at 00:19, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Been a spate of daft emails and recorded phone messages throughout covid - think it¡¯s because scammers now have lots of time working from home - no wonder they don¡¯t want to go back to work in an office.
We¡¯ve been getting American drawl over the phone saying they are from Amazon rather than unintelligible usual Phillipino chatter.
I abused one chatterer who was trying to tell me he was from Telstra our phone provider with a tall tale and I said not to talk rubbish to me and waste my time and he hung up!
Just ignore them John.
Jude
On 19 May 2021, at 4:31 am, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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These are getting more & more sophisticated. These people could earn good money in an honest job. The only explanation is pure greed & a complete lack of conscience.
I even received an email saying my new ?400 iPhone order was complete & would be delivered in 24 hours, as I¡¯d recently had my wallet stolen, I was worried. They stood to gain nothing except cruelty. The fraud office at my bank told me it was doing the rounds.
John
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Been a spate of daft emails and recorded phone messages throughout covid - think it¡¯s because scammers now have lots of time working from home - no wonder they don¡¯t want to go back to work in an office.
We¡¯ve been getting American drawl over the phone saying they are from Amazon rather than unintelligible usual Phillipino chatter.
I abused one chatterer who was trying to tell me he was from Telstra our phone provider with a tall tale and I said not to talk rubbish to me and waste my time and he hung up!
Just ignore them John.
Jude
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On 19 May 2021, at 4:31 am, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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These are getting more & more sophisticated. These people could earn good money in an honest job. The only explanation is pure greed & a complete lack of conscience.
I even received an email saying my new ?400 iPhone order was complete & would be delivered in 24 hours, as I¡¯d recently had my wallet stolen, I was worried. They stood to gain nothing except cruelty. The fraud office at my bank told me it was doing the rounds.
John
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These are getting more & more sophisticated. These people could earn good money in an honest job. The only explanation is pure greed & a complete lack of conscience.
I even received an email saying my new ?400 iPhone order was complete & would be delivered in 24 hours, as I¡¯d recently had my wallet stolen, I was worried. They stood to gain nothing except cruelty. The fraud office at my bank told me it was doing the rounds.
John
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Re: Claps don't pay the bills - give all NHS workers a 15% pay rise
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On 18 May 2021, at 18:48, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Hello there,
I just signed the petition "Claps don't pay the bills - give all NHS workers a 15% pay rise #NHSPay15" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
Our goal is to reach 1,000,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
Thanks!
John
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Claps don't pay the bills - give all NHS workers a 15% pay rise
Hello there,
I just signed the petition "Claps don't pay the bills - give all NHS workers a 15% pay rise #NHSPay15" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
Our goal is to reach 1,000,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:
Thanks!
John
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still possible to get Covid after vaccination
Dear All, forget 1918 hate to be a doomsayer but we are getting into Black death territory:
I've been self-isolating for 17 months now. John
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Purler
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