@Moonie posted:I have had a bad day Velvet. So once again I apologise
Glad you’re picking up
Hugs for those who have had a bad day
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros and Moonie
Hug for any night owls
night yogi moonsie velvet summer
Good morning everyone it's a little cloudy this morning. Moonie and Velvet I hope today will be a better day for you both, joins in with Yogi to give lots of hugs. Tis a strange world we're living in at the moment.
I noticed from the front page that our 10 year anniversary is coming up on Monday! We're one of the oldest threads. How does everyone think we should celebrate?
Enjoy your day everyone 
Squiggle, one way to mark the 10th anniversary is for you to find and insert a title image which you would do by editing your original post. You would need to get the image on your computer.
I did this topic on it:
https://www.gagajoyjoy.com/top...-image-a-new-feature
The image then appears at the top of every page of the topic.
EC has done that for the Project 365 topic if you want to see what it would look like.
One can also use an image from the Unsplash website but the range of photos seems very limited.
Good morning and huge big 🤗 to our friends who could use it. Whether you’re having a bad day or a good one, we still value you just as highly we’re all in this life together
wow 10 years!!! That’s amazing. When does the best of BB start? It’s soon isn’t it? We could watch an episode and post together
Summer, best of BB starts on this Sunday the 14th on E4 at 21.00 for about 75 to 80 minutes (length seems to vary).
10 episodes, 5 from Sunday 14th to Thursday 18th, then the other 5 from Sunday 21st to Thursday 25th. Not known if this will be just the C4 series or also the C5 series. Mix of BB and CBB.
Baz has set up a topic for this so it's probable that much of the posting replies during viewing will be on that:
https://www.gagajoyjoy.com/top...er-returning-sort-of
I won't be watching as I wasn't ever a fan of BB.
Good morning everyone
Weather is cool and cloudy.
Gosh, time flies quickly Squiggle, I had no idea we had been in the Buddies for 10years.....and some of us were in the Freddie thread together before that.
Moonie, I hope today is a better day for you
El, how did you come to join this forum as you never watched BB, were you on another of the CH4 forums and moved across with us?
Summer, do you have a busy day planned?
Have a good day and stay safe, all
Yes Yogi many of us were in the Freddie supporters thread before, and I was a Rachel's angel before that. Thank you for the suggestion EL but I was thinking of a way that we could celebrate as a group. Summer's suggestion is a good one or maybe we could have a 'best of BB' ourselves thinking and remembering some of the things we loved, or hated. I will never forget poor tuneless Ben attempting to sing, Don't Stop Believing. Anyway thinking caps on! 
Yogi, I was on the CH4 forum though didn't post much so unlikely that anyone on this forum would have noticed me 
I tended to post mainly in the films and news sections. There was also a section where I had a thread about really hard puzzles for others to try and work out.
I did post one of those puzzles on the forum years ago though I'm not sure anyone tried to answer it. It's not one I created.
A rope will burn in exactly one hour, but at different rates during that hour. If you have 2 of these ropes and a lighter but nothing else how do you measure 45 minutes?
It's not a trick question, it's completely fair. It's one of those puzzles which stumps virtually everyone and when they see the answer it's surprisingly simple. You don't need to be a scientist, a magician, and just elementary maths from primary education.
Answer can be seen:
https://www.popularmechanics.c...iddle-of-the-week-6/
@Yogi19 posted:Good morning everyone
Weather is cool and cloudy.
Gosh, time flies quickly Squiggle, I had no idea we had been in the Buddies for 10years.....and some of us were in the Freddie thread together before that.
Moonie, I hope today is a better day for you
El, how did you come to join this forum as you never watched BB, were you on another of the CH4 forums and moved across with us?
Summer, do you have a busy day planned?
Have a good day and stay safe, all
Fankoo Yogi
I have just had a rather dodgy call from someone claiming to be from Amazon re a subscription I had allegedly made for Amazon Prime. This character on a very crackly line wanted me to fill in an online form to get my subscription back. The more I questioned him the less I was convinced of his authenticity. In the end the phone went dead.
I did not give him any personal information or fill in any forms online or otherwise
My caller blocker has been turned back on
@Moonie posted:I have just had a rather dodgy call from someone claiming to be from Amazon re a subscription I had allegedly made for Amazon Prime. This character on a very crackly line wanted me to fill in an online form to get my subscription back. The more I questioned him the less I was convinced of his authenticity. In the end the phone went dead.
I did not give him any personal information or fill in any forms online or otherwiseMy caller blocker has been turned back on
You did the right thing, Moonie 
I get lots of recorded scam phone calls supposedly regarding my Amazon Prime subscription telling me to press a button. I don't as I know it's a scam.
I put the phone down on the call. But the phone call isn't disconnected straight away - I only get the ordinary dialling tone after nearly a minute. I think that the scammers don't disconnect straight away in order to trick people in thinking that if they dial a number to talk to someone they are actually talking to the scammers. That's a standard trick by criminals trying to con people out of money. The criminals are making millions out of these scams.
Whenever you get a suspect call, after ending it, never ring any number straightaway, Wait a minute and make sure you hear a dialling tone before dialling a number.
@El Loro posted:You did the right thing, Moonie
I get lots of recorded scam phone calls supposedly regarding my Amazon Prime subscription telling me to press a button. I don't as I know it's a scam.
I put the phone down on the call. But the phone call isn't disconnected straight away - I only get the ordinary dialling tone after nearly a minute. I think that the scammers don't disconnect straight away in order to trick people in thinking that if they dial a number to talk to someone they are actually talking to the scammers. That's a standard trick by criminals trying to con people out of money. The criminals are making millions out of these scams.Whenever you get a suspect call, after ending it, never ring any number straightaway, Wait a minute and make sure you hear a dialling tone before dialling a number.
Thanks El. I appreciate your input
@Moonie posted:I’m watching the Maltese Falcon
I've only seen that film once, Moonie. A good film and quite a debut for John Huston, the director.
Film remakes tend to be not as good as the original. But sometimes a remake oveshadows the original. The Maltese Falcon is one such film. Here's a short clip from the 1931 original. I haven't seen it and doubt if I would bother.
Sam Spade is played by Ricardo Cortez.
@El Loro posted:I've only seen that film once, Moonie. A good film and quite a debut for John Huston, the director.
Film remakes tend to be not as good as the original. But sometimes a remake oveshadows the original. The Maltese Falcon is one such film. Here's a short clip from the 1931 original. I haven't seen it and doubt if I would bother.
Sam Spade is played by Ricardo Cortez.
I never knew that the Humphrey Bogart version was a remake El 
Huston and Bogart made quite a few films together such as "The African Queen".
One of there films was the 1948 "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" That also had John's father Walter in the cast. I've only seen it once many years ago. It's a good film but is a really dark film about a group of men prospecting for gold in the Sierra Madre mountains. It shows just how corrupting greed can be. I don't watch films made by the Coen Brothers, but if the film was remade, they would be the obvious people to do it. Watch it it you get the chance, but don't expect to like it.
@El Loro posted:Huston and Bogart made quite a few films together such as "The African Queen".
One of there films was the 1948 "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" That also had John's father Walter in the cast. I've only seen it once many years ago. It's a good film but is a really dark film about a group of men prospecting for gold in the Sierra Madre mountains. It shows just how corrupting greed can be. I don't watch films made by the Coen Brothers, but if the film was remade, they would be the obvious people to do it. Watch it it you get the chance, but don't expect to like it.
I have watched both of those two films on many occasions El. The African Queen has been on several times over the last few months
@Moonie posted:I have watched both of those two films on many occasions El. The African Queen has been on several times over the last few months
I had noticed that The African Queen had been on television quite often I've watched it at least 3 times, the last time not that long ago.
@squiggle posted:Yes Yogi many of us were in the Freddie supporters thread before, and I was a Rachel's angel before that. Thank you for the suggestion EL but I was thinking of a way that we could celebrate as a group. Summer's suggestion is a good one or maybe we could have a 'best of BB' ourselves thinking and remembering some of the things we loved, or hated. I will never forget poor tuneless Ben attempting to sing, Don't Stop Believing. Anyway thinking caps on!
Whenever I hear Don’t Stop Believing, I remember Ben and start to laugh, bless him
@El Loro posted:Squiggle, I'm happy for whatever you and the others want to do re BB
Ditto
Moonie, I’m glad you didn’t fall victim to that scam
I’ve had a few scam calls re Amazon Prime but they have been automated calls. I hung up on them.
El, you know I’m useless at anything that involves maths or logical thinking so I had to look up the answer
@Yogi19 posted:Moonie, I’m glad you didn’t fall victim to that scam
I’ve had a few scam calls re Amazon Prime but they have been automated calls. I hung up on them.
El, you know I’m useless at anything that involves maths or logical thinking so I had to look up the answer
Fankoo Yogi
I think you have to be very careful these days
We definitely need to be more cautious, Moonie
Goodnight and sweet dreams
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for the night owls
night yogi moonsie summer velvet
Good morning everyone it's cloudy again this morning and we are due some rain today and over the weekend.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Cloudy here, dry at present, some heavy rain and showers forecast later.
Just as well these ancient crocodiles aren't around any more
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-53011567
I hope everyone has a good day
I'm having a personal celebration of us being so old 
by having a wander down memory lane and going to the first pages, heartwarming and occasionally bringing a lump to the throat, I really recommend it.
For any of you who would have watched Wimbledon, BBC have published details of what they are showing of past Wimbledons - over 50 hours over the 2 weeks from 29 June.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53007200