Arming teachers is a great idea

[Audie]

I still have no idea what this means.

The safe calls the pol, I mean bobbies if someone
is stealing it?

 

[Audie]

Fair enough......
I know more snooty poms than you do........ for sure.


Fair enough...... I remember you telling me about your flat before. There is a tough rough neighbourhood up the coast with huge tower blocks of flats. The residents there have heavy barred and hinged grills in front of their heavy composite doors. And leaving their flats is the high-risk thing for them so they only go out at certain times. So it can be bad here as well.


As long as I can steer and do the sailing we won't have a problem. I'm quite handsome as well........ you might even fancy me....... @Revoltingest is the ugly one..... yuk!

Where I live in NYC is by no means a rough
nieghbourhood but you always need security.
And this building is designed for that.

In China, you will see how people even have barred
windows many stories up. You will also see a locked
metal gate in a stone wall, before you can get to
the door. The wall will have broken glass, barbed
wire etc.

I dont know how to steer a boat, but as long as you
obey the captain, all would be well.

 

[Revoltingest]

The safe calls the pol, I mean bobbies if someone
is stealing it?

None of my safes have a phone.
Some even pre-date the existence of telephony.

 

[Audie]

None of my safes have a phone.
Some even pre-date the existence of telephony.

Mine has an entire staff attending it.

 

[Cacotopia]

Why not put minefields at schools, with little bracelets that all the students and staff have to wear to not set them off. Then when a lone gunman/woman comes to do some good ole' fashioned American pasttime blastin', they get minced before they even get in the doors!

Claymores in the doorways of every classroom too.

I say that's a solid plan eh?

 

[Audie]

Why not put minefields at schools, with little bracelets that all the students and staff have to wear to not set them off. Then when a lone gunman/woman comes to do some good ole' fashioned American pasttime blastin', they get minced before they even get in the doors!

Claymores in the doorways of every classroom too.

I say that's a solid plan eh?

If it worked, then the perps would think of something
else. Razor knives if there's no guns on airplanes;
shoe bomb if there is a metal detector.

 

[oldbadger]

I still have no idea what this means.

Oh Gawd Revolting......... I'm supposed to be the one descending into senility....!

If a person has a very valuable bunch of stuff, possibly too valuable for insurers to want to cover (Indian gold dealers in Romford, England spring to mind) in addition to the bolts, bars, locks, chains, pvb, access control blah blah..... they will then consider what they might be able to do in the event of hold-up. .....................................
I've just written a page of info and then ripped it all up............. some things you just don't write about.

Can't do it......

 

[Revoltingest]

Oh Gawd Revolting......... I'm supposed to be the one descending into senility....!

If a person has a very valuable bunch of stuff, possibly too valuable for insurers to want to cover (Indian gold dealers in Romford, England spring to mind) in addition to the bolts, bars, locks, chains, pvb, access control blah blah..... they will then consider what they might be able to do in the event of hold-up. .....................................
I've just written a page of info and then ripped it all up............. some things you just don't write about.

Can't do it......

I don't have the kind of uper spendy baubles which would inspire such salivating armed robbery.

 

[Audie]

Oh Gawd Revolting......... I'm supposed to be the one descending into senility....!

If a person has a very valuable bunch of stuff, possibly too valuable for insurers to want to cover (Indian gold dealers in Romford, England spring to mind) in addition to the bolts, bars, locks, chains, pvb, access control blah blah..... they will then consider what they might be able to do in the event of hold-up. .....................................
I've just written a page of info and then ripped it all up............. some things you just don't write about.

Can't do it......

So, withal, would you self - describe as a rotter, blighter,
bloke, or a chap? (notice the Oxford comma, just for you?)

 

[oldbadger]

I don't have the kind of uper spendy baubles which would inspire such salivating armed robbery.

We all knew you was a cheapskate!

 

[oldbadger]

So, withal, would you self - describe as a rotter, blighter,
bloke, or a chap? (notice the Oxford comma, just for you?)

Geezer

How about you?

 

[Audie]

Geezer

How about you?

Hmm-you know, it never occurred to me to
have a one word description for myself.

Avatar vaguely resembles me. You pick a word.

Geezer... there is a scene in a movie, where
this ancient guy comes up to speak to someone
and says, "you remember me, I'm old....ahhh..
old...oh, um...."

That kind of geezer?


You sure you are not a blighter?

 

[oldbadger]

H
You sure you are not a blighter?

I think Blighters carry disease.

My Missus calls me her 'fella', so I am also a fella.

 

[Revoltingest]

We all knew you was a cheapskate!

Oh, I have some spendy gimcracks, geegaws, & thingamajigs.
But they're not amenable to easy resale.

 

[oldbadger]

Oh, I have some spendy gimcracks, geegaws, & thingamajigs.
But they're not amenable to easy resale.

Maybe not today, nor tomorrow, but human fashions move, rise and fall beyond human understanding.

I just thought of antique barometers...!! A specialist was on telly recently, explaining that although barometers fetched full figure prices at auction 40 years ago, today they attract much lower bids. On the other hand a BMW 250cc single cylinder motor-cycle such the one as my friend rode 53 years ago fetched $492,000 in a US auction, or so they mentioned on Pawn-Stars.

What we value could be a psychologist's field day.

 

[Revoltingest]

On the other hand a BMW 250cc single cylinder motor-cycle such the one as my friend rode 53 years ago fetched $492,000 in a US auction, or so they mentioned on Pawn-Stars.

I'm suspicious of that price.
Unless it were Abraham Lincoln's bike that he rode to
Ford's Theater, it wouldn't bring much over $10K.

 

[oldbadger]

I'm suspicious of that price.
Unless it were Abraham Lincoln's bike that he rode to
Ford's Theater, it wouldn't bring much over $10K.

The sale was mentioned in a printed box on the Pawn Stars program, is all I saw and know.

The BMW 250 single must have been a very rare machine. The only one I ever saw belonged to a friend, back in the day.

 

[Revoltingest]

The sale was mentioned in a printed box on the Pawn Stars program, is all I saw and know.

The BMW 250 single must have been a very rare machine. The only one I ever saw belonged to a friend, back in the day.

I've seen a couple.
They're no Velocette Thruxton for desirability or performance,
& you can get a decent one of those for only $20K.
Remember.....Pawn Stars is a TV show.

 

[oldbadger]

I've seen a couple.
They're no Velocette Thruxton for desirability or performance,
& you can get a decent one of those for only $20K.
Remember.....Pawn Stars is a TV show.

I'm amazed. Velocette Thruxton for $20,000? Circa £15,000? 55 years ago those bikes were so valuable. I'll have a look around and come back ......

 

[oldbadger]

I've seen a couple.
They're no Velocette Thruxton for desirability or performance,
& you can get a decent one of those for only $20K.
Remember.....Pawn Stars is a TV show.

Yeah....... I looked through the Bonhams auction reports and it looks like you're right.

Some President may have owned one?!!!!

I also noticed the Vincent sale prices, I had a tenant in the early 90's who had a Rapide...... he died a few years later and I don't know where his bike ended up.