Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Google talk tax.

My chickens have a dull life without a few roosters to keep them busy an bewildered.

After an hour scratching and ‘yummie’ food searching in the drizzle, the oldies love the sit on the chicken bench.

BTW, google is not perfect. It doesn’t even know yummie is a word at all.

In the Netherlands we say lekker to express lots of things to enjoy. Remember it if you ever visit our country. The Germans adapted the word lekker because they didn’t have a word in their vocabulary like it.

 

[Perris]

Over the past 8 years I’ve been on this forum , google has improved soooo much. Since a few months I don’t even have to copy and paste it into a seperate site or tool to translate on my Iphone.

Other software like ChatGTP is even better in translating.
It makes life on this forum when things get complicated much easier. And it gives a opportunity to connect with ‘stranger’ people for all native English speakers too.

yes, that's one of the real good things to come out of the IT revolution, along with their maps of course!

 

[Perris]

Talking of paternity, I think Amadeo did quite well too. Now all the pullets have matured and are laying, I'm pretty sure that Rhondda and Idris are his daughters, as well as Fez.

 

[RoyalChick]

View attachment 3763758Google talk tax.

My chickens have a dull life without a few roosters to keep them busy an bewildered.

After an hour scratching and ‘yummie’ food searching in the drizzle, the oldies love the sit on the chicken bench.

BTW, google is not perfect. It doesn’t even know yummie is a word at all.

In the Netherlands we say lekker to express lots of things to enjoy. Remember it if you ever visit our country. The Germans adapted the word lekker because they didn’t have a word in their vocabulary like it.

Love the chicken bench!
Try yummy.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s mostly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[Perris]

an update on the BBC licence fee business; there are letters about that Guardian article published in the same paper today. This one caught my eye
"Zoe Williams’s article was shocking – the prosecutions appear to be a bit of a moneymaking machine for the BBC. However, it should be pointed out that the single justice procedure (SJP) is only used for those who plead guilty or those who do not respond to the initial notice within 21 days. If the person receiving the notice pleads not guilty, their case will be transferred out of the SJP process, and listed for an in-person court hearing with a prosecutor and, if the defendant so wishes, a defence lawyer. One assumes that those being prosecuted are told this.
Dr Dolf A Mogendorff"

That's a huge assumption. One of the things that has become obvious from the Post Office scandal is that their prosecutors did/do NOT follow the rules of evidence that they are supposed to and that the police have to follow. One judge described a PO prosecutor as behaving like a 1970s TV cop.

Then there's the issue of the PO actually delivering letters, so that people have opportunity to reply in 21 days. It appears they've been prioritising parcels for sometime, and sometimes don't bother to deliver letters for weeks at a time - including letters for hospital appointments and operations. All the while putting up the cost of posting a letter by far, far more than inflation.

 

[Molpet]

an update on the BBC licence fee business; there are letters about that Guardian article published in the same paper today. This one caught my eye
"Zoe Williams’s article was shocking – the prosecutions appear to be a bit of a moneymaking machine for the BBC. However, it should be pointed out that the single justice procedure (SJP) is only used for those who plead guilty or those who do not respond to the initial notice within 21 days. If the person receiving the notice pleads not guilty, their case will be transferred out of the SJP process, and listed for an in-person court hearing with a prosecutor and, if the defendant so wishes, a defence lawyer. One assumes that those being prosecuted are told this.
Dr Dolf A Mogendorff"

That's a huge assumption. One of the things that has become obvious from the Post Office scandal is that their prosecutors did/do NOT follow the rules of evidence that they are supposed to and that the police have to follow. One judge described a PO prosecutor as behaving like a 1970s TV cop.

Then there's the issue of the PO actually delivering letters, so that people have opportunity to reply in 21 days. It appears they've been prioritising parcels for sometime, and sometimes don't bother to deliver letters for weeks at a time - including letters for hospital appointments and operations. All the while putting up the cost of posting a letter by far, far more than inflation.

That's terrible
And I was upset about scrambled hatching eggs.

 

[BDutch]

an update on the BBC licence fee business;

I pay one of the providers in NL 7,95 euro /month to have a choice of about 40 TV channels and video on command with WIFI. For 2 euro’s more I can top it up with 5 BBC channels and a 5 more like History channel and Euro news.

It just made me wonder why you English people have to pay so much.

 

[Perris]

I pay one of the providers in NL 7,95 euro /month to have a choice of about 40 TV channels and video on command with WIFI. For 2 euro’s more I can top it up with 5 BBC channels and a 5 more like History channel and Euro news.

It just made me wonder why you English people have to pay so much.

one of the other letters addresses that:
"In the 1950s, there was only one thing you could do with a television set, so there was a valid argument for everybody who possessed one paying for our only broadcaster via a licence. But it’s not the 1950s any more. Now we have many more sources of TV material, and not all of them from broadcasters. So it no longer makes sense for one broadcaster to be paid by everyone regardless of whether they watch its programmes. It’s not even clear what a “public service” broadcaster actually is any more, and I’m fairly sure the public have never been asked if they want one.

I can’t think of anything the BBC does nowadays that isn’t done at least as well, if not better, by others. And there are plenty of alternative payment methods that would be fairer than the BBC continuing to be paid more than £3bn every year regardless of what it does.
Roderick Stewart"

 

[RoyalChick]

one of the other letters addresses that:
"In the 1950s, there was only one thing you could do with a television set, so there was a valid argument for everybody who possessed one paying for our only broadcaster via a licence. But it’s not the 1950s any more. Now we have many more sources of TV material, and not all of them from broadcasters. So it no longer makes sense for one broadcaster to be paid by everyone regardless of whether they watch its programmes. It’s not even clear what a “public service” broadcaster actually is any more, and I’m fairly sure the public have never been asked if they want one.

I can’t think of anything the BBC does nowadays that isn’t done at least as well, if not better, by others. And there are plenty of alternative payment methods that would be fairer than the BBC continuing to be paid more than £3bn every year regardless of what it does.
Roderick Stewart"

Hard to compare like for like, but what I pay in the US makes the license fee look like a rounding error!