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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21306 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Teenagers think bacon comes from sheep Everyone knows bacon comes from pigs - apart from teenagers it seems. ByMirror.co.uk00:00, 21 JAN 2010Updated11:00, 4 FEB 2012News Everyone knows bacon comes from pigs - apart from teenagers it seems. A survey found 26% reckon rashers are a sheep product. Oh, and 29% believe oats grow on trees. The study also found that 17% of children and young adults think eggs are a core ingredient in bread. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
The results of my visit to the hospital last week just came in. 1. COLON, RANDOM BIOPSIES: Sounds like nothing to worry about, but I suppose I need to see the dr. again to be told that. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
David because you grew polyps you get to do this again in 5 years. I recommend no anesthesia as I did with my last one 3 months ago, it was fascinating to watch on the large high def color monitor. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
No Ambrosia was Spilled, Spoiled or in any way harmed during the production of this motion picture. (Thanks to the indefinite shelf life of marshmallows.) David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66359 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
No Ambrosia was Spilled, Spoiled or in any way I sure hope none was spilled, Starbuck wouldn't be happy. ;) Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
DMMD Send message Joined: 14 Feb 00 Posts: 118 Credit: 71,564,960 RAC: 0 |
be well all see be try be yourselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo author yourself the only hope Other than my best. Asteroids. Mega Volcanos. Idiots with nuclear weapons. Hope is not lost for the necessary pruning. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
This is very strange. Today I received a local newspaper from Blekinge! in the mailbox addressed to me. It's called BAS Blekinge. Blekinge is a county in southern Sweden where my father comes from. But he died about 10 years ago. Creepy http://www.basblekinge.se/ |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
This is very strange. Computers never forget. Recently got an offer addressed to Mom, who passed away in 1990! Scammers sell mailing lists too. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
This is very strange. But my father never used a computer. And the only time I have mentioned Karlskrona and Blekinge on the Internet is in this SETI forum somewhere. Putin? After all my father was an officer in the Royal Navy.... |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
But my father never used a computer. A lot of records have been archived to computer. Grant Darwin NT |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
But my father never used a computer. True. But in this case VERY far fetched. I will ask my brother if he have got the same newspaper. After all he has been to Blekinge/Karlskrona more than I have. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
But my father never used a computer. And that is the issue. Public and private databases and data mining. They found his name as being a past resident, the data mining associated you as a relative, you get a few sample copies and a pitch. It is going to get much worse and spooky before people demand that data about themselves it theirs not some corporation's to buy ans sell. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
But my father never used a computer. You both are wrong. I know very well about databases and data mining. That's what I do for a living. Done that for more than 30 years! I'm 100% certain that there is no stored information that link my father to me in any database. The ONLY database is perhaps the Swedish IRS but they don't give that type of information to ANY corporation. And that information in this case are not accessible anymore anyway! Get it? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
But my father never used a computer. Get what you think, but birth / death / marriage records would link, if they scanned them 50 years ago even on to microfiche and today OCR them ... any records from way back say of a gift card for a mail order ... there are hundreds of ways they can find out the information much of which is already in private hands. Someone is getting good money taking 30 or 40 different databases and merging them to build dossiers on every person. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
But my father never used a computer. Seriously. Do you really think a very tiny local newspaper can afford to do that research just to perhaps get some new subscriber? Not even in the US. LOL:) |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Could someone have done one of those family tree searches that blew the dust off his records and brought him to the attention of erm... *prepare to expose ignorance to world* ... bots that then tracked you? Your brother getting one might indicate that. I don't think bots cost much once deployed... I recently had to dredge my memory about all sorts of historical information relating to my mum and dad, their marriage and divorce etc etc for some official form. I know things like that are supposed to be protected by data protection laws, but that doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be kept secure by any means. I was astonished how quickly reporters from reuters tracked me down here in the UK following an incident that occurred to my sister in Malawi some years ago. They knew everything about both of us (perhaps not everything fortunately - but a lot of a lot) without ever having interviewed us, and that was years before the internet had become what it is today. It took them barely two hours to find me and have my phone number and address. We didn't even have the same surnames by then. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66359 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Could someone have done one of those family tree searches that blew the dust off his records and brought him to the attention of erm... *prepare to expose ignorance to world* ... bots that then tracked you? Your brother getting one might indicate that. I don't think bots cost much once deployed... Here in the US We have unlisted phone numbers, does that exist in the UK Annie? Or am I just whistling Dixie... Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Everything is possible of course. In my case it's not that easy. There are records about my father and me. But how to access them? My father was an officer in the Royal Navy. Those records are hidden. He was in charge of protecting the Stockholm Archipelago with mines. He used to say to me when he came home with classified documents. "Only I and the Russians knows about this" :) As for me I have only been to Blekinge a couple of times. And why do BAS Blekinge think I would subscribe to them. There was a funny article in the paper though. Once per year they celebrate the Bee. "Många stack på biets dag" Word game impossible to translate:) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
This article from SVT (in Swedish) is from 2013, but is hasn't improved since then, on the contrary. So they may very well have started a subscription scam, to survive: I'm not going to contact them. If they still want to send their newspaper to me, go ahead. I will not pay for it however. The story is very weird though. Come to think about it. The only source that I can think about is the SETI forum. I think I have mentioned Karlskrona, Royal Navy base. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Here in the US We have unlisted phone numbers, does that exist in the UK Annie? We have what are called "ex-directory" numbers here, Vic - which I think must be similar to your unlisted ones, but just in case they're not *begin whistling Dixie too* ;) |
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