The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I saw a meteorite! Just one, but quite a good one

[Vlad the Fox]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I saw a meteorite! Just one, but quite a good one

Just been laying out in the back garden with the kids and saw about 6 or 7 in the space of half hour, some big ones as well. Plus didn’t realise how many satellites you can see zooming around the place. 

Edited 12 August by Vlad the Fox

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I saw a meteorite! Just one, but quite a good one

 

1 minute ago, Vlad the Fox said:

Just been laying out in the back garden with the kids and saw about 6 or 7 in the space of half hour, some big ones as well. Plus didn’t realise how many satellites you can see zooming around the place. 

Went out to the ridge and ditch field just outside Gumley just now and saw over 20 in an hour, some really good ones too.

 

Much more impressive than the eclipse.

[Trav Le Bleu]

6 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

Plus didn’t realise how many satellites you can see zooming around the place. 

Busy up there ain't it?

 

You can usually see two or three at any given time once your eyes are adjusted.

[Innovindil]

11 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Fans of a circular object moving in front of another circular object are in for a real treat

Makes me laugh some of the quotes floating about. 

 

"This reminds us of what it is to be human."

 

Really? Sure the actual event is mildly interesting, but I dare say 99% of the interest is based around the scarcity of the event, if it happened say... Every month? You'd get a couple of crazy cults out of it but the vast majority wouldn't find it interesting anymore. 

[Vlad the Fox]

7 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Busy up there ain't it?

 

You can usually see two or three at any given time once your eyes are adjusted.

I’ve always seen the odd one but like you say, last night once my eyes had adjusted, they were zipping around all over the place, I didn’t realise you could see so many.

[brookfox]

Good luck to anyone who is getting A Level results today. Hope you/your kids get what they need for the next step in their life 👍

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 hour ago, Innovindil said:

Makes me laugh some of the quotes floating about. 

 

"This reminds us of what it is to be human."

 

Really? Sure the actual event is mildly interesting, but I dare say 99% of the interest is based around the scarcity of the event, if it happened say... Every month? You'd get a couple of crazy cults out of it but the vast majority wouldn't find it interesting anymore. 

In 1999 when loads of people went to Devon and Cornwall to watch it, where naturally it was overcast during the actual event, some folk still came back claiming it was amazing and refusing to acknowledge they'd gone to a ton of effort to witness NOTHING AT ALL

[grobyfox1990]

I have a colleague who I've not said a word to since she joined in June 2024, sits opposite me. On average she says a few words a month I'd say.

I've logged in today and seen she's deleted all of my intricate and detailed referencing on a final version of a client note. The easiest thing would be to ask her why she's done it and tell her not to do it again. But that would break my run.

The best course of action IMO is to send her a teams message which will inevitably be ignored and accept this will happen again and waste loads of my time again. But my run of not speaking to her will continue, so overall I win

[Milo]

I’m currently on a ship, in the Atlantic. 
 

We stopped yesterday to see the eclipse…it was extraordinary. Really mind blowing. And meteor shower tonight. 
 

There’s a chap on board who is from the Royal Observatory and he’s giving talks and commentary on events. I honestly wasn’t bothered too much about the whole thing prior to coming on board, but… 

[Sampson]

Easy to be cynical of things like this after I felt very underwhelmed, but I don't like how much society has regressed into ultra cynical teenager mindsets in the internet age, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and say realistically it probably needs to be a full solar eclipse to be interesting. 

 

I don't think I'd have known its happening if it wasn't talked about. At the half second glance with my naked eye I couldn't really see anything and using some filter paper I could only really see a pale filtered crescent shape no different to seeing a crescent moon really.

 

But when you see caveman paintings or hear stories of medieval Kings committing suicide believing the rapture was co,ing, it's obvious that it must be extremely noticeable with the naked eye if it's a genuine total eclipse.

 

It's a bit like the northern lights, saw them in Scandinavia a few years ago was just a kind of faint green tinge which moved incredibly slowly and some whispy clouds that I probably wouldnt have noticed unless i really concentrated on it, but I when I pointed my phone camera at it the colours looked pretty good and I got some of the classic green lit up photos, but it was extremely underwhelming in person with the naked eye.

 

As for "it reminds you what it means to be human", I absolutely agree that nothing can do that like natural phenomena can and it can feel genuinely cleansing, but I think a lot of people just let it pass them by unless there's a once in a lifetime event which you're told endlessly growing up is so awe inspiring that its never realistically going to live up to the hype.

 

I guess it's the standard reminder that with all the day to day hustle and modern cynicism it's easy to forget that Great Britain is a phenomenally beautiful island and that you can instead easily go and take a break from it all and probably see more awe-inspiring sites that remind you what it is to be human walking the Leicestershire public right-of-ways, let alone going to the Lake District, Norfolk Broads, Welsh valleys or Scottish Highlands,

Edited 13 August by Sampson

[Wymsey]

Water bills are set to increase more over the years.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2j1j5ypjdo

 

[Amin]

4 hours ago, grobyfox1990 said:

I have a colleague who I've not said a word to since she joined in June 2024, sits opposite me. On average she says a few words a month I'd say.

I've logged in today and seen she's deleted all of my intricate and detailed referencing on a final version of a client note. The easiest thing would be to ask her why she's done it and tell her not to do it again. But that would break my run.

The best course of action IMO is to send her a teams message which will inevitably be ignored and accept this will happen again and waste loads of my time again. But my run of not speaking to her will continue, so overall I win

I always love hearing about your colleague, one of my favourite ongoing Foxestalk storylines.

[Trav Le Bleu]

6 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

In 1999 when loads of people went to Devon and Cornwall to watch it, where naturally it was overcast during the actual event, some folk still came back claiming it was amazing and refusing to acknowledge they'd gone to a ton of effort to witness NOTHING AT ALL

I was there.

 

It was more impressive than yesterday cos it did go dark, it did go cold and the birds stopped singing. It was eerie.

 

I also got to see Phillipa Forester in the Penzance Co-op. Bonus!

[Free Falling Foxes]

5 hours ago, Sampson said:

Easy to be cynical of things like this after I felt very underwhelmed, but I don't like how much society has regressed into ultra cynical teenager mindsets in the internet age, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and say realistically it probably needs to be a full solar eclipse to be interesting. 

 

I don't think I'd have known its happening if it wasn't talked about. At the half second glance with my naked eye I couldn't really see anything and using some filter paper I could only really see a pale filtered crescent shape no different to seeing a crescent moon really.

 

But when you see caveman paintings or hear stories of medieval Kings committing suicide believing the rapture was co,ing, it's obvious that it must be extremely noticeable with the naked eye if it's a genuine total eclipse.

 

It's a bit like the northern lights, saw them in Scandinavia a few years ago was just a kind of faint green tinge which moved incredibly slowly and some whispy clouds that I probably wouldnt have noticed unless i really concentrated on it, but I when I pointed my phone camera at it the colours looked pretty good and I got some of the classic green lit up photos, but it was extremely underwhelming in person with the naked eye.

 

As for "it reminds you what it means to be human", I absolutely agree that nothing can do that like natural phenomena can and it can feel genuinely cleansing, but I think a lot of people just let it pass them by unless there's a once in a lifetime event which you're told endlessly growing up is so awe inspiring that its never realistically going to live up to the hype.

 

I guess it's the standard reminder that with all the day to day hustle and modern cynicism it's easy to forget that Great Britain is a phenomenally beautiful island and that you can instead easily go and take a break from it all and probably see more awe-inspiring sites that remind you what it is to be human walking the Leicestershire public right-of-ways, let alone going to the Lake District, Norfolk Broads, Welsh valleys or Scottish Highlands,

I think the media can raise expectations too.

I was excited for the eclipse and glad I viewed it but, the general light didn't dull half as much as some of the pre event reporting led you to believe. 

Also, the Perseid meteor shower is described as a treat/spectacular in the media when in reality you are more than likely to see 1 faint streak a minute - if that.

Re the Northern Lights: if you look at other objects in any footage shown, you can notice it is sped up.

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

4 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I was there.

 

It was more impressive than yesterday cos it did go dark, it did go cold and the birds stopped singing. It was eerie.

 

I also got to see Phillipa Forester in the Penzance Co-op. Bonus!

I know the timing was different but you're basically describing the evening.

 

Not something I would plan a long trip around.  Meeting Philippa Forrester in a Co-op, on the other hand....

 

 

[Izzy]

9 hours ago, Milo said:

I’m currently on a ship, in the Atlantic. 

More holidays than Judith Chalmers 

[Milo]

37 minutes ago, Izzy said:

More holidays than Judith Chalmers 

Haha - says you.
 

How was the Canaries? 

[Izzy]

12 minutes ago, Milo said:

Haha - says you.
 

How was the Canaries? 

Apart from two teenagers constantly moaning that the wifi in the villa was too slow, it was great thanks 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I know the timing was different but you're basically describing the evening.

 

Not something I would plan a long trip around.  Meeting Philippa Forrester in a Co-op, on the other hand....

 

 

It was more like stalking, but yeah.

[UniFox21]

7 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Water bills are set to increase more over the years.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2j1j5ypjdo

 

What I love about this is the government regulator giving the go ahead for bills to increase whilst the government go on about trying to cut costs.

[bovril]

I feel like we no longer get many quaint, thoughtful films about not much. Like the Station Agent or Up in the Air. A dying genre. 

[Muzzy_no7]

Full grown adults that keep going back to Disneyland. Bit weird.

[FoyleFox]

13 hours ago, Milo said:

I’m currently on a ship, in the Atlantic. 
 

We stopped yesterday to see the eclipse…it was extraordinary. Really mind blowing. And meteor shower tonight. 
 

There’s a chap on board who is from the Royal Observatory and he’s giving talks and commentary on events. I honestly wasn’t bothered too much about the whole thing prior to coming on board, but… 

That is a great picture. 

Which ship? Some friends were between Greenland and Iceland and it was disappointingly cloudy.

[OntarioFox]

Eclipse was pretty good here on Merseyside, but i think within the UK you really needed to be in west Wales to get the true experience.

 

Here it was more like sunset at its peak, but it was very cool to see with lenses. I took a few pics on Crosby Beach. I was told we had 91% coverage, I think Pembrokeshire had something like 94-95%. The thing that really amazed me is just how light it still was with the Sun running at effectively 9% of full power. Like I said, if nobody told you it could have been mistaken for the twilight hours, at least until you looked up and realised the sun was still high in the sky.

 

First pic was at peak coverage without the camera lens filter thingy I borrowed, second one was a few minutes beforehand with it. My phone camera is crap so that was the best I got, but you got a good view looking through it with one eye.

 

Edited 14 August by OntarioFox