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But you're an online scammer yourself? Can you give some insights into your line of work promoting scam websites?

There are two names that I've come across, Davie Meddes and Brian Burgess. Check in at the Loose End shop on Commercial Street, they will be able to give you pointers: https://www.livinglerwick.co.uk/directory/business-directory/loose-ends There is a Facebook group called "Sew Far North" that might be of interest to you https://www.facebook.com/groups/1346509865787938

Nothing comes to mind but Darren Oldie might be able to put you on to someone, his shop is Oldie Antiques in the old newsagent place on Commercial Road. I take it's not something a clean and a few dabs of clock oil can sort out?

Actually used LV last year, this year it's some not heard of lot called Gladiator, same underwriters though, Markerstudy.

You'll get a discount for the ZE postcode from most of the underwriters, if not all. I personally chop and change annually, there's no benefit to brand loyalty when it comes to insurance and so look for what ever deal is going. I have renewed with Direct Line a couple of times when there was nothing in the price to others. I've heard others talk favourably of NFU Mutual though.

Are you going to reply to yourself with a link to whatever you're flogging, or are you really curious as to hear someone's experience from 5 years ago?

Never mind FTTP, or FTTC or for that matter vDSL, it was 4G for me until EE forgot how to run a carrier grade backhaul, so I'm now on Musknet Starlink here in the wild and data uncivilised Unst!

I'm hopeful that I might see past 65 if that's what living fast and free gets you, as I sip my green tea and think about my lunchtime salad! I think he was in the category of "I can't believe they're still alive" if I'm being honest, along with people like Ozzy Osbourne, Bez etc.

Couple of weeks ago I was up that way and it looked the same, no gossip about either.

Much as I would like to blame technology there were keyboard warriors in the dial up bulletin boards of the 90's, but as you were physically dialled into someone’s computer it was heavily moderated, and the more wayward quickly booted off. Then of course those disgruntled types would set up their own servers and try and encourage the gruntled to come over, so leading to the digital ghettos that are the fore runners of 4chan's of this world. I don’t think this is anything new, only the medium has changed, “anonymous of Tunbridge Wells” has always been there, we just have far fewer people moderating to deal with the more vocal. Things would be far nicer if we could go back to people just writing poison-pen letters that went straight into an editor’s recycling tray but at least the writer got it off their chest.

Interesting, you seem to be talking to yourself JolynnGood, why would you be doing that then? Please tell me that it's not some SEO optimisation spam posting for your fake ID business!

Probably going to be found propping up a few local gates and sheds in the near future! They might not be able to sell them to the public, was chatting with a BT engineer awhile back and they are not allowed to sell them because with the old creosote there's a safety issue, might be the same story "officially".

Out of curiosity (and when I should be working!) I looked at the NLS maps, see their 1950s OS map has a Post Office in-between Biggins and Hurdiback, closed in 2005. If you ask the Post Office for where their office is on Papa Stour they still show the same place that's been shut 18 years. This Guardian article from 2005 says it was just a caravan, could have been artistic with the journalism and it was a portacabin https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/18/lornamartin.theobserver but this old film from the Shetland Archives shows a proper building in the 1960s at the 6:30 mark.

With that question you may have heard something, as there's no one up there at the moment as all the construction people have gone off site. The local rumour mill has it there's some "financing" issue and a bond of some description is being waited upon.

I've reported some that I spotted to the admin who said that it was useful to have the prompt, as you can see some have gone. Was just saying how sadly forums seem to have become unpopular with the rise of social media. I've a "fake" (as in no followers etc) FB account for a couple of groups and the Marketplace as that seems to be ebay here. I guess it's just easy for people with an app on their phone etc?

Here's a view from the top of the hill from a few weeks ago. Did try insert image from URL, but it didn't like the Imgur link.

So excited that your second post is a "sponsored" link?! Ah-haha!

Three don't have any masts outwith of the Bressay one so...

Last time I went up to Skaw the road was barely a collection of poorly patched potholes and craters past Norwick, not been up since December so who knows what they look like now. When you think that you can't get PP for a track to join a road without it being 6m of tarmac due to the danger of stone chips, makes you wonder how they got PP allowing them to destroy the road.

What a rubbish job, trawling the internet looking for btc posts on forums, registering, pretending to post a valid comment, posting a blatant advertisement as a follow-up and then moving on to the next target. Mod, come delete this SEO spam! Four tops? Heaven is missing an angel? Wait, no, that was Tavares not Alverez...

The real Grant Trailers is https://grant-trailers.com/ and they do HGV trailer servicing and to quote:

It's not the ignition, and it's not a backfire from the cylinders, the real reason is a probable de-cat and/or straight through exhaust. When coming off the accelerator from high rpm the intake vacuum is still high but with the fuel cut off, you get a lean mixture that doesn't ignite in the cylinders, that unburnt fuel will make it's way into the exhaust, when enough builds up, it ignites on the hot exhaust surface and you get that tell tale pop and crackle from the exhaust and the much prized flaming. Some cars do this on purpose from the manufacturer, obviously the more sporty models but still from the likes of Ford and VAG, e.g. Ford STS 24V6. Still, quite illegal to de-cat but not to remove a silencer, and has been for quite some time, but if this does not get policed in an urban environment, which I can state that it does not except for when the rozzers are using it as a tool to disperse supermarket car park meet-ups, other than MOT checks, then I think you're on a hiding to nothing here in Shetland. I used to live many years ago for a time in a town centre near to the police station and county hospital across from a major dual carriageway and so now have nothing to complain about nowadays other than rabbits sneezing and the sheep yelling at each other. I have also typed a lot more waffle than I originally set out to do...

For clarity, can confirm it was the English variety that I think the conspirators go on about, not the current Scottish one, well, at least I think that's the case but who knows, I'm sure someone right now is typing away on some forum post somewhere...

There has always been the eccentric tin foil hat wearer, handing out pamphlets in the market square on a Saturday to anyone that will take one, but now they have the Internet. With the Internet a small minority can suddenly make a disproportionate amount of noise. It's still noise of course, Elizabeth I was a man, flat Earthers, anti-vax, anti-<insert random pet peeve>, mind altering con trails, Lizard people etc. Now the crackpot is no longer harmless, they can now spread misinformation at an alarming rate, and that is always going to be the worst aspect of the Internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHpN7-FBLs&list=PLLhOnau-tupSLiQbq8OXBFh3MCPyuXT8g

Sweden took the course that you have consistently proposed of letting it "rip" through communities, Sweden changed direction due to the sheer volume of of deaths that the policy was causing. Some advice, if the cap fits, wear it, just sayin... Sources: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00885-0/fulltext https://www.thelocal.se/20220110/swedish-government-expected-to-announce-new-covid-restrictions/