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24 minutes ago, The Johnster said:
Friend of mine, Tina, an inveterate stoner and as usual high as a kite on this occasion, was a passenger in my car on a drive home from a band jolly in Cornwall. The car had got mucky over the weekend and I took it through the car-wash at Exeter services when we got to the M5. Watching her spliff-induced reaction to the experience (she was a car-wash virgin) was, well, wonderful.
Like, woah, dude, amazing…
Back - along, just after I bought my Freelander, I was in the habit of taking my {3-5 yr old} daughter along with me, to the drive through car wash. She thought it was great fun. One particular such outing, I had the front windows open, because of the hot summer weather. I only just remembered to close them as we entered the first, soaping, part, but not before a few small splashes came in through the windows. Not particularly worried, I grabbed both window buttons and hauled them, rapidly, upwards. We got a few more drops in, whilst they were rising, which had her in gales of, delighted, laughter.
What I wasn't expecting was the immediate start of them descending again, straight after the bump to a halt, at the top. Obviously I grabbed the buttons and had them on the way up again, accompanied by even louder laughter. Back up at the top, they started back down again, so I got hold of the buttons and simply held them in the Up position until we were far enough through the wash process to let them go again. At that point, I raised each window separately and held it there for a few moments, whereupon they stayed up. Checking with the garage people when I next went to get it serviced, they confirmed that it did that by design, but they hadn't got the first idea, what the purpose was.
P.S. She is over 18 now, but still has a giggle, if we go to a drive through again -
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7 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:
Hmmm, the original has vanished!
I removed mine, too; in respect.
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15 hours ago, Michael Edge said:
Today in Jersey
Not one but two almost identical Claud Butlers. My son found the red one on Ebay and restored it - both of these (and this rider!) well over 70 years old. Mid way round a very nice 25 mile ride, St Catherines breakwater in the background.
Good to have the weather to wear a nice red Jersey..... {I'm sorry, just couldn't resist.}
Seriously now, it's nice to see St Catherine's breakwater again, after 50 years. There were rather different circumstances then, we were arriving after a somewhat gusty crossing from Hamble in the RAFSA Slipstream {S&S 34}, to be greeted by 3 balls on the Storm Warning post. We were well relieved to have got in before that one had arrived. I can vouch that it was bad enough on the tiller for 3 watches that night - on the stops both ways - rather lively to say the least! Once tidied up, we went for a very welcome breakfast, where we got chatting to a couple of locals.
The Storm Warning sign was mentioned, along with the observation that it was good to arrive here, "before that lot took off". There were smiles around the locals, whilst they informed us that the warning for a 10 had been hoisted over 12 hours earlier. We had just crossed from Hamble in a 10, with a full set up the mast, little wonder that the tiller was banging the stops!! Grateful for a good boat, too. 🤔
Good picture, thank you.
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Much easier than trying to do it with Scalene triangles, where, when you have to consult your Batman about how your Mess Dress Uniform had fared - when he examined it after a
rathervery enthusiastic Dining in Night and what the angles were for some form of restoration to somewhere near to acceptable Uniform status.His reply, with appropriate sympathetic look - 🙄 - "OH SAH COAT!"
Living where you are, there's plenty of environmental assistance, just go outside and get a Log Book out... remember them? Horrid contraptions. 🤮
Best wishes
J
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10 hours ago, Sasquatch said:
Have read that about a dozen times now J and assume that it's a reference to an old movie which I'm not familiar with or something?
The only live action we get around here has to do with squirrels, deer and nesting birds! (Apart from the occasional illicit marijuana bust, but that's got like covid. Nobodies concerned anymore!).
Regards Shaun.
You maybe going to wish it was. 🤔 Back to the first comment, about tree height, it was a reference to your method of measuring the height of the trees - using right angled triangles. You didn't need to do the calculations, because you did it practically with that ruler, but the relationship between the Hypotenuse and the other two sides was still being used..... I'm sure that you will remember that Pythagoras discovered the relationship and it became known as Pythagoras' Rule. { A Squared = B Squared + C Squared }
Sports field square corners used to be commonly marked out using a 3, 4, 5; knotted rope; 9 + 16 = 25 - { ---'----'----- } Hence.....
..... are you really sure you are ready for this.....???
..... really???
The Squaw on the Hippopotamus Hide is equal to the Sum of the Squaws on the other two Hides. 🤔..😂
Once told, by the Maths teacher - so horrible, never forgotten.
Best wishes
J
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Just now, melmerby said:
He's just registered himself as an American resident for business purposes.
I have been to the USA for visits, covering many months, although I never got asked to register for passing stools.
Perhaps it could depend on the sort of excrement that is expected to be passed..... ??
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As a teacher for many years, I was well aware that to do the job properly you had to love the kids.....
...... it was absolutely fine as a principal driving force, but I could never manage to eat a whole one!
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Just now, jcredfer said:
There you go.....
You were paying attention in those Maths lessons, all those years ago. Your teachers can stop rolling in their final resting places, after all. 🤣
Aaagh, just remembered where you live now. You must have seen it all in live action, all three Squaws and their expensive imported Hippo Hides. 🫠
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1 hour ago, Sasquatch said:
Still on the subject of trees (this whole page will probably be about tress). This morning while sitting on the front steps drinking coffee and pondering the height of our cedars, I came up with a simple method of gauging their height.
My barn is 80 feet long. I stood back perpendicular to one corner holding a rule until the barn measured 16" at almost full arm's length. Thus every 2"=10'. With me so far? Then counting the paces walked to the corner of the building. 31 paces.
If I now find a tree and walk away in a straight line 31 paces and hold out the ruler at the same arm's length, I can roughly tell the height of any tree!
First, I measured one of our beautiful Oregon Mountain Ashes.
Approximately 70' or 21.3M.
Armed with a longer folding rule I went and did the same with the tallest cedar. 130' or 40M!
Lastly the pine behind the barn. 165' or 50M. A 1/76 scale model of it would be a whapping 66cm!
Squatch. Hope that you found that interesting.
There you go.....
You were paying attention in those Maths lessons, all those years ago. Your teachers can stop rolling in their final resting places, after all. 🤣
J
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1 minute ago, kevinlms said:
On the subject of settings on Google Maps, how do you change the frequency of direction advice on your route?
To explain that further, I drive along a main highway for part of a regular journey, say 10km.
GM used to be silent for most of the 10km and only give voice directions, when a change was coming up - at say a roundabout.
Now for exactly the same journey, I get about 4 instructions to keep going straight, the only turns are for lightly used local roads. Is there any way of turning these unnecessary instructions off, and just have the important one, such as the roundabout?
Easy, turn GM off and install the wife in the passenger seat. It comes with the speed warning feature, too.
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9 hours ago, JRSS said:
I shall look forward to seeing the videos and seeing what you can achieve in a full weekend, no doubt it will be something special. 👍
Likewise
J
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11 minutes ago, Adam88 said:
That cannot be true at all, they would all be suffering from altitude sickness before they could say anything.
TOWIE would delight in such positive confirmation of their beliefs and be delighted to bowl them downhill, with additional Essex enthusiasm.....
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9 minutes ago, ChrisN said:
Apparently. so I was told, that originally Bread and Cheese hill got its name from when there were lots of Dutch living in the area. The locals, got fed up with this, and dragged them up to the top of the hill, where they asked them to say, "Bread and cheese". If they said, "Brot." they were thrown down the hill, as the Dutch did not pronounce 'bread' the same as the locals..
TOWIE behaviour is apparently historically consistent then.....
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Within a mile of here are three tiny roads, not really even single track, basic farm tracks and yes, they are on sat-navs. They are narrow right from the turn in, how do you not notice that the wheels on both sides are riding the ditches and get straight back out whilst you can. Two lead to 2 x fords and the third, a narrow hump-back bridge across the river, at a sharp right angle to the narrow track. It's, almost, unbelievable that drivers of sizeable lorries will still go down them, leaving no option but to try the fords, as there is nowhere to turn round. The river bed consists of round pebbles the size of eggs and there is no way a standard 2 x wheel drive is going to succeed in getting across. Farmers charge for towing them out, as it takes quite a bit of time to pick up the gear and drive round, then drag them out.
There are less incidents since the County put up large signs on the approach roads a couple of years back, with a slight white lie, showing them as no through roads.
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What a wonderful place to have lived in, Shaun.
That said, if you had managed to purchase the place, you would have had far less time for miniature railways.....
Chioces, choices......
Best wishes
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You might consider turning him into a Tawny Owl, which is a few inches taller and with a somewhat darker creamy / flecked brown flecks. Not only would the actual height be closer, the slightly darker plumage would look smaller than the lighter Barney, anyway. Folks who want to look slimmer, wear fitting dark clothes..... no guesses as to how I know.....
We had one come to our back door for bits of chicken and similar meat, it started when he {she?} was very much a youngster and liked to sit on the old school bell, overlooking the courtyard, way high up just below the eaves. A few choice chicken bits left out on the top of the wall by the kitchen backdoor and it didn't take long. Left there and retiring slightly less distance on each visit soon had it sitting waiting on the kitchen outhouse gutter... soon it would wait on the top of the wall for the next offering. From there, easy, food placed and remain, to give out the next, then simply offer it from upturned fingers. All that was required then, was to stand with an offering on the upturned palm of the hand, but not so close to the top of the wall {making very sure that a thick sleeved jacket is worn - thicky talons do 'ave sharp ends!!}. I don't think it's mum was any too pleased, but never actually interfered - perhaps as well.
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6 hours ago, DavidB-AU said:
He's been in Peaces ever since... 🤣
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Why Maths is important.....
Note found on the refrigerator one morning: My Dearest Honey, You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you and I value you as a good wife. Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope that you will not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18 year old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel. Please don't be upset I shall be home before midnight 🕛
When the man came home late that night, he found the following letter on the dining room table: My Dear Husband, I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. As you know, I am a math teacher at our local college. I would like to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the Hotel Fiesta with Michael, one of my students, who is also the assistant tennis coach. He is young, virile and like your secretary, is 18 years old.
As a successful businessman who has an excellent knowledge of math, you will understand that we are in the same situation, although with one small difference - 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18.
Therefore, I will not be home until sometime later tomorrow.
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45 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:
Do they use the undertakers in Hull whose directors were arrested the other day ?
No, that's why Wiltshire provide those big wheelie bins..... 🤪
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1 hour ago, cctransuk said:
Would they still couple / negotiate curves if the chain was a couple of links shorter?
CJI.
One of the reasons for looking at the Accurascale links was that earlier attempts with plain chain - were very difficult to get control of in the space available - when short enough for realistic{?} looking lengths. The magnetic coupling removes that problem.
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13 hours ago, drt7uk said:
Hi folks...any idea where I can get hold of some more of the Hornby chain link couplings?
I made the mistake of getting the 1930s coach pack...and unbelievably it doesn't come with any couplings.
Been searching about 30 mins now and I can't see anyone selling them as spares.
Pretty criminal really these things must cost about 1p to produce, how could they not included them in a £85 coach pack??? Screams into a pillow...
Accurascale have some magnetic chain couplings, which can be modified to size, a little way down the page there is one from John ks using a wire replacement to the Hornby hook and another just down the page from there.
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4 hours ago, Kickstart said:
Only one I recall ever seeing on the road back then was an unmarked police car in Northern Ireland that I saw regularly.
Hardly a good idea to use such an unusual car as an unmarked police car during the troubles!
All the best
Katy
Similar idea to the MoD buying BMC Austin / Morris 1800s for the military to run around Norn Iron, in the 70s. Didn't matter what colour they bought, you were a target, as very few civvies had one {Most likely, because they knew the Army had them and didn't want anyone to make the wrong conclusion}. Just to be sure the Boyos didn't make any mistakes, they were all fitted with Regulation Issue, green colour, Fire extinguishers, on top of the exhaust tunnel, by the gear stick!
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Whacky Signs.
in Wheeltappers
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Hi, you're diagram, as labelled is quite correct as you have labelled it. It seems to me that the one on the wall is, in fact, also correct(?), but probably wasn't intended to have the same labels that you chose for yours.
It looks like the circles are about Professions which he belonged to, in the left-hand circle and similarly, Beards in the right-hand one, which he was a member of both. {Slightly dodgy grounds, in that that he was shown as a member of both sets, despite other, similarly qualified folks, not being included.}. The plaque is attached to the house, which gives some implied context to the reason for the plaque.