RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 23 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 23 4 hours ago, Hroth said: I just had another thought. Does this mean that if we peel back the skin of our forehead, we can locate our HSIN? (H. Sapiens Identification Number) Its not a handy place to put it! 2 hours ago, iL Dottore said: Presumably the denizens of Telfland have barcodes as they spend so much time behind them (bars that is) And looking through them while the sun shines. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 1 hour ago, AndyID said: Or born in the USA. 90% of white males are. Come to think of it I saw a urologist recently who said he could fix that PDQ. I politely declined 😮 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 1 hour ago, AndyID said: Or born in the USA. 90% of white males are. 90% of white males are born in the USA? 2 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 1 hour ago, pH said: 90% of white males are born in the USA? I think that was the urologist but I might be wrong. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 2 hours ago, pH said: 90% of white males are born in the USA? Context laddie! Context 😁 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 23 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23 I had another message about the Cincinnati hippos. Apparently “Tucker” is now swimming with fishes. Tilapia to be precise. Though I think he probably isn’t really swimming but elegantly bouncing off the bottom of the pool. 6 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 24 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 (edited) 12 hours ago, Tony_S said: I had another message about the Cincinnati hippos. Apparently “Tucker” is now swimming with fishes. Reading that it makes it sound as if someone from the Colombian Hippo mob has got to him! After the disappointment over the LST results, I indulged in some therapy. The first was a visit to the BRMC workshop day, where I was lucky enough to meet up with Coastal View. He should have stayed a little longer, as shortly after his departure, and just as I was about to leave, Richard Webster turned up with a new loco EP from Dapol. Oh it is lovely, will appeal to a lot of modellers, and, having taken the oath, can say no more: Well, I can say it's not a Swindon product, but I will be looking to get one when they are eventually released. Suitably buoyed up, I then visited Lidl and bought a pair of their mini workmate clones. The pair were less than the cost of a single accessory stand which I will need for both the new table say and the bench planer; even less with the £10 voucher Lidl had given me. I now need to make some ply bases for the machines so then can be clamped into place when needed. When the saw and planer is not in use, they can be removed, and the clone(s) redeployed to other duties. I suppose I could even make a baseboard style worktable that can be clamped in place for the bigger jobs? Edited January 24 by Happy Hippo 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalview Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Applied online for a new passport last Tuesday. Amazed when said passport turned up with Royal Mail today. The passport office web site says typical turn around is three weeks which I thought might be a bit optimistic so getting it in just over a week was rather impressive. 8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 24 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 18 hours ago, AndyID said: Come to think of it I saw a urologist recently who said he could fix that PDQ. I politely declined 😮 Yeah, give me some skin Brutha!🤣 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 24 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 Further to the above, it reminds me of the old lady who went to the Mohel, and asked for all the redundant skin. 'I'm going to stitch them together and make a purse' she told the Mohel. 'It would be very high quality and soft to the touch' he replied. 'Oh it's better than that' shrilled the old lady. 'When I rub it, the purse will turn into a suitcase....' 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabato Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Goood grief! 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 24 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, coastalview said: Applied online for a new passport last Tuesday. Amazed when said passport turned up with Royal Mail today. The passport office web site says typical turn around is three weeks which I thought might be a bit optimistic so getting it in just over a week was rather impressive. Same with driving licences I applied last Thursday, it arrived Monday Morning, only got 4 years life on it though... must be really annoying to have to apply at full fee for a new licence at 69 3/4 5 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 1 minute ago, TheQ said: Same with driving licences I applied last Thursday, it arrived Monday Morning, only got 4 years life on it though... must be really annoying to have to apply at full fee for a new licence at 69 3/4 Try turning 70 when living abroad! DVLA wouldn't want to know, of course, so a local licence is needed. I think I applied in July, got a first communication back on Boxing Day, 6 weeks after the old licence had expired! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Greetings All, Back from Blighty following a most enjoyable business/pleasure long weekend. And boy has London become expensive: a hotel room for 4 nights that cost me about £600 last May, will now cost £1200! this coming May. (Same room type same hotel). Digression aside, I flew home LCY - ZRH which despite a delayed take-off thanks to a robust tailwind got the plane to ZRH on time. My rail journey home was via Olten, necessitating a platform change (simple enough) and awaiting me was a DB ICE-4 (these are used for routes from Germany to Switzerland). It was almost as bad as a Southern Class 377, apart from DB’s current problems (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/14/its-the-same-daily-misery-germanys-terrible-trains-are-no-joke-for-a-nation-built-on-efficiency) on the (relatively new) ICE-4 the seats (even in 1st class) were hideously uncomfortable and some didn’t even align with the windows. The trainset was designed and built by Siemens and also subcontracted to Bombardier/Alstom (which may explain a thing or two). But at least it was on time! Why is it, I wonder, that BREL (and their SNCF, DB, FS and SBB counterparts) could design such comfortable and long lasting carriages and rolling stock, yet their modern replacements - Stadler, Siemens, Alstom etc. - produce rolling stock where the best you can hope for is “somewhat uncomfortable” I don’t think it’s money (the entire ICE-4 order was worth about €6 billion [Wiki]), any ideas, guys? High standards of safety built into such train-sets is vitally important, but to what end if nobody wants to ride them? 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted January 24 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24 2 hours ago, coastalview said: Applied online for a new passport last Tuesday. Amazed when said passport turned up with Royal Mail today. The passport office web site says typical turn around is three weeks which I thought might be a bit optimistic so getting it in just over a week was rather impressive. The last time I renewed my passport a few years ago the quoted turnround time was twelve weeks but in the event I received it in less than three. I wonder if they routinely quote pessimistically to try to minimise the number of complaints they get? Dave 5 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 hours ago, coastalview said: Applied online for a new passport last Tuesday. Amazed when said passport turned up with Royal Mail today. The passport office web site says typical turn around is three weeks which I thought might be a bit optimistic so getting it in just over a week was rather impressive. The way OFCOM are currently talking, Royal Mail will be able to deliver mail whenever they feel like it. Or even if they feel like doing a delivery run... 5 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 24 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Sabato said: Goood grief! Welcome to the reality of TNM🤣 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Some minor excitement at SM42 Towers. We have been overfliwn by the air ambulance which is now sat on the green outside the pub about 300 yards away. Not sure what is going on beyond a medical emergency but it arrived about 2 minutes before the first paramedic vehicle. Hopefully it will all turn out OK for whoever needs it. Andy 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 24 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 Shock Horror! I managed to clear the top of the little workbench in the garage for the first time in a long time. The same happened to the tool bench along side it. Of course, I now have to sort through the stuff that was removed and piled on the table🤣 6 3 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Moving piles of stuff and making them into neater piles elsewhere is a regular activity at SM42 Towers. Andy 6 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 24 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 3 minutes ago, SM42 said: Moving piles of stuff and making them into neater piles elsewhere is a regular activity at SM42 Towers. Andy But are they smaller piles, as the detritus between the useful stuff is disposed of with great ceremony? 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie Whizz Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I always find that having tidied-up, irrespective of how much I threw away, what is left invariably takes-up about 50% more space than it did before … 4 9 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, SM42 said: Moving piles of stuff and making them into neater piles elsewhere is a regular activity at SM42 Towers. Andy That was why we moved to a larger house. 2 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: But are they smaller piles Apparently cream can do that. 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24 9 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Reading that it makes it sound as if someone from the Colombian Hippo mob has got to him! No, fear not, Tucker the hippo is alive and well and according to the Zoo is in a symbiotic relationship with with the tilapia. They eat his poo and clean dead skin from his body. I am not sure what the tilapia I was served in the US had been eating but it tasted very bland. 3 2 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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