The Night Mail

[jamie92208]

6 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

 

After all, I'm exceptionally good at DIY with my fingers.🤣

May we enquire exactly how many fingers are needed for good DIY.  Just asking for a friend. 

 

Jamie

[Winslow Boy]

45 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

May we enquire exactly how many fingers are needed for good DIY.  Just asking for a friend. 

 

Jamie

I didn't know you were ambidextrous.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Yup!

 

Glad I wasn't standing next to that when it went.

 

 

 

I'd be interested to see what the head, block and piston look like....

[Darlington_Shed]

43 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

May we enquire exactly how many fingers are needed for good DIY

 

Based on a few woodworkers I've encountered over the years, you can manage quite well without the normal allocation. A missing thumb might be more problematical, especially on the dominant hand 🤘

[Happy Hippo]

52 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

May we enquire exactly how many fingers are needed for good DIY.  Just asking for a friend. 

 

Jamie

Two🖕🖕

 

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

May we enquire exactly how many fingers are needed for good DIY.  Just asking for a friend. 

 

Jamie

I read an interesting account, quite a few years ago, of what could be removed from a human (by whatever means, disease, illness, trauma etc) and that human would still be able to live. The list was extensive, but included the loss of

• all but one lobe of the lung
• 1.5 kidneys
• all of the spleen
• 3/4 of the liver
• all four limbs
• both eyes
• both auditory nerves
• the gustatory nerve
• most of the cerebral cortex
• the spinal cord below a specific cervical vertebra (I forget which one)
• the external genitalia
• most of the colon

You wouldn’t be much of a happy camper and would die of starvation if not fed by an attendant, but you wouldn’t be dead!

 

So the loss of a pachydermal digital tip, whilst unpleasant, does NOT create any concerns about HH experiencing an immanent demise

[polybear]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

I read an interesting account, quite a few years ago, of what could be removed from a human (by whatever means, disease, illness, trauma etc) and that human would still be able to live. The list was extensive, but included the loss of

• all but one lobe of the lung
• 1.5 kidneys
• all of the spleen
• 3/4 of the liver
• all four limbs
• both eyes
• both auditory nerves
• the gustatory nerve
• most of the cerebral cortex
• the spinal cord below a specific cervical vertebra (I forget which one)
• the external genitalia
• most of the colon

You wouldn’t be much of a happy camper and would die of starvation if not fed by an attendant, but you wouldn’t be dead!

 

So the loss of a pachydermal digital tip, whilst unpleasant, does NOT create any concerns about HH experiencing an immanent demise

 

I've met several who've obviously had their brain removed yet somehow still manage to walk & talk......

[Dave Hunt]

Well, I got the clothes drier sorted out for our friend much more easily than I anticipated as her son who visited at the weekend had dug a hole for the socket to go in so all I had to do was mix up a bit of concrete using some ready mix cement in a bag with gravel, put the socket in the hole and pack the concrete round it. The steel socket is powder coated so it should last for a good while.

We then went out for lunch before taking her to look for a bookcase and found one that she liked that will be delivered on Thursday. It's a flatpack job though so I'll be back there on Friday to put it together.    

On the way home Jill started feeling icky so I've been administering some TLC and she's had a kip on the settee with a hot water bottle . That seems to have helped and she is now at the tea, toast and cake stage.

All in all an eventful day.

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

44 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

I've met several who've obviously had their brain removed yet somehow still manage to walk & talk......

 

....and sit in Parliament.

 

Dave

[AndyID]

3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

....and sit in Parliament.

 

Dave

 

Isn't that a requirement?

[Happy Hippo]

3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Well, I got the clothes drier sorted out for our friend much more easily than I anticipated as her son who visited at the weekend had dug a hole for the socket to go

Blinking Kids! 

You would have thought he could have had the nous to finish the job and let a poor crippled veteran have a comfortable afternoon?

 

 

5 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

The steel socket is powder coated so it should last for a good while.

Can you hear my shrieks of laughter?

[AndyID]

34 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Can you hear my shrieks of laughter?

 

Perhaps a more appropriate response would be "coat this" 😁

[Hroth]

Its amazing how a powder-coated finish flakes off after a year or so outdoors,  I'm going to need a new bird feeder soon...

 

 

[J. S. Bach]

5 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Oh I don't know a bit of arodite and t-cut and it'll be as right as rain.

Or a decent dose of Photoshop!

[J. S. Bach]

On 07/05/2024 at 15:34, Dave Hunt said:

 

....and sit in Parliament.

 

Dave

I know almost nothing about Parliament (that's a brand of cigarettes, isn't it?) but changing that word to Congress would make it more meaningful. Well, maybe to us at  about 3,,000 miles east west of most of you!

Edited May 9 by J. S. Bach
To correct a mistake

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

 

Isn't that a requirement?

W S Gilbert got it right in the gaurdsmans song in Iolanthmore than a century ago. 

 

When all night long MP's divide, we hope with brain and cerebellum too.  They have to leave their brains outside, and vote just as their leaders tell Em too.  

 

For the prospect of a host of dull MP's alt thinking for themselves is more than mortal man can face with equanimity.

 

Sullivan got a knighthood for his music but Gilbert never got an honour.  He'd upset too many bigwigs.  

 

Jamie

Edited May 7 by jamie92208

[Winslow Boy]

9 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

W S Gilbert got it right in the gaurdsmans song in Iolanthmore than a century ago. 

 

When all night long MP's divide, we hope with brain and cerebellum too.  They have to leave their brains outside, and vote just as their leaders tell Em too.  

 

For the prospect of a host of dull MP's alt thinking for themselves is more than mortal man can face with equanimity.

 

Sullivan got a knighthood for his music but Gilbert never got an honour.  He'd upset too many bigwigs.  

 

Jamie

Nothing like a bit of truth or should that be reality to pop pomposity.

[AndyID]

7 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

W S Gilbert got it right in the gaurdsmans song in Iolanthmore than a century ago. 

 

When all night long MP's divide, we hope with brain and cerebellum too.  They have to leave their brains outside, and vote just as their leaders tell Em too.  

 

For the prospect of a host of dull MP's alt thinking for themselves is more than mortal man can face with equanimity.

 

Sullivan got a knighthood for his music but Gilbert never got an honour.  He'd upset too many bigwigs.  

 

Jamie

 

Ah Ha!

 

You really struck a chord with that one Jamie!

 

I still have a very old Tri-Ang 3-TF named Iolanthe. It was presented to me after my appearances as the page-boy in that G&S production in the Kings in Glasgow quite a long time ago.

[PhilJ W]

22 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I read an interesting account, quite a few years ago, of what could be removed from a human (by whatever means, disease, illness, trauma etc) and that human would still be able to live. The list was extensive, but included the loss of

• all but one lobe of the lung
• 1.5 kidneys

all of the spleen

3/4 of the liver

• all four limbs
• both eyes
• both auditory nerves
• the gustatory nerve
• most of the cerebral cortex
• the spinal cord below a specific cervical vertebra (I forget which one)
• the external genitalia
• most of the colon

You wouldn’t be much of a happy camper and would die of starvation if not fed by an attendant, but you wouldn’t be dead! Just wish you were.

 

So the loss of a pachydermal digital tip, whilst unpleasant, does NOT create any concerns about HH experiencing an immanent demise

 

Edited May 8 by PhilJ W

[J. S. Bach]

On that cheery note, Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[Steamport Southport]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

W S Gilbert got it right in the gaurdsmans song in Iolanthmore than a century ago. 

 

When all night long MP's divide, we hope with brain and cerebellum too.  They have to leave their brains outside, and vote just as their leaders tell Em too.  

 

For the prospect of a host of dull MP's alt thinking for themselves is more than mortal man can face with equanimity.

 

Sullivan got a knighthood for his music but Gilbert never got an honour.  He'd upset too many bigwigs.  

 

Jamie

 

Didn't get one for this then? That's a shame.

 

 

[BR60103]

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Sullivan got a knighthood for his music but Gilbert never got an honour.  He'd upset too many bigwigs.  

 

Jamie

Gilbert was knighted on 15 July 1907 by Edward VII (note after death of Queen Victoria).

His attitude was a bit put out at its having taken so long, and he had other nits to pick as well.

 

[jamie92208]

8 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

Ah Ha!

 

You really struck a chord with that one Jamie!

 

I still have a very old Tri-Ang 3-TF named Iolanthe. It was presented to me after my appearances as the page-boy in that G&S production in the Kings in Glasgow quite a long time ago.

My father was the guardsman in a production in  Carlisle the year I was born which is why I know the song so well. I did appear in three school G and S productions but not Iolanthe, I was one of the sisters cousins and aunts in one of them. 

 

Jamie

[SM42]

The lurgi has arrived at SM42 Towers. 

 

So many jobs won't get done today. 

 

Oh well, never mind. 

 

Andy

[Happy Hippo]

14 minutes ago, SM42 said:

The lurgi has arrived at SM42 Towers. 

 

So many jobs won't get done today. 

 

Oh well, never mind. 

 

Andy

Have you ever noticed how such events coincide with days off or annual holidays?