SM42

8 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

There's 177 calories in a creme egg.....

Everything is fun size these days. 

Even trains

Andy

Its official 

I'm full

Just enough room for a couple of vodkas to aid digestion. 

Andy

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

Yes but what about the vodka.

Drunk

More later after dinner 

Andy

Cake arrived, cake eaten

🤪

Andy

Vodka and cake is imminent 

🤪

Andy

Maybe they land in barely populated places as they reckon that if it gets nasty  they only have have few locals to take on and if they want to be discreet, a few hillbillies drinking the local brew wouldn't be believed. 

More intelligent than you give them credit for.  

Andy

Can you imagine arriving in  Zagan on such a unit. 

A small train in a station the size of football pitch. 

It sort of got lost in there

Andy

PS. Zagan, the station closest to Stalag Luft III 

4 hours ago, BR60103 said:

 

 

I think I have a very wide range of musical likes.  Excluded are anything with electric guitars and people who can't make the words understood.

Pretty much wipes out anything post 1950 and a lot of opera.

Unless you mean those who deliberately make the words unintelligible or those that just don't have talent.

Andy

Why visit Earth?

Well we have been looking for them for years. ( SETI?) 

Why? 

Natural curiosity  I suppose. 

We have also been advertising our presence for more the best part of 130 years. 

Those TV and radio signals get everywhere. 

You could argue that in a potentially hostile universe this is unwise. 

But at 25,000 light years to the nearest galaxy would it be possible to to visit?

The 4.25 light years to the nearest star maybe, but does it have a habitable planet? 

Therein lies the next thing that gets me going about looking for life elsewhere in the universe. 

Why do we assume that life anywhere else out there requires the same basic resources as life on earth. 

Why would it need water. It might do quite well on another chemical compound. 

The fact that we exist is pretty remarkable, the fact that we have gone beyond the life basics of eating and multiplying is pretty remarkable. 

Why would any other life form have to follow the same path?

7 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

They should put a stop to that nonsense. Moved in last week and I haven't had a minutes sleep since!

 

Anyone know who I can complain to?

 

 

🔕

The police were there, I'm told, to control the traffic as they processed through streets singing. 

No point calling them it seems.

Anyway, in about an hour the in laws will arrive and Easter breakfast will start with zurek, ( sour soup) 

My stomach will conclude that I have finally taken leave of my senses. 

Andy

19 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Is she bringing them home.

Hope not. 

No room in the car for them, unless they are on  a CD

Andy

She won't be long now. 

The church bells are ringing.  

Andy

2 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I have read about people who adjust their clocks early and then other family members arrive home and adjust them again. 

I'm not getting up specially to do it. 

She'll just think she's been out longer than she thought.

Andy

Right

That's the clocks done ready for the morning. 

Probably confusd the hell out of Mrs SM42 when she gets home from church

Andy

9 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Probably when they cut the reheat.

 

Dve

That did occur to me after I posted.  Thank you for confirming. 

An older aeroplane has just departed Lawice airport. 

Second one I've heard all day

Andy

On 29/03/2024 at 21:51, beast66606 said:

I use the one network map to check for roadworks

 

https://one.network/

 

Around here we have the opposite of some of the problems mentioned above - Road Closed Ahead signs can be miles, often around 10 miles away with countless options to go to other places but the Road Closed sign doesn't detail where it's closed so you either take a chance the closure will affect you and go another way, or take a chance it won't and get stuck.

Found that coming home from work one night. 

All it said was road closed ahead. No access to my home town 

Found the closure after around 10 miles.  

No diversion signs to give you a clue as to the point of closure. 

Fortunately I know my way round the back lanes, but had I known where it was closed it would have been a lot easier. 

Another classic was heading to Luton Airport to collect the in laws. 

Their flight was already 3 hours late due to weather and the signs announced the M1 was closed between two non consecutive junctions. 

No problem, go as far as can and follow diversion signs. We have plenty of time

A fine plan till you get to the junction with "M1 South  diverted traffic " pointing left and right. 

Got there 20 minutes after they got off the bus in the car park. They were still in the air when we left the M1. 

Andy

6 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I remember seeing the Environmental Case for Typhoon Operations at Coningsby, showing how while noisier than the Tornados they replaced, the Typhoons were less "disruptive" as accelerating faster, they were out of earshot much more quickly.  The local instructions still identified certain neighbours, overflying of whom was to be avoided; not local busybodies but rare pig breeders or stables etc.

Oh this is really loud and then it's as if they turned the engine off.

Maybe they have just turned the wick down a couple of notches

Andy

Here in the motherland we are a 15 minute walk from the gate behind the airport control tower ( if only the terminal was on this side)

Over the years it has become noticeable how much quieter airliners have become.

More a whoosh than a whining roar. 

Hardly hear them

Granted it's noisier if you are behind one but you can always tell when an older aeroplane is taking off. 

Normally it's an 0600 departure. 

Those fighter boys on the other side of the city on the other hand. 

Lots of noise and then suddenly they go strangley quiet

Andy

15 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Maybe because it is easier to cast humans to play their parts?

Whilst true, I wonder if the descriptions of those who claim a close encounter are influenced by Hollywood imagery or vice versa.  

Andy

Personally, for  a small bridge over a small stream I would go for somewhere around 5  - 6ft between bottom of support beams and water 

This is for no particular reason other than it seems about right for real narrow gauge bridges I've seen here in Poland. 

Of course it's not a lumpy here as Austria so some consideration on possible water flows off mountains may come into play

Andy

9 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Jazz:  Best to change the vowel for the next in line. Which is what Honda should have done!

 

 

Honda Jezz?

Driven by Jeremies and Mrs SM42 

We've just dined on Placki ziemniaki w sucrem. 

AKA potato pancakes with sugar 

An excellent choice of  meal if you are going out for a 12 hour shift in the fields or mines. 

No so much for spending the evening on TNM. 

Andy

Aha thanks for this. 

I've been trying to work it out for over a year without success. 

The project was put on the back burner but I did have another look last week before giving up again 

Just got to find those tabs now. 

Andy

As predicted traffic  chaos around the church. 

The service before the one we took part in

Note the large plastic drum of holy water in the foreground

Wesolych Swiat 

Andy

I will soon be departing for the local church for the blessing of the food baskets 

Services started at 10am and will take place about every 15 minutes till 4 pm or thereabouts. 

Travelling anywhere near a church today will not ensure quick passage. 

Andy

The problem with trying to be rational with the conspiracy theorist is that they mark you down a s gullible or part of the problem. 

A bit like those who just dismiss stuff as fake news. 

No matter how much evidence you put forward  it's all a lie. 

Anything that doesn't confrm their view is to be ignored. 

I do regret not starting one about Covid vaccinations along the lines of:

It's all made up, but the vaccinations are to protect the gullible and easily led when the real virus is released by the world elite,  thus eradicating all those who fight back and threaten to expose them. 

Would have been fun to watch some heads implode.  

Andy

5 minutes ago, GMKAT7 said:

Good morning folks,

 

Like Andy (SM42), I like to pick up and use the local language for please, thank you and beer. Since the latter is similar in many European languages (bier, birra, etc) it's not too difficult 😊

Although the Czech word pivo was a bit of a curveball.

 

A long-distant (1993) Euro rail weekender to Prague, Budapest and Vienna resulted in my reverting to German to get some food ordered.

Having travelled to Kralupy north of Prague (not sure why?) the only place open to eat was the station cafe.

One of my travelling buddies was vegetarian, so the meat and tinned veg lunch was not an option.

The cook had no English and our Czech was limited (see above), so I ended up ordering a cheese omelette and potato salad in German.

 

Surprisingly the meal actually ordered arrived. The waitress advised later that I could have ordered in Russian, but that was a non-starter.

 

Cheers, Nigel.

Piwo in Polish 

Mrs SM42 once used Russian in Riga to ask directions. 

The older police officer was reluctant to use it, the younger, not a word,  but it was the only common language we could come up with. 

Paldies.

Andy