AndyID

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 😮

3 hours ago, petethemole said:

Or a roundhead.

Or born in the USA. 90% of white males are.

7 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Interesting workshop in London today:

How to get a head of the competition!

Well, as the hat-maker ad used to say,

"If you want to get a hat, get a head".

(or maybe it was the other way round. I can never remember 🤔)

8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

I thought it was an island in Queensland.

 

They are very similar and easily confused with each other 🤣

4 minutes ago, BR60103 said:

Aberdeen is the Canadian Pacific yard in Hamilton.

 

 

Do I need to add that Hamilton is at the west end of Lake Ontario?

 

No, Hamilton is near Glasgow in Scotland.

3 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I have never been to Aberdeen. Probably the nearest was somewhere in the Cairngorms on a day out from from a camping holiday next to the Moray Firth. Going out for a drive was a good way of keeping warm. 
We will be sailing past in the summer as we head north on our way to Iceland.I am not sure whether we will be able to see Aberdeen from,whatever course the cruise ship is on. 

I have a brother in the Granite City. The background radiation level is a bit higher there because of the granite.

"The streets were deserted. It was like Aberdeen on a flag day."

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

My dad was Scots, made a Yorkshireman look generous.  'nuff said.

Was he an Aberdonian perchance 🤣

10 hours ago, pH said:

And you know this how? 🤨

Well, it does depend on some things a bit. The detectable DC current flowing through our bods is 5 milliamps. Our bods have quite a low internal resistance so if it was an internal connection we could detect a few volts. But our skin has quite high resistance. As much as half a million ohms when dry but as low as a thousand ohms when wet. So to get a current to flow we have two skin contact "resistors" plus our internal resistance (which depends on the path length through the bod.)

My personal empirical experience says I can detect around 60 volts DC but, depending on my skin at the time, it could be a lot higher or a lot lower than that.

16 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

 

A wiser (and chastened) iD eventually arrived at the conclusion that "when you gotta go, go pro" - which has served me well ever since.

 

I'm having a hard time keeping up with this thread. Are we talking here about kitchens or courtesans?

I remember ice on the inside of the windows LAST WEEK! The windows are double glazed too.

In fairness it was the coldest it's ever been since we came here 28 years ago and the concertina thermal blinds were working as they should.

12 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I reckon I'll have to give it up, it's just getting too expensive for words.
 

Lead acid batteries are getting impossible to find, jumper cables and  crocodile clamps are not as good as they used to be and you won't believe the cost of even an entry level digital neural stimulator.

You will need at least five 12 volt batteries to get any sort of reaction 🤣

20 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

On the bright side I found a Rail Polska M62M I'd forgotten I'd bought. 

 

I had to look that up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M62_locomotive

When I was walking through the parking lot at Costco I walked past a guy who was loading stuff into the bed of his pickup truck. While he was doing that a lady in the passenger seat had her door wide open and kept yelling,

"Hey! Why did you buy Charmin instead of Kirkland!"

As I passed the guy I smiled and said  "Hey!" while shaking my finger at him.

He just laughed. 🤣

5 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

This is not a good idea:

 

The hippo later took umbrage and killed the poor fellow.

A member of the Colombian family?

5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Whilst much of the Swiss railway network is bucolic, using "old fashioned" rolling stock (with timetables coordinated with local Post Bus services) there are a few high density routes: such as Zürich -Bern, Zürich-Lucerne and Zürich-Basel.
 

These "corridors" are pretty much at the limit of what they can handle in terms of traffic at peak travel times (not as bad as Tokyo-Shibuya but heading in that direction [by Swiss standards at least]). These "corridors" tend to get the latest high-tech high-loading rolling stock. Additionally, thanks to the generous Swiss loading gauge, SBB has been able to run double-decker rolling stock (most notably around Zürich with the S-Bahn, but also on the rest of the network on the high traffic "corridors").

 

Which brings me to a serious question: given the amount of money spent on HS2 £66 Bn or so), what sort of upgrade to Britain's Victorian railway structure could have been achieved with that sort of money?

 

I would imagine, given todays technology, widening Victorian tunnels and cuttings would cost a lot, lot less than boring/cutting a new one. 
 

Your thoughts?

Today's technology is much more suited to boring new tunnels. Much less labor intensive and a lot less dangerous than upgrading those made 100 years ago at the very least. Then there's the disruption to traffic to consider. It would be impossible to keep traffic moving during a tunnel rebuild.

We awoke to 8 inches of fine powdery snow. Completely useless for making snowballs and snowmen. In Scotland we used to be able to roll the snow off the grass like making a jam roll but that's not possible with this stuff.

I spent the morning trying to start the tractor so I could clear our driveway. I had the charger on the battery. Eventually got it going by jumping it using a battery for the caravan.

If it doesn't start again tomorrow I'll try to find a new battery.

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

On March 2nd we are going on a Northern Lights cruise up into the Arctic so I thought that I'd start preparing for it on, say, February 29th but this morning I was disabused of that notion and informed that we were going into central Telfland to do some of that  dreadful thing called pre-holiday shopping. My protestations that I already had sufficient clothing to last me for the rest of my days fell on deaf ears and it was decreed that I need more trousers and sweaters (my, "But I've already got three pairs of trousers and they give us Arctic jackets on the ship", was completely ignored). So, after checking our Telfid 19 vaccinations were up to date and the active armour plating on the car was in place we set off. On reaching the dark centre of Telfland we went into a shop where I tried on two pairs of trousers and two sweaters, paid for them and left within about ten minutes, at which stage I thought all was going well and I'd be back in the shed by lunchtime. Schoolboy error. Jill wanted a pair of trousers for evening wear and that required visiting about twenty shops (it may have been more but they all kind of blurred into an amorphous mass) and looking at allsorts of other items as well as the desired trousers. My query as to why she was examining such things as blouses and raincoats when they weren't on the list was met by a withering look so I then kept quiet. Eventually the search was complete and we went for coffee and sandwiches before returning home but the fates weren't finished with me and the journey time was extended by road works every half mile or so (well, it seemed that way) so Hunt Towers wasn't reached until nearly four o'clock.

 

Aren't some days fun?

 

Dave 

We are a good bit South of you and we won't be going any further North. That's eight inches of the white stuff so far and it's getting heavier. 😟

3 hours ago, bbishop said:

Given the spelling, I think Jamie is still eating it.

"Good aftable consternoon. What seems to be the problem?"

First the good news: It's going to warm up to 26F tomorrow,

The bad news: That's because of the cloud clover, and it's going to dump a foot of snow.

The good news: Aspen got clobbered!

🤣

8 hours ago, Hroth said:

SNOW!

 

You can tell without even opening the curtains, its so quiet.

 

I'm just hoping it'll melt away soon, like fairy gold...

 

It's not going to melt here in a hurry. They are saying 11 inches over the next couple of days starting tonight and there's already a few inches of frozen snow on the ground 🥶

37 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

A former colleague from Greater Mauntopia Police when asked what An estate in Salford was like replied,  "If Liverpool is the A##e ole of the world, That place is 40 miles up it. 

 

Jamie

 

I can't remember the name of the estate at this distance. 

When I was about 12 years old I spotted City Of Salford on the line at the end of our street. I wondered where this exotic place was but I became a bit disappointed when my 18 year old brother educated me. 🤣

5 hours ago, SteveyDee68 said:

Eagle-eyed Night Mailers watching “Fool

Me Once” on Netflix might spot the Fat Hippo food truck serving burgers in one scene, where the main protagonist’s military police friend chats to the detective investigating the husband’s murder…

 

I found myself going “Oh, oh! Look! Fat Hippo! RMWeb!! Wow!” And being told to be quiet and stop spoiling the programme! 🤣

 

I think it is in episode 3 (wasn’t sure which episode as I walked in on Mother binge-watching it!)

 

Steve S

I missed that.

A wee bit hill billy around here at the mo.  Forecast says minus 26 Celsius tonight 🥶