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  1. When life deals you a lemon, keep the questions easy

    1. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      It's lemonentry my dear Watson.

    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Let's guess - did someone ask you: "How do you make lemonade?"

  2. Would you believe they put a man on the moon

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      It was easier back then, when the Earth was flat, you could just walk to the edge and step across to the moon.

       

      Since then, they have discovered that the moon is hollow and that Art is ambiguous.

       

    3. Peter Kazmierczak

      Peter Kazmierczak

      There's nothing up his sleeve, so everything is cool...

       

      PS Beast, I saw 66605 and 66607 on the same day a few weeks back, but not 66606 I'm afraid.

    4. toboldlygo

      toboldlygo

      A Man and dog went to the moon to get cheese. Then two Billionaires decided to fly to space, one in plane - the other in a huge c*ck lol

  3. I know - you ask a question and I'll spend an hour or so researching the answer for you, then you ignore my reply completely, at least  that stopped me wasting more time. From now on I won't be helping anyone who I don't know or has less than 1000 posts.

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    2. Stubby47

      Stubby47

      On the plus side, you might have learnt something you didn't know before.

    3. 69843

      69843

      Bonus points if the thing they were wanting to know was readily avaliable with a few quick searches and link checks.

    4. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      In a previous job, helping those sorts of jerks seemed to be in my job description. That's right - I was a "lab rat" (sorry - technician) at a university - so my job included supervising / assisting / mentoring students doing lab tests for their final year projects.

       

      Thankfully, most of these students were great.

       

      Unfortunately, there were also a minority who just grated - expected decent, hardworking, people like us to do all their work and all their research. Some of them even thought it acceptable to try and tell us how to spend all our work time (occasionally even our own time). One of these jerks didn't seem too happy when I informed him where the door was - and that he was about to go through it - then invited him to open it first.

       

      Thankfully, these guys were in a minority - but they do exist. Like you, I've encountered a few of them on forum sites - and I agree that they make people wonder if there's any point bothering. All I can say is that these jerks can count themselves lucky that I've never been a "mod" on one of these sites - they'd be on the "ex-list" before they knew what had hit them ... .

       

      This probably tells you something. Let's face it - anyone who really knows me also knows that I'm generally very mild mannered. I'm in my mid 50s - but I can count the number of times, in my life, that I've lost my temper, on my fingers.

       

      That's right - I really don't like those jerks.

  4. It might not be home, but it got on the last bus tonight

    1. truffy

      truffy

      Fortunately for some, the bus didn’t pass any South Americans on the way. 

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Lord knows where it ended up....

       

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  5. Careless Whisper

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    2. LNERGE

      LNERGE

      Yeah i pressed the wrong buttion on the vending machine in the hotel the other day and got a Whisper instead of a Twix.

    3. truffy

      truffy

      Guilty feet walk straight to prison. 

    4. Liam

      Liam

      Or should that be hopeless? 

  6. At last the sun is shining,
    The clouds of blue roll by,
    With flames from the dragon of darkness
    The sunlight blinds his eyes.

    1. Platform 1

      Platform 1

      If I may suggest an alternate last line:

      Mother-in-Law's here! I sigh...

       

  7. m            nk s   l w   ks

    1. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Your invisible ink is running out.

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      And it's a pointless answer!

       

  8. With a cultural revival, this is survival
    Natural magical patterns of percussion
    Is the discussion, so listen up close
    Let it connect you to the powers that be
    With healing rhythmic synergy
    Techno tribal and positively primal
    Shamanic anarchistic archaic revival

    1. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      You, activate the rhythm, the rhythm that has always been within

    2. truffy

      truffy

      say oops upside your head

      say oops upside your head

    3. big jim

      big jim

      boss drum!

  9. I remember one Saturday night
    We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
    I remember one Saturday night
    We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes

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    2. irishmail

      irishmail

      Jamaican cornmeal flat breads.  Boney M (the 1970's) group I think originated from Jamaica though based in Germany at the time.

    3. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      A modern johnnycake is fried cornmeal gruel, which is made from yellow or white cornmeal mixed with salt and hot water or milk, and sometimes sweetened. In the Southern United States, the term used is hoecake, although this can also refer to cornbread fried in a pan - Source Google

       

      They only become rubberised if you overcook them!

    4. truffy

      truffy

      My teenage daughters would probably give you a different definition of hoecake. 
       

      I blame TikTok for a lot of things. 

  10. My          ink is back and working well

    1. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Is this the lyric to a new song? To the tune of, "My milkshake...", perhaps?

      :laugh_mini:

       

  11. Dream, if you can, a courtyard
    An ocean of violets in bloom
    Animals strike curious poses
    They feel the heat
    The heat between me and you

    1. Davexoc

      Davexoc

      Got the album, in purple vinyl too, Worth about as much as a 00 or N loco these days...

    2. truffy

      truffy

      He threw a megashittonne of mud at the wall. That was some of the little that stuck. 

    3. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Milhouse's song... :smile_mini2:

      Milhouse_Van_Houten.png

  12. Downtown's been caught by the hysteria
    People scream and shout
    A generation's on the move
    When disco spreads like a bacteria
    Those lonely days are out
    Welcome the passion of the groove

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Has anyone told Petula?

    2. vaughan45
    3. truffy

      truffy

      Alka-Seltzer!!

  13. The Starship (SN15) has landed

     

    1. Dagworth

      Dagworth

      SN15 landed safely, SN11 exploded in the air

    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      You spotted my typo then - to check if anyone reads status updates - honest gov.

    3. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      Still a bit of a fire at the end, going to be a long time before I'd want to chance a powered landing if I was an astronaut.

       

      It's still brilliant though how far space travel has come in recent years, private enterprise is certainly showing promise for NASA and space travel in general.

  14. 6T30 has an earth fault at Church Fenton - 66066

  15. Watching Big Jim on 66706 run round at Crewe (on RailCam cameras)

    1. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      Can you clarify...is Big Jim running round Crewe or just 66706...there's a bit of a difference in distance between the 2 and I'm not sure he can do either :D

    2. beast66606

      beast66606

      It was Big Jim taking in the sun at Crewe - although he's not at Longport

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Who needs tracking devices....  :jester:

  16. Thank you for travelling with SpaceX - please leave the rocket as quickly as possible and ignore the fire around the base.

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Some like it hot...

       

    3. truffy

      truffy

      Cross check. Doors to manual. BBQ tongs at the ready. 

    4. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Miriam Karlin in The Rag Trade: "Everybody Out"

  17. Remembering the Selby crash - 20 years ago today

     

    John Weddle – GNER driver
    Stephen (George) Dunn – Freightliner driver
    Raymond Robson – GNER train guard
    Paul Taylor – GNER chef

     

    and 6 passengers.

    1. Ken.W

      Ken.W

      John, Ray, and Paul, Never Forgotten.

      Also remembering, especially today, all the others killed or injured in this awful tragedy, especially Emma who still works on-board.

  18. At 00:20 this morning - 20/02 - Clacton signal box closed for good and with it go the remaining searchlight colour light signals. In 3 weeks time the line reopens under the control of Colchester.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Ding

      Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding - Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding - Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding

  19. V-Day for me finally booked, T - 8 days and counting

    1. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      Is it the P4 version 

    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      Last Thursday!

  20. I'd just like to say "Perseverance - we're all counting on you"

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Plummeting to the Martian surface....

       

      and...

       

      The Perseverance Mars rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, according to Nasa scientists.

       

      The successful landing was confirmed by radio messages sent back to Earth from the Jezero Crater - an ancient lake that will be studied for years to come.

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      Yaaaaay - its landed

    4. truffy

      truffy

      Imma pumped 2 da max

       

      (Not really, I've only just realised that NASA had a Mars thingy. :rolleyes:)

  21. £1 is a 100 new pennies

    100 new pennies to the £1

     

    Happy 50th for yesterday (Doh) to decimalisation day.

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      And the 10p was originally introduced in 1849 as the Florin, in a failed attempt to decimalise the pound.

       

      It only took 122 years before we finally got around to it!

       

    3. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      A Gentleman only use Guineas...

    4. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Still legal in horse trading

  22. I've had the call

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Don't press key 1......

       

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      I'm still trying to find the any key

       

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      When I get dodgy phone calls and they suggest I press Any Key, I press the hang-up one.  It works every time!

  23. Nice to see some beavers in Dorset

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    2. truffy

      truffy

      I'm gonna hush my mouth! :diablo_mini:

    3. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      I always confuse beavers with badgers

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Beaver in Dorset?  Now thats a thing!

       

  24. Don't think I'll be volunteering to be a passenger on SN10 - not until that landing issue is resolved.

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Taken a note out of the Rolls Royce handbook.  They never break down, just fail to proceed.

    3. eastwestdivide

      eastwestdivide

      Or the medical profession in drugs trials - an unexpected adverse event

    4. Philou

      Philou

      'Unexpected Rapid Disassembly' is the phrase I've seen ......

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