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  1. "That candle butts and candlesticks came in so many sizes that they often did not match." Joseph Whitworth in 1880.

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      I think the Mods have locked his thread in error

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      The minor things that trigger technical progress are amazing!

    4. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      It has to do with seeing the light.

  2. Advent calendars spotted yeserday

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    2. Liam

      Liam

      Mince pies in the Co-op of Helmsley in North Yorkshire yesterday!

    3. Zero Gravitas

      Zero Gravitas

      Already got Gravitas Junior’s Lego advent calendar. If you don’t get it now, they are all sold out...

    4. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Fantastic, it's Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed.

  3. Alexa, show me the door ...

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Have you got one of those funny talking phones, then?

    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Alexa, open the pod bay doors.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      I'm sorry, that isn't in my Skills....

  4. I passed my driving test over 40 years ago, but just did the online practice theory test - Passed even though I did no revision!!!

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    2. DCB

      DCB

      I failed hazard perception until I learned to count to 3 after seeing the hazard before responding. The test is a total waste of time.

    3. Londontram

      Londontram

      Oh I don't know at least we've established you can count to three

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      The whole point is to get people thinking about potential hazard situations and driving accordingly. Sadly, too many just get the licence and forget the lot in my experience.

  5. Delay between internet radio and FM, 40 seconds!

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      And there was I thinking that the delay between FM and DAB was bad enough!

  6. Cass Elliot, what a singer!

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    2. flapland

      flapland

      I know, my Mama and Papa told me.

      Now off to spin some on Vinyl.

    3. sigtech

      sigtech

      " Where you can, make your own kind of music: sing your own special song- make your own kind of music,...

    4. steve22

      steve22

      Yes, I was listening to her on Youtube just last week. (Actually, I went on Youtube to watch Michelle but listened more to Cass...)

  7. I haven't seen a policeman around here this year, I don't think I saw one last year either. So how is it I get a speeding fine not a quarter of a mile from here?

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    2. blueeighties

      blueeighties

      Erm...because you were speeding?

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      Mostly round here I sit in queues.

    4. DCB

      DCB

      What would you rather do, hand out speeding fines to nice ordinary motorists or deal with real criminals who beat up old ladies and small children? Hence the attention on mobile phones since most people stopped boozing and speeding

  8. The Stone Poneys

  9. Non-stop Sky TV adverts ...

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Believe in better?

       

      I certainly do, and it doesn't involve Sky...

  10. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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    2. sharris

      sharris

      "the photographer discloses..." specially when there's a top-secret government report that a minister has been careless enough to carry around unshielded.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      And the Critic disposes.

       

      Come the revolution, after the lawyers....

    4. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      The painter imagines, the photographer records.

  11. Kakistocracy

    1. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      Thank you, what a useful term. And very topical.

  12. There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis

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    2. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      About the same level as me then!!

    3. allan downes

      allan downes

      I don't work there anymore. I stack shelves in Tesco's. I'm making a comeback tomorrow.

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Uh-huh-huh...

  13. "The bottle is half full" said the optimist, "The bottle is half empty" said the pessimist, "The bottle has gone!" Said the opportunist!

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    2. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Bottle, glass, glass, bottle.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      What did the bottle contain?

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      How Big was My Bottle, said the poet.

  14. is it wrong to wish on space hardware?

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    2. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      ...sitting in a tin can, far above the world...

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      I noticed the Satnav had the HHGTTG upgrade, with the friendly home screen...

    4. Pacific231G

      Pacific231G

      It isn't really going far or even anywhere at all. On a good day Mars is only 54.6 million kilometres away but space is infinitely big and 54.6M/infinity is zero so it's still where it started from.

  15. My last ever day off today; retirement next month!

    1. tigerburnie
    2. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      You'll wonder why you won't have all that time that you thought that you would!

  16. Some say: he bought a model railway when he got bored by the Scaletric

    1. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      All we know is - he's called ...

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      You missed out an second "some say"...

       

      ... and that he likes driving a Hornby GWR 101.

       

      All we know is...

  17. "What is the meaning of life" said the pilgrim. "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk" said the Dalai Lama.

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Is that the beanstalk that's used in making Life A Minestrone? Though I'm guessing you'd need more than 10cc?

    2. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      I never knew beans talk.

    3. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      Beans are the musical fruit.

       

      The more you eat the more you toot.

  18. Elvis has left the building ...

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    2. steve22

      steve22

      He said he'll come back and finish it later when he's bought the paint.

    3. bcnPete

      bcnPete

      That building being the chip shop...

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      He's a liar, and I'm not sure about you ...

  19. Somebody help me, yeah Somebody help me now Won't somebody tell me What I've done wrong?…

    1. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Good tune that is.

    2. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      No I won't, you'll jolly well have to find out for yourself.

  20. Enjoying Babylon 5 back on the TV, Pick Channel 11

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      „The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind… the year the Great War came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.“ :-D

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Oh no, please don't.

       

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      Wrong year NGT6, 2258 at present!

  21. Just heard a King Crimson track advertising perfume - what is the world coming to ...

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    2. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      It's the Kanye West song that sampled Schizoid Man, I think.

    3. Zero Gravitas

      Zero Gravitas

      On the up side, it’s more royalties for the musicians...

    4. Barry Ten

      Barry Ten

      "In The Court..." is also used to very excellent effect in the film "Children of Men"

  22. It is represented, not as an ideological position, but, rather, as a factual and unquestioned reality.

    1. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      Sadly true.

       

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      That applies to lots of things, so I'm not quite sure what issue you are referring to in particular.

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      this about pan tiles again?

  23. "How do you milk Sheep ?" Release a new IPhone ...

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    2. NHY 581

      NHY 581

      Wots this 'bout milking sheep?

    3. CovDriver

      CovDriver

      I will never become a slave to the Apple products over priced and Samsung has had the technology for years before Apple

    4. SHMD

      SHMD

      I'm with LBRJ on this one.

  24. Fitted sheets - the work of the devil. They don't fit!

    1. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      They do if you cut the corners off, as a great aunt of mine used to....

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