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by k3k3
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:39 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
Replies: 52
Views: 815

Re: Baltimore bridge collapse

If the harbour pilot was doing his job, then I can only think there must have been a mechanical failure of some sort.

One report said the ship was 300 metres long, even at slow speed that is an awful lot of kinetic energy.
by k3k3
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5699
Views: 161002

Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

Documentary on BBC2 at 21:00 this evening: Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods.
by k3k3
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5699
Views: 161002

Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

NATO wasted no time and flew an E-3A over Sweden this afternoon.
by k3k3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

I am about to go to her favourite place in the flower bed between the rose bush and red lipped sage and make a place for her to be comfortable for the last time. It is done. Carefully wrapped in soft cotton cloth with roses printed on it. It has helped to be able to write a little about her. Thank ...
by k3k3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:03 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

Nine years ago we were living in Germany near a NATO base where most of the military personnel were on four year tours, some of them abandoned their cats at tourex with the result there was a group of seven or eight stray cats prowling around. One of them took a liking to my wife, always appearing w...
by k3k3
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5699
Views: 161002

Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

Everything would be labelled in French. I worked with Hellenic Air Force people who had previously been on Mirages, they said all the documentation (APs/T.O.s) would have been chaotic in any language, but with it being in a French that even French linguists struggled with life was very difficult.
by k3k3
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

OFSO wrote:
Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:09 am

Our provider of UK TV has been forced out of business. No idea as to a replacement.
Try using a VPN and stream your TV. https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-pr ... -tv-spain/
by k3k3
Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: WTF is happening in the UK?
Replies: 6311
Views: 183737

Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

Nick Robinson interviews the deputy chair of the BMA, 28 year old Emma Runswick:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wh32
by k3k3
Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Chaos in USA
Replies: 3655
Views: 109063

Re: Chaos in USA

I don't think it's the guns, it's more the pointless loss of lives.
by k3k3
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

Woody wrote:
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:18 pm
Tomorrow’s Valentines Day, but also Ash Wednesday, first day of Lent and therefore a day of fasting and abstinence, so I’ve not bought the Wife anything, do you think that she’ll understand?
:-q It's been nice knowing you...
by k3k3
Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Aviation question, if you please.
Replies: 6
Views: 232

Re: Aviation question, if you please.

I don't know the answer, but can you ask one about using the elevator just so I can say it pitches about the athwartships axis... Oh, I just did. ;-)
by k3k3
Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

Poof is another German coloquilism for a brothel.

Zu viele bumsen macht die Beine schwach = Too much shagging makes your legs weak.
by k3k3
Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:12 pm
Forum: Where Are They Now
Topic: Departed During 2024
Replies: 32
Views: 2567

Re: Departed During 2024

Ian Lavender, Private Pike in Dad's Army, has died aged 77. He was the last of the original cast.
by k3k3
Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

This afternoon was spent repairing the motorhead of a Dyson vacuum cleaner - Successfully!
by k3k3
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replies: 19379
Views: 979284

Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

OFSO, You'll have to wait until Friday to see if you've won anything.
by k3k3
Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:18 pm
Forum: Computer Chatter
Topic: Pinky's Tilde
Replies: 9
Views: 616

Re: Pinky's Tilde

ñ Ñ

Yep, that works, every day a school day, thanks.
by k3k3
Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: Computer Chatter
Topic: Pinky's Tilde
Replies: 9
Views: 616

Re: Pinky's Tilde

Left of #1 on a German keyboard pressing shift gives you the degree symbol: °

To the right of the Ü there is a key that has +*~ but I don't know how you get that on top of an n.
by k3k3
Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:53 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: RFA crew shortage as well as a Rear Admiral shortage....
Replies: 99
Views: 4178

Re: RFA crew shortage as well as a Rear Admiral shortage....

I was told* the first Tupperware navy minehunters were built using a mould taken from the previous generation of mahogany hulled ships.

*by an ex-RNR CPO who had served on them.
by k3k3
Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: Computer Chatter
Topic: BBC Radio on internet
Replies: 10
Views: 1082

Re: BBC Radio on internet

Thanks llondel, I'll have to try and figure out how that works.