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by Pontius Navigator
Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: WTF is happening in the UK?
Replies: 6311
Views: 183042
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

What's missing from thus description?

"West Yorkshire Police said she has dark hair, a black top, black shorts, black knee-high socks, and black boots, and are seeking help from the public to identify her."
by Pontius Navigator
Tue Sep 05, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: Gender reveal foolishness..
Replies: 12
Views: 545
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Re: Gender reveal foolishness..

PHXPHlyer, IIRC a guest at another was killed when the firework shot her.
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:20 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
Replies: 7806
Views: 247178
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

Difficult one. MiL generously gave us £120 to 'buy something nice' as we had looked after her for a week. At 98 she is very firmly in the cash generation. WTF can you use £120 of folding stuff for? You can only spend it in a real shop. If there is only one shop where you can buy something nice, an 4...
by Pontius Navigator
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:35 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10857
Views: 469575
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Re: Friday Jokes

And Blue Cheshire
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Chaos in USA
Replies: 3651
Views: 108641
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Re: Chaos in USA

If the radical left hasn't been so hell bent on stealing the 2020 election they'd now be 17 moths away from never having to deal with Trump again. Instead they are now 17 months away form 4 more years of Trump presidency. Well played... Which could be worse: Trump, Trump, who? or Trump, Biden, Trum...
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:12 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: You know you are getting old when...
Replies: 17
Views: 887
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Re: You know you are getting old when...

bob2s wrote:
Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:18 am
When all the names in your address book start with Doctor.
And most of the others are crossed out
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:11 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Chaos in USA
Replies: 3651
Views: 108641
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Re: Chaos in USA

Does anyone think this is a trumped up affair and an appalling way for the USA to behave?

I think it will bring the Republicans solidly behind him.
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:47 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10857
Views: 469575
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Re: Friday Jokes

"Alexa, tell me a poem about beans”

Beans beans beans jumping up and down again
Beans beans beans ....

Apologies to Rudyard
by Pontius Navigator
Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
Topic: Solar water heater.
Replies: 27
Views: 3110
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Re: Solar water heater.

PHXPhlyer wrote:
Tue Aug 22, 2023 2:49 pm
PN:
#21 & 22 - Nothing came through. :-o :-?

PP
Amazon co UK. Maybe why you can't get it.
by Pontius Navigator
Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:34 am
Forum: Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
Topic: Solar water heater.
Replies: 27
Views: 3110
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Re: Solar water heater.

And this looks more robust. Using the straight pipes overcomes the bending issue with domes.
by Pontius Navigator
Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:28 am
Forum: Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
Topic: Solar water heater.
Replies: 27
Views: 3110
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Re: Solar water heater.

That was years ago. Just found these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intex-Eco-Friendly-Heating-Swimming-28685/dp/B00MS3963Y/ref=asc_df_B00MS3963Y/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309920133577&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10525329074412812980&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=100...
by Pontius Navigator
Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:26 am
Forum: Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
Topic: Solar water heater.
Replies: 27
Views: 3110
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Re: Solar water heater.

For pool heating the other issue is space. If confined the domes were good, up to a metre square each. By definition though half were at the back from the sun. One home made one I heard of was a black painted barrel, pipe coiled in the barrel, barrel filled with water. Another system, Walmart I thin...
by Pontius Navigator
Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
Replies: 7806
Views: 247178
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

Once, at work, the Royal Mail wrote to say the morning delivery would now be mid-afternoon.

I asked if that meant tomorrow's mail would be delivered 18 hours earlier or yesterday's 6 hours later. No answer was the reply.

Now it's not worth opening our mail box until 3 on Tuesday .
by Pontius Navigator
Mon Aug 21, 2023 5:56 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10857
Views: 469575
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Re: Friday Jokes

ricardian wrote:
Mon Aug 21, 2023 5:02 pm
Woman on the phone to her mother: "When are these kids going to be less needy?"
Her mother: "Well, you're in your mid 30s on the phone with me so..."
At age 50 it reverses
by Pontius Navigator
Mon Aug 21, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
Topic: Solar water heater.
Replies: 27
Views: 3110
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Re: Solar water heater.

llondel, I had some commercial dome heaters. Water was taken from the pool pump outlet, passed through a filter, through an inline electric heater, to the pair of dome heaters. The dome heaters had a conical spiral of black ridged tubing. Heated water was fed back to the pool. With that setup ensure...
by Pontius Navigator
Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:08 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
Replies: 7806
Views: 247178
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

C16, cunning. They can count the number of under 15s and see how many to brainwash over the next year.
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:45 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: The disgraceful BBC
Replies: 1100
Views: 48702
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Re: The disgraceful BBC

Barking. To my surprise it is no longer the BBC Licence fee. 'Watch and record programmes as they're being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, including programmes streamed over the Internet and satellite programmes from outside the UK and Watch and download bbc programmes on iplayer Do I r...
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
Replies: 7806
Views: 247178
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

OFSO wrote:
Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:26 pm
Can't you train the dogs to open the van door from inside....
That is how we were shown how to break in after the dog locked all 4 doors. Our instructor was the wife of the owner of a furniture shop we were visiting.
by Pontius Navigator
Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:00 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
Replies: 7806
Views: 247178
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

Everything in my Ford wheel wells, plus the front 'wings' and tailgate and the rear panels and underdoor strips is made of some kind of plastic. So much for a magnetic key box to conceal somewhere... Glue on back of numberplate? Failing that, the other trick was putting the keys on top of the wheel...
by Pontius Navigator
Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:08 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Rant of the Day v2.
Replies: 7806
Views: 247178
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

PHX, how long between charge and flat? I recall an issue back in the 60s. We had a flight of 4 Vulcan sitting in Gan for a week. We had flat batteries and they could not be charged in situ because of the high temps. We 'borrowed' a battery from a passing Comet and recharged each of our batteries in ...