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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#16041 Post by 4mastacker » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:12 am

Cloudy with a chilly wind...not a day for going out.......oh!

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#16042 Post by Wodrick » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:32 am

G'day,
Wx pretty much same, small showers just 0.5mm so far, only 11 degrees.

Why is rain on washing day a tragedy of mammoth proportions ? That's what rumbly tumblys are for innit.

The dogs were out for the best part of three hours this morning, Henry is now chasing a ball around, likes a ball does H.

He never tires.
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#16043 Post by CharlieOneSix » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:37 am

Bright sunshine earlier, now cloudy and a chilly 6C with a northerly breeze. Thought it ideal to have a bonfire as that direction keeps the smoke away from any neighbours with washing on the line. Then it started raining with intermittent sleet. Bonfire in abeyance, will have another cup of tea I think....

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#16044 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:39 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:41 am
Ex-A, make sure you can bang out in emergency. Mrs PN, and many others, take keys out of doors at night. I am always worried that come the fire we can't escape.
All doors well and truly bolted now. All windows wired shut. Exception one bedroom window which is our escape route. With thatch it is essential. It is also strategic as it gets us in behind any intruders. Shoot them in the back? Couldn't give a *****. I told the police years ago that anyone on our property without permission gets shot.

But PN very good point. Many people down here particularly S.A. have bars on windows and doors. No one can get in but no one can get out.

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#16045 Post by Ibbie » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:03 am

Is the door frame as sturdy as the door to take the shackle for the extra large bolt ex-A?

Don't want the door and frame coming out as one, still connected, when rammed.
But PN very good point. Many people down here particularly S.A. have bars on windows and doors. No one can get in but no one can get out.
I unfortunately was one of the first on the scene at the Woolworths fire in Manchester Piccadilly where some shop assistants found their escape so blocked, with firemen frantiacally cutting bars away to effect rescue.

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#16046 Post by Magnus » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:15 am

Only been on that rail line in Dawlish once, before it was wiped out a few years ago. It was a late spring day with a low mist and bright diffuse sunlight. The view out to a very still sea was like a Turner painting. Beautiful.

p.s. It was only once. The return journey was by car.

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#16047 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:18 am

Ibbie wrote:
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Is the door frame as sturdy as the door . . .
Don't want the door and frame coming out as one, still connected, when rammed.
We live near Isaac Newton's manor. On a visit the door lock was demonstrated together with the meaning you're barred.

Obviously the manor is constructed of stone so has a stout door and frame but that is still vulnerable at its lock. What they have, set into the wall, is a stout wooden beam of seasoned oak. I guess it is 4-5 feet long. When the door is not barred the whole is slid clear into a slot in the wall. When secure the beam is slid across into a hole the other side. I guess a good foot either side.

A drop bar would be almost as effective and certainly better than a bolt.

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#16048 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:23 am

Wodrick wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:32 am
Henry is now chasing a ball around, likes a ball does H.

He never tires.
Our Scottie loves her ball, about 9 inch diameter. She will chase it and gets her head around to check it before running with it practically fastened to get head. Then run, pushing it with her nose never an inch away, back to us.

Her favourite toy. Demands a short game after breakfast.

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#16049 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:32 am

Is the door frame as sturdy as the door to take the shackle for the extra large bolt ex-A?
Yes Ibbie and he has put the securing, very large, screws all the way though the frame to the point he had to angle grind the points off the outside. No one will get through those doors. They need to smash in window frames to get in which has been done before but they also need to get past our PPO and my gun which will be aimed at them before then, if our guy is awake (-|
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#16050 Post by G-CPTN » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:56 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:23 am
Wodrick wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:32 am
Henry is now chasing a ball around, likes a ball does H.
He never tires.
Our Scottie loves her ball, about 9 inch diameter. She will chase it and gets her head around to check it before running with it practically fastened to get head. Then run, pushing it with her nose never an inch away, back to us.
Her favourite toy. Demands a short game after breakfast.
When my daughter worked as a vet-nurse, an 8-year old Staffie was brought in with mammary tumours.
When the guy was told the price he said "Just put her down".
My daughter persuaded the vet to do the op for nothing and took the dog home.
As a breeding bitch on a puppy farm, it was completely unsocialised though mild-natured and when faced with a ball said "And what?"
I bought a football which was soon punctured so bought a basketball (that much larger and firmer) and that dog chased that ball around our very large garden every day from dawn to dusk if permitted.

The Staffie lived two more years, living life as a puppy before the inevitable caught up with her.

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#16051 Post by Alisoncc » Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:37 pm

With all the talk of locks and bolts I'm reminded me of an incident in PNG when I was there. Like most houses in PNG, external walls were timber verticals clad in timber shingles. Recent arrivals from down south on moving in replaced all locks on doors and windows, using quite expensive replacements. The bad guys turned up with a chain saw and cut a corner off the house to gain entry.
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#16052 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Mar 28, 2020 2:41 pm

Alisoncc wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:37 pm
With all the talk of locks and bolts I'm reminded me of an incident in PNG when I was there. Like most houses in PNG, external walls were timber verticals clad in timber shingles. Recent arrivals from down south on moving in replaced all locks on doors and windows, using quite expensive replacements. The bad guys turned up with a chain saw and cut a corner off the house to gain entry.
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#16053 Post by Undried Plum » Sat Mar 28, 2020 2:51 pm

As I have both a shotgun and firearm certificate, I have semi-frequent inspection visits from what is now Police Scotland.

The Inspector, it's always a rozzer of that rank, gives me both official advice and unofficial hints and tips.

I've got six great big **** bolts on the very thick oak outer doors. Three on the opening edge; one each on the top and bottom and bottom, in addition to hinges which ought to grace a castle.

Pikeys, for they are the main threat locally, and are our equivalent of nigggers, would need a Challenger tank to bust through that lot. The walls, built in seventeen hundred oh oatcake, are two foot thick and made of the same vulcanic rock, from the same quarry, which built the pavements of the streets of the the later "New" town of Embra.

My Inspector, with scarcely a momentary doop of one eyelid, once said something to the effect of: "please don't shoot the **** in the face. You've no idea how much paperwork that involves".

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#16054 Post by OFSO » Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:39 pm

Arriving in Spain in 1993 a member of the Guardia said "if you have to shoot someone, please not one precise shot to the head. Empty the whole magazine, it looks more like you were panicking and substantiates your story of self-defence during a break-in."

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#16055 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:56 pm

I am so glad we have a conversation beer virus free.

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#16056 Post by OFSO » Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:18 pm

Chill wind tonight !

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#16057 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:41 pm

The bad guys turned up with a chain saw and cut a corner off the house to gain entry.
My dinghy, chained around a tree, was recently stolen. They used a saw to cut down the tree and lift the chain over the stump.

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#16058 Post by ricardian » Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:06 am

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#16059 Post by bob2s » Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:31 am

1968,Having dinner one night at a mates place in Lae PNG,his missus let out a yell saying that she just saw a local come in a side door whilst we were in the dining room,mate jumped up and chased him,out the back door he went, followed by a scream.Mate came back in,and said "I don't think he will be back" I queried him as why he was so sure,took me out the back door to show me a piece of plywood studded with nails and blood that thay placed outside the door at night,side door wooden mat was yet to be placed as there was garbage to be taken out when they cleaned up for the night.He said that the same devices were in the flower bed under each window. Simple but effective!

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#16060 Post by Ibbie » Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:24 am

Morning folks.

The sun is back, but it's cold. High of 18c expected and Mrs IB has already got the washing out to dry.

When it warms up a tad may go on the roof terrace to feel the rays.

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