The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Boac]

I read those words but then I thought Ex-A meant small change

- as did I - what did you think I meant?

[om15]

Yup 14 million!

Wow

[Rwy in Sight]

I read those words but then I thought Ex-A meant small change

- as did I - what did you think I meant?

ex-A wrote:
TS admits that she has small ones.

- this will not be good news for Slasher.

There was a reference about Slasher as you can see I hadn't have yet my second coffee so I may have misread or misunderstood.

[Boac]

That's ok - it is sometimes difficult to keep abreast of developments.

[1DC]

In my seagoing days when i was serving on oil tankers we would go on the Aussie coast for five months ( if you stayed six months you went on to Oz rates of pay, backdated. AS the Aussies were paid much more than the Brits it never happened. If they still needed you on the coast, after five months, you did a quick trip to NZ and back so that you started the time again) We would load at the refinery in Botany Bay and discharge at five or six ports up the coast, a fantastic time was had by all, and then go back and do it again. When you loaded petrol their were two grades regular and premium.We would go into a port and discharge to up to five different companies each company would take between a 100 and a 1000 tons.Each company would have its own drums of additive on the jetty and the petrol would leave the ship as regular or premium the receiving company would inject its additive and the finished product would enter the receivers tank as Esso Super or Shell Special or Ampol Brilliant etc. etc. The original petrol was refined to Government standards and was quite suitable to run a car and i often wondered what difference the additives actually made.

[Boac]

Two events today:
1) The second time in 12 months (early onset...?) I have placed my multimeter voltage probes on 240V with the meter set at 'Current' - second new meter now on order from Amazon and singed eyebrows in the paint shop.

2) I was searching said emporium for my favourite 'Palmolive Shaving Stick' which ***** Tescos seem to have stopped stocking and was amused to see the 'standard' Amazon sales algorithm offering me 'New' AND 'Used'. Hmmm. I'll look at ordering toilet paper next, maybe....

[ian16th]

2) I was searching said emporium for my favourite 'Palmolive Shaving Stick' which ***** Tescos seem to have stopped stocking and was amused to see the 'standard' Amazon sales algorithm offering me 'New' AND 'Used'. Hmmm. I'll look at ordering toilet paper next, maybe....

Ordinary Palmolive shaving cream has also disappeared from the shelves here.

The shelves are full of aerosols of gunk.

I bet the NAAFI still sells it.

[Sisemen]

Bring back the original recipe Palmolive soap. The smell always reminds me of the vestibule lavvy at the end of a BR Mk 1 coach.

[Boac]

"The shelves are full of aerosols of gunk." - indeed - I have an 'interim' terribly fashionable black aerosol shaving gel dispenser but will be buying an (unused) Palmolive stick soon.

[OFSO]

At three pm I was asleep on the terrace under cloudless skies and hot sun, at four pm woke to black cloud, force six tramontana and pouring rain. Saturday's forecast weather arrived 24 hours early.

[llondel]

Two events today:
1) The second time in 12 months (early onset...?) I have placed my multimeter voltage probes on 240V with the meter set at 'Current' - second new meter now on order from Amazon and singed eyebrows in the paint shop.

You need to get an AVO 8. Rumour has it that you can measure the source impedance of the mains with one of those on ohms. They also have a nice little resettable trip to account for the occasional lapse.

[Boac]

It will not fit in my pocket, llondel, but I recall it well.

[Ibbie]

Strange happening earlier.

Turning into a car park, a white car was exiting, which I thought looked familiar.
Twas my old car, out back on the road with a new owner already.

[Wodrick]

Did you trade it locally *Ibbie* that doesn't happen often/ever.

[G-CPTN]

I sold a 14-year-old vehicle privately to a local tradesman.
Every time I saw it it was like seeing an old girlfriend.

I sold it even though nothing had ever gone wrong (no MOT failures), but I only used it for long journeys and I feared that, sooner or later it would let me down (and I was offered a brand new run-out model for the price of an eighteen-month old vehicle).
The 'new' owner ran it locally for another five years before it succumbed to MOT failure, by which time he decided to retire anyway.

[reddo]

mmm shouted myself some Aviation Gin. Yum.

[OFSO]

Morning all. Last night's rain has turned into a force six gale, or so they say. From the howling outside, I would have thought it a bit more. Usual Saturday ahead, shopping and the Torygraph and bacon sarnies at the café.

[Ibbie]

Morning folks.

A more reasonable 8c for dog walk today.

Now off to town for lottery tickets and last weeks winnings ( a pittance).

On the car subject, I traded with local main dealer.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks, blazing sunshine no rain forecast. This is not looking good. Everything is green though unlike this time last year. Ladies are picking wild greens in the bush here. We tried a few years ago but found them very bitter. May have picked them too late.

We visit our old Land Rover 'Larry' every year. He is retired to an olive grove on Amorgos with another old Land Rover who he was supposed to replace. I gave him to the hotel owner but it was not registered in Greece. The police knew but let me get away with it. Since the hotel owner petitioned to have our police station closed down he can't get away with driving it.

[Slasher]

Was Larry forced into retirement because he was fed up being constantly raped by the local Botswanian pachydermery sah?

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