The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#31101 Post by Woody » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:48 am

Not totally sure what this achieved, but it’s quite impressive to watch :D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885
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#31102 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:50 am

Woody wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:48 am
Not totally sure what this achieved, but it’s quite impressive to watch :D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885
One wonders what the idiots would have done if the carrier had promptly turned turtle and sunk! :))
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#31103 Post by Pinky the pilot » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:06 am

Wonder how many fish the blast killed? :-? :-q

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#31104 Post by k3k3 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:21 am

That will have popped a few rivets.

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#31105 Post by Wodrick » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:45 am

Hola,
Not getting this weather at all, all day yesterday, all night and thus far today the temperature has hovered around 20˚±
Sun is strong and high uv as it should be today.

Since the water main replacement we have no water supply to fill the deposit.
Paco says he will look today ............ sometime.

Having a morning off as it is market day, will do what is quite a big shop this afternoon.

I am getting cooked out and struggling to christen our evening meal.
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#31106 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:18 am

I don't know if it is just me but today is taking on a Daliesque edge, probably because I have been communicating with people in South Africa.

First a good friend of mine chasing up his passport application via telephone at the Department of Home Affairs...

He won't mind me quoting him...
Of course things get even more preposterous in ZAR, I called the home affairs line to see if my passport was ready, on the first three attempts the network failed, then I get through to automated response option which said "enter your ID to number and press 1 to confirm dead or press 2 to confirm alive" - I can only wonder how many dead people are calling to verify that they are deceased, of course it doesn't work so purgatory is filled with south african souls dead in Gods grace but seeking to contact home affairs before they may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven.
Unbelievable but true...

Perhaps they are conducting a gedankenexperiment, like the famous Schrodinger's cat experiment to determine whether the caller is in a superposition of states, namely both dead and alive and answering 1 or 2 will cause the wavefunction to collapse and an actual reality to come into being. =))

A huge step forward for African quantum physics... :))

Then my ex wife telling me that the famous on campus residence at the University of Cape Town is being forced to change its name from Smuts Hall... 8-|

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/uc ... 1bd4d60ff2

One can only shudder at what or after whom they are going to rename this venerable place... The Robert Mugabe Memorial Halls of Residence... the mind boggles at the awful potential of it all... FFS
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#31107 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:44 am

k3k3 wrote:
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That will have popped a few rivets.
Following the trials, the warship will return to a dry dock to undergo modernisation, maintenance and repairs.

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#31108 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:23 pm

Extremely forceful wind from the South today and 30°. I had to wind the awnings in to prevent them being ripped off. An interesting challenge this morning: despite being in agony from broken ribs (a fall) Mme OFSO has painted a large canvas of a masked man holding the planet Earth on a cord - I think a chain might be better - and asked me to paint the seas and continents. One rose to the occasion.

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#31109 Post by tango15 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:43 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:44 am
k3k3 wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:21 am
That will have popped a few rivets.
Following the trials, the warship will return to a dry dock to undergo modernisation, maintenance and repairs.
...and fish will be on the menu for several days hence!

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#31110 Post by EA01 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:26 pm

...and fish will be on the menu for several days hence!
I once made the stupid mistake of ordering 'Fish of the Day' in Vanuatu..of course I was sick as a dog..

Next day, fully flushed from both ends I wanted simply 'Vegemite Toast'

What did I get?, a plate of grilled vegetables and some toast,...typically all lost in translation

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#31111 Post by llondel » Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:57 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:50 am
Woody wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:48 am
Not totally sure what this achieved, but it’s quite impressive to watch :D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885
One wonders what the idiots would have done if the carrier had promptly turned turtle and sunk! :))
Is it still under warranty?

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#31112 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:09 pm

"I would love to know where these temperature rises are." :-?
They are right here! X( :-q ~X(
Records being set daily for high temps. plus records for consecutive days above 115o F.
WX stn only showing 96o a little after 0900, has been above 100o before 0800 lately. #:-S

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#31113 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:42 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:04 am
Ex-Ascot wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 5:28 am
Had an elephant wander past the front at 03.00 yesterday. Heard it but couldn't see if because of the security lights.
It wasn't a pink elephant was it Ex-Ascot?

A bit like the old story about the chap in the railway carriage, on the train from Waterloo to Surbiton, who noticed the man opposite him tearing his ticket into ever smaller and smaller pieces. "Why are are you doing that?", asked our chap to which the other bloke replied "it keeps the pink elephants away". To which our man replied "but there aren't any pink elephants!" to which the other man looked up and said triumphantly "effective isn't it!"

I could tell you the story about Spencer Flack and his pink Spitfire but I guess that would be too much pink in the morning. =))


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ction.html

Spencer Flack's Spitfire was more red!

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#31114 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:26 pm

G-Fire was one I got to our airshow, Spitfire 50th I think it was, amazing almost a quarter century ago. They asked if I really want a bright red one in amongst all the camouflaged ones.
I did, and they came for free except for a top up of fuel.

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#31115 Post by OFSO » Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:15 am

Nice cool wind this morning. Plants in front yard watered. Diplodemia burst into life, huge white flowers everywhere.

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#31116 Post by handsfree » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:20 am

Still only 10°C this morning but Mr Sun is up there radiating away to bring it up to the
predicted 18°C later.

Billy is off on his weekly trip to see the nurses at the City. Hopefully he'll be on his best behaviour.
I shall be going with him. We're quite inseparable these days. :D

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#31117 Post by OFSO » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:38 am

Good luck to you both. Does Billy get his own bus pass?

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#31118 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:45 am

Now now OFSO, someone will only ask if he has to show it.

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#31119 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:45 am

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"Shorty" Longbottom!
I suspect we need to get to the bottom of why there were so many people with bottom in their surnames in the photographic reconnaissance squadrons during the Second World War. People such as Maurice "Shorty" Longbottom and Fred Winterbotham. No prats in reconnaissance or the secret service though, although there is a Pratts Bottom in Kent! :) I suppose aviation owes the name Pratt some respect though, given the success of Pratt and Whitney for example.
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#31120 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:49 am

The latter based in Texas?

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