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Goth - exclamation made by thomeone with a lithp.
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Therapist - a person who gives therapy. (Gives? - more likely charges an arm and a leg for it, if they can get away with it, on an eye-watering hourly rate ... )
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Stereotype - a form of writing using a double-wording keyboard.
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Persiflage - light teasing or joking. One of those words that's well past its use-by date, hanging on by its fingertips only in the pages of the "better" dictionaries. Time to put it out of its misery, methinks (another candidate!).
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Germicide - products on which the label claims it kills 99.9% of known germs, which usually satisfies the optimists amongst us, but not the pessimists, who worry that the other 0.1% could be out to get them ...
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Destructor - slang term for instructor. The inference being that instructors traditionally are a bloody cruel callous lot who destroy victims' motivation, confidence, and any remaining shred of self-respect during their simulator sessions.
Who am I to turn against long standing tradition?
Who am I to turn against long standing tradition?
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Orfe - a largish goldfish, popular with those who have a garden big enough to have a decent sized pool. Churchill had them in his self-built pools at Chartwell, along with some black swans. Nowadays with the beautiful property open to the public, both species are still in evidence there.
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Fen home to the Fennies when I was based at RAF (H) Ely; not known for their high IQ's
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Entire future of Maglev development in the UK was invested in a government-sponsored R&D project called Tracked Hovercraft Ltd, set up in the fens at Earith, near Huntingdon in the early 1970s. A test track several miles long was planned, and a short initial length was actually built, taking advantage of the flatness and bleakness of the local terrain. Unfortunately the presence of waterlogged peat proved a problem of quality control for the many track foundation piers at 60 foot centres, which were supported on bored-in-situ concrete piles, due to a defect termed "necking" during the construction of some piles. This critically delayed preliminary test runs of the research vehicle RTV31, at a time when government cost cutting was hazarding the whole project, which the Minister for Aerospace ("Tarzan"/Heseltine) then gave the chop to. His decision was controversial politically, and a Parliamentary Select Committee enquiry was very critical of the circumstances. Shame, but par for the course of enterprising engineering projects, many felt at the time:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracked_Hovercraft
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I'm aware of necking during Creep Testing of metals, but in concrete piles???603DX wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:25 pmEntire future of Maglev development in the UK was invested in a government-sponsored R&D project called Tracked Hovercraft Ltd, set up in the fens at Earith, near Huntingdon in the early 1970s. A test track several miles long was planned, and a short initial length was actually built, taking advantage of the flatness and bleakness of the local terrain. Unfortunately the presence of waterlogged peat proved a problem of quality control for the many track foundation piers at 60 foot centres, which were supported on bored-in-situ concrete piles, due to a defect termed "necking" during the construction of some piles. This critically delayed preliminary test runs of the research vehicle RTV31, at a time when government cost cutting was hazarding the whole project, which the Minister for Aerospace ("Tarzan"/Heseltine) then gave the chop to. His decision was controversial politically, and a Parliamentary Select Committee enquiry was very critical of the circumstances. Shame, but par for the course of enterprising engineering projects, many felt at the time:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracked_Hovercraft
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Recede - to give up one's country again to another.
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desperado - there's no 'f' in hope!
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Dob in - Oz slang meaning to report someone for an apparent wrongdoing, e.g. Julie Powell did dob me in to the teacher for staring at her tits (the teacher's not Julie's. Julie was only 8. Miss Glynn's were huge).
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Obscure terminology often uses the same word for quite different phenomena, ian16th. Bored-in-situ piles are formed in waterlogged ground conditions, using a temporary cylindrical steel casing to prevent the soft soil from collapsing into the borehole. When the underlying hard ground has been reached, on which end bearing of the pile will occur, the reinforcement cage is lowered into the casing, and wet concrete is gradually poured using a tremie hopper and pipe system, to prevent ground water from diluting the concrete mix. The temporary casing cylinder must be very carefully removed at a rate which doesn't allow the surrounding weak soil to collapse into the borehole before the concrete level is in place, otherwise the final pile when hardened and cured could have a short section comprising soft soil, with no concrete at all! This is what is called "necking", and renders the whole pile useless. It's a skilled balancing act, and a small percentage of piles on any large contract may often be thus affected. Doesn't matter too much if there are a large number of piles in each foundation, but unfortunately many of the Hovercraft track foundations had only two or three piles at each pier location, and there was a risk of collapse as the test vehicle passed over it. Several piers had to be underpinned by extra piles and ground beams. My firm were commissioned to design and supervise that essential work.
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Relax - to go back to Los Angeles Int'l airport again and chill.
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Thanks for that.603DX wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2019 10:31 amObscure terminology often uses the same word for quite different phenomena, ian16th. Bored-in-situ piles are formed in waterlogged ground conditions, using a temporary cylindrical steel casing to prevent the soft soil from collapsing into the borehole. When the underlying hard ground has been reached, on which end bearing of the pile will occur, the reinforcement cage is lowered into the casing, and wet concrete is gradually poured using a tremie hopper and pipe system, to prevent ground water from diluting the concrete mix. The temporary casing cylinder must be very carefully removed at a rate which doesn't allow the surrounding weak soil to collapse into the borehole before the concrete level is in place, otherwise the final pile when hardened and cured could have a short section comprising soft soil, with no concrete at all! This is what is called "necking", and renders the whole pile useless. It's a skilled balancing act, and a small percentage of piles on any large contract may often be thus affected. Doesn't matter too much if there are a large number of piles in each foundation, but unfortunately many of the Hovercraft track foundations had only two or three piles at each pier location, and there was a risk of collapse as the test vehicle passed over it. Several piers had to be underpinned by extra piles and ground beams. My firm were commissioned to design and supervise that essential work.
We have an amazing breadth of skills, experience & knowledge on Ops-Normal.
My brush with Creep Testing was a process control system I installed at Henry Wiggin in 1967.
I found the Creep Lab to be a fascinating place for someone ignorant of metallurgy.
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A tough sell to get my money.Mrs Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2019 1:30 pmAxe bottle openers, seem to be fashionable these days
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Xenon - an inert gaseous element, present in small amounts in the air; thus avoiding a potential impasse here due to the paucity of words starting with XE ...
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Ontological - concerning the nature of being. Soon to be added to the "meeja studies" degree course at the University of Numpshire (formerly the School of Scarf and Socks Knitting at Piddletrenthide), where annual tuition fees are a very modest £20,000, and 1st class honours are guaranteed.