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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#7121 Post by Wodrick » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:34 am

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25c might hit the promised 26c.
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#7122 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:36 am

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#7123 Post by OFSO » Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:43 am

For the lounge-lizards, boulevardiers, and poseurs here - if you buy i-phones and Teslas, this means you - probabably - and wish to impress your neighbours - which you do, otherwise you would not buy hyped and ludicrously expensive products - Aldi has a rip-off of the Dyson bladeless fan on sale, made in China of course, and at a fraction of the price Dyson has the Impudence to charge. I bought one this morning. It looks good, is powerful on all settings, and inaudible except on full blast. Dyson price £339 Aldi price £51 or €59.

Well done Aldi!

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#7124 Post by Hydromet » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:26 am

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#7125 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:40 am

Three decades ago I experienced a stomach ulcer, manifested by black faeces (among other symptoms).

After surgery, I now take appropriate medication as a preventative prophylaxis.

Today I was shocked and horrified to observe black faeces - and went into sudden fear and depression.

After lengthy consideration as to possible causes I recalled yesterday eating ice-cream in black wafer cones . . .

I hope that that is the explanation.

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#7126 Post by ribrash » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:49 am

G-CPTN wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:40 am
Three decades ago I experienced a stomach ulcer, manifested by black faeces (among other symptoms).

After surgery, I now take appropriate medication as a preventative prophylaxis.

Today I was shocked and horrified to observe black faeces - and went into sudden fear and depression.

After lengthy consideration as to possible causes I recalled yesterday eating ice-cream in black wafer cones . . .

I hope that that is the explanation.
...Or you drank a goodly quantity of draft Guinness. :-bd

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#7127 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Jun 26, 2022 12:22 pm

OFSO wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:43 am
buy hyped and ludicrously expensive products
Yesterday Iceland (a UK retailer of mostly frozen foods, but also some other stuff) were charging a fiver for a 500gm pack of Lurpak.

We make our own butter from raw milk which we get for nowt from a neighbouring farmer. Cost = £0.00/kilo.

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#7128 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Jun 26, 2022 12:28 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:40 am
Today I was shocked and horrified to observe black faeces - and went into sudden fear and depression.
Working on the Trans Med pipeline off Sicily in the early 1980s I had a similar fright. Then I remembered that the previous day we'd had calamari cooked in squid ink for supper.

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#7129 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:18 pm

There is a great dish in Greece which I can't remember the name of (RiS?) Beetroot with garlic potato or bread. You piss red afterwards.
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#7130 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:17 pm

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There is a great dish in Greece which I can't remember the name of (RiS?) Beetroot with garlic potato or bread. You piss red afterwards.
It is called skordalia, I think. I make very clear a dish of this delicacy and myself are to be in a different room.

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#7131 Post by llondel » Sun Jun 26, 2022 6:45 pm

OFSO wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:43 am
For the lounge-lizards, boulevardiers, and poseurs here - if you buy i-phones and Teslas, this means you - probabably - and wish to impress your neighbours - which you do, otherwise you would not buy hyped and ludicrously expensive products - Aldi has a rip-off of the Dyson bladeless fan on sale, made in China of course, and at a fraction of the price Dyson has the Impudence to charge. I bought one this morning. It looks good, is powerful on all settings, and inaudible except on full blast. Dyson price £339 Aldi price £51 or €59.

Well done Aldi!
The flip side of that is that it may have cost Dyson a million quid in R&D to figure it out and they're trying to recover the investment. The Chinese manufacturer, meanwhile, had no R&D cost beyond going and buying a couple of Dyson fans and reverse-engineering them.

Or, as happened to a company I worked for, a competing product came out which happened to have a similar feature to one in our product. We bought one, stripped it down, to find something that looked very similar but the mechanics of that feature were slightly different. The killer, however, was discovering that the PCB in that part of the system had one of our part numbers etched into the copper and was identical to ours apart from a different silk screen logo. Or another company, where the export manager returned from Africa with a couple of boards that looked like ours but were branded with the name of an Indian company. they worked perfectly in our system and it was clear that it was a direct copy, just changing the logo on the PCB and hacking the software in the eproms to overwrite the text string of our company name with theirs. That one was somewhat self-inflicted though, turns out they'd previously been in talks with the Indian manufacturer about having them build the product, so had given them all the design information. This is why I always think there's a hidden cost to outsourcing manufacturer to some of these cheap places, it sort of guarantees that there will be cheap competition within a year.

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#7132 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Jun 26, 2022 6:58 pm

Still grounded from doing me canal stuff.

Having a hurty back has allowed me to finish a model aeroplane than Mrs 4ma gave me at Xmas. T'is the first one I've built in donkeys years (and if you look closely, it shows). Pepsi can used as a size guide.
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#7133 Post by 4mastacker » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:36 pm

Done a recce of the location of next week's presentation by PN's charity. Lovely day, nice and sunny and the silence of the place was broken only by birdsong.
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#7134 Post by ricardian » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:41 pm

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So you are in the market for a new alarm and you better buy it soon...
Up here there's a new law about smoke alarms so I now have 3 smoke alarms (living room, bedroom, corridor) and a flame alarm in the kitchen. I've had carbon monoxide detectors in all rooms for several years.
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#7135 Post by ricardian » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:42 pm

4mastacker wrote:
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One has been "selected" to accept the very kind donation to me canal society from PN's charity.
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#7136 Post by ricardian » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:47 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:40 am
Three decades ago I experienced a stomach ulcer, manifested by black faeces (among other symptoms).
After surgery, I now take appropriate medication as a preventative prophylaxis.
Today I was shocked and horrified to observe black faeces - and went into sudden fear and depression.
After lengthy consideration as to possible causes I recalled yesterday eating ice-cream in black wafer cones . . .
I hope that that is the explanation.
Were you taking "Bisodol"?
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#7137 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:43 pm

Ah, new laws.
I'm sure all those skyscraper tower blocks you have on Stronsay will be much safer now, Ricardian.
Ineffective legislation, expensive administration, and enforcement thereof, will soon fix the problem permanently. Nobody will be able to afford a house.
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#7138 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:10 pm

ricardian wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:47 pm

Were you taking "Bisodol"?
At the time I was taking multiple medications, including heavy doses of Ibuprofen (part of a GP-prescribed treatment for chronic pain following major thoracic surgery).

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#7139 Post by Hydromet » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:36 pm

OFSO wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:43 am
For the lounge-lizards, boulevardiers, and poseurs here .....
What about us flaneurs? Feeling left out here.

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#7140 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:39 pm

OFSO wrote:
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:43 am
Aldi has a rip-off of the Dyson bladeless fan on sale, made in China of course, and at a fraction of the price Dyson has the Impudence to charge.
Google/YouTube ads are probably the worst for that sort of thing. They shamelessly advertise outright ripoffs.

Here's Bruce Simpson having a bit of rant about the matter:


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