The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Smeagol]

I saw an unmarked police car with light and sirens in Exeter yesterday, nothing remarkable in that you may say, except it was a Tesla Model S.

Fire up the Quattro they used to say, now they have to check the battery charge on the Tesla first.

Teslas must be this year's 'must have' vehicle for UK plod as Norfolk also have an unmarked white one in their inventory.

[llondel]

Teslas must be this year's 'must have' vehicle for UK plod as Norfolk also have an unmarked white one in their inventory.

Well, if they have an unsuccessful shift without nicking anyone, at least they can charge the car when they get back.

[Undried Plum]

Hiding indoors with doorbell and gate motor switched off in case rude Frenchman appears and wants to View house. My action probably saved him a punch in the face, which he deserved yesterday.

Mrs OFSO suggested putting a notice on the door "French nationals not admitted"

History doesn't rhyme, but it so much does.


Fukkem, unless the price is right.

[ian16th]

Hiding indoors with doorbell and gate motor switched off in case rude Frenchman appears and wants to View house. My action probably saved him a punch in the face, which he deserved yesterday.

Mrs OFSO suggested putting a notice on the door "French nationals not admitted"

History doesn't rhyme, but it so much does.


Fukkem, unless the price is right.

Recomended Reading.

[Undried Plum]

Fukkem, unless the price is right.

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 5 x 1.7 inches

Fukkem.

Leave the bastard ffrench droppings on the doorstop and hope that the Pikeys pinch that ****.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Another day passes into night. Stopped off at the service station to pick up some fuel. No E10 unleaded locally at all, as people are panic buying.

Well, I am just going to ignore the incipient chaos in the affairs Anglaise, and sip my tea and watch the perfect pink sunset... just sipping my tea man!





And looking with envy at this image sent to me by a friend who is doing a type conversion onto this little baby...

[Undried Plum]

And looking with envy at this image sent to me by a friend who is doing a type conversion onto this little baby.
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Seems to be treading rather heavily on the wrong foot for pulling pitch.

Wrong side of the Manche, or summat?

[TheGreenGoblin]

G-LUGS, based this side of the pond. Seems to be flying straight and level to me... no yaw, no toppled gyro's.

No glugs at lunchtime for him... he is the chief pilot at his outfit.

A109S

https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/defaul ... Report.pdf

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[PHXPhlyer]

#1 daughter sent me a photo of the panel of the Cherokee she was training in.
My only response was "You need more left rudder".
Her response: "My instructor was flying while I took the photo."

PP

[TheGreenGoblin]

#1 daughter sent me a photo of the panel of the Cherokee she was training in.
My only response was "You need more left rudder".
Her response: "My instructor was flying while I took the photo."

PP

Perhaps he was demonstrating cross control side slip x-wind approaches!

I gave the guy who checked me out at Clearwater Beach, the heebie-jeebies when I used the crab, wings level method when landing in the brisk sea breeze... "Buddy what the hell you doing?"

He wasn't happy until I got it all crossed up...

[PHXPhlyer]

Nah.
Straight and level.
Just sloppy rudder work.
He is a she and new instructor as well.
I haven't met her yet but daughter seems to like her.

PP

[Undried Plum]

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The loveliest of all helicopters. Surely.

Never mind the 76.

Isn't she gorgeous?

Just gorgeous!

[k3k3]

The ex-president of Catalonia, Puigdemont, has been arrested at the airport on his arrival in Italy.

The EU have removed his parliamentary immunity and the Spanish have issued an arrest warrant alledging rebellion and sedition.

[Undried Plum]

Today has been/is Quarterly financial review day.

There are two prime considerations this time around: Inflation and Systemic Risk.

Forget the idiotic retail indicators such as CPI and RPI. They're designed to deliberately and massively understate real inflation by two or three times the true value. The current fad for denial of reality is aimed at avoiding frightening the horses by trying to persuade the gullible that inflation is less than it really is; and that anyway it is purely "transitory".

Look at the market price increases in real assets over the past half dozen Quarters and you get a better idea of where Inflation is actually going.

A piece of land which I bought last winter, and upon which I planted some trees, has this week been valued by a reputable (and expensive) valuer as being worth 23.5% more than last year even when taking into account the value added of the tree plantation which I've since done.

Some land which I bought 30 years ago for £30k has been valued at £400k, albeit with outline planning consent for a coupla houses boosting the market value.

A house in Edinburgh bought for £175 in 1959 is now 'worth' >£800k, albeit with addition of mod cons such as central heating and a bit of loft insulation and better bathroom and kitchen etc.

Inflation is a bitch and she'll kill you financially, especially if you think that Cash is King.

Look at gas prices this past year: 36.33 to 181.23 in 12 months.

Look at oil prices this past year: 41.77 to 75.89 in 12 months.

Look at copper prices this past year: 2.97 to 4.22 in 12 months.

Look at steel prices: up more than 200% in 12 months.

Look at cement prices; and the cost of aggregate -- if you can get any within three months of wanting it.

It's crazy that Scotland is importing sawn timber at all, but a friend in the trade tells me that shipping costs of that material from the Baltic and Scandinavia have trebled in the last 18 months and the cost of the material itself has more than doubled.

Containerised shipping costs from the Far East have quadrupled (some say octupled) in the past two years.

The Retail Price Index stated rate of inflation of 4.3% is *****. CPI is guilty of worse.

The other major hazard right now, and in the next coupla years, is the systemic risk that the financial markets themselves are intrinsically doomed to some kind of collapse or seizure which will make 2008 look like a hiccup.

I'm no economist. An A pass in Higher Economics at school doesn't confer powers of insight, and certainly not of foresight, but even I can see that there will be a bond/equity/currency crash and that the outcome of the Inflation problem will be stagflation for a generation.

One of my extant heroes is Nouriel Roubini. Here's a wee piece I've just found this afternoon, after writing the above, by searching for what he's saying about the matter these days:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/comme ... ni-2021-09

Read; and inwardly digest.

G'night.

[OFSO]

Morning all. How's everyone? Hope we see HF home today with new plumbing. I'm up very early to go to gym before x-rays of neck, then home to prep house before Viewing. Never a dull moment.

[Rwy in Sight]

Good morning to our readers in the GMT or about time zone

I didn't understand HF comes home today. I hope he is back soon.

I need to decide if I am going to ask for a day off on Monday to help a friend with the yearly olive picking task.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Standing in for a hopefully repaired HF it is Friday.

Can't seem to do a bank transfer for our safari next weekend so have to go into town today to pay by some other means. All very annoying. Just done bank transfers for all our staff wages but still can't do it for the safari company. Need to do some clothes shopping anyway. Our safari kit daily uniforms are a bit scruffy. Can't be shown up by rich Americans in their brand new kit which they will leave for the camp staff.

I hate olive picking.

[handsfree]

Good morning everybody.
Don’t think I’ll be home today as the surgeon wants to check all his joints are pee and blood tight. The op went very well according to said plumber. Still felt very sore yesterday but quite chipper today. Vampire has already been and the Doctors’ Round will be at about 09:00.

IT’S FRIDAY

[Woody]

Glad everything went well HF , I reckon that you’ll be turfed out today, as you correctly pointed out today is Friday and the NHS don’t seem to like working weekends

For anyone who didn’t see my post yesterday Big Airways have recalled me back to Perry Oaks International from next Thursday

[bob2s]

HF, should be ok as far as the tightness of all the joint is concerned, as it is a well kown fact that at our age all our joints get tight.