The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[OFSO]

Enjoy both. Forecast high up here not even in double figures.

[Pontius Navigator]

OFSO, don't forget the roaring forties. Anything less than 50 in still air is cold.

[Wodrick]

G'day,
Same, blue, 14˚c guess 20˚c,

With opened municipal borders off for a run out to collect a bit of furniture we said we would buy a month ago.
gets me out of the way while the floors are mopped.

[Pinky the pilot]

I took it home and smashed it to bits with a sledgehammer.

CharlieOneSix;

Any serious collector of Militaria such as the one described by Undried Plum would have cheerfully taken it off your hands and quite possibly given you a bit of cash for it as well!

I know I would!

[TheGreenGoblin]

I took it home and smashed it to bits with a sledgehammer.

CharlieOneSix;

Any serious collector of Militaria such as the one described by Undried Plum would have cheerfully taken it off your hands and quite possibly given you a bit of cash for it as well!

I know I would!

Earlier in the year I noticed some brouhaha about a live grenade in Cornwall. I wonder what made C16 wish to give up his "arsenal" now?

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornw ... ng-4848883

On the same theme, I watched the last repeat of Danger UXB yesterday evening. A thoroughly absorbing series with good old Anthony Andrews (playing Lieutenant Brian Ash, a somewhat unfortunate surname for a man doing such work) finally recovering his nerve and returning to the fray after been blown up and seriously injured while defusing a bomb.

The men and women who undertake such work must be made of something special, and not be cack-handed. I am certain I would always cut the wrong wire, trip over the trip wire, or drop the detonator down my underpants or something like that in such extreme circumstances.

While looking up the series I came across this chap, a specialist in Kiwi fruits who became a specialist in the art of defusing bombs... what an extraordinary man.

John Pilkington Hudson

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ins ... bomb-squad

[Magnus]

Attended a communal pig-sticking gig this afternoon. As a stickee, not as a sticker.

Favourably impressed by the good organisation and calm efficiency of the whole arrangement.

Not often that I say nice things about Snumpty gumment doings, but they've done a good job with the covax, so far as I'm concerned.

I am to become a stickee on Friday. Just as well we're not in the EU procurement system.

[Magnus]

My auto engine cutout doesn't, and I've noticed on startup that the main dashboard display blanks out for a second. I suspect a dying battery. More £££.

[Pontius Navigator]

TGG, perhaps not surprisingly the course, which used to be at North Luffenham is particularly rigorous. I heard one particular point of failure was not wearing Service headgear.

There was a photograph of an RAF EOD officer in the early 80s in the Falklands, approaching a piece of ordnance. He was wearing new DPM uniform (the RAF had only recently been scaled for DPM) and was wearing his SD uniform cap. At the time officers were only permitted to wear SD or Forage hats. Only RAF Regiment officers were permitted berets.

There were questions in the corridors of power and berets were eventually authorized for wear with flying suits or field service uniform, is DPM, but not blues.

[Pontius Navigator]

My auto engine cutout doesn't, and I've noticed on startup that the main dashboard display blanks out for a second. I suspect a dying battery. More £££.

I presume that is a conventional stop/start system. A hybrid also has stop/start but always find the ICE until it is warned up. If conventional I guess you are right. My Merc, a 220d, had a huge battery in the boot. It was specified for a stop/start battery even though it did not have stop/start. It cost about £140 at quick fit.

[izod tester]

Berets were worn by officers on TCW and TSW prior to the Falklands and also by officers in the Harrier Field force and officer PJIs when wearing jump suits.

[TheGreenGoblin]

TGG, perhaps not surprisingly the course, which used to be at North Luffenham is particularly rigorous. I heard one particular point of failure was not wearing Service headgear.

There was a photograph of an RAF EOD officer in the early 80s in the Falklands, approaching a piece of ordnance. He was wearing new DPM uniform (the RAF had only recently been scaled for DPM) and was wearing his SD uniform cap. At the time officers were only permitted to wear SD or Forage hats. Only RAF Regiment officers were permitted berets.

There were questions in the corridors of power and berets were eventually authorized for wear with flying suits or field service uniform, is DPM, but not blues.

In the face of defusing unexploded ordinance, I suspect it might be wiser to leave the berets to those with a sense of style and the sang froid and the nous to wear them correctly, and don a good couple of extra centimeters of kevlar under the DPM and anoint one's bonce with a good solid steel helmet and a visor at the very least! Bomb suits seem to have come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades, although they are not very fetching.

Bomb suits

Call me a coward if you will!

Sang froid...

[EA01]

I presume that is a conventional stop/start system. A hybrid also has stop/start but always find the ICE until it is warned up. If conventional I guess you are right. My Merc, a 220d, had a huge battery in the boot. It was specified for a stop/start battery even though it did not have stop/start. It cost about £140 at quick fit.

Our 'Newy' has a huge battery also...and it has a stop / start thing as well, but that 'feature' can be disabled, so I do!. I'm thinking the cost of a replacement starter motor to be rather more than a few cents of petrol at the lights. The car essentially uses the starter motor many many more times than needed, and if you were of a 'green' bent, then the energy used in making the starter motor is probably rather more than a few cents worth of fuel.

But I have no numbers for this of course, I just know that Mrs Fliegs and I had a blast today going for a run out in the country, a 140km 'lap', Numinbah Valley, natural Bridge, Murwillumbah (for Lunch), Condong, Tumbulgum, and Terranora, back into QLD, and a run up the M1. Haven't even tried the 'Paddle Shifts' yet....

[handsfree]

We're getting there, +2°C (feels like -4) but forecast to rise to 5°C.
13°C promised for tomorrow
The only thing is that with the warmth cometh wetness.

Mrs HF's bubble pal is joining us for Sunday lunch. It's her pal's 60th birthday
tomorrow so it's a mini commiseration/celebration. I gather she isn't impressed
at reaching such an impressive age. Lunch will be medallions of pork fillet in a
mushroom and pepper cream sauce with baby leeks and whatever else I find
hanging about in the cupboard.

Rugby and more drinks will then be partaken of.

[Ex-Ascot]

Afternoon folks. Just back from the safari camp. Quite a lot of under the bar alcohol service going on but only to reflectives. To protect our scotch reserve they are only selling it by the bottle. A couple (S.A.) plus a friend were supposed to be there for breakfast at 10.00. They turned up at 12.00, the two chaps are supping a breakfast bottle of scotch. No idea who is driving. It is good that this alcohol ban is working. Most commendable President Masisi.

Broken Cu rain forecast. Spoke to one of the no booze, booze cruise drivers yesterday. He has just been past in complete silence unlike others today.

Mrs Ex-Ascot threw a brick at me. Damaged big toe. she claimed that she was just trying to position it to keep the garage gate closed. I am taking legal advice. How do you divide 17 hippos? Carefully?

[Magnus]

My auto engine cutout doesn't, and I've noticed on startup that the main dashboard display blanks out for a second. I suspect a dying battery. More £££.

I presume that is a conventional stop/start system. A hybrid also has stop/start but always find the ICE until it is warned up. If conventional I guess you are right. My Merc, a 220d, had a huge battery in the boot. It was specified for a stop/start battery even though it did not have stop/start. It cost about £140 at quick fit.

Ours is the C220d with added gubbins. Our local equivalent to kwikfit seems to be the same price. I'm reluctant to go to the main dealer because they nab the car for the day, run all sorts of checks, valet it (the only plus) and for a battery change probably wouldn't offer a courtesy car.

[Magnus]

Friends who worked in a naval base on the UK south coast and were involved in armament disposal told me that the occasional small explosive device would fall in the sea "accidentally". Fish featured on many domestic menus that night.

[Pontius Navigator]

Magnus, one job I had was helping Royal Ordnance do proving trials with SUS. A pair of one ounce CE going off in the Moray Firth had the desired effect. When we were out in the launch the fishing vessels would loiter nearby and they would lob a few fish our way.

[TheGreenGoblin]

And to think that that buffoon Johnson wants to build a bridge over Beaufort's Dyke!

[CharlieOneSix]

+4C here and cloudy. Loud rumbling noises as 1ft deep snow comes rocketing off the roof in places. Huge icicles about 2 inches in diameter from the garage roof. An idea for a plot on Midsomer Murders - victim lies there with a big hole in his chest. Nobody realises but the murder weapon is a huge icicle, all sign of it having disappeared by the time Barnaby arrives. No weapon therefore no DNA - the perfect crime. I should have been a crime writer.....

[CharlieOneSix]

My auto engine cutout doesn't, and I've noticed on startup that the main dashboard display blanks out for a second. I suspect a dying battery. More £££.

The first sign of a dying battery on my A6 was that a warning flashed up after engine start to say that Start/Stop was unavailable. No problem, never use it - my after start checklist item one - turn off stop/start. A few days later a ESR warning added to that. The battery had failed within the three year new car warranty so Audi paid. If you change out the battery yourself I believe it's a good idea to piggy back a working battery whilst you remove the duff one - that keeps radio settings etc etc.