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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2800 on: 01 October, 2018, 09:38:54 pm »
Quite spookily, I did leap the same conclusive delusion of cricketer and relative of the devil-worshipper
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2801 on: 02 October, 2018, 10:45:24 am »
That if you left Bristol's floating harbour in a narrow boat and headed upstream, after about two hours you would reach Hanham lock. Which would be handy for visiting the nearby Argos Cycles (and Kim's Cafe!). That's right, you're still firmly within Bristol and not even in the proper suburbs. I knew canal boats were slow, but didn't realize they were quite that slow.
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Efrogwr

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2802 on: 02 October, 2018, 11:55:25 am »
I thought that a punk band called Ted Turd and the Toolsheds was a joke, made up by one of my mates. I have learned that it was a genuine band.
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rogerzilla

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2803 on: 02 October, 2018, 12:27:20 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 02 October, 2018, 10:45:24 am
That if you left Bristol's floating harbour in a narrow boat and headed upstream, after about two hours you would reach Hanham lock. Which would be handy for visiting the nearby Argos Cycles (and Kim's Cafe!). That's right, you're still firmly within Bristol and not even in the proper suburbs. I knew canal boats were slow, but didn't realize they were quite that slow.
4mph.  They will go a bit faster but it's discouraged as it washes away the banks.  Locks are the real time hog, though; if all the locks are against you (empty when you're going down, or full when you're going up) it can take ages to get anywhere.
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2804 on: 02 October, 2018, 12:33:46 pm »
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2805 on: 02 October, 2018, 12:58:27 pm »
Quote from: ian on 02 October, 2018, 12:33:46 pm
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2806 on: 02 October, 2018, 01:06:47 pm »
Doesn't surprise me. I've seen drunks on canal boats here trying to spear swans.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2807 on: 02 October, 2018, 01:15:09 pm »
Quote from: T42 on 02 October, 2018, 01:06:47 pm
Doesn't surprise me. I've seen drunks on canal boats here trying to spear swans.

 :o  I hope they got a broken arm.
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Beardy

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2808 on: 02 October, 2018, 01:57:19 pm »
That the M25 remains a dreadful road with no alternative routes.

Five hours it took us to get from Heathrow to the East of the Eastern Angles. FIVE HOURS. It’s only a 119 of the BRITONS miles and it’s dual carriageway for all but the last spit. Damned pantechnicon drivers* , driving when they should be asleep in bed and not at the wheel. And the polis’s insistence in doing s full collision investigation there and then even though it means closing the motorway for hours during the peak travelling time.  Pah!
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Tim Hall

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2809 on: 02 October, 2018, 02:05:22 pm »
Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit.  Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.
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ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2810 on: 02 October, 2018, 02:09:46 pm »
Quote from: Beardy on 02 October, 2018, 01:57:19 pm
That the M25 remains a dreadful road with no alternative routes.

Five hours it took us to get from Heathrow to the East of the Eastern Angles. FIVE HOURS. It’s only a 119 of the BRITONS miles and it’s dual carriageway for all but the last spit. Damned pantechnicon drivers* , driving when they should be asleep in bed and not at the wheel. And the polis’s insistence in doing s full collision investigation there and then even though it means closing the motorway for hours during the peak travelling time.  Pah!

There was an incident of a ball bearing fired at an HGV near Cambridge, head injuries for the driver.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2811 on: 02 October, 2018, 02:27:59 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2018, 01:15:09 pm
Quote from: T42 on 02 October, 2018, 01:06:47 pm
Doesn't surprise me. I've seen drunks on canal boats here trying to spear swans.

 :o  I hope they got a broken arm.

Being drunk, they missed. Should have fallen in.
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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2812 on: 02 October, 2018, 03:56:36 pm »
Quote from: ElyDave on 02 October, 2018, 02:09:46 pm
Quote from: Beardy on 02 October, 2018, 01:57:19 pm
That the M25 remains a dreadful road with no alternative routes.

Five hours it took us to get from Heathrow to the East of the Eastern Angles. FIVE HOURS. It’s only a 119 of the BRITONS miles and it’s dual carriageway for all but the last spit. Damned pantechnicon drivers* , driving when they should be asleep in bed and not at the wheel. And the polis’s insistence in doing s full collision investigation there and then even though it means closing the motorway for hours during the peak travelling time.  Pah!

There was an incident of a ball bearing fired at an HGV near Cambridge, head injuries for the driver.

There was me thinking we had a monopoly on dickheads in the North of England...
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VELOMANCER

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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2813 on: 02 October, 2018, 03:59:53 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 02 October, 2018, 03:56:36 pm
There was me thinking we had a monopoly on dickheads in the North of England...

*gestures vaguely in the direction of the Westminster Gasworks*
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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2814 on: 02 October, 2018, 04:06:48 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2018, 12:58:27 pm
Quote from: ian on 02 October, 2018, 12:33:46 pm
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/

Pissed up Yahoos. 'Yesterdays Boatorised Morons' would be a somewhat eclectic thread...
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VELOMANCER

Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Tim Hall

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2815 on: 02 October, 2018, 04:51:41 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 02 October, 2018, 04:06:48 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2018, 12:58:27 pm
Quote from: ian on 02 October, 2018, 12:33:46 pm
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/

Pissed up Yahoos. 'Yesterdays Boatorised Morons' would be a somewhat eclectic thread...

T'aint new. Here's some fiction:
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A noisy and inconsiderate party of city-dwellers (dubbed the 'Hullabaloos' by the children) aboard the hired motor cruiser Margoletta threaten Number 7 nest by mooring in front of it. This nest is home of the coot with the white feather which is a mascot of the Coot Club and one of many of its monitored nests. Despite warnings "not to mix with foreigners", Tom stealthily loosens the Margoletta's moorings to save the nest and later hides behind the Teasel. Mrs. Barrable does not betray Tom to the Hullabaloos, instead asking him and the twins to sail the Teasel and teach the Callums to sail. Tom involves some of the other members of the Coot Club, the twin girls Port and Starboard Farland, and three younger boys — Joe, Bill and Pete (the Death and Glories).

from here
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2816 on: 02 October, 2018, 06:14:55 pm »
What I have learned is that Tim Hall read and remembers the same childhood books I did.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2817 on: 02 October, 2018, 07:12:17 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 02 October, 2018, 04:06:48 pm
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2018, 12:58:27 pm
Quote from: ian on 02 October, 2018, 12:33:46 pm
It's also impossible to operate a canal boat without booze in hand. Leastways, it is in Londonshire. Unless it's in Hackney, in which case a bottle of wine will also suffice.

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/16908532.revellers-sink-canal-boat/

Pissed up Yahoos. 'Yesterdays Boatorised Morons' would be a somewhat eclectic thread...

I expect the canal boat forum have one, for when they're tired of discussing the finer details of bilge pump o-rings[1] and rabid brexiteering.


[1] IANA boatist, but I assume that's their equivalent of recumbent gear ratios.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2818 on: 02 October, 2018, 07:34:31 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 02 October, 2018, 07:12:17 pm
[1] IANA boatist, but I assume that's their equivalent of recumbent gear ratios.
Wouldn't that be something like drive-screw vane width? Probably in combination with rudder length and, I dunno, prow angle? But I'm sure bilge-pump o-ring sizes is a hot topic!
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2819 on: 02 October, 2018, 07:46:32 pm »
In other news, I've just discovered that Captain Cyborg was responsible for Jimmy Savile's fixit-badge-dispensing robotic chair.  I know that makes perfect sense, but still.
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Jurek

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2820 on: 02 October, 2018, 07:52:03 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 02 October, 2018, 02:05:22 pm
Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit.  Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.

Remind me - how long you've been using the interwebs.....

ETA - Why weren't you at the Prince William Henry in Southwark last Thursday?
Your company was missed.
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ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2821 on: 02 October, 2018, 08:50:13 pm »
Quote from: Tim Hall on 02 October, 2018, 02:05:22 pm
Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit.  Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.

As bad as an ex colleague of mine, looking for a toll manufacturer of a polymer searched for " llatex, rubber" predictable outcome. One click and he was never the same.
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Tim Hall

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2822 on: 02 October, 2018, 10:09:05 pm »
Quote from: Jurek on 02 October, 2018, 07:52:03 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 02 October, 2018, 02:05:22 pm
Googling "Ebay Enlarger" produces quite a range of results. I was interested in flogging Dad's old photographic kit.  Rookie error to leave out the term "photographic", as I got lots of things to enlarge things other than photographs. Todgers, for example.

Remind me - how long you've been using the interwebs.....

ETA - Why weren't you at the Prince William Henry in Southwark last Thursday?
Your company was missed.
Aw, shucks. I had half a plan to go but the following day involved a lot of driving, so I gave it a miss. Net time.
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rafletcher

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2823 on: 03 October, 2018, 08:35:16 am »
That "cachinnation" is the sound of loud laughter.
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Legs

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #2824 on: 03 October, 2018, 09:03:33 am »
I learnted that yesterday!
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