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Rig of Jarkness

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #50 on: 02 February, 2010, 07:25:38 am »
That USAF/RAF pilots are now flying bombing missions in Afghanistan/Pakistan without leaving the safety of their 'office'...BBC News - How unmanned drones are changing modern warfare
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #51 on: 02 February, 2010, 03:33:28 pm »
Oi!  I'm not dead!

Are you sure?

Actually, I went for a blood pressure check yesterday and it seems that I very probably am.  If I suddenly turn into a heap of steaming offal, it's just my cardio-vascular system going into meltdown...
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #52 on: 02 February, 2010, 03:43:58 pm »
On the grounds that a cardio-vascular system is probably easier to fix than an immune system, wanna swap? You know what they say: a change is as good as a rest. You'll get an interesting new set of symptoms, but at least you won't have to worry about high blood pressure.
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Salvatore

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #53 on: 09 November, 2010, 10:36:14 am »
That Beeswing in Dumfriesshire is named after a racehorse.
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et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #54 on: 09 November, 2010, 10:43:30 am »
That Beeswing in Dumfriesshire is named after a racehorse.

And the racehorse is named after?

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #55 on: 09 November, 2010, 01:42:56 pm »
That's what he's going to learn tomorrow.  You can overdo it you know.

tiermat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #56 on: 10 November, 2010, 12:45:14 pm »
STONITH means Shoot The Other Node In The Head.....

Does what it says on the tin, really :)
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #57 on: 10 November, 2010, 01:45:40 pm »
I learned that Merrydown Vintage Cider, a staple of my youth, is now being sold in 750ml bottles instead of one litre bottles. No doubt this is justified by way of either making it the same size as wine bottles, or to satisfy, ostensibly, the nanny state. Did this reduction in size accompany a reduction in price? Did it bollocks.
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Wombat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #58 on: 11 November, 2010, 08:04:39 am »
That our executive director is a bigger knob than I thought... yesterday I got a very formal letter, on two sheets of fancy paper, in an envelope marked confidential, to tell me that things were worse here than expected, and there could be more redundancies than originally expected.   Very nice of you to tell me this, but I'm already being made redundant, you brainless twat!   What friggin' difference is it going to make to me?
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #59 on: 09 May, 2011, 06:39:06 pm »
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.

When you're doing a bathroom adaptation which involves repositioning the toilet and access to the soil stack is limited, this requirement can make it quite complicated.
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #60 on: 09 May, 2011, 06:43:53 pm »
That's a euphemism for Saniflo, isn't it?   :hand:

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #61 on: 09 May, 2011, 06:47:07 pm »
I'm very much hoping not.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #62 on: 09 May, 2011, 06:48:10 pm »
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.

When you're doing a bathroom adaptation which involves repositioning the toilet and access to the soil stack is limited, this requirement can make it quite complicated.

It caused all kinds of problems in the toilets on a long haul Royal Brunei flight to Australia I was once on too! They kept pausing the movie to show a map of the plane with an arrow to show which direction Mecca was in too  :o

(it was for other reasons also probably the worst flight of my life because there was no alcohol on the plane, even the wine we pinched from firsdt class was alcohol free  :sick: )

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #63 on: 09 May, 2011, 08:19:08 pm »
Who Lise Meitner and Emmy Noether were.

 http://xkcd.com/  who says cartoons are not educational ?

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #64 on: 09 May, 2011, 08:39:01 pm »
Devout Muslims must have their toilets facing away from Mecca.

Doesn't that mean that they're pointing their Arses towards Mecca?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #65 on: 10 May, 2011, 11:04:20 am »
(it was for other reasons also probably the worst flight of my life because there was no alcohol on the plane, even the wine we pinched from firsdt class was alcohol free  :sick: )

Dr Larrington once flew from Tokyo to London on PIA, via Beijing and Karachi.  She and her friend solved the problem of no boozahol with a couple of two litre bottles1 of tonic water, only one of which contained that described by the label :thumbsup:

1 - This was about 1980, when no-one was trying to blow up aeroplanes with Lucozade Sport.
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #66 on: 10 May, 2011, 09:28:57 pm »
How to do very basic and a bit blotchy cobalt blue enamel on silver.  :D
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Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #67 on: 11 May, 2011, 02:07:49 pm »
That rhubarb isn't green.

Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #68 on: 23 May, 2011, 12:30:28 pm »
Courtesy of the Today programme, I learned there's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama!
 
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tiermat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #69 on: 03 October, 2011, 01:40:39 pm »
You can't use Centrelock rotors instead of 6 bolt ones when using Avid BB7 roads, as the caliper catches the rotor arms :(  An expensive mistake that, thinkl I will take it back and see if I can get a refund.
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clarion

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #70 on: 03 October, 2011, 02:27:24 pm »
Oh bugger.
Getting there...

Rig of Jarkness

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #71 on: 09 November, 2011, 06:58:52 am »
The poppies sold in Scotland are different to the one sold in E&W.  The Scottish poppies have 4 petals and no leaf. 
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PaulF

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #72 on: 09 November, 2011, 07:38:24 am »
And Canadian poppies don't have a stem!

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #73 on: 09 November, 2011, 07:57:57 pm »
The poppies sold in Scotland are different to the one sold in E&W.  The Scottish poppies have 4 petals and no leaf.

Makes it easier for schoolkids to make poppy darts. Well, it did back when I were a lad, when the stems were metal! Not very respectful, granted, but at least they received more donations than they would have done otherwise.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #74 on: 09 November, 2011, 08:03:33 pm »
I learned that the joists in a building don't necessarily all run the same way, not even in the same room, and how to get a reasonable estimate of the gradient of an external path by looking at the bellcast.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.