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fuzzy

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #850 on: 11 January, 2016, 10:55:34 pm »
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.

We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.

My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #851 on: 12 January, 2016, 12:54:37 am »
Points for style but why am I not surprised . . . ?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #852 on: 12 January, 2016, 07:54:38 am »
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.

We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.

My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.

I've ordered pizzas to the gatehouse at midnight when comissioning before now.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

mcshroom

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #853 on: 12 January, 2016, 09:32:09 am »
Two hardbacked diaries and a ball of babybel wax makes a barely adequate game of office tennis.

We once unscrewed the knobs off a ballaceous coat stand and another off the top of a kettle then played pétanque up & down the office corridor.

My night shifts in the control room were often passed by joining two Silverstone size Scalextric sets together to mak a BFO track and racing the cars round. I nearly decapitated (or took the nose off) a card playing radio operator one night when taking the banked bend at the Aylesbury desk end of the room a tad too fast.

I've ordered pizzas to the gatehouse at midnight when comissioning before now.

We used to play curling in the back of the kitchen at KFC on slow night shifts using wheeled mop buckets.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #854 on: 12 January, 2016, 10:39:09 am »
... that my mother designed and wove fabrics for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #855 on: 12 January, 2016, 11:08:17 am »
That all tools have a built in cloaking device that activates as soon as you put the tool down.

Now ... where did I leave that screwdriver I was using 5 minutes ago?
We have two ears and one mouth for a reason. We should do twice as much listening as talking.

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #856 on: 12 January, 2016, 02:16:00 pm »
Average freedom to wormhole time in the shop is around 5 seconds . . .

Sorry, what were we talking about?
VELOMANCER

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #857 on: 12 January, 2016, 02:25:43 pm »
I like to keep a barakta on hand while fettling.  Not only is she a source of inspiration for dubious bodges that just might work, not to mention skilled at holding things still in awkward positions while I do terrifying things close to her hands with some combination of  a) heat  b) electricity  c) sharp implements  d) a lump hammer  or e) adhesives, but she also has a superhuman ability to provide the correct answer to rhetorical "Where did the fucking screwdriver go?" type questions.   :thumbsup:

I attribute this to a fundamental, yet unresearched, difference in cognitive style - she has the 'finding things' gene, where I rely on 'remembering where I saw them' (a strategy that works well until dealing with people who like to tidy things up, or objects prone to macroscopic quantum effects like recently-used screwdrivers).

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #858 on: 12 January, 2016, 02:36:35 pm »
'A' Barakta. Hmm. Do you have more than one? Are they available for hire?

I have a part-time fettling bod for the shop but he's at least as useless as me and has been known to lose entire bicycles!
VELOMANCER

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Tim Hall

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #859 on: 12 January, 2016, 03:29:51 pm »
On a semi serious note, having an extensive history of putting tools down and losing the bloody things, I now say out loud where I put things as I do it.  Seems to help in relocating them.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #860 on: 12 January, 2016, 03:32:40 pm »
It's the clinkbuggers I lose. You know, the little pieces not quite as bouncy as pingfuckits but which have a habit of going off in completely unpredictable directions when gravity gets to work on them. Brake washers, for instance.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #861 on: 12 January, 2016, 07:21:24 pm »
Thing is, the textbook answer to  "Where did the fucking screwdriver go?" is "You're sitting on it".  I'm old and wise enough that that's the first place I check.  But the tools have got sneakier.

Nuts and washers are skilled at hiding in plain sight, aided by the pattern in the carpet.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #862 on: 12 January, 2016, 07:45:04 pm »
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.

Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #863 on: 12 January, 2016, 09:54:58 pm »
You all need a shadow tool box and a Park magnetic parts bowl.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #864 on: 12 January, 2016, 09:57:18 pm »
And a sufficiently large shedde to keep it in.

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #865 on: 12 January, 2016, 10:01:32 pm »
You all need a shadow tool box and a Park magnetic parts bowl.

Have both. Doesn't help  . . .
VELOMANCER

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #866 on: 12 January, 2016, 10:50:47 pm »
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word, and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #867 on: 12 January, 2016, 10:55:21 pm »
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word, and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.
It is.

I am looking for the opportunity to insert it into a method statement or risk assessment.

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #868 on: 12 January, 2016, 11:20:37 pm »
That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.

Oooo! In'n 'e BOLD!
VELOMANCER

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Gattopardo

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #869 on: 13 January, 2016, 01:07:30 am »
'A' Barakta. Hmm. Do you have more than one? Are they available for hire?

I have a part-time fettling bod for the shop but he's at least as useless as me and has been known to lose entire bicycles!

I forgot I owned a car.

Gattopardo

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #870 on: 13 January, 2016, 01:15:12 am »
Today I discovered I have a propensity for threatening behavior when people keep touching me and we asked more than four times to stop touching me that I can make people afraid.

I'm not a nice person, because I can not deal with a situation without resorting to violence and showing a side of me that makes loved ones feel afraid of me.

ElyDave

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #871 on: 13 January, 2016, 06:53:53 am »
I still can't find the stapler that I "tidied" before Christmas.

Good job I have no paper-joining emergencies, and a back up supply of paper clips.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #872 on: 13 January, 2016, 07:10:23 am »
It'll be with my (still missing) screwdriver.
We have two ears and one mouth for a reason. We should do twice as much listening as talking.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #873 on: 13 January, 2016, 10:50:53 am »
Today I have learned that "yclept" is a real word, and not ROT13 for something, as I'd previously assumed.
Aaaaaaah, don't know exactly what ROT13 is but now I want a roti. And we do have some dal...
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #874 on: 13 January, 2016, 01:50:20 pm »
Back on topic, what ROT-13 is, and that Caesar used it.

Dunno which Caesar, mind. Back to Google...