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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1125 on: 15 June, 2016, 01:47:20 pm »
Today I have learnt that no, you should not directly substitute cayenne pepper for paprika on your melted cheese

FUUUHHHHAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWKKKK! My guess is you won't be doing that again anytime soon.  :thumbsup:

BTW you owe me a laptop. Unless you know someone who can get tomato soup out of a keyboard . . .
VELOMANCER

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

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1126 on: 15 June, 2016, 01:51:12 pm »

I've got one of those.  the rubber boot on the fork disintegrated after about 2 years, so I asked them to supply a new boot, and some clues as to disassembly.  Their answer was to supply a complete new fork, gratis.  Sadly, yes, they did want the old one back....  and yes, the rubber boot on that one fell apart after a couple of years.  I must work out how to sort it, as currently its just got plenty of grease on  the shaft to protect from muck and rusting. 

Come to think of it, you are probably referring to the later type, mine is more of a sort of leading link one, with effectively two forks, I always thought the later one seemed more sensible, although it drastically altered the whole geometry of the bike.  Mine is late 2004 vintage.

Methinks an engineering solution involving machine tools and new bushes may be your only answer, but it'll cost as much as a new fork!



I was thinking along the same lines but machine time costs. LOTS.
VELOMANCER

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

T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1127 on: 22 June, 2016, 12:59:44 pm »
One of Donald Trump's early inspirations was Roy Cohn.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1128 on: 22 June, 2016, 01:50:06 pm »
One of Donald Trump's early inspirations was Roy Cohn.
The others were Juan Peron, Toscanini and Dacron.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1129 on: 22 June, 2016, 01:52:42 pm »
You left one out
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1130 on: 22 June, 2016, 01:57:36 pm »
All the preparation for a (music) practical exam can't prepare you for momentary brain-fade. :-[

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1131 on: 22 June, 2016, 02:16:33 pm »
That daft Sunday trading laws don't apply in Scotland.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1132 on: 22 June, 2016, 11:55:32 pm »
Balanchine was Georgian - Balanchivadze.

And Bakst was originally Rosenberg, but changed his name because being too obviously Jewish was bad for business in Russia.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1133 on: 23 June, 2016, 09:37:04 am »
That flat-bar grips which fasten with ickle boltets are much easier to fit than the slide-on ones.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1134 on: 23 June, 2016, 09:41:44 am »
^^^ "Slide" being a dirty lie.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1135 on: 23 June, 2016, 09:42:32 am »
Oh, slide is not the lie; it's on that's the lie. They slide off very well!
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1136 on: 23 June, 2016, 09:57:26 am »
I once used chalk to lube them. That worked, but of course, they went right on sliding once on.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1137 on: 23 June, 2016, 02:35:36 pm »
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produce

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1138 on: 23 June, 2016, 02:36:29 pm »
Eggs, in paper bags?

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1139 on: 23 June, 2016, 02:52:59 pm »
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produce
Just another name for a shag, isn't it. Where and what are negotiable between participants, they produce shaglets.

Oh, that's cormorants. Okay.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1140 on: 23 June, 2016, 02:56:01 pm »
Comoros. Where, what, and what they produce

Islands, aren't they? Dunno what they produce - fish and pirates?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1141 on: 23 June, 2016, 06:14:00 pm »
Ylang-ylang

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1142 on: 23 June, 2016, 06:50:22 pm »
That "Ylang-ylang" is an "essential oil" and not, as I had previously thought, something unpleasant from the writings of L P Hovercraft.
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T42

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1143 on: 24 June, 2016, 09:44:11 am »
Much the same, aren't they?
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1144 on: 24 June, 2016, 01:28:07 pm »
That the Italian Flag and ROI flags are different colours. Seems the red bit on the Irish flag is actually orange.

#colourblind
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1145 on: 24 June, 2016, 01:40:54 pm »
Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1146 on: 24 June, 2016, 01:53:49 pm »
Well very nearly. The Indian flag also has dark blue on it.
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billplumtree

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1147 on: 24 June, 2016, 01:58:58 pm »
The origin of the phrase, Ship of Fools.  I had a vague idea of its meaning, but was inspired to find out more when it sprang to mind as I listened to Cameron's resignation speech about needing a new captain to steer us in this new direction.

Well, well, well.  It comes from Plato's Republic, where he argues that

it is not guaranteed, in fact is unlikely, that those best equipped to rule will get a chance to manage public affairs. Instead the loudest voices will dominate, irrational, ill-motivated decisions will be made and the complex arena of politics which is in need of careful ordering and management will turn into a crazy circus.

The allegory goes

Quote from: Wikipedia
Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling with one another about the steering - every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary.

They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them.

Hmm.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1148 on: 24 June, 2016, 02:08:36 pm »
Irish flag colours = Indian flag colours.
Italian flag colours = Hungary, Bulgaria, Uruguay, Mexico - except I think some of greens are a bit darker.

Most of them the stripes go different ways or are different widths or have some kind of emblem on them.

I only found out the Irish and Italian flags weren't identical when discussing the other nights football match with a colleague.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #1149 on: 24 June, 2016, 02:08:47 pm »
Loving your under-avatar line, billplumtree.  :thumbsup:
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