paulineb
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Re: Spread Sheet for Wives
that's total bollox - my current husband enjoys me immensely
Pxx
that's total bollox - my current husband enjoys me immensely
Pxx
The stupidest thing I ever did.
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longjohnsilver
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Doh..............
Bet that's not what he said!!
Bet that's not what he said!!
Canboria
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That little motor boat thingy as you so kindly put it was a Phantom 21 F2(built by Steve Baker) with a Yamaha Prov outboard (highly tuned,) and used for the British National and European Offshore and inshore water ski racing championships, capable of speeds in excess of 75 mph with a skier. Now I thought you would know that as the European championships were held this year in Plymouth.
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Re: Very little to report
Sadly, most of my colleagues are ernest, sensible and responsible types who rarely make boating cock-ups. I did once get a call from a journalist (who will remain un-named) who phoned the office from his mobile to say he was lost off the coast of Mallorca (with a GPS but no chart) and could I look at the pilot book and give him the lat and long of Cala d'Or so he could find his way back.
In a previous life I rode a PWC through a firing range and caused the artillary battery to be stood down while they despatched a copper on a hovercraft to give me a bollocking. Ooops! And I once launched a PWC down a slipway without taking the lighting board off the trailer...fizz, bang! Ooops! And I almost flipped a Donzi 45 at 75mph on Government Cut in Miami...when that thing let go, it let go big-time. And...
Enough!
Sadly, most of my colleagues are ernest, sensible and responsible types who rarely make boating cock-ups. I did once get a call from a journalist (who will remain un-named) who phoned the office from his mobile to say he was lost off the coast of Mallorca (with a GPS but no chart) and could I look at the pilot book and give him the lat and long of Cala d'Or so he could find his way back.
In a previous life I rode a PWC through a firing range and caused the artillary battery to be stood down while they despatched a copper on a hovercraft to give me a bollocking. Ooops! And I once launched a PWC down a slipway without taking the lighting board off the trailer...fizz, bang! Ooops! And I almost flipped a Donzi 45 at 75mph on Government Cut in Miami...when that thing let go, it let go big-time. And...
Enough!
hlb
RIP
Funny you should mention that. Not this year but last. Maybe they were practising or whatever. We were cruising back to Plymouth after our longish summer hols. And all of a sudden, cruising through Plymouth sound, we found ourselves quite inavertently, joining in the race!! Muckyfarter tried to cheat by trying to sink the buggers. We nearly won./forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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hlb
RIP
Funny you should mention that. Not this year but last. Maybe they were practising or whatever. We were cruising back to Plymouth after our longish summer hols. And all of a sudden, cruising through Plymouth sound, we found ourselves quite inavertently, joining in the race!! Muckyfarter cheated by trying to sink the buggers. We nearly won./forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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BrendanS
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Re: This one won\'t fly..
...as a hang glider pilot who flew the early generation one gliders, to get a 300 yd flight, and clear pylon wires, you must have jumped from about 3000', or more to have cleared the pylons. Not a small valley. Even a modern generation hang glider with a decent take off would go under the wires
Lovely tale though
...as a hang glider pilot who flew the early generation one gliders, to get a 300 yd flight, and clear pylon wires, you must have jumped from about 3000', or more to have cleared the pylons. Not a small valley. Even a modern generation hang glider with a decent take off would go under the wires
Lovely tale though
jimmie
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You mean to say ..
That Dai the nice welsh boy is telling porkie's? Tut tut! I did someting really silly once, I was walking down the road in my new stillettos and not being used to them got one stuck in a crack in the pavement. Now I did'nt want to waste it as I'd just got them from the Oxfam shop and was trying them out and I really wanted to take them back as they pinched my toes a bit. So I had to lift the paving slab to release the stiletto, and do you know , not one person came to help me, they just crossed the road before they came to me. Just like the tale of the good samaritan, but there was no good samaritan for me that day. My wig slipped as I heaved and hauled, I laddered my stockings and worst of all my boobs managed to reorientate themselves. And after all that when I got back to the shop it had just shut. Mind you I got a nice pair of shoes for nothing!
That Dai the nice welsh boy is telling porkie's? Tut tut! I did someting really silly once, I was walking down the road in my new stillettos and not being used to them got one stuck in a crack in the pavement. Now I did'nt want to waste it as I'd just got them from the Oxfam shop and was trying them out and I really wanted to take them back as they pinched my toes a bit. So I had to lift the paving slab to release the stiletto, and do you know , not one person came to help me, they just crossed the road before they came to me. Just like the tale of the good samaritan, but there was no good samaritan for me that day. My wig slipped as I heaved and hauled, I laddered my stockings and worst of all my boobs managed to reorientate themselves. And after all that when I got back to the shop it had just shut. Mind you I got a nice pair of shoes for nothing!
BrendanS
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So many,
Caught climbing City Hall in Cardiff with a mate by police, seemed like a good at the time, and turned the fountain outside with dye used for tracking water for miles out to sea. The bubble bath helped. Then wrote interesting slogans in the grass outside the Welsh office with super strength fertiliser that didn't fade for months.
earlier in life pinched chemicals from A level chemistry class and made nitroglycerine over an open camp fire from inside a WWII bunker with strings n things..nearly as good as the Molotov cocktails we chucked off the cliffs
Best though were the dried ice mortar bombs. Discovered by removing half my thumb and large part of ceiling that putting dry ice with a bit of hot water in a centrifuge tube had amazing results. For next test went up on roof of labs, and using dry ice gloves and goggles for protection....stick in dry ice, bit of water, quickly twist on lid, and drop into pipette tube (steel tube of correct diameter, with closed end)....Booomffff@.....lost track of it. Seen some time later coming down onto main road into Cardiff in midst of traffic
Later developments were to put dry ice into little tubes with flip tops, and drop into lab coats of anyone passing in corridor...would explode a few seconds later with wonderful results.
More dry ice went down the sink with copious hot water, so that labs many doors away looked like film sets with fog erupting fountain like from sinks.
Oh, and back in A level days, used to flush sodium down sink in oil....resulted in floor insection panel jumping, preferably with someone standing on it, and huge fountain from sink.Finally found out when stress fractures caused major flooding under floor.
and then there were the times when I got caught after flooding halls of residence and bringing ceiling down....major damage...and.....
Caught climbing City Hall in Cardiff with a mate by police, seemed like a good at the time, and turned the fountain outside with dye used for tracking water for miles out to sea. The bubble bath helped. Then wrote interesting slogans in the grass outside the Welsh office with super strength fertiliser that didn't fade for months.
earlier in life pinched chemicals from A level chemistry class and made nitroglycerine over an open camp fire from inside a WWII bunker with strings n things..nearly as good as the Molotov cocktails we chucked off the cliffs
Best though were the dried ice mortar bombs. Discovered by removing half my thumb and large part of ceiling that putting dry ice with a bit of hot water in a centrifuge tube had amazing results. For next test went up on roof of labs, and using dry ice gloves and goggles for protection....stick in dry ice, bit of water, quickly twist on lid, and drop into pipette tube (steel tube of correct diameter, with closed end)....Booomffff@.....lost track of it. Seen some time later coming down onto main road into Cardiff in midst of traffic
Later developments were to put dry ice into little tubes with flip tops, and drop into lab coats of anyone passing in corridor...would explode a few seconds later with wonderful results.
More dry ice went down the sink with copious hot water, so that labs many doors away looked like film sets with fog erupting fountain like from sinks.
Oh, and back in A level days, used to flush sodium down sink in oil....resulted in floor insection panel jumping, preferably with someone standing on it, and huge fountain from sink.Finally found out when stress fractures caused major flooding under floor.
and then there were the times when I got caught after flooding halls of residence and bringing ceiling down....major damage...and.....
castaway
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Re: Pounce/Gotcha
Dave
Me and a mate did this in the late 60s We had a book by a guy called Otto Lilianthale who had flown these 'regalo' type delta wings at the end of the 19th centuary in Germany, and we copied the sketches.
We built our out of ali tube and builders plastic... we used to fly it off the Hogs Back (South Downs) near Guildford Never got near yr range best we cud do was a glide angle of about 1 in 5.
My mate tried towing his girlfriend up behind a tractor on this rig, and all went quite well but she came down a bit quick and had to be taken the hospital with a compressed spine... jolly sporting of her I thought... I wasnt going to try it!
Mind you he did marry her later...
Regds Nick
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Dave
Me and a mate did this in the late 60s We had a book by a guy called Otto Lilianthale who had flown these 'regalo' type delta wings at the end of the 19th centuary in Germany, and we copied the sketches.
We built our out of ali tube and builders plastic... we used to fly it off the Hogs Back (South Downs) near Guildford Never got near yr range best we cud do was a glide angle of about 1 in 5.
My mate tried towing his girlfriend up behind a tractor on this rig, and all went quite well but she came down a bit quick and had to be taken the hospital with a compressed spine... jolly sporting of her I thought... I wasnt going to try it!
Mind you he did marry her later...
Regds Nick
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Trevethan
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About 10 trying to fix Xmas lights... the old fashioned 240 volt.. needed to strip off some insulation... bite wire to strip with teeth, then fly 12 feet across room.
Never forgot to unplug electrics after that day
Never forgot to unplug electrics after that day
tcm
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Fortunately I was lashed either during or shortly after the stupid things, so I honetly believe that I wasn't involved in any of the events which seem somewhat familar in this thread. I note that most posters refer to some unnamed "mate" which may have been me, but highly unlikely, officer, especially the motorbike meeting during a rainy evening so we drove into my front room and er well anyway.
BrendanS
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Re: Pounce/Gotcha
You should notify the relevant aero historians....you were 10 years ahead of your time. Even Rogallo was still jumping off sand dunes from 68 to 74 with flexi wing, and was only about 72 that someone though of putting tubes in leading edge, and also using triangular bar to steer.
The sketches you're talking about are not Regallo wings, which have no solid bars in, just fabric and 'strings'. Otto's sketches are more like a bat wing, and have internal supports.
I'd doubt that in the 60's you'd have been able to achieve a 1 in 5 ratio. Even well designed hang gliders with pretty good construction which included shaped metal struts inserted into the fabric (light weight rip stop nylon, not plastic...which cannot be attached to the frame without tearing, nor tarps which would be too heavy to fly) didn't achieve reproducible 1 in 5 until the mid 70's. That 1 in 5 is in flat and stable flight after take off. You drop dramatically on take off even with a well designed wing with double skin construction with foam leading edge inserts and formed and tensioned struts.
I'd love to hear how you constructed this thing!
You should notify the relevant aero historians....you were 10 years ahead of your time. Even Rogallo was still jumping off sand dunes from 68 to 74 with flexi wing, and was only about 72 that someone though of putting tubes in leading edge, and also using triangular bar to steer.
The sketches you're talking about are not Regallo wings, which have no solid bars in, just fabric and 'strings'. Otto's sketches are more like a bat wing, and have internal supports.
I'd doubt that in the 60's you'd have been able to achieve a 1 in 5 ratio. Even well designed hang gliders with pretty good construction which included shaped metal struts inserted into the fabric (light weight rip stop nylon, not plastic...which cannot be attached to the frame without tearing, nor tarps which would be too heavy to fly) didn't achieve reproducible 1 in 5 until the mid 70's. That 1 in 5 is in flat and stable flight after take off. You drop dramatically on take off even with a well designed wing with double skin construction with foam leading edge inserts and formed and tensioned struts.
I'd love to hear how you constructed this thing!
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Could HLB\'s Mouse finger be the stupidest thing?
Have any of you noticed the number of times you get messages from HLB in stereo - at least twice. Could this be caused by
a) A sticky send key?
b) A knackered mouse
or
c) A twitchy finger brought about by excessive self abuse as a child?
Retired Nick
Have any of you noticed the number of times you get messages from HLB in stereo - at least twice. Could this be caused by
a) A sticky send key?
b) A knackered mouse
or
c) A twitchy finger brought about by excessive self abuse as a child?
Retired Nick
andyball
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dry ice bombs...
They're great aren't they?.....I used to work in a temp.calibration lab. & have a couple of blocks delivered each week : on the back of an open lorry!- in summer, we'd pay about £40 for two empty bits of brown paper (really).
Had to grind it to a powder using a rotating grater & use to freeze "triple point" cells, for accurate temp calibration........eventually found the hot water/sealed container trick : forget how I explained the doors being blown off one of the cupboards.
Dry ice also good for putting in tea/coffee & worrying other staff at tea-breaks.
We also had liquid nitrogen & oxygen : more fun there.
They're great aren't they?.....I used to work in a temp.calibration lab. & have a couple of blocks delivered each week : on the back of an open lorry!- in summer, we'd pay about £40 for two empty bits of brown paper (really).
Had to grind it to a powder using a rotating grater & use to freeze "triple point" cells, for accurate temp calibration........eventually found the hot water/sealed container trick : forget how I explained the doors being blown off one of the cupboards.
Dry ice also good for putting in tea/coffee & worrying other staff at tea-breaks.
We also had liquid nitrogen & oxygen : more fun there.
sailbadthesinner
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Re: Nah\'\'youre way
It doesn't matter if you were
i no longer have a choice.
i'm more worried about the parents.
Mrs sailbadtobe's divorced..many years...never spoken since
mrssailbadtobe's mum not exactly enamoured with me. put it this way we never need ice when she is around.
my mum
shy and retiring like me but only met mrs sailbad's mum once bit of a clash
my old man
grumoy and mean will sulk in corner no worries
my cousins are all mad scousers so am expecting them to divert the situation by starting a fight with some of my friends
i will invite ccscott to add a bit of colour.
Wedding can be an anagram of 'JUST HANDOVER THE MONEY' if you can't spell.
It doesn't matter if you were
i no longer have a choice.
i'm more worried about the parents.
Mrs sailbadtobe's divorced..many years...never spoken since
mrssailbadtobe's mum not exactly enamoured with me. put it this way we never need ice when she is around.
my mum
shy and retiring like me but only met mrs sailbad's mum once bit of a clash
my old man
grumoy and mean will sulk in corner no worries
my cousins are all mad scousers so am expecting them to divert the situation by starting a fight with some of my friends
i will invite ccscott to add a bit of colour.
Wedding can be an anagram of 'JUST HANDOVER THE MONEY' if you can't spell.
EME
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OF COURSE
..you have a choice. That's what happens in life..just think of years of street cred if jilt 2b at church in favour of staying in boozer...
Goodee so Mr Salilbadtobe-in-law gives away bride...inlaws fight with outlaws ,,,mates join in both sides...
Remember truism about Mother -in - laws....you had better fancy yours otherwise...
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..you have a choice. That's what happens in life..just think of years of street cred if jilt 2b at church in favour of staying in boozer...
Goodee so Mr Salilbadtobe-in-law gives away bride...inlaws fight with outlaws ,,,mates join in both sides...
Remember truism about Mother -in - laws....you had better fancy yours otherwise...
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Divorced by 6 o'clock./forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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jwatson
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About 20 years ago, bought my first house in Scotland.
Tatty old garage was attached to the house and I decided it had to come down.
Got a few mates round one weekend and we set about it with mallets and so on.
Ended up with huge pile of wood, tar from roof, old paint cans etc. Decided best thing to do was burn it. Poured petrol on debris and couldn't get thing to light so got a whole can of petrol walked over to the the by now smouldering wood and dropped can on it - BOOM. Whole lot went up knocking me and one of my mates back about 10 feet. House almost caught fire, the thickest black smoke you have ever seen all over area, fire brigade called. Biggest embarrassment ever. Neighbours thought me mad (probably right) sold house soon after.
Still shiver when I think of it....
Tatty old garage was attached to the house and I decided it had to come down.
Got a few mates round one weekend and we set about it with mallets and so on.
Ended up with huge pile of wood, tar from roof, old paint cans etc. Decided best thing to do was burn it. Poured petrol on debris and couldn't get thing to light so got a whole can of petrol walked over to the the by now smouldering wood and dropped can on it - BOOM. Whole lot went up knocking me and one of my mates back about 10 feet. House almost caught fire, the thickest black smoke you have ever seen all over area, fire brigade called. Biggest embarrassment ever. Neighbours thought me mad (probably right) sold house soon after.
Still shiver when I think of it....
sailbadthesinner
Well-Known Member
Re: OF COURSE
mother in law is good looking enough
if she could just lose a bit of weight off her gob
;-)
no i know i have a choice. mrs sailbadtobe told me.
Wedding can be an anagram of 'JUST HANDOVER THE MONEY' if you can't spell.
mother in law is good looking enough
if she could just lose a bit of weight off her gob
;-)
no i know i have a choice. mrs sailbadtobe told me.
Wedding can be an anagram of 'JUST HANDOVER THE MONEY' if you can't spell.
tcm
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Re: handling the inlaws
Mrs tcm parents divorced too, not spoken for years to each other. So, after iceiness from mrs' tcm's mum, tolder to stop being so bitter and twisted, which sorted it out!
Sepretly her Dad started giving out advice to me about bringing up the kids "i always did this or that etc etc." so i said "alright then, and when d'ya think i should run off with the secretary then eh, bout now or wait a couple of years to really muck up their o-levels?" Most effective.
Mrs tcm parents divorced too, not spoken for years to each other. So, after iceiness from mrs' tcm's mum, tolder to stop being so bitter and twisted, which sorted it out!
Sepretly her Dad started giving out advice to me about bringing up the kids "i always did this or that etc etc." so i said "alright then, and when d'ya think i should run off with the secretary then eh, bout now or wait a couple of years to really muck up their o-levels?" Most effective.
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