The stupidest thing I ever did.

Re: handling the inlaws

Matt
brill advice

plan to have them all round for drinks over christmas and get it out the way.

major problem is that mrs sailbadtobe in law thinks i am just like her ex husband and as such does not trust me or speak to me. but does buy me nice presents at christmas and thank me for hers in an oveerly nice way in the sure knowledge that it was as much a surprise to me as it was to her.


Wedding can be an anagram of 'JUST HANDOVER THE MONEY' if you can't spell.
 
Outlaws

No, no, no...

You're not listening !!!

You (MrsS2B) expect that when they 'get to know one another' everything be OK. WRONG. They are LOOKING FORWARD to blaming someone else for screwing up their son's/daughter's life..

This Blame Culture has to last throughout marriage, also MRS S2B-in-law has to start blaming her daughter for treating you badly cos your mother treated you badly ec.. Your Dad has to blame everyone else including you.... 'I wanted grandkids but not hers etc..'

Then try divorce, even more fun. Parents and outlaws look to seek revenge in dollops greater than the the ex-married couple..

<font color=blue>I am WHAT I say I am</font color=blue>
 
Re: handling the inlaws

How close geographically are the in-laws. I used to find that a reasonable distance helps, say at least an hours drive. However they will not then be available for baby sitting duties, no bad thing, my kiddies only found out about some embarassing episodes of my previous life through the indiscreet tongue of the MiL.

However with another eye now eldest daughter is of a certain age, I would certainly be suspicious of anyone like me at that age knocking around with my daughter. How could I be won round? Offers to crew and buying their round!

However a bit of crawling (decorating, cooking or gardening) always helps.
 
Re: handling the kids

best advice is not to have duaghter, imho.

A business colleague (3 sons) and I (with 2) visited a customer who, at the end of the meeting, mentioned that his daughter was going on her first date. Shocked looks from us, ooh bloody hell, christ etcetc. What? said the bloke. What's the problem? He turned white as we explained: "See, obviously, if the boyfriend tries anything on with fragrant daughter, you'll knock his head off...but of course if he doesn't try anything on you'll say "Oi! What's wrong with my daughter!!!" "
 
Going back a few years now. Had been working for a construction company for about 6 months, when my boss asked me to do an errand and drop a film down to the developers. He handed me his keys to his Ford Scorpio...

Turned out of the office, floored it around the bend, lost it and ploughed in into the local hospital fence. Totalled the car. Walked back to office.

Boss is surprised "You're back early" he asked.

"Well, if you look out your office window you'll see where I parked your car." Together with all the blue flashing lights... recovery truck... ambulance etc...

Was sent out to work on site the following day... the ribbing I got from the workmen... and then had to drive my new boss as he didn't have a licence...

Fortunately my boss wasn't too worried as it speeded up the order of his new car.

<font color=red>... I want to be back on the water!
 
Re: handling the kids

Well ... could be the stupidest thing I've done times 3 as I've got 3 of 'em ... two are now in their teenage years and whatever I do embarasses the little dears. Particularly my dress sense with my Gill sailing cap , you now the one with ear flaps, being a particular thorn in their fashion conscious sides ... It'll be another 11 years before I cease having a daughter in their teenage years ... I'm going to run away soon
 
Re: You mean to say ..

Now who says I'm welsh? OK my mother is, and my Grandmother was, but I was born in England and raised in Venezuela - work that one out!

Oh and talking of working things out, it definately isn't hard to fly anything provided you have lift. To get lift you need two things 1) Differential air pressure between the underneath and topside of the wing and 2) enough wing, ie sail area.

You can then stand facing an appropriately strong breeze and lift off while stood still, you don't need hills and valleys. In fact I did this a few months back whilst the sail (kite) I was using was tied to the tow bar of my car (Blackrock Sands, Porthmadog). Incidentally the wing, or sail area of the kite I used was probably less than half what I used on my first attempt - but there's technology for you boyo!! :)

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Don't know if this count's as my stupidest things but its amusing so here goes... at a certain motor racing circuit pit garage, we were using a large amount of two part expandable foam, about 2 gallons of each part were left over and once opened well it must be used mustn't it, at the back of the garage was a large oil drum used as a bin half full of rubbish and a marshal standing next to it, when the marshal had to answer the call of nature we deposited the 2 part foam into the bin, he came back and took up his station next to the bin when a coke can fell out, he dilegently bent down and put it back in, another can fell out so he picked that one up, and another and another until he twigged that the bin was slowly regurgitating its contents, a look of puzzlement came over his face as he peared inside, when with what must have been a large bubble or something, the bin belched its contents in one large gob and covered him in brown fluid, banana skins, half eaten hamburgers etc... he just turned tail and ran.

Anyway that set the tone for even more jokes, most of which I have forgotton, but we did one memorable one on our so called superstar driver, his hire car was parked convienietly nearby unlocked, so we rewired and replumed it a bit so that when he braked, the horn sounded and the screenwash was redirected at his crouch. Later when he comes to leave there is an unusualy large gathering of mechanics to witness his departure, thinking something is up and of course being a smart arse he manages to drive off and out of sight without once touching the bloody brake. Anyway later that evening we are sitting around a large round table with the driver for dinner, there is a large punch bowl in the middle, so he starts to tell us his theory about relative electrical charge of hair, opposite colours attract he says, he takes a blonde hair from his girlfriend and one of his own dark hairs and places them into the punch bowl, look how they are attracted to each other, of course we all lean forward for a better look and our noses are about 6 inches from the bowl when a large melon lands in the middle soaking us all ! It seems our plan had worked after all, he had drove all the way to the hotel without using the brakes, but when he got to the hotel the valet stepped out to greet him and he had to brake suddenly, the horn went off annoucing his arrival and he didn't realise his crouch was soaked until he got out of the car, in front of all the guests who were looking to see who was making all the noise.
 
Re: OK, you win!

What's second prize then?

KevL

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It may be the early bird that catches the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
 
Fun with Rover SD1

Reminds me of the following, car-related. At college in mid 80's, someone had a Rover SD1, quite original model. Perfect gangster car. 4 of us hung out in it a lot. We kept 4 brown stockings in the glovebox. When we were with someone else, we'd find an excuse to drop them at a bank, or if lucky they would say "need to go to the bank". We would wait outside the bank just while they went in for 2 mins, and then put the stockings over our heads; as they walked out of the bank we would rev the engine massively and shout RUN RUN!! GET IN THE CAR!!! and screech off before our bemused guest passenger had had time to recover from the embarrassment!

(Also good with Mk1 Granadas)
 
Re: Pounce/Gotcha

Brendan

Ill check the details when I next see my friend.. thinking back on the date it would have been approx 1972/3.. Im sure that JG ( my friend) will still have the book and Im sure that it was OLs pics we copied. Basically it was 2x leading edges 1x center fore aft strut and a cross bar to stop the whole thing folding up. It was held together with wooden block/clamps shaped around the tubes and tightened with coach bolts. There was an A frame and a swing type seat and the builders plastic was heat welded on with an iron ( but I cant remember if this actually worked).

JG was doing alot of gliding with the RAF at the time and was full of daft ideas. The 1 in 5 glide angle was a bit of a guess, basically flew somthing inbetween a T21 and a brick... so not frightfully well!

Regds Nick

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Re: dry ice bombs...

Glad we didn't have blocks, would have taken too much time. Used to get ours as a side product of deliveries of temp sensitive chemicals which came packed in polystyrene boxes full of dry ice 'beads'

Had some great halloween parties with the stuff too!!
 
Re: Pounce/Gotcha

If you've got photos and can prove dates, that may make it first hang glider in action in UK. I'd have to go double check, but I think first authenticated flight in UK was about 74? Been years since I've been involved in hang gliding, so may have changed

Several people have claimed earlier, but when checked out they'd built flying brick which they'd hop'skipped'njumped down a slope, rather than controlled flight.

Was there any sort of king post? (sticks up from centre, with wires out to leading edges etc, to stop wings collapsing at rest) or built like a self supporting wing?
 
Re: Pounce/Gotcha

Ive Emailed JG to see if he has any pics.

It was certainly pre the Hang Glider thing that sprang up a short while later. I honestly can't remember how we stressed the A Frame, but most likely rope, and I doubt if it could really be classed as controlled flt! The structure was self supporting and quite heavy.

JG used to do quite a lot of gliding in odd machines back then and managed to get me a ride in a Kranic (sp?) before it was written off, in fact years later I found that there was a pic in 'Janes Book of World Sailplanes' with yours truly leaning against the fuselage!! Fame at last..

Regds Nick

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Re: Pounce/Gotcha

Kranich? there were many versions.

I did my first flights in a Sedbergh (is that the T21 you referred to before, didn't get the connection at first, superb open cockpit side by side, and stressed for negative g, so you could do real aerobatics. Landed them backwards in good winds a few times! Glide ratio in flat flight was about 2.5 but didn't really matter, as it soared on a fart, and could keep it up forever, even in a tight turn in thermal) and also had a Kirby Cadet to play with, all at the sailplane school at RAF St Athan.
 
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