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Post by amanda on Aug 21, 2024 22:51:04 GMT
A few years ago a cruise past NZ had an island volcano on its itinerary and it had just erupted. the tour operator got into trouble for still allowing people on the island. One lass lost her father and sister and was badly burned, spending months in hospital and wearing those compression bandages for months after it.
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 22, 2024 2:45:06 GMT
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Post by crissdee on Aug 22, 2024 23:44:52 GMT
Me just overthinking again probably, but anyway.
I get that when you are travelling, you might want a lightweight/folding version of some household appliance/implement, to make your packing easier/lighter, but someone on FB is selling a folding travel.....shoe horn!
Just how marginal does the space in your luggage have to be, that you can't fit a full size shoe horn? And it only folds in half, then goes into a nice leather pouch (it's a posh one), so the space "saved" would be minimal to say the least....
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Post by Bondee on Aug 23, 2024 9:15:41 GMT
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Post by crissdee on Aug 23, 2024 9:48:02 GMT
Well, he did say that words could not express his gratitude. I think I would struggle to put my reaction into words myself....
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Post by amanda on Aug 23, 2024 10:03:34 GMT
A few years ago a cruise past NZ had an island volcano on its itinerary and it had just erupted. the tour operator got into trouble for still allowing people on the island. One lass lost her father and sister and was badly burned, spending months in hospital and wearing those compression bandages for months after it. And in today's newspaper is a brief article on how the White island volcano has erupted again, tours are now banned since that tour in 2019. Apparently the operator gave people the option to stay back or go and those who went were either killed (22) or injured.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 23, 2024 11:31:57 GMT
Well, he did say that words could not express his gratitude. I think I would struggle to put my reaction into words myself.... Sausage rolls are already the right shape. He just needs to grab a large bottle of vegetable oil from the shelves and corner the managers.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 23, 2024 11:41:42 GMT
Responses to; "What would you ask Steve Jobs if you could speak to him now?"
"I'd tell him to push pink robe, go to community posts, and read very short card, the cure of neurosis."
"Whomever did you put how big of a boot in between large muscle groups? To get that thing running."
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 23, 2024 16:57:53 GMT
Well, he did say that words could not express his gratitude. I think I would struggle to put my reaction into words myself.... Sausage rolls are already the right shape. He just needs to grab a large bottle of vegetable oil from the shelves and corner the managers. Nah, you are bring too easy on 'em. Steak bake overdone, so it has crispy sharp edges, and chilli-flavoured swarfega!
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Post by Bondee on Aug 24, 2024 0:08:54 GMT
Responses to; "What would you ask Steve Jobs if you could speak to him now?" "I'd tell him to push pink robe, go to community posts, and read very short card, the cure of neurosis." "Whomever did you put how big of a boot in between large muscle groups? To get that thing running." I think that's one for the Poor English thread.
What on earth are they on about?!
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Post by Bondee on Aug 28, 2024 16:42:26 GMT
Just watched Geoff Marshall's latest video, entitled "Helicopter Flight up the West Highland Railway".
Skimming through the comments, I see one that says "Is this a helicopter?"
As if the words "Helicopter Flight" in the title and the presence of a helicopter in the video aren't enough of a clue.
If brains were dynamite, as the saying goes.
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Post by suze on Aug 28, 2024 17:08:52 GMT
I've just watched that video, and I know a man who will also be told to watch it when he gets back from re-hanging a gate!
The very existence of Cumbernauld Airport would have to count as a thing I learned today. Since it has never handled scheduled flights it doesn't have an IATA code, and I'm sorry to say that CUM is taken (by the airport at Cumaná in Venezuela) so they can't have that if they ever need one. EasyJet would undoubtedly want to call the airport Glasgow Cumbernauld anyway, and GCU is available.
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Post by efros on Aug 28, 2024 23:19:01 GMT
Beans are not for astronauts apparently.
The follow up
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Post by efros on Aug 29, 2024 18:09:55 GMT
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Post by Bondee on Aug 30, 2024 9:32:19 GMT
That pic does a good job in proving that humanity is one massive haemorrhoid on the arse of the planet.
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 30, 2024 14:52:27 GMT
You forgot the inevitable reply:
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Post by jenny on Aug 30, 2024 18:23:08 GMT
It does look more like a giant meatball than Spam though.
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 2, 2024 1:44:35 GMT
This chap specialises in serious physics-based computer simulations of major events involving fluid flows. Mostly reconstructions of tsunamis and the like, although he's done a very interesting study of the Great Boston Molasses Flood that's worth seeing.
But this one considers the question: What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning, say, slowing gradually to a stop over ten minutes? How far would the oceans slosh? And the winds? (All his videos are silent, so don't worry that your speakers have suddenly gone kerflooey.)
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Post by crissdee on Sept 3, 2024 11:23:30 GMT
I think my lack of interest in all but a relatively small selection of music is fairly well known round here, but surely they are just making sh*t up here:
‘Renaissance’ is the seventh album by boundary-pushing musical goddess Beyoncé. The album is an experimental reinvention of disco and club music that incorporates elements of R&B, techno, hip-hop and pop. From the underground sounds of 'I'm That Girl' to the R&B-infused techno pop of 'Break My Soul' this is an album that will reap rewards with repeated listens.
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Post by efros on Sept 3, 2024 13:32:37 GMT
Possibly the only areas that are more BS driven than the music press are probably the enthusiast (read more money than sense) HiFi area and Art Critic/Reviews.
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Post by efros on Sept 3, 2024 19:56:42 GMT
No comment on that one I think.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 4, 2024 10:25:23 GMT
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Post by suze on Sept 4, 2024 17:13:30 GMT
Of the things forecast in that film, more of them have come to pass than haven't. Containerised shipping doesn't seem like a wacky futuristic idea here in 2024, and neither do satnavs. Self-driving cars for the masses seems to have been five years away for thirty tears, but the concept has been proved. "Business conferences conducted by television", well I seem to remember that they've become a bit of a thing in the last few years! More yet would be feasible if anyone were willing to pay for them. Hell, we could even invent cars that run on electricity, as Messrs Disney did not contemplate.
I'm not sure that the world is crying out for nuclear powered cars, though. They'd be extremely heavy because of the amount of lead that would be needed to shield the reactor, and we'd have to come up with a way to stop baddies stealing them to use as bombs, but they are technically feasible. As for the notion that "father" chooses the route while "mother" does as she's told and goes to the shops, maybe that one can stay in 1958.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 4, 2024 19:05:57 GMT
The giant machine for creating roads was shown on an episode of "Thunderbirds" iirc, and seemed just as feasible than as it does now. The ultra fast setting concrete for bridges, strong enough to hold up the machine making it, seems a trifle impractical, as do the roads that light up and remain warm enough to keep dry and snow-free year round...
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Post by suze on Sept 4, 2024 21:56:40 GMT
Lights which come on when a vehicle approaches already exist, and a luminescent road has been trialed in the Netherlands. They have heated pavements in Iceland, and the EU has funded work on heated roads in Sweden. These things are expensive and as yet have not been widely rolled out, but they could be if someone wanted to pay for them. Rear view cameras rather than mirrors are now a thing, and self-driving cars do use radar.
Julius Caesar managed to build a bridge from one end, and dismantle it behind himself when he came back, two thousand years ago. (Once he had crossed the Rhein in this way he discovered that there was nothing worth invading, so he came back again and took his bridge down.) The bridge-building machine shown there hasn't been invented yet, although tunnel-boring machines can do the analagous thing.
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Post by ali on Sept 4, 2024 23:14:19 GMT
I keep seeing an internet advert for health and life insurance which, for reasons I am unable to discern thinks that OMD's 'Enola Gay' is appropriate backing music for promoting their product.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 5, 2024 8:57:32 GMT
As for the notion that "father" chooses the route while "mother" does as she's told and goes to the shops, maybe that one can stay in 1958.
I hope you do not express such sentiments to your impressionable gels, you lefty woke subversive 😉
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Post by efros on Sept 6, 2024 13:30:47 GMT
Portable Monitor Extension... what can we call it.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 6, 2024 14:24:50 GMT
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 6, 2024 15:12:02 GMT
Stealing the Pornitor for Facebook!
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