When Ted White started to fire up everybody's balls were hanging from the ceiling .. :jester:

I remember Griff reminiscing (in a light hearted manner) about paying off a Greek in New York and spending his $2000 payoff before flying the next day.

Can't quite say Been There - Done That, but close.

Drove up to Edinburgh today. The M6 between Stafford and Manchester is right out of Mordor on Middle Earth. I think Sauron is alive and well and living somewhere near Crewe, and bringing darkness upon that motorway. Mile after mile of roadworks ….. (one sign said: 'Roadworks for the next 18.7 miles.' 50mph speed limit, narrow lanes that disappear, concrete rails everywhere, a bloody panzer division would have a job to get through it.) :eek:

And that, dear Bob, is the "death stretch" of the M6! To visit the old people, I would do the M1, A50, cut through Stafford, Crewe and then take the back roads (passing The Headless Woman Pub) to pick up the M53 at Chester and then up to the top of The Wirral.

You mentioned Stourbridge the other day - Between 2001 and 2006, I returned to the UK for work reasons. I started off working in Congleton, then Kettering, Rugby and then another change to Stourbridge at the Jones and Attwood premises, which had been bought out and entered the portfolio of water treatment companies within the company.

That place was straight out of Dickens: For example, they had to return their pencil stub or empty Biro in order to be issued a new one. Also, at lunch time, a bell would ring and everybody had to leave the building, the front door being locked, until the bell was rung, door opened and everybody filed back in after lunch. Completely weird! I also saw one day "apparitions" in the yard behind the offices, in and around the old casting bay area (cast iron pipes were originally made there).

When they wanted to move me again, as my contract commitment was up, I decided to leave and came back to Mexico. The high point was most of 2002 to July 2003 when I lived and worked in Madrid. That was a fantastic, family friendly experience (my daughters were 6 and 2 y/o then).

Rgds.
Dave

Technically this should be the last word ….. the outer and inner Universe …. :sweat:

https://binged.it/2IGB4tx

I got scared and chickened out at "California". Everyone knows it doesn't really exist.

Shouldn't the last word be Amen?


(back from Mestre and full of P*** and Vinegar)

I noticed they stopped at Quarks. They didn't go further down to 'super strings.'

Admittedly they're theoretical, but you can't help but like a theory that suggests at some fundamental level the Universe is held together by string … :jump:

Surely that introduces the possibility that the string may get tangled (we already have the pairs)? No doubt sealing wax and brown paper will enter the quantum world soon.

Kinda like my Dad's old 1927 Swift of Coventry? :)

Mother had a 1930's Coventry Eagle bicycle, held together by trusty BSF screws.

I still have some Whitworth spanners about somewhere from my old Triumph days.

You might be onto something. I've noticed over the years that if you take two bits of wire and put them in cupboard or drawer, even completely separated, when you come back sometime later they've become tangled. :shock:

Could there be some deep meaning to this ? … or can wire actually get it on ?? :brain::jump:

Well perhaps wire graduates to an attractive opposite when one gives up pulling it?

As for imperial tools, the 1963 Mini has brought Pa's socket set from deep hibernation and another enthusiast has just bought a new set (although the seller, Zeniith, apologized that they would no longer be stocking imperial sets but would be able to get them easily "from across" on demand). Pa's set came 'liberated' from one of the lease lend ML engine consignments that he was obliged to dump at the end of hostilities - what a waste).

I believe some computer component wires have built in entanglement. Also, take any pair of ear-phones, fasten them carefully by each end to a piece of wood and put them somewhere quiet. If You listen carefully you will be able to hear them tying them selves in knots. If fastened securely enough, they will actually break the piece of wood.

My daughter has solved this problem in quite a pragmatic way. Her partner had a large knot of wires from the CD player to some speakers. She has simply cut out the wire between them. She reckons if he wants to use them, then he might notice, but right now it is tidier.

That is just splendid thinking.

Ah, those MOD stamped mechanics tools. Dad had a set of ring spanners, manufactured by Britool. They also had that little arrow stamped on them. They had been part of a set of tools accompanying a Bedford lorry bound for Poland after the War. The ship, the Fort Spokane, had a load of those lorries, each one with it's own set of tools. Well, at least when they left London they did. I think they have all disappeared now, and Dad departed 4 years ago, so it's no good asking him!

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CAT5 etc networking cables are twisted proportionally and apparently the twist(s) are important to the correct functioning of the cabling. I've queried this with a number of 'experts', and while they all agree that this is necessary, no-one seemed to know exactly why. I suppose I could google it but can't really be ar**d. If I never have to terminate or make another patch cable, it'll suit me fine.

I did quite a lot of Cat 5 wiring at the college I worked at. I didn't mind crawling about in roof spaces (it's amazing what you can find up there, and wonder how they got there .. :sweat: ) But putting switches and patch panels into racks that were already bursting at the seams is a job made for the benches of hell I reckon.

:eek:

I just read through this entire thread again (why ? … you might wonder. Well … I got up this morning and spent half an hour wandering about saying "What the f*** is going on ?" before I realised the problem. I'd forgot the clocks went back an hour last night. I was in the wrong time zone. :eek:)

So reading through this thread made a lot of sense …. ish …

Decided to play this number from four none blondes to go with my mood. :egg:

https://youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc

(I'm noting YouTube are pulling back on your ability to 'skip ads.' Merchant bankers the lot of em.) :mad:

It's a timeless question Bob,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

:thumb:

Have always liked that song.

What thread is this?? The Worrying Kiss of Death" or "Share the music"?

With Remembrance Day (Veteran's Day) coming up, this might fit both categories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps

It's called "Thread Drift," Tom. It is endemic in any discussion on any website, most notably on the one we all posted on before. It even happens while we steam through the bits of the Caribbean in the Bermuda wossname,...…...oops, this bit belongs on Golden Dreamer II......:paper:

We are all on the Golden Dreamer II, aren't we?

The Bermuda wossname is just a Fig Newton of our thingummies. Extrusions of persiflage.