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Old 21st February 2023, 21:43
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FTP as we used to say in the simple world of IKP and Major Bunting.
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Old 22nd February 2023, 16:52
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I only use Aldi for the cheap fizz (and formerly, inclusive delivery). Now I hear they are limiting me to three cucumbers and three bags of tomatoes. What the hell am I going to do with salad? When will I be allowed to buy only one cucumber at a time (I don't subscribe to 'it' myself but some other gin soaks I know care for a slice with the quinine water)?
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Old 22nd February 2023, 17:02
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UG I took that to be a very large flag. Although WG I am not sure whether they didn't flap in the political wind.

(Until Googled, When Googled)
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Old 22nd February 2023, 18:37
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." Now I hear they are limiting me to three cucumbers"

Faversham reckons three cucumbers should be enough for anyone.
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Old 22nd February 2023, 18:53
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Eyup varley, you can stick your I.O.M. cucumbers.
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Old 23rd February 2023, 13:25
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FTP as we used to say in the simple world of IKP and Major Bunting.
IKP and Major Bunting.... you never fail to astound me with the company you keep Were you crew on the Clyde Valley perhaps?
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Old 23rd February 2023, 13:27
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Eyup varley, you can stick your I.O.M. cucumbers.
Gentlemen, gentlemen enough of the castigations Mr Varley is entitled to do whatever he chooses with his Cucumbers but I understand his Plums are rather nice
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Old 23rd February 2023, 15:29
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Whilst I have suspected Faversham has had experiences with fruits one would have run out of gin before one's guests were half way through a single cucumber (and if he's going to admire my plums too, he can do so from a distance. A great distance).
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Old 24th February 2023, 07:16
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I think in Favershams case it was the rough end of a pineapple.
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Old 24th February 2023, 08:47
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Faversham didnt know a pineapple HAD a rough end.
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Old 7th March 2023, 12:06
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Sorry been busy with paper work and chart corrections. and now we have earthquakes to ten with 5 in less than a week, 2 today plus after shocks. House fared well but not so some of the shopping malls. Catch up with you all laters shipmates
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Old 10th March 2023, 23:18
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?? Hmmm cabin not shaking, No alarm sirens, Guess we must be alongside a wall.
Anyone know where we are?
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Old 10th March 2023, 23:26
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I don’t recognise it, but quay walls all look the same from lower decks.
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Old 11th March 2023, 07:50
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I remember the smell from the wall in Dieppe which I could touch through my cabin porthole. We are definitely not in Dieppe.. My cabin was atop the forard boiler so we had to have it open alongside there.
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Old 11th March 2023, 12:28
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If i lived near an earthquake zone I wouldn't have let Mr O'Reilly build my apartment block.

On a serious note surely in this year of grace 2023 it is not beyond the ability of man to design an earthquake proof building to house a family. Am I missing something?
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Old 11th March 2023, 13:30
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You are missing something......MONEY!
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Old 11th March 2023, 13:37
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From pagoda's with shifting floors suspended/restrained from a central pole to skyscrappers with dynamically positioned mass (would flume bob be an analogy?) man has developed various countermeasures for earthquakes. What man has failed to do is to restrain/dampen the greed with which builders and customers are influenced in the balancing of those with the risks.
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Old 11th March 2023, 13:38
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Rusty has it. And more snappily too.
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Old 11th March 2023, 14:38
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Thank you Varley, you are now my best friend ever. Just follow the money, in Ireland it is a rare thing to find a house that is built with brick if you do see one it is only the front that is brick they throw their houses up using concrete blocks that they make themselves, a brick has to be imported and will add big money to the cost, no clay in Ireland just rocks and bogs.....Idon't ksow why i wrote all that as it is nowt to do with earthquakes, Varley threw me.

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Old 11th March 2023, 23:40
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In our lounge, which is square, we have a concrete post all four corners. the steels in them quite substantial. 8 of them in each post. we have concrete beams top and bottom of all walls, also amply reinforced with steel. safest part of the house. in a BAD Earthquake the walls might crack, but i doubt it, but they wont fall down on us. Had several Quakes here since we had it built and no cracks as yet thank God.
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Old 13th March 2023, 00:59
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If i lived near an earthquake zone I wouldn't have let Mr O'Reilly build my apartment block.

On a serious note surely in this year of grace 2023 it is not beyond the ability of man to design an earthquake proof building to house a family. Am I missing something?
You could just as easily ask "why would you build a tower block then put flammable material all round the outside ?"

Ans... see RT
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Old 14th March 2023, 11:47
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Still trying to get my head round Pizza. Made round, sold in square boxes and eaten in triangles.
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Old 14th March 2023, 12:53
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Sir W. Did nanny not tell you that the mouth is the part used for getting around pizza? Perhaps, like another William's son recommended, you would find suet more manageable.

(Dare I quote Dodgson? I don't want to get a poke from the woke).

Perhaps the stranger thing about flammable cladding (for the sailor boy anything around flammable surely provides for less restful sleep - I know with my SiL's bloody candles I could not get my head down in the top floor guest room util I was sure they were all extinguished) is that some were retrofitted to make their building look less brutal, so making them more costly overall than others that may have been safer.
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Old 14th March 2023, 15:02
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What has lewis carroll got to do with it ?
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Old 14th March 2023, 17:13
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Oh frabjous day, callooh callay - suet is the key.

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"You are old" said his son, "and you teeth are not fit
for anything tougher than suet
Yet you finish the bird, with the bones and the beak.
Pray how do you manage to do it?"

"When young" said his father, "I took to the law
and argued each case with my wife.
The muscular strength that gave to my jaw
has lasted the rest of my life".
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