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Post by banjo on Jun 23, 2023 8:28:08 GMT
Verse three from "1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be" (Electric Ladyland) by Jimi.
>>>"Well it's too bad, that our friends, can't be with us today.
(Well, that's too bad)
"The machine, that we built, would never save us" That's what they say.
(That's why they ain't coming with us today)
And they also said
"It's impossible, for a man to live and breathe underwater, forever ..."
(was their main complaint)
(Yeah)
And they also threw this in my face, they said:
"Anyway, you know good and well,
It would be beyond the will of God,
And the grace of the King"
(Grace of the King, yeah, yeah)>>>
Well, I reckon I'd jump at the chance you had on your boy's submarine nob, but having gone through an engineering course there is no way I'd even contemplate what those minted individuals went into of their own free will. The pressure at such depths exceeds human imagination. To learn that it was a private enterprise reinforces my belief that was definitely a sh1t or bust venture in my view.
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Post by nob on Jun 23, 2023 10:19:55 GMT
Experimental vessel says it all Steve.
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Post by banjo on Jun 23, 2023 16:42:21 GMT
It looked more like Stingray than a bathysphere (the latter is what any engineer would decide upon.)
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Post by banjo on Jul 28, 2023 17:52:25 GMT
We picked some blackberries this morning. We didn't get sufficient to knock out a crumble because Best Beloved got stung on her ankle by a wasp. While dealing with that, the little shyte stung me three times on my left ankle too. I can now officially add Jaspers to the list of things I loathe. I suppose we must have been knicking "their" blackberries.
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Post by nob on Jul 29, 2023 7:37:27 GMT
Steve, My daughter lives on the edge of a disused railway line, its overgrown with blackberry bushes. I tried one last year and it was sour, but plenty of people pick them. I do like a blackberry and apple pie.  |
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Post by banjo on Jul 30, 2023 7:29:31 GMT
Washing machine / dryer is cattle-trucked. Siemens. £780. 3 years and 8 months old. "The five year Siemens warranty doesn't apply to your machine, sorry." "Well, that was easy to say" quoth I. The only good thing about it was that it was really quiet. The dryer packed up a gnat's crotchet outside the two year warranty, but it was Lockdown so we just soldiered on, stiff upper lip and all that don't you know. Now the drum light is flashing like a strobe light and the backlit touch panel control goes out after 3 seconds and whilst it's awake none of the controls respond. Ergo, you can't put it into Service Mode. Geman crap "engineering. Vorsprung dürch my ass. I can see it now, the "engineer" rocks up, can't get into diagnostics, bills us £117 and away double sharp.
Moral- as I intimated when I replied to Pete about electric room heaters- avoid microprocessor controlled devices as far as possible and look for mechanical switches and dials.
"Progress" pfft.
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Post by nob on Jul 30, 2023 8:26:04 GMT
Steve, I always go for a cheap washing machine, they aren't built to last and what a stupid design the front loader is all pivoting on a bearing that is destined to fail.
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Post by banjo on Jul 30, 2023 11:46:15 GMT
My first ever washing machine was a bottom of the pile Hotpoint. I kept it limping on for years. Eventually, I had to replace the shock absorbers. It was such an eberneezer design that it only had two- one each side. Every other machine I've had sported an inherently stable tripod of three, two one side opposing one on the other. I never could get it back into balance and it used to walk out from under the worktop. But, I have come to the same conclusion as you nob, buy cheap and chuck.
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Post by banjo on Aug 1, 2023 9:37:32 GMT
Since the numpty wrote "mechanical damage/display", the Siemens engineer hadn't come prepared with a smörgasbord of fix-ya-up goodies and couldn't fix anything because like us he couldn't get it to stay powered up. "25% discount due to only being 3 years 8 months old" £322 including the £117 call out charge. For that he will return with the power module and no obligation if further work is required- just walk away with the £117. That doesn't include the cattle-trucked dryer function either. This could go either way. Of course I'm going to say that 3 years 8 months is an unacceptable expected life span for a perceived premium machine (well compared to a Beko and the like) and that they should stand behind their product, but in the real world it's just life. Lesson learned, the next one will be a Beko or something similar nob.
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Post by nob on Aug 2, 2023 6:55:04 GMT
Steve, when we were looking an Indesit was the cheapest so we went for that. It does take long for the silent action to wear off but it was cheap IIR just over £200.
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Post by banjo on Oct 6, 2023 10:33:28 GMT
Washer dryer all fixed now after about two months of hand washing and wringing. We had a new power distribution board and a new dryer blower. When it still didn't work, we had a new dryer heater element and a new corresponding cast alloy casing (corroded screws) at no extra charge, so I reckon all told we weren't too short changed?
On The Home Service news (long wave, AM) just now, The UK has put a satellite up which is saddled with the task of scanning for buildings that are losing too much heat. I can see the reason for that, but I am not really too stoked about being "spied on" in that fashion. I reckon George Orwell would have been a good choice to pick lottery numbers.
I wonder how much it cost the tax payer to add that to the smörgasboard of (declared) space junk up there? Did anyone vote for that? Will the state fund whatever additional "insulation" is to be required? It seems like a nightmare of accreditation for structures with the men ftom the ministry disappearing up their own bums in a puff of black smoke to me.
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Post by nob on Oct 6, 2023 13:37:25 GMT
I would think the cannabis factories will show up first, there's a house we pass that stinks of the stuff, I imagine that will glow like its on fire.
Nice to see teachers will have to clean kids teeth if Labour get in, I bet they cant wait for that and all the extra duties with all the new qualifications they have to teach. 🤣
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Post by banjo on Oct 6, 2023 15:17:27 GMT
Best Beloved says that they'll be expected to query whether the child has a toothbrush or not, the logic being that so many health problems are loosely related to dental health. It's an acceptance of the sorry state of affairs that we have arrived at whereby parents are so strapped for cash, personal hygiene gets duck-shoved in the priorities free for all (eat~teeth~heat). I on the other hand anticipate that your missus might have a more hands-on knowledge of what it all actually implies. I suspect that as usual the "truth" lies somewhere between the entrenched interests opinions?
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Post by nob on Oct 7, 2023 7:57:36 GMT
My Mrs said they were dancing about when Boris got ousted, I think that shows which side they lean to. Also that's why labour want 16 year old to get the vote.
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Post by banjo on Oct 7, 2023 7:59:01 GMT
Boris was about the only tory I had any time for since John Major.
I really hope that 16 year olds are not awarded the vote. There's no way you can be satisfactorily informed at that age when you're stressing out about all your self-centred issues. There's already no shortage of floating lemming voters from every demographic.
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