On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:18:22 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 03:38:59 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:08:41 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wednesday, 20 July 2022 at 02:02:07 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:53:32 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 02:49:54 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> >> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:33:54 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail..com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > On Monday, 18 July 2022 at 03:38:22 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> >> >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:15:56 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> > On Tuesday, 12 July 2022 at 21:21:36 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:59:17 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> > That's handy we used to have someone an any old iron bloke called Tom the Tutt he used to collect all our scape stuff.
>> >> >> >> >> >> There's a van round here with a megaphone that shouts "any old scrap metal?" He doesn't even have a recording, as he changes what he says if he spots someone. He took a chest freezer off me.
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > Ours disapeared years ago he kept getting tiuckets for his unsafe lorry loads , he seemd to over load it and broke down many times in the main road.
>> >> >> >> >> > Maybe the police got his licence revoked or something, he sort of disapeard one day couldnt; contact him or anything.
>> >> >> >> >> The pigs aren't so mean around here. They do have an obsession with seatbelts though.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > well he used to block part of Mile End road which is normally very busy .
>> >> >> >> Block?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Yes one lane couldn't be used until it was towed away.
>> >> >> Ours just drives about, he doesn't park.
>> >> >
>> >> > He must park to load and off load,
>> >> There should be adequate space for parking for commercial vehicles, or the streets aren't fit for purpose.
>> >
>> > Who gives a shit , are you now claiming that rules need to be followed.
>> No, nobody should be restricted from parking anywhere, but the streets should be big enough.
>
> Bit difficult in London.

The council should make roads fit for purpose in the first place. Why put buildings so close together? But then your mayor is a Muslim.

>> Where I park in the town centre blocks a bus, I find it amusing watching him try not to scratch my car, or more likely his bus.
>> >> > and then there's traffic lights .
>> >> You can't get him into trouble for stopping at lights? WTF?
>> >
>> > No but if he can;t get his vehicle moving because it's overloaded then you can.
>> Just how much weight would it take to stop a vehicle moving? The tyres would burst before that weight.
>
> No idea but when I saw it leave it didnt look right one side was much lower than the other and black smoke came out of the exhaust and it made some strange noises.

Maybe his wife was in the passenger seat. I used to have a colleague who was so fat she was officially classed as disabled. She walked no more than 1mph. Her hefty BMW X5 or whatever their big 4x4 is tipped to one side when she got in. She would have flattened a Fiat Panda.

>> >> >> >> >> >> > I wished we'd kept some of that stuff would be worth quite a bit now.
>> >> >> >> >> >> > I wanted to keep the jabobs ladder that was lent out to the film set for young frankiestien the one that sting was in.
>> >> >> >> >> >> > Loads of old meters dating from the 60s in bakolite cases.
>> >> >> >> >> >> I got a few old meters dating back to 1930 form Ebay, for as little as £15. One is electrostatic.
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > I did take a standard vairac and something else that I don;t know exacly what it is I just like the look of of.
>> >> >> >> >> > Think it test HV transformers , somewhere in my loft now along with a couple of AVOs.
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > 3 phases varaics with control wheels the size of car stearing wheels.
>> >> >> >> >> >> Have you ever watched the Youtube channel from photonic induction? He loves to play with stuff like that.
>> >> >> >> >> > Not recently did a few years back.
>> >> >> >> >> He's back, and has made more videos. Or for more serious things, Big Clive.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Yes I've watch big clive taking apart some of the dodgy chinese stuff from ebay.
>> >> >> >> I like dodgy Chinese stuff, cheap and simple. Like the shower head with a live heating coil in it. I'm not a girl, I'm not scared of dangerous stuff.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > OK when you know it's dangerous that's what warning labels are for.
>> >> >> No that's what common sense is for.
>> >> >
>> >> > Common sense would mean you should be able to adjust the shower head without risking electrocution.
>> >> It says in the instructions not to put your head closer than 2 feet from it.
>> >
>> > So how to you adjust it ? most showers I;ve seen you can adjust the head even remove it so yuo can direct it where you want.
>> No, this is a simple five quid thing. You leave it above your head, like the fixed ones you get in changing rooms.
>
> Do they really have those shit ones in changing rooms.

Dunno, I haven't been in many changing rooms, I can only remember high school and the rugby club near "race the train" in Wales (an off road running race chasing a steam train) where we got the mud off afterwards. It was so pathetic there was only enough water for one shower out of the 10. When they were all turned on, we got a dribble each. People were cupping their hands to collect enough water to do something with.

>> >> >> > Yes that was the old way of testing gold now they use fancy spectral analyses and can tell exactly what something is made from.
>> >> >> You mean you aren't meant to bite it?
>> >> >
>> >> > Can do but it's not a good test especially with silver .
>> >> Or if you have gold fillings.
>> >> >> >> >> I've been in a plane three times. Once was a Boeing 737 to Wales to buy a car off my girlfriend's husband, the other two were Cessnas I jumped out of.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > I've been in a Cessna think that what it was on a 10min joy ride around yarmouth.
>> >> >> >> > been on a couple of commercial flights sweden, greece & spain.
>> >> >> >> > Never jumped out of any though,
>> >> >> >> It's a lot more fun than you'd think, you can steer it.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I'll stick with simulators :-)
>> >> >> Oh come on. I've done it twice. My friend broke her ankle one time, and I got my lines tangled up one time. No big deal.
>> >> > Unless you crash .
>> >> She did, into a rock in the middle of a field. AFTER landing. The chute took off again due to her clumsiness and she went flying backwards.. It was funny for me to watch from above.
>> >
>> > So who paid for the damage ?
>> What damage? She busted a few cabbages in the field, we didn't tell the farmer.
>
> Guess yuo were lucky to have a field to land in.

They tend to do parachute jumps over flat areas, not heavy traffic on motorways.

>> >> >> >> >> > well not until I win the lottery, well I did a could of weeks ago but as usually I spent the lot on a can
>> >> >> >> >> > in the club £5.50 !
>> >> >> >> >> FFS, my home brew is a lot cheaper.
>> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Local pub is £4.35 for a nice pint of adnams .
>> >> >> >> Far too expensive. For £20 I can make 50 litres of 23% alcohol.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Well if it tastes OK but I;ve tried others home brew even the local pub and that's quite rough hardly worth drinking.
>> >> >> I just brew ethanol. I add the flavouring afterwards. You can brew it by feeding it apples, whatever, I just feed it sugar. And you don't need expensive brewing sugar either. Tate and Lyle from Tesco works fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > Can't be bothered , I don;t really drink much now anyway I also perfer to decide what I feel like drinking
>> >> > sometimes ale sometimes lager sometimes I just have a few spirits.
>> >> But you're called Whisky Dave. You mean you've abandoned the drink? WTF?
>> >
>> > Well it was the way people ID'd me in the club a nickname but when they got a bar friends said hi whisky dave I said yeah cheers but no ice thanks. They sort of stopped using that name in pubs and clubs and reverted to just dave.
>> There must have been a reason for that name.
>
> Yes, I was in a club and my flatmates friends who was a stripper came and sat on my lap chatting to me
> she said she knew loads of daves there's smelly dave, DJ dave, arsehole dave and she mentioned a few other daves,
> I just took a swig from my bottle of whisky and she said I'll call you whisky dave and that sort of stuck as her friends started calling me whisky dave, and I used that when I started my on-line club blog around 1996.

ROTFPMSL!

So you're not the drunk I thought you were?

>> >> >> >> >> > almost double my euro millions £2.40 win.
>> >> >> >> >> You can actually win as little as £2.40?
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Yeah won £30 a couple of times over the years.
>> >> >> >> And how much did you spend on tickets to achieve that?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > No idea but IO don;t buy coffees from shops as some do everyday on their way to work,
>> >> >> > so I guess I spend up to about £50 a month via online tickets.
>> >> >> > Depends how I feel and how much I've spent, so don;t really miss the money.
>> >> >> What a waste.
>> >> >
>> >> > I won £65 on the 17th july, my highest ever :-)
>> >> > Be nice to win a few million then I can buy my own brewery
>> >> The chances of that are 1 in a few million. So er.... buy a few million tickets and oh wait.
>> >
>> > People have won large amounts I don;t expect to but then again I don;t expect to be hit by lightning either,
>> Exactly, no point in trying to do what will never happen.
>
> It happens to some.

Very few.

>> > 360 people became millionaires via the lottery in 2021.
>> Out of 65 million.
>
> Not sure where you get that from ,67 million in the UK

Yip, I was close.

> and loads of them are kids not old enough to buy tickets, and like you not everyone buys tickets.

Kids get tickets.

>> > I think there's more chance of me winning a million than you dating Miley Cyrus but nothing wrong with having a fantasy is there.
>> I don't buy Miley Cyrus tickets on the off chance she'll fuck me.
>
> Do you go to the sorts of places she goes, well I go to clubs where I meet girls of my preference(s) , that's where I've met most of my girlfriends, and friends for that matter.

No I can't stand clubs, I prefer going out out, to scenery. Ever had sex in a waterfall?