On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:36:52 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 21:05:31 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:09:46 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 00:23:52 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 03:06:04 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Friday, 12 August 2022 at 22:42:25 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> >> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:41:45 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> > But what if the wind blows you off course of the chute wasn;t corectly packed in the first place.
>> >> >> It's up to you to account for wind, you're taught that. Incorrectly packed chutes ain't gonna happen from people who've done it thousands of times. If they do, it'll be obvious that's why it went wrong, and you'd come down on your secondary chute.
>> >> >
>> >> > Two chutes seems a bit of crazy elf and sofety if it doesn;t happen much.
>> >> It happens often, very easy to tangle the first chute. I tangled mine on the second jump, it was very windy, almost windy enough for them to abandon the jump, I leapt out of the plane and was hit by a strong gust of wind which made me and the parachute face different directions. I spun round several times, realised the problem, looked up and saw the twisted lines, and kicked to spin myself the other way. I was congratulated on good control. If that had failed I would haven needed the second chute.
>> >
>> > Interesting not sure if I'd like it, I don't like heights on a ladder or looking directly down when on a tall building,
>> > but being on a plane I'm OK.
>> > I think that's the difference of vertigo and heights.
>> > A friend of mine gets dizzy when looking up at tall building but is OK looking down from one.
>> When I was 4000 feet in the air, looking down didn't seem high, the ground was so small it just looked like some kind of model setup. And hanging from the chute with steering controls, I felt more like I was in a vehicle than floating mid air.
>> >> >> > I'ts also a perception on what is perfectly fine.
>> >> >> > Most people that drink and drive never really think oh I;'m too drunk to drive.
>> >> >> I know I'm not due to the quality of driving that ensued.
>> >> >
>> >> > Strange that , alcohol is known to affect people perception.
>> >> It's lies damn lies and statistics. You can feel yourself concentrating better for the first few drinks before it goes downhill. It actually improves your health too unless you're more than FOUR times over the recommended amount.
>> >
>> > yeah the recommenced amount is a bit odd, I've only seen double once but didn;t feel as drunk as on a few other occasions.
>> As I drink more far away things become slightly out of focus, but not bad enough cause a problem. I thought my sight was going until I realised it was ok on the rare occasion I was sober.
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> I don;t remmeber focussing being an issue but co-ordination & balance could a bit off.

My balance is good, first time I ever got drunk as a teenager, my friend fell over when trying to punch me. I just sidestepped and watched him land flat on his face. We had both drunk the same and he was bigger than me.

> Certain types of women became more attractive as I drank more which can be a problem.

Odd, that didn't change for me.

>> The RDA is good for you. Double the RDA is even better for you. Triple the RDA is the same for you as the RDA. Quadruple the RDA is the same as being T-Total. Only after that you go downhill.
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> Not sure how true that is as many people are efectivley T-total of just don;t drink due to culture. They seem to cope with life without drink alcohol.
> Don;t forget it's an allowence and not something you must have.

It's supposed to reduce the risk of heart problems if you have it in moderation.

>> >> >> > I can get sleepy after drinking a lot, used to do that at work too, falling asleep after lunchtime and that was after 5 pints of snakebite & black.
>> >> >> Ah sleep, sleep has been proven to cause as many accidents as drinking. Yet you don't see thousands one for sleepy driving.
>> >> >
>> >> > It happens.
>> >> I meant "done" not "one".
>> > OK
>> >
>> >> >> I cannot fall asleep at the wheel. I can only sleep when perfectly motionless and horizontal and not thinking about anything. Why on earth would you fall asleep when concentrating on the car and sitting upright!?
>> >> >
>> >> > People have fallen asleep at the wheel.
>> >> Inferior people. Why would you fall asleep when concentrating and not in a bed? Do you also do a shit when your trousers aren't down and you're not sitting on the throne?
>> >
>> > I haven't but know someone that did. I think the beer was off I could hardly finish the first pint.
>> > A few 100 years ago in london you could rent a place to sleep and the cheapest ones they stood you up tied a rope around you so you
>> > wouldn;t fall down . They could pack more people in a room that way. think is was the 1700-1800s saw it on TV.
>> I'd had to have missed a few night's sleep before that would work for me.
>> >> >> >> > I wear reading glasses when on the computer, just makes things easier than enlarging the text a little.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Do you have poor eyesight?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Don;t think so, can't easily tell some colours on resistors without glasses.
>> >> >> Then you have poor eyesight.
>> >> >
>> >> > Lots of people have poor eyesight then but it doesn;t stop most of us doing things.
>> >> It must be a major inconvenience. I would never wear specs, I'd get contacts or laser surgery.
>> >
>> > Thought about both but laser surgery sometimes needs doing again after 5+ years.
>> > I can really watch TV with reading glasses on so not sure I;'d like contacts for just reading.
>> Don't you get varifocal contacts? Or do what my Aunt does. Contacts so distance is ok, then add glasses for short range stuff only, without having to remove the contacts.
>
> They do but I don;t feel the need for them.

Well if you only need glasses for short range, no point in contacts.

>> >> >> > I think it;'s lack of depth of field is the cause.
>> >> >> Most common problem, the eye muscles weaken with age. Run Folding@Home they're doing research into eye muscles.
>> >> >> > My brother has always work glasses well since leaving school.
>> >> >> > I just by the cheap ones in Aldi or wherever they seem OK.
>> >> >> Yip, you just need to know the power of each lens required, no need for opticians. As your eyes change you buy the next one up. Not sure if you can get glasses in Aldi that have a different lens for each eye? Or can you swap the lenses yourself?
>> >> >
>> >> > No idea +1.5 or + 2 are my preferred ones, I have about 5 from +1 to +3 , the pair at work are +1.5
>> >> > don;t think Aldi to them with different lenses for each eye.
>> >> Do the lenses look like you could buy two similar pairs of different power and swap one of the lenses over?
>> >
>> > They don't look easy to take out.
>> >
>> >> >> >> I have ridiculously high resolution eyesight, I can read the numbers on SMD devices from a fair distance when others are using magnifying glasses.
>> >> >> > Those can be easier to see than the grey text on 74 series chips.
>> >> >> You just need to move the light source or tilt the chip for those. They reflect too much.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes the light source is important..
>> >> I like strip lights, no shadows.
>> >
>> > We have magnifying glasses with a ring of LED's called helping hands with 3 croc-clips for holding things,
>> > makes soldering so much easier .
>> Yes I use those, but without the LED ring. I have decent room lighting anyway. I've got 200 watts of LEDs (which would be equivalent to 1.5kW of incandescent) in my living room which is 7m x 3.5m. Plus some UV lights as the parrots can see UV.
>
> I don't do much soldering at home, have LEDs lighting at work now sure what the rating is but I tend to have them dimmed a bit anyway.
>
>> >> >> >> >> >> > For me that's proof that time travel can't be done.
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> No it isn't. Probably just not invented yet.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > But if you can travel forward in time then the future has alreay happened.
>> >> >> >> No, it will have happened when you get there, but not for someone who didn't travel. Time is not exactly the same everywhere.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > It can't be like that as the place/person has to exist before you get there.
>> >> >> If you think of it as another dimension like distance, it all becomes clear. You're driving along a really long road, others are further ahead, others are further behind. You see different scenery to others. But you know when you get further along, you'll see different things. You wouldn't say "those things don't exist I can't see them". You know others are already seeing them and you will later. And of course you can change the speed of travel, or even go the other way.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes people are already there at that point.
>> >> And the same applies to time travel. If I'm about to go 5 years into the future, that future does already exist, it's just 5 years away in that dimension, and nobody you know from this time can see it yet unless they travel in time.
>> >
>> > Something like spacetime , if yuo travel forward in time you also have to travel in distance too.
>> Why? If you travel north you don't have to go a bit east too.
>
> But you do as the earth is rotating and the earth is orbiting the sun and orbiting our galaxy and the universe is expanding.
> So if I go back to find van goth the earth was in a differnt part of the galaxy to what it is now.
> The only real way to achive that is to bend space and therefor bent time is using gravity .

Depends what the physical point of reference is when time travelling. Do you end up in the same place relative to a local mass like the earth, or relative to the centre of the universe?

>> >> >> >> >> >> Why travel back all the way to now when the lottery winnings are smaller?
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > Invest it, I;d go back and offer say van goth a few shilling for his sunflower or other stuff that no one wanted to buy.
>> >> >> >> >> > I don;t think he sold any pictures of his own during his life.
>> >> >> >> >> Good point, invest it in the past then go forwards and collect the interest. In fact all you need to do is take some money you have now, go back as far as you can when those coins/notes are still valid, pay it into a bank account, then go forwards and take it out with interest.
>> >> >> >> >Yeah I've got a few components in the lab maybe I'll build a time machine ;-)
>> >> >> >> I found some 64kbit RAM chips, want them? 16 pin DIL.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Think I already have asome of those thanks.
>> >> >> I can't think of what to do with them, I think they'll get recycled. No idea if they recycle individual chips. Melt them down into basic elements?
>> >> >
>> >> > Some have gold on the pins I know there's not much but it seems worth doing for old chips and connectors.
>> >> They're in my "blue box" for the council. They stopped collecting it, but next time I take hedge clippings to the skip I'll ask. Also got busted hard disks, computer fans, USB sticks, etc.
>> >
>> > we have an electrical waste bin at work for such things.
>> > I have hard drives, one day I'll remove the circuit boards add some surface mount LEDs and a small battery and flashing circuit
>> > and frame it as art. Not sure I'll win a turner prize but one day I'll get around to it.
>> A hard disk is very good for concealing marijuana. They're hermetically sealed so a dog won't smell it, and nobody at an airport would open one.
>
> But they could ask you to start it up,

It could just be a plain 3.5" disk with no way to talk to it.

and x-rays can see oddities in such a think.

They can't get through steel.

> Who carries HDs norwerdays anyway most have SSDs .

Depends on the capacity.

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> But the girl looks way sexier with rock hard nipples.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > I quite like them dressed in PVC or latex , not so keen on leather.
>> >> >> >> >> >> I don't like plastic, it's too artificial. Skimpy denim is better.
>> >> >> >> >> >> https://www.gotceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/photos/ariel-winter/heading-to-a-salon-in-west-hollywood/Ariel-Winter-in-Skimpy-Denim-Shorts--18.jpg
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > I don;t like blue denim black is OK.
>> >> >> >> >> Why?
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Not sure maybe it;s the sort that waer blue denim .
>> >> >> >> I like girls in denim that's falling apart.
>> >> >> >> > I'ts like a really don't like denim that was featured by dexis midnight runners , don't like track suits either.
>> >> >> >> The cheap shit plastic ones (shell suits?) are usually worn by people more likely to want a shag.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > The ali-G type , I just find people in those funny.
>> >> >> Or hot.
>> >> >> https://www.hotmilkvintage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/39.jpg
>> >> >> You'd give her one wouldn't you? And you can probably rip that shellsuit right off if you're in a hurry.
>> >> >
>> >> > Not sure I'd bother.
>> >> You're not right in the head. I can see her being a right horny thing in bed and doing it all night.
>> >
>> > I just don;t find that look sexy.
>> What she's wearing isn't really relevant anyway, it's what she looks like underneath.
>
> Could be pregnant ?. If she has a nice figure why hide it in plastic bag.

It's not plastic. Plastic is the crap you showed me them wearing in the club.

>> >> >> >> I once jump started a car for a woman when her boyfriend had deliberately flattened the battery, and she asked if I wanted paid in sex! And of course I said yes, she was a bit older than me but really fit.
>> >> >> >> >> >> > Perhaps I should have gone to TG's last friday .
>> >> >> >> >> >> What is TG's?
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > https://www.torturegarden.com/best-of-torture-garden/
>> >> >> >> >> I don't see the point of all that plastic, they'd look better naked.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > It's what you don't see that keeps the interest.
>> >> >> >> Rubbish. Why use your imagination when you can have the real thing?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > then why are nudist beaches so boring.
>> >> >> They aren't. They're the same as normal beaches but with more freedom and the ability to enjoy the looks of others.
>> >> >Not sure I'd be really interested there's one in Brighton. I know there's one in germany that a friends has been to.
>> >> I do not understand the desire to be clothed, it just isn't natural.
>> >
>> > Most people wear cloths it;s practical.
>> No it isn't, it's a pointless hassle.
>
> Not since we evolved from apes.

It's hardly evolution to require something extra.

>> I've done running races in summer where stupid folk (everyone else in the race) had a tshirt on. I didn't. They were pouring with sweat and I was comfortable, and overtook loads of them. Several said, "that's a good idea" - they hadn't thought of it!
>
> Strange professonal athletes don't do it, or wear the bare minium why is that.
> From 100M to the marathon if whjat you say is correct they would be wearing as little as possible.

Most athletes do wear not very much, but there are silly rules. For example I watched a triathlon in SUMMER and they had full wetsuits on, very inconvenient when they had to strip them off to cycle. The swim was like 10 minutes in summer temperature water.