Emmm, all my life? Well, had steak last night anyway, I still haven't got the timing right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Emmm, all my life? Well, had steak last night anyway, I still haven't got the timing right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Had a liver 'fibroscan' test today, it tests the stiffness of the liver, obviously the stiffer the liver, the more fibrosis/cirrhosis it has. I'm 53 and have drank pretty solidly since I left school and am glad to report a completely healthy score of 5.8 kpa, 5.3 is the healthy average. Bring it on!!!
How to spend a lot of time not achieving much. Quite clever though :).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg8o...nel=TomStanton
As a a cyclist I found it very innovative and interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
At first, I thought he was intending to end up with some sort of induction motor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffin
The fine speed control on my TD124 uses an eddy current break.
I thought it might be used as a recharge system for a battery like in cars
What is the point of Post Offices? While I do feel sorry for all those postmasters who were wrongly convicted and jailed, I do think most of them should be sacked due to being next to useless.
If I call at a post office at 12.30 I find that they are closed between 12 and 1pm. If I call at one after 1pm I find this particular one closes between 1 and 2pm. Or as has happened today I get there at 12.05pm to be smugly told they close at 12 on Saturday and re-open on Monday :steam:
We can send letters through the air via email, it's only a matter of time before we can do the same with parcels. That'll wipe the smug grin of their faces.
Our post office used to be massive with about 20 windows. Them they moved to smaller place, then an even smaller one.
Then they divided the smaller one so it was even smaller. Then they closed for good.
Now I have to go to the one in the 'University Quarter' and queue round the block with the poxy students.
Worse still the bone idle 'dead slow and stop' bint who worked at our one transferred to that one so you can't even escape that.
I mean really you would need stop-motion photography to even see her moving.
The post office next to where I used to work was lined with hardboard sheets with holes drilled to attach hooks for hanging items for sale on, most of which were empty. Painted a fetching shade of green. It had two counters, one of which was permanently closed with a dog-eared piece of cardboard over it with the message 'position closed' written in felt tip.
There was no heating in there for the customers, but the postmaster had a year-round matching green pullover and gilet and a small two-bar electric fire pointed at him. The bastard. The whole place looked like a sixties Soviet supermarket in miniature.
The main post office in Chorley had many counters, and to keep the customers moving along Roger Moore would announce when a position became available ("Cashier number six"), emphasising the number. You could almost hear his single eyebrow raising as he said it.
That too is now closed.
ours are in small grocery type shops now.
Same here too. It's an improvement - you can buy something to snack on while you're waiting.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Nowhere else in the world had Roger Moore post offices so of course they had to close them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
The idea these days is to make every experience as miserable as possible. Then complain you've got no customers because of Thatcher/Boris/Trump/Brexit/Ukraine/Free Market Economics/Jimmy Savile (you may perm any three).
The latest fad is to make it clear they are doing you a favour by selling you something. Only the customer is expected to say 'Thank You.'
Although there are exceptions still, the staff in the cafe where I get lunch are pretty good for being normal and friendly.
He was such a good sport our Rog.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...6FORM%3DVDVVXX
If he came into our one he'd need to brandish his Walther to get served in under an hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
not so much the project but i marvel at the skills and the gear he has
https://youtu.be/w1YF47-8iro
I wasn't expecting to sit through the whole video, but it was so fascinating. That bloke has some serious skills. The end product is a thing of beauty, not sure what it does though!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Maybe the producers of the next Jumanji film will make use of it :)
He could be making unavailable parts for obsolete hi-fi equipment, but no..
On the other hand without people like him people like me would still be living in the trees.
its a maze bolt apparently. you have to find a way to get the nut to the other end... he said he still hasnt solved it himself...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Hmm, I thought it might be that. I don't have the patience for puzzles, but it's cool enough to display.
I remember back in the 80s being impressed by my brother solving his Rubik's cube. Till I realised he'd peeled off the tiles and re-glued them. Then I was really impressed.
I also find puzzles tedious. Got enough real problems to solve without tackling additional pointless ones.
They want to do an 'Escape Room' thing at work as a team building exercise. Solving problems together.
Which is what we do anyway, day in day out...told them I would just show up for the curry afterwards. Don't think I will get away with that though.
Our lads have done escape rooms and enjoy them. Don't have the curry before!Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
id have to quit:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
Escape Room thing sounds horrible, I've never been one for teams stuff. I would escape work the day before then throw a sickie till it was over. The free curry complicates things though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
You could cry off with an injury and avoid the escape but just about make it to the curry?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
It does but I'm not entirely sure the curry part is free.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Franky the 4 hour Fire Marshall training course I went on the other week is still traumatic. I mean part of my education was to learn to cope with impossible levels of boredom - you can be in that 40 minute Latin lesson all your life and we had 4 a week for 5 years. Not to mention the 3 hour end of term Mass.
But in that fire thing - my god, I was climbing the walls. So I think I've done my bit already.
I would say so - the ability to climb walls in the event of a fire is something worth learning. Though really it shouldn't take four hours to learn not to point the fire extinguisher at your own face.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I was tempted to set fire to the place just so I could get out. In fact if someone had said to me you can carry on with this or I can burn you to death right now I'd have needed time to ponder the options.
It was beyond awful. I mean just sitting there being bored is one thing, and I was mentally prepared for that, but when I hear 'Now I'm going to divide you into teams' the full horror of what was ahead began to sink in.
Thankfully the cetification lasts 3 years as there is no way on god's green earth you would get me back into that again. You can shoot me, stab me, I don't care.
At my last place it was totally different - a bloke came out, gave the 'Fire is bad' speech, showed us a video of some pallets on fire, then we went in the yard, he set some fires and we put them out. An hour tops and putting out the fires was getting paid to have fun.
"It's a dog! He's drawing a dog!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
i did a 3 or was it 5 day dangerous goods licence... it was tiresome, even tho the guy tried to keep it as non dreary as possible. firefighting and cpr were 2 of the things i remember having to do. numerous multi answer papers etc...
swore i was not redoing it or any others...:doh:
I've done a couple of half day courses, for installing EPDM roofs, and safe working at heights. On both courses there was one bloke who knew more about it than everyone else constantly interrupting the tutor. Just made the course take even longer, and he wasn't dissuaded by the looks of pure hatred from the rest of us.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
There is always one, and we had one. A giant of a man who worked in a warehouse and had a seemingly endless supply of dull anecdotes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
He was still going on ten minutes after the course finished (yes even though it was four hours with just one five minute break, it still over-ran).
I just got up and left, for all I know he's still sat there going on.
Oh I don't know - I love doing crosswords. However it has taken me most of the weekend to solve The Evening Standard's cryptic crossword. It helps preventing my brain from turning into porridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
My brain is more like oatmeal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
keith lard:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Apparently WW3 might happen as early as next year now due to the chaos in Israel, its gonna be China/Russia against the West. Fookin' 'elll.
Not to be confused with Keith Laird.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Mine is more like muesli, a bit nutty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Royal mail second class signed for now regularly taking about 2 weeks to arrive!! WTF has happened to the Royal mail?
seems a bit lengthy. i dont use rm much these days but my coffee comes within 2 days of order. its 24hr tracked and not expensiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
It was privatised - the same as has happened to all national services that are now virtual monopolies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
Monopolies but they're "heavily regulated". My ar*se.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
your arse is a heavily regulated monopoly?:eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
So they are! :lol: And when it comes to water, not only are we stupid enough to be the only country in the whole world to privatise that resource, but to turn it into a group of absolute monopolies. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Water is a total rip off I agree. Remember when it was a tenner a year and you just paid it along with the rates?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I'd impose stupidly expensive regulations on them, drive their share prices right down to pennies and then buy them back into public ownership.
Privatising them was the biggest con ever.
I'm glad they cleared that up with the disclaimer, it must have been a traumatic time for his family pet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Compared to DHL and DPD etc they're absolute pants. Amazon are outstanding, I can order today, and it's here tomorrow. Mind you I still use the post office to send things, because I don't know how to use DHL etc for sending!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry