Juvenile things that make you snigger.
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JonRB said:
I saw this in an antiques shop in Hungerford earlier today.
I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. It looked a little hand-painted to me.
It's more than likely genuine. The drain cocks on a steam engine allow the incompressible condensation to be blown out of the cylinders when moving off from a period of sitting stationary, bu they must be closed after a few piston strokes to prevent all the lubrication being washed out of the cylinder.I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. It looked a little hand-painted to me.
Leaving the cocks open will therefore greatly accelerate piston wear on the engine and cause the rail company a huge bill for maintenance, due to n engine-driver's laziness or forgetfulness in closing them. In addition, a drain cock will very loudly expel a large cloud of when opened during the piston stroke, which will indeed frighten people if done in the train station.
Anyway, enough of the buzz killington antics.... here's my go at the desktop icon game!
JonRB said:
I saw this in an antiques shop in Hungerford earlier today.
I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. It looked a little hand-painted to me.
they are repro/modern signs, they cost about £20 - £100 (depending on how posh the shop is that selling them)I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. It looked a little hand-painted to me.
I bought one for my brother the other year!
if you look on the back you can see the grinding marks where they cut the casting trees off,
I don't think they where ever a genuine period sign
guru_1071 said:
they are repro/modern signs, they cost about £20 - £100 (depending on how posh the shop is that selling them)
This one didn't look at all genuine. It looked like a Work Experience student had painted the white by hand and the overall effect was very shoddy indeed. A period sign is always meticulously painted. So, yes, this does not surprise me one bit.
Today in progress meeting, a colleague referred to yesterday being quite 'bitty', and did so several times to the extent that everyone was starting to snigger and the chair had to ask him to stop it. Cue various people putting in oblique references to it in their own progress reports, with further sniggers. 
A project planning meeting I've just been in caused quite a few of us to collapse into puerile giggles at various times.
Gems included the PUSI (Payload Unit Start Indicator) in a Transport Stream header being pronounced as pussy, and someone asking me if this was being interpreted from the header and made available ("do you get pussy")?
To which I replied that we fully interpret all of the header ("yes, I crack it all out").
We also discussed whether an analysis tool relays packets or suppresses them ("does it spit it out or swallow it?"), and also how adding an extra feature would affect the complexity of the task ("that would make it quite hard").
There were a few others, but I can't remember them right now.
Edit: I guess you had to be there. It was pure smut though. And the best thing is that it started out entirely unintentionally.
Gems included the PUSI (Payload Unit Start Indicator) in a Transport Stream header being pronounced as pussy, and someone asking me if this was being interpreted from the header and made available ("do you get pussy")?
To which I replied that we fully interpret all of the header ("yes, I crack it all out").
We also discussed whether an analysis tool relays packets or suppresses them ("does it spit it out or swallow it?"), and also how adding an extra feature would affect the complexity of the task ("that would make it quite hard").
There were a few others, but I can't remember them right now.
Edit: I guess you had to be there. It was pure smut though. And the best thing is that it started out entirely unintentionally.
Edited by JonRB on Thursday 19th February 20:07
guru_1071 said:
JonRB said:
I saw this in an antiques shop in Hungerford earlier today.
I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. It looked a little hand-painted to me.
they are repro/modern signs, they cost about £20 - £100 (depending on how posh the shop is that selling them)I'm not entirely convinced it's genuine. It looked a little hand-painted to me.
I bought one for my brother the other year!
if you look on the back you can see the grinding marks where they cut the casting trees off,
I don't think they where ever a genuine period sign
Hooli said:
OpulentBob said:
ChemicalChaos said:
What breed of dog is it under the wig?
I want to do this too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuHO2KcX6bI
Vocal Minority said:
You do really need some willing idiots for that - surely after the initial surprise etc - the general size, way it moves...wags its tail etc, it would be pretty obviously a dog
Perhaps in the heat of the moment the people don't think 'hmm that lion documentary I watched a few years back I'm sure the lions didn't quite walk like that' but instead are thinking 'holy f
king st it's a lion run and don't look back'fwiw I agree, they are idiots, I'm just playing devils adv
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