"a bit ph private"

[Pit Pony]

GT03ROB said:

Countdown said:

Devil's advocate....

Can a person who hasn't passed the relevant exams but has been employed as an Engineer call themselves an "Engineer"?

In the UK yes...… the word isn't sacred there

To be fair. I've met people with NO engineering qualifications who are better than many engineers including me, who is no more than mediocre.
I p probably should have become an accountant

[Cold]

lowdrag said:

If there's one thing that bugs me it is "MO-AY". For christ's sake, it is pronounced " MWET".

Meh, funny French lot. If they can't even name the English Channel correctly, least of all call London by its real name, then their fizzy wine is whatever we want to call it.

(And it's Paris, not Pareeee)

[g3org3y]

Cold said:

lowdrag said:

If there's one thing that bugs me it is "MO-AY". For christ's sake, it is pronounced " MWET".

Meh, funny French lot. If they can't even name the English Channel correctly, least of all call London by its real name, then their fizzy wine is whatever we want to call it.

(And it's Paris, not Pareeee)

From Wiki: "Moët is pronounced with a consonant at the end (IPA: [moɛt]) ('mo-et') as the French-born founder's surname has Dutch ancestry"

[wolfracesonic]

Pit Pony said:

To be fair. I've met people with NO engineering qualifications who are better than many engineers including me, who is no more than mediocre.
I p probably should have become an accountant

A numbers engineer

[Dynamic Space Wizard]

cloggy said:

Had some shirts made in Thailand and asked the guy to monogram them on the shirt pocket.
To make sure he used the right letters I scribbled KB on a piece of paper.

Expecting a nice monogrammed result when I picked up the shirts the idiot had exactly copied my scribble on the piece of paper.

I was not a happy bunny.

I know it's wrong to laugh, but anyway.

[So]

jet_noise said:

<thread awakening>

I'm hoping to move to a place which happens to come with a humungous traditional oil Aga.
Looking for a user advice site with technical queries. I'm an engineer, I need Answers!

I find the "I Love My Aga" Facebook group.
It is mostly look-at-my-larks-tongue-quiche and I-found-a-side-of-salmon-in-the-deep-freeze-what-should-I-do-with-it type stuff. There's also NAR (Not Aga Related, yes they have their own TLA) posts e.g. "these are my husband's polo gloves, they're a bit smelly and made of soft leather, how should I clean them?".
Gold, just gold

And any technical query is met with "call the engineer".

http://agacentral.com/

[jet_noise]

So said:

jet_noise said:

<thread awakening>

I'm hoping to move to a place which happens to come with a humungous traditional oil Aga.
Looking for a user advice site with technical queries. I'm an engineer, I need Answers!

I find the "I Love My Aga" Facebook group.
It is mostly look-at-my-larks-tongue-quiche and I-found-a-side-of-salmon-in-the-deep-freeze-what-should-I-do-with-it type stuff. There's also NAR (Not Aga Related, yes they have their own TLA) posts e.g. "these are my husband's polo gloves, they're a bit smelly and made of soft leather, how should I clean them?".
Gold, just gold

And any technical query is met with "call the engineer".

http://agacentral.com/

Thanks, I found that site, moribund. Last blog entry 2009(!). Forum link downloads a .tar file, other forum links "not found". Similar for Google search results although search results for forum entries exist into 2018.

[BrabusMog]

jet_noise said:

<thread awakening>

I'm hoping to move to a place which happens to come with a humungous traditional oil Aga.
Looking for a user advice site with technical queries. I'm an engineer, I need Answers!

I find the "I Love My Aga" Facebook group.
It is mostly look-at-my-larks-tongue-quiche and I-found-a-side-of-salmon-in-the-deep-freeze-what-should-I-do-with-it type stuff. There's also NAR (Not Aga Related, yes they have their own TLA) posts e.g. "these are my husband's polo gloves, they're a bit smelly and made of soft leather, how should I clean them?".
Gold, just gold

And any technical query is met with "call the engineer".

I'd love to join if I were on Facebook. "My Rangemaster simply goes on-and-on, haven't had to CTE once since it was installed, dahllings."

[So]

jet_noise said:

So said:

jet_noise said:

<thread awakening>

I'm hoping to move to a place which happens to come with a humungous traditional oil Aga.
Looking for a user advice site with technical queries. I'm an engineer, I need Answers!

I find the "I Love My Aga" Facebook group.
It is mostly look-at-my-larks-tongue-quiche and I-found-a-side-of-salmon-in-the-deep-freeze-what-should-I-do-with-it type stuff. There's also NAR (Not Aga Related, yes they have their own TLA) posts e.g. "these are my husband's polo gloves, they're a bit smelly and made of soft leather, how should I clean them?".
Gold, just gold

And any technical query is met with "call the engineer".

http://agacentral.com/

Thanks, I found that site, moribund. Last blog entry 2009(!). Forum link downloads a .tar file, other forum links "not found". Similar for Google search results although search results for forum entries exist into 2018.

Apologies. When I was last there is was alive and well.

An aside - our AGA supplier has just stopped selling or maintaining AGAs. I cannot help but feel they are becoming less popular. I switched off ours today for the summer and I am sure I heard a thousand polar bears breath a sigh of relief.

[jet_noise]

BrabusMog said:

I'd love to join if I were on Facebook. "My Rangemaster simply goes on-and-on, haven't had to CTE once since it was installed, dahllings."

My current house has a dual fuel Rangie (you do call them Rangies, don't you?)

So said:

Apologies. When I was last there is was alive and well.

An aside - our AGA supplier has just stopped selling or maintaining AGAs. I cannot help but feel they are becoming less popular. I switched off ours today for the summer and I am sure I heard a thousand polar bears breath a sigh of relief.

Also

And a thousand trees grow more slowly.

[Badda]

Friends of ours moved to a house with an Aga and within weeks the wife was getting poled by the aga engineer and lives with him now.

Enjoy your new house!

[jet_noise]

Badda said:

Friends of ours moved to a house with an Aga and within weeks the wife was getting poled by the aga engineer and lives with him now.

Enjoy your new house!

(It's still only a "hoping", much under-bridge water has to flow before it's an "is" Awaiting the home report although verbal valuation is in budget)

[jet_noise]

Today's gold:
First answer to a request for Aga-cooked popcorn flavouring.
Salt, or toffee?
Oh, no. Truffle oil. (It may be fantastic but... )
A paean to the joys of Aga toast (which I am told is fantastic) but it had to be served on a home made plate.

And finally perhaps more suited to the juvenile-sniggering-thing thread:


I really should spend less time here

[Tango13]

threadlock said:

trowelhead said:

Has a wife who recognises that that's a Skylark harp from Pilgrim Harps in Sussex.

I sent that picture to a friend that lives down that part of the world, she knows the bloke!!

[BrabusMog]

jet_noise said:

BrabusMog said:

I'd love to join if I were on Facebook. "My Rangemaster simply goes on-and-on, haven't had to CTE once since it was installed, dahllings."

My current house has a dual fuel Rangie (you do call them Rangies, don't you?)

.

Yes, Rangie for the Rangemaster in the kitchen and Rangie Sport for the MY19 chav chariot parked on the driveway

[BrabusMog]

Badda said:

Friends of ours moved to a house with an Aga and within weeks the wife was getting poled by the aga engineer and lives with him now.

Enjoy your new house!

Genuine snort followed by lol

[popegregory]

Throws away marque cap when company takes a direction he doesn’t approve of.

[Red9zero]

B17NNS said:

Multiple Cat6 points in every room.

That dated well

[RC1807]

Red9zero said:

B17NNS said:

Multiple Cat6 points in every room.

That dated well

Standard installation where I live since 2012!

[Red9zero]

RC1807 said:

Red9zero said:

B17NNS said:

Multiple Cat6 points in every room.

That dated well

Standard installation where I live since 2012!

I must admit I do still use Ethernet cables for my work laptops at home. Partly as I am next to the router, but mainly because it provides a better connection, despite BT's various promises.