Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life Volume 36

[Bobberoo]

Yes, eleven pairs "shrank" during lockdown, eleven pairs , that's nearly a weeks worth!!!


My stressful day destressed it's self after I was told they're unplugging the machines I'm currently working on ready for them to be moved tomorrow!!!

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Thank Scrump that day's over!!!

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I don't fancy being compacted!!!

550man, I have absolutely no idea where I'm going to be tomorrow, we have a major slump in our order books for the next couple of months, part of the reason I've been moved back to the semi manual machines is that that is my background and I'm one of only three people who can program them, plus tha fact that the decision has been made to get rid of one of the older machines which runs on an older version of the software we're using, which means that 400+ jobs need to be reprogrammed on the newer software for the existing machines!!!!

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Pastie Bloater said:

Are you a machinist/machine operator Bobberoo?

I am indeed, for my sins, normally to be found loitering in front of a five axis machining centre pretending I understand what's going on!!!

550man said:

Thanks for the explanation Bobbers.

I had gathered from perusing these pages before I dipped my toe (honest it was a toe) in here that you had, what I understood to be, a technical aerospace engineering/manufacturing background.

I can well imagine it has been a pretty challenging period for you in that industry. Hopefully things are looking up in the medium/long term.

Yes 550man we've taken a hell of a pasting, it's pretty flat out there for the aerospace industry at present, we are however promised that things will improve later in the year/early next year, we just need to get through the present slump.

[Bobberoo]

A broadly accurate description there glenrobbo!!!

I've just forced myself to watch some of the cringeworthy out right lying bullst pouring out of Dominic Cummings mouth, he's a typical spin doctor blaming everyone around him!!!

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Tonight I will mainly be watching YouTube and drinking Dicky's favourite type of red wine.............screw top!!!

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A strange quirk of my noise cancelling headphones is that when Mrs Bobbers speaks to me she sounds a bit like Mickey Mouse!!!

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ApOrbital said:

glenrobbo said:

ApOrbital said:

More than welcome we could fit ten people in at a squeeze.

Or thirty if we use the compactor?

I have a compactor at work but not very sure it would fit in the ROC post that would be a mash up,

We have a cardboard compactor too, it's bloody huge!!!

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ApOrbital said:

Should i buy a belgian shepherd malinois only two left.NO YOU fkWITT GET A RESCUE dog.

Is the correct response!!!

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Scrump said:

Rescue dog?

The brandy might get expensive.

"I will love them, and pet them, and hug them and call them George!!!!"

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glenrobbo said:

Bobberoo said:

Scrump said:

Rescue dog?

The brandy might get expensive.

"I will love them, and pet them, and hug them and call them George!!!!"

Sorry Bobbers, George is already taken, but Bernard and Shaw are still available.

But, but, but.................nope, you're right, Big George would not be impressed!!!

Oh well, time for bed, night chaps!!!

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pad58 said:

I've no idea either.

You've no idea.......where you are?
You've no idea.......why you took that picture?
You've no idea.......what's going on?
You've no idea.......why there's a train track at the bottom of your garden?
Context is everything old chap, we can send out a search party if you think it will help!!!

It didn't taste of wine gums Dicky, I feel depraved!!!

550man that scored a creditable 8.976 on the old Triv-o-meter, now rebuilt with a suspension spring from a 1978 ERF truck instead of the previous puny Ford Transit return rebound isolation spring we were using!!!

Morning chaps

[Bobberoo]

Semi organised chaos, with smatterings of logic, interspersed with out right lunacy!!!!
No I'm not talking about Trivial Towers for once, I'm talking about the machine moves and reorganisation of parts of the machine shop this morning!!!

So Battert's messing around with his Matter Transfer Beam again is he? He does remember that the last time he got close to getting it working he managed to move the contents of the small barn into the library, a room about half the size of the barn!?!?!

[Bobberoo]

Thanks for the bunting Bomma old chap, jolly decent of you!!!
And thanks for the congratulations chaps, 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,002 posts is a good effort!!!

I have news on the impending Volume change, in line with the present government guidelines of hands, face, space, mace, in case, sterilisation, castration, generalisation, we have decided that Volume 36 needs a deep clean and so have arranged a choice of three methods of Volume swap transportation,
Choice 1 is Dicky's suggestion of a gang plank,
Choice 2 is trusting Battert's Matter Transfer Beam
Choice 3 is taking a running jump from the West Wing corridor out through the window overlooking the front lawn.
Please submit your choices in triplicate to the usual address care of his Srumptiousnessessessess!!!

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glenrobbo said:

Can we not arrange a nice gentle peaceful sedate transfer using the power of Incognitive Contemplative Trivial Trance?

As far out, nutty whackjob, brain fart style, lunatic fringe suggestions go that's not bad!!!
Do the Trivial massive think we can pull it off??? Pequod has proven himself quite adept at the old Trance-endental meditation, he could lead the Ooohhhhhmmming and direct us through the power of mind altering thought control!!!

By the way PB, Roxy's lovely, even with an odd number of appendages!!!

Slopes you're just mean!!! Fancy threatening to use the residents choosing option 3 as moving target practice!!!

[Bobberoo]

I'm thinking that, at current page consumption and continued posting rates, sometime this evening, say around 7pmish, maybe, possibly, perhaps........"help me understand!!!

I'm off to the Chiropractor in a bit, don't you lot go all Hairy Chrisgnu on my me and start meditating early!!!

[Bobberoo]

I used to like riding the tea cup ride, right up until the man threw me off off for throwing up on the family in the next tea cup, it's not my fault they span mine faster than everyone else's, it had nothing whatsoever to do with the 14 pints of Stella I'd drunk beforehand!!!

[Bobberoo]

I may have been a little older than 10...........
Certainly no more than 12 though!!!!

[Bobberoo]

Oooohhhhh giant tea cup ride culminating in a new Volume!!!! Me likey very muchly!!!
Bit what tune should we have playing?!?!?

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Scrump said:

Maybe use bomma’s bike to power the teacups

Jesus fking Christ, can you just imagine the absolute carnage from Bomma doing that!?!?!?!