Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
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hidetheelephants said:
jdw100 said:
I’ve been looking at this photo for a while.
I can understand it might need a lot of power for using all its comms equipment etc.
But five engines?
One at the front for driving it, one in rear for power generation…but where do the other three fit?
Seems excessive?
5 fire engines responding to a very large fire I would assume?I can understand it might need a lot of power for using all its comms equipment etc.
But five engines?
One at the front for driving it, one in rear for power generation…but where do the other three fit?
Seems excessive?
I think I've found the relevant bit of legislation re paramedics and protected titles
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/artic...
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/what-we-investiga...
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/artic...
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/what-we-investiga...
Robotron70 said:
Paul Dishman said:
Mr Minion had “Medic” on his “uniform” . He claimed to be a senior first aider, alongside his event safety management and park-clearing activities
What happened to him? He blocked me.pills said:
I think I've found the relevant bit of legislation re paramedics and protected titles
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/artic...
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/what-we-investiga...
Thanks. I’ll have a a look when I’m back at work later this week. I’m surprised the HCPC and CQC weren’t aware of this (I’ve had email correspondence with both bodies and their regulatory people about this, in my down time), as it seems wrong someone can swan around looking to all intents and purposes like a paramedic but it not be an offence to do so. I’ve had contact as well with the police over in Merseyside who dealt with him and they’d had the same result about it not being an equivalent impersonation offence. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/254/artic...
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/concerns/what-we-investiga...
Unrelated to anything posted here so far, but people posting in the “Russia Invades Ukraine” thread in NPE and referring to “UKR” and “RUS” or UA and RA. Up there with people using three letter codes for airports (which apparently “saves time” when it’s been challenged in various threads on PH over the years).
Dibble said:
Unrelated to anything posted here so far, but people posting in the “Russia Invades Ukraine” thread in NPE and referring to “UKR” and “RUS” or UA and RA. Up there with people using three letter codes for airports (which apparently “saves time” when it’s been challenged in various threads on PH over the years).
10/4 100%Dibble said:
Unrelated to anything posted here so far, but people posting in the “Russia Invades Ukraine” thread in NPE and referring to “UKR” and “RUS” or UA and RA. Up there with people using three letter codes for airports (which apparently “saves time” when it’s been challenged in various threads on PH over the years).
Piston Heads is full of it though especially when anything to do with BMW. Usually Exx numbers. To the rest of the world it means bugger all but I suppose it saves them admitting in reality their car is a 15yr old diesel rep mobile. There's nothing wrong with the car of course, drive what you like, it's just the implication that because it's got a flying propeller on the front and a code name it's special. 2006 318d doesn't sound as impressive but at least the non BMW fanboys would know WTF they were talking about. Edited by Harry H on Wednesday 11th May 14:46
I can't think of anything worse than spending that much time in airports that you know the codes by heart. Awful soul-less places, that bore the daylights out of me.
OT, but...
Working abroad (which is what they are essentlally implying that they are doing) is fun for 6 months but anything longer that that it starts to get boring and you end up damaging relationships with friends and family. Being proud of saying "Yes my wife and kids barely know me, but hey, expenses". And as for airport lounges, they're about as attractive as a Travelodge. Chairs that a thousand other blue-suited, BO'd "senior managers" have snoozed in, tiny drinks glasses, and hot-cupboard food, while your company A6 diesel with Comms Pack is in the long-stay car park, ooooooh you've really made it.
(I used to work at an airport dispatching planes, was interesting work, but my god the pathetic sights you'd see in the passenger areas at 5.30am in the middle of 10 hour delays...There isn't enough money in the world to make that sort of thing attractive, nor will I ever be jealous of it)
OT, but...
Working abroad (which is what they are essentlally implying that they are doing) is fun for 6 months but anything longer that that it starts to get boring and you end up damaging relationships with friends and family. Being proud of saying "Yes my wife and kids barely know me, but hey, expenses". And as for airport lounges, they're about as attractive as a Travelodge. Chairs that a thousand other blue-suited, BO'd "senior managers" have snoozed in, tiny drinks glasses, and hot-cupboard food, while your company A6 diesel with Comms Pack is in the long-stay car park, ooooooh you've really made it.
(I used to work at an airport dispatching planes, was interesting work, but my god the pathetic sights you'd see in the passenger areas at 5.30am in the middle of 10 hour delays...There isn't enough money in the world to make that sort of thing attractive, nor will I ever be jealous of it)
Harry H said:
Piston Heads is full of it though especially when anything to do with BMW. Usually Exx numbers. To the rest of the world it means bugger all but I suppose it saves them admitting in reality their car is a 15yr old diesel rep mobile. There's nothing wrong with the car of course, drive what you like, it's just the implication that because it's got a flying propeller on the front and a code name it's special. 2006 318d doesn't sound as impressive but at least the non BMW fanboys would know WTF they were talking about.
life cycle impulse really gets my goat. BMW are so up there own arse they sell this phrase and people lap it up. Facelift to the rest of the world, and any person who uses LCI is marked out as a massive throbber for eternity.Edited by Harry H on Wednesday 11th May 14:46
Not a Walt by any stretch but we're having a presentation by Ray Goggins (not David), the Irish "Chief Instructor Special Forces Ultimate Hell Week, Former Special Operations Soldier, Bestselling author of "Ranger22".
Anyway, he put up a slide of him clambering up onto a boat somewhere, dressed it up as they're moving at 40mph, high adrenaline, high stress situation. Sort of missed cropping the name of the boat out .. it's the Dublin to Holyhead ferry. I'm not going to point it out to him he doesn't need to embellish stuff
Anyway, he put up a slide of him clambering up onto a boat somewhere, dressed it up as they're moving at 40mph, high adrenaline, high stress situation. Sort of missed cropping the name of the boat out .. it's the Dublin to Holyhead ferry. I'm not going to point it out to him he doesn't need to embellish stuff
OnTheBreadline said:
I can't think of anything worse than spending that much time in airports that you know the codes by heart. Awful soul-less places, that bore the daylights out of me.
OT, but...
Working abroad (which is what they are essentlally implying that they are doing) is fun for 6 months but anything longer that that it starts to get boring and you end up damaging relationships with friends and family. Being proud of saying "Yes my wife and kids barely know me, but hey, expenses". And as for airport lounges, they're about as attractive as a Travelodge. Chairs that a thousand other blue-suited, BO'd "senior managers" have snoozed in, tiny drinks glasses, and hot-cupboard food, while your company A6 diesel with Comms Pack is in the long-stay car park, ooooooh you've really made it.
(I used to work at an airport dispatching planes, was interesting work, but my god the pathetic sights you'd see in the passenger areas at 5.30am in the middle of 10 hour delays...There isn't enough money in the world to make that sort of thing attractive, nor will I ever be jealous of it)
I (pre-covid) travelled a lot for business. A proper lot (250k miles in one year). It is difficult to name a major financial centre I haven't visited - usually at the front end of the plane. OT, but...
Working abroad (which is what they are essentlally implying that they are doing) is fun for 6 months but anything longer that that it starts to get boring and you end up damaging relationships with friends and family. Being proud of saying "Yes my wife and kids barely know me, but hey, expenses". And as for airport lounges, they're about as attractive as a Travelodge. Chairs that a thousand other blue-suited, BO'd "senior managers" have snoozed in, tiny drinks glasses, and hot-cupboard food, while your company A6 diesel with Comms Pack is in the long-stay car park, ooooooh you've really made it.
(I used to work at an airport dispatching planes, was interesting work, but my god the pathetic sights you'd see in the passenger areas at 5.30am in the middle of 10 hour delays...There isn't enough money in the world to make that sort of thing attractive, nor will I ever be jealous of it)
But, by god, I agree with every word.
People would hear I was off to NY or Tokyo and coo about how lucky I was. All I could think about was schlepping through teeming airports, soulless hotel rooms and wasting time. Anyone who thinks it's glamorous has never done it.
One of the few upsides of Covid is that now people are happy to meet by Zoom.
AstonZagato said:
I (pre-covid) travelled a lot for business. A proper lot (250k miles in one year). It is difficult to name a major financial centre I haven't visited - usually at the front end of the plane.
But, by god, I agree with every word.
People would hear I was off to NY or Tokyo and coo about how lucky I was. All I could think about was schlepping through teeming airports, soulless hotel rooms and wasting time. Anyone who thinks it's glamorous has never done it.
One of the few upsides of Covid is that now people are happy to meet by Zoom.
Quite right! The only exceptions I had were anywhere in France (I speak French, love French food and the French team's hours were never that long...) and Spain (esp Barcelona as we got to stay in the W on the beach)But, by god, I agree with every word.
People would hear I was off to NY or Tokyo and coo about how lucky I was. All I could think about was schlepping through teeming airports, soulless hotel rooms and wasting time. Anyone who thinks it's glamorous has never done it.
One of the few upsides of Covid is that now people are happy to meet by Zoom.
Long haul can "f off".
One time I went to San Francisco for one 4 hour meeting. Thanks to delays it took 30 hours to get there. Had meeting. Flew back. Utter waste of time.
Rich Boy Spanner said:
I used to work for an airline and could never work out why the business class passengers all looked so miserable, considering they had the big seats and the champagne. Then I started travelling for business and now I know exactly why.
Exactly. It's not as great as people who don't do it, think it is.When I was an International Man of Mystery, fixing things for an oilfield manufacturing company, I would often get last minute trips.
You'd tell people you had to go to Singapore for instance.
Ooh, Singapore, very fancy.
What it usually meant was a 3 hour taxi to Heathrow, check in & wait,14 hour flight, taxi to somebodies base of operation, fix equipment (usually flick a switch or turn it off & on again) taxi back to the airport, sleep at the airport hotel (maybe), check in, 14 hour flight back to blighty, 3 hour taxi home. Office the next day to report in.
Harry H said:
Piston Heads is full of it though especially when anything to do with BMW. Usually Exx numbers. To the rest of the world it means bugger all but I suppose it saves them admitting in reality their car is a 15yr old diesel rep mobile. There's nothing wrong with the car of course, drive what you like, it's just the implication that because it's got a flying propeller on the front and a code name it's special. 2006 318d doesn't sound as impressive but at least the non BMW fanboys would know WTF they were talking about.
I have been ridiculed at length for saying this previously Edited by Harry H on Wednesday 11th May 14:46
If you drive a 2.0. 2009 diesel 5 series estate: just say so
No I have a E. something blah blah blah blah.
It’s like some word cult of bell ends.
They’ll be a response on here shortly about why it’s so important to refer to the E number. Trust me , no one cares.
austinsmirk said:
I have been ridiculed at length for saying this previously
If you drive a 2.0. 2009 diesel 5 series estate: just say so
No I have a E. something blah blah blah blah.
It’s like some word cult of bell ends.
They’ll be a response on here shortly about why it’s so important to refer to the E number. Trust me , no one cares.
I'm guilty of this, know all my E's, F's and G's.If you drive a 2.0. 2009 diesel 5 series estate: just say so
No I have a E. something blah blah blah blah.
It’s like some word cult of bell ends.
They’ll be a response on here shortly about why it’s so important to refer to the E number. Trust me , no one cares.
I'm also a raging hypocrite because when posters start discussing their Mercedes with W212, W124 etc. I have no clue which one is which and just think they're a massive bell...
The irony is not lost.
AstonZagato said:
OnTheBreadline said:
I can't think of anything worse than spending that much time in airports that you know the codes by heart. Awful soul-less places, that bore the daylights out of me.
OT, but...
Working abroad (which is what they are essentlally implying that they are doing) is fun for 6 months but anything longer that that it starts to get boring and you end up damaging relationships with friends and family. Being proud of saying "Yes my wife and kids barely know me, but hey, expenses". And as for airport lounges, they're about as attractive as a Travelodge. Chairs that a thousand other blue-suited, BO'd "senior managers" have snoozed in, tiny drinks glasses, and hot-cupboard food, while your company A6 diesel with Comms Pack is in the long-stay car park, ooooooh you've really made it.
(I used to work at an airport dispatching planes, was interesting work, but my god the pathetic sights you'd see in the passenger areas at 5.30am in the middle of 10 hour delays...There isn't enough money in the world to make that sort of thing attractive, nor will I ever be jealous of it)
I (pre-covid) travelled a lot for business. A proper lot (250k miles in one year). It is difficult to name a major financial centre I haven't visited - usually at the front end of the plane. OT, but...
Working abroad (which is what they are essentlally implying that they are doing) is fun for 6 months but anything longer that that it starts to get boring and you end up damaging relationships with friends and family. Being proud of saying "Yes my wife and kids barely know me, but hey, expenses". And as for airport lounges, they're about as attractive as a Travelodge. Chairs that a thousand other blue-suited, BO'd "senior managers" have snoozed in, tiny drinks glasses, and hot-cupboard food, while your company A6 diesel with Comms Pack is in the long-stay car park, ooooooh you've really made it.
(I used to work at an airport dispatching planes, was interesting work, but my god the pathetic sights you'd see in the passenger areas at 5.30am in the middle of 10 hour delays...There isn't enough money in the world to make that sort of thing attractive, nor will I ever be jealous of it)
But, by god, I agree with every word.
People would hear I was off to NY or Tokyo and coo about how lucky I was. All I could think about was schlepping through teeming airports, soulless hotel rooms and wasting time. Anyone who thinks it's glamorous has never done it.
One of the few upsides of Covid is that now people are happy to meet by Zoom.
I spent the best part of 2 years working away from home, living in nice hotels and decent expenses.
It was fun for about 2 weeks. Then the reality sets in of living out of a suitcase, having one room to call your own, and unable to see friends and family.
Similar, but not the same, when I worked for TNT Express Worldwide I knew most airport codes like some sort of demented useless knowledge. I was in the Belfast depot (BFS) and used to fly once a month to London (LHR), East Midlands (EMA), Birmingham... you get the picture.
Occasionally we used to get OBC jobs come up (on board courier) where we would take a machine part or document personally to destination. Usually for a line stop or time sensitive something or other. I did a few, nowhere exciting. Cologne was one, Marseilles was another. Our LHR depot used to get one a week almost and much more exciting like Vancouver or Singapore. Great as a one off, but even flying once a month used to bore me to death along with staying in Crowne Plaza hotels.
Occasionally we used to get OBC jobs come up (on board courier) where we would take a machine part or document personally to destination. Usually for a line stop or time sensitive something or other. I did a few, nowhere exciting. Cologne was one, Marseilles was another. Our LHR depot used to get one a week almost and much more exciting like Vancouver or Singapore. Great as a one off, but even flying once a month used to bore me to death along with staying in Crowne Plaza hotels.
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