Tell us Something Really Trivial about your Life (VOL 30)
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DickyC said:
Each recipient in turn simply has to put up a one hundred feet tall by sixty feet wide sheet of half inch mild steel plate in accordance with the timetable provided. As his plate goes up so I fling his magnet in his general direction from the top of the old water tower. When he hears the unmistable slap of magnet on steel he lowers his plate and retrieves his prize. What could be simpler?
Dicky,
I have no half inch mild steel plates available, but I can erect a scaffold with an array of my "Beefeater" English Ironstone plates arranged to form a receiving device.
Could you give me a rough estimate of the mass and the incoming velocity of the fridge magnet, so that I can fit suitable absorption damper springs? Also an indication of the elevation and azimuth of the path of the FM projectile ( Sorry Timmy, I didn't want to remind you of your brush with the toxic minnows. It could have been much worse had it been sticklebacks with those nasty barbs. ).
Do I need to build in a compensation factor to take into account the current magnetic north deviation?
Otherwise I have a plan B, which is to lash an old refrigerator to the top of the nearest television transmitter mast located at the summit of Holme Moss which is only 28 miles distant from Glenrobbo Grange.
Dibble said:
I can’t decide which is worse, the lack of flavour or it being lukewarm at best. It’s the culinary equivalent of “beige”, at every level.
I would kill for some proper, hot, toast, swimming in butter. And a decent, hot tea or coffee.
I’m going to go into some sort of sensory overloaded anaphylactic shock when I get home and treat myself to Marmite on my toast.
Keep some hot sauce in your bed side table...Salt and pepper shakers too. Hell, you could keep a little snuff box of cinnamon around for your pud. The options are endless.I would kill for some proper, hot, toast, swimming in butter. And a decent, hot tea or coffee.
I’m going to go into some sort of sensory overloaded anaphylactic shock when I get home and treat myself to Marmite on my toast.
No need to suffer the hospital blandness.
DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Not me I'm crap at art!!!!
There may be a slight flaw in your chosen delivery system Dicky, as a consummate, highly regarded Aerospace Engineer I can't possibly be in possession of mere steel plate, would it be too much to ask if I can use a lesser grade stainless steel???
We're desperate for magnetic qualities! IIRC stainless isn't magnetic.There may be a slight flaw in your chosen delivery system Dicky, as a consummate, highly regarded Aerospace Engineer I can't possibly be in possession of mere steel plate, would it be too much to ask if I can use a lesser grade stainless steel???
Yeah but no but...
You knew what I meant.
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Someone was talking to Eric Clapton about old rockers carrying on working and chose Joe Cocker, who was still alive at the time, as his example.
Someone, "Joe Cocker can't make the big notes like he used to."
Clapton, "No, but you know what he means."
You knew what I meant.
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Someone was talking to Eric Clapton about old rockers carrying on working and chose Joe Cocker, who was still alive at the time, as his example.
Someone, "Joe Cocker can't make the big notes like he used to."
Clapton, "No, but you know what he means."
Um, i think you may struggle to get a bottle of Ribena out of them Dicky!!!
I ordered a Frivolous survival kit on the "Frivolous purchase" thread, it is indeed frivolous but actually quite good, well most of it is, and goes well with my other useless survival gear/multi tools/knives that i have!! I may also have ordered another bottle of whisky, it's a very god bottle at a very good price!!!!
I ordered a Frivolous survival kit on the "Frivolous purchase" thread, it is indeed frivolous but actually quite good, well most of it is, and goes well with my other useless survival gear/multi tools/knives that i have!! I may also have ordered another bottle of whisky, it's a very god bottle at a very good price!!!!
DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Not me I'm crap at art!!!!
There may be a slight flaw in your chosen delivery system Dicky, as a consummate, highly regarded Aerospace Engineer I can't possibly be in possession of mere steel plate, would it be too much to ask if I can use a lesser grade stainless steel???
We're desperate for magnetic qualities! IIRC stainless isn't magnetic.There may be a slight flaw in your chosen delivery system Dicky, as a consummate, highly regarded Aerospace Engineer I can't possibly be in possession of mere steel plate, would it be too much to ask if I can use a lesser grade stainless steel???
fatboy18 said:
DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Not me I'm crap at art!!!!
There may be a slight flaw in your chosen delivery system Dicky, as a consummate, highly regarded Aerospace Engineer I can't possibly be in possession of mere steel plate, would it be too much to ask if I can use a lesser grade stainless steel???
We're desperate for magnetic qualities! IIRC stainless isn't magnetic.There may be a slight flaw in your chosen delivery system Dicky, as a consummate, highly regarded Aerospace Engineer I can't possibly be in possession of mere steel plate, would it be too much to ask if I can use a lesser grade stainless steel???
Morning chaps 
well it's off for another exciting day of making stuff at wemakeplanebits.com, I can never do enough for my ethically driven, running like a well oiled, top flight, excellently managed employer!!!!
The above may not be completely honest, I may in fact be attending due to being paid, which is nice!!
well it's off for another exciting day of making stuff at wemakeplanebits.com, I can never do enough for my ethically driven, running like a well oiled, top flight, excellently managed employer!!!!The above may not be completely honest, I may in fact be attending due to being paid, which is nice!!
The TT Anniversary Fridge Magnets lobbing from the top if the old water tower went well apart from those to the north west. I overlooked the interuptive influence of Trivborough Scrap Yard.
At school we called it Flick Cards where you held a cigarette card or tea card between the first two fingers of your throwing hand and flicked the card horizontally away from you. I had high hopes for magnet dispersal in the same manner from the old water tower. But even as we speak several will be stuck fast to the wrecks of VX-4/90s and Austin Somersets at the breakers; their intended owners none the wiser.
At school we called it Flick Cards where you held a cigarette card or tea card between the first two fingers of your throwing hand and flicked the card horizontally away from you. I had high hopes for magnet dispersal in the same manner from the old water tower. But even as we speak several will be stuck fast to the wrecks of VX-4/90s and Austin Somersets at the breakers; their intended owners none the wiser.
DickyC said:
The TT Anniversary Fridge Magnets lobbing from the top if the old water tower went well apart from those to the north west. I overlooked the interuptive influence of Trivborough Scrap Yard.
At school we called it Flick Cards where you held a cigarette card or tea card between the first two fingers of your throwing hand and flicked the card horizontally away from you. I had high hopes for magnet dispersal in the same manner from the old water tower. But even as we speak several will be stuck fast to the wrecks of VX-4/90s and Austin Somersets at the breakers; their intended owners none the wiser.
At school we called it Flick Cards where you held a cigarette card or tea card between the first two fingers of your throwing hand and flicked the card horizontally away from you. I had high hopes for magnet dispersal in the same manner from the old water tower. But even as we speak several will be stuck fast to the wrecks of VX-4/90s and Austin Somersets at the breakers; their intended owners none the wiser.
You're how old!?!?!In fairness I do remember cigarette cards, there are so many things which kids today will never know the joy of, playing cards pegged to your bike so it sounded like a motorbike, rope swings in the woods, being able to walk the streets unmolested, the Dukes of Hazzard, reading and writing in plain English, arithmetic in your head NOT with a calculator, looking stuff up in books for hours instead of the internet in seconds!!!!
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