Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life Volume 36

[Bobberoo99]

g3org3y said:

Second Covid (Pfizer) vaccination done today. No adverse reactions so far...

How many fingers do you have on each hand?
And toes?
On your hand?!?

[g3org3y]

Bobberoo99 said:

g3org3y said:

Second Covid (Pfizer) vaccination done today. No adverse reactions so far...

How many fingers do you have on each hand?
And toes?
On your hand?!?

[glenrobbo]

Magooagain said:

Right chaps! Tell me about old radios and having to get the accumulator topped up?
GLENROBBO!

Radio?

Do you mean the wireless? Or one of those new-fangled crystal thingamebobs?
I'm sorry Magoo, but I'm not very well versed in a that modern malarkey.
Cocoa tins and waxed string is more my forté.

I do have some knowledge of accumulators, however, as a stored reservoir of power in steam or hydraulic systems. Or a potentially different storage device of electrickery.

[glenrobbo]

Bobberoo99 said:

fun

I had fun once.


It was awful. :shudder:

[Magooagain]

glenrobbo said:

Magooagain said:

Right chaps! Tell me about old radios and having to get the accumulator topped up?
GLENROBBO!

Radio?

Do you mean the wireless? Or one of those new-fangled crystal thingamebobs?
I'm sorry Magoo, but I'm not very well versed in a that modern malarkey.
Cocoa tins and waxed string is more my forté.

I do have some knowledge of accumulators, however, as a stored reservoir of power in steam or hydraulic systems. Or a potentially different storage device of electrickery.

Big V remembers going to get accumulators topped up when she was a child. Her dad made a special crate type box on the back of her bike. She took six of them to some type of factory to get topped up and said that lasted the wireless about six weeks?

[Bobberoo99]

Magooagain said:

glenrobbo said:

Magooagain said:

Right chaps! Tell me about old radios and having to get the accumulator topped up?
GLENROBBO!

Radio?

Do you mean the wireless? Or one of those new-fangled crystal thingamebobs?
I'm sorry Magoo, but I'm not very well versed in a that modern malarkey.
Cocoa tins and waxed string is more my forté.

I do have some knowledge of accumulators, however, as a stored reservoir of power in steam or hydraulic systems. Or a potentially different storage device of electrickery.

Big V remembers going to get accumulators topped up when she was a child. Her dad made a special crate type box on the back of her bike. She took six of them to some type of factory to get topped up and said that lasted the wireless about six weeks?

When was this old chap? About the only thing I can think of that would power a radio and need "topping up" could be high power capacitors, a 1 farad cap is 1,000 amps at a given voltage, usually 14.4v for in car audio and is used for what's called deep cycle fast draw situations, usually allowing a large amplifier to power subs as the capacitor allows a continuous uninterrupted power supply without any loss, whereas used to power a radio with it could be seen as being akin to a rechargeable battery as the power drain is much slower.

[Magooagain]

Bobberoo99 said:

Magooagain said:

glenrobbo said:

Magooagain said:

Right chaps! Tell me about old radios and having to get the accumulator topped up?
GLENROBBO!

Radio?

Do you mean the wireless? Or one of those new-fangled crystal thingamebobs?
I'm sorry Magoo, but I'm not very well versed in a that modern malarkey.
Cocoa tins and waxed string is more my forté.

I do have some knowledge of accumulators, however, as a stored reservoir of power in steam or hydraulic systems. Or a potentially different storage device of electrickery.

Big V remembers going to get accumulators topped up when she was a child. Her dad made a special crate type box on the back of her bike. She took six of them to some type of factory to get topped up and said that lasted the wireless about six weeks?

When was this old chap? About the only thing I can think of that would power a radio and need "topping up" could be high power capacitors, a 1 farad cap is 1,000 amps at a given voltage, usually 14.4v for in car audio and is used for what's called deep cycle fast draw situations, usually allowing a large amplifier to power subs as the capacitor allows a continuous uninterrupted power supply without any loss, whereas used to power a radio with it could be seen as being akin to a rechargeable battery as the power drain is much slower.

About 75 years ago in deep north Norfolk.

[glenrobbo]

Magooagain said:

Big V remembers going to get accumulators topped up when she was a child. Her dad made a special crate type box on the back of her bike. She took six of them to some type of factory to get topped up and said that lasted the wireless about six weeks?

Ah yes! I remember now...

The accumulator jobbies were in a rectangular glass casement thing containing lead sheet plates and separators, with a Bakelite top, some screwed plug caps and a threaded connector post at each end. They contained some liquid that tasted a bit like Battert's Premium Schnapps, but without the metallic aftertaste.

[Bobberoo99]

Right then, time for bed!!!

[glenrobbo]

g3org3y said:

Bobberoo99 said:

g3org3y said:

Second Covid (Pfizer) vaccination done today. No adverse reactions so far...

How many fingers do you have on each hand?
And toes?
On your hand?!?

Twelvety!

[glenrobbo]

There's something fishy about all those fingers...

[bongtom]

Cambodia is the first country in SE Asia to get the AstraZeneca vaccine, for the PM and his cronies. Everyone else gets the Sinopharm one, or the Indian whatever that is.

On the plus side foreigners get it “free” (thanks to western donations) but I can’t see then rushing just yet.

[Bobberoo99]

Yeah, but you can see what the AstraZeneca one has done to g3org3y!!!!

Morning chaps
I have a stiff neck again!
Still, it's Friday!!!
Watched Inside Chernobyl last night, Russia have never admitted how many actually died, but they had a guy with them who was there he said he'd learned to live with pills in his pocket a long time ago, and they did say that the poor bds who went up on the roof to clear it died in their 000's!!!

[Magooagain]

Good morning everyone.

Thanks for the accumalater info Glenrobbo!

The birds are singing! I can hear them from thier tin.

Mmm Apricot croissant filled with creme anglais. That will be my weekend treat.

TFIF.

[ApOrbital]

Good morning all

[Bobberoo99]

Time to get
Back to not doing your job properly, is it really that difficult to clean the machine out after you're done for the shift?? Why yes, apparently it's fking impossible!!!
I gave the late shift guy the benefit of the doubt that he'd just forgotten to do it a couple of times, but nope, the lazy fker left it covered in swarf again this morning!!! IT IS NOT fkING HARD!!! JUST USE THE AIRGUN TO BLOW IT OFF!!!! wker!!!

[StuntmanMike]

Morning Trivialites. I’m off to parkhouse this morning, then I have a ten o’clock met with a colleague before going to Ravenhead. These are both brickyards.

So I’ll be outside all day enforcing loading and strapping policy.

Ibstock have a massive bee in their bonnet about this at the minute.

The trouble is, all the work is ours, if you see a brick truck belonging to another company he is our subbie ( well not all, but 9 out of ten maybe ), and if they mess up it’s our fault.

So it’s Stoke and Skelmersdale today.

The bright side is, my mileage allowance means I effectively run the car for free. I will have to up my business miles though if this keeps up.

[Bobberoo99]

What sort of business mileage are you up to now then??

[slopes]

Bobberoo99 said:

Yeah, but you can see what the AstraZeneca one has done to g3org3y!!!!

Morning chaps
I have a stiff neck again!
Still, it's Friday!!!
Watched Inside Chernobyl last night, Russia have never admitted how many actually died, but they had a guy with them who was there he said he'd learned to live with pills in his pocket a long time ago, and they did say that the poor bds who went up on the roof to clear it died in their 000's!!!

Yep, the Pripyat Liquidators were the unsung heroes of that whole debacle.
Huddle in a brick hut wearing a mask, apron and heavy boots over your normal gear, then run like fk to the stairs. Run like fk up them to the roof and shovel the st for 30 seconds, then reverse above.
No wonder they died.

Then there was the fireman who stayed inside the building when it kicked off to shut something down and it stopped it going critical and exploding in a gigantic nuclear fireball. Poor bugger absorbed stupid amounts of radiation in seconds but saved millions of people with his actions.



With regards to tidying up Bobbers, our Tech Ops Manager is exactly the same, he threw a st fit of epic proportions because someone had been in his "special" toolkit and stolen all of his t handled allen keys.
Would they be the ones you've left strewn around the building, usually in autoclaves of varying states of disrepair?

He stripped down a delivery of parts from our European hub the other week, the pallet and all of the crap he left on top of it is still on the floor because "I'm far too busy and important to tidy that up" yet he can have a 2 hr rant about how his generation is being screwed over by everyone and my generation is responsible as i'm part of the golden generation.
That's absolute rubbish of course but it's just an excuse to have a go at me because i don't worship at his feet or suck up to him like some do.

He's an oananist too

Edited by slopes on Friday 5th March 08:06

[Scrump]

Bobberoo99 said:

Time to get
Back to not doing your job properly, is it really that difficult to clean the machine out after you're done for the shift?? Why yes, apparently it's fking impossible!!!
I gave the late shift guy the benefit of the doubt that he'd just forgotten to do it a couple of times, but nope, the lazy fker left it covered in swarf again this morning!!! IT IS NOT fkING HARD!!! JUST USE THE AIRGUN TO BLOW IT OFF!!!! wker!!!

Good Morning