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General Discussion Area / Confession (left footers please don't read)

« on: 06 August 2010, 23:46:36 »

Paddy goes to confession after a round of golf.

"What is troubling you , my son" says padre.

" Fayther, I'm afraid I've been using the F word again today." Says Pat

" And why was that my son?"

" Well, Fayther, I'm a bit of a golf fanatic, and I played this morning,...." "ahh what a coincidence" says the priest, " I'm by way of being a bit of a golfer myself, what was the problem?"

"Well Fayther, I drove off on the first, straight into a fairway bunker."

" Ahh yes, my son, I can see you might let a swearword slip then."

" Oh no Fayther, I played a good shot out of the bunker, but it just trickled into the greenside bunker."

" Well, my son, that would test the angels language control, was that when you failed."

" Oh no Fayther, I splashed out beautifully to within two feet of the pin."
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"..And you missed the f******g putt!!!"

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General Discussion Area / Re: Blonde ?

« on: 06 August 2010, 23:31:38 »

Excellent, one for after the golf dinner!

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General Discussion Area / Re: urgent help reqd for Welung666 near Loch Lomond

« on: 04 August 2010, 20:03:31 »

Got a mate, engineer, who lives at Drum if you have any more trouble Lee.

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: urgent help reqd for Welung666 near Loch Lomond

« on: 04 August 2010, 17:57:26 »

Brilliant to read, and well done to all who helped.

My daughter, having upgraded to an i-Phone4, has given me her 'old' i-Phone 3 ( Funny how now I'm a certain age my kids pass their old tecno stuff 'down' to me), and it is great for emergencies like this, although I haven't cause like Lee did to use it.

Sorry about the topic drift Mods.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 2 ladies

« on: 01 August 2010, 17:37:23 »

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: TomTom

« on: 22 July 2010, 18:48:28 »

Old, long removed speed camera I beleive.

Happens too often, and also actual speed camera warnings on mine are purely aural. :-/ :-/ :-/

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General Discussion Area / TomTom

« on: 22 July 2010, 18:24:26 »

Can anyone tell me what the symbol is that I keep getting on my TomTom screen, top left corner. It appears to be a speed limit roundel, I think it is always 50, only seems to appear on motorways, and shows what seem to be a reducing distance in yards or meters underneath, until I pass - possibly a mileage marker - or in many cases nothing at all. The associated warning is as if it is a speed camera, but is clearly not. Nothing in the TomTom manual or the on-line help gives any information.

TIA

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General Discussion Area / Re: USERNAMES

« on: 06 July 2010, 18:26:36 »

Because a long time ago, far, far away, I was once an F/E on Shackleton A/C. 8-)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Average omega owners age?

« on: 06 July 2010, 18:13:24 »

theres a couple of omegas around my area, and i have noticed that the owners of these and others i've seen tend to be of the older WISER age group 

as im 26 i was just curious if there are any member's of a similar age out there?

i'm in my low to mid 40s 

I'd like to be!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dunkirk!

« on: 31 May 2010, 22:09:23 »

Thanks Phil, and Amen to that.

 Incidentally, for anyone in the area, the Royal Green Jackets Museum at Peninsula Barracks, Winchester have a special exhibition relating to the Battle of Hazebrouck on at present which closes on the 5th June. It is very well done, and Peninsula Barracks has other interesting military museums.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dunkirk!

« on: 31 May 2010, 19:26:19 »

Brilliant photos. Thanks for posting them. My father escaped at Dunkirk, with the 5th Btn Q.O.R.W.K. My father-in-law was in the Bucks Btn if the Ox & Bucks Lt Infantry, who fought as rearguards at the battle of Hazebrouck. They were a terrier btn., with very few heavy weapons, yet held out for two days against Panzer, air, and ground artillery. He was shot in both legs trying to escape at the end of the battle, lost one leg, and spent 3 yrs as a POW, repatriated in '43. A very brave man, and one of my heroes.

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General Discussion Area / Re: A fact that maybe only Lizzie Zoom will understand

« on: 29 May 2010, 17:12:58 »

In fact there is no proof that the chariots, or any carts, actually had a 'standard' gauge of any type, let alone 4' 8 1/2".   Indeed historians cannot prove exactly how that gauge came about, but certainly early tramways / railways were generally built on that base.  When the first locomotive powered railways were built (by the way the first known railway dates to 2,245 BC in ancient Babylon!) 4' 8 1/2" was used by Trevithick and then Stevenson to name just two.

However, Isambard Kingdom Brunel decided to construct the Great Western Railway lines, which were given Royal Assent on the last day of August 1835, using the 'Broad' gauge of 7' 0", although this was amended by him to 7' 0 1/4" to allow extra clearances on turnouts.  This is considered by many, including me, to be the best gauge, and if it had been nationally adopted would have allowed for faster, heavier, greater capacity, and far more stable trains.  However the Royal Gauges Commission of 1845 decided that because the majority of railways had by then  been built using the "standard gauge", and not least the lobbying by a certain Mr Stevenson carried more weight, it was ruled that all new railways would be built to 4' 8 1/2".

On Sunday the 22nd May 1892, the last of the broad gauge track was converted to standard gauge, ready for exclusively standard guage trains on Monday 23rd May, 1892.

This was the dump at Swindon after the end of broad gauge, with engines either awaiting dismantling or conversion to 4' 8 1/2".






A modern Gauge Measuring device:



 

 

Lizzie, you may be interested in this (little known?) fact from a former BR Director:- Interesting the high tech gauging machine shown - the recent Western Regional Civil Engineer of BR (up to 1994) still used Brunel's actual and personal gauging stick which was, when folded , standard gauge but when extended covered the broad gauge!


 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sexy Darth Picture...Beware if easily disturbed

« on: 25 March 2010, 18:01:46 »

Are those suspenders Charnos or Gossard?, Very fetching whatever.

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General Discussion Area / Re: british snipers world record

« on: 04 May 2010, 17:04:10 »

When you take into account the "windage" effect of even a couple of MPH over that distance thats some shooting.

Having been a member of one of our armed services rifle and pistol teams, though never having considered myself a brilliant shot, I really admire that guy's ability. I see it was 8.59 calibre rifle. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/L96SniperRifleAndL115a3LongRangeRifle.htm

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tragedy

« on: 28 April 2010, 22:15:25 »

I love it.