Totally on topic: Lego has done so much damage

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:41:46 +0000, Huge wrote:

Juggling flowers, apparently.

Or possibly artistic licence for "picking flowers".

Other designs are of course available.

http://farm2.static.flickr.COM/1039/1090985291_feb183e828.jpg

It does seem a little strange that they are all labeled in English
rather than in Kanji.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:41:46 +0000, Huge wrote:

On 2010-11-14, Max Demian wrote:
"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:55:22 +0000, Doctor D wrote:

it was just too cold at night when answering a call of nature!

The Japanese have developed a solution which would resolve this
problem --

http://www.wunderland.COM/WTS/Rash/w...japan/closeup/
slippers.htm

The boy's having a ****, but what's the girl doing?

Juggling flowers, apparently.

Powdering her face? Although I prefer your explanation!

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On 13/11/2010 14:18, Bill Wright wrote:

Adults find it annoying when children use expensive toys in way other
than depicted on the box, but often it's much more fun. I remember
running my train set from floor level up to sideboard level via a series
of piles of books, chairs, and so forth. Of course the line ended at the
top and the trains crashed down the 'ravine'. Father became annoyed when
we used a bucket of water to simulate a lake in the valley bottom. "Do
you really expect that engine to work when you've immersed it in dirty
water?" It did though, after a week in the airing cupboard.

Nowadays there'd be concerns about the carpet, but they weren't in
common use in those days.

Bill

One of my earliest childhood memories is pre-school, so I'm guessing
around 4. I'm at home, and Mum has gone out to the shops for 10 minutes
leaving me alone...

I have a red plastic train-track, which fits together like a jig-saw.
It includes a bridge, in 2 sections: an 'up' and a 'down'. In the
picture, these pieces both sit on the floor, and make a nice safe bridge.

Now, I want my railway to go 'up', and then proceed around a bit at the
eleveted level before going 'down' again. Hmm, the thing won't stay
up. The intermediate sections just fall to the ground.

Ah, there's an electric fire in the room. Perhaps I can 'weld' the
offending sections together. Indeed I can, with some limited success.
Welding is a tricky art. Especially when you are 4.

Mother dear returns.
"What's that smell?"

"Smell? What smell?"

"What's that black burned mess down the back of the electric fire?"

"Dunno..."

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Max Demian wrote:

I've always stripped wire with the blunt blade of a two-bladed penknife,
against my thumb.


I use a sharp penknife, as do many aerial installers. In my opinion this
is by far the quickest and most versatile method. I use one of the small
Swiss knives with two blades, and I sharpen it every second or third
working day.


Twenty years ago, the universal CATV cable prep tool for Gilbert F crimp
connectors was a Stanley knife, or similar.

It was vital to use a very sharp blade to do a good job. Only with a
really sharp blade was it possible to repeatedly remove the outer sheath
without nicking any of the screen or remove the centre dialectric both
cleanly and without touching the centre conductor (copper plated steel).

A new blade would last a fair time - provided, of course, that you never
used it for anything else!

These days, in one certain UK cable TV industry, failure to use the approved stripping tool is a hanging offence! This is
essentially because a lot of people can't do it properly with a knife, and it avoids botches - and, of course, there's the
question of elfin safe tea.

I once took a slice off my left forefinger tip with a Stanley knife.
I was stripping the inner conductor of that special co-ax they use for car aerials.
The braid and outer sheath is conventional but the inner conductor is very thin and spirals around a
plastic line and enclosed by a thin walled lose fitting PVC tube. I think the idea is to reduce the inner
to outer capacitance to a value that tuned the RF amp at the top of medium wave.
Remember aerial trimmers accessible from outside the case? What happened to those?

Anyway I digress

This tube dielectric is pretty tough when you first put pressure on it with the blade, but
once it got going it carried on taking a chunk out of my fingertip compleate with a section of nail!
Amaizingly it grew back in a few weeks.

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On 13/11/2010 17:18, Bill Wright wrote:
Max Demian wrote:
"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:18:38 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

Nowadays there'd be concerns about the carpet, but they weren't in
common use in those days.
With the greater prevalence of central heating and the now considerable
expense of carpets, and the time and trouble of using a vacuum cleaner,
more and more homes are tending towards wooden laminate flooring in the
living area.

Hard floors need to be swept and washed frequently. A decent pile
carpet will store a month or two's dirt before it needs to be vacced.

It's namby-pamby hygiene fears that we're all breathing in powdered
mite **** that makes people fit hard floors.

No, with us it was the fact that with frequent visits from incontinent
old people, babies, and dogs, we just wanted something that wouldn't
retain the smell. Mind you, it's a bugger of a job to lay it if you do
it careful. Laminate I mean. Being a bit obsessive I took the skirtings
off and that was a job in itself, putting them back on. Our walls seem
to be made of ****e.

Bill

Plus, watching a dog or cat attempting high-speed cornering on a
polished wood floor is an added bonus.

--
R

Well that should send shudders down a lot of spines I feel, if MR Turnipseed
(surely should be turniphead?) is real, I just wonder what the satirical press will make of multi million dollar trained
astronauts building lego models. is this the research use we were all promised they might ask?

No, he's real. Here's resume, I mean CV.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephan-...seed/5/863/314

This bit may be relivent:

Staff Sergeant
USAF
(Government Agency; USAF; Military industry)
May 1970 - May 1976 (6 years 1 month)
AFCS - Comm Nav predominantly on F-4 Phantom aircraft
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Graham.

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Ian Jackson wrote:

These days, in one certain UK cable TV industry, failure to use the
approved stripping tool is a hanging offence! This is essentially
because a lot of people can't do it properly with a knife, and it avoids
botches - and, of course, there's the question of elfin safe tea.

But H & S wouldn't approve of hanging as a disciplinary measure, would they?

Bill

Ron Lowe wrote:

Plus, watching a dog or cat attempting high-speed cornering on a
polished wood floor is an added bonus.

At first, Lola, staid and sensible spaniel, couldn't travel at all
across the laminate. We had to lay down paths of towels for her,
otherwise she would have been stranded. Bella, totally whacky spaniel,
just hurtled across it, not worrying about her inability to slow down or
steer until these things became essential.

Bill

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Saturday, November 13th, 2010 at 01:08:39h +0000, Bill Wright
explained:

It seems that some installers are leaving nuts and bolts finger tight.

Allegedly this syndrome affects railway track maintenance workers as well.

But maybe this is what you need for ensuring that bolts do not work lose
due to vibration,


I live in Potters Bar and we are very aware of that problem

"The Train now arriving on platforms 1, 2, 3, and 4 is the"....

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On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:41:46 +0000, Huge wrote:

On 2010-11-14, Max Demian wrote:
"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:55:22 +0000, Doctor D wrote:

it was just too cold at night when answering a call of nature!

The Japanese have developed a solution which would resolve this
problem --

http://www.wunderland.COM/WTS/Rash/w...japan/closeup/
slippers.htm

The boy's having a ****, but what's the girl doing?

Juggling flowers, apparently.

Trying to levitate pieces of cauliflower into an accurate model of the
solar system?