Random thoughts

[Cowley]

I'm sure some of us have things we'd like to share but don't really want to start a whole thread on the subject. They might be experiences, or things we've seen or perhaps things we've learnt.
For instance last week I learnt that if I stand on the drivers side step of my van with muddy boots on, then reach over to put two bags of heavy shopping on the passenger seat, I will then slip, drop the shopping in the footwell, chin the armrest and slide out feet first onto the road while being laughed at by a group of teenage girls on the pavement opposite.
Has anyone else had anything happen or seen anything interesting that they'd like to post?

 

[D365]

It's interesting to read that a thread has been started in my name

Oh ouch! I take it only your pride was dented.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It's interesting to read that a thread has been started in my name

Come now, young sir, let us have none of this false modesty. Were you not awarded the Knights Cross of the "Iron Road", with oak leaves and cluster for your posting services on a certain very long running thread on this very website...

 

[backontrack]

Today I learned that D365 is not a Class 40.

 

[DaleCooper]

Today I learned that D365 is not a Class 40.

It's some weird website.

http://d365.org/

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Is it possible to go off topic on a random discussion thread like this one?

 

[Howardh]

Can you see fog?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Can you see fog?

Not at the moment. It's sunny here right now.

 

[DaleCooper]

Is it possible to go off topic on a random discussion thread like this one?

You just did.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

You just did.

*bows*

 

[AJM580]

If you walked 500 miles and then 500 more where would you end up?

 

[Dvorak]

It all depends. Quite possibly back where you started.

 

[DaleCooper]

If you walked 500 miles and then 500 more where would you end up?

Falling down at your door.

 

[EM2]

If you walked 500 miles and then 500 more where would you end up?

 

[D365]

Come now, young sir, let us have none of this false modesty. Were you not awarded the Knights Cross of the "Iron Road", with oak leaves and cluster for your posting services on a certain very long running thread on this very website...

I honestly can't say that I know which thread it is you are talking about

Today I learned that D365 is not a Class 40.

If I was, would that not have meant that I was scrapped in the 80s?


Today I learned: always check that there isn't a vegan protest standing opposite you before buying a burger or hot dog

 

[Cowley]

Had a chainsaw for seven years, It's getting worn out but worked ok, got given an identical chainsaw by a friend that never really started properly and would die through what sounded like fuel starvation, at this point things were looking good.
Swapped some bits around to make one good one out of the two (most of the good one being used with a few bits from the old one), it worked for precisely one week and then also stopped working so I put the old bits back on to the old machine but now that won't work either. After quite a few hours of tinkering I have got to a point further away (maybe even 500 miles and then 500 more) than I was when I started.
I'm not asking for advice, I just had to tell someone.
I'm now going to drink all the alcohol in the house.

 

[Cowley]

I honestly can't say that I know which thread it is you are talking about




If I was, would that not have meant that I was scrapped in the 80s?


Today I learned: always check that there isn't a vegan protest standing opposite you before buying a burger or hot dog

Pretty uncomfortable situation that, did you make a donation?

 

[Ash Bridge]

I honestly can't say that I know which thread it is you are talking about

I wonder if Paul may have been referring to a still current thread concerning the demise of the class 373 sets and a certain (knowledgeable?) forum member who resides in the Royal County of Berkshire?

 

[DaleCooper]

Had a chainsaw for seven years, It's getting worn out but worked ok, got given an identical chainsaw by a friend that never really started properly and would die through what sounded like fuel starvation, at this point things were looking good.
Swapped some bits around to make one good one out of the two (most of the good one being used with a few bits from the old one), it worked for precisely one week and then also stopped working so I put the old bits back on to the old machine but now that won't work either. After quite a few hours of tinkering I have got to a point further away (maybe even 500 miles and then 500 more) than I was when I started.
I'm not asking for advice, I just had to tell someone.
I'm now going to drink all the alcohol in the house.

That's God's way of telling you it's time to stop dismembering the bodies of your victims.

 

[Howardh]

If you walked 500 miles and then 500 more where would you end up?

Back where you started??

 

[Cowley]

Lighters are like pens. You lose all the good ones and are just left with the poxy ones that don't work properly.

 

[martinsh]

If you walked 500 miles and then 500 more where would you end up?

Well according to the map, it looks like the answer is Ventspils !

 

[12CSVT]

Does the flap of a butterfly wing on Brazil set of a chain reaction of events that lead to you walking 500 miles, your chainsaw packing up, or you losing your best lighters ?

 

[Cowley]

Does the flap of a butterfly wing on Brazil set of a chain reaction of events that lead to you walking 500 miles, your chainsaw packing up, or you losing your best lighters ?

I hadn't thought of it like that, stupid butterflies, staying over there, flapping about and messing up everyone's stuff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Just the type of thought that usually comes to me in the very early hour of 0445 is that if I were to set out in westerly direction from home in Cheshire East for 500 miles, I would need the ability to walk across the Irish Sea then after crossing the land mass of Ireland then to continue walking on the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Does anyone know the depth of water underneath me at the end of this 500 mile journey?

 

[DaleCooper]

Does the flap of a butterfly wing on Brazil set of a chain reaction of events that lead to you walking 500 miles, your chainsaw packing up, or you losing your best lighters ?

In a deterministic but chaotic system it is not possible to predict the effect of the butterfly without knowing the initial conditions with infinite precision. One possible result could be that someone carrying a broken chainsaw walks to Norway taking your Zippo with them.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Not weird at all. Rather very helpful and.... *raises eyebrow, Spock-like* interesting

 

[DaleCooper]

Whenever I pick up a screwdriver or similar tool (not a chisel) I always have the urge to toss it in the air so it does a somersault before I (hopefully) catch it. Is it just me or does anyone else do that?

 

[Cowley]

Whenever I pick up a screwdriver or similar tool (not a chisel) I always have the urge to toss it in the air so it does a somersault before I (hopefully) catch it. Is it just me or does anyone else do that?

Yes. You have to do that. Also, if I pick up a ratchet with a socket on it I like to hold the socket and spin the ratchet around like one of those old football rattles.

I bought some new screwdriver bits the other day and today I bought a big box of all different sized screws in their own compartments, now I'm just looking around for things to er, screw.

 

[DaleCooper]

I bought a big box of all different sized screws in their own compartments

So now you have fifty of every size - except the size you need.