Count Steer wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:24 am
Jars of food stuff that you might use a spoon or two once a month that say 'After opening, use within 4 weeks'.
"Rules are for the guidance of wise men, and the blind obedience of fools"...
And the problem with that is everybody thinks the "fools" part refers to other people.
Count Steer wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:24 am
Jars of food stuff that you might use a spoon or two once a month that say 'After opening, use within 4 weeks'.
"Rules are for the guidance of wise men, and the blind obedience of fools"...
And the problem with that is everybody thinks the "fools" part refers to other people.
I wouldn't go that far, but clearly it doesn't refer to me.
I mean they are handy as the difference in volume between someone whispering and the music or explosion the next second is far too big.
I understand when the subtitles include background music lyrics, If it's relevant.
But why on earth they feel the need to subtitle the half sentences that people in the background are saying, when they have zero relevance to the story?
Jody wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 12:56 pm
Netflix Subtitles.
I mean they are handy as the difference in volume between someone whispering and the music or explosion the next second is far too big.
I understand when the subtitles include background music lyrics, If it's relevant.
But why on earth they feel the need to subtitle the half sentences that people in the background are saying, when they have zero relevance to the story?
Check your sound settings. A while back I read that a lot of Netflix stuff is set up for 5.1 surround sound systems or suchlike and changing it to suit your TV may help with the mumbling etc? I've never checked so it could be wrong though?
Just driven to and back from Richmond. On the way up decided to avoid A3/M25 J10 pandemonium and went 'route 1'...the last 10 miles through Kingston etc were ALL 20mph limits. It's like ODing on Mogadon.
Count Steer wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:55 pm
Just driven to and back from Richmond. On the way up decided to avoid A3/M25 J10 pandemonium and went 'route 1'...the last 10 miles through Kingston etc were ALL 20mph limits. It's like ODing on Mogadon.
I've just spent a couple of weeks in Canada. Most towns have a 30kph(18mph) limit. Sometimes it's 50kph(30mph). Out of town is 60/70/80kph, and dual carriageways are mostly 100kph(62mph). On very rare occasions I saw 110 and 120kph. People seemed to mostly stick to the limits +10kph.
I'm going to stop complaining about UK speed limits, at least until the next time I'm in Wales
Further to the post I made last week about nonners doing audits.
I work for a purely cargo airline, and twice a week we have flight moving the mail. And since the posties chartered the aircraft it belongs to them. At least that's how they believe things work.
Since the postal service doesn't employ any aircraft maintenance people or pilots ( or even rampies) they sent an office dweller that didn't even have an airside pass.
On Friday I had to sit in on a zoom call where all the VP's wanted to ask the maintenance department and the rampies what happened.
Apparently she had a large number of findings like vehicles driving under the aircraft (I was servicing the oil in the apu)
Wrinkles in the skin aft of the wing (its a 757 they do that)
A large leak coming from both engines. ( the frost was melting off of the bottom of the wing during fuelling)
The loader and belt loaders were positioned closer than 4 feet from the aircraft (how the fuck are you supposed to unload anything if the fucking equipment is 4 feet away from the door?)
She wrote up the rampies for having a ladder next to the ground power cord. ( the plug is 7 feet off the ground)
And the cherry on the icing of this idiotic cake was.
She wrote up several people for approaching the engine while it was "running" ( there was a breeze and the fan was windmilling)
After the executives got off the zoom call, the maintenance department had our own little conference. There was plenty of laughing at the auditors expense.
As I said, my job is really entertaining some days.
Count Steer wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:55 pm
Just driven to and back from Richmond. On the way up decided to avoid A3/M25 J10 pandemonium and went 'route 1'...the last 10 miles through Kingston etc were ALL 20mph limits. It's like ODing on Mogadon.
I've just spent a couple of weeks in Canada. Most towns havet least until the next time I'm in Wales
Virtually all villages in Romania have 30 kph limits. No one takes any notice and there are no speed cameras.
Count Steer wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:55 pm
Just driven to and back from Richmond. On the way up decided to avoid A3/M25 J10 pandemonium and went 'route 1'...the last 10 miles through Kingston etc were ALL 20mph limits. It's like ODing on Mogadon.
I've just spent a couple of weeks in Canada. Most towns have a 30kph(18mph) limit. Sometimes it's 50kph(30mph). Out of town is 60/70/80kph, and dual carriageways are mostly 100kph(62mph). On very rare occasions I saw 110 and 120kph. People seemed to mostly stick to the limits +10kph.
I'm going to stop complaining about UK speed limits, at least until the next time I'm in Wales
Residential here is 25mph (& school zones when kids are about). Surface streets here in town are 45, 50, 55 & 60 mph.. which is a fucker when ya go down the hill into LA where the surface streets are 35mph... Got me a 51 in a 35 performance award many years ago from the LAPD.. & a 61 in a 45 from the LASD here in town, followed by a 81 in a 65 on the freeway from the CHP.. all within a fucking month
Came up with a cunning ruse & had all three dismissed
Count Steer wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 5:55 pm
Just driven to and back from Richmond. On the way up decided to avoid A3/M25 J10 pandemonium and went 'route 1'...the last 10 miles through Kingston etc were ALL 20mph limits. It's like ODing on Mogadon.
I've just spent a couple of weeks in Canada. Most towns havet least until the next time I'm in Wales
Virtually all villages in Romania have 30 kph limits. No one takes any notice and there are no speed cameras.
Denmark is 30kph in towns too, nearly everyone obeys them. That's just what Scandinavians are like.*
Anyway, why am I worrying about a forecast for a week away? They can't even get the weekend's right. I'll look for a website that shows a better forecast and trust that one.
Coffee machines
I descale them 3 times a year, use filtered water, treat them as a revered member of the family.
And yet in 8 years we've gone through 3 machines/2 elements.
We're back on the stove top, which tbf makes a very good brew, but does lack the switch on and forget about it aspect.
