Mechanical aptitude test

Fuckin' pikeys. Prolly melted it down.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Ah, sorry, my memory is failing...

1/4 acre, tho' our house is on a half-plot, and the one next door
has a double plot. These were surveyed and laid out *LONG* before Oz
went metric (which was only in the 60s and 70s, for most things -- currency
was 14/2/1966, road signs in ~mid-70s; apparently real estate was the last to
change in 1987, sez Wiki).

I'd have thought Mick would have gone for rocket-grade titanium.

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Bizarrely, French (and possibly other Continental pipery) plumbing uses
BSP threading on joints. I haven't a clue why it came about - maybe the
Metric system didn't have a suitable thread available in the early days
of pipery, though one could easily have been made up. Perhaps it was due
to imported componentry and machines leading to a standardisation on
BSP, or maybe it was simply because the BSP was the best at the time for
the job.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I agree, more of a significant figure. Not as impressive as 268,800
furlongs per fortnight though.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Good enough for old Jules and he wasn't British.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I'm not envious of those who sat through that. I got bored after #6 and
pissed off shortly thereafter when I saw it was 52 long. Can't be arsed
with overlong stuff, got better things to do.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

"When you see a tall building do you have and urge to fly into it?"
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Nah, just ran it without oil.

 

Kwak beer comes in those boot glasses. Easier to drink it straight from
the bottle.

Phil

 

Kwak beer is served in mini-yard-of-ale jobbies with a wooden stand, thus:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kwak.jpg/494px-Kwak.jpg

It's Laura's current fave beer, post-Chimay.

 

Ah - the only place I've actually drunk it in a bar was in rural France
and they proudly unearthed the boot-glass thingies. I naturally assumed
that they knew what they were doing! It seems not. Mind you the four of
us did clear out their whole stock in one evening so I suspect they
didn't have much experience of it. And (unusually) I didn't have a
hangover at all the next day - just felt a bit wibbly.

I like it a lot too. Very very nice beer - nice and fruity. I have a
couple in the cupboard at home on reserve for when I want a break from
wine and fancy a beer.

Phil.

 

The explosive bolts that hold on the boosters on an Ariane 5 are 250,000
Euros each and they chuck 4 of them away each launch. If only I could
find out where the buggers land I could machine some taps up!

 

Stap me Vittles, 100% - but then, I'm a smartarse....
Which one's supposed to be wrong, and why?

--
Dave H.
(The engineer formerly known as Homeless)

"Rules are for the obedience of fools, and the guidance of wise men" -
Douglas Bader

 

Ah but she has monotreme genes and therefore a natural affinity for
anything beer-related.

And anyway according to said poisonous semi-mammal Kwak doesn't use the
boot glasses when served by those who know what they are doing (which
obviously excludes bars in villages in rural Normandy).

Phil.

 

Which doesn't entirely explain the bottle of Cuervo Gold in her handbag.

The conclusion must be that rural Normans are no great respecters of Belgian
beer.

 

Does it have alcohol in it? It it made from wheat and/or barley? Point
proven I think..

Well quite. And given that said village didn't have a restaurant either
(but did have a Frites van that called in once a day - and had just
left when we showed up) and the inhabitants looked a lot like they were
not too concerned about the cosanguinuity laws it wouldn't surprise me.

The rooms were in an external converted stable block and had elaborate
wrought-iron filligree all over them. I wonder now if that was used to
keep unsuspecting fresh meat^W^Wclients in..

Phil.

 

Yes, no. Blue agave.

I suppose the accordian is the French equivalent of the banjo in that sort
of mileiu?

 

you do know that when you pay extra for Gold tequila, you're simply
paying for the gold food colouring, don't you?

 

Ah. Well - she (presumably) gets half her genetic material from her
mother so maybe it's only the alcohol-attractant gene that carried over
from you and not the full set.

Dunno. I doubt whether the skill to play the accordian was within the
grasp of most of the villagers. Even though they may have had an
evolutionary digital advantage..

Phil.

 

I've just done a holiday in Mexico. They had every colour (and flavour)
Tequila at the place. After a while you don't notice what colour it is.
Tequila supplied free with breakfast, lunch and dinner. In fact free
Tequila 24 hours a day.