Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I slept well again last night, six hours  with only one trip to the bathroom at four AM. Strangely it has often been within ten minutes of that time that I wake up needing to go. Not too many aches and pains this morning so no pills have been taken. A lot to do today so I'd better get on with it.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

I have a terrible short term memory. It's not as bad as it used to be when I first got ill. Then I'd have to write things down so had a little note book. I've managed to train myself since then, but there are days when I'm lucky if I remember what day it is.

 

After the events of 13 14 years ago A Certain Bear is the same; much use of the Laptop Calendar reminder feature is made....

 

36 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

However, the star of last night's viewing was Chunk the groundhog and his family.

 

 

 

One of Chunk's buddies would make a fine addition to the back garden of Bear Towers.....

 

In other news....

Curtains hung, after first applying a bit splurge to various minor cosmetic cracks in the decor in the small bedroom.  That's a Tick.

 

BG

[iL Dottore]

Am I being unkind and jumping to conclusions? 
 

I've just boarded my flight to LCY and ahead of  me is, what I can only conclude, is a shoshul meeja "influencer" The evidence?

 

> fake tan

> fake nails
> fake boobs (trust me on this: a plastic surgeon chum of mine told me how to recognise a fake pair at "normal viewing distances")

> too tight "designer" jeans and crop top

> fake YSL carry on luggage

> loadsa gold(ish) bangles and chains 

> vacuous "look at me, I'm an "influencer" expression

 

Mind you, I could be wrong (but I doubt it).

 

Ciao for Now

 

iD

[Hroth]

17 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

a plastic surgeon chum of mine told me how to recognise a fake pair at "normal viewing distances"

 

Like "a couple of beachballs" stuffed in their top?

 

The other wheeze is to accidentally trip them up and see if they bounce back to their feet...

 

[PupCam]

Morning All

 

17 hours ago, Barry O said:

so  het indoors was sent an email from Jimmys (St James Hospital Leeds)  asking for feedback on her treatment...

 

STUPID CONSULTANTS...  after firing 2 HESH (High Explosive, Squash Head) rounds she has been guaranteed someone will contact her in the next 2 days.. If its not the insultants secretary booking an appointment they better be prepared to take a CHARM3 (DU round) somewhere personal! 

 

She cannot get comfortable and is now even larger (10+ months pregnant size) than last week....

 

Apparently the strike isn't about more pay .. the insultants want to se the NHS to be "safer" in other words they want to screw it over even more than they do now.....

 

Two faced or what?

 

 

Ranging Baz

 

Absolutely disgusting!         What is it with these people?

 

I maybe telling Granny to Suck eggs but worth a  reminder even if I am .......     

 

Make sure you keep a written record of all of your "transactions" with the health service.   You WILL NOT remember all of the twists and turns, incompetent cxckwombles, stupid crass suggestions from the not knowing and you never know when an accurate re-telling of events might be important.    My "Doctor Diary"  (10pt Word document) currently runs to something like 34 sides of A4 for my own sorry saga which is a mere nothing compared to yours.

 

11 hours ago, AndyID said:

Baz, that all seems unbelievably disgusting.

 

I strongly (and that's putting it mildly) suggest you immediately try to find an independent consultant in the UK or in any country that your wife might still be able to fly to. Max out the credit cards if that's what it takes. Now is not the time to worry about anything other than getting her the best possible diagnosis and treatment just as soon as possible.

 

I am a cancer survivor. I had an abnormal growth 40 years ago and had it not been for early detection and diagnosis it's unlikely I'd be posting this message today.

 

Andy

 

Agreed!

 

11 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Yes I spotted that as well. What was also interesting was the way everyone was dressed. Females in good/pricey dresses and blokes with ties and everything. There was also a bit of a slip up when they were counting down to the launch of the skyflash - I think? and one of the chaps responded with 'yes we're alright here Sheila' when the others had all said it more formally.

 

10 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

I was under the impression that since Skyflash was developed from the Sparrow  all the initial testing was at China Lake. The film also appeared a bit early for Skyflash as I was involved in some of the early firings at Aberporth and that wasn’t until the ‘80s.

 

3 hours ago, Barry O said:

Ey up!

 

Thanks forvyour support and suggestions regarding her indoors. Other routes to treatment are being investigated.. its just a case of getting past the "closed" shop prevalent in the medical profession.

 

@Dave Hunt yep that's what I thought too, it does say Skylark on the film.

tTreforest I started the development of a missile would involve it receiving a name with a colour prefix. So there was Red Duster ( which I think, became Bloodhound)..

 

There must be a list of such development names.. 

 

The film took me back to my days at St Evenage preparing for live testing of actuationsystems using mechanite 14 propellant.  Scary but very interesting to a junior engineer.

 

Today we await the promised communication from god the insultants...

 

Time to have my tea.

 

TTFN

 

Baz

 

 

Yes the missile in the video is a Fairey Fireflash (always reminds me of the Thunderbirds "Fireflash lift port wing" episode although that was of course an aircraft).

 

As Dave suggests, Skyflash was a UK development of the US Sparrow missile with a new semi-active homing head amongst other things and by all accounts a pretty good thing it was too for the time.      A later active version was proposed and was under development but eventually, like so many projects, was cancelled and never came to fruition.   As Bear suggested on TNM don't believe all you read on the internet ......

 

9 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Look at all the model building I've done since Monday night! . (If you ignore the weeks of CAD that it took to draw them up.....)

 

 

 

I'm all for  model-building  that you can do while you are away at work or asleep. Just press a button and a model rises from the  goo.

 

"Print me some more, modelling slave!"

 

 

And this is a 3D printers party piece. I got it free off the internet, and it is printed  in one piece as shown here.. After curing it was just a case of gently easing the motion back and forth until the parts freed up  and it became a fully operational V8 block, there's even  a Phillips head slot in the flywheel so you can attach an electric screwdriver to it and really let it rip.  5 stars!

  

 

 

 

 

Excellent stuff!      I have to say I think 3D printing is an excellent addition to the modelling toolbox.  I don't subscribe to the "if it's not whittled from a bit of 200 year old oak or sheet brass using traditional tools carved from rhino horn it's not PROPER modelling".    No, horses for courses, use the best, most suitable, convenient tools and materials available at the time.     I remember when etched brass kits first came out and some manufacturers used many laminations of 10 thou etched brass  to build up chunky 3D shapes - absolutely ridiculous and futile.

 

In Other News

 

Not a lot other than cheap telescopes continue to frustrate ....

 

TTFNQ

[Dave Hunt]

27 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Excellent stuff!      I have to say I think 3D printing is an excellent addition to the modelling toolbox.  I don't subscribe to the "if it's not whittled from a bit of 200 year old oak or sheet brass using traditional tools carved from rhino horn it's not PROPER modelling".    No, horses for courses, use the best, most suitable, convenient tools and materials available at the time.     I remember when etched brass kits first came out and some manufacturers used many laminations of 10 thou etched brass  to build up chunky 3D shapes - absolutely ridiculous and futile.

 

As a dyed in the wool scratch builder I should probably be in the oak and brass corner but in fact I have to agree that 3D printing is an excellent tool for some applications and that the skill sets required to produce good prints are as worthy of recognition as being modelling as are some of those demonstrated by my ilk. In my own layout there are now some instances of laser cut and 3D printed items that, although I could have made them by traditional means would have taken an inordinate amount of time for relatively little reward, time that I can more profitably use for my preferred modelling of locomotives and rolling stock. Having said that, though, after seeing some of Marc D's offerings of 3D printed wagons I could well be tempted by them should any of them be on my wish list.

 

Dave

[polybear]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Am I being unkind and jumping to conclusions? 
 

I've just boarded my flight to LCY and ahead of  me is, what I can only conclude, is a shoshul meeja "influencer" The evidence?

 

> fake tan

> fake nails
> fake boobs (trust me on this: a plastic surgeon chum of mine told me how to recognise a fake pair at "normal viewing distances")

> too tight "designer" jeans and crop top

> fake YSL carry on luggage

> loadsa gold(ish) bangles and chains 

> vacuous "look at me, I'm an "influencer" expression

 

Mind you, I could be wrong (but I doubt it).

 

 

Wrong?  Very possibly.

I feel that a photo is in order so that the wisdom(?) of fellow ER'ers can be sought......

[Hroth]

4 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Wrong?  Very possibly.

I feel that a photo is in order so that the wisdom(?) of fellow ER'ers can be sought......

 

I don't think so, the poor thing sounds like a typical "Love Island" participant...

 

[Tony_S]

7 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Wrong?  Very possibly.

I feel that a photo is in order so that the wisdom(?) of fellow ER'ers can be sought......

We should be searching our social media apps to look for someone posting “you cannot believe who is sitting behind me!” 

[Dave Hunt]

15 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

I don't think so, the poor thing sounds like a typical "Love Island" participant...

 

I’ve never watched Love Island so I will defer to your expert knowledge🥴

 

Dave

[Erichill16]

24 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Wrong?  Very possibly.

I feel that a photo is in order so that the wisdom(?) of fellow ER'ers can be sought......

No, that will just encourage the’ look at me’ behavior. 

[Hroth]

4 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

I’ve never watched Love Island so I will defer to your expert knowledge🥴

 

Dave

 

You mean you've never had the incessant trailers exposed to your unprotected eyeballs when a new series is to be broadcast?  Personally, I can't imagine why anyone would want to see a sad bunch of narcissists pratting about...

 

[jjb1970]

The place for true connoisseurs of surgically enhanced ladies is the Republic of Korea, women there seem obsessed by achieving the perfect look and plastic surgeons must be beating clients off with sharp pointy sticks, but I have to say they're very good at it and they avoid the Essex chique  and mutton dressed as lamb looks of many...ahem...enhanced ladies.

[Winslow Boy]

6 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

No, that will just encourage the’ look at me’ behavior. 

 

I don't think our Swiss correspondent would object too strongly especially if we said we'd only put it on this website and that it would only be his good side.

[jjb1970]

1 minute ago, Hroth said:

 

You mean you've never had the incessant trailers exposed to your unprotected eyeballs when a new series is to be broadcast?  Personally, I can't imagine why anyone would want to see a sad bunch of narcissists pratting about...

 

 

No, I don't watch Parliamentary debates either🤣

[Dave Hunt]

2 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Personally, I can't imagine why anyone would want to see a sad bunch of narcissists pratting about...

 

That’s why I never watch the Parliament channel.

 

Dave

 

PS  I see that jjb1970 beat me to it.

Edited September 7, 2023 by Dave Hunt
Adding PS

[TheQ]

There's a MP button on my TV remote control, only it's misspelt, they spell it ..

 

 

 

 

Mute

[jjb1970]

Today's treat was two pairs of F-15 Strike Eagles go over the cruise terminal and Marina Bay low and fast, making an awful lot of noise. F-15's are a common sight over the bay but normally they're on approach to Paya Lebar and so quite slow and restrained. It's much less common for them to give it the beans over the central area, splendid!

[iL Dottore]

55 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Wrong?  Very possibly....

Wrong? I am never wrong; although I do admit that sometimes I come to erroneous conclusions based on incomplete data.

As for your photographic request, I can neither provide nor would I provide any photos: I can't provide any - because I didn't take any; and I wouldn't provide any, because these ghastly creatures tend to adore this sort of  free publicity.

[iL Dottore]

55 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

We should be searching our social media apps to look for someone posting “you cannot believe who is sitting in front of  me!” 

Thete, corrected that for you!🤣
 

Actually, Tony, she was sitting behind me. I was travelling in business class (part of my trip is work-related - so I was up at the pointy end) whilst she was in economy.

 

These "influencers" may fool people with their fake this and knock off that, but a fake business class ticket doesn't cut the mustard!

[iL Dottore]

36 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

The place for true connoisseurs of surgically enhanced ladies is the Republic of Korea, women there seem obsessed by achieving the perfect look and plastic surgeons must be beating clients off with sharp pointy sticks, but I have to say they're very good at it and they avoid the Essex chique  and mutton dressed as lamb looks of many...ahem...enhanced ladies.

Although the popular image of a plastic surgeon is that a tall, tanned, individual with a handsome rugged lived in face, immaculately coiffured hair and perfect Hollywood teeth who spends his entire working day enhancing acres of tanned female flesh by tummy tucking, breast enhancing and buttock lifting all who can afford his astronomical fees, the reality is something quite different.

 

My plastic surgeon chum (who unfortunately I haven't seen for quite a long time) told me that he spent 90%+  of his time doing reconstructive surgeries:from repairing cleft palates to post mastectomy reconstruction (not to mention all the work he did with burn patients).
 

Short and stocky with uncontrollable curly hair, he also had (for a surgeon) quite the sense of humour. Once, back when $20,000 was really a lot of money, I asked him what, if I gave him $20,000 , could he do for me in terms of enhancement He lLooked at me very slowly ,professionally evaluating the situation , sadly shook his head and said "absolutely nothing"

[Hroth]

17 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Thete, corrected that for you!🤣
 

Actually, Tony, she was sitting behind me. I was travelling in business class (part of my trip is work-related - so I was up at the pointy end) whilst she was in economy.

 

These "influencers" may fool people with their fake this and knock off that, but a fake business class ticket doesn't cut the mustard!

 

If she was behind you, then you were definitely at the "pointy end".

As it were...

 

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl,

Sideshow Bob didn't get his hair cut, just before him were a couple of branch's that needed removing, then I went to the site of the new burn pile.. and the tree remains that needed burning were surrounded by a huge amount of ivy. So three hours were spent cutting that down and piling it up round the tree.

 

I got a bit enthusiastic at that point and carried on cutting   eventually clearing a path through a piece of jungle I have never ventured into in the 24 years of owning this place. Lots more to do in that area which will be greatly helped by having that bone fire.

 

Mr Reynard has been around , two piles of pidgeon feathers today and the baby bunnies were definitely hiding..

 

Much thought has been going on into two different 009 railways I'm intending to build. Then research revealed the two had much in common despite being in different countries. So while being able to be separately

 Shown. I'm now working on them being able to be joined together as well.

[BSW01]

When I went to the car to take Sheila to her zumba class, it and every other car on the street was covered in the Sahara rain, pah. 

[BSW01]

The tarmacking was done just before dinner. All that's left now is for someone to come along and remove the barriers and hole cover plate.