I think you should get a discount for using them

Quite. Pro-rata for the check out person's job.

Yes, pretty robust Dez. Ted's not a swimmer, but we go out in all weathers and he does have the occasional dip in the pond.

The only issue I found with it was the battery 'spring' weakened so it would randomly turn off. Easily remedied. This will be it's third winter so pretty good value for money.

Ted (longdog) wears one of these when it's dark.

It means I can keep an eye on him at a distance, without ruining my night vision and stumbling about half-blind.

Dogs only seeing B&W and not seeing you is not correct. They are red-green colour blind and therefore see a much brighter but less detailed world than we do. (See Dog Vision. Plonsky also states 'The canine, on the other hand, is well adapted as a nocturnal hunter of camouflaged prey.')

JensOn.

You did see the little astrix in there didnt you?

Asterix.

An asterisk, yesterday.

I don't even do paid overtime any more. I wasn't doing loads, but working a day two weekends in three as overtime plus the hectic nature of my job (and a few outside factors) resulted in what I can only describe as a minor nervous breakdown. Two months signed off, and questioning my own sanity at times, resulted in a self-imposed overtime ban. I don't miss the extra cash, as it was only being spent on 'toys' that it turned out didn't make me as happy as having my weekends free.

One of my bosses has 'pressured' me to return to the overtime rota, but I told him in no uncertain times I would not tolerate being bullied and he backed off.

Screw that for a game.

The steering wheel spike was first mentioned in a book by John Adams – 'Risk and Freedom' in 1985

He made reference to research by Evans at General Motors, specifically:

Evans, L. 1984: Driver behavior revealed in relations involving car
mass. Conference paper, General Motors Symposium on "Human
Behavior and Traffic Safety". To be published'in a book with the
same title, edited by L. Evans and R. Schwing (Plenum Press,
1985, in press).

(I know this because John was a hugely entertaining lecturer when I was at UCL 94 – 97)

quad bike forum that was particularly viscous.

Was it hosted on a slow server so that it ran like treacle?

Ahem….

Is XV 558 the actual one that was involved in the Falklands bombing, and the book of the same name?

No, because Rowland White's book is called 'Vulcan 607' 😉

XH558 is the airframe the RAF flew until, ooooh, I can't remember now…..

No, no bike. Don't want a long day out as Sarah is running on Sunday morning. I like the sound of that walk Garry, might go for that.

Cheers all.

Cheers for the replies.

Herbert once said he was more talented than Hill. LOL.

He probably was, if not then definitely his equal. Unfortunately he never got to exploit that talent to it's potential due to the massive injuries suffered in his F3000 crash at Brands Hatch.

Proper piece of kit isn't it?

Coincidentally off to Coningsby for a rare day of photography tomorrow.

Great dogs everyone!

Ted the longdog, yesterday.

Can't beat a bit of eau de trough

Thanks everyone.

Cheers mooman, it's an honest account I'm looking for. He seems a very 'complicated' man, who's obviously attracted a lot of rose-tinted coverage, sycophants and people plain exploiting him.

(Edit period has ended and I really want to go up and correct my first post. I know it's 'Mark Steel's lecture'…..)

Due to poor sentence construction, I shoukld point out that it's the gear box of the 'Halo' itself that is 3.5 tonnes. The payload it's capable of lifting is around 20 tonnes.

If you can track down the 'Helicopter' episode of Massive Machines you'll see Chris Barrie sat on the rotor hub, which gives a view of the scale of the machine.

Some nice pics there. I love the little owl.

There's only one real heavy lift helicopter

Nah, this is a heavy lift helicopter – Mil mi-26 'Halo':

Note what it's just deposited on the ground ;O)The gearbox / transmission alone weighs in at 3.5 tonnes.

A spate of graffiti in our town modified signs to point out that Reg is gay.

On the electricity sub-station thingy: 'Danger of Death' now reads 'Danger of Reg is gay'

On a bridge: The no stopping symbol above 'At any time' now reads 'Reg is gay at any time'

Oh, and the canal bridge, 'Smith is gay'. Could you narrow it down a bit please?

This thread takes me back a few years! I never saw them, but 'Freak Scene' was on the warm up mix before EVERY gig I went to in those days. Still a favourite of mine. The cover of 'Just Like Heaven' is a thing to behold.

We saw Teenage Fanclub at one of the Manchester University venues and friend of a friend Kevin waited for total silence to shout 'You're just Dinosaur Jr. in kilts!' loud enough for everyone in the small venue to hear. Cue embaressing exchange between him and the band…

basically theyd break into welsh whenever a student came into hearing range

If I had a quid for every time I heard this crock: 'I walked in to a shop and they immediately started talking in Welsh.' The odds are they were talking Welsh when you walked in, and how did they 'immediately' know you didn't speak Welsh?

Gives me the arsehole.

There are some great images in that collection. The water bomber over the houses is the stand out one for me. Aviation has been a fascination of mine since my pre-school years. I'm 40 next month.

Nothing in that league, but here's a few of mine.

Jaguars shortly before 6 Sqn disbanded.

Tucano.

Tornado.

Typhoons at Coningsby.

Typhoon.

Typhoon.

The Red Arrows at Great North Run last year.

Sorry, got a bit carried away!

Colnago – There are some dogs that Ted plays with in such a manner that it looks and sounds as if they are trying to kill eachother. When he cut his stopper pad very badly last year, he hardly noticed the thing was almost severed.

When he twisted his toe a bit, he walked every where on three legs for two days, with a face of pure woe on. When he has an injection he screams the surgery down. Whether it's the vet who knows this, and uses a very fine needle in the vain hope he won't feel it, or it's the vet who also knows this and uses the extra thick ones so it has less chance of snapping when Ted does his bucking bronco act. 😳

Probably wrong but Im guessing most human products were tested on animals initially.

Including Paracetomol and aspirin at some point, and they were found to be toxic to dogs. Like chocolate and raisins if they eat enough. Don't assume that any medicines for humans will be safe on canines.

Pretty much default behaviour for a gr'und!

My lurcher Ted is the same. He twisted his leg whilst running once, and twirled round and round screaming like a banshee, before collapsing in a whimpering heap in the grass. I was convinced he'd broken a leg and that I was going to have to carry 33Kg of pissed off dog two miles home. I manipulated his legs slowly to see which was hurt, got no reaction, offered him one of his training treats and he was up in a flash, and running around again. 🙄

Tweezers- see if you find the stinger if its still in.

Wasp stings are not barbed, so would not be left behind.

If the sting irritates Jim you can give him piriton. (standard disclaimer, etc)

Cool. Thanks.

Interesting. Would this be safe with an old fashioned 1950s fuseboard?
I'll be using a small compressor (150 Watt) some standard lighting and a PC.

I am not trying to be a smart arse

Didn't think that at all, I'm genuinely seeking advice. Might well be more trouble than a couple of sockets and a light fitting is worth.

Many thanks everyone.

Terrible – tip it down the sink.

*Stage directions indicate that I should roll my eyes at the troll.*

'**** Hell! It's Fred Titmus!' by Half Man Half Biscuit every single time.

Oh, Dracula comes from Transylvania
Stevie Nicks books about kleptomania
Johnny looked out of his bedroom window
and shouted to his mum:
'Fred Titmus'

Yes, I understood that bit. It's the bit where you ask an armed policeman if he realises the weapon he's carrying might be a bit dangerous I'm struggling with. Like I said, he'd probably never thought about it, and he was probably glad you pointed it out before anything went wrong.

Nah, you're right nickc. I imagine you know far better than the combined minds who draw up the strategy for the section of the police that carries a fire arm.

"started with me asking whether or not he was prepared for the carnage that using a weapon like that would have produced in a busy airport terminal"

Yeah, because they'd not have thought it through at all, and probably just 'spray' from the hip, having not restricted them to single shot only either. 🙄

Is that Dajve Bikinus?

The posts about greyhounds above are generally correct, although some of them love water. A lurcher would be a better idea, although it would depend on the cross, they have more stamina, but can be just as lazy when not out and about. More prone to liking the water, although their anatomy means they are often poor swimmers.

A case in point is Ted, loves water, hates to swim:

As Anagallis said, Lurcher Link is a great site for available dogs and advice, as is Greyhound Gap (who saved Ted)

Great pic there Samuri, reminds of this one of Ted. Two very different dogs (Ted is nearly 3 feet tall at his ears) but they look so similar.

The main focus of Lanesra’s post, whilst being very cute, does look as if she requested a Geek Pie.

I had this on one of my machines.

This from another site sorted it:

I get this sometimes. Go into your Firefox directory and find the ‘users’ or ‘profiles’ folder (the exact place depends on if you’re using XP or Vista). There will be a file with the name ‘Cookies.sqlite’ (I forget what the XP extension is). Rename it ‘cookies237y’ (or any jibberish after cookies) and restart Firefox. It’ll make a new, clean cookies file. You’ll have to reenter your username and passwords again, but they’ll stay in memory.