Friday, 1 January 2010
And the Winner is...........
One of the top Darwin awards for 2009.
Double Darwin!
(26 September 2009, Belgium) The city of Dinant is the backdrop for this rare Double Darwin Award. Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM machine died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion. The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in. Nobody else was in the building at the time of the attack.
Robber One was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma; he died shortly after arrival. Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getway, but the second bungler's body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later. Would-be Robbers One and Two weren't exactly impoverished--their getaway car was a BMW.
READER COMMENTS:
"Debit cards are safer."
"Dynamite: not for everything."
"They really blew it."
"Self Banking Gone Extreme"
Please read this quietly. And don't slam the door on your way out
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
The FE national debt is about to increase
Bad news.
My eldest daughter's Boyfriend has just asked for her hand in marriage!
Bearing in mind the other daughter's marriage cost me £27K. What am I going to be screwed out of this time?
I'm going out to busk with my tin whistle tonight.
44 years in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Episode 2, the Far East
Continuing on from Part One.
Now where was I? Oh yes........
After my first day, I quickly fell into the rhythm of further study in an engineering environment. Even though I was at a disadvantage by not having been to a technical school (They had those in my day), I thrived at all things technical.
Applied Mechanics: How the physical laws affect moving bodies. (and stationary ones)
Applied Heat: How we can use temperature to do lots of things.
Electrotechnology: How to generate big lumps of electricity
Engineering drawing: Real precision art
Chemistry: How things react. (Including the chemistry tutor)
But these subjects aside, the part I loved was the workshops. There I learnt to use every handtool, and better still the machines. Oh what joy. To start with a billet of steel and end up with an art form.
Must crack on, otherwise I'll be dead before I get to episode three.
After two years of the good life, I was appointed to my first ship. I was to report to RFA Retainer, in Singapore.
Now seeing as the average Brit in those days never went abroad, this was a daunting prospect.
The day came and I pitched up at the airport to board a chartered trooping flight. Very high tech in those days, the aircraft was a Vanguard turboprop. Very slow by our standards, but hey, what the heck. This was the great adventure.
How many of you have ever spent 27 hours on a plane? And that was just the time in the air. My bum really was numb by the end of the journey.
Finally the end was in sight as we started the descent into Singapore.................
End of Part 2
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
44 years in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Now some of you might think that is quite a long time to work for one company. As I will explain in a later post it became too much to continue and stay sane.
Imagine if you can, it is the Year of our Lord, Nineteen hundred and sixty five. Time 0900, 13th september, Venue, Poplar Technical college. (Anyone who started on that date also has my commiserations).
Here I was, a callow youth, about to depart on a career that I really knew nothing about. Except that ships and engines would be involved. I was an Engineer Cadet, decked out in my smart new blazer with the company badge on the breast pocket. Anyway that induction day passed in a turmoil of having the Syllabus explained, tour of the college, numerous form filling (Even then there was paperwork), buying stationary in the shop, and a myriad of other things that I can't remember (I did warn you that it was 44 years ago). I had arrived in the adult world.
Mind you the subjects I was going to have to learn sounded a touch disconcerting.
Applied mechanics: I thought they worked on cars
Applied heat: Mmm, I'm going to learn to use matches
Electrotechnology: Wiring up plugs?
Engineering drawing: Oh bother. Knew I should have paid more attention in art.
Chemistry: Why?
Anyway, that was day one.
Two years on.............................................
If you have Filthy Engineer HD+ installed on your blog, set it now to receive the rest of this Oscar winning series.
Acidification of the Sea
First we had Global Cooling
Then were all going to die of radiation from the hole in the Ozone layer.
Then we had Global Warming
Next came the general scare of Climate Change
Now I hear that the seas are all turning to Acid.
This becoming bloody ridiculous. It appears they don't really care what they try to scare us with, just so long as we're kept in a perpetual state of fear.
Acid Bollocks from the BEEB
Climategate. The Timeline
Very good post analysing those CRU leaked E mails, by John Costella on his website.
It here at his site, Assassinationscience.comWelcome to my analysis of Climategate, the climate science scandal that has already eclipsed Watergate in terms of its global political ramifications.
Climategate began on November 19, 2009, when it is believed that a whistle-blower leaked thousands of emails and documents central to a Freedom of Information request placed with the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. This institution had played a central role in the “climate change” debate: its scientists, together with their international colleagues, quite literally put the “warming” into Global Warming: they were responsible for analysing and collating the various measurements of temperature from around the globe and going back into the depths of time, that collectively underpinned the entire scientific argument that mankind’s liberation of “greenhouse” gases—such as carbon dioxide—was leading to a relentless, unprecedented, and ultimately catastrophic warming of the entire planet.
It's a long read but worth it.
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