They should put pics of David Cameron actually inside the urinals. There wouldn't be so much spillage then.
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:28 am
by Fuzzy
FourPart;1490459 wrote: They should put pics of David Cameron actually inside the urinals. There wouldn't be so much spillage then.
Then what? A whole lot of toilet cleaners would lose their jobs.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:41 am
by G#Gill
Once upon a time we decided to change our server from EE to Virgin Media. Just the Broadband and landline. I was so fed up with the very slow EE speed that I was having to endure, and it was actually getting worse. It was 0.2 mbs on EE, which amazed a friend of my son's. Virgin is for us at 20 mbs now, and of course is far superior and I'm not tearing my hair out and threatening to sling the laptop out of the window !
Right then, everything was organised and we had the engineer out to our house to connect us up to the virgin underground cabling (fibre optic, which had been installed as far as our house wall, many years ago when it was Diamond Cable ). That was on 21 October. We also arranged to retain our existing landline number. When the installation had been done and the engineer presented me with the paper with all the relevant details on it, I noticed that our landline number had the two last digits changed round ! Obviously the fella on the other end of the phone taking the details down had written the number incorrectly. I shall always ask for a repeat of any numbers I give over the phone from now on ! :rolleyes:
When one is told that it is so simple to keep your own landline number if you change your supplier, don't believe them ! :-5
I was never told to inform EE 2 weeks before the transfer date so EE could sort things their end, so that caused problems. :-5 We had to keep this jumbled phone number till EE could organise disconnecting our phone so that our number was then available for Virgin to transfer to us on their line, and remove that jumbled number (which incidentally still belonged to somebody else ! We got quite a few phone calls asking for people we did not know !). When I told Virgin what was happening, they checked the number and admitted that I was correct - it was assigned to somebody else !!! Oh dear.
Anyway, after about 7 weeks of phone calls to and fro and transfer dates given and passed by etc. etc. etc. we had our actual transfer on the 15 December, and it is such a relief to not have to contact everybody in my personal address/phone number book !
We have not gone to Virgin for the TV at the moment, and I'm seriously wondering whether I should bother, having had an iffy experience with Virgin over the Broadband and the landline. Besides, we don't actually watch very much TV, so it could be rather a waste of money really.
Here endeth the saga of Gill's change of broadband server. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:49 am
by G#Gill
An Englishman, a Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman were having a chat in a pub. The Englishman said that as his son had been born on St. George's day he called him George. The Scotsman raised his eyebrows and said “That's a coincidence, my son was born on St. Andrew's day so we called him Andrew. The Welshman spluttered into his beer and said “How amazing ! My son was born on St. David's day and we decided to call him David ! The Irishman looked startled and said “That is totally unbelievable, just wait till I tell all this to my son, Pancake !
:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:25 am
by ZAP
G#Gill;1490515 wrote: An Englishman, a Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman were having a chat in a pub. The Englishman said that as his son had been born on St. George's day he called him George. The Scotsman raised his eyebrows and said “That's a coincidence, my son was born on St. Andrew's day so we called him Andrew. The Welshman spluttered into his beer and said “How amazing ! My son was born on St. David's day and we decided to call him David ! The Irishman looked startled and said “That is totally unbelievable, just wait till I tell all this to my son, Pancake !
G#Gill;1490509 wrote: We have not gone to Virgin for the TV at the moment, and I'm seriously wondering whether I should bother, having had an iffy experience with Virgin over the Broadband and the landline. Besides, we don't actually watch very much TV, so it could be rather a waste of money really.
I moved home in 2014 and was told by Virgin that I had to have a new contract, no idea why,but when they came to fit the stuff they brought the Tivo box for the TV which I said I hadn't ordered and didn't want, the fitter insisted it was free as I had telephone and broadband package, the same as I had previously.
I wouldn't be without that box now.
You can record up to 3 different shows at the same time, you can get an app that you can record while you are out.Pause during live TV, handy for tea or comfort breaks.
So for no extra cost (allegedly) I am well happy.
As a tip for solving problems with Virgin, it has worked for me a couple of times, join their forum and whinge about it on there. They pretend its secret when they contact you by PM, and try their best to sort it out quietly. They have sorted out problems with a mobile and the TV remote after a humorous post on the forum enquiring what could anyone do with Virgins deplorable phone line option system.
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:03 am
by Fuzzy
G#Gill;1490515 wrote: An Englishman, a Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman were having a chat in a pub. The Englishman said that as his son had been born on St. George's day he called him George. The Scotsman raised his eyebrows and said “That's a coincidence, my son was born on St. Andrew's day so we called him Andrew. The Welshman spluttered into his beer and said “How amazing ! My son was born on St. David's day and we decided to call him David ! The Irishman looked startled and said “That is totally unbelievable, just wait till I tell all this to my son, Pancake !
:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
An English woman, a German woman and a French woman walk into a bar. Forget it, you've probably heard that one before. :-p
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 8:19 am
by ZAP
Fuzzy;1490565 wrote: An English woman, a German woman and a French woman walk into a bar. Forget it, you've probably heard that one before. :-p
I haven't heard it or if I did I've forgotten. Were these women senile? :wah:
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:48 pm
by G#Gill
I have aged a year in the last 3/4 hour !!! giggle giggle.
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:52 pm
by ZAP
G#Gill;1490583 wrote: I have aged a year in the last 3/4 hour !!! giggle giggle.
Happy Birthday, dear Gilly! :-4
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:40 pm
by Fuzzy
ZAP;1490571 wrote: I haven't heard it or if I did I've forgotten. Were these women senile? :wah:
No, but you would have thought that at least one of them could have seen the bar.
Thank you very much Zap ! :guitarist It seems that the days are now gone when there would be quite a decent length thread put up for individual birthday greetings from members of a forum. Always made a nice thread didn't it ? Don't worry I'm only making an observation of how times change. I suppose it's a natural development where people leave a forum and other new ones join !
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:29 am
by ZAP
Fuzzy;1490588 wrote: No, but you would have thought that at least one of them could have seen the bar.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Thank you for elucidating that for me. I see it clearly now. :yh_giggle :wah:
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:16 pm
by Fuzzy
ZAP;1490600 wrote: hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Thank you for elucidating that for me. I see it clearly now. :yh_giggle :wah:
The man was just as bad. He also walked into a bar, then a table and a wall.
Happy 29th birthday, Gill.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:34 pm
by G#Gill
:yh_kissFuzzy;1490615 wrote: The man was just as bad. He also walked into a bar, then a table and a wall.
Happy 29th birthday, Gill.
Thank you me lickle wallaby.....................................................the cheque's in the post :yh_kiss :yh_wink :yh_giggle
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:02 pm
by FourPart
White horse walks into a bar.
Barman says, "We've got a whiskey named after you".
Horse says, "What? Andrew?"
Englishman, Irishman & a Scotsman walk into a bar.
Barman says, "What is this? Some kind of a joke?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:19 pm
by G#Gill
:wah::wah: They're old 'uns FourPart, but still bring a smile and a groan :wah:
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:00 pm
by FourPart
Well, it is time for the Christmas Crackers.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:32 pm
by Fuzzy
FourPart;1490627 wrote: Well, it is time for the Christmas Crackers.
And then the horse that walked into a bar and the barman said:'Why the long face?" )
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:05 pm
by G#Gill
Whilst we're in a jocular mood .................................
Actual call centre conversation
There's always one. This has got to be one of the funniest things in a long time. I think this guy should have been promoted, not fired. This is a true story from the Word Perfect Helpline, which was transcribed from a recording monitoring the customer care department. Needless to say the Help Desk employee was fired; however, he/she is currently suing the Word Perfect organization for "Termination without Cause". Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee. (Now I know why they record these conversations!):
Operator: "Ridge Hall, computer assistance; may I help you?"
Caller: "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."
Operator: "What sort of trouble??"
Caller: "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."
Operator: "Went away?"
Caller: "They disappeared."
Operator: "Hmm So what does your screen look like now?"
Caller: "Nothing."
Operator: "Nothing??"
Caller: "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."
Operator: "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out??"
Caller: "How do I tell?"
Operator: "Can you see the C: prompt on the screen??"
Caller: "What's a sea-prompt?"
Operator: "Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?"
Caller: "There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."
Operator: "Does your monitor have a power indicator??"
Caller: "What's a monitor?"
Operator: "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV.
Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on??"
Caller: "I don't know."
Operator: "Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that??"
Caller: "Yes, I think so."
Operator: "Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall.
Caller: "Yes, it is."
Operator: "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one??"
Caller: "No."
Operator: "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."
Caller: "Okay, here it is."
Operator: "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."
Caller: "I can't reach."
Operator: "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is??"
Caller: "No."
Operator: "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way
over??"
Caller: "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle it's
because it's dark."
Operator: "Dark??"
Caller: "Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window.
Operator: "Well, turn on the office light then."
Caller: "I can't."
Operator: "No? Why not??"
Caller: "Because there's a power failure."
Operator: "A power......... A power failure? Aha, Okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in??"
Caller: "Well, yes, I keep them in the closet."
Operator: "Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from."
Caller: "Really? Is it that bad?"
Operator: "Yes, I'm afraid it is."
Caller: "Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them??"
Operator: "Tell them you're too f.....ng stupid to own a computer!!!!!"
Isn't it strange the things you can remember when you are just a tot ? There are certain things I can remember quite clearly from when I was only 2 or 3, like climbing over gates etc. My Mum realised that if I can get my toe up there the rest of me will be able to follow !! ( she told me this when I was a lot older :wah:) It must have been a nightmare for her really.
I can remember climbing onto the top of a water well in my grandmother's garden, in Kent, where we stayed for a while during WWII. I must have been about 2 1/2 ! Fortunately my grandfather had had the foresight to make a substantial wooden cover which was permanently over the top of the well.
At that time I can remember too, watching our spitfires turning the V1 Flying Bombs back to France, by flipping the fins of the bombs with their wing tips ! A fascinating activity which my two older brothers thought was awesome, and indeed it was quite a flying ability by our pilots, and quite dangerous. Of course at the age of 2plus I was totally oblivious of what it all meant. We were staying at that time at my grandmoher's bungalow near Mayfield in Kent - basically a direct line to London from across the channel for the Germans.
It was at about that time too that my mother had been shopping in the nearby village and was walking home along this long lane with shopping bags and she saw German planes 'hedge-hopping', avoiding detection on radar, trying to get home. They were shooting at cows in the fields as they went and they were headed directly towards where my mother was. She dived into the ditch beside the lane, dragging her fur coat over her white hair. She was well aware that those Germans would have taken a pot shot at her if they had seen her ! We children were, of course, safely inside the bungalow, in the hall that was in the middle of the building, playing with our toys. We never knew about my mother's 'close encounter' till we were in our teens.
My brothers used to watch, from the bungalow windows, the flying bombs coming over, headed towards London and no doubt on a mission to wreak as much havoc as possible on our capital city. I'm glad I was too young to be worried like my mother must have been.
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:36 pm
by FourPart
I thought the V1s were controlled by 2 intersecting radio beams. Wouldn't they have righted their course? Although I imagine at the time the pilots wouldn't have known about how they worked. I know my Mum used to say how she used to curl up underneath the kitchen table, and would get really scared when they suddenly stopped being able to hear them.
At what point did the German's learn about Radar? It's obvious they'd learn about it sooner or later, but I understand that's how the myth about carrots making you able to see in the dark came about - it was issued as propaganda as to that being how the pilots could tell where the German planes were. And even then - how much radar coverage really existed at that point?
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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:59 pm
by G#Gill
Fourpart, I know nothing about Radar, but I do know that the German plane was 'hedge hopping' and assumed that the reason was to avoid radar detection. He may just have been flying that low just to avoid being seen and would not be a very easy target like he would be if he was flying higher. I'm only going by what I was told. I don't know anything about intersecting beams guiding the V1s, but I do know that my two brothers watched in fascination as our pilots cleverly turned those V1s. It was a very dangerous activity and those pilots were very clever and very brave.
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:48 pm
by G#Gill
We ain't gonna have a white Christmas this year. I blame the government ! They have brought bloody rain haven't they? Those poor people in Cumbria, I bet they're wondering what they've done to upset whoever controls the hosepipe ! Still I suppose I shouldn't knock it - I live halfway up a hill and we have unseasonably warm temperatures, which means I'm not having my central heating chewing up my money! It doesn't make me feel any less sorry for those poor buggers up North, they're going to have a wonderful Christmas aren't they? :-5
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:18 am
by G#Gill
The sun's shining today ! It was sunny all day till late afternoon and it has now clouded over. I expect there will be more rain. I'm so glad I live half way up a hill !
My hubby scrubbed the kitchen floor yesterday. He's been busy writing letters today - he's a firm believer in hand-writing letters to friends and relatives, he says it is far more personal than typing. Whereas, I'm such a lousy writer, I type my stuff, so that folk can at least read it ! :yh_rotfl My hubby's handwriting is very neat and readable. I suppose it is the way he was taught at school. I find that I mistake his 'r' (lower case) for an 'n' lower case ! I have always written in squiggly scrawl and small letters as well, and many people have said it looks like a spider has walked across the page ! Others have said I should have been a GP doctor ! Well you know how legible those prescriptions are ! :wah:
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:39 am
by Bruv
FourPart;1490770 wrote: I thought the V1s were controlled by 2 intersecting radio beams. Wouldn't they have righted their course?
It seemed only a radio beam guidance system could provide the necessary accuracy, but the V-2 developers had to take a back seat to development of such systems for the German bomber and interceptor forces. Therefore they settled for a control system that oriented the missile along a pre-determined path in a vertical plane pointed at the target. The system used accumulating accelerometers to determine when the missile had reached the correct velocity and then cut off the engine. It was thought that this would provide sufficient accuracy, although operations would indicate otherwise...
I have always believed they were merely aimed and when the measured fuel ran out they cut out and plummeted roughly where they were hoped to do most damage.
How far man has progressed ?
Now we can 'take out' individuals a continent away with drones.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:44 am
by Bruv
G#Gill;1490834 wrote: The sun's shining today ! It was sunny all day till late afternoon and it has now clouded over. I expect there will be more rain. I'm so glad I live half way up a hill !
Not where I am Gilly.
I am up just outside Perth for the celebrations and it's raining a hooley
Took a trip into town and was glad to get back indoors out of the biting wind blown rain.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 10:56 am
by LarsMac
Bruv;1490836 wrote: It seemed only a radio beam guidance system could provide the necessary accuracy, but the V-2 developers had to take a back seat to development of such systems for the German bomber and interceptor forces. Therefore they settled for a control system that oriented the missile along a pre-determined path in a vertical plane pointed at the target. The system used accumulating accelerometers to determine when the missile had reached the correct velocity and then cut off the engine. It was thought that this would provide sufficient accuracy, although operations would indicate otherwise...
I have always believed they were merely aimed and when the measured fuel ran out they cut out and plummeted roughly where they were hoped to do most damage.
How far man has progressed ?
Now we can 'take out' individuals a continent away with drones.
Pretty sure I remember the same thing. V-1 and V-2 were basically self-propelled artillery. Once they were launched, their course was already determined, and where they were when they ran of fuel determined where they would land. A friend of my dad told me that they were working on internal guidance with some programmed controllers but never got the chance to implement them before the war ended.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:39 am
by ZAP
"Isn't it strange the things you can remember when you are just a tot ?"
I can remember every detail of a dream I had when I was two years old. It was in color and terrifying.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:52 am
by ZAP
G#Gill;1490767 wrote: Isn't it strange the things you can remember when you are just a tot ? There are certain things I can remember quite clearly from when I was only 2 or 3, like climbing over gates etc. My Mum realised that if I can get my toe up there the rest of me will be able to follow !! ( she told me this when I was a lot older :wah:) It must have been a nightmare for her really.
I can remember climbing onto the top of a water well in my grandmother's garden, in Kent, where we stayed for a while during WWII. I must have been about 2 1/2 ! Fortunately my grandfather had had the foresight to make a substantial wooden cover which was permanently over the top of the well.
At that time I can remember too, watching our spitfires turning the V1 Flying Bombs back to France, by flipping the fins of the bombs with their wing tips ! A fascinating activity which my two older brothers thought was awesome, and indeed it was quite a flying ability by our pilots, and quite dangerous. Of course at the age of 2plus I was totally oblivious of what it all meant. We were staying at that time at my grandmoher's bungalow near Mayfield in Kent - basically a direct line to London from across the channel for the Germans.
It was at about that time too that my mother had been shopping in the nearby village and was walking home along this long lane with shopping bags and she saw German planes 'hedge-hopping', avoiding detection on radar, trying to get home. They were shooting at cows in the fields as they went and they were headed directly towards where my mother was. She dived into the ditch beside the lane, dragging her fur coat over her white hair. She was well aware that those Germans would have taken a pot shot at her if they had seen her ! We children were, of course, safely inside the bungalow, in the hall that was in the middle of the building, playing with our toys. We never knew about my mother's 'close encounter' till we were in our teens.
My brothers used to watch, from the bungalow windows, the flying bombs coming over, headed towards London and no doubt on a mission to wreak as much havoc as possible on our capital city. I'm glad I was too young to be worried like my mother must have been.
That had to have been a horrifying time to have suffered through! When I was in London about 6-7 years ago, I stayed at a hotel across from the Thames and I took a stroll one day and spoke to a guard at one of the buildings. I saw a huge mound with a dark covering over it and I asked the guard what that was. He told me it was a statue that had been damaged in the war and was yet to be repaired. I told him how terrible it must have been in London, with the blackouts, bombings, etc., and then he began to tell me his personal story as related by his father and mother, because he was quite young at the time. He said that people were so grateful when the US entered the war because it meant that finally they were going to get our help.
I know what I felt like after 9/11 and with each subsequent terrorist's attack or attempt but imagine what those people lived with day in and day out for years!
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:12 pm
by LarsMac
ZAP;1490841 wrote: "Isn't it strange the things you can remember when you are just a tot ?"
I can remember every detail of a dream I had when I was two years old. It was in color and terrifying.
I can remember quite a bit. Though that conversation was when I was a bit older. My dad had several friends who had been involved in pretty big stuff during the war, and by the time I was in grade school, I had learned a lot from just being in the same room when they got together to talk about things. I was a pretty smart kid, and knew when to just sit and listen.
We lived in Huntsville, AL in the mid to late 50s and several of the old Germans would show around there, occasionally when they were developing the Space program. A kid can really learn if he's quiet.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 5:26 pm
by FourPart
I knew I remembered something about them using some kind of Radio Navigation
Guidance system
A V-1 on display in Musée de l'Armée
A reconstructed starting ramp for V-1 flying bombs, Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde (2009)
The V-1 guidance system used a simple autopilot developed by Askania in Berlin to regulate altitude and airspeed[10] (the RLM at first planned to use a radio control system with the V-1 for precision attacks, but the government decided instead to use the missile against London).[14] A weighted pendulum system provided fore-and-aft attitude measurement to control pitch (damped by a gyrocompass, which it also stabilized). Operating power for the gyroscope platform and the flight-control actuators was provided by two large spherical compressed air tanks that also pressurized the fuel tank. These air tanks were charged to 150 atm (15,199 kPa)(2,204psi) before launch. With the counter determining how far the missile would fly, it was only necessary to launch the V-1 with the ramp pointing in the approximate direction, and the autopilot controlled the flight.
There was a more sophisticated interaction between yaw, roll and other sensors: a gyrocompass (set by swinging in a hangar before launch) gave feedback to control the dynamics of pitch and roll, but it was angled away from the horizontal so that controlling these degrees of freedom interacted: the gyroscope remained true on the basis of feedback received from a magnetic compass,[citation needed] and from the fore and aft pendulum. This interaction meant that rudder control was sufficient for steering and no banking mechanism was needed. In a V-1 that landed in March 1945 between Tilburg and Goirle, Netherlands, without detonating, several rolled issues of the German wartime propaganda magazine Signal were found inserted into the left wing's tubular steel spar, used for weight to preset the missile's static equilibrium before launching. Several of the earliest V-1s to be launched were provided with a small radio transmitter (using a triode valve marked 'S3' but equivalent to a then-current power valve, type RL 2,4T1) to check the general direction of flight related to the launching place's and the target's grid coordinates by radio bearing (navigation).
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flyin ... nce_system - The page also includes a picture of a Spitfire using its wingtips as previously described)
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 6:09 am
by G#Gill
Well the Brits. turning those V1s were what my two older brothers watched in fascination! The V1s seemed to be regular flyers over Mayfield area in Kent. Such skillful flying by our pilots sent quite a few V1s back to where they came from, but I expect they ran out of go-go over the channel and were lost in the sea. Would have been ironic if one of them had crashed onto a German warship and sunk it ! :wah:
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 12:20 pm
by G#Gill
It is now Christmas day and for us it has been very quiet. We have opened our pressies and all seemed very happy with what we got ! The food was delicious of course, too.
The TV has been booked for 8.45 pm - 10.45 pm on ITV 1, so that we can all see the last ever episode of Downton Abbey - what an enjoyable series (several) that has been, and I understand it has gone very well in America!
We will be visiting some friends of ours tomorrow, Boxing Day, and I expect we will have loads of buffet offered along with wine and possibly some Rumtopf (German recipe for preserving fruit over most of a year - very potent :wah: ).
The weather has been mostly dry with an odd brief shower of light rain and this morning we saw a bit of sunshine. It is a bit on the windy side though. The forecast is for more rain over the West side of the country and this unfortunately includes the long-suffering Cumbria. Haven't they had enough rain already ? :-5
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:08 pm
by ZAP
I have been fiddling around with Facebook, trying to understand the blasted thing and how to put up a photo of myself in my mother's redbird sweatshirt and pants (clothes 25-30 years old) to show to my kids, brothers, nieces, nephews, etc.. taken today, 12/25/15
ZAP;1490911 wrote: I have been fiddling around with Facebook, trying to understand the blasted thing and how to put up a photo of myself in my mother's redbird sweatshirt and pants (clothes 25-30 years old) to show to my kids, brothers, nieces, nephews, etc..
It's viewable, but the easiest way with FB is to save it to your Hard Drive, then click on the Camera icon in the text line. Browse to the picture, select it & hit Enter.
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:17 pm
by ZAP
Thank you FourPart! I'm usually pretty good at teaching myself how to do things but Facebook seems more inscrutable than taking my washing machine apart. LOL! I will do as you say. Goody, goody, goody-- Hard Drive--Camera icon! I love learning new things!
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:49 pm
by ZAP
It worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you! FourPart. :-4
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 5:22 pm
by FourPart
You're very welcome
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:29 pm
by G#Gill
"We're all doomed " :yh_hypno :yh_eyerol :yh_nailbi :yh_cry
The front page has been abducted !!!!! Call out the National Guard !!! :yh_rotfl
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:44 pm
by ZAP
G#Gill;1490954 wrote: "We're all doomed " :yh_hypno :yh_eyerol :yh_nailbi :yh_cry
The front page has been abducted !!!!! Call out the National Guard !!! :yh_rotfl
Huh? :-2
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:26 pm
by G#Gill
OK, then quickly call out the National Guard ! The front page has been taken over/abducted................................................ by the religious threads ! :yh_rotfl
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 6:23 pm
by ZAP
G#Gill;1490959 wrote: OK, then quickly call out the National Guard ! The front page has been taken over/abducted................................................ by the religious threads ! :yh_rotfl
I didn't know you were referring to the Garden's front page. Yeah, I've noticed all the religious threads.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 6:43 pm
by G#Gill
ZAP;1490960 wrote: I didn't know you were referring to the Garden's front page. Yeah, I've noticed all the religious threads.
Sorry Zap, I should have made it a bit clearer ! You must have thought I'd finally 'lost it'
:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:30 pm
by LarsMac
It is only when your "front page" here is the "New Posts" view.
If you look at the "Home" page first, it looks fine.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 12:43 am
by Fuzzy
G#Gill;1490954 wrote: "We're all doomed " :yh_hypno :yh_eyerol :yh_nailbi :yh_cry
The front page has been abducted !!!!! Call out the National Guard !!! :yh_rotfl
I reckon you're doomed, Gillybaby, unless you start giving the pages their proper names.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 4:53 am
by FourPart
I reckon all the Religious threads should be merged, seeing as they're all saying essentially the same thing.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:03 am
by G#Gill
FourPart;1490975 wrote: I reckon all the Religious threads should be merged, seeing as they're all saying essentially the same thing.
I agree with you FourPart.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:54 am
by LarsMac
You're even allowing this thread to be taken over by religion.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:23 pm
by G#Gill
LarsMac;1490986 wrote: You're even allowing this thread to be taken over by religion.
NEVER ! :yh_tongue I just had to answer that, LarsMac, because I noticed that my thread was sandwiched between two of the aforementioned threads and I felt that was just a bit OTT ! :yh_giggle I just had to rescue it ! :driving: