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Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer
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Talking of PIP forms, a couple of weeks ago, I was helping my neighbour with hers, and reading through the instructions, I was amused to see them say that if you are filling in the form for someone else, to fill in details about the person, and not about yourself!
Derr!
Brilliant!
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It does what a bt vision out of contract box does plus lets you subscribe on a month by month basis to sky packages such as movies on demand, entertainment on demand, kids on demand, sport by the day. Each package full price is about a tenner a month but it is always possible to buy vouchers at about half that cost, sometimes with a free box thrown in. Once you have any subscription you can use it on up to four devices pc, laptop, tablet, console, smart box, phone anywhere you have enough internet bandwidth so when we are on holiday we can put it on tablet or phone and cast to a suitable tv.Doozergirl wrote: »Could you guide me on the TV package, please? I'm going to bump our broadband up to fibre now, is it worth taking? We have a BT vision box but with no subscriptions.
The rest of the damily use netflix on our mobile contracts. Is this worth it?
Great news on the car
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Our other car is electric and despite being much less prestigious is so much smoother, more torquey, easier to drive and quieter. It just makes it so clear the future is electric.Great to see lir back. :wave:
Glad that michaels' car made it home. I'm intrigued by the electric nature of said car ( i'll confess I'd forgotten we'd discussed this before).
Yep, hardly rained for weeks so the one day I have off to take the kids to chessington/thorpe park it is peeing down...PasturesNew wrote: »Big Air Show today.
It's Britain.
It's raining.I think....0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Red Arrows just flew over my house.
In the past couple of weeks we've twice had them fly over our house, bit blink and you miss. I *think* they were up at RAF Valley.Think yourself lucky. Tel Aviv airport last night had a flight take off leaving behind a tyre on the runway. It had to circle for 3 hours burning fuel before attempting a landing.
Which I presume it did safely!
Occasionally I get involved with loading the big Russian Antonovs, huge flipping things with pilots that naturally live up the hard drinking maverick stereotype. I got invited up to the cockpit once. I'm not an aeronautical expert, but it did seem to be mostly held together with gaffer tape. The tyres were down to canvas. Every time I see it lumber up the runway to take off, I'm pretty certain it won't lift off before it runs out of runway.0 -
Yep, hardly rained for weeks so the one day I have off to take the kids to chessington/thorpe park it is peeing down...
It will refill my water butt and give my car a wash,which it was in dire need of.
Incy and Wincy's webs on my side mirrors had got so thick, I could barely see the mirrors! :rotfl:
Talking of spiders, I had a surreal experience last night!
Good job I like spiders!
I was in bed about to go to sleep, and about to turn the bedside lamp off, when I caught a small movement out of the side of my eye and above me. I looked, and dangling on a thread above and just in front of my head was a spidie!
It must have been dangling from the ceiling! God knows why!
It wasn't very big. It dangled there and moved up the thread a bit, then stopped. It didn't bother me, but I thought that if it landed on the bed, I might inadvertently squash it, so I got up and grabbed the thread with it dangling underneath and put it to dangle over the banisters.
Then, of course, I was wide awake again!
(I just lurve spiders!)
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We went in a seaplane in Alaska - to see the bears in Tongass National Forest.That's ok. They can show off the seaplanes instead! :rotfl:
On reflection, are there still any seaplanes about?
trots off to google...............
Edit. Yes, there sure are! This one's on Loch Lomond.....
I didn't turn out to be too good at the folding oneself in and out of the floatplane bit.
In Vancouver, you can sit in the harbour and watch the floatplanes taking off and landing. It's basically a taxi service.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »So on a flight back home tonight and we take off... then I hear thump..... thump..... And I'm thinking.... that's one thump short of gear up.
Sure enough....
"Errrrrrrr, this is your Captain speaking..... Errrrrrrr....... We may have a slight indicator light problem with the landing gear and we're..... Errrrrrrrr..... going to return to the airport as a precaution."
Uh huh..... Indicator light.... We can all count the thumps mate.
Still - the 45 minute tour of the midlands at 3K feet while they ran the checklists was mildly interesting.
Not half as interesting as the final approach (to me anyway) was though...:eek:
All's well that ends well - gear stayed up on t/d - spare aircraft - crew squeeked in the second departure just within duty hours - etc - so finally home - but it's now a 22 hour day for Hamish so off to bed.
Holi Crapoli Hamish! Glad you are ok. Being a nervous flyer is my job. If ever I looked over and DH was nervous, well, er, that would be scary. Was Mrs McT with you and in that situation?
Occasionally I get involved with loading the big Russian Antonovs, huge flipping things with pilots that naturally live up the hard drinking maverick stereotype. .
This is how I imagine Hamish;)In Vancouver, you can sit in the harbour and watch the floatplanes taking off and landing. It's basically a taxi service.
We stayed at the Pan Pacific and you can watch them from the room. It's so relaxing just sitting and watching seaplanes for an hour. I wish I could do that here. I just get the planes on their final approach to Luton instead.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Occasionally I get involved with loading the big Russian Antonovs,
Ukrainian, please. It's bad enough that Russia's nicked part of Ukraine without giving them the aircraft as well (other than the ones they bought).Every time I see it lumber up the runway to take off, I'm pretty certain it won't lift off before it runs out of runway.
Is that the REALLY big one, the AN-225, or one of the not-quite-so big ones?
I remember seeing the AN-225 when it displayed at Farnborough - it is indeed enormous. I was too far back in the crowd to be able to see the runway but I heard it powering up and saw the tail moving then a short while later the noise dropped and I assumed it was just taxiing to the other end before taking off - then realised that it was already airborne. Granted, it was unladen but it still seemed a pretty short takeoff run.
Pity they couldn't bring a Buran with it to display, since that's what it was originally designed to carry - like the modified 747s that NASA used to ferry their Space Shuttles around.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Holi Crapoli Hamish! Glad you are ok. Being a nervous flyer is my job. If ever I looked over and DH was nervous, well, er, that would be scary.
Was Mrs McT with you and in that situation?
Nope - just a commute back from work.
It wasn't particularly scary to be honest - nose gear didn't come up after take off - most passengers wouldn't have known until the captain came on - certainly nobody appeared bothered.
I heard it and noticed - as did the front f/a - that was about it.
Second landing was normal-ish, eased the front down slowly right enough and took more runway than usual but the nose gear stayed down and locked, so normal taxi back to ramp and then a wait until they found a spare aircraft.
More inconvenient than dramatic - chatted to the cabin crew when we were down and they were fine. More concerned about timing out on duty hours if they couldn't find a spare plane quickly than anything else.This is how I imagine Hamish;)
That's probably not a million miles from the truth.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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