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[jhawk]

Off topic
Catherine of Alexandria (St Catherine) was martyred on a torture device called "The Wheel"



Hence her patronage of wheelwrights and connections to the Catherine Wheel

Thank you. I shall pass it on.

 

[Saluki]

TVs on in the background, I'm not really watching it but just glanced up to see an advert with a sloth on a sofa, I think with a woman leant over the sofa back, cuddling the sloth...no idea what its about....
Me..like a spoiled kid....
'I wanna sloth'
Wife....


'

I want a sloth too. I've told Hubster. He says he'll put in on the list along with the baby giraffe, baby pygmin hippo, meerkat collection, a cat exactly the same as Mog, another cat, exactly the same as Cheshire Cat, teeny tiny horse that can fit through a dog flap.......

 

[Profpointy]

I want a sloth too. I've told Hubster. He says he'll put in on the list along with the baby giraffe, baby pygmin hippo, meerkat collection, a cat exactly the same as Mog, another cat, exactly the same as Cheshire Cat, teeny tiny horse that can fit through a dog flap.......

Giraffes are cute. I remember as a very little kid being held up in a zoo and the (full grown) giraffe bent down and licked my hand.
Presumably he was really scrounging buns rather than being friendly, but cute all the same.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

*me looking at Argos black friday deals for laptops*
*sister* you know that bike box thing you wanted for christmas?
*Me* yes for Majorca
*Sister* It's big and I've nowhere to put it
*Me* Ponders
*Sister* Do you want a laptop instead?
*Me* Aye

 

[swee'pea99]

Missus's best mate: So he ran round the back of the freezer and I pulled it out and I was looking everywhere but I couldn't see him, but then I saw there was like a little ledge at the bottom and there he was, sitting on the ledge and doing that nibbly thing with a cashew nut he was holding in his paws, and he looked so adorable.
Me: You haven't quite got the hang of pest control have you?

 

[Sandra6]

Me to son " go to the shop for toilet roll. If they've got the one that says Nicky on its only 75p. Get that"
Son " I don't want 75p toilet roll"
Comes home with andrex

 

[ufkacbln]

Ok...so why are candles Roman? And why are they candles?

Can just say first that I have an interest in History and not in torture and sadism

Again this is a torture and execution reference

Allegedly Nero used to execute Christians by staking them out in his gardens, covering them in flammable liquids ans setting them alight to illuminate the garden.... Roman candles literally

Fourthly, that these miserable, accused Christian martyrs were used as candles, torches, or lanterns, to see by them at night.

Of those who were burned, some were tied or nailed to stakes, and held still by a hook driven through the throat, so that they could not move the head when the pitch, wax, tallow, and othef inflammable substances were poured boiling over their heads, and set on fire, so that all the unctious matter of the human body flowing down made long, wide furrows in the sand of the theatre. And thus human beings were lighted as torches, and burned as lights for the wicked Romans at night.

Juvenal and Martial, both Roman poets, and Tertullian, state this in a different manner, namely, that the Romans wrapped them in a painful or burning mantle, which they, wound around their hands and feet, in order to melt the very marrow in their bones.

Furthermore, it is stated by A. Mellinus (from the aforementioned authors), concerning those mantles, that they were made of paper or linen, and, having been thickly coated with oil, pitch, wax, rosin, tallow, and sulphur, were wrapped around their whole body, and then set on fire.

For this spectacle Nero gave the use of his gardens, and appeared himself among the people in the garb of a charioteer, taking an active part in the Circusian games; himself standing in the circus, and, as charioteer, guiding a chariot.

 

[Rezillo]

Again this is a torture and execution reference

Not necessarily, though. This is a fascinating page:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/11/particularly-excellent-fireworks/

 

[jhawk]

Oh dear, what I have started...

 

[ColinJ]

So whose is the bigger mistake, the factory in China that sent the wrong parts or ours for not noticing for 8 years?

Yours, but for ordering stuff that you obviously didn't really need!

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Yours, but for ordering stuff that you obviously didn't really need!

Fair point. It's for an old model and annoyingly people just aren't falling off them and damaging the grips like they used to.

 

[gbb]

'How much is that please ?'
'£2.84 mate'
'Nice one...'

Headlamp gone in my Astra, realised last night. Down to our local branch of Euro Carparts...maybe mis spelt that, but theyre more trade but open to the public......2x H7 55w Osram halogens, one for spare, the princely sum of £2.84...total.
Halfords price...£9.99 each
Local Car shop, well regarded..£4.99 each.

I know exactly where I'm going for car stuff in the future. Truth is, trade outlets used to be my normal first choice years ago when i was in the trade... i got out of the habit at some stage.

 

[Speicher]

So you wanted me to ring your mobile number, because when you rang the number you could not hear it ring?

So I rang the number and it went straight to the answering service. Then I find that you had given me the wrong number for your mobile phone. You cannot look on your phone at "own number" because you do not know where it is. You need someone to ring it to find where it is, but if it is switched off it will not ring.

 

[Lullabelle]

So you wanted me to ring your mobile number, because when you rang the number you could not hear it ring?

So I rang the number and it went straight to the answering service. Then I find that you had given me the wrong number for your mobile phone. You cannot look on your phone at "own number" because you do not know where it is. You need someone to ring it to find where it is, but if it is switched off it will not ring.

Sorry

 

[gbb]

'Oh FFS, 800th of a second too fast !!! '
I couldnt get a machine working yesterday, spent 2 hours analysing everything i could think of that might cause it.
It turns out one pneumatic cylinder was worn and was very free in its operation, no resistance. That meant the sensor at the end of its travel was activated too fast...800th of a second too fast.
FFS....