Absolutely Anything Else

SimCityAT wrote:

I mean when you check the Audio language the program is in, [[Language]] (Orginal).

It should have......
British English
American English
Australian English

Oh, I see. 

After watching a season of Orange Is The New Black, it had reverted to some kind of Hispanic (?) street talk which I found impossible to care about and I stopped watching.  Mrs Fluffy couldn't get it and neither could I.  It was unfathomable and didn't relate to us at all.  My older kids continued with it and said it got better. I suppose it would come under Street Talk or Street Patois as American English would be more than a stretch.  At a push they could include Texting as a language.

SimCityAT wrote:

We had a rain this morning, no storm. But looking at the sky now, we could have another downpour. Its nice and cool today at least that's something. Quite refreshing in fact.

As I was posting the weather news, I suddenly thought wishing for a bit of a lower temperature was probably something I would regret. By about the end of October, we'll be in for 4-5 months of yucky weather, no sun, short days and snow.

SimCityAT wrote:

I wonder if members that have been away will notice the new format to the Expat.com website?

No huge changes but there are some slight changes. I quite like it. Its looks a bit fresher.

Yes, looks like an improvement. 

What we wanted was a cross linking function for postings within and between topics. 

Should be easy to do  -  just have a "link to" button with a drop down history of previous posts by the same user or via topic and then under the posting footer, just provide a link.

SimCityAT wrote:

I bought a new battery for my mobile phone, surely a jiffy bag would have done the job instead of a box, that I had to collect from the post office.

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Looks like an Amazon box. They are notorious for giant boxes for single items. I once ordered a memory stick from them and it came in a shoebox sized container.

It can be quite bad here.  If you get something like a TV or a washing machine,  it always comes with polystyrene packaging which is almost impossible to get rid of without making a mess.  They could easily pack it in recycled cardboard.

SimCityAT wrote:

I bought a new battery for my mobile phone, surely a jiffy bag would have done the job instead of a box, that I had to collect from the post office.

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Amazon have a great habit of this, because it comes in standard sizes for the factory delivery machinery. We had an early example of automatic stores at British Wasteospace where I worked, X5 building an entirely automated store, and it was nicknamed "The Black Hole" because you could put anything into it but nothing would ever come out of it.

I was reading the ASA rulings this morning and it is a bit queer, Amazon S.a.R.L t/a Amazon was offering next day delivery, for free, and strangely enough a lot of people did not get next day delivery for free. Amazon settled privately with many and the sums are undisclosed and in confidence, it now seems to have hit the news sites CNBC and BBC etc so there is no point my spieling here. "Asa ruling amazon" on your favourite search engine will find it.

SimonTrew wrote:

OK... since it is everything else... I shall start by saying the weakness of Hungarian broom handles....

You can get new (metal) broom handles in Aldi.  They are quite a popular item.

But if you find your broom handle has broken, then cut it off before the break and the use it as a stick to hold up your plants.   

Grass/straw type brooms last the longest outside and are surprisingly effective. 

And for those in a coven, quite handy for V/STOL flight operations.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

OK... since it is everything else... I shall start by saying the weakness of Hungarian broom handles....

You can get new (metal) broom handles in Aldi.  They are quite a popular item.

But if you find your broom handle has broken, then cut it off before the break and the use it as a stick to hold up your plants.   

Grass/straw type brooms last the longest outside and are surprisingly effective. 

And for those in a coven, quite handy for V/STOL flight operations.

No, coven-exiting tends to be at a shallow ascent, so nowhere near v/stol, you pillock, the landing we don't know about, I have Jane's All The World's Broomsticks here and it does mention it, this is classified but at Wikipedia  here it gives an approximation of the approach to take off, but then suggests to  tie the knot, which is not normal ATC procedure.  I don't know how you could tie a knot in a broomstick, well a hungarian one would break anyway.

fluffy2560 wrote:

And for those in a coven, quite handy for V/STOL flight operations.

And then where do you get the underwriting in case it goes wrong, because Lloyds won'

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

And for those in a coven, quite handy for V/STOL flight operations.

And then where do you get the underwriting in case it goes wrong, because Lloyds won'

You obviously haven't done your homework.  You can get underwear anywhere.

Eye of newt, squirrels bladder and some incantation and wham bam, the claimant is a frog off to join the other froggy claimants. 

Obviously you haven't worked at Aegon in the past.

SimonTrew wrote:

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No, coven-exiting tends to be at a shallow ascent, so nowhere near v/stol, you pillock, the landing we don't know about, I have Jane's All The World's Broomsticks here and it does mention it, this is classified but at Wikipedia  here it gives an approximation of the approach to take off, but then suggests to  tie the knot, which is not normal ATC procedure.  I don't know how you could tie a knot in a broomstick, well a hungarian one would break anyway.

Are you using your 2006 Jane's again?  Broomstick approach speeds changed in 2017. They are very similar to helicopters, you have to get hover in ground effect, down on the collective while maintaining rpm and correct attitude. 

I would say, and I was told this personally by Sabrina whilst I was in Salem, keeping your CoG right is important so the black cat should be in the middle along with the book of spells.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

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No, coven-exiting tends to be at a shallow ascent, so nowhere near v/stol, you pillock, the landing we don't know about, I have Jane's All The World's Broomsticks here and it does mention it, this is classified but at Wikipedia  here it gives an approximation of the approach to take off, but then suggests to  tie the knot, which is not normal ATC procedure.  I don't know how you could tie a knot in a broomstick, well a hungarian one would break anyway.

Are you using your 2006 Jane's again?  Broomstick approach speeds changed in 2017. They are very similar to helicopters, you have to get hover in ground effect, down on the collective while maintaining rpm and correct attitude. 

I would say, and I was told this personally by Sabrina whilst I was in Salem, keeping your CoG right is important so the black cat should be in the middle along with the book of spells.

Well I used to gyrate around the black cat quite often, but even in my eccentric orbit I didn't have anything sinister as I was going clockwise, the CoGs on my back wheel were all right but my centre of inertia was well it dropped

SimonTrew wrote:

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Well I used to gyrate around the black cat quite often, but even in my eccentric orbit I didn't have anything sinister as I was going clockwise, the CoGs on my back wheel were all right but my centre of inertia was well it dropped

Just remember if you see the same black cat twice, you'd better make sure you are fully tooled up for what's to come.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

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Well I used to gyrate around the black cat quite often, but even in my eccentric orbit I didn't have anything sinister as I was going clockwise, the CoGs on my back wheel were all right but my centre of inertia was well it dropped

Just remember if you see the same black cat twice, you'd better make sure you are fully tooled up for what's to come.

It's déja vu all over again,

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

I can't tell you that.

Why not?   

I cannot tell you about passive radar detection but I can tell you what's in the public domain.

there is by defintion no such thing as passive radar,. if you send a pulse out and it bounces then you are saying "i am here". it is just a contracdiction in terms. yes you can get passive radar that does not send signals out but receives signals from the active radar, but you are still bouncing signals out, it just happens not to be that particular bit of equipment. For truly passive you need electro optical.

Mouth shut, ears open - passive radar detection in a nutshell.  But maybe I misspoke, passive radar detection and identification. I've said enough.

SimonTrew wrote:

When I lived in the UK I got some government funds to open a Local Centre of Inertia, But nobody bothered to come.

I used to work in the public library and we had a stack of self-help books including some on kleptomania, but they used to go missing quite a lot. They just helped themselves.

When I worked in a library, I found a pair of trousers shoved in the stacks.  I thought, there's a turn up for the books.

fluffy2560 wrote:

From the other thread....

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Why not?   

I cannot tell you about passive radar detection but I can tell you what's in the public domain.

there is by defintion no such thing as passive radar,. if you send a pulse out and it bounces then you are saying "i am here". it is just a contracdiction in terms. yes you can get passive radar that does not send signals out but receives signals from the active radar, but you are still bouncing signals out, it just happens not to be that particular bit of equipment. For truly passive you need electro optical.

Mouth shut, ears open - passive radar detection in a nutshell.  But maybe I misspoke, passive radar detection and identification. I've said enough.

indeed. it is also a good thing to tell the fluffyettes.... mouth shut, ears open.. you have one of those but two of these.

SimonTrew wrote:

.....indeed. it is also a good thing to tell the Fluffyettes.... mouth shut, ears open.. you have one of those but two of these.

I would add....

"Better to let others think one is an idiot than open one's mouth and prove it...."

fluffy2560 wrote:

I'd have thought "szexi bolt" would be "Of Szexi shop".  Like "Shop of London". 

I've not found Szexi in the HU road atlas yet but there's a Condom in France and don't get me started with F***ing Austria.

You are right, fortunately these keyboards are replaced by the manufacturer on monday. I  was thinking too much of Sabrina and it is my little cock up.

SimonTrew wrote:

It is one of those guessing games like you see vans that say (in Hungarian) "Carpets, no job too big or small".

Well then go and carpet the moon. Carpet this dolls house I have built for my niece.

Patently they should say "carpets, some jobs out of our range"

At the moment, Hungarian workmen don't answer the phone and if they do, and promise to come around, they don't turn up.   Others say that they've all gone abroad to work.  We've been waiting for some woodwork for our kitchen since about March.  We've made allowances but this is getting absurd.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

It is one of those guessing games like you see vans that say (in Hungarian) "Carpets, no job too big or small".

Well then go and carpet the moon. Carpet this dolls house I have built for my niece.

Patently they should say "carpets, some jobs out of our range"

At the moment, Hungarian workmen don't answer the phone and if they do, and promise to come around, then don't turn up.   Others say that they've all gone abroad to work.  We've been waiting for some woodwork for our kitchen since about March.  We've made allowances but this is getting absurd.

Well since you know it all then why not do it yourself. Oh,. I forgot, I can do it.

SimonTrew wrote:

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Well since you know it all then why not do it yourself. Oh,. I forgot, I can do it.

I just don't have time really to mess about.   

But in any case, there's a better return for me on the workmen doing it while I do something else.   I might end up having to do it myself if we don't get a reasonable response.   If I do it myself, then it's clear it was me that screwed it up. 

I'll put a memo into the Mrs Fluffy department.  However, I know that department is short staffed.   The Fluffyette department is in a worse position - it's staffed by even shorter people.   Don't get me started on the Pet Department.  Fish, what do they know and hamsters, do me a favour.

Take today's screw up:

Mrs Fluffy gets fined  by post 15000 HUF for driving on the motorway without the e-vignette.  Getting over the shock, we find the e-vignette and clearly it's valid. However, we notice one character wrong on the registration number - it's a mistake we didn't see when we bought it.  So that's another trip to the other town to the road people/police to get the e-vignette changed and a paper to say the fine is now waived.   That takes a good 2.5h. All wasted time down the drain and not solvable by anyone but us. 

Tomorrow is another day.