Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[cdw1111]

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My usual view not very exiting.

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Here's my mate who used to work on concorde and he gets teary eyed every time he sees it LOL

[tikay]

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My usual view not very exiting.

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Here's my mate who used to work on concorde and he gets teary eyed every time he sees it LOL

Oooooh.

That is the Maintenance Hanger of which I wrote, yes?

PS - note the lorry-mounted Crane in the background.

[cdw1111]

Yeah thats TBJ-TBK at Hatton cross,one day when the security restrictions have been loosened i will take you round.

[tikay]

Yeah thats TBJ-TBK at Hatton cross,one day when the security restrictions have been loosened i will take you round.

Thank you.

"TBJ-TBK"?

[cdw1111]

Yeah thats TBJ-TBK at Hatton cross,one day when the security restrictions have been loosened i will take you round.

Thank you.

"TBJ-TBK"?

Technical block J/K,in TBK is the paint bay which is very impressive in action.Seeing a jumbo being painted is quite a sight.

[77dave]

Tikay, check out BBC2 at 6.30 looks right down your rail

[RED-DOG]

Seeing a jumbo being painted is quite a sight.

[tikay]

Yeah thats TBJ-TBK at Hatton cross,one day when the security restrictions have been loosened i will take you round.

Thank you.

"TBJ-TBK"?

Technical block J/K,in TBK is the paint bay which is very impressive in action.Seeing a jumbo being painted is quite a sight.

...which would explain why there are often BA 'planes there - 737's mainly - stripped of their Logos & Reg Number I assume?

I read a while back in some technical journal that BA had a new system for re-painting their fleet, which reduced the turn-round time, increased the "between spray jobs" period to 7 years (?), & by more efficient paint-stripping (they strip all the old paint off!!!) it reduced the weight of the aircraft by x, & thus saved Fuel. Sounded a bit like PR-puff to me though, another dodgy back-door route to alleged reduced carbon footprint of an Airline, which is a kite that will never fly. Or even a 747.

Please ignore Red's childish stuff, this is serious business.

[tikay]

Tikay, check out BBC2 at 6.30 looks right down your rail

What is it Jim?

[77dave]

Tikay, check out BBC2 at 6.30 looks right down your rail

What is it Jim?

Great British Railway Journeys, should be able to catch it later on bbciplayer if you miss it

[Jon MW]

I find the IE tab addon for FF useful for sites that have to use IE (it puts a little icon in the bottom right of FF and clicking on it switches the rendering between FF's and IE's).

I've been catching up with the last few days of posts and thought you might like these articles from the Economist about languages, the first is about the world's most difficult languages (and shows that English isn't that bad):
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108609

The second is about how English is losing it's nuances due to technology and more non-native speakers:
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108779

(at least I hope that's what they are about, I read them a few weeks ago!)

I'll read that later Bongo, I'm a bit tied up elsewhere today.

But if there's a harder language than English to master, this I need to see. Or do I mean hear?

I was listening to R4 the other day, at about 4am or something, & they were trailing a Show called "Here Here".

The continuity announcer said ".....da de da, & you can hear Hear Hear here on Radio 4". How on earth does a Scandie, or an East European, sort that lot out?

Harder language to master than English?  I'd guess there are plenty going by the vast array of resources available from which to learn English (usually American English, sigh) and the number of people who have 'mastered' English to a level of fluency.  Of course, you don't define 'master' and the idea of being 'fluent' in a language is a vague one.  A 7-year old school child is undoubtedly fluent in their native language, but their written and reading ability might be far short of a foreign student who has studied the language as an adult and can read and write the language well and 'get by' in the spoken language. Has either 'mastered' the language, is one more 'fluent'.

As a guess, I'd expect Chinese, Russian and Arabic to be far more difficult to learn than English.  Of course, it's all relative though.  A Japanese person might find Chinese a lot easier to learn (to read and write) than Russian; whereas a German might find it a lot easier to pick up Russian rather than Chinese.

I spoke to some italians (who were fluent in a few languages) about their view on this subject.

The gist of what they thought was that English is probably the easiest language to learn enough to get by in - conversational English as it were - but one of the hardest to learn completely.

[tikay]

During the Xmas (ugh) holiday, I got sent THREE packs of electric Light Bulbs, 18 bulbs in all, by two Electricity Supply outfits & a Gas Supply (!) company.

Nice.

Some wordy splurge came with them which I never read properly, but you can imagine the puff "green light bulbs, we are doing our bit to save the Planet, bla bla bla".

On Saturday, I read in The Times that these Utility Companies had all fallen short of their Carbon Emission reduction targets, & all faced hefty fines, in one case, as much as £40 milllion.

But there was a scheme wherby they got a "£x per green lightbulb issued" rebate. So they sent out 6 milliion light bulbs FOC & cleared the debt in a stroke.

A Survey suggested 85% of these Light Bulbs wre stuffed under the sink or in cupboards, never to be seen or used, though I fancy that was pure guesswork.

PS - One of the Companies was EON. They operate Coal-Fired Power Stations such as Radcliffe-on-Trent PS. You could not make it up.

[Tractor]

Im a chrome fan, you should try it.
Btw can you give me advice on this thread you seemed to have missed it.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=46086.0


Cheers

[tikay]

Im a chrome fan, you should try it.
Btw can you give me advice on this thread you seemed to have missed it.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=46086.0


Cheers

I will try Chrome,  promise.

As to the Thread, yes, I missed it, I leave that sort of thing to the IT-whizz-kids like Bongo & Ionrdise. If you are still struggling, I'll have a ponder.

[mondatoo]

During the Xmas (ugh) holiday, I got sent THREE packs of electric Light Bulbs, 18 bulbs in all, by two Electricity Supply outfits & a Gas Supply (!) company.

Nice.

Some wordy splurge came with them which I never read properly, but you can imagine the puff "green light bulbs, we are doing our bit to save the Planet, bla bla bla".

On Saturday, I read in The Times that these Utility Companies had all fallen short of their Carbon Emission reduction targets, & all faced hefty fines, in one case, as much as £40 milllion.

But there was a scheme wherby they got a "£x per green lightbulb issued" rebate. So they sent out 6 milliion light bulbs FOC & cleared the debt in a stroke.

A Survey suggested 85% of these Light Bulbs wre stuffed under the sink or in cupboards, never to be seen or used, though I fancy that was pure guesswork.

PS - One of the Companies was EON. They operate Coal-Fired Power Stations such as Radcliffe-on-Trent PS. You could not make it up.

Yeah a read that story,lol at another great govt scheme