Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tonytats]

seems like this should go here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-22657086

Thanks Mully, though, somewhat spookily, Flushy posted the exact same link in this thread an hour ago.

The amount of air-traffic these days beggars belief.

Imagine how much aviation fuel must be consumed every single day, 365 days per year, just to power those magnificent flying machines. Makes you wonder when it will all run out. It MUST run out eventually.

Did you know, for example, that the latest version of the Boeing 747 has a fuel capacity of 53,000 gallons? (Fifty three THOUSAND). Around 1,450 of them are still in daily service. The math is mind-boggling.

So the contents of TEN of these fuel tankers (below) would be needed to fill one x Boeing 747. And there are 1,450 of them in service......

Go on then Kendall, how do they actually fill a 747? Do they run 10 tankers to it?

Fuel is pumped via dedicated pipelines from Fawley & Isle of Grain, direct to a tank farm near Heathrow, & then onwards to the apron stands. 

This is a fascinating website in that regard......


http://www.theodora.com/pipelines/united_kingdom_and_ireland_pipelines.html

These pipelines are marked by 2 white upright concrete ( yes tikay your fave thing. ) posts with 2 white smaller cross pieces , wherever they cross roads / railways ( yes tikay your second fave thing ! ) , they arnt publicised or policed very well either and the b p a ( British pipeline agency ) take a dim of contractors like me who have had a few near misses with them !! Compare that with the gas board who fly a helicopter along their pipelines weekly , any sign of drilling / digging works and down comes the helicopter , out gets a little man with a clip board who dishes out rollockings , I've met him several times at Addenbrookes harwich immingham , and great bar ford where 3 huge ( up to 48 inch ) diameter gas mains cross each others path

[tikay]

I was perusing the Live Updates from Day One of the WSOP, & for some reason - I can't quite think why - this headline amused me.

Polychronopoulos Busts

[Tal]

Polychronopoulos - Son of Many Colours?

If correct, how does that name happen?

[tikay]

Polychronopoulos - Son of Many Colours?

If correct, how does that name happen?

No idea.

It turns out that Mr P is a former WSOP Bracelet winner, which shows my ignorance. Proper name = Athanasios Polychronopoulos. May be Greek, looks like a younger more handsome version of cos.

Think I was actually there when he won his bangle, actually. Memory issues.

 

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I was perusing the Live Updates from Day One of the WSOP, & for some reason - I can't quite think why - this headline amused me.

Polychronopoulos Busts

Just an excuse for under the radar art itt imo.

[Tal]

Would normally post this elsewhere but there is zero actual chess content; just some pictures of old things and sunny landscapes:

http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/211/PostId/4009962/thessaloniki-gp-free-day-activities-290513.aspx

This is a brief report of what happened when the players in a large chess tournament in Greece had a day off.

[Tal]

You asked me on Tips for Tikay about bedders in Cambridge. Found this on the interweb:

Bedders have been a feature of Cambridge life since at least 1635, when a University edict was passed banning the employment of anyone under fifty. This was allegedly part of a "bedder test". It aimed to ensure there could be no suspicion of any "impropriety" between bedders and students or fellows, who were all men and - until Victorian times - forbidden to marry.

Here's an article in a student magazine by an example:

http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2013/01/26/the-secret-bedder/

And a retiring bedder from Trinity College, after a long service:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Dedicated-bedder-retires.htm

[tikay]

You asked me on Tips for Tikay about bedders in Cambridge. Found this on the interweb:

Bedders have been a feature of Cambridge life since at least 1635, when a University edict was passed banning the employment of anyone under fifty. This was allegedly part of a "bedder test". It aimed to ensure there could be no suspicion of any "impropriety" between bedders and students or fellows, who were all men and - until Victorian times - forbidden to marry.

Here's an article in a student magazine by an example:

http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2013/01/26/the-secret-bedder/

And a retiring bedder from Trinity College, after a long service:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Dedicated-bedder-retires.htm

These "Bedders" are quite an interesting matter.

From my days at Oxford, I seem to recollect that we called them "Scouts".

[Tal]

You asked me on Tips for Tikay about bedders in Cambridge. Found this on the interweb:

Bedders have been a feature of Cambridge life since at least 1635, when a University edict was passed banning the employment of anyone under fifty. This was allegedly part of a "bedder test". It aimed to ensure there could be no suspicion of any "impropriety" between bedders and students or fellows, who were all men and - until Victorian times - forbidden to marry.

Here's an article in a student magazine by an example:

http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2013/01/26/the-secret-bedder/

And a retiring bedder from Trinity College, after a long service:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Dedicated-bedder-retires.htm

These "Bedders" are quite an interesting matter.

From my days at Oxford, I seem to recollect that we called them "Scouts".

[Yian]

Polychronopoulos - Son of Many Colours?

If correct, how does that name happen?

No idea.

It turns out that Mr P is a former WSOP Bracelet winner, which shows my ignorance. Proper name = Athanasios Polychronopoulos. May be Greek, looks like a younger more handsome version of cos.

Think I was actually there when he won his bangle, actually. Memory issues.

 

He's Greek American. I would guess from a Cypriot origin as the flag around his shoulders would suggest, being it's the colours of a football team from Cyprus. He is also a very accomplished online player with over $2.5million in winnings; goes by the alias of Athanasios9.

It was a memorable moment in the WSOP where he stepped away from a final table to join in with the famous shoe bombs from the U.K rail.

[tikay]

Polychronopoulos - Son of Many Colours?

If correct, how does that name happen?

No idea.

It turns out that Mr P is a former WSOP Bracelet winner, which shows my ignorance. Proper name = Athanasios Polychronopoulos. May be Greek, looks like a younger more handsome version of cos.

Think I was actually there when he won his bangle, actually. Memory issues.

 

He's Greek American. I would guess from a Cypriot origin as the flag around his shoulders would suggest, being it's the colours of a football team from Cyprus. He is also a very accomplished online player with over $2.5million in winnings; goes by the alias of Athanasios9.

It was a memorable moment in the WSOP where he stepped away from a final table to join in with the famous shoe bombs from the U.K rail.

Ahh, top man, thank you.

I really ought to know these things.

[Tal]

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Cambridge_Slang

Every institution - academic or otherwise - will have its own lingo. Thought you might enjoy some of the stuff the Tabs talk about  

[tikay]

apropros nothing really, but I happened across these two images this morning. Don't even try to think what I was looking for, please.

[tikay]

So, blow smoke up your arse seems to have arisen from that practice. Allegedly.

How utterly extraordinary. A genuine case of you cannot make this stuff up, or a hoax?

 

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Another thin excuse to put art in the thread imo.