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Post by Hero on Sept 8, 2010 20:18:41 GMT
They need to be powerbombed through tables (outside of course)
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2010 20:28:13 GMT
Behold...HICKORY HOUSE!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2010 21:38:32 GMT
Dear people in libraries: SHUT THE FUCK UP! IT'S MEANT TO BE A QUIET PLACE SO PEOPLE CAN THINK. IF YOU WANT TO TALK A LOT, GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE. That is all. -ralph The wise words of Darth Sidious once again come to mind:
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Post by Hero on Sept 8, 2010 22:08:41 GMT
Hickory Horse RULES
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 8, 2010 23:29:08 GMT
The wise words of Darth Sidious once again come to mind: Ha!
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 8, 2010 23:40:15 GMT
Behold...HICKORY HOUSE! -Ralph W T F?!?!?!?!!!!!!! That seriously scared the brown squirty stuff outa me! "They've got no legs!" "Now it's my turn..." AAARRRGGHHH!!!!! Mind you, that young Lady was rather tasty! She can manipulate my locomotive limbs any day, baby! Why did she have to sound like Meryl Streep on steroids though? But what the mother freaking hell was that weird jumping white hairy thing at the end?!!!!! What the Freak was that?!!!?!!! How did any of us grow up to be normal people with this type of childrens' TV? Ahhh (everything makes sense now!)
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 9, 2010 21:10:48 GMT
Just been on that flying mouse walk. Bat detectors are great - just like Geiger counters except you're hearing bat sonar translated into audible sound. Much easier to see them when the thing in your hand signals where they are flying.
Might have to invest in one for myself come the spring.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2010 21:21:54 GMT
Wait: there actually is such a device as a bat detector? And it can be purchased? That blows my mind.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 9, 2010 21:25:32 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2010 21:27:44 GMT
That's amazing! I shall have a careful look at these wondrous devices. There are apparently lots of bats in local parks that I have never seen.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2010 21:33:34 GMT
Ooooh. I'm sure Liz would like one but that's outside my christmas present budget for her.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 9, 2010 23:48:31 GMT
Bat detectors are great. We had to buy one for our lab to check a suspicion of ultrasonics coming from the scanner. Came up negative thankfully. That or we didn't assemble the detector correctly.
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Post by Hero on Sept 10, 2010 5:30:44 GMT
I sometimes get the odd bat now and again as a 'present' from Zip and Star. They can be a very cruel pair. Some make it and some don't. It depends if they are gotten to on time.
Bats are quite cute up close too., when they are not flapping about.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2010 10:42:43 GMT
Behold...CATMAN!
-Ralph
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Post by Gav on Sept 10, 2010 11:38:08 GMT
My friend's missus works as a ranger in South Lanarkshire Country Park - and she keeps inviting us to go bat-hunting (not literally hunting them down - detecting) but stuff keeps getting in the way. I'm dying to give it a shot.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2010 11:46:47 GMT
We must form the Hubbat Squad!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 10, 2010 12:04:58 GMT
We must form the Hubbat Squad! -Ralph But if we form a Batsquad we'd surely have to adopt comedy accents and wander around in the pea-souper fogs that are common in Londonland would we not? The idea of a bat-detector is a fascinating one. I have long suspected that we have bats in the immediate vicinity of where I live, but have never been able to verify it. Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 10, 2010 12:08:15 GMT
Which toy would be the mascot of the Hub Bat Squad?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2010 13:44:10 GMT
It would have to be the Bat version of Optimus Primal!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Sept 10, 2010 13:57:20 GMT
Things are going batty round here. ===KEN
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 10, 2010 18:25:15 GMT
Ooooh. I'm sure Liz would like one but that's outside my christmas present budget for her. It would be a rubbish Christmas present anyway. Bats hibernate in the winter months. That's why I'm waiting for the spring before I think of buying. Martin
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Post by legios on Sept 10, 2010 19:33:21 GMT
I have been messing about with my new digital camera this evening. Neither sophisticated nor expensive it was obtained with birthday money from my mother and some Tesco vouchers I had lying around. It is going to take some getting used to but I am sure I will get the hang of it in good time.
I will probably slip it into my bag this evening as part of my preparations for the airshow at RAF Leuchars. I have a fair distance to travel tomorrow so it is going to be an early start - up and away by about half-five in the morning but it should be well worth it. I have missed the Leuchars show the last few years (and it wasn't on last year as they were resurfacing the runway last Autumn) so I am rather looking forward to it - especially as they have some nice looking stuff in both the flying and static displays this year.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2010 20:11:22 GMT
I didn't realise the iPlayer had a films category! I thought it was restricted to tv and radio programmes. Just watched Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Ware-Rabbit (the lesser of the W&G adventures but still much to enjoy and raised a few belly laughs). Next up: The Heroes of Telemark!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 10, 2010 22:12:47 GMT
Phil's had an interesting evening.
As many of you will know I head the projection team at our church.
Having just got out of the bath with Jonathan and put my pyjamas on I got a call from one of the sound team at 5:15 tonight asking for some advice on how to use the pc which was the first I'd heard about any event needing anything to do with the computer or projection today. I scrounged a lift down to get there for 7 thinking it would be just putting a powerpoint presentation on our pc. They wanted to use their own laptop with sound attached at the front - that can't be done - so we had to dismantle our setup at the back to get that to work but they also wanted words for worship, using three songs we didn't know. We spotted two of them and got the words but it turned out one of them had the same name as a song we already had and so when we got to there the wrong words ended up..... So mid evening we're swapping VGA cables between machines.
An inquest is underway to find out where the booking system broke. Again.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2010 10:36:24 GMT
I have a break from this thread for a few days and when I return I discover that we have been talking about an old kids TV show that features a jumping mop-head at the end and also talk of bat detecting devices! What ever is the world coming to!
I went out last night to see a live band play (the only one I actually go out to see to be more precise) and have discovered that they have a new drummer. The original one who had been with the band since their first ever gig was sacked a week or so ago due to him having personal problems and supposedly taking it out on the band members. This was a shock to me because I got on quite well with him whenever they were playing and now that he is the second of the original four members to depart the band they are starting to look like a completely different band altogether.
Changing the topic slightly whenever I'm at work doing a terribly monotonous job some totally strange and random things go through my head. Yesterday was no exception. I was thinking about the classic 'Soldier, Soldier' nursery rhyme and thought 'hang on, this soldier doesn't appear to be wearing any clothes so he swindles some clothes of the very, very best from a woman who wants to marry him only to tell her at the end that he's already married!' I'm beginning to wonder who created all of these classic nursery rhymes and tales. We have the aforementioned one about a nude pipe smoking soldier with a musket in one hand and a drum slung around his shoulders and then we also have the classic one called The Emperors New Clothes which stars an emperor who walks around in the buff genuinely believing that he is wearing clothing (presumably he was high on drugs to not notice he was naked).
Anyway, back to the civil conversations of kids shows with mop-head characters and talk of bat-detecting devices!
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Post by legios on Sept 11, 2010 19:37:58 GMT
So, I got up at an unearthly hour this morning to catch a train to Edinburgh to get to RAF Leuchars for 8am when gates opened. When I got there the heavens had opened and torrential rain was pouring down, turning the hardstanding into a series of deep lakes (and I mean three inches or so deep in various places). By half-past eight I was about as soaked as it was possible for me to get and the rain was pouring down. I persevered in touring the static park though - getting a chance to look at the aircraft on the ground before the masses fully gathered.
Then I staked out my place at the rope, which turned out to be at the exact centre of the crowd line - and therefore the point at which any breaks in a formation display are going to be performed right above the spectator. It carried on raining for a while, before simply remaining glowery and grim-looking for the start of the flying display. By midday though the sun had come out and it warmed up enough to be t-shirt weather.
Regardless of the weather I spent the day watching beautiful old-school aircraft like the Hurricane, Hunter and Tunen, the virtuoso airmanship of Belgian and Dutch F-16 pilots and the immaculate precision timing of display teams like the Blades and the Red Arrows. I have been alternately soaked to the bone, teeth-chatteringly cold and toasty warm, and am now rather tired with feet that are complaining mightily at me having been on them for eight straight hours.
Was it worth it? Undoubtedly so.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2010 20:07:26 GMT
M very kindly bought me lunch. And it was nice to see lots of new TF's on the shelves so not a bad day really. Listening to the Proms on radio 2.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 11, 2010 21:44:52 GMT
Woke around midnight feeling very unwell then again at 6 so I could get things done before I my brother and parents went out to Ikea to order a kitchen. While we were out the kitchen was having tiles laid. The kitchen was eventually ordered after much back and forth between various different options. Had a birthday meal out and Exchange Bar and Grill. Had Cajan Jambalaya which was great. On the way home we got a flat tyre and then had to go out to get hte tyre fixed and grabbed some food (as we have no kitchen). Hull was holding its annual Freedom Festival all day and I caught some of that this evening, the scale of the event was quite impressive to be honest a dozen or so big pop bands mental floating things and drummers on wires amongst the attractions.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2010 22:21:13 GMT
Prepare for horror beyond imagining.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 11, 2010 22:42:52 GMT
Been a nice and relaxing Saturday - roughed out the next two WWE strips (so back on schedule) and lettered several pages of the Slag-a-con convention comic as well.
Just chilling now and about to enjoy a random episode of 60's Spider-Man.
Andy
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