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Having worked hard all my life, nurturing and developing my ability to be a complete Idiot, I have recently been informed that this is not the case, indeed "bit's are missing". Oh, my life's work, all for nothing it would seem. :(

So, I thought I would start this "Fred", where, us incomplete Idiots can discuss those issue which tend to Blind Side you, usually about 22:00 Hrs, on a Wednesday, during the winter month's, after more than enough libation.

In other word's, all those question's that require lateral thought.

Here's a few for you.

If a Fly didn't have wing's, would it be called a Walk?.

Why, when you put something in "a safe place", you can never remember where it is?.

One for the American's, why is it, when Donald Duck takes a shower he wrap's himself in a towel before leaving the shower, put's on his uniform, ie, his top, then removes the towel?.

I think I may need some help here. ;D :hello:

Discuss.

Peter Griffin adds to this Fred :idea: 

Family Guy - Peter is Retarded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOCvBGsEVw#)

Why has no country ever come up with the phrase "as ugly as an airport".
All the plumbing/services are on show presumably due to their importance.
All the gates are hard to find due, I assume, to their unimportance. (DNA)

Am thinking of posting a pic of my nan here. She's a Fred too.  ;D

Even the Swiss have incomplete idiots. Found this book/organiser in a shop window and had to take a pic.



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Nice picture that, I wonder if it's available as a Fridge Magnet?. :P

Now, having spent all of my working years dedicated all things Mechanical, I consider myself to have a fairly good grasp of Propulsion Systems. So, could someone explain how The Batmobile, which was Jet Propelled, managed to wheel-spin every time it moved?. :scratch-head:

Your input would be appreciated. :sign-help:

It could do the opposite of a wheel spin.

i.e. be pushed along faster than it spins.  :confused:

either that or *** spoiler alert *** it wasn't real.  :o

I have an even better idea.


How about a gas turbine engine driving the wheels mechanically via a gearbox and the exhaust of the turbine having an afterburn fuel system.
Sounds dangerous. Can we build one!  8)

Err, check this out. :o


Van with gas turbine helicopter engine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQM_TyyRye4#)

Quote from: Snowcrash on August 23, 2011, 18:26:44 PM

either that or *** spoiler alert *** it wasn't real.  :o

Just for a minute there, you had me worried, but given that it was on Tele, well. :D

Next, you will be trying to tell me that, Father Christmas, in a red suit, is as a direct result of an advertising campaign by Coke Cola back in 1936. :o

I was always told that the red suit was so St. Nick couldn't get lost in the snow.

I quite like this, but you need to be a near incomplete idiot to even think of it. ;)


David Armand - Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (Interpretative Dance) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3I6koQl2v0#ws)


                                                                                   WARNING, contains some slightly rude bits. ;D

Good find, I saw this when it was aired and thought it was great  8) :D

I must truly be an incomplete idiot, because I thought that was bloody brilliant! :D

Well what do you know, It's my First Anniversary, I'm a one year old Knight already. :thumbsup:

                 :woot: :yahoo: :bounce: :waveJump: :party-time:

Congrats Diesel, I don't know how you have put up with us and come to think of it how we have put up with you  :LOL:

Seriously, and without trying to sound too creepy, you are a splendid member of the site and have contributed in ways that I couldn't have predicted.

Thanks for being here  :thumbsup: 

PS its my go on the puzzles, sorry for my slackness.

PPS legion just posted even though she is turned off  :scratch-head:.   

Happy anniversary, Diesel! May we continue to enjoy your presence (and you ours) for many more years to come. In a medium where the usual "member lifespan" is measured in months, rather than years, that's saying something, I think. :)

Grats  :thumbsup:

Well done for putting up with us (me?) for a whole year.

My fav anecdote of yours I use is your password being 'please', seeing as your kids never use it. It always get a smile/wry grin.

Here's something I just dredged up on YT : Ghost caught on timelaps video! *RARE FOTAGE*

FOTAGE ? That sounds rude.

Ghost caught on timelaps video! *RARE FOTAGE* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5qzOC3-Jg#ws)



I don't know about you guys but throughout my life I have thought that these are called reflections...

Quote from: Snowcrash on November 22, 2011, 18:02:26 PM
Well done for putting up with us (me?) for a whole year.

My fav anecdote of yours I use is your password being 'please', seeing as your kids never use it. It always get a smile/wry grin.

Well Snowy, I am very pleased that, in some small way, I have enhanced your social interactivity, I have many more anecdotes I could post for you if you like. (OK maybe not then.)  :D

Thanks to you all for your help and support during the past year, some of your posts have just simply flown straight over my head and, with just a little effort on my part, they should stay that way !!!.  :LOL:

Here's to our next year.  :cheers:

Do you know Freddy, you can almost hear that guy saying " Who's that poncing around with a Video camera outside my double glazed window ?". Shocking, purely shocking.  :-X

QuoteI don't know about you guys but throughout my life I have thought that these are called reflections...

Yeah, that's what I used to call them, too. But that was *RARE FOTAGE* of a *timelaps* movie, so it would appear that wee wur rong.

Here you go Dave, if you thought that last Vid was good, check this one out.

Wherever I Lay My Hat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5tZp8pFuA4#)

My most humble thanks, Diesel. That vid made my day. :)

No no, really. I loved it! Honest! :)

What's that you say, never, ever take Dave serious.  :LOL: :rofl:

Yeah, I vaguely recall having mentioned that a time or two, in passing. :)

If flying is statisticaly the safest way to Die, then why do you leave via a Terminal.  :scratch-head:

Flying is only the safest way to fly if you do it by miles travelled.

If you do it by journey, then it's about the same as a car.

Diesel's done it again, Incomplete Idiot status to the first degree. I got some nice new glasses today and whilst sitting here looking at my monitor thinking, these are OK except the left lense doesn't seem quite as good as the right, I've just discovered that there is a small sticker on it.  :-[

Have removed sticker now, can't read what it say's though, probably, "Remove Before Use".  :Head-Slap:

DOH

Thanks Diesel, that brought a huge smile to my face  :D

too funny Diesel  lol

My Mum laughed and laughed. Grandma just didn't understand, and I just smiled, shook my head, and said, "Yup! that's Diesel!" :P

Good one Diesel  :LOL:, got to say, the site would be the same without our Diesel  :D  

Quote from: Data on April 14, 2012, 10:48:55 AM
Good one Diesel  :LOL:, got to say, the site would be the same without our Diesel  :D  

I assume you meant "wouldn't".

In fact, putting a word in that makes it the opposite of what you were trying to say, could be reason for a spell in jail?

Hehe  :LOL:, that was a classic typo, especially for this topic. Worth a spell in jail, could be. 

Just a thought, the chat room makes a sound when someone leaves, Enterprise doors I believe, what I was wondering, does it still make the same noise if no one is present to hear it and, if so, why.  :scratch-head:

Answers on a post card please.

Is this the same as the tree falling making a sound in the woods if no-one is there to hear it type thing Diesel?

I'm not sure if that made sense, after 5 bottles of Ruddles my brain is somewhat of a muddle  :LOL:

I think Legion would hear it ;)

  All that reading, it's someone's birthday,  Idiot  sometimes I feel that way so I'll generalize and say everyone feels like that at times.  I will say I do still learn, I feel I should have known this stuff ages ago but I do learn things I've been interested in ages ago and have just gotten around to finding the answers.  Maybe the answere didn't exist then, maybe the internet makes it easier to get answers. Maybe the answer is wrong.
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Now, I'm not sure if I have got this completely right, (what do you mean Snowcrash), but have NASA just landed Data's Rover on Mars ?. Clearly, they must have seen the  potential in that little car given we have proof that it can indeed tow a Space Shuttle.

If so, way to go Data, you kept that quiet.  :P

Glad I'm not paying for the fuel bill.

Where's the nearest fuel station?

I'm not completely sure, but I think it's the Extratorrestial Space Station Out-Post or ESSO for short.  :thumbsup:

I have always wondered what ESSO stood for, now I know, many thanks Diesel  :thumbsup:  :D     

Quote from: Diesel on August 06, 2012, 17:20:16 PM
I'm not completely sure, but I think it's the Extratorrestial Space Station Out-Post or ESSO for short.  :thumbsup:

:rofl:

:-\

Amazing isn't, we send a machine to Mars, land it safely and start to take pictures. What else do we do, we pollute the place with our rubbish, see here.



Just look at the amount of debris we have left behind.

No wonder the Clangers hated us so much.  :P

Shall we start a "Keep Mars Tidy" campaign Diesel?  :P

What NASA didn't tell is that the NEXT mission is a Transitory Recovery And Shuttle Home vehicle or
TRASH vehicle.
Oddly enough it IS shaped pretty much like one of earth's many TRASH trucks and even has
capabilities for return launch when desired. (They might wish to allow it to stay for a while in case
any other "missions" happen.
I'd enclose a photo but I'd hate to ruin their disguise (pssst...it looks exactly like a trash, refuse,
garbage or debris truck, as the case may be). :)

I really should get out more.... :LOL:

LOL Art, it makes perfect sense to me.  :D

Maybe I should get out more too.  :scratch-head:

don't bother,  I went out,  nothing new,  waste of time.  back home now,  happy.  :)

Take a look at this, I've traversed from a one year old Knight to a two year old Baron, this time next year I shall be a three year old No Title.  :D

Where did the last year go ?. (Personally, I drank it.  :P) It's not been a very good year for our membership, with Accidents, Sickness and General Decay, the latter being me, however, let's raise a combined Toast to a Brighter, Pain Free Future for all, CHEERS.  :cheers: :hats-off:

(Diesels Toast consisted of H2O on the Rocks, I know I shouldn't do it, but it is a special occasion.  :thumbsup:)

Quote from: Diesel on November 21, 2012, 09:06:57 AM
let's raise a combined Toast to a Brighter, Pain Free Future for all, CHEERS.  :cheers: :hats-off:

I second that and raise my morning coffee, tried it with ice but it was a complete failure, Ice melted, coffee got cold.

What an idiot I am.  :( 

Oh and congrats on your two year stint here Diesel, its been .. interesting :)

congrats and   :cheers:

Yes quite a big chunk of the year is something to forget, but it's always been good to pop in here and get cheered up.  ;D

My thoughts mirror Freddy's, as they often (but not always, thank God!) do. I don't recall what date I first joined... gonna have to look. :)

Looks like I've been here nearly a year and a half, having joined in June of '11. :)

OK here's my contribution to the thread.

I was in Morrison's (supermarket) the other day and picked up some of their whole nut peanut butter.  Upon examining the label I was slightly perplexed by this : "Warning : may contain nuts."

Seriously that was on the jar - I WANT nuts in it lol !  What are the odds on peanut butter containing nuts ?

Also today I had one of their pizzas and similarly it warns : "May contain nuts and peanuts."

Don't they know what's in it ?

:scratch-head:

Check out the wrapper on a Snickers Bar or even a Bar of Fruit and NUT, you will find the same warning.

Litigation society we live in I'm afraid.  :scratch-head:

You kn ow the really sad thing guys, i've seen the same warning on a packet of peanuts.......seriously if there werent nuts in the damned packet I'd be suing someone!!!!!

Funny but the other day at work, I glanced at a friend's plastic quart bottle of PEACH TEA.

In fine print under the title words it said, "Contains No Peach Juice."

WTF? Well just WHAT does it contain then? I thought to myself.

Things are just getting way too weird.

I thought this was amusing bearing in mind, our hands are very simular to the Great Ape's. How often do you see them in a Boxing Ring. I have seen a Great Ape knock over nearly a dozen bikers before though. (Right turn Clyde)




My hands have been shaped over the years by badly worn/fitting spanners and poor hand/eye coordination when using a Lump Hammer and Chisel.  ;)

Of late there have been some great News Head Lines when taken literally in my pea brain, mean something completely different. For example, this one today.


Now to me, what this means is, if you are a Badger and can fly a plane, you had better move out of Somerset and Gloustershire for fear of being shot.  :P

I like this development.



As a man of vast knowledge and wisdom Snowy, do you think that if I should fit a Hydrogen Cell to my car, I could run it from the body-work just by making it wet.  :scratch-head:

As long as you don't want to make any long journeys and have a rust coloured car, yes.  :D
The telling bit is it converts 15% of sunlight. PVs are up to about 35% but obviously cost more.
Interesting though, hopefully they can make it into a working tech.

The problems remain on charge time, filling up or generating hydrogen (micro gen), manufacture cost of all items. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels are very energy dense and efficient to move around. Oil is about 60:1 energy (for every 1 you put in you get 60 out). All other fuels are much more marginal. Not to mention all the oil magnates who want to continue to see there profits.