WhiskyLassie
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It was the way it said the aircraft would land every 20 secondsMorning all
I see the whole flights debacle was a bug in the system.
£100m lost.. will someone lose their job??
We laugh at crimplene now, but all those manufactured yarns of the 1960s came as quite a revelation. They made relatively tough fabrics that were easy to wash, didn't need ironing, the water didn't 'stick' to them like with cotton so you just hung them up and they dried quickly, they held onto their colour and didn't fade, and you could manufacture creases and pleats that would recover time after time and didn't have to be ironed in after every wash. At a time in history when doing the laundry took up a good deal of the time devoted to domestic labour in many households, this was revolutionary. All those A line mini dresses and brightly coloured shirts favoured in Mod fashion became possible, and the world changed forever.
There was a downside to that. The military started using man made fabrics for some of their clothing. Which became a big problem during the Falklands conflict. The fabrics the servicemen were wearing melted and held a lot of heat when they were caught in fires on board the ships. Caused a lot of severe injuries over and above what they would have got from wearing natural fabrics.
But surely all the problems that were so devastating in that conflict were not the fault of the fabric but by its inapproprite use by the military when designing and making the clothing. As usual, economy meant that the pros out-weighed the cons and the results were tragic.
Glasgie
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No just me,
Does EVERYONE on here speak Scottish??Too gallus for me. Most of the time my dress style could get me arrested for vagrancy.
Had to look this one up too.
Crimplene, can you still buy that stuff?
W bores me continuously with this, "They should have tested properly, with a proper IT auditor, not one who just............."Morning all
I see the whole flights debacle was a bug in the system.
£100m lost.. will someone lose their job??
(Sorry fell asleep there.)
"You have to test the test sheets" etc etc, "It's quite simple, the banks are always doing this they like to cut corners they are too mean to hire IT auditors............." and so it goes on.
However she does still get calls for contracts 13 years after she retired.
I have a mate who stopped working for I think it was Marconi. Working on progamming stuff for fighter jets. He couldn't sign off any more on stuff that hadn't been properly tested. It nearly gave him a nervous breakdown.
And you'd go to a night club and watch the sweat running off the girls' tight dresses!!!
Nylon shirts,(my school uniform!) even worse nylon sheets!!!
Wouldn't want to live through that again!!
But yep they were practical.
and some fabrics were better than others. I can remember reps with crimplene suits who slung them in the washing machine, took them out, drip dried them over the bath and put them back on again. But W has been praising the clothes her mum made for her from them as a little girl.
I was once a product tester. What shocked me was that everybody else in the dept was doing "positive testing" to prove it worked and I was the only one doing "negative testing" to prove it failed.
The developers gave up in the end and ran all their internal test-plans past me before they released the "new" version into "production testing". Great Fun.
In later life working in the Financial Services Sector every new release had to be thoroughly tested and there always had to be a "rollback-plan" in case anything went screwy. People lost their jobs when things failed.
And you take care!
Is it laminated glass?
... I have just bought some Wireless & bluetooth speakers.
My old ones have given up the ghost after 10 years and I found these new JBL ones at a very good price.
Whether they will work with the Digital Jukebox or not I am unsure. But I must have something, at worst they will be Spotify streaming music speakers instead.
My old ones have given up the ghost after 10 years and I found these new JBL ones at a very good price.
Whether they will work with the Digital Jukebox or not I am unsure. But I must have something, at worst they will be Spotify streaming music speakers instead.
and W says "How many banks recently have had huge fails? (She worked for many of them including all of the big 4). They still won't pay for proper testing!"
Sounds like you and her could have a good natter!!
Not that brave mate
It's plastic so cutting with an angle grinder with a slim disc, melted residue just chips off to leave a clean cut
Might just make templates today and cut tomorrow at home as I have plenty of time and wont be distracted doing other little jobs that take my fancy instead of getting on with the difficult stuff.
Little truck is at my brothers place and I have plasterer coming tomorrow.
Little trailer finished at last
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She told me that IT auditors were hated for exactly that reason, and yes as a result of her testing and audits people did get demoted or put on disciplinaries etc. The hilarious thing was when she put a report in and the idiot managers and executives who new ZIP about it challenged her findings, based on nothing.
She was once working for Toyota Financial Services International, every country had its own systems or setups, she insisted that what she was telling them in Italy was correct, when they argued she demanded that they got people in from IBM to prove it one way or another. They did so.
The head of European Banking for Toyota also flew in from Germany, and gave her a big metaphorical slap on the back for getting it right. It can't have been difficult for them to find as they had switched off all their security to make the system work! The IT manager got a demotion and moved out of IT and then, a bit of a twist of the knife, they sent her back in again to check the security was still working once IBM got it working!!
Good on you, much safer! Though you could take a template to a glass cutting place and they'd do it for you, but that isn't so satisfying as doing it yourself.Not that brave mate
It's plastic so cutting with an angle grinder with a slim disc, melted residue just chips off to leave a clean cut
Might just make templates today and cut tomorrow at home as I have plenty of time and wont be distracted doing other little jobs that take my fancy instead of getting on with the difficult stuff.
Little truck is at my brothers place and I have plasterer coming tomorrow.
Little trailer finished at last
Love the way you keep referring to it as a "little truck, little trailer" to me, as a replica type thing it is flipping big, what scale is it? I'm sure you told us but i has forgottid!
Scale is a little above one third, some parts not to scale but just so it looks right.Good on you, much safer! Though you could take a template to a glass cutting place and they'd do it for you, but that isn't so satisfying as doing it yourself.
Love the way you keep referring to it as a "little truck, little trailer" to me, as a replica type thing it is flipping big, what scale is it? I'm sure you told us but i has forgottid!
Little Truck is just over 10 feet long and three feet wide
Little Trailer is nine feet long plus drawbar so about eleven feet in all
I've tried to get everything in the right place on the chassis so no one can take the **** saying this or that is wrong
I've also tried to put as much detail as I can like spare wheel carrier batteries and fuel tanks
Struggling to find a large air tank to match this one below the battery box, I have old mig bottles but they're wrong for the DAF
I must be mad
