Blue water from immersion tank

[Dave Baker]

Nah. Sorry but you were just at the back of the queue when god was handing out the eyes that day :) Most of the rest of us colour-blind people see like owls in the dark. We also tend to have very good ears. I can hear a flea farting at fifty paces.

There's actually a tribe somewhere who are all completely colour-blind, they only see gray scales, and their eyes are so sensitive to light they have to wear goggles during the day. At night they see almost as well as normal people do during the day. There was a prog on the telly about them some time ago but I can't remember the details. Google probably knows about them. I might have a look.

-- Dave Baker Puma Race Engines

Camp USA engineer minces about for high performance specialist (4,4,7)

[Owain]

Yes, it's "oh. Sock drawer empty. Must do a socks wash".

Owain

[The Medway Handyman]

Not just me then. I recently culled my socks & replaced the whole lot with the same brand.

[Derek Geldard]

Then you're operating a "Push Down List" not a "FIFO".

;-)

DG

[Andy Hall]

That was just a move to prevent your being given some for Christmas. ;-)

[kimble]

It's futile. Socks are sneaky wee buggers, and will relish any opportunity to hide and escape the wash/wear cycle. Sadly, they rarely do this in pairs...

Kim.

[Owain]

It doesn't matter; as all my socks are identical anyway I don't need to pair them. If, when I put them on, I notice that one sock is getting stretched to fit a particular foot I put it on the other foot to stretch it back to a more neutral shape.

This also avoids the Big Toe Hole problem without darning.

Doesn't every single man live life this way?

Owain

[Tony Bryer]

I certainly do: six identical pairs bought at a time with unconfusable patterns.

[kimble]

...thus proving my original point.

Or at least demonstrating that I'm a bit obsessive.

Or something.

Kim.

[The Medway Handyman]

Should have thought of this earlier - how did you manage to get an entire shopping centre into an immersion tank?

[Owain]

Phew. I'm glad I'm not odd.

Six? Do you wear sandals on Sundays, or just re-use Saturdays'?

Owain

[Andy Hall]

Set it adrift in the estuary?

[Owain]

Don't they have a big one at one of the film studios? Wasn't that where they tested the bouncing bomb?

It's a tempting thought...

Owain

[Brian Sharrock]

Very hazy memory/ (urban myth?) had the bouncing bomb tests in the '(then) National Physics Laboratory Ship Testing Tank (it was fully instrumented) just south of Heathrow (then just a small airfield).

[Andy Hall]

just south of Heathrow (then just a small airfield).

It still is.......

I only think otherwise when walking to one of the high numbered gates in any terminal (apart from 2) and the conveyor belt is broken. Again. I think there should be a discount in those cases since one will have walked part of the way to the destination.

[Bob Eager]

The larger models (and the full size shells) were tested, with real aeroplanes of course, just a couple of miles from where I'm sitting. People still occasionally find fragments of casing at low tide.

[Brian Sharrock]

Don't confuse snall with overcrowded!

Why do people in first class pay more? After all, they get to the destination faster than the folks sitting two-three hundred feet back from the nose ~ _and_ the folks in 'cattle class' have to walk further boarding and deplaning!

[Andy Hall]

True. I get very frustrated with the overcrowding in the land side departures and arrivals areas. Why it takes 12 people, with hangers on, grannies, aunts and all the rest of it to welcome or bid farewell to each departing and arriving passenger, I don't know. Then there are the people with no spacial awareness wandering aimlessly about and right in front of where one wants to walk in a straight line. Finally there are the people who travel once a year, have no clue about on line check-in and security controls and slow everything down.

Well... it's certainly not for the catering. The first class lounges at the airport are useful for getting work done, however, in that they are reasonably quiet.

[Brian Sharrock]

I wouldn't mind about encountering these people at an airport .... but, why do they have to practise congregating at the 'ten items or less' checkout at the supermarket?

These folks practise by pottering along an otherwise empty motorway in the centre lane!

And .... their close cousins who decide _after_ they get onto a bus that the driver.conducter requires payment and get their purses - the 'men(?) with those peculiar continental coin thingies, are worse - then fumble about making up the fare with pennies!

Ah! I've only travelled 'First' class yonks ago .... a 'new' airline called 'World Air' started a Gatwick-Baltimore service with a marketing gimmick of styling their 'First' class as 'World' class. The price was equivalent to the then BA 'Y' class for LHR~Dulles. We managed to book a party of four onto this service but encountered great difficulty when 'clearing' our expenses both with the company's internal 'accounts' dept and the local Tax Inspector (who wondered aloud why he should 'allow' this expense for first class travel while he had to travel into the office by 'bus!)

[Andy Hall]

.. only (not to) be told that the checkout is for ten items or less. They usually write cheques as well.

That's the ones.

.. because there's a sign saying "correct money only please".

Hmm,... don't remember that one.

It's not really his job to allow that or not. The only thing he should be looking for is expenses claimed and trips not taken.