During WW2, the Japanese super-battleship (and Naval white elephant) Yamato was hidden in dock behind a vast wall of sacking held up on self-supporting bamboo scaffolding. Photos of it are most impressive.
Scaffolding used in the Medway Area
Sep 27, 2009
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LOL!
F*ck off, you're as funny as a smirking schoolboy (eg not very)
In message , Tim Lamb writes
Wossem, then ?
having had an Indonesian take a 5m dish up the frame of a 50m tower with it roped around his neck and wearing a pair of flip flops
Steve,
I bet you really were once "a smirking schoolboy" yourself (or perhaps you still are), but as another Medway fan with a bad sense of humour - perhaps this will suit you? *eg*
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Nanny state ...
I found it surprising that India is trying to phase this sort of thing out - see here:
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there's an opportunity here for the uk.d-i-yers to invent something good and win the prize.
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Angle grinder - on a long stick?
In message , geoff writes
Just think, if we could export elfin safety, we could stop the rest of the world and regain our empire:-)
regards
I can just see it. A brigade of the Ist Regiment Royal Scaftags, a long thin line of blokes called Clive in Hi Vis vests. Preeeesent Clipboards! Front rank - wait for it - fix ball points!
As in, "I am just off out to angle grind me nuts off"? ;-)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Unbeliever" saying something like:
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