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    03-30-2023, 07:16 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread drones in The Bilge
    Are we not missing a few blades, there? Andy
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    03-30-2023, 07:08 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread AI-what’s the deal? in The Bilge
    Ha. Aha. Ha ha. Lolz. Etc. 4.2 million academic papers were published in English in (the latest data I could quickly find) 2020. Who's going to...
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    03-30-2023, 06:57 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Toaster Just Popped in The Bilge
    Ah, back in 2016, Janey Godley, Glasgow comedienne, did this at Turnberry. (I hope I've posted the cropped version.) Andy, still not...
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    03-30-2023, 06:27 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread AI-what’s the deal? in The Bilge
    Ok. 1/ Ages ago, if you wanted to know anything, you'd join a guild (go to university) and serve an apprenticeship (pick up a doctorate) and be...
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    03-30-2023, 04:45 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread New hearing aid in The Bilge
    Dang. Double post and unremovable. Andy
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    03-30-2023, 04:44 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread New hearing aid in The Bilge
    It's a legal requirement here to fit in a beeper when wiring up a towbar. It beeps when indicating if you're towing anything, to tell you that the...
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    03-29-2023, 02:23 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread What its the best Gin ? in The Bilge
    8.20pm here. Still sober! Douglas Adams: It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that...
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    03-29-2023, 11:06 AM
    AndyG replied to a thread What its the best Gin ? in The Bilge
    From Gin Lane: Gin, cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught, Makes human Race a Prey. It enters by a deadly Draught And steals our Life away. Virtue...
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    03-28-2023, 06:42 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Nashville School Shooting in The Bilge
    Washington Post article. ^ Excellent. Not excellent.
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    03-27-2023, 05:06 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Meth in The Bilge
    ^ Valid point.
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    03-27-2023, 04:34 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Meth in The Bilge
    I worked on the website for a local man who ran a chauffeur business. His mate, another private hire organisation, told me the tale of his website...
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    03-27-2023, 04:25 PM
    I've heard of it. Common knowledge, I thought. 400000km of killer vacuum. Landing with 30" of fuel left. I think "a moment's reflection" is...
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    03-24-2023, 04:54 AM
    AndyG replied to a thread Complaints about acronyms. in The Bilge
    My wife once wrote and recorded a radio advert for a Northern Irish double-glazing company. The brief? "Get 'Fairco McIlhagga' in the thirty...
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    03-21-2023, 07:44 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread liar in The Bilge
    Not most of us. And it only takes a minority to drive the moment. A minority of voters got the UK to leave the EU A minority of voters got the...
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    03-21-2023, 07:33 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread 20 yrs Iraq War in The Bilge
    Utterly this. And so ISIS, and Afghanistan, and etc.; and here, a generation later, is where we are. What a freaking, post-Soviet, WASTE. ...
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    03-21-2023, 05:17 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread 20 yrs Iraq War in The Bilge
    My 1st political march was February 15th, 2003. It was my fortieth birthday. It was huge in Glasgow, larger in London. Easily a million-plus...
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    03-21-2023, 05:03 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread liar in The Bilge
    Oh yeah. Andy
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    03-20-2023, 03:38 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Well Regulated Militia in The Bilge
    Real life story... Following an IT redundancy, in 2009 I took off as an indie IT/web consultant. As a recession hit = Not good. We ultimately...
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    03-20-2023, 03:15 PM
    There's something bloody wrong with our ships today.
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    03-20-2023, 12:12 PM
    "It's a great thing to have a lady aboard with clean habits. It sets the man a good example. A man alone, he gets to living like a hog." Charlie...
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    03-18-2023, 03:59 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    That is naught but an opinion. An opinion that appears to come with some cultural bias. When I was caught in a thunderstorm with ferocious winds...
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    03-18-2023, 03:31 PM
    No Teflon. The O-Ring (if you're not STS-51-L) does all the work. I didn't believe it, for the connection inside my concealed cistern in my...
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    03-17-2023, 03:16 PM
    This. And for what benefit? Andy
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    03-16-2023, 06:51 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    He has yet to prove a Jesus.
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    03-16-2023, 09:15 AM
    AndyG replied to a thread Car insurance renewal in The Bilge
    Fair point. And you could take it further: immobilise it if its untaxed, or has no valid MOT. If the driving license (here, a photo id, not unlike...
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    03-15-2023, 05:13 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Aquitania in The Bilge
    HMS Dreadnought had ungeared turbines powered by steam from coal boilers. 9 October 1906...the 8-hour full power trials... Eighteen boilers....
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    03-15-2023, 03:46 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Moving sucks. in The Bilge
    I've got the twelve books. And, urr, way many more. Andy
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    03-14-2023, 07:44 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    What do you think?
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    03-14-2023, 06:00 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Aquitania in The Bilge
    ...Exactly. Incidentally, Bill Tidy, an awesome British cartoonist, died this week. Here's one of his: Andy
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    03-14-2023, 05:44 PM
    AndyG replied to a thread Aquitania in The Bilge
    When you bang it into reverse to avoid hitting something.
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