Today I Heard.....

Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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... the following conversation in the pub.

Chap walks in and orders a drink.

"Who's that behind the bar?"

"That's Willie's daughter" (i.e., the landlord's niece)

"Oh, how old is she now?"

"Twenty."

"Oh, how many kids has he?"

"Two, a boy and a girl. They're twins"

"Oh, how old is the lad?"

He then spent fully twenty seconds wondering why none of us had answered him...
 
Thehooperman

Thehooperman

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Whilst listening to the news but not really watching I heard a sports newsreader talking about the six nations say "the Welsh hit rock bottom if they lose today".

He said the Welsh and hit very quickly and it sounded somewhat different to what he actually meant 😂
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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A cuckoo - or more than one, probably.

If it was just one, then he has a lot of spare time on his hands.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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... many comments about local characters in the pub last night.

The one that topped it all came from our local councillor, who didn't arrive until midnight, so it really was today by then.

It concerned a chap who worked in the local meat factory, in the most gruesome part of the whole place, and he became steadily inured to the carnage all around him.

"You would see him, having his tea and sandwiches, sitting on a warm carcass. He didn't smell much, but his arms were always green".
 
Gramaisc

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.. these people, talking.

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Which people, you say?

These people, right over at the far corner of the lake. Being a bit lower down, coupled with the shape of the hill, meant that the air here was absolutely still. Utter silence, other than them talking. We could actually make out some of what was being said and they were just talking, not shouting. Possibly also aided by the 'hard plane' of the water and the shape of the hillside.

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Google Maps gave the horizontal distance, Google Earth the difference in height and then Pythagoras gave the resulting hypotenuse distance at something like 600 metres.
 
Thehooperman

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Actually, it was yesterday that I heard the fireman of a steam engine in South Wales complaining because the railway had been forced to buy coal for the engine from Kazakhstan thanks to the Welsh Assembly!

Talk about taking coals to Newcastle 😂
 
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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Thehooperman said:
Actually, it was yesterday that I heard the fireman of a steam engine in South Wales complaining because the railway had been forced to buy coal for the engine from Kazakhstan thanks to the Welsh Assembly!

Talk about taking coals to Newcastle 😂
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I went on a train experience thingamabob last year in Avimore - the chaps were complaining the coal was imported from Poland and was such terrible quality.

So poor we actually broke down twice - I wasn't complaining I got a good extra hour!!
 
Gramaisc

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... that the chargers for electric cars become dangerously radioactive over time, this seems to be due to the electricity creating a magnetic field that attracts radioactivity. Even with a new electric charger, standing at 25 feet from it for three minutes would get you the daily dose that is at the threshold of danger.

Even worse, this also happens with solar panels and the generators in wind turbines.

For some (completely unexplained) reason, this doesn't seem to happen to generators in thermal power stations or even the alternators in fossil fuel driven cars.

Phew.

I didn't want to get too involved in the 'discussion', but I thought about asking if a tinfoil hat would help in that situation.

Then I decided not to.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Gramaisc said:
... that the chargers for electric cars become dangerously radioactive over time, this seems to be due to the electricity creating a magnetic field that attracts radioactivity. Even with a new electric charger, standing at 25 feet from it for three minutes would get you the daily dose that is at the threshold of danger.

Even worse, this also happens with solar panels and the generators in wind turbines.

For some (completely unexplained) reason, this doesn't seem to happen to generators in thermal power stations or even the alternators in fossil fuel driven cars.

Phew.

I didn't want to get too involved in the 'discussion', but I thought about asking if a tinfoil hat would help in that situation.

Then I decided not to.
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Do they read the Telegraph in Ireland too perchance?
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Gramaisc said:
... that the chargers for electric cars become dangerously radioactive over time, this seems to be due to the electricity creating a magnetic field that attracts radioactivity. Even with a new electric charger, standing at 25 feet from it for three minutes would get you the daily dose that is at the threshold of danger.

Even worse, this also happens with solar panels and the generators in wind turbines.

For some (completely unexplained) reason, this doesn't seem to happen to generators in thermal power stations or even the alternators in fossil fuel driven cars.

Phew.

I didn't want to get too involved in the 'discussion', but I thought about asking if a tinfoil hat would help in that situation.

Then I decided not to.
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That's why we always charge our cars wearing full hazmat gear. People always look and point at us when using public chargers, I assume because they think we look cool.
 
gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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Having worked on various windfarm projects, albeit not on the deeply technical side, I've never heard of this radioactive issue, considering I've handled so many studies.
 
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