sniff6 Posted October 25, 2012 Author Posted October 25, 2012 The Durham train trestle has stood its ground for the last 100 years. This fact doesn't deter some drivers from challenging the bridge about once a month. all of them fail. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c0_1351184890 Quote
Moderator drewpy Posted October 25, 2012 Moderator Posted October 25, 2012 kev would bang his head under that bridge Quote
sniff6 Posted October 26, 2012 Author Posted October 26, 2012 Pilot's eye test See if you have what it takes to be a pilot ... If you fail this, they make you a Navigator. Can you focus on the Parrot for 10 seconds? Nah! I did not think so. Not to worry, me neither .... I never wanted to be a friggin 'pilot anyway Quote
Moderator mervin Posted October 26, 2012 Moderator Posted October 26, 2012 A friend of mine once built a canoe. He spent a long time on it and it was a work of art. Almost the final phase was to fill both ends with polyurethane expanding foam. He duly ordered the bits from Mr Glasplies (an excellent purveyor of all things fibreglass) and it arrived in two packs covered with appropriately dire warnings about expansion ratios and some very good notes on how to use it. Unfortunately he had a degree, worse still two of them. One was in Chemistry, so the instructions got thrown away and the other in something mathematical because in a few minutes he was merrily calculating the volume of his craft to many decimal places and the guidelines got binned as well. He propped the canoe up on one end, got a huge tin, carefully measured the calculated amounts of glop, mixed them and quickly poured the mixture in the end of the canoe (The two pack expands very rapidly). I arrived as he was completing this and I looked in to see the end chamber over half full of something Cawdors Witches would have been proud of. Two thing occurred to me, one was the label which said in big letters: "Caution - expansion ration 50:1" (or something similar) and the other that the now empty tins said "approximately enough for 20 small craft" Any comment was drowned out by a sea of yellow brown foam suddenly pouring out of the middle of the canoe and the end of the canoe bursting open. My friend screamed and leapt at his pride and joy which was knocked to the ground as he started trying to bale handfuls of this stuff out with his hands. Knocking the craft over allowed the still liquid and not yet fully expanded foam to flow to the other end of the canoe where it expanded and shattered that end as well. A few seconds later and we had a canoe with two exploded ends, a mountain of solid foam about 4ft high growing out of the middle, and a chemist firmly embedded up to his armpits in it. At this stage he discovered the reaction was exothermic and his hands and arms were getting very hot indeed. Running about in small circles in a confined space while glued to the remains of a fairly large canoe proved ineffective so he resorted to screaming a bit instead. Fortunately a Kukri was to hand so I attacked the foam around his hands with some enthusiasm. The process was hindered by the noise he was making and the fact he was trying to escape while still attached to the canoe. Eventually I managed to hack out a lump of foam still including most of his arms and hands. Unfortunately my tears of laughter were not helping as they accelerated the foam setting. Seeking medical help was obviously out of the question, the embarrassment of having to explain his occupation (Chief Research Chemist at a major petrochemical organisation) would simply never have been lived down. Several hours and much acrimony later we had removed sufficient foam (and much hair) to allow him to move again. However he still looked something like a failed audition for Quasimodo with red burns on his arms and expanded blobs of foam sticking everywhere. My comment that the scalding simple made the hairs the foam was sticking to come out easier was not met with the enthusiasm I felt it deserved. I forgot to add that in retrospect rather unwisely he had set out to do this deed in the hallway of his house (the only place he later explained with sufficient headroom for the canoe - achieved by poking it up the stairwell. Having extricated him we now were faced with the problem of a canoe construction kit embedded in a still gurgling block of foam which was now irrevocably bonded to the hall and stairs carpet as well as several banister rails and quite a lot of wallpaper. At this point his wife and her mother came back from shopping...... Oh yes - and he had been wearing the pullover Mum in law had knitted him for his birthday the week before. 1 Quote
neversaydie Posted October 27, 2012 Posted October 27, 2012 Thats one of those once in a lifetime, never forgotten moments. Hilarious Quote
Sacha Posted October 30, 2012 Posted October 30, 2012 I was devastated to find out my wife was having an affair. But, by turning to religion, I was soon able to come to terms with the whole thing. I converted to Islam and we're stoning her in the morning. Quote
Sacha Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Hahaha... nice moves. Love the kilt and a great looking sporran too. Quote
Moderator mervin Posted November 4, 2012 Moderator Posted November 4, 2012 http://realitywired.com/morally-repressed-mattel-pulls-vibrating-harry-potter-broomstick/ Quote
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