Is it time to pack in for the day when.....

[A7er]

You very carefully sieve most of the stones out of a shovel full of dirt, and then empty the sieve back into the tub you are saving the sieved dirt in? It was very hot. 

[ShopShoe]

Don't feel too bad.

Last week I was going to help my wife by making eggs for lunch. Carefully chose the eggs. Got a bowl ready for the yolks and whites. Ready to put the shells in the sink. Carefully cracked the egg: didn't leak anything on the counter. Carefully emptied the shell of the whites and yolks into the sink and put the shell in the bowl. Rinse the sink and leave the room.......

ShopShoe

[A7er]

 

[wagnmkr]

Been there and done both of the above

[crueby]

I'm going to stop reading this thread now, just in case the back of my brain tries any of these out on me!!!   

[cnr6400]

After taking a subassy off an old car or truck and dismantling it, don't put the rusty old hardware to be replaced in one hand, and the nice shiny brand new replacement hardware in the other. If you walk to the garbage bin in this condition, if you are like me, you will be left with a mitt full of rusty scrap, a long search in the garbage for the new bits, and some nasty  words! (better said way down in the stoke hold, but sadly, no stoke hold at my house) 

Guess I'll stick to "Tut tut" or "Oh dear" when these kinds of things happen.  

[Craig DeShong]

My turn….

I have been guilty of fabricating a part, we’re talking about several hours of work here, and then mindlessly misplacing it.  It was in my hand just a minute or two ago, where have I put it? 

After searching in vain for over an hour, it’s “make the part again cause I can’t remember where I put the original and can’t seem to find it”.   

These things do eventually turn up, and in the oddest of places.

[BillTodd]

Say no more...

[Jo]

It happens to all of us:



 

Jo

[simplyloco]

My turn….

I have been guilty of fabricating a part, we’re talking about several hours of work here, and then mindlessly misplacing it.  It was in my hand just a minute or two ago, where have I put it? 

After searching in vain for over an hour, it’s “make the part again cause I can’t remember where I put the original and can’t seem to find it”.   

These things do eventually turn up, and in the oddest of places.

I made the Governor actuator for the Stuart Major, invloving several hours work, and promptly lost it and had to make another.
I found it some months later in one of the shallow drawers under the bench which must have been protruding at the time.

I sent it as a gift  to Jim in Australia who is about to start a Major.  He was quite grateful!
John

[steam guy willy]

I was unblocking the sink once by draining the water and blockage out of the u-bend ...I then emptied the water out of the bucket back into the sink.....................>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<. memo to self ...replace the u-bend   next time !!!!! The plan to find lost parts is to always look in the last place first ??!!!

Willy

[crueby]

This all reminds me of the old cartoon of the guy building the canoe...

[A7er]

Visiting a friend one day I noticed that his extention lead had a plug on each end. His son worked on one end while my friend worked on the other. They didn't ask what the other was doing. To make things better, or worse, they made another extention lead with a socket on each end.

[mklotz]

Visiting a friend one day I noticed that his extention lead had a plug on each end. His son worked on one end while my friend worked on the other. They didn't ask what the other was doing. To make things better, or worse, they made another extention lead with a socket on each end.

Of course they did.  Plug one into the other and you have a proper extension cord.

Is "extention" a British spelling? 

[A7er]

Is "extention" a British spelling? 

No, just a poor education and fauxnetic spelling!

[crueby]

Is "extention" a British spelling? 

No, just a poor education and fauxnetic spelling!

Fauxnetic - thats a fake magnet!   

[Michael S.]

Chris, your picture reminds me of the following!

[Vixen]

Chris,

No.... Your poles apart.   

Mike

[mklotz]

Is "extention" a British spelling? 

No, just a poor education and fauxnetic spelling!

Phonetic spelling doesn't work very well in a language where a word like 'fish' can be spelled 'ghoti'.

'gh' from 'enough'
'o' from 'women'
'ti' from 'nation'

[crueby]

Is "extention" a British spelling? 

No, just a poor education and fauxnetic spelling!

Phonetic spelling doesn't work very well in a language where a word like 'fish' can be spelled 'ghoti'.

'gh' from 'enough'
'o' from 'women'
'ti' from 'nation'

Good one!!

Just flashed back to the old Galleger routine where he is discussing the spellings/pronunciation/uses of To, Two, and Too...

[Jo]

Much safer to stick with  ….  ….

We all know Marv  loves them     

Jo

[A7er]

The English language is a bit odd. I just make it a bit odderer. 
It's hard to believe that when I did my mock CSE or O level, can't remember which, I scored 97%. I think they took pity on me. 

[crueby]

The English language is a bit odd. I just make it a bit odderer. 
It's hard to believe that when I did my mock CSE or O level, can't remember which, I scored 97%. I think they took pity on me. 

You made them laugh. That is worth extra points!   

Old comedy bit:
For the final exam of a philosophy course, the teacher put a chair up on his desk, and told the students that the exam was to prove the chair existed. Lots of head scratching, lots of writing, etc. One student took a quick look, wrote one sentence, got up, handed in his paper and left. The teacher was surprised, and took a look at the paper. The student had written:  "What chair?"

[Brendon M]

In my case I did not pack it in soon enough

I had a server computer which malfunctioned, so tried to check if the storage drives were still intact by placing them into my gaming machine which had not been switched on in a while.

Power the machine on and it does not want to boot, I suspect it has somehow been broken by a windows update and will need a reinstall to fix. I want to make a backup of the drive first so I plug it into my other half's machine. And since I have the machine open, I figure I should upgrade the wifi network card as I had promised her. But as I plugged in the new card, the machine briefly powered on because I had apparently forgotten to disconnect the power supply. I go to power the machine on and ... a series of loud beeps. The Minister for Finance's machine no longer boots.

I decided then that now was a good time to stop   

Perhaps the worst part is some time later I discovered I had a usb to harddrive adapter I could have used right from the beginning

[A7er]

Brendon M,
I'm on the edge of my seat wondering about the outcome.

[mklotz]

Much safer to stick with  ….  ….

We all know Marv  loves them     

Jo

Is there one that shows the bobblehead discovering that the word 'lose' is spelled with only one 'o', not two ?  I could use one of those.

[Brendon M]

Brendon M,
I'm on the edge of my seat wondering about the outcome.

Hello

It actually gets worse, but I will get to that... All 3 computers are actually still dead because after what happened to the 4th one, I dont dare touch them lest they burst into flames or worse. However, The Minister for Finance received a brand new laptop that is at least 3 times as powerful as her old desktop.

Anyway, the 4th was an old computer that had RS232 serial ports, so I used it to connect a UPS I was troubleshooting. This machine was running windows 95 to give you an idea of its age.

Unfortunately I tried to hot swap a PS/2 port mouse which I swear was possible but in this case it caused the machine to immediately power off.

And of course, it no longer booted. I let ScanDisk complete a deep cluster scan and it was not until the VERY end of the drive did it detect a damaged sector in an important file called SYSTEM.DAT 

So yeah, I have not touched any machine since

[A7er]

Brendan M,
I miss my Windows 95.  I am not a fan of W10, and won't/can't upgrade to W11. One of my computers still runs W7 and another runs XP. My everyday computer, this one, runs W10. Yuk. 
Just a question, no offence meant. Are you a computer engineer, or just winging it?

[tghs]

I spent some time sunday morning working on the windows for a boat model, they came out ok, but in the scrape pile is a pair that had the circles cut on the inboard side of the frames.. as for spelling and word use my best answer for the UK vs US..
"Two countries separated by a common language"

[Brendon M]

Brendan M,
I miss my Windows 95.  I am not a fan of W10, and won't/can't upgrade to W11. One of my computers still runs W7 and another runs XP. My everyday computer, this one, runs W10. Yuk. 
Just a question, no offence meant. Are you a computer engineer, or just winging it?

I would have thought from all the incompetence displayed in my story it was apparent what industry I work in ... the mechanic's car is the worst maintained, the cobbler's children have no shoes, the IT professional can't fix his own computers etc  not an engineer as such but yes I work in the IT industry

Windows 10 didn't bother me too much, in fact with the right colour schemes windows 3.1 can be made almost indistinguishable from Windows 10 so it is almost nostalgic experience for me.

However, unless Microsoft change their mind about Windows 11 and allow it to be installed on older hardware that does not have the "trusted platform module", I will probably have to finally concede and switch to Linux 

[Lew Hartswick]

Marv that bit
Phonetic spelling doesn't work very well in a language where a word like 'fish' can be spelled 'ghoti'.

'gh' from 'enough'
'o' from 'women'
'ti' from 'nation'
Takes me back about 50 some years to the older engineer in our office. He told me that one.
   ...lew...  I've even used it a few times

[mklotz]

Marv that bit
Phonetic spelling doesn't work very well in a language where a word like 'fish' can be spelled 'ghoti'.

'gh' from 'enough'
'o' from 'women'
'ti' from 'nation'
Takes me back about 50 some years to the older engineer in our office. He told me that one.
   ...lew...  I've even used it a few times

The 'ghoti' spelling is almost universally attributed to George Bernhard Shaw.  However, recent research has found it in articles published before Shaw was born.  Regardless, it's still a wonderful encapsulation of the difficulties of English orthography.

Shaw still remains one of my favorite masters of the pithy (and often barbed) quote...

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Fashion: Nothing but an induced epidemic.

NEWSPAPERS: (A device) unable... to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Democracy substitutes selection by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

[Jo]

Shaw still remains one of my favorite masters of the pithy (and often barbed) quote...

As an American I hope you also appreciate Mark Twain 



Microsoft tells me you have spelt  favorite wrong  Can't be Queen's English 

Jo

[crueby]

Shaw still remains one of my favorite masters of the pithy (and often barbed) quote...

As an American I hope you also appreciate Mark Twain 



Microsoft tells me you have spelt  favorite wrong  Can't be Queen's English 

Jo

I never learned the Queen's English, never met the lady!   

[Jo]

She is a wonderful lady, whose attributes cannot be adequately describe with just words 

She is however a little shorter than you might expect for someone of her status,  but everyone looks up to her

Jo

[Brendon M]

"This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is an Alphabet Grenade... If it goes off, it could spell disaster" - Tim Vine