thursday decapitating zombie projects

sungod

'ning

start of day comestibles, followed by too many webexes and meetings

cramming them into one day prevents overruns eating into quality time and avoids spoiling other days

lincolndave

Morning, mild and misty, bike needs a good clean and lub after yesterday’s ride, best get the decorations down as well
Have a good day

oxoman

Morning. Tad cool again with white stuff on screen requiring scraping off. Steady day on bike today once family dispatched and mutt walked. Maybe still do night ride as well. Sadly work tomorrow.

tlw1

WFH but unfortunately so is the wife, so I’ve had to cancel the hookers and blow.

Later is parents evening

oxoman

TLW, surely you just invite the OH and your sorted.

Stevo_666

oxoman said:

TLW, surely you just invite the OH and your sorted.

He wouldn't have to pay her either, so win-win.

Similarly busy day with lots of call and meetings, but it keeps Friday pretty clear.

sungod

very scenic red dawn from gmc towers, rising sun shining up under the low cloud, misty over hyde park, crystal palace transmitter in the distance

time for another coffee

step83

Morning, no sign of dawn here just thick fog. Made some mince pies last night with some highly flammable sweet mince.
Another day playing webex wheel of doom then home.

pinno

Dawn? It's dull here. Full headlights to school job. Bring back High pressure, sunshine and frosts. I blame Brexit.
TLW: 'Scraping' bwahahaha... Boil half a kettle, fill it up with cold water and pour. If you are worried this may crack your glass, then I have done this for years, I have also done this recently to Porker #2 when the garage was inaccessible and never once had a problem.

Today will be meeting no.6 with architect, enduring xmas Carol's at school and generally stuffing my face with a few sacrificial mince pies.

Laters.

haydenm

Morning, more budgets and slavery. Group video call after 5pm which means I will be working late as I have all week but I won't actually get anything done. The only glimmer of joy I have had this week is booking flights for the honeymoon in April, the OH seems quite excited. Oh and my colleague finding a condom full of gone off milk in his top drawer, that has high quality amusement

homers_double

Desk jockey today, might purchase more twinkly lights on the way home.

Anyone got any recommends on an outdoor waterproof timer that'll fit in to a covered outdoor socket? It's RCD protected at source so that's covered, I just can't be bothered going out to switch lights on in the morning and at night.

Wheelspinner

Fairly quiet day. Picked up a small fortune's worth of light fittings for the renovated rooms downstairs, sparky turns up tomorrow hopefully. Birthday lunch of a toasted sandwich and coffee. Pizza for dinner.

Still blowing a strong breeze to a gale here, not stopped in weeks

hopkinb

Wheelspinner said:

Birthday lunch of a toasted sandwich and coffee. Pizza for dinner.

Happy birthday! Assuming it's yours of course. Surely you'll crack open a nice bottle to accompany the pizza?

Wheelspinner

hopkinb said:

Wheelspinner said:

Birthday lunch of a toasted sandwich and coffee. Pizza for dinner.

Happy birthday! Assuming it's yours of course. Surely you'll crack open a nice bottle to accompany the pizza?

Thank you, yep me, one step closer to decrepitude...

We had friends over a couple nights ago which was a few wines too many. Simple stuff today, just a cheeky little shiraz or 3.

Got given a bottle of this today
Really luscious whisky

Well worth a try, even if it might be deemed heresy in the UK!

thistle_

haydenm said:

Morning, more budgets and slavery. Group video call after 5pm which means I will be working late as I have all week but I won't actually get anything done. The only glimmer of joy I have had this week is booking flights for the honeymoon in April, the OH seems quite excited. Oh and my colleague finding a condom full of gone off milk in his top drawer, that has high quality amusement

Are you sure it was milk?
Trick noted for including in the ongoing escape plan.

We have a rule here that came from the dude at the the top that meetings can't be scheduled to start less than 30 mins before home time. It's regularly ignored though

haydenm

thistle_(mbnw) said:

haydenm said:

Morning, more budgets and slavery. Group video call after 5pm which means I will be working late as I have all week but I won't actually get anything done. The only glimmer of joy I have had this week is booking flights for the honeymoon in April, the OH seems quite excited. Oh and my colleague finding a condom full of gone off milk in his top drawer, that has high quality amusement

Are you sure it was milk?

I have insider information that it was indeed milk. It was also stretched over his water bottle, with the tip full of milk. The time condoms were involved in pranks he was driving about for 2 weeks with one stretched over his towbar



EDIT: It absolutely couldn't have been me as I was in a Pizza Express in Woking that day, and I don't lactate due to a rare medical condition I got whilst fighting in the Falklands. I also went to see the world famous 123m tall spire of Salisbury Cathedral.

pinno

Wheelspinner said:

Thank you, yep me, one step closer to decrepitude...

'Step closer'?!

HB WS nonetheless.

awavey

pinno said:

Dawn? It's dull here. Full headlights to school job. Bring back High pressure, sunshine and frosts. I blame Brexit.
TLW: 'Scraping' bwahahaha... Boil half a kettle, fill it up with cold water and pour. If you are worried this may crack your glass, then I have done this for years, I have also done this recently to Porker #2 when the garage was inaccessible and never once had a problem.

Today will be meeting no.6 with architect, enduring xmas Carol's at school and generally stuffing my face with a few sacrificial mince pies.

Laters.

it wont crack your glass instantly, but it will cause thermal shock in the glass because the water temp is vastly different to the frozen windscreen, and it then becomes prone to cracking more likely over time, so you might find the stone that hits the windscreen cracks it,instead of chipping it slightly.

Its just like that glass I put in the washing up bowl and the bottom just cracked off it and fell off,and Ive seen it happen loads of times in pubs too because of dishwasher temps the glasses look totally fine, and then get knocked slightly and they just fall apart.

pinno

awavey said:

pinno said:

Dawn? It's dull here. Full headlights to school job. Bring back High pressure, sunshine and frosts. I blame Brexit.
TLW: 'Scraping' bwahahaha... Boil half a kettle, fill it up with cold water and pour. If you are worried this may crack your glass, then I have done this for years, I have also done this recently to Porker #2 when the garage was inaccessible and never once had a problem.

Today will be meeting no.6 with architect, enduring xmas Carol's at school and generally stuffing my face with a few sacrificial mince pies.

Laters.

it wont crack your glass instantly, but it will cause thermal shock in the glass because the water temp is vastly different to the frozen windscreen, and it then becomes prone to cracking more likely over time, so you might find the stone that hits the windscreen cracks it,instead of chipping it slightly.

Its just like that glass I put in the washing up bowl and the bottom just cracked off it and fell off,and Ive seen it happen loads of times in pubs too because of dishwasher temps the glasses look totally fine, and then get knocked slightly and they just fall apart.

Windscreen glass is highly tempered. If you have boil half a kettle and fill it, the temp is max 50 deg c.
Max in the -ve? Say, -5... that's a difference of 55 deg.

Dishwasher temp - I worked in bars and in catering, seen it too, 70 deg + on untempered glass to cold water.

You would therefore have to prove your theory sir.

Wheelspinner

pinno said:

awavey said:

Awavey wrote stuff...

Windscreen glass is highly tempered. If you have boil half a kettle and fill it, the temp is max 50 deg c.
Max in the -ve? Say, -5... that's a difference of 55 deg.

Dishwasher temp - I worked in bars and in catering, seen it too, 70 deg + on untempered glass to cold water.

You would therefore have to prove your theory sir.

Or possibly Madam might be more appropriate?

orraloon

Ker-ching.

Unlike Pinno to be blinkered. 😊

awavey

pinno said:

awavey said:

pinno said:

Dawn? It's dull here. Full headlights to school job. Bring back High pressure, sunshine and frosts. I blame Brexit.
TLW: 'Scraping' bwahahaha... Boil half a kettle, fill it up with cold water and pour. If you are worried this may crack your glass, then I have done this for years, I have also done this recently to Porker #2 when the garage was inaccessible and never once had a problem.

Today will be meeting no.6 with architect, enduring xmas Carol's at school and generally stuffing my face with a few sacrificial mince pies.

Laters.

it wont crack your glass instantly, but it will cause thermal shock in the glass because the water temp is vastly different to the frozen windscreen, and it then becomes prone to cracking more likely over time, so you might find the stone that hits the windscreen cracks it,instead of chipping it slightly.

Its just like that glass I put in the washing up bowl and the bottom just cracked off it and fell off,and Ive seen it happen loads of times in pubs too because of dishwasher temps the glasses look totally fine, and then get knocked slightly and they just fall apart.

Windscreen glass is highly tempered. If you have boil half a kettle and fill it, the temp is max 50 deg c.
Max in the -ve? Say, -5... that's a difference of 55 deg.

Dishwasher temp - I worked in bars and in catering, seen it too, 70 deg + on untempered glass to cold water.

You would therefore have to prove your theory sir.

sir ? swearbox, regardless I cant prove my theory,all I can say is I will never put boiling water on a car windscreen when its freezing to clear it

hopkinb

Cold water from the tap should clear it, what with that being at least 10 degrees above freezing. I dunno, I don't need a car in the morning, and the one I do have has a heated front windscreen, which is excellent.

pinno

awavey said:

pinno said:

awavey said:

pinno said:

Dawn? It's dull here. Full headlights to school job. Bring back High pressure, sunshine and frosts. I blame Brexit.
TLW: 'Scraping' bwahahaha... Boil half a kettle, fill it up with cold water and pour. If you are worried this may crack your glass, then I have done this for years, I have also done this recently to Porker #2 when the garage was inaccessible and never once had a problem.

Today will be meeting no.6 with architect, enduring xmas Carol's at school and generally stuffing my face with a few sacrificial mince pies.

Laters.

it wont crack your glass instantly, but it will cause thermal shock in the glass because the water temp is vastly different to the frozen windscreen, and it then becomes prone to cracking more likely over time, so you might find the stone that hits the windscreen cracks it,instead of chipping it slightly.

Its just like that glass I put in the washing up bowl and the bottom just cracked off it and fell off,and Ive seen it happen loads of times in pubs too because of dishwasher temps the glasses look totally fine, and then get knocked slightly and they just fall apart.

Windscreen glass is highly tempered. If you have boil half a kettle and fill it, the temp is max 50 deg c.
Max in the -ve? Say, -5... that's a difference of 55 deg.

Dishwasher temp - I worked in bars and in catering, seen it too, 70 deg + on untempered glass to cold water.

You would therefore have to prove your theory sir.

sir ? swearbox, regardless I cant prove my theory,all I can say is I will never put boiling water on a car windscreen when its freezing to clear it

But but but (madam*), I boil HALF a kettle and then fill it up with cold water... So I don't put BOILING water on it.

Jeezo...

*Yes, i'm aware of that WS.

oxoman

Either way if a slight flaw, chip in screen and its frozen if you put hot water on it can cause a thermal shock. Thus causing cracks. Either heated screens or de-icer at the answer.

Stevo_666

Decent ice scraper is also quite handy...

veronese68

Stevo advocating manual labour is quite correct, I’ve never poured water onto a windscreen. Or does he mean a man to do the scraping for him?
Saying that I do like the heated screen on the Frod, scraping the inside of the screen on the Mini is not so good. No scraping on the treader thankfully.

Stevo_666

veronese68 said:

Stevo advocating manual labour is quite correct, I’ve never poured water onto a windscreen. Or does he mean a man to do the scraping for him?
Saying that I do like the heated screen on the Frod, scraping the inside of the screen on the Mini is not so good. No scraping on the treader thankfully.

It's sufficiently non-technical for me

I even did Stropteens' windscreen the other week.

thistle_

Shame it's a bit awkward to keep your car in the living room to stop it freezing up, like bikes

pinno

Whatevs...