friday setting up violent structure

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,167
    johngti said:

    MattFalle said:

    well MF thinks that kitchen is blimmin' lovely and will fight anyone who says different.

    so there.

    Me too. I cycle past those nice houses near Orpington quite often and always wondered what they were like. I’m envious - looks like the bedroom is as big as the entire ground floor footprint of my house!
    Remember those are the estate agents pics taken with the infamous fish eye lens.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • johngti
    johngti Posts: 2,508
    Still looks lovely!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,167
    johngti said:

    Still looks lovely!

    Cheers John. The agents blurb says that main bedroom is 16'7"×13'7". Always hard to tell from the pics.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,167
    oxoman said:

    As long as we all get invited to the house warming and you provide a 50 cal for safe bike storage we dont care if the fish eye lense has stretched it a bit.

    Just chuck'em down the end of the back garden Oxo, no need for military grade weaponry then.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Stevo_666 said:

    oxoman said:

    As long as we all get invited to the house warming and you provide a 50 cal for safe bike storage we dont care if the fish eye lense has stretched it a bit.

    Just chuck'em down the end of the back garden Oxo, no need for military grade weaponry then.
    as opposed to say, domestic or leisure grade weaponry then?

    tbh, in reality, "military grade" should mean the cheapest possible stuff that has been procured through a dodgy tender process that is barely fit for purpose, not the definition it has garnered through marketing means.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,121
    MattFalle said:


    tbh, in reality, "military grade" should mean the cheapest possible stuff that has been procured through a dodgy tender process that is barely fit for purpose, not the definition it has garnered through marketing means.

    Heard the same from someone else the other day regarding radio kit.
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Bearing in mind that all military kit takes an age to get developed and built, far in excess of the agreed timescales, you'd have thought they'd have spent that time getting it right.... :D
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,167
    MattFalle said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    oxoman said:

    As long as we all get invited to the house warming and you provide a 50 cal for safe bike storage we dont care if the fish eye lense has stretched it a bit.

    Just chuck'em down the end of the back garden Oxo, no need for military grade weaponry then.
    as opposed to say, domestic or leisure grade weaponry then?

    tbh, in reality, "military grade" should mean the cheapest possible stuff that has been procured through a dodgy tender process that is barely fit for purpose, not the definition it has garnered through marketing means.
    I was thinking of that scene from Robocop.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    90% of tbe stuff is utter junk. Total utter junk.

    The 10% of good stuff is either extremely specialised or borrowed from another nation.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 16,435
    MattFalle said:

    90% of tbe stuff is utter junk. Total utter junk.

    The 10% of good stuff is either extremely specialised or borrowed from another nation.

    yep, there's a 'military grade' specification for stuff i wouldn't trust in a toy car, all the way through to bits you need to rely on in missile launch, fast jets etc.

    many decades ago i designed a thing for hm's submarines, final testing involved zapping and high-g shock to simulate attacks

    years later i noticed the ideas had been passed around, ripped-off, and 're-engineered' (degraded/cheapened), product had the same name but was otherwise totally different, just flimsy tat, glad i was long out of it

    too many committees, politicians' snouts, old boy networks and layers of subcontracting, much of the cost is margins/bungs, leaving little for quality, of course there's never any comeback for the responsible when the inevitable occurs
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    sungod said:

    MattFalle said:

    90% of tbe stuff is utter junk. Total utter junk.

    The 10% of good stuff is either extremely specialised or borrowed from another nation.

    yep, there's a 'military grade' specification for stuff i wouldn't trust in a toy car, all the way through to bits you need to rely on in missile launch, fast jets etc.

    many decades ago i designed a thing for hm's submarines, final testing involved zapping and high-g shock to simulate attacks

    years later i noticed the ideas had been passed around, ripped-off, and 're-engineered' (degraded/cheapened), product had the same name but was otherwise totally different, just flimsy tat, glad i was long out of it

    too many committees, politicians' snouts, old boy networks and layers of subcontracting, much of the cost is margins/bungs, leaving little for quality, of course there's never any comeback for the responsible when the inevitable occurs
    Noticed that this is how they're testing the aircraft carrier hulls, exploding ordnance underwater nearby and seeing where it leaks and where systems fail...
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    Felt Z6 2012
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    sungod said:

    MattFalle said:

    90% of tbe stuff is utter junk. Total utter junk.

    The 10% of good stuff is either extremely specialised or borrowed from another nation.

    yep, there's a 'military grade' specification for stuff i wouldn't trust in a toy car, all the way through to bits you need to rely on in missile launch, fast jets etc.

    many decades ago i designed a thing for hm's submarines, final testing involved zapping and high-g shock to simulate attacks

    years later i noticed the ideas had been passed around, ripped-off, and 're-engineered' (degraded/cheapened), product had the same name but was otherwise totally different, just flimsy tat, glad i was long out of it

    too many committees, politicians' snouts, old boy networks and layers of subcontracting, much of the cost is margins/bungs, leaving little for quality, of course there's never any comeback for the responsible when the inevitable occurs
    @sungod

    Sungod = Q.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,252
    pinno said:

    sungod said:

    MattFalle said:

    90% of tbe stuff is utter junk. Total utter junk.

    The 10% of good stuff is either extremely specialised or borrowed from another nation.

    yep, there's a 'military grade' specification for stuff i wouldn't trust in a toy car, all the way through to bits you need to rely on in missile launch, fast jets etc.

    many decades ago i designed a thing for hm's submarines, final testing involved zapping and high-g shock to simulate attacks

    years later i noticed the ideas had been passed around, ripped-off, and 're-engineered' (degraded/cheapened), product had the same name but was otherwise totally different, just flimsy tat, glad i was long out of it

    too many committees, politicians' snouts, old boy networks and layers of subcontracting, much of the cost is margins/bungs, leaving little for quality, of course there's never any comeback for the responsible when the inevitable occurs
    @sungod

    Sungod = Q.
    In the 00 way rather than the crazy conspiract theorist way of course.