friday setting up violent structure
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Remember those are the estate agents pics taken with the infamous fish eye lens.johngti said:
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!MattFalle said:well MF thinks that kitchen is blimmin' lovely and will fight anyone who says different.
so there."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Still looks lovely!0
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Just chuck'em down the end of the back garden Oxo, no need for military grade weaponry then.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.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
as opposed to say, domestic or leisure grade weaponry then?Stevo_666 said:
Just chuck'em down the end of the back garden Oxo, no need for military grade weaponry then.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.
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.
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Heard the same from someone else the other day regarding radio kit.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.
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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....
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I was thinking of that scene from Robocop.MattFalle said:
as opposed to say, domestic or leisure grade weaponry then?Stevo_666 said:
Just chuck'em down the end of the back garden Oxo, no need for military grade weaponry then.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.
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 spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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.
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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.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.
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 shiny0 -
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...sungod said:
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.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.
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 occurs0 -
@sungodsungod said:
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.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.
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 = Q.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
In the 00 way rather than the crazy conspiract theorist way of course.pinno said:
@sungodsungod said:
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.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.
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 = Q.0
