mjmooney Posted January 3, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 3, 2023 3 hours ago, TheAuthority said: Was the 1st person named Phillip the one who invented a certain type of screwdriver head? No. It was invented by one Jeremy Posidrive. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: No. It was invented by one Jeremy Posidrive. The question is how many screwdrivers does a man need to be equipped for every variant? And, for the anal-retentive - how big does the shadow-board need to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 3, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 3, 2023 2 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said: The question is how many screwdrivers does a man need to be equipped for every variant? And, for the anal-retentive - how big does the shadow-board need to be? What's a shadow-board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 3, 2023 12 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said: The question is how many screwdrivers does a man need to be equipped for every variant? 1 with interchangeable heads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 44 minutes ago, mjmooney said: What's a shadow-board? Its a vertical board with the silhouettes of every tool painted on it, with the right combination of hooks to hold the tool in place. It's so you don't have to search through tool boxes to find a particular tool, and is a delight to the tidy minded. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 3, 2023 58 minutes ago, mjmooney said: What's a shadow-board? A thing that helps keep people safe. Picture a wall, or a blackboard type thing. On that wall are clips and hooks upon which tools like screwdrivers, spanners, drills and the like are stowed. In each position on the wall/blackboard there is a "shadow" outline of the particular tool that is stowed there - the shadow is in dayglo orange, the outline of the screwdriver. Below the shadow is a nail. When a worker is assigned to go out to an aircraft, or car, or whatever, and they need that tool to do that bit of work, their personal tag - a coin with a hole in it, is placed on the nail, the tool removed from the board. the orange outline stark and clear. Come the end of the shift, all the tools need to be back in place, if one's missing and the dayglo outline stands out, then a search goes on - "Pete, your tag is on a 15 mill spanner on the board, but no spanner - you were assigned to change the driver on XV236 - where's the spanner?. No one goes home till the spanner is retrieved. People harrumph. Name is mud. ""Oh, heck, sorry, it's in my overalls pocket, I forgot to put it back". Relief. But if it was left in a cockpit, or dropped as a loose article, it could have lead to jammed controls and aircraft crash and death and destruction... So, yeah, shadow boards - they're good. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 43 minutes ago, bickster said: 1 with interchangeable heads Tools like spanners and screwdrivers are designed to exert a suitable amount of torque on the nut, bold or screw: therefore a one size fits all would not be the ideal solution. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 5 minutes ago, blandy said: A thing that helps keep people safe. Picture a wall, or a blackboard type thing. On that wall are clips and hooks upon which tools like screwdrivers, spanners, drills and the like are stowed. In each position on the wall/balckboard there is a "shadow" outline of the particular tool that is stowed there - the shadow is in dayglo orange, the outline of the screwdriver. Below the shadow is a nail. When a worker is assigned to go out to an aircraft, or car, or whatever, and they need that tool to do that bit of work, their personal tag - a coin with a hole in it, is placed on the nail, the tool removed from the board. the orange outline stark and clear. Come the end of the shift, all the tools need to be back in place, if one's missing and the dayglo outline stands out, then a search goes on - "Pete, your tag is on a 15 mill spanner on the board, but no spanner - you were assigned to change the driver on XV236 - where's the spanner?. No one goes home till the spanner is retrieved. People harrumph. Name is mud. ""Oh, heck, sorry, it's in my overalls pocket, I forgot to put it back". Relief. But if it was left in a a cockpit, or dropped as a loose article, it could have lead to jammed controls and aircraft crash and death and destruction... So, yeah, shadow boards - they're good. When it comes to training, you can't do better than the military! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said: When it comes to training, you can't do better than the military! Simplicity is genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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colhint Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Antidisestablishmentarianism. Which is the opposition to the separation of church and state. So if I held that view would I be a Antidisestablihmentarainismist making just a little bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted January 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 3, 2023 12 minutes ago, colhint said: Antidisestablishmentarianism. Which is the opposition to the separation of church and state. So if I held that view would I be a Antidisestablihmentarainismist making just a little bit longer. We were told in school that was the longest word in the English Language. Probably not true, but it sure is long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 39 minutes ago, blandy said: Simplicity is genius I wonder if the system was borrowed from the coal mines where everyone had to leave a tag at the entrance to the mine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 3, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 3, 2023 16 minutes ago, fightoffyour said: We were told in school that was the longest word in the English Language. Probably not true, but it sure is long. Quote The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis. The word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, and has since been used[citation needed] in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 letters). The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. Wikipedia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 11 hours ago, KentVillan said: Been binging loads of Roger Cook stuff on YouTube. Some of it is very good and funny. But in this one he goes "undercover" as a drug smuggler looking to launder money (it's about 13 mins in), and he talks like a current affairs journalist and looks like... Roger Cook. How did he get away with it? At one point the man says he doesn't want to know where the money's come from, and Cook says, "the money is from DRUGS". It's so unintentionally hilarious. Were some of his hits just complete nonsense? Like Fake Sheikh level stitch ups? Or was he legit? He was legit as far as I know. Mentioning no names my best pal about 20 years ago worked for a big name fraudster. I will never know the detail, but he used to receive money from rich clients to set up businesses for them and after getting the money, claim the business would not work or something? We were 20-25 at the time and my pal was living in a rented house in Little Aston and driving brand new Escort Cosworths, Range Rovers and a Ferrari at one stage, in his early 20s?? He was also going on holiday (I did a few times with him), with Amex cards which we could load but had to cut up before we returned, crazy times. Anyway, Roger cook paid them a visit when they were up North, it was on TV, not sure if that one is on You Tube, I'll have to have a look. Cut a long story short, my pal ended up with 50k debts and the guy fled abroad never to be seen again. genuinely bonkers times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 3, 2023 1 hour ago, colhint said: Antidisestablishmentarianism. Which is the opposition to the separation of church and state. So if I held that view would I be a Antidisestablishmentarainismist making just a little bit longer. No, you'd be an Antidisestablishmentarian The Antidisestablishmentarainismism makes no sense, surely it should just be Antidisestablishmentism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 I'm but if there were a few of them in the same room couldn't you put an "s" on the end as it would be plural 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 3, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 3, 2023 35 minutes ago, bickster said: The Antidisestablishmentarainismism makes no sense, surely it should just be Antidisestablishmentism Yeah, it's all pretty worthless, or as JRM says, an example of Floccinaucinihilipilification 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Just now, blandy said: Yeah, it's all pretty worthless, or as JRM says, an example of Floccinaucinihilipilification I've read that this was made up by some students at Eton as a prank . It's just a mix of words from ancient Greek and Latin which all mean nil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 3, 2023 Administrator Share Posted January 3, 2023 1 hour ago, colhint said: I've read that this was made up by some students at Eton as a prank . It's just a mix of words from ancient Greek and Latin which all mean nil. All words are made up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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