kerching 2,197 Report post Posted October 26 The lanky twonk on that dancing prog that looks like a freshly emulsioned Japanese sniper....more mince than a butchers window pop up,adverts adverts in general integrated LED Fittings nights drawing in un reality TV progs Victoria Coren Mitchell's weird outpourings on Only Connect Ye Carr family....Alan and Jimmy llidl,and Aldi fruit and veg ( mostly ). Usually gone mouldy at the checkout Premature firework,release Trick or Treat..........American dog vomit B & Q.....did I ever tell you about their disgraceful customer service and reneging on warranties? fuel,priced in a currency denomination that does not exist. £1.29.9p. WTAF,?!? flies horseflies mozzies slugs Mockney Dwarfs......too many to mention but, mike Brewer, Greg Wallace etc "United nations' inclusion in EVERY ADVERT EVER funeral adverts.....there's an orange and blue themed one where the actors must be on their first job and have to look at top corner of screen at end of each take BREXIT. And even more so the tag line 'Get Brexit Done' Gordon effng Ramsey Barclays as they do not now support IOS10 so I have had to upgrade my phone from a 5C Winkleman Alan Sugars puerile 'funnies' on the Apprentice the hyphenated dwarf on the Apprentice Karrrrrrrennnnn Braddddddyyyyyy on the Apprentice constsantly updating freeview channels Antoholic and Dec Santander Ads with the above two overpaid wazzocks Danny Dyer stupidly long fingernails shoppers in Aldi who steer the trolley with their elbows Alaskan Bush People. OMFG have you seen it?......cheek clenchingly poor barbecue sauce Charity huggers football price of Tickets to see half of Queen at M.E.N. £175.....won't be going Pantomime Shopping channels constantly fluctuating Flight tickets and all the associated add ons not being able to fit a 17mm socket into unistrut for a 10mm bolt....had to butcher an impact socket on lathe tool belted, liveried van/uniformed no knowts in the wholesalers who know nowt and spout ****e wigs.....man up, your a slaphead.....deal with it camping caravans recumbant cycles/cyclists bike couriers holes in socks politicians cars fitted with Nitrox njection shop assistants asking me if I have' found everything I wanted' .....possibly missed a couple of things 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davethsparky 39 Report post Posted October 26 15 minutes ago, kerching said: Premature firework,release Premature firework release is very annoying, dangerous and a bit professionally embarassing, we've only had it happen to us a couple of times. The worst resulted in about half of the display going off in the middle of the afternoon whilst testing was being carried out. (my 'other job' is a professional firework display company) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phoenix 120 Report post Posted October 26 Just now, Davethsparky said: Premature firework release is very annoying, dangerous and a bit professionally embarassing, we've only had it happen to us a couple of times. The worst resulted in about half of the display going off in the middle of the afternoon whilst testing was being carried out. (my 'other job' is a professional firework display company) I assume this is all electronically controlled now? rather than some chap with a burning taper?. Is there not some safety interlock on the system to prevent accidental firing? I know when I played with model rockets as a teenager, you'd have a controller that could test the circuit upto the ignitor for continuity and display a ready LED but the button tofire wasin series with a key to prevent accidents 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerching 2,197 Report post Posted October 26 3 minutes ago, Davethsparky said: Premature firework release is very annoying, dangerous and a bit professionally embarassing, we've only had it happen to us a couple of times. The worst resulted in about half of the display going off in the middle of the afternoon whilst testing was being carried out. (my 'other job' is a professional firework display company) I was thinking more of the scrotes who seem to set them off whenever there is an "A" in the day 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davethsparky 39 Report post Posted October 26 2 hours ago, Phoenix said: I assume this is all electronically controlled now? rather than some chap with a burning taper?. Is there not some safety interlock on the system to prevent accidental firing? I know when I played with model rockets as a teenager, you'd have a controller that could test the circuit upto the ignitor for continuity and display a ready LED but the button tofire wasin series with a key to prevent accidents Yes electric firing systems generally include a key switch to isolate the firing system and testing is carried out with this switched off. The incidents I mentioned were down to operator error quite a few years ago when most of our shows were still hand fired, everyone is far more experienced and better trained these days. As a company we stopped manually firing displays a few years ago as we cannot justify the risk when we have the equipment to send out up to 8 electrically fired displays at the same time. Many companies are still 'hand firing' fireworks because its quicker, cheaper and more fun that way, the industry is generally very backwards in terms of health and safety with many companies displaying poor practices at even national competetion level. There was a programme on TV a few years ago following one company and their entry to the Plymouth fireworks competition, there were some things shown during the setup which go against some of the basic safety rules. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evans Electric 3,070 Report post Posted October 28 Effing fireworks ..5 hours of them yesterday from 5.00 till midnight . There are the odd Asians that live here celebrating Doolally or some such praise to a non existent supreme being . Sounding like stacatto gunfire & deep window rattling booms . I hear Scotland are banning domestic fireworks. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerching 2,197 Report post Posted October 28 Effing fireworks ..5 hours of them yesterday from 5.00 till midnight . i know you are in a different time zone down there...basically you are in the South BUT 5 hours will only take you to 10 unless they had a break,totalling 2 hours time depay fuses they started at 7 younenjoyed them too much and lost track of time you are using r.m.s. Time just saying 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evans Electric 3,070 Report post Posted October 28 (edited) It is a different time zone here at 52 deg. Latitude But It would appear that I can't count ..its all the noise .... I don't know where 5 hours came from TBH but it was definitely from 1600 to 00.00 . No wonder I never seem to order enough gear . As these three Brians will attest . Edited October 28 by Evans Electric 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerching 2,197 Report post Posted October 28 3 minutes ago, Evans Electric said: t 52 deg. Latitude My Sangamo SOLAR RPTS time switches wouldn't be any use to you then now they ARE clever bits of kit.....unless you dismantle one then it becomes a paperclip container 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evans Electric 3,070 Report post Posted October 29 (edited) The Sangamo solar time switches have always amazed me . I wouldn't attempt to dismantle one TBH . As you say , solar switches from your area would be no good down here . The mechanical gearing follows the changing times of sunset & sunrise during the year. Try flogging 'em to Prodave ....take him weeks to work that problem out ( Imagine winking face here) . Do they, I think, also contain a self winding spring reserve to cope with power outages. ? As you refer to ..... only Solar clocks manufactured to Lat. 52 deg. are suitable in the Midlands .... Amsterdam , Berlin etc. Edited October 29 by Evans Electric 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apprentice87 972 Report post Posted October 30 On 28/10/2019 at 21:23, Evans Electric said: There are the odd Asians that live here celebrating Doolally or some such praise to a non existent supreme being . Sounding like stacatto gunfire & deep window rattling booms . Ha ha ha!! I could not go to sleep for hours last night laughing my Radishes off after reading this!! Just about the funniest thing i have ever read!! OMG ha ha ha!!!!!!! john.... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
binky 938 Report post Posted October 30 On 26/10/2019 at 22:34, Davethsparky said: There was a programme on TV a few years ago following one company and their entry to the Plymouth fireworks competition, there were some things shown during the setup which go against some of the basic safety rules. Have you done the Plymouth competition? A couple of year ago they went for the world record for most fireworks fired in a minute. This basically consisted of what looked like a fir tree of those mini-rockets. It went wrong as rockets set-off other rockets out of sequence and all we saw was a huge cloud of sparkling smoke! Think they did break the record, but in the way intended . 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evans Electric 3,070 Report post Posted November 7 On 26/10/2019 at 19:15, kerching said: ...possibly missed a couple of things I assume you 've not encountered that Riland bloke on the TV ....well you must have .. he,s on EVERYTHING !!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SPECIAL LOCATION 2,215 Report post Posted November 8 2 hours ago, Evans Electric said: I assume you 've not encountered that Riland bloke on the TV ....well you must have .. he,s on EVERYTHING !!! Correction... Should be "RYLAN" bloke...……………….. NOT "Riland" bloke..!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rylan_Clark-Neal I get the feeling he's the new Terry Wogan/Chris Evans/Graham Norton 'in waiting'...………………. What happened to the era when "celebrities" had to have a talent or two in a specific field???? confused.com?!?! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy™ 2,454 Report post Posted November 8 9 hours ago, Evans Electric said: I assume you 've not encountered that Riland bloke on the TV ....well you must have .. he,s on EVERYTHING !!! never heard of him. or her. or whatever gender it is this week. toaster maybe? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerching 2,197 Report post Posted November 8 51 minutes ago, Andy™ said: never heard of him. or her. or whatever gender it is this week. toaster maybe? Talentless mincing nurk is the expression you are seeking 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sharpend 946 Report post Posted November 8 6 hours ago, kerching said: Talentless mincing nurk is the expression you are seeking Is that from the Urban Dictionary? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerching 2,197 Report post Posted November 8 6 hours ago, Sharpend said: Is that from the Urban Dictionary? Nope....fairly common phrase around here! well it is in our area well our family anyway 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evans Electric 3,070 Report post Posted November 9 Just you then Kerch ? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
