Hi there

New to the forum? Introduce yourself here.
User avatar
Herr Dr. Professor
Major
Posts: 5565
Joined: Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:48 pm
Location: Southern Wisconsin USA

Re: Hi there

Post by Herr Dr. Professor »

User avatar
AlanWhite
Lance Corporal
Posts: 115
Joined: Wed Aug 06, 2025 8:24 am
Location: Near Edinburgh Scotland

Re: Hi there

Post by AlanWhite »

another funny 1 cheers mate :haha:
Cheers
Alan

Let slip the cats of war!!!!

Taigen Panther G
Taigen T34/85
Heng Long King Tiger
Heng Long Tiger 1
Meter rat
Warrant Officer 1st Class
Posts: 1711
Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:33 pm
Location: By the sea in Argyle and Bute

Re: Hi there

Post by Meter rat »

Those two clips explains a lot. 😆😆😆
Very fnny.
User avatar
HERMAN BIX
Major-General
Posts: 11484
Joined: Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:15 am
Location: Gold Coast,Australia

Re: Hi there

Post by HERMAN BIX »

Herr Dr. Professor wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:18 pm And another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ62EfUKI3w
Ohh, apparently we here in the Great Southern Land are not able to view this video :/
HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85
User avatar
Son of a gun-ner
Lieutenant-Colonel
Posts: 7559
Joined: Sun May 07, 2017 8:49 pm
Location: Lancashire UK

Re: Hi there

Post by Son of a gun-ner »

HERMAN BIX wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:10 am
Herr Dr. Professor wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:18 pm And another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ62EfUKI3w
Ohh, apparently we here in the Great Southern Land are not able to view this video :/
Quite right too, we can't rub shoulders with any old riff raff....
Mick - The grit in the underpants of life!
Always happy to spare the bytes
Apparently my mind works in mysterious ways :think:

TOTM needs YOU :thumbup: support YOUR TOTM competition, I'm doing my part, are YOU?
User avatar
Panzermechaniker
Sergeant
Posts: 590
Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:04 am
Location: Toronto

Re: Hi there

Post by Panzermechaniker »

HERMAN BIX wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 11:21 am
GOLD..................infuriatingly true, but Gold :clap: :clap: :clap:

My apprenticeship meant learning to measure in Thou, and zero-points of a mm, and to know the instant quantity of either when compared to either in a measurement value................ :crazy:
Now, after years in the oilfield, I have feet & inches(joint length) Barrels(Bbls) (which is 159L) for fluid volume, meters &mm for diameter not related to drilling hardware inches for drillpipe designation, PSI in downhole & air pressure, GPM (gallons per minute) for fluid flow rate, CFM for compressed air capacity & delivery from an Aerial Booster , Pounds Per Foot (PPF fluid weight/viscosity in a column, AND weight measure of steel pipe in an imperial dimension like 9 5/8th called Casing) and Im living in a metric country :'( :'(
Some years ago I had to hand carry some A4 paper...........copy paper, up to Oklahoma, as they were submitting a tender for a massive offshore rig build into Egypt, and the tender specifically demanded that the submission of hard copy documents be on A4 paper.
They were buggered. No A4 up there, none at all !!!! Even copier paper is a different size FFS !!!! :problem:
Yes I understand completely. When I was doing my civil engineering degree in the mid -70's Canada was just going metric so we had to learn everything in Imperial, Metric and US. Plus getting incredible adept at using a slide rule which to be honest were remarkable tools once you mastered them. But I still have nightmares about doing say a highway ramp using Fortran with a thousand punch cards and if even just one had been punched wrong when after an hour you got the awful news that you had to then go through and try and figure out which one it was. Put me off computers for years after I graduated but by then it was basically punch in the numbers into a program rather than actually having to create the program
Post Reply

Return to “Introduce Yourself”