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What does LiW's post about spiders have to do with insects?

JuliusHMarx wrote:What does LiW's post about spiders have to do with insects?

In the words of Robert Muldoon - "clever girl".

superflyweight wrote:Afternoon all.  I see it didn't take long for Tina's ghost to bring us back round to talking about insects.  Although it does seem to have brought in some fresh blood with LiW making an appearance (a welcome one I may add).  

Let's wait and see

Who's in charge of grooming new posters now that michaels is too busy gardening drunk?

JuliusHMarx wrote:What does LiW's post about spiders have to do with insects?

We generally only have one type of hairy scary thing to worry about because it eats all the other ones.

lostinwales wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:What does LiW's post about spiders have to do with insects?

We generally only have one type of hairy scary thing to worry about because it eats all the other ones.

Galted's cat?

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:What does LiW's post about spiders have to do with insects?

We generally only have one type of hairy scary thing to worry about because it eats all the other ones.

Galted's cat?

Is that like Schrodinger's cat?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:What does LiW's post about spiders have to do with insects?

We generally only have one type of hairy scary thing to worry about because it eats all the other ones.

Galted's cat?

Is that like Schrodinger's cat?

Yes. And no.

Unconventionally late fist.

Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

Pal Joey wrote:Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

I suspect that he may be several people as there can't be enough time in the year to be a wine importer, blood diamond dealer, wedding dress wearer maker, great granny fetishist, David Attenborough, northerner and rugby player - especially while you're dead.

Galted wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

I suspect that he may be several people as there can't be enough time in the year to be a wine importer, blood diamond dealer, wedding dress wearer maker, great granny fetishist, David Attenborough, northerner and rugby player - especially while you're dead.

I am more than one person. I am Duty and Superfly at least.

I'm not even the dress maker, Galted. I am an admin assistant to the dress maker. Not assistant manager, assistant to the manager. I do still watch granny porn though. Can't deny that.

Pal Joey wrote:Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

A solid start. I will take it. How was Hazlewood bowling? I thought he'd take more wickets in a day/nighter. He still might I suppose.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

I suspect that he may be several people as there can't be enough time in the year to be a wine importer, blood diamond dealer, wedding dress wearer maker, great granny fetishist, David Attenborough, northerner and rugby player - especially while you're dead.

I am more than one person. I am Duty and Superfly at least.

I'm not even the dress maker, Galted. I am an admin assistant to the dress maker. Not assistant manager, assistant to the manager. I do still watch granny porn though. Can't deny that.

Isn't Schindler's List a brilliant film?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

A solid start. I will take it. How was Hazlewood bowling? I thought he'd take more wickets in a day/nighter. He still might I suppose.

He's bowled well... very miserly but no wickets as yet.

Galted wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:Tardy sicond.

Our resident arachnid expert is doing very well in the cricket tipping comp. He's coming equal first with JDizzle. Early days though...

I suspect that he may be several people as there can't be enough time in the year to be a wine importer, blood diamond dealer, wedding dress wearer maker, great granny fetishist, David Attenborough, northerner and rugby player - especially while you're dead.

I am more than one person. I am Duty and Superfly at least.

I'm not even the dress maker, Galted. I am an admin assistant to the dress maker. Not assistant manager, assistant to the manager. I do still watch granny porn though. Can't deny that.

Isn't Schindler's List a brilliant film?

My favourite actor is Mr Sidney Poitier.

I'm not Jeremy Bulloch.

This is the Fist.

Sicond. Staggeringly early fist that, I suspect that Rick is currently in Australia or the Far East.

Last day before all the lucky folk f**k off for Christmas, so trying to get my stuff done.

But as usual I find the MSMTS a more productive use of my time, so here we are.

How the devil are you, Galts dear boy?

Very good thanks, last day too and new sound bar arriving tomorrow so very excited.

How are things up north/out east?

I love a good sound bar, it changed my media experience, i am excited for you.

People are getting all whiny because of lockdown but apart from that, all good.

I will be working next week, but f**k all happens so laptop and netfilx mainly.

Happy not to be cooking Christmas lunch for the masses.

Thanks for being excited for me, I will vicariously enjoy your excitement and add it to my own. Downside of having a destructive toddler and cable chomping cat about is that I can't go overboard on a decent surround sound system so a lower mid-range soundbar it is.

As I type the little b*stard is demolishing the trains I brought out for Christmas with the cat waiting her turn from just around the doorframe.

Galted wrote:

As I type the little b*stard is demolishing the trains I brought out for Christmas with the cat waiting her turn from just around the doorframe.

If you want my advice Galted, have another kid. Then they can fight with each other and you can sit back and watch as they tear into each other.

If you want some more advice, stop at 2. Any more than that and the enjoyment of watching them fight has a diminishing return.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Galted wrote:

As I type the little b*stard is demolishing the trains I brought out for Christmas with the cat waiting her turn from just around the doorframe.

If you want my advice Galted, have another kid. Then they can fight with each other and you can sit back and watch as they tear into each other.

If you want some more advice, stop at 2. Any more than that and the enjoyment of watching them fight has a diminishing return.

Cheers, Tino.  Is very sound advice but unfortunately we have a one-bed flat.  Hoping to move to the States in the next few years which would enable me to buy a shotgun to keep the two f*ckers in line.

Problem with two young kids is that they can also tag team you as parents. One rests while the other wreaks havoc.

Having a second does make you realise how simple all the basic baby care stuff actually is though.

If you want some advice, just don't have kids, it's great, especially at Christmas.

Hope this helps.

His favourite pastime at the moment is being swung by the ankles. Tenants have started occupying the block of flats opposite over the past few weeks so there's a good chance someone will see and call social services.

rIck_dAgless wrote:If you want some advice, just don't have kids, it's great, especially at Christmas.

Hope this helps.

As a father of two, I agree with Rick and can confirm that Tina's advice is bullsh1t. Yes, they fight each other, but then they expect me to sort it out and that then usually inovlves both of them crying and my wife looking at me the same way that she looked at me when I puked all over her friend's house when we stayed there once.

I'd recommend having 7 kids by 7 different women, then moving to the States by yourself.

Youngest perfected the technique of goading big brother into violence and then bursting into tears as a way of getting attention and big brother in trouble. They are masters of psychological manipulation.

My boys loved getting thrown into the air. A contributor to superficially great development of shoulder muscles plus regular trips to the osteopath and long term aches and pains. Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

If only. Both getting tall but skinny as hell (youngest has a BMI around 15). Still funny seeing no.1 son's reaction to no.2 son being taller than him. I am 6ft and am expecting no.2 son to be taller than me sometime next year although he is half my weight.

lostinwales wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

If only. Both getting tall but skinny as hell (youngest has a BMI around 15). Still funny seeing no.1 son's reaction to no.2 son being taller than him. I am 6ft and am expecting no.2 son to be taller than me sometime next year although he is half my weight.

Did I read one of your posts saying you used to go to Salt Lake City for work? For a mining company?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

If only. Both getting tall but skinny as hell (youngest has a BMI around 15). Still funny seeing no.1 son's reaction to no.2 son being taller than him. I am 6ft and am expecting no.2 son to be taller than me sometime next year although he is half my weight.

Did I read one of your posts saying you used to go to Salt Lake City for work? For a mining company?

SLW.

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

If only. Both getting tall but skinny as hell (youngest has a BMI around 15). Still funny seeing no.1 son's reaction to no.2 son being taller than him. I am 6ft and am expecting no.2 son to be taller than me sometime next year although he is half my weight.

Did I read one of your posts saying you used to go to Salt Lake City for work? For a mining company?

SLW.  

had completely forgotten about that.

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

If only. Both getting tall but skinny as hell (youngest has a BMI around 15). Still funny seeing no.1 son's reaction to no.2 son being taller than him. I am 6ft and am expecting no.2 son to be taller than me sometime next year although he is half my weight.

Did I read one of your posts saying you used to go to Salt Lake City for work? For a mining company?

SLW.  

I just knew it would be you.

Galted wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote: Luckily boys no longer require this as they are now 16 and 18.

Stone?

If only. Both getting tall but skinny as hell (youngest has a BMI around 15). Still funny seeing no.1 son's reaction to no.2 son being taller than him. I am 6ft and am expecting no.2 son to be taller than me sometime next year although he is half my weight.

Did I read one of your posts saying you used to go to Salt Lake City for work? For a mining company?

SLW.  

 had completely forgotten about that.

I'm pretty sure it was LSW but that is probably just semantics.

Yes. It is (more than) a bit esoteric but  I probably know more about modelling of heap leaching of copper than anybody else on the planet.

Spent 10 years developing software that was used by a company called Phelps Dodge (now Freeport McMoran unless it has changed name again), potentially saving them millions of dollars.

I was at a couple of universities. The company who subcontracted the work to me was based in Salt Lake and I used to travel out there up to 5 times a year

lostinwales wrote:Yes. It is (more than) a bit esoteric but  I probably know more about modelling of heap leaching of copper than anybody else on the planet.

Spent 10 years developing software that was used by a company called Phelps Dodge (now Freeport McMoran unless it has changed name again), potentially saving them millions of dollars.

I was at a couple of universities. The company who subcontracted the work to me was based in Salt Lake and I used to travel out there up to 5 times a year

I see. You definitely know more about heap leaching of copper than me.

The rest of the goons on here will call me a stalker but the real reason I asked is that I used to be a precious metals trader for various places and I spent a few years working for a company that had a unit in SLC.

I went a couple of times. It can be a pretty cool place with the right guides.

JuliusHMarx wrote:I'd recommend having 7 kids by 7 different women, then moving to the States by yourself.

Somewhat off topic - I'm doing rather well on that front atm - but this reminded me of a story when I was working in the City a few years back.

During a typically ghastly project review meeting, a ''challenge'' (ie a problem) was highlighted. The director in charge of the show failed to understand the complexities involved and turned to the guy - an Indian gentleman, normally shy and reserved - dealing with the particular matter and suggested bringing in extra resources to solve things quickly. The Indian chap responded, ''Sir, you may give me nine women but I still cannot give you a baby in one month.''

I used to love heap leaching copper. Love it, I tell you. Probably. What is it? Don't answer that.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

lostinwales wrote:Yes. It is (more than) a bit esoteric but  I probably know more about modelling of heap leaching of copper than anybody else on the planet.

Spent 10 years developing software that was used by a company called Phelps Dodge (now Freeport McMoran unless it has changed name again), potentially saving them millions of dollars.

I was at a couple of universities. The company who subcontracted the work to me was based in Salt Lake and I used to travel out there up to 5 times a year

I see. You definitely know more about heap leaching of copper than me.

The rest of the goons on here will call me a stalker but the real reason I asked is that I used to be a precious metals trader for various places and I spent a few years working for a company that had a unit in SLC.

I went a couple of times. It can be a pretty cool place with the right guides.

SLC is definitely a good place and I liked it more than most places I have seen in the US. Quite something when on the Saturday you can have lunch outside and on the Sunday go snowshoe walking. The Mormons really are nuts, but that gives everyone else a common enemy. Decent microbreweries with a sense of humour too - Wasatch Brewery's Polygamy Porter (Why have just one?) always made me smile.

guildfordbat wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:I'd recommend having 7 kids by 7 different women, then moving to the States by yourself.

Somewhat off topic - I'm doing rather well on that front atm - but this reminded me of a story when I was working in the City a few years back.

During a typically ghastly project review meeting, a ''challenge'' (ie a problem) was highlighted. The director in charge of the show failed to understand the complexities involved and turned to the guy - an Indian gentleman, normally shy and reserved - dealing with the particular matter and suggested bringing in extra resources  to solve things quickly. The Indian chap responded, ''Sir, you may give me nine women but I still cannot give you a baby in one month.''

I'm going to use that - particularly apt for lawyers at this time of year when eveyone loses their mind trying to get things done before christmas.

JuliusHMarx wrote:I used to love heap leaching copper. Love it, I tell you. Probably. What is it? Don't answer that.

Tough.

You take a mountain that has copper ore in it, blow it up, grind it into dust, agglomerate the dust back into gravel sized lumps, make a big heap out of it, pour acid over the top and collect copper sulphate at the bottom.

You can do similar things with other minerals. With Uranium you tend to do it in situ, as for some reason people don't like having uranium dust blowing around. In practice that means something more like drilling for oil or fracking. You put a hole down to where the ore is, use explosives to fracture the rocks, then make more holes. You pump acid down some some holes and a solution with your minerals out others.

People also use heap leach technology to extract gold, but in that case you don't use acid. You use cyanide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill

All the best kinds of environmentally friendly technologies.

superflyweight wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:I'd recommend having 7 kids by 7 different women, then moving to the States by yourself.

Somewhat off topic - I'm doing rather well on that front atm - but this reminded me of a story when I was working in the City a few years back.

During a typically ghastly project review meeting, a ''challenge'' (ie a problem) was highlighted. The director in charge of the show failed to understand the complexities involved and turned to the guy - an Indian gentleman, normally shy and reserved - dealing with the particular matter and suggested bringing in extra resources  to solve things quickly. The Indian chap responded, ''Sir, you may give me nine women but I still cannot give you a baby in one month.''

I'm going to use that - particularly apt for lawyers at this time of year when eveyone loses their mind trying to get things done before christmas.  

I bet you say it in an Indian accent as well you massive racist.

I am not even joking about the mountain thing. The main mine of the company who paid for the work was shifting in the region of 800,000 tons of ore, per day.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:I'd recommend having 7 kids by 7 different women, then moving to the States by yourself.

Somewhat off topic - I'm doing rather well on that front atm - but this reminded me of a story when I was working in the City a few years back.

During a typically ghastly project review meeting, a ''challenge'' (ie a problem) was highlighted. The director in charge of the show failed to understand the complexities involved and turned to the guy - an Indian gentleman, normally shy and reserved - dealing with the particular matter and suggested bringing in extra resources  to solve things quickly. The Indian chap responded, ''Sir, you may give me nine women but I still cannot give you a baby in one month.''

I'm going to use that - particularly apt for lawyers at this time of year when eveyone loses their mind trying to get things done before christmas.  

I bet you say it in an Indian accent as well you massive racist.

I'll black up for it if it will make you feel better.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:I'd recommend having 7 kids by 7 different women, then moving to the States by yourself.

Somewhat off topic - I'm doing rather well on that front atm - but this reminded me of a story when I was working in the City a few years back.

During a typically ghastly project review meeting, a ''challenge'' (ie a problem) was highlighted. The director in charge of the show failed to understand the complexities involved and turned to the guy - an Indian gentleman, normally shy and reserved - dealing with the particular matter and suggested bringing in extra resources  to solve things quickly. The Indian chap responded, ''Sir, you may give me nine women but I still cannot give you a baby in one month.''

I'm going to use that - particularly apt for lawyers at this time of year when eveyone loses their mind trying to get things done before christmas.  

I bet you say it in an Indian accent as well you massive racist.

Obviously recommended.

lostinwales wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:I used to love heap leaching copper. Love it, I tell you. Probably. What is it? Don't answer that.

Tough.

You take a mountain that has copper ore in it, blow it up, grind it into dust, agglomerate the dust back into gravel sized lumps, make a big heap out of it, pour acid over the top and collect copper sulphate at the bottom.

You can do similar things with other minerals. With Uranium you tend to do it in situ, as for some reason people don't like having uranium dust blowing around. In practice that means something more like drilling for oil or fracking. You put a hole down to where the ore is, use explosives to fracture the rocks, then make more holes. You pump acid down some some holes and a solution with your minerals out others.

People also use heap leach technology to extract gold, but in that case you don't use acid. You use cyanide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill

All the best kinds of environmentally friendly technologies.

Sounds good. Too many f*cking mountains around anyway

JuliusHMarx wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

JuliusHMarx wrote:I used to love heap leaching copper. Love it, I tell you. Probably. What is it? Don't answer that.

Tough.

You take a mountain that has copper ore in it, blow it up, grind it into dust, agglomerate the dust back into gravel sized lumps, make a big heap out of it, pour acid over the top and collect copper sulphate at the bottom.

You can do similar things with other minerals. With Uranium you tend to do it in situ, as for some reason people don't like having uranium dust blowing around. In practice that means something more like drilling for oil or fracking. You put a hole down to where the ore is, use explosives to fracture the rocks, then make more holes. You pump acid down some some holes and a solution with your minerals out others.

People also use heap leach technology to extract gold, but in that case you don't use acid. You use cyanide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill

All the best kinds of environmentally friendly technologies.

Sounds good. Too many f*cking mountains around anyway

It's a Shamen there isn't anyone to move them