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Post by Vadim on Jun 18, 2008 7:30:06 GMT
UK weather reporters never refer to "spitting"; it's a word only used colloquially in the context of weather. Ditto in Oz. It is, in fact, spitting right now, preventing indulgence in outdoor activities I had planned (car cleaning). Is it, however, that "really-fine-stuff that wets you through", Verbivore?
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 18, 2008 9:26:19 GMT
Is it, however, that "really-fine-stuff that wets you through", Verbivore? Vadim: Your quotation (was it one?) went over my head, unfortunately; however, to answer the question in its plain sense: yes - by the time one has spent five minutes in it. And whilst I rather like washing cars in the rain (helps with the rinsing), drying with a chamois, and subsequent waxing, becomes impossible. I need more sheds!
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Post by Vadim on Jun 18, 2008 10:27:19 GMT
Is it, however, that "really-fine-stuff that wets you through", Verbivore? Vadim: Your quotation (was it one?) went over my head, unfortunately; however, to answer the question in its plain sense: yes - by the time one has spent five minutes in it. And whilst I rather like washing cars in the rain (helps with the rinsing), drying with a chamois, and subsequent waxing, becomes impossible. I need more sheds! Sorry, Vv. Again I refer to the English comedian, Peter Kay. It is a common phrase throughout the North of England that he used in his stand-up act whilst performing at "The top of the Tower" (Blackpool Tower) . I often use that exact same phrase, however, I use it much less now, as the likely hood is, that my colleagues will have seen the stand-up show and start laughing at me! It is laughed about when thought about, as surely all rain "wets you through"? Another popular one is "put the big light on", a phrase I use all the time. He mocks it by stating "...What is the big light? A 50000 Mega Watt bulb beaming down!..." As for waxing and polishing, when you get your new shed, I'll bring my car round; I can't remember the last time "It" saw a chamois.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 18, 2008 11:30:07 GMT
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 18, 2008 13:24:16 GMT
Tone will be along in a moment to enquire why you polish your chromework with a small gazelle ...
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 18, 2008 13:53:27 GMT
Tone will be along in a moment to enquire why you polish your chromework with a small gazelle ... ;D ;D Actually, it's a synthetic chamois; the real ones require too much care and rot rapidly in my climate. (And no, Tone - before you hop in - my synthetic chamois are not genetically engineered cloned animals.)
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Post by Vadim on Jun 18, 2008 15:07:51 GMT
Tone will be along in a moment to enquire why you polish your chromework with a small gazelle ... ;D ;D Actually, it's a synthetic chamois; the real ones require too much care and rot rapidly in my climate. (And no, Tone - before you hop in - my synthetic chamois are not genetically engineered cloned animals.) At work, I polish my shaft with a "small gazelle". I find these remove the bits of dirt and grime, that stick to the shaft, best. I have tried using > genetically engineered cloned animals< however, these chamois tend to cause bumps that I pick up when measuring my shaft. I can't afford a full chamois however, so I spent £1 on a "patchwork quilt" effect chamois stitched from several small gazelles. ;D
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 18, 2008 15:12:53 GMT
At work, I polish my shaft with a "small gazelle". There's not many places where you could read a sentence like that.
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Post by Barry on Jun 18, 2008 16:53:04 GMT
Paul, You beat me to it!
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Post by Barry on Jun 18, 2008 17:04:17 GMT
... stitched from several small gazelles.
..and, just for fun, here's a small ghazal:
Gazelles are best when polishing (in bliss) our cars; Unless they shine, we might lose sight and miss our cars.
We polish them because we love our cars so much - the silken shine may make us want to kiss our cars.
We know that there are some who care not for this shine: we hate it when these people want to diss our cars.
We spend our days in longing, just to take a drive; we find we cannot cheerfully dismiss our cars.
Our shafts are clean, our tyres pumped, and off we set. They're transports of delight, they give us bliss: our cars.
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Post by Tone on Jun 18, 2008 20:43:57 GMT
>I need more sheds!<
Cue Monty Python?
Tone
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 19, 2008 0:08:19 GMT
Oo er, Vadim - the mind boggles! Perhaps try microfibre cloth: better at picking up tiny specks of dirt and (a tad) cheaper than chamois. But I still prefer chamois for the final dry-off - and for "damp-cloth" cleaning between washes. Would you care to enlighten me / us on this shaft you clean at work?
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Post by Vadim on Jun 19, 2008 7:13:36 GMT
That would be telling . I work as a Process Development Engineer for Cinetic Landis Ltd. We manufacture grinding machine tools for both roughing and finishing of cam/crankshafts. I'm the R&D guy who polishes his shaft continuously, as I'm always measuring it, and it needs to be free from dust as I am measuring to 1/10ths (tenths..1/10s..10ths..?) of a micron (micrometer... hmm, that's an instrument??). For those of you who find that hard to visualize, there are 76.2 microns in the diameter of the average human hair (approximately). or 25 microns in a particle of smoke! So, quite fine! It's the reason your engines work so well, and you can polish your cars for years on end .
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Post by Pete on Jun 19, 2008 11:07:50 GMT
That would be telling . I work as a Process Development Engineer for Cinetic Landis Ltd. We manufacture grinding machine tools for both roughing and finishing of cam/crankshafts. I'm the R&D guy who polishes his shaft continuously, as I'm always measuring it, and it needs to be free from dust as I am measuring to 1/10ths (tenths..1/10s..10ths..?) of a micron (micrometer... hmm, that's an instrument??). For those of you who find that hard to visualize, there are 76.2 microns in the diameter of the average human hair (approximately). or 25 microns in a particle of smoke! So, quite fine! It's the reason your engines work so well, and you can polish your cars for years on end . Am I right in saying that in British English "micrometer" is the instrument but that "micrometre" is the measure of distance?
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Post by Pete on Jun 19, 2008 11:09:13 GMT
Likelihood, Vadim.
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