Member Info for Ian_

Today's entrants were:-

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DUFC23 - 16/10/20
GoBig_or_go_Home - 16/10/20
ByThePool - 16/10/20
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Bad luck everyone, NO major RNS today, Do have a good evening and a great weekend, see you all Monday bright and early.

Singing off early tonight, cheers

Thanks, JTMacs,

A very detailed reply, I like the 1 nautical mile to stop..

All the best and have a great week end,
cheers
Ian

Afternoon, JTMacs, as you have described your past working career and mentioned steam turbines I have always wondered how long to raise steam from cold, I mean if the captain received orders and he whistled down to the boiler room.

The reason as most people find out when delving into their parent's past, unfortunately, after they have passed away is the list of questions they wished they had asked them when they were alive!

My father was a telegraphist/radio operator in the second world war and one of the ships he was on for some time was one of the 50 US destroyers that were given from America to help us out for lend-lease, after being renamed to HMS Newmarket.

These old destroyers were built in 1918 and did have problems with the boilers, they were 30ft wide and 310ft long, powered by 4 separate Admiralty three-drum boilers, 300psi saturated steam to two Parsons geared turbines direct to two
9ft diameter 3 bladed propellers, these things had 26,000shp and could reach a speed of 35.3 kn or 40 mph.

So, my question if you can answer is how long do you think it would take, just interested to know.

All the best JT and thanks for the updates, and have a good weekend, cheers.

Psst, don't look now but the share price is ticking up.... don't want to scare it away...

So we now have enough guitar players anyone good on vocals and maybe a drummer for the good ship Eurasia's
entertainment celebration party... :-)

Just thinking ahead...

Maybe he likes P.M.T. https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/

?

Have we had Ritchie Blackmore as a guess :-)

It will probably rain knowing my luck lately,

good luck Guitarman, cheers.

Doug Aldrich net worth is guestimated at $6m so he can afford to spend more than £200K on good old Eurasia ... :-)

Good luck Mr. celebrity :-)

Seadog Steve,

You are one of the crew, you passed the initiation test months ago, haha.

You are definitely a nice person and a good sport, all the qualifications required to be aboard the good ship here..

Good luck mate.

Wilko Johnson · John 'Gypie' Mayo · Johnny Guitar · Buzz Barwell · Pat McMullan - John B Sparks?

Haha, cirrhotic,

I remember them on the sweets menu at the local Wimpy bar, pity they don't bring them back, a bit like Prawn ******* t a i l goes around comes around and Blue Nun wine..

All this talk about a certain poster with numbers made me think of the song 5705 by City Boy, going back to 1978 here it is:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHm3w-50Vwc

Morning Pete,

Sorry for the delay in replying, morning ablutions to take care of.

I think lots of good posts vanished for good when the disrupters got to removing whole threads which was a great shame,
I will have a look and see.

All the best, cheers.

Hi, Egos,
After midnight I think they vanish but will be back at 8am, good luck.

Thanks Ftsedow,

All the best
Ian

Good morning all

Today's entrants are:-

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DUFC23 - 16/10/20
GoBig_or_go_Home - 16/10/20
ByThePool - 16/10/20
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Good luck everyone, DLA Piper has been engaged to close the mega-deal, will today be the day?

Post from the past from Snowman, so old and outdated we now have even larger assets!

Honest valuation 31 Oct 2019 14:56

There is only one honest valuation and you are all way out.

The honest valuation is £1.20p+ to be on the conservative side.

Sue me!

Morning JiffyBag,

Thanks for the link, according to Which, Televisions are one of the most reliable pieces of home tech, the average working life is over 13 years for a Sony, mine lasted just over 5 months so not the norm and the Sony appointed TV repair company have agreed it is an early life failure / just an unlucky example!

I have no problem with Sony, who once I could get in touch with were quick to respond, the problem is with my supplier
John Lewis, I purchased the TV through them on their past great customer care record, that is no longer the case and seems to be from since they outsourced that part of the company!

Don't just take my case in point, see what others are saying about the company! it is not what it once was sadly!
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.johnlewis.com?page=2

Cheers

Pete, that is fantastic news, I wish you both all the best and I really hope you can both work to rectify any remaining differences, a marriage requires a lot of giving and a little bit of taking and lots of understanding on both parts.

Go get her tiger, she has shared your past, the good and the bad times that you have had together, they are close heartfelt memories that you don't want to lose and you will have a hole in your life and won't feel complete again without her.

Seriously I hope you can get back together and fix things.

Kind regards
Ian

Evening Pete,

John Lewis is utterly useless if anything goes wrong and you need to rely on their guarantee, it may not be worth the paper its written on, it is the hoops you as a customer have to jump through, one of the bad reviews on Trustpilot has revealed that John Lewis outsourced their customer care to Sitel Group end of 2017 and that seems to be when it started?

John Lewis has passed the buck and it is now down to me to sort it out with Sony myself, Sony in Bangalore or wherever address me as Mr. Ian...haha, but I have now got somewhere, it is like a comedy sketch and I may at a later date post the whole fiasco.

John Lewis now rings me up to ask how my repair is proceeding, most odd...

Have a good evening Pete, take care mate, cheers.

MEM, thanks for clearing that up, just wondered that's all,

Do have a good evening and good to have you on board,

good luck.