Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[bd139]

Don’t you guys have drive through liquor stores?

We had a motorway services pub. What could go wrong? 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/m40-wetherspoons-first-motorway-pub-sends-completely-wrong-message-on-drink-driving-9073803.html

[med6753]

Don’t you guys have drive through liquor stores?

We had a motorway services pub. What could go wrong? 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/m40-wetherspoons-first-motorway-pub-sends-completely-wrong-message-on-drink-driving-9073803.html

Oh I think the NYS Liquor Authority would go ape shit over that. 

OK....what's a "bog roll"?? 

[Black Phoenix]

Well I will take this time to wish a Merry Christmas full of food, alcohol and love from the family for all of you guys. That days like these continue to happen and in a bigger way than before.

[med6753]

Well I will take this time to wish a Merry Christmas full of food, alcohol and love from the family for all of you guys. That days like these continue to happen and in a bigger way than before.

And Merry Christmas to you too! 

[bd139]

Don’t you guys have drive through liquor stores?

We had a motorway services pub. What could go wrong? 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/m40-wetherspoons-first-motorway-pub-sends-completely-wrong-message-on-drink-driving-9073803.html

Oh I think the NYS Liquor Authority would go ape shit over that. 

OK....what's a "bog roll"??

Toilet paper.

Actually that reminds me of https://youtu.be/LHv2dIM3t9I

[med6753]

Don’t you guys have drive through liquor stores?

We had a motorway services pub. What could go wrong? 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/m40-wetherspoons-first-motorway-pub-sends-completely-wrong-message-on-drink-driving-9073803.html

Oh I think the NYS Liquor Authority would go ape shit over that. 

OK....what's a "bog roll"??

Toilet paper.

Oh geez.....You English and your quaint terms. 

[Saskia]

oops, I dood it again ...

450 EUSSR-Rubels for this one. Probes still unused in original packaging, same for the CD and the manual.
Unfortunately calibration certificate missing.

But, still, ...

[Cerebus]

Ah yes, the traditional British mini-hell that is Christmas shopping. We take advantage of the skiving bastard flexible working arrangements that I as a self-employed scumbag have, and do our normal weekly shop late on Thiusday afternoons. We've determined that is when the local supermarkets get as quiet as they are ever going to get. It works quite well normally. This week of course the Xmas fever had already bitten by last Thursday and the whole place was stacked to the gills with Christmas shoppers.

There is no way that I was going to brave the shops this weekend, with a mere 3-4 days remaining to Xmas; it'll be hell out there! We don't even have the distractions that ought to go with Christmas shopping as practised in more civilised countries. Consider Germany - every, and I mean every, Christmas market there has piping hot glühwein available immediately at the market entrance and usually there's at least one more stall somewhere where you can refortify yourself after you've fought your way into the depths of the market.

I've avoiding shopping hell this weekend by dint of doing my annual pre-Christmas tidy of the box room. This involves dragging out everything that has been hurled into the box room during the year into the living room, thus making enough space in the box room to actually get at the shelving and put things away in an orderly fashion. It's also necessary because my stash of wrapping paper is one of the things that becomes inaccessible as a result of a year's worth of "chuck it in the box room and forget about it". It has its up side, I regularly find things I'd lost or, better still, forgotten that I'd acquired. Alas there are no tasty bits of TEA floating to the surface as a consequence of this year's tidy.

Tomorrow I shall have to face retail frenzy again, as there are one or two things I still need before the Christ-apocalypse descends. Well, I assume that an apocalypse is pending, as every single trolley I've seen in the hands of others in the supermarkets suggests that they need enough food to survive Ragnarok. Guess I'll have to take my 'conversational' cutlery with me ...

[AVGresponding]

Yes and no on that one. They do pay tax here at the going rate via corporation tax (so do I!). The issue is they use aggressive tax avoidance measures (so do I!) to minimise these payments. And why do these loopholes exist? Well our entire political elite use the same tax loopholes for their investment portfolio management shell companies so there is little motivation to truly fix them from the people with the power to fix them. Shit floats to the top in politics. If you’re running a company the entire point is to retain as much money from operations as possible so you’re going to do that.

The EU are the only organisation trying to deal with this via ATAD, the objective of which was to level the playing field for everyone at the same time but look what that got us while the vulture bastards are protecting their stacks of gold. Brexit!

Best to go after the politicians and high level investment groups in the UK if we want change. That means all the corporate lobbyists in political parties and ideology backers like Aaron Banks. They paid a lot to make Corbyn look like a communist to make all the old people scared of him....

Saying tories are pro brexit and Labour against, is simplistic and largely wrong.

Cameron and May are both remainers, Johnson probably doesn't care either way as long as he can use it to get what he wants (PM's job). Corbyn is pro brexit (though anti no deal brexit). Blair is a corporate mouthpiece, and the living example of the aphorism "Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: Their lips are moving". He knew, along with the rest of the cabinet that the intelligence re WMD was sketchy at best.

Unfortunately, like it or not (and I don't), we are living in an age where mass/social media makes it increasingly easy for demagogues like Blair, Trump et al to bullshit their way into office.


TEA related: I bit the bullet and ordered some 4 BNC Kelvin clips for the LCR meter, just cheaper and easier than making my own   
When they arrive I'll post pics of it measuring something...

In the meantime, still twisting my head in knots trying to get all my meters in a usable formation, it's rather like trying to fit a pint in a 3/4 pint glass though, not helped by the fact that the Solartron 7065 is so bloody big.   

I will persist, its red LED goodness matches (most of) the rest of the meters.   

[Cerebus]

OK....what's a "bog roll"??

The National Enquirer, or The Daily Mail.

[bd139]

@ThickPhilM: You’re right. All are for their own interests or proxy interests they are representing. Cameron too. Go check what he’s doing now. Oh and Nick the traitor. The rest via ERG and TPA etc. Douglas Adams pretty much nailed it.

OK....what's a "bog roll"??

The National Enquirer, or The Daily Mail.

I wouldn’t wipe my arse on either. I might catch something nasty. Possibly even lose control of my right arm.

An excellent essay on Christmas which I enjoyed by the way.

[Saskia]

let us start building a space ship for our "Elites" to escape this doomed climate distastered planet.

Obviously our politicians need to be evacuated first to preserve our highest ranking führers.
Next they'll need activists and influencers so the first spaceship has to be big enough to carry them, too.
The engineers and workers will follow in the 2nd space ship. I promise.

[bd139]

How about we just chuck them in the sea. Much cheaper 

[Specmaster]

If I lived on my own then I think I'd be doing the same and have more time for TEA and I'd need it because my TEA budget would be much bigger of course 😁😁

[bd139]

Yes that’s true. I’m considering myself fortunate now after last years incident 

[med6753]

Last gift card purchased. The place wasn't crowded. Home safe. Till next year.


Humbug. 

[mnementh]

let us start building a space ship for our "Elites" to escape this doomed climate distastered planet.

Obviously our politicians need to be evacuated first to preserve our highest ranking führers.
Next they'll need activists and influencers so the first spaceship has to be big enough to carry them, too.
The engineers and workers will follow in the 2nd space ship. I promise.

Or, as my mother used to say... "If they can put a man on the moon... why not all of them...?"

mnem
"If men could lick themselves the way dogs do war would be a myth; or at best a theoretical abstraction discussed over brandy." ~mom

[Cerebus]

How about we just chuck them in the sea. Much cheaper 

Come the next general election I have a sure fire scheme to get a new party elected to parliament on a landslide - just call the party "Z - None of the above".

[Saskia]

We have enough Zombies in government. No need to name a party after them.

[mnementh]

Come the next general election I have a sure fire scheme to get a new party elected to parliament on a landslide - just call the party "Z - None of the above".

We have enough Zombies in government. No need to name a party after them.

Hey, that tactic did some actual good in Alabama; Jesus and Mickey Mouse helped sink Denebian Slime Devil Roy Moore: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/alabama-election-roy-moore-write-in-votes

mnem

[mnementh]

Last gift card purchased. The place wasn't crowded. Home safe. Till next year.


Humbug. 

Amazon is tempting me with page after page of "last-minute gift ideas" with guaranteed delivery by the 24th... 

mnem
 

[Cubdriver]

Last gift card purchased. The place wasn't crowded. Home safe. Till next year.


Humbug. 

Amazon is tempting me with page after page of "last-minute gift ideas" with guaranteed delivery by the 24th... 

mnem
 

Any of them ink cartridges?   

<ducks and runs>

-Pat

[BU508A]

lockpicking sets are a kind of TEA, aren't they?

There is a guy on YT, he's calling himself "lockpickinglawyer" and made an interesting video
about an very nice lock from Bowley (never heard of them before)



Just, if you want somethnig lock away safely. 

[Saskia]

any lock can easily be picked by careful application of the appropriate amount of C4.
When out of C4 you can use a breacher round or a directed charge as well.

[Cerebus]

Does kind of lack subtlety however.