thread Riggers
is there something you want to tell us ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
thread Good evening!
My mate would like some free CAD software in order to model the interior of a transit van.

Any suggestions?

edit: also, where would I get a plan of mk1 transit? (so I know where the wheel arches are and stuff)

editedit: for vitsa. Free or "free".

editeditedit: Or the dimensions of a mk1 transit? I'm really shit with a tape measure
permalink while there is open source CAD
learning it would take longer than whittling a 1:1 scale transit interior out of a solid block of tungsten with a bogbrush

use sketchup instead
permalink thanks.
I'll order some tungsten.
permalink Nope... listen to the meep.
Sketchup is your free and reasonably easy-to-get-into friend.



Does anyone have any easy-to-get-into friends? Feel free to post their phone numbers.
permalink Oooh while you're here...
http://www.guardian.co...

any answers?
permalink Apparently some British lighting engineer caused the problem
They've put out a fatwa on him.
permalink lucky bloke
last time I had a fatwa...etc
permalink Haha, I was just about to post
this: http://www.huffingtonp... and tell him one of his lightbulbs has blown...
permalink I've just been reading that!
Not remotely surprised.

Electrical Issues? No Shit. when I was there in November the installation was terrifyingly shonky. What you have to realise is that that building is a 5 star hotel with a third world country stuck on top.

If you find the full AP story that that's subbed from, there's a great quote from a visitor:

"The tower was projected as a metaphor for Dubai. So the metaphor should work.”

Strikes me the metaphor is working just fine there...
permalink If you only want internal dims
MK1 & MK2 are the same I'm sure
permalink Best bet is to get a tape measure out and survey the bugger anyway.
Cowjam - what does your mate want to do with it? Is he making a shagginwagon?
permalink a MK1 nust be rarer than a Bristol virgin
by now
permalink She.
Yes, she is. The inside rear is stripped down to external walls, it's going to be rebuilt and she'll be ordering a custom made 'rock & roll' bed for the back.
permalink If you are of a naughty persuasion,
you can torrent AutoCAD, Microstation and Vectorworks quite easily (I got all three in an evening), though there'll be a bit of a learning curve on them. But yes, Sketchup is very easy to use, though you'll have to pay for a license to get a version that will export any other CAD file format than a Sketchup model - no dwgs, dgns, vwxs or dxfs.
permalink or you could email a sketchup file so someone you might now who might have a license
and they could export for you...

Might just be one or two of us here...

Doesn't sound like he'd need to export anyway...
permalink You're right, she won't be exporting it
ta to everyone. She's giving sketchup a go.
permalink this
if sh's a novice vectorworks is closest to photoshop

permalink ta
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permalink prodesktop was some I used at school
(2002 I think) it was OK for modelling

why not just by a mark 1 transit for 30 quid?
permalink Can't even get a door skin for that
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/...
permalink She's got a transit
(cost a tad more than £30)

She wants to model the insides before we get it built. Fortunately a good friend is a coachbuilder.
permalink it sounds like a fun project
what's it going to be?
permalink Shag wagon.
It's was a camper when we bought it - high roof, rear door, tiny excuse of a kitchen. It's been stripped out, it's going to be proper pimped. The coachbuilder and his mate are doing the insides, I'm doing the electronics (might get a real person in to do the mains loop) which'll include a built-in computer, stereo, etc and we'll be putting a couple of beds in. Then we'll hit the road at a max of about 55mph.
permalink are you trying to shag this women in her van?
I'm sure dinner and nice walk would work as well. They you don't have to arse about with van
permalink No I'm not.
I might want to borrow her shag wagon for a weekend on occasion though.
permalink If you are looking into running all that kit then I suggest
fitting an alternator off as late a model diesel that you can fit plus two batteries and a split charge circuit, then you'll be able to run an inverter for modest mains powered stuff
permalink solar panels
permalink heinz tinned ravioli
http://www.open-pandor...
permalink I was only planning on running stuff
(other than internal lights) with the engine on, or when we're hooked up to mains.

Do I still need a beefier alternator?
sam at cowjam.net if you want to give me some idiot proof advice :)
permalink an alternator will only charge when the engine
is revving, I'll sort out some details for you in the morning when I'm a little less monged ;o)
permalink cheers
:)
permalink google sketch up
he'll probably be able to download one off the warehouse thing
permalink I had a look
I couldn't find a mk1 or 2.

She's made a start on sketchup tho.
thread Whoops
http://www.theregister...
permalink they'll probably learn more from the fetish site
than they would from 'buster'
permalink Exposure to gay porn affects children's safety how?
.
permalink They may get
a bit of balloon in the eye
permalink Which eye?
:¬)
permalink Because it promotes
bum sex between the kids.
I'm intrigued by the 'gay chaps getting their kicks from some balloons too'.
What do gay chaps do with balloons?
permalink Bend over
and I'll show you . . .
permalink Goodness!
Ok, so a flaccid balloon is blown up whist inserted up the bumhole? Or am I thinking about this too much. Which I am, I can tell you.
permalink well, good lord
i looked, who'd have thought it.

it's mostly hairy blokes with balloons. weird.
permalink You need your wife to walk in
at the moment that site showed . . .
permalink she already knows...
permalink They'll catch AIDS.
permalink balloon AIDS
is nearly as bad a baboon AIDS
permalink Safety on the internet,
ie. not accidentally being exposed to things they should be.
permalink Assuming you mean shouldn't be -
how is this different to heterosexual porn?
permalink Who said it was?
permalink So you are saying that pornography
represents a danger to children?
permalink Personally, I was pointing out that the phrase 'safety on the internet'
was not the same as 'safety'.
permalink Makes no difference
. .
permalink it doesn't matter what kind of porn site it is
you plonker
permalink They might start putting balloons up each other's bottoms
when you're taking them shopping in Tesco.
permalink we'll remind you of that when your kids are hanging out on gay fetish sites
permalink Anyone else think
we should be calling the social services about now?
permalink I explain things to my children as they ask.
I have been asked about gays by the eldest two and explained it.

I don't want them to be watching porn yet, but I don't consider it dangerous. I found a wank mag in a hedge when I was about 8 and it was mildly amusing, rather than anything else.
permalink I don't mean about gays,
that's largely irrelevant. It was more about your kids watching fetish porn.

Don't forget things are significantly different for kids these days. The internet is mostly porn with an icing of other stuff. They're not going to find the odd mag in a hedge, they're going to be seeing lemonparty and tubgirl every couple of weeks once their mates discover it and mail it round.
permalink Yes.
They see stuff in image searches from time to time anyway - there is no avoiding it. Interestingly, and this is so very different to me as a boy, they find it irritating and discard it in the way we disregard irrelevant results.

In away this is good, but I do see that all the girls I know in their 20s do things which only a few girls would do when we were young. Those girls seem like they have been abused because of porn to me, but the way the next generation treat it as a nuisance is likely to balance things out again, I hope.
permalink You watch girls in their 20's performing
pornographic acts on the internet ?
permalink That is not what I am saying,
but yes, of course, don't you?
permalink Flanners's taste runs more to the GILF end of the market
...
permalink When you get to my age
GILF's are ten a penny
permalink doesn't everyone?





[edit] fucking hell, that took 4 goes to post that
permalink dumb that they took the site down
as now a load of kids wont be able to find it and will try google
permalink ^^^
This.
permalink oh come on
they gave it a sheriff's badge and everything
someone knew
permalink pfft
permalink a shiny one
at that, must have had all the rust rubbed off it
thread Probably all seen the b3ta newsletter,
but in case you didn't, this is *superb*:-

http://www.youtube.com...

Noodles, Sloggis.
permalink this is a rather dirty buisness
http://www.guardian.co...

and this has potential to be extremely dirty buisness

http://www.guardian.co...
permalink This is interesting
http://www.guardian.co...
permalink with the growing rise of 'natural burial'
i'm suprised grave robbing hasn't returned.. or has it?
permalink *hides bodies*

No, I can't see that happening
permalink i alway's liked the fact that burke's body was given to the university
for medical research
permalink apparently his skin is still there on display somewhere
permalink oo this might be good
http://www.imdb.com/ti...
permalink yes, I heard about that
landis is very stylish
permalink i quite liked
the original one.. it was a hammer horror without the fuss

watched Witchfinder General recently.. what a pile of shit.. it was fun when i was nine
but for people to hold it up as one of the bests is truely sad
permalink I saw it on friday night.
I was drunk. But I thought it was good.

I like the women in Hammer films.
permalink some are beyond awesome
but in witchfinder.. they're all pretty much ugly
permalink Simon Pegg's been twittering about that
Apparently John Cleese isn't in it
permalink one of the few films he hasn't been
in then
permalink My mate
is working on that. He says he's expecting a disaster.
permalink Haha, excellent.
'She shoots all her ammo, which would be handy later;
and escapes with Newt to the nearest elevator'

"But before much waitin', Ripley comes straight in;
armed with a power loader and a class 2 ratin'"
permalink I love how hysterical the rapper gets
just before the place goes nuclear.
permalink haha.. as great a rapper as the fella
on laibach's Kapital
permalink hahahhaaaaa
splendid
permalink In one year in the Trust
2,840 people fell over once. One person fell over 23 times.
permalink I hate those ambulance chaser adverts on daytime TV
"I was walking across the lobby at work and I fell over cos I'm too fucking thick to look where I'm putting my feet."
permalink I couldn't believe the Payday Loans advert
on daytime telly, 2356% APR. I had to read it at least twice to make sure I wasn't going mad.
permalink yup.
It's for the desperate. Cashing cheques at those places is also expensive, and I'm glad I no longer need to do it.
permalink This lot
http://tinyurl.com/yhb...

I find it hard to believe that APR is legal!
permalink It may not be illegal
but it must be immoral.

It's like those Brighthouse cunts, convincing people that a flat screen telly and playstation is just what they need because it will only cost them 50p a week from their giro but at an APR of about 40%.
permalink As Anne Widdecombe said on telly last night,
the problem is coveting. If we stuck by the ten commandments we wouldn't be in such a financial mess.
permalink You covet
Anne Widdecombe ?
permalink ..
http://img.dailymail.c...
permalink What's the old saying...
"every dog has it's day"
permalink Ive seen her in her young tory days, looking like the above,
and giving a very good speech.

I'd have wanted a pint or two, but I'd have put her through an early day motion or two : )
permalink you've said some sick shit
but that rockets to the top of the list
permalink I see her inner beauty.
: )
permalink Kebab anyone ?
*heaves*
permalink Extra chilli . . .
. .
permalink mmmmmm,
I'll bring my own minty yoghurt.
permalink Is it pink and moist?
permalink You're confusing me and you again
`
permalink I've been enjoying that show
but I found it really hard going having her face and voice on my fucking telly for an hour.
permalink she really is a vile human being.
She kind of ruined the programme for me, I had been enjoying the series up until that point.
permalink It's the only one I've seen,
and I only saw the second half.

I quite enjoyed it. It was obviously heavily edited, but I thought that chap and stephen fry were getting a bit het up and missing the point when she was speaking to them one on one.
permalink I don't think it was them who missed the point,
it was most definitely her.
permalink what program are you talking about?
..
permalink Anne asked about the ten commandments.
Fry attacked the Catholic church.

That's missing the point.

If Louie Theroux had asked Fry about the ten commandments do you honestly think everyone would be behind Fry if he attacked Judaism in his reply?
permalink I'd never heard of them
and wandered into one thinking it was like a Curry's when I needed a new TV. I confused the spotty urchin that passed for a salesman when I told him I didn't need finance & I'd just whack it on my card.
permalink hahhaa
well done
permalink give me a hundred quid today and I'll pay you back £106 tomorrow
not great but works out to that rate,

better than £20 for the bank for going over an overdraft...they should have a sign on their websit 'only use this service if you are royally fucked'
permalink this ^
If you look at it over the time period involved it seems ok, it's only when you see it as an annual figure (which it would never be) that you realise how expensive it is.

You're right though, it's only for those already who are pretty dead financially - people who can't get overdrafts with the banks.
permalink Plus a £14.75 per £50 finance charge
so £1500 is £1942.50 before we start with the interest.
permalink ouch
permalink I don't wish to highlight your idiocy
but the "finance charge" is the interest.

You can't borrow £1500 for a year. It's cash til payday - the terms are very short. You borrow £50 you pay £60 back. It's an astronomical APR because you're paying 20% in one or two days. If you're paying 20% every two days then the APR is utterly massive, but it never get to that because you can only ever borrow for a couple of days.
permalink I think they'll happily keep on charging interest as long as you like
I'm sure defaulting is a large part of their business plan, doubt they'd be making their admin costs back otherwise
permalink Yup.
Most of those will be geniune falls. After operations people tend to think their legs work when they don't, so a fair portion is people going for a piss after an anaesthetic without calling for help first.
permalink I did that in the middle of the night after an operation.
I woke up, stumbled to the bog, attempted to start a piss then the next thing I remember is being on the floor covered in piss with my cock out and a nurse standing over me. Actually when you put it like that it doesn't sound too bad...

Anyway. somehow I'd managed to pull the emergency cord whilst passing out so the nurse came to check on me. I had been warned to ask for help if I needed to go to the toilet but I decided to ignore their advice.
permalink it happens
quite a lot. Stupid patients.
permalink that must really try your
patience.
permalink aha.
But no, I deal with clinical incidents. The funny stuff, like people falling over or throwing a strop, is handled by the health and safety team.
permalink To be honest though
she probably couldn't see the water because her face was full of pies
permalink clumsy bastard
thread a sun halo over the Bo
http://apod.nasa.gov/a... - cool pic.
I saw one of these over oxford on a summers day in 2000.

as you were - also handy site http://popurls.com/
permalink are you drunk?
In other news. I've just put my name down to do the three peaks challenge in June.
permalink TJ: I like this.
Nice simple idea: http://www.followupthe...
permalink tha'ts quite cool
I wish IT here were up for setting that kind of thing up. It'd be pretty simple to do.
I can't copy followupthen.com in to a lot of my emails as they contain sensitive infomration.
permalink I think almost anyone
using that site for work emails would be in breach of their comapny/organisation IT rules.
permalink Hmm
"We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used."

Fuck that shit.
permalink What would be useful
is the system, but as an add-on for (say) Exchange, so that companies could set it up internally.
permalink I'm sure I've seen add-ons
that just add a reminder to a calendar x amount of days in the future when you send an email which is similar functionality-wise.

I've got a feeling Groupwise has this option out of the box, I could be wrong though.
permalink Doesn't thunderbird actually have this as a default?
.
permalink With Lightning installed?
Quite possibly, it's been years since I used Thunderbird though.
permalink its probable that lightning was installed.
I've personally not used it for a few years now, but it seems fairly popular around the office (we all use linux terminals)
permalink Aye, you'd have to be sensible with it, but it's a nice easy reminder for less sensitive things.

some text
permalink by minibus?
or the three peaks yacht race?
permalink by foot
.
permalink I was meaning the bits in between the walking
there's a race in June- starts at barmouth in Wales. Sailing leg to Caernarfon, runners go up Snowdon. Then, sailing leg to Whitehaven, runners get on bikes, cycle into the lakes and then run up Scafell Pike. Then a long sailing leg to Fort William, followed by a tun up Ben Nevis. Teams of five- two people to sail the yacht, three running up the hills together. Takes three to five days.
permalink I did it a couple of years ago
I was surprised and a little dismayed by the height of Ben Nevis .. I enjoyed it and looking back I wouldn't mind doing it again, but on the day I did promise myself that I would never do it again

Make sure you take those hill climbing sticks that you thought only the old / infirm need
permalink sound advice, cheers.
I haven't been picked for the team yet, so I'll not be buying anything at the moment.
permalink Nevis is a shit walk unless you go up the back way.
The 'tourist' route though is extremely dull and rather depressing.Backwards and forwards,backwards and forwards,backwards and forwards,up, up, up. Zig zag, zig fucking zag.
I've been up 4 times and each time fucking clouds came in when we got to the top so no view.
permalink I've been up most of the 20 highest Munros
and the 4 'munros' of england,
but have still never been up Ben Nevis for this very reason
permalink We were there one February,
clear skies, snow on the ground. Thought 'fuck Nevis' I can't be arsed with it again, so went up the one opposite. Got to the top, still clear, snow, no-one on top of Nevis. I just think it's not meant to be.
There is a way up the back which is much better.
Nothing can compare with Aonach Eagach in Glencoe though.
permalink yeah.. mount fuji is rubbish
as is rangitoto.. and that mountain in HK where you see that massive buddha.. and those vietnamese cliffs that jut straight into the sea

nothing compared
permalink I meant that I'd been up,
you chuffer.
I've not been up that many. A bit like you with women.
permalink so did i
spazzwank.. (chuffer? are you using foreign?)
permalink You were implying I was comparing Aonach Eagach
with the vistas from Fuji etc, which I wasn't, just with other Munros.

No, I just blurted out chuffer and liked the sound of it. It's a shortening of 'Champion fluffer'.
permalink amazing pic!
..
permalink ooh, purdy
I'm sure that the govt are now doing stuff like this just to wind up the Mail

http://www.dailymail.c...
permalink ha!
Selling off the port to help national debt seems a bit like selling your CD collection to help pay for a house. It's not going to make a dent in the total.
permalink Its not so much to pay off the debt
as meet the interest payments
permalink it's a stunning bit of
"iff" "maybe" "possibly" rabble rousing "journalism"- taking what might be a non-story and making a scandal out of it.

Also, as pointed out under the story, the Spitfire pictured isn't that close to the White Cliffs of Dover- that's the Seven Sisters. Daily Fail strikes again.
permalink the comments on the article
are, in the main, making me want to stab idiots. There's some stunning levels of barely disguised racism. Some fantastic leaps of conjecture, mindboggling displays of lack of comprehension as to what the potential but in no way confirmed sell off would actually comprise. Stunning moronity.
permalink i blame that bastard thirdy
for polluting this glorious board with his filthy webtrawling

string him up! who's with me..
*grabs pitchfork*
permalink TO THE CASTLE!!

*lights flaming torches*
permalink *releases winged monkeys*
*escapes through secret tunnel*
permalink he wants to build a replacment for sangatte on the white cliffs
except he wants to build it as a 1000m tall eight star luxury hotel so that ileegl asylum seakhers can sponge off the za nuliabore benifits cistern.
permalink I love the idea of illegal asylum seekers.
"Hello, I wish asylum please"
"On what grounds?"
"My country refuses to broadcast Funniest Ever You've Been Framed and laughing at people falling over is a human right"
permalink a lot of commenters
on the Mail, on the BBC HYS and texting the Star genuinely seem to think that you can be an illegal Asylum Seeker. It's astonishing how wrong these people can be.
permalink heh
http://www.google.co.u...
permalink so it's snowing then.
and my office is freezing.



OOO this is nice
http://i.imgur.com/jpY...
permalink or this one
http://www.youtube.com...
permalink not snowing here
but it is chilly
permalink it wasn't too cold when i cycled to work this morning but it's frezzing now.
permalink it's trying to snow now
there were a few flakes when I went out
permalink TOTD anyone?
Ultramarine - Happy Land
http://www.youtube.com...

Also, I can heartily recommend the new Aphid Moon to all trance fans