"So This Is Christmas!"
Posted by: Berlin Fritz on 17 December 2006
Rather Brilliant I thought Chaps!
Wholehearted and unreserved apologies to any Palestinians, Arabs, or indeed other Christians on this forum who may in some way be offended by above cartoon*
Fritz Von And for any sweet-lipped purists amongs't our tightknit virtual brethren who wish to scuttle along whingeing to Admin for whatever imaginary reason they may have concocted, (or indeed what God told them to do!) please feel free to do so (as per always).
May your God go with you my Sons, & Daughters naturally:*
innit.
Wholehearted and unreserved apologies to any Palestinians, Arabs, or indeed other Christians on this forum who may in some way be offended by above cartoon*
Fritz Von And for any sweet-lipped purists amongs't our tightknit virtual brethren who wish to scuttle along whingeing to Admin for whatever imaginary reason they may have concocted, (or indeed what God told them to do!) please feel free to do so (as per always).
May your God go with you my Sons, & Daughters naturally:*
innit.
Posted on: 17 December 2006 by Deane F
quote:Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Rather Brilliant I thought Chaps!
Wholehearted and unreserved apologies to any Palestinians, Arabs, or indeed other Christians on this forum who may in some way be offended by above cartoon*
So, if you think it's rather brilliant, what is it, exactly, that you are apologising for?
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Dear Friends,
This is a nice picture taken in Worcester when Frank [F] visited me the week after I came back from Warsaw. Actually this is quite reminiscent of what happened on my birthday!
Well done Our Fredders! I was thinking that if you went just to your left there and put one of those structures at a right angle on top of the other one, you would have actually have "Crossed those Bridges when you'd got to them!"
Regards,
Fritz Von Kwai Kwai Kwai Delila!!!
P.S. Were those tomes beneath the table written perchance by Sir Winston?
Nice and loudly now:
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Rather Brilliant I thought Chaps!
Wholehearted and unreserved apologies to any Palestinians, Arabs, or indeed other Christians on this forum who may in some way be offended by above cartoon*
So, if you think it's rather brilliant, what is it, exactly, that you are apologising for?[/QUOTE]
quote:Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Wholehearted and unreserved apologies to any Palestinians, Arabs, or indeed other Christians on this forum who may in some way be offended by above cartoon*
And bored highly uninmaginative, though highly educated ante-deluvians², naturally too Bruce*
Regards,
Fritz Von Obvious innit Tom!
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Deane F
So, you're apologising to some people you don't know who might be offended by something that you can't see - or you can see what is offensive but you don't care about their feelings enough not to post the cartoon?
Yes Fritz, that's fairly obvious innit? Since when did you give a fuck about anybody's feelings when you post?
Yes Fritz, that's fairly obvious innit? Since when did you give a fuck about anybody's feelings when you post?
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
So, you're apologising to some people you don't know who might be offended by something that you can't see - or you can see what is offensive but you don't care about their feelings enough not to post the cartoon?
Yes Fritz, that's fairly obvious innit? Since when did you give a fuck about anybody's feelings when you post?
Go to a Doctor if you want a Social Worker or Psychologist, this is an internet forum John, where I take with a total pinch of salt that anybody here is indeed what they say they are, do we Ken John? (Again).
Regards,
Fritz Von You are wasting both your time & breath*
P.S. My long-term Palestinian & Messianic Jewish Pal (mentioned previously on here often) found it bloody hilarious actually, just for the record, but as I say it's of no consequence on here whatso'ever, though feel free to complain to Our Adam, who'll duly be bound to remove it, and make you feel better*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
Yes Fritz, that's fairly obvious innit? Since when did you give a fuck about anybody's feelings when you post?
I felt devastatingly sad for Sir Alex and his cronies last night, and in fact all of today as well, so I really don't know what you're on about?
Regards,
Fritz Von Reality (Like Israel Constantly bombing Palestine) is a fact of life John* (Like it or not)*
P.S. Dried fish (Phillipine style) can be had in just about any Asian store throughout the UK (NOW TODAY), as it is here where hygiene standards are paramount*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
Should Lord Murdoch be made New Home Secretary?
Regards,
Caring Fritz Von Lucky this bloke they've nicked (but not charged with anything) wasn't an ex PCSO then wunnit!
He was just a mere Old Style voluntary Special Constable in his spare time*
Regards,
Caring Fritz Von Lucky this bloke they've nicked (but not charged with anything) wasn't an ex PCSO then wunnit!
He was just a mere Old Style voluntary Special Constable in his spare time*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
150 local girls at 5 punters a day on average, that's quite a few a week really, innit Chaps!
Fritz Von I expect it's the same here as there? most brothels, clubs, and er, punters for that matter don't want to have sex with junkies anyway (except other junkies and real rock bottom johnnies of course), perhaps they should arrest some er, SHOCK HORROR Punters then!
Only in Britain! really*
It's A Farce³
Fritz Von I expect it's the same here as there? most brothels, clubs, and er, punters for that matter don't want to have sex with junkies anyway (except other junkies and real rock bottom johnnies of course), perhaps they should arrest some er, SHOCK HORROR Punters then!
Only in Britain! really*
It's A Farce³
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by acad tsunami
Deane,
The only thing wrong with the cartoon is that the Israelis seem to be showing restraint by only bombing the three wise men and not the stable as well - no doubt in reality they would swing by again and take out the stable or maybe they would just bulldoze it. The reality is offensive not the cartoon.
Acad
The only thing wrong with the cartoon is that the Israelis seem to be showing restraint by only bombing the three wise men and not the stable as well - no doubt in reality they would swing by again and take out the stable or maybe they would just bulldoze it. The reality is offensive not the cartoon.
Acad
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
Don't forget the poor old bloody Camels Our Acad, they're fantastic creatures, and Soooo switched on too.
Regards,
Fritz Von In fact I'd much rather go out for a night on the razzle with a coupla camels than half a dozen pretty, though highly boring Kiwi birds anyday John*
Maori's are probably a good larf though! at least they know how to party and dance, not to mention holding their booze and not wanting to start World War bloody III every five minutes, innit, through loss of Cultural identity and er, alcohol/rugby campness²*
Regards,
Fritz Von In fact I'd much rather go out for a night on the razzle with a coupla camels than half a dozen pretty, though highly boring Kiwi birds anyday John*
Maori's are probably a good larf though! at least they know how to party and dance, not to mention holding their booze and not wanting to start World War bloody III every five minutes, innit, through loss of Cultural identity and er, alcohol/rugby campness²*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by acad tsunami
I love camels too Fritz von one hump or two?
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by andy c:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6189409.stm
No-one bothered about this, then?
Well done Our Andy! You'll have been watching the Detectives then?
Fritz Von & Elvis smoked Castellos Son.
If you eat plenty of dried fish with a whole decanter (or two) of finest South African (or Saudi Arabian) Port & Stilton Our Acad, I gaurantee you won't feel a thing John*
Camels like Taylors*
I prefer Martins myself*
N.B. I wholeheartedly & unreservedly fully apologise in advance to any Camels (dromedarie or otherwise) out there that may in anyway be upset or insulted by my insinuating or even suggesting that they may possibly have bad breath after eating Stilton (weekends only)*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Did he give himself up then?
Acad! How could you bring yourself to ask such a sensitive question?
Fritz Von There's thousands of hours of overtime from over 31 different forces at work here John, now behave*
P.S. By the way the Saudi Port is alcohol-free naturally*
Besides they cannie even understand themselves; never mind the bleedin Suffolk Bumpkin dialect, innit*)Imagine the pub, it'll be worse than the Gluepot*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by u5227470736789439
Dear Fritz,
Crossing Bridges..... Lordy!... how hard to do.
I have crossed a few in my life, and crossed a few of the wrong ones as well really [such as attempting Uni as a mature student], though no one else was hurt by it...
Really those little balsa wood bridges are quite special for me. I was at Coventry University at the begining of a degree reading Civil Engineering [B Eng Civils] in 2002/3. I was quite good actually, but the finances would have never stretched, and I got out in the February [having attended one session of counselling for 'alledged depression'] much to the annoyance of my Tutor, who vehemently called me a 'bloody fool' for quitting. That was in the corridor right outside the reception desk in the the John Laing building [K Block] infront of Mr Cross-Rudkin who then joined in... The lightest little bridge with the very slender members was a minor master piece, and the lightest structure ever to survive the load testing in the annual competion to see which group of four new students could make the best [most efficient] structure to bear 16 kg over a 600 mm span [and deflection less than 1.5 mm at the loading point, and only 1 mm with a 10 kg load] using only balsa wood, cotton [which cannot be persuaded not to stretch too much to keep within the deflection limits] and wood glue. Later I will post the drawings I did for it... [The two with curved members were made before I went to Uni, to see what might be done with no 'education in the subject at all!' In fact they were perfect U[niformly D[istrubed L[oad designs, again done utterly by intuition, whereas the actual brief required the structure to bear a point load,so hence the completely different design in the competition bridge itself].
The team I had were rather good, but in reality I did not play a team game in that case. We had a meeting [in a pub of course] and thrashed out a plan for four designs to comply with the brief. I had "my" design in my head already [having also thoroughly calculated the possibilities of how slender the necessary members would be, with itteration rather than calculus, sadly] and actually made and tested the bridge rather than wasting time drawing it out and discussing it.
The next meating produced three designs and a tested bridge! This very first one was later tested to destruction, so the one seen was actually number three, and the best one made, as with the variability of the density of balsa it was the lightest at only 22 grams. The actual work of preparing a short presentation was shared out and I never actually did the technical drawings myself, though I did do very detailed diagrams of the 'special laminated joints.' My tutor wondered just from where I had got that idea [never used in the competition before], and I just said that I thought it was obvious! It is, in my view, obvious that wood is much stronger in tension along the grain than across it, so that if the grain is crossed in laminated style, then the resulting joints can be very strong and also very small, and light. Wood structures would have been my dissetation had I carried on, I am sure...
____________
The [six] big black volumes are "The Second World War" by Winston Churchill, in the First Edition, and printed on utility paper in rather simple bindings. It is very dense as a read, and of course must be read in a certain way, I think. WC himself said that he was not worried about "history's verdict on him would be, as he intended to write it himself!" The sadder aspects of the history, where the Allies did some pretty awful things are hardly mentioned, such as the case of repatriating the "White Russian Cossacks," who fought with the Nazis, from Austria in 1945/6. In fact I would not know about this at all if it were not for my eldest English Uncle who was in the army of occupation in Austria at that time as a Major. Harold macMillan was the chief political director in that occupation and had to implement this awful policy. [More "real politic" as the Soviets outnumbered the Brits by ten to one in Austria at that time]. Tehran and Yalta get rather a similar treatment, but I have never been happy to take history from one source alone.
This reminds me of studying history for O-levels in 1976/7 where we did Tudor History from 1485 to 1603, and had only one text: Carter and Mears. Of course as a fourteen and fifteeen year old I accepted this version and trotted out what I had learned well enough to pass the Exam. My favourite subject was Maths, and then Engloish Language, though I never quite mastered perfect spelling!
_____________
I hate this time of year, with such such short dark days, and I always improve in my mentality as soon as New Year comes. Then Spring...
_____________
Your point about people being what they seem here is perfectly true, I am sure, in many cases, though the few who know me here on a personal level wonder how I can be quite so close to my real self on the Forum - I know it is I who write these words [Incredible Smiley!] In fact I am more fun, and less serious a lot of the time in person, as some here tend to want to make the wrong reading of what is written [not you!] but I have often found that I can be much more direct with people who can not possibly really know me [such as the counsellor at Uni!], than the middle ground of aquaintances who take what I might say and can be genuinely hateful with the information. I have perhaps four friends with whom I have been even more direct with than here on the Forum - totally without any secrets at all. They still find me a good friend, though what I told them had the risk of putting them off. The results of that straight fowardness was a deepening of the trust, which has run two ways in each case, though it is always a test. How serious was that for an Advent thought?
Anyway, though I can rarely join in your Threads in any realistic way, I do enjoy reading them, and hope you don't mind reading this off topic post from me. Try to have a Happy Christmas, as I shall this year. First good one in a long time, and the first ever with my nephew, niece, and sister-in-law, who is no longer my brother's wife, but your in-laws can remain so, even after a divorce, I reckon. One nice thing is that she has said I can count on a base at her house if everything goes tits-up with my plans for 2007. That is worth its weight in gold, I think. We were good friends before my brother married her, and the only problem after the divorce was that she assumed I would take my brother's part. Not so, so we are back to where we were almost twenty years ago, as total confidants, which is nice...
Kindest regards from Fredrik
Crossing Bridges..... Lordy!... how hard to do.
I have crossed a few in my life, and crossed a few of the wrong ones as well really [such as attempting Uni as a mature student], though no one else was hurt by it...
Really those little balsa wood bridges are quite special for me. I was at Coventry University at the begining of a degree reading Civil Engineering [B Eng Civils] in 2002/3. I was quite good actually, but the finances would have never stretched, and I got out in the February [having attended one session of counselling for 'alledged depression'] much to the annoyance of my Tutor, who vehemently called me a 'bloody fool' for quitting. That was in the corridor right outside the reception desk in the the John Laing building [K Block] infront of Mr Cross-Rudkin who then joined in... The lightest little bridge with the very slender members was a minor master piece, and the lightest structure ever to survive the load testing in the annual competion to see which group of four new students could make the best [most efficient] structure to bear 16 kg over a 600 mm span [and deflection less than 1.5 mm at the loading point, and only 1 mm with a 10 kg load] using only balsa wood, cotton [which cannot be persuaded not to stretch too much to keep within the deflection limits] and wood glue. Later I will post the drawings I did for it... [The two with curved members were made before I went to Uni, to see what might be done with no 'education in the subject at all!' In fact they were perfect U[niformly D[istrubed L[oad designs, again done utterly by intuition, whereas the actual brief required the structure to bear a point load,so hence the completely different design in the competition bridge itself].
The team I had were rather good, but in reality I did not play a team game in that case. We had a meeting [in a pub of course] and thrashed out a plan for four designs to comply with the brief. I had "my" design in my head already [having also thoroughly calculated the possibilities of how slender the necessary members would be, with itteration rather than calculus, sadly] and actually made and tested the bridge rather than wasting time drawing it out and discussing it.
The next meating produced three designs and a tested bridge! This very first one was later tested to destruction, so the one seen was actually number three, and the best one made, as with the variability of the density of balsa it was the lightest at only 22 grams. The actual work of preparing a short presentation was shared out and I never actually did the technical drawings myself, though I did do very detailed diagrams of the 'special laminated joints.' My tutor wondered just from where I had got that idea [never used in the competition before], and I just said that I thought it was obvious! It is, in my view, obvious that wood is much stronger in tension along the grain than across it, so that if the grain is crossed in laminated style, then the resulting joints can be very strong and also very small, and light. Wood structures would have been my dissetation had I carried on, I am sure...
____________
The [six] big black volumes are "The Second World War" by Winston Churchill, in the First Edition, and printed on utility paper in rather simple bindings. It is very dense as a read, and of course must be read in a certain way, I think. WC himself said that he was not worried about "history's verdict on him would be, as he intended to write it himself!" The sadder aspects of the history, where the Allies did some pretty awful things are hardly mentioned, such as the case of repatriating the "White Russian Cossacks," who fought with the Nazis, from Austria in 1945/6. In fact I would not know about this at all if it were not for my eldest English Uncle who was in the army of occupation in Austria at that time as a Major. Harold macMillan was the chief political director in that occupation and had to implement this awful policy. [More "real politic" as the Soviets outnumbered the Brits by ten to one in Austria at that time]. Tehran and Yalta get rather a similar treatment, but I have never been happy to take history from one source alone.
This reminds me of studying history for O-levels in 1976/7 where we did Tudor History from 1485 to 1603, and had only one text: Carter and Mears. Of course as a fourteen and fifteeen year old I accepted this version and trotted out what I had learned well enough to pass the Exam. My favourite subject was Maths, and then Engloish Language, though I never quite mastered perfect spelling!
_____________
I hate this time of year, with such such short dark days, and I always improve in my mentality as soon as New Year comes. Then Spring...
_____________
Your point about people being what they seem here is perfectly true, I am sure, in many cases, though the few who know me here on a personal level wonder how I can be quite so close to my real self on the Forum - I know it is I who write these words [Incredible Smiley!] In fact I am more fun, and less serious a lot of the time in person, as some here tend to want to make the wrong reading of what is written [not you!] but I have often found that I can be much more direct with people who can not possibly really know me [such as the counsellor at Uni!], than the middle ground of aquaintances who take what I might say and can be genuinely hateful with the information. I have perhaps four friends with whom I have been even more direct with than here on the Forum - totally without any secrets at all. They still find me a good friend, though what I told them had the risk of putting them off. The results of that straight fowardness was a deepening of the trust, which has run two ways in each case, though it is always a test. How serious was that for an Advent thought?
Anyway, though I can rarely join in your Threads in any realistic way, I do enjoy reading them, and hope you don't mind reading this off topic post from me. Try to have a Happy Christmas, as I shall this year. First good one in a long time, and the first ever with my nephew, niece, and sister-in-law, who is no longer my brother's wife, but your in-laws can remain so, even after a divorce, I reckon. One nice thing is that she has said I can count on a base at her house if everything goes tits-up with my plans for 2007. That is worth its weight in gold, I think. We were good friends before my brother married her, and the only problem after the divorce was that she assumed I would take my brother's part. Not so, so we are back to where we were almost twenty years ago, as total confidants, which is nice...
Kindest regards from Fredrik
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
Nice one Our Fredders, I remember you mentioning sopme of those things in the past Old Bean. Mr Idle (A man after my own heart) deserves another loud blast now doesn't he!
Regards,
Fritz Von Now watch those smouldering butts when you've had a skinfull now, or you'll be burning yer bridges too, and it'll be totally unplanned Son.
Tea time (pancakes with sugar & lemon methinks), or maybe marmite?
Lemon Curry?
Regards,
Fritz Von Now watch those smouldering butts when you've had a skinfull now, or you'll be burning yer bridges too, and it'll be totally unplanned Son.
Tea time (pancakes with sugar & lemon methinks), or maybe marmite?
Lemon Curry?
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Berlin Fritz
quote:Originally posted by Rasher:
Great development. Reports say that they investigated him over a month ago. Yeah, I might be on dodgy ground here but we see it over and over again.
No! Don't tell me John!! You're A Sky News Fan?
Regards,
Fritz Von They don't call me shoestring for nowt Lad*
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Beano
Fredrik,
Firstly; top Post enjoyed reading it!
Secondly; have you ever considered freelance writing as an alternative career, or even just supplementing your income by writing?
The reason I ask is that this morning and totally out of the blue, a complimentary magazine called HIFICRITIC landed on our doormat. This brand new publication has no adverts at all so it’s funded entirely by subscription only, now given your natural wordsmith; I reckon you'd make a good, unbiased, equipment and music reviewer.
http://www.hificritic.co.uk/
Fritz,
Nowt wrong with that cartoon, except I think you should have coloured it in.
The Q-tip cotton bud was invented today in 1926. So here's another bit of useless trivia... on a camel theme, a Rat can go longer without water than a Camel!
Beano
Firstly; top Post enjoyed reading it!
Secondly; have you ever considered freelance writing as an alternative career, or even just supplementing your income by writing?
The reason I ask is that this morning and totally out of the blue, a complimentary magazine called HIFICRITIC landed on our doormat. This brand new publication has no adverts at all so it’s funded entirely by subscription only, now given your natural wordsmith; I reckon you'd make a good, unbiased, equipment and music reviewer.
http://www.hificritic.co.uk/
Fritz,
Nowt wrong with that cartoon, except I think you should have coloured it in.
The Q-tip cotton bud was invented today in 1926. So here's another bit of useless trivia... on a camel theme, a Rat can go longer without water than a Camel!
Beano
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Deane F
quote:Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Deane,
The only thing wrong with the cartoon is that the Israelis seem to be showing restraint by only bombing the three wise men and not the stable as well - no doubt in reality they would swing by again and take out the stable or maybe they would just bulldoze it. The reality is offensive not the cartoon.
Acad
Acad
I really have no qualms about the cartoon. I think Fritz's "apology" was disingenuous is all. The cartoon can stand on its own two feet (as it were) and Berlin Fritz, as the poster, should stand by it or not. I don't live my life stepping carefully around the possible offense of others and from what I've seen here, neither does Fritz. So his "apology" is meaningless.
Deane
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by Beano
quote:Originally posted by acad tsunami:
I love camels too Fritz von one hump or two?
I hope you paid those people for letting you entertain yourself with that beast
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by acad tsunami
It occurs to me you may think me a tad weird Beano so let me say for the record that the camel was FEMALE and that if you had seen those lovely long eye lashes batting in such a provocative manner you may have wanted to jump on board yourself! 
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by acad tsunami
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:quote:Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Deane,
The only thing wrong with the cartoon is that the Israelis seem to be showing restraint by only bombing the three wise men and not the stable as well - no doubt in reality they would swing by again and take out the stable or maybe they would just bulldoze it. The reality is offensive not the cartoon.
Acad
Acad
I really have no qualms about the cartoon. I think Fritz's "apology" was disingenuous is all. The cartoon can stand on its own two feet (as it were) and Berlin Fritz, as the poster, should stand by it or not. I don't live my life stepping carefully around the possible offense of others and from what I've seen here, neither does Fritz. So his "apology" is meaningless.
Deane
Deane,
OK. Understood.
Acad
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by u5227470736789439
That little bridge in schematic:
Fredrik
Fredrik
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by u5227470736789439
Under the specified load:
Notice the Coventry "Sky-blue" of the test rig! Fredrik
Notice the Coventry "Sky-blue" of the test rig! Fredrik
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by u5227470736789439
The beautiful end joint:
Fredrik
Fredrik
Posted on: 18 December 2006 by u5227470736789439
And the almost as elegant middle joint in "tension:"
Well this was just one of several nice pieces of work I did in six months at Uni. It is one avenue that I might have had some fun with if I had been 20 rather than 40 at the time. One of those stumbled crossings of the bridge!
I am glad I could still find the files! Fredrik
Well this was just one of several nice pieces of work I did in six months at Uni. It is one avenue that I might have had some fun with if I had been 20 rather than 40 at the time. One of those stumbled crossings of the bridge!
I am glad I could still find the files! Fredrik