A Shed Downunder.

[ajohno]

Congratulations on your licence Steve.

 

[Vieux]

And congratulations with obtaining a license. Good flight!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Congratulations on getting your licence 1/2cup, well done.

thank you Mark..

Looking forward to seeing some photos (video ) from that in the future.

Will do HOTFR8 when we can sort just a few issues with our IT dept. I had them down to my office yesterday, an hour later I still have no resolution to the security issues, even though I have full admin rights ( which in an our organisation is a rarity ) due to policy restrictions.

PS for once I am not over stepping the line..

+2!! Sounds like you did better than you thought on the application.

I have an elderly friend who says "Worry works! 90% of the stuff I worry about never happens!"

So you 1/2 worried about the application and that fixed it!



25 kg! That's like 50# in real measures!!

Andy, thank you, I actually did better than I thought as the documentation did not have some of the required signatories that they normally require, may be it was because we are a semi government organisation but I'm won the war..

1/2: +3

so a 60 pound drone flying around should help on those windy days. do all your drones have 4 propellers and do you have more than one drone in your company's stable?

congrats and WELL DONE SIR!!

drives, thank you.. our group has only the one drone at the moment..

https://www.sensefly.com/drones/albris.html

I can see a bright future for what we can achieve using the technology that is out there and it is moving at a rapid pace right now..

Congratulations on your licence Steve.

Arron, Thank you I do feel a sense of relief in achieving the milestone as the company has given me such an opportunity and I really feel very privileged to be able to do so..

And congratulations with obtaining a license. Good flight!

Vieux I thank you, I am looking forward to sharing what we do with the drone with you all..


Have a great day and thank you one and all

 

[HOTFR8]

You step over lines ! I doubt it.

 

[1/2 Cup]

You step over lines ! I doubt it.

HOTFR8, now that brought a smile.

Don't tell the boss..

Edit, now that reminds me I have a non negotiable meeting with our procurement type personal on Thursday. I am feeling though a rough end of a Pineapple being inserted where the sun don't shine is not so far away...

 

[TwoBytes]

Ken, I could almost put a jumper on this morning with a top of 31 predicted today, with next Friday and Saturday cracking the 40s, then cooling down next week. The rain was a bit of a timely bonus and the lawns have shot up like nothing..

37 and 85% humidity here yesterday, 24 today (really did need a jumper this morning) and 42 forecast for Saturday!



Congrats on the licence Steve (and for successfully navigating the CASA red tape)

 

[Lyndon]

Jumper!!!!

Jumper!!!!

In ****** February? Not a bleeding chance!!!!

I won't see a jumper until May (earliest). It's so hot here that putting a jumper on now would see you carted off to the psych ward.

(Oh - and congrats Steve on the licence to fly a 25 kg "bird".)

Lyndon
Too hot to handle

 

[bolensboneyard]

Congrats on the license Steve be safe!

 

[jbmatth]

In non-queens English measurements that equates to 55.1 pounds, and not the currency rather the weight, or is it mass, I always get those confused. That will be one big hefty drone. Congrats on the license 1/2!

 

[Finallygotit]

OK, I'm still stuck on "jumper".

I need a MOE please?

 

[drivesitfar]

FIO: Don't feel ALONE in not understanding what some of these guys say especially Lyndon cause you need a damn GOOGLE translation dictionary which won't always work.

i just wait until 1/2 comes back to explain and if he doesn't its just another word i won't know that these Crazy AWESOME AUSSIES use in their chatting.

my guess is swim shorts, but it's WAG at best cause i'm done GOOGLING AUSSIE words for now until after the WEDDING.

cheers

JB: isn't easy math 2.2 kilos equals a pound? hence some of my weight plates being 44 pounds that are 20 kilos?

 

[1/2 Cup]

37 and 85% humidity here yesterday, 24 today (really did need a jumper this morning) and 42 forecast for Saturday!



Congrats on the licence Steve (and for successfully navigating the CASA red tape)

Mat, similar temps here are forecast but we are lucky and so not have the humidity you guys have.

Thank you..

Jumper!!!!

Jumper!!!!

In ****** February? Not a bleeding chance!!!!

I won't see a jumper until May (earliest). It's so hot here that putting a jumper on now would see you carted off to the psych ward.

(Oh - and congrats Steve on the licence to fly a 25 kg "bird".)

Lyndon
Too hot to handle

Yep a Jumper in February strewth it was real cold the other morning..

Thank you..

Congrats on the license Steve be safe!

Bobby thank you.

Safety our number 1 priority let me tell you....

In non-queens English measurements that equates to 55.1 pounds, and not the currency rather the weight, or is it mass, I always get those confused. That will be one big hefty drone. Congrats on the license 1/2!

JB, thank you.

That is one heck of an aircraft..

OK, I'm still stuck on "jumper".

I need a MOE please?

Finallygotit sorry.. just us Aussies..

A jumper is = a sweeter or pull over for you guys..

[ jump¦er1


NOUN
BRITISH
a knitted garment typically with long sleeves, worn over the upper body.]

FIO: Don't feel ALONE in not understanding what some of these guys say especially Lyndon cause you need a damn GOOGLE translation dictionary which won't always work.

i just wait until 1/2 comes back to explain and if he doesn't its just another word i won't know that these Crazy AWESOME AUSSIES use in their chatting.

my guess is swim shorts, but it's WAG at best cause i'm done GOOGLING AUSSIE words for now until after the WEDDING.

cheers

JB: isn't easy math 2.2 kilos equals a pound? hence some of my weight plates being 44 pounds that are 20 kilos?

drives, happy to provide an explanation, metric conversion or translation at any time.

Have a great day and thank you again..

 

[shortykorte]

No jumper for 1/2 Cup.


p.s. Congrats on license. I have bags packs, let me know drone ETA.

 

[Finallygotit]

Finallygotit sorry.. just us Aussies..

A jumper is = a sweeter or pull over for you guys..

[ jump¦er1


NOUN
BRITISH
a knitted garment typically with long sleeves, worn over the upper body.]

Ahhhhh......MOE achieved.

Thank you kind sir.

 

[drivesitfar]

1/2: i had the first 2 letters correct does that count? SWEATER vs. SWIMSUIT??

i'm still trying to get the image of LYNDON in a SPEEDO out of my mind cause it took months to get him in his bathtub out of my mind.

ok. CARRY ON while i go wash my mind out with soap.

 

[HOTFR8]

OK, I'm still stuck on "jumper".

I need a MOE please?

Here I was thinking I would explain it as a cross with a Sheep and a Kangaroo.

Seriously we all speak English and this often can be so funny at times.
Windcheater = Jumper = Pullover.

 

[xtremek]

Hey 1/2, congrats on the license to kill... I mean fly. Whatever.

 

[Finallygotit]

Here I was thinking I would explain it as a cross with a Sheep and a Kangaroo.

Go ahead, give it a shot. This has got to be good!

 

[drivesitfar]

Fr8: +2

 

[HOTFR8]

A jumper ..................

 

[oldironfarmer]

I thought I knew a lot, but the level of wisdom here is astounding. Almost unbelievable!

It is now apparent that vast wisdom on this thread is actually 1/2 vast!

 

[Bob Heine]

"Great Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language" is very true. I extend the problem to the entire British Empire (Australia, Canada, South Africa, etc. etc. etc.). As a New Yorker, I vividly recall being unable to understand a word spoken by a man in Alabama back in the 1950s and suffered the same problem in Scotland in the 1990s.

 

[HOTFR8]

As an Australian it is fascinating to hear the English language spoken in so many different places. As an Aussie that has traveled a little but to a some English and non English speaking places you pick up and hear some interesting things. The most pure English I ever heard was by an African Gent who was in China and then to speak with a Taiwanese Lady in Taiwan with a strong American accent almost like she was from Boston was interesting as well.

We poor Aussies I am often told 'stralian' (read as strangle or strain) the language and then with so many places almost speaking a different version of the same language you often wonder why these issues do not arise more often on such a global forum like right here on the GJ.

Sorry 1/2 but we have taken your topic off topic over some warm clothing but then what a perfect place to talk language when the title is 'The Shed Down Under'. Harking back to my post some time ago with apologies to Men At Work.
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[oldironfarmer]

As an Australian it is fascinating to hear the English language spoken in so many different places. As an Aussie that has traveled a little but to a some English and non English speaking places you pick up and hear some interesting things. The most pure English I ever heard was by an African Gent who was in China and then to speak with a Taiwanese Lady in Taiwan with a strong American accent almost like she was from Boston was interesting as well.

We poor Aussies I am often told 'stralian' (read as strangle or strain the language) and then with so many places almost speaking a different version of the same language you often wonder why these issues do not arise more often on such a global forum like right here on the GJ.

Sorry 1/2 but we have taken your topic off topic over some warm clothing but then what a perfect place to talk language when the title is 'The Shed Down Under'. Harking back to my post some time ago with apologies to Men At Work.
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Very well put!

Interesting how many English speakers there are around the world. Since English is the official maritime language and air traffic control language it gives us that speak some kind of dialect of English an advantage. As a Commonwealth country, the English spoken in Nigeria is one of the most difficult for me, whereas our neighbors from India are very understandable to me.

Is there English spoken in Scotland?

A little story: I was in Tehran during the Shah's reign doing a project for NIGC (National Iranian Gas Corporation). The Iranians were selling gas to Vieux's guys but the Russians would only pay with machinery, Iran could get Russian equipment but no cash. NIGC was having a meeting with TSMT (a Russian gas compressor company IIRC) and NIGC wanted me to attend. I was hesitant when the Dutch born NIGC chief engineer assured me the meeting would be in English. It turns out I was the only real English speaker there. It was very interesting to me that they held all their meetings in English, it was apparently the only common language their interpreters had.

 

[1/2 Cup]

No jumper for 1/2 Cup.


p.s. Congrats on license. I have bags packs, let me know drone ETA.

Ahhhhh......MOE achieved.

Thank you kind sir.

1/2: i had the first 2 letters correct does that count? SWEATER vs. SWIMSUIT??

i'm still trying to get the image of LYNDON in a SPEEDO out of my mind cause it took months to get him in his bathtub out of my mind.

ok. CARRY ON while i go wash my mind out with soap.

Here I was thinking I would explain it as a cross with a Sheep and a Kangaroo.

Seriously we all speak English and this often can be so funny at times.
Windcheater = Jumper = Pullover.

Hey 1/2, congrats on the license to kill... I mean fly. Whatever.

Go ahead, give it a shot. This has got to be good!

Fr8: +2

A jumper ..................

I thought I knew a lot, but the level of wisdom here is astounding. Almost unbelievable!

It is now apparent that vast wisdom on this thread is actually 1/2 vast!

"Great Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language" is very true. I extend the problem to the entire British Empire (Australia, Canada, South Africa, etc. etc. etc.). As a New Yorker, I vividly recall being unable to understand a word spoken by a man in Alabama back in the 1950s and suffered the same problem in Scotland in the 1990s.

As an Australian it is fascinating to hear the English language spoken in so many different places. As an Aussie that has traveled a little but to a some English and non English speaking places you pick up and hear some interesting things. The most pure English I ever heard was by an African Gent who was in China and then to speak with a Taiwanese Lady in Taiwan with a strong American accent almost like she was from Boston was interesting as well.

We poor Aussies I am often told 'stralian' (read as strangle or strain the language) and then with so many places almost speaking a different version of the same language you often wonder why these issues do not arise more often on such a global forum like right here on the GJ.

Sorry 1/2 but we have taken your topic off topic over some warm clothing but then what a perfect place to talk language when the title is 'The Shed Down Under'. Harking back to my post some time ago with apologies to Men At Work.
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Very well put!

Interesting how many English speakers there are around the world. Since English is the official maritime language and air traffic control language it gives us that speak some kind of dialect of English an advantage. As a Commonwealth country, the English spoken in Nigeria is one of the most difficult for me, whereas our neighbors from India are very understandable to me.

Is there English spoken in Scotland?

A little story: I was in Tehran during the Shah's reign doing a project for NIGC (National Iranian Gas Corporation). The Iranians were selling gas to Vieux's guys but the Russians would only pay with machinery, Iran could get Russian equipment but no cash. NIGC was having a meeting with TSMT (a Russian gas compressor company IIRC) and NIGC wanted me to attend. I was hesitant when the Dutch born NIGC chief engineer assured me the meeting would be in English. It turns out I was the only real English speaker there. It was very interesting to me that they held all their meetings in English, it was apparently the only common language their interpreters had.

Geez a bloke goes away for the day with work ( no sneak peaking during the day ) and look what a stir has happened, this will take a month of Sundays to get through,

PS I wouldn't have it any other way so bear with me.

How ever in the mean time ponder this song from Men At Work and the lyrics that HOTFR8 penned a few years ago..

With a link to the video below..

So watch the video and read the lyrics as you do.. enjoy..

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a zippie tie trail head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast

And she said, "Do you come from a Shed down under?
Where women glow and men play with A Models an electrical goodies?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover" from 1/2 Cups thunder.

Buying Goodies from a man in Brussels (On Ebay really)
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak my language?" (The GJ langauage )
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
(Pie & Sauce with peas would be better)

And he said, "I come from a Shed down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover", yeah

Dying in a den in Bombay (In a place called Shepparton really)
With a slack jaw and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"

And he said, "Oh, you come from a Shed down under?"
(Oh yeah, yeah)
"Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?"
(Oh)
"You better run, you better take cover"

'Cause he is livin' in a Shed down under
Where women glow and men plunder
(Yeah)
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
(Thunder)
You better run, you better take cover

Livin' in a Shed down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
(Ooh yeah)
Then I run and then I take cover
(Yeah)

We are livin' in a Shed down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you, can't you hear the thunder?
Then I run then I take cover

Livin' in a Shed down under
(Livin' in a Shed down under)



Applogies to - Men At Work.


Here is a You tube link to the song by Men at Work circa 1981

It explains things to a tee..

A huge thanks to HOTFR8..

Thanks every one...

 

[HCNDM]

Congratz on the drone rating 1/2! Dutch CAA is still mucking about on the regulations meaning its nigh on impossible to fly over built up area for the time being.


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[1/2 Cup]

Congratz on the drone rating 1/2! Dutch CAA is still mucking about on the regulations meaning its nigh on impossible to fly over built up area for the time being.


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Niels thank you..

The Civil Aviation Authority are realy on the front foot in terms of our UAV regulations here..

https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft/st...-gaining-your-remotely-piloted-aircraft-pilot

https://www.casa.gov.au/standard-page/commercial-unmanned-flight-remotely-piloted-aircraft-under-2kg

There are no grey areas let me tell you..

 

[Grumblebum]

Whoa, what a massive run of posts.

Congrats on the new license.

Shorty what were you searching for to find that pic ? Not sure if it's quite a jumper but I won't complain

GB

 

[HOTFR8]

1/2, See what happens when we all get bored and we have no updates .

Geez a bloke goes away for the day with work ( no sneak peaking during the day ) and look what a stir has happened, this will take a month of Sundays to get through,

Most months have 4 Sundays so you will be OK.

How ever in the mean time ponder this song from Men At Work and the lyrics that HOTFR8 penned a few years ago..

I need to get a new verse in there about clocking the screws.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Whoa, what a massive run of posts.

Congrats on the new license.

Shorty what were you searching for to find that pic ? Not sure if it's quite a jumper but I won't complain

GB

GB, I am still working on a response to all of the above..

Thank you, we have quite a few projects for the Drone on the books now. II am looking forward to getting into it now..

The 1/2 Cup does not look good in pink let me tell you..

1/2, See what happens when we all get bored and we have no updates .

Most months have 4 Sundays so you will be OK.

I need to get a new verse in there about clocking the screws.

HOTFR8,, It must be cold somewhere with no heating in garages..

I am thinking a new verse would be great..

Have a great day and thank you for your visit.

PS, the next three days we are looking at 100 F here, hot real hot..

 

[drivesitfar]

1/2: well i watched the video, sang FR8's words and i've come to this CONCLUSION.

there is just way to fun in the SHED DOWN UNDER for me to miss a day reading and posting and seeing what's going on or if it's just THUNDER!!

i'll be singing that tune for a while i'm sure and thanks for that!!

cheers

ALL: I know 1/2 Cup is our leader, but you guys are AWESOME so keep the quips, facts and fun coming while 1/2 teaches us a thing or two.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Apparently your thread lives whether you're here or not. If you went missing, I wonder how long it would take us to notice?

 

[HOTFR8]

Apparently your thread lives whether you're here or not. If you went missing, I wonder how long it would take us to notice?

I would notice.

 

[1/2 Cup]

1/2: well i watched the video, sang FR8's words and i've come to this CONCLUSION.

there is just way to fun in the SHED DOWN UNDER for me to miss a day reading and posting and seeing what's going on or if it's just THUNDER!!

i'll be singing that tune for a while i'm sure and thanks for that!!

cheers

ALL: I know 1/2 Cup is our leader, but you guys are AWESOME so keep the quips, facts and fun coming while 1/2 teaches us a thing or two.

drives, I am truly humbled but that's the great thing about the GJ is that we can all share and learn from each other.

Apparently your thread lives whether you're here or not. If you went missing, I wonder how long it would take us to notice?

Andy, I have noticed that. I am still trying to respond to all yesterdays posts and I am struggling at the moment with that..

I would notice.

HOTFR8, thank you. I also have to thank you as a moderator ( and song writer ) for keeping me on the straight and narrow..

Thanks again and have a good one..

 

[HOTFR8]

HOTFR8, thank you. I also have to thank you as a moderator ( and song writer ) for keeping me on the straight and narrow..

Thanks again and have a good one..

PM sent.

 

[1/2 Cup]

PM sent.

Received...

 

[1/2 Cup]

All, still trying to catch up on the last few pages and your posts so here it is.

I thank you

No jumper for 1/2 Cup.


p.s. Congrats on license. I have bags packs, let me know drone ETA.

Shorty, see previous comment in regard to pink jumpers.

Thank you and you are welcome here any time..

Ahhhhh......MOE achieved.

Thank you kind sir.

Dan, too easy irrespective of what others may say..

1/2: i had the first 2 letters correct does that count? SWEATER vs. SWIMSUIT??

i'm still trying to get the image of LYNDON in a SPEEDO out of my mind cause it took months to get him in his bathtub out of my mind.

ok. CARRY ON while i go wash my mind out with soap.

drives, now that brought back some memories I would rather forget..

Here I was thinking I would explain it as a cross with a Sheep and a Kangaroo.

Seriously we all speak English and this often can be so funny at times.
Windcheater = Jumper = Pullover.

HOTFR8, I quite often do not stop and think what I am writing as what is natural to us leaves other totally confused.

Note to File ½ Cup – Stop and think before you post.

Hey 1/2, congrats on the license to kill... I mean fly. Whatever

Xtremek, thank you. Now the real work begins..

Go ahead, give it a shot. This has got to be good!

Dan, give it a shot we will

Fr8: +2

+ 3

A jumper ..................

Yep a jumper..

I thought I knew a lot, but the level of wisdom here is astounding. Almost unbelievable!

It is now apparent that vast wisdom on this thread is actually 1/2 vast!

Andy, it is unbelievable.

"Great Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language" is very true.*@#$ I extend the problem to the entire British Empire (Australia, Canada, South Africa, etc. etc. etc.). As a New Yorker, I vividly recall being unable to understand a word spoken by a man in Alabama back in the 1950s and suffered the same problem in Scotland in the 1990s.

Bob, so true. We have a French Canadian Electrical Engineer working here and I struggle to understand her at times but that said she has trouble trying to interprete me as well.

As an Australian it is fascinating to hear the English language spoken in so many different places. As an Aussie that has traveled a little but to a some English and non English speaking places you pick up and hear some interesting things. The most pure English I ever heard was by an African Gent who was in China and then to speak with a Taiwanese Lady in Taiwan with a strong American accent almost like she was from Boston was interesting as well.

We poor Aussies I am often told 'stralian' (read as strangle or strain the language) and then with so many places almost speaking a different version of the same language you often wonder why these issues do not arise more often on such a global forum like right here on the GJ.

Sorry 1/2 but we have taken your topic off topic over some warm clothing but then what a perfect place to talk language when the title is 'The Shed Down Under'. Harking back to my post some time ago with apologies to Men At Work.
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HOTFR8, Our daughter in law and family are South African and I have to agree, they speak and articulate really well..

Very well put!

Interesting how many English speakers there are around the world. Since English is the official maritime language and air traffic control language it gives us that speak some kind of dialect of English an advantage. As a Commonwealth country, the English spoken in Nigeria is one of the most difficult for me, whereas our neighbors from India are very understandable to me.

Is there English spoken in Scotland?

A little story: I was in Tehran during the Shah's reign doing a project for NIGC (National Iranian Gas Corporation). The Iranians were selling gas to Vieux's guys but the Russians would only pay with machinery, Iran could get Russian equipment but no cash. NIGC was having a meeting with TSMT (a Russian gas compressor company IIRC) and NIGC wanted me to attend. I was hesitant when the Dutch born NIGC chief engineer assured me the meeting would be in English. It turns out I was the only real English speaker there. It was very interesting to me that they held all their meetings in English, it was apparently the only common language their interpreters had.

Andy, I believe for the most part and I stand corrected that English is spoken in Scotland, although they have a very heavy accent. The key is to be a very good listener.

That is an interesting story and what an awesome experience. Thanks for sharing.

Apologies for the late response to all these posts and thank you one and all for your contribution.

 

[Kenfab]

I thoroughly enjoyed your rendition of shed down under

 

[1/2 Cup]

I thoroughly enjoyed your rendition of shed down under

Thank you Ken, all the kudos go to HOTFR8

It a tune that certainly lingers..

Cheers..

 

[taumac]

Welcome back 1/2 cup.