The 7th UK South-East "Everyone's a Winner!" Gossip Thread (All Welcome)

My posties just delivered me my smoke grenade. Think I'll wait till tomorrow to use it though.

SwitchBlade wrote in post #9350469
I don't think NASA generally photoshop their satellite image releases.

Ahh but is it a real release?

kskitt wrote in post #9350480
Theyve given us a pile of post. Its really annoying coz i need the bits for 2moro

Ah, patience grasshopper your time will come....turn '70s mode off What you waiting for that is peeving you off with the delay, can't Neal let you borrow "it"? Assuming he has 'one'?

Box Brownie wrote in post #9350484
@ Matt ~ best wishes to both of you & the little one on the way. Safe, sound and happy times to come for you

@ Rich ~ rock n roll. It is a wonder that you will have any time for the day job soon

Ref: the weather ~ the daftest comment I heard yet was on the news last night, they were interviewing people and a Canadian lady said that in Calgary they have 69 snowploughs and clear the runway in minutes and......how come Heathrow have only two snowploughs. Seems to have escaped her attention that Calgary (possibly) has snow for three months of the year but we get it rarely!!!! Just how much would she like to pay for her Heathrow airport taxes for a £1M worth of kit (69 snowploughs) standing idle for years, hang a mo we could sell to Calgary as their must get worn out very quickly

Yeah i heard her say that as well lol, stupid woman!

Box Brownie wrote in post #9350501
Ah, patience grasshopper your time will come....turn '70s mode off What you waiting for that is peeving you off with the delay, can't Neal let you borrow "it"? Assuming he has 'one'?

lol

It was the cable release and memory cards lol

sinister wrote in post #9350496
My posties just delivered me my smoke grenade. Think I'll wait till tomorrow to use it though.

ooooo sounds interesting

sinister wrote in post #9350500
Ahh but is it a real release?

Conspiracy theory alert ~ Britain does not really get snow but NASA insists 'they' are covered with the stuff Or are you talking about the waving moon flag debate???

sinister wrote in post #9350500
Ahh but is it a real release?

Someone is going some to hack NASA's webserver just to plant an image of the UK under snow.

sinister wrote in post #9350496
My posties just delivered me my smoke grenade. Think I'll wait till tomorrow to use it though.

Hmmm! blocked chimney by any chance???

Box Brownie wrote in post #9350484
Ref: the weather ~ the daftest comment I heard yet was on the news last night, they were interviewing people and a Canadian lady said that in Calgary they have 69 snowploughs and clear the runway in minutes and......how come Heathrow have only two snowploughs. Seems to have escaped her attention that Calgary (possibly) has snow for three months of the year but we get it rarely!!!! Just how much would she like to pay for her Heathrow airport taxes for a £1M worth of kit (69 snowploughs) standing idle for years, hang a mo we could sell to Calgary as their must get worn out very quickly

Yea, it was Calgary they were talking about, I saw it too.

Still...one of the first things they talk about when the city shuts down due to weather is how much it costs the country. The two estimates I heard this morning on the BBC were £600 and £690 million.

Seems like an invenstment in ploughs and grit machines wouldn't go too far wrong...

7d Electronic Viewfinder:
The electronic level in the viewfinder is not enabled by default.

To turn it on you need to go into custom function IV and reassign the M-fn button from its default of FEL to Electronic Level.
One enabled holding down the M-fn will bring up the level.

kskitt wrote in post #9350504
lol

It was the cable release and memory cards lol

I suspect that anything coming from Jersey will be delayed big time (I have a Sandisk ImageMate coming from Picstop) as AFAIK they fly a lot of their 'post' to the mainland.

On a related note ~ I ordered some SODIMMs from Crucial yesterday and it will be interesting to see just how quickly that comes, in the past it has been overnight to 1 extra day at worst!

Loz Green wrote in post #9350523
7d Electronic Viewfinder:
The electronic level in the viewfinder is not enabled by default.

To turn it on you need to go into custom function IV and reassign the M-fn button from its default of FEL to Electronic Level.
One enabled holding down the M-fn will bring up the level.

cool - it is a seriously clever piece of kit is it not!

apaprently jersey was hit by bad snow too fyi

souporman wrote in post #9350521
Yea, it was Calgary they were talking about, I saw it too.

Still...one of the first things they talk about when the city shuts down due to weather is how much it costs the country. The two estimates I heard this morning on the BBC were £600 and £690 million.

Seems like an invenstment in ploughs and grit machines wouldn't go too far wrong...

Cost/Benefit analysis no doubt stops such types of investments as in the case of gritting trucks and stocks of rocksalt that would come from local taxation....grrrr!