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Geez turk that pipework looks like a job that was done for me by somone out of the local paper claiming to be a plumber ..I crawled under to look at the work & nearly screamed .The only good thing was it wasnt leaking :lol: Ps you might want to bend the sides of that ant cap downTurk said:geewiz said:
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Ok geewizz, here 'tis...
Part 2 (of many more parts!),
(sorry for the delay crew v I've had a virus thingy for the past three weeks which meant I couldn't taste the Christmas Dinner!)
Well here we go again... and where it will ends nobody knows...
Have you ever crawled around under an old house? Apart from the dust and rocks and spider webs there is a lot you can tell about a house by looking carefully below the floorboards at its foundations and plumbing and wiring. For example, if I see a clean new piece of white 240V wire coming from an older part of the house I can tell that a new power point or appliance has been recently installed there. Or when I see a square pillar of bricks beneath a kitchen floor I can guess that there used to be an old kitchen fireplace there many decades ago. Sometimes a thin copper tube going through a brick wall suggests an old wall-mounted oil tank was being used for heating once. And a drooping dusty black ribbon cable suggests that an old TV antenna was replaced years ago. Sometimes we even find old copper pipes that once ran to areas of the house but are no longer used. (These of course are quickly removed and added to the copper stack!)
When you are under a house however, it can be hard to make sense of the floor plan above, because you generally can't see the walls and other features. Nevertheless, if you sketched out a plan showing all the wires both where they start and end and if you included all the copper and plastic pipes and assorted wires etc, you might be able to generate a rough idea of what lies above. Tapping on floor boards reveals whether there are bare boards or carpets above. Rows of protruding nails suggest tile underlay. Pipes and drains suggest bathrooms and kitchens. Coaxial cables suggest TV points, and thick wires often run to electric ovens and air conditioners.
In very old houses, particularly those that have been extended several times, you can indulge in a bit of 'forensic archaeology' and even work out which room/s came first, and which ones were added next, and so on. A faded scrap of leather, a rusty sheet of iron, an old beer bottle are all clues which can help you work these things out.
In some ways, the world we live in is rather like a very large building. It has an external obvious facade, and many varied rooms each of which have gradually changed over the years. The world today looks nothing like it did 500 years ago. But what links remain between the two time periods?
I believe our world has a deeper history that largely exists 'below the surface'; a vast array of wiring and piping that is not readily visible in the rooms themselves, but which exists out of sight beneath the floorboards of life, and which can be (with patience and diligence) coaxed into revealing many secrets about those dynamic forces that have shaped the 'building' we see today.
Think about this example: adding a new room to an existing building is a very significant process materially, financially, physically and socially. There are plans to be approved, materials to be gathered, costs to be paid and disruptions to be endured. These events all leave 'footprints' of various kinds receipts, council records, bank records, blueprints, timber offcuts -- and loads of rubbish. Looking at these 'evidences' we can often say quite a lot about the new room -- when it was built, who built it and what it cost etc. But the most important question often remains unanswered: WHY was that room added at that particular time? What drove the owners to undergo all that hassle? This is sometimes difficult to determine from the externally available clues.
However, if we turn our attention to social records (such birth registers etc.) we sometimes gain a much clearer insight. If a baby just happened to be born around the same time as the room was being constructed then things become slightly clearer; we might reasonably suspect that the new room was added to provide a space for a new family member.
Of course people extend their homes for many reasons (and it's never pleasant or cheap) but isn't it the case that when a new child is due and the extra space is required we tend to 'just do it' regardless of the cost (within reason!!) and hassle and mess. In other words the social needs tend to drive quite significant structural changes.
The key point in this example is that just as a physical building can tell a story, so too the world itself tells a story. And equally, it tends to be those 'social' aspects of human history that often provide the strongest 'dynamic force' for change and development.
If you step back and look at the world as it stands right now you might see a fairly stationary picture. Continuing with the house metaphor, the world's rooms all appear to be furnished and operating reasonably well; things look stable, the lights usually work, and generally it all 'makes sense'.
Yet this same 'stability' sometimes makes it harder to see exactly how we 'got to' this configuration. Sure, we can look up the bank records, and building permits etc. but what we really need to know is what were the SOCIAL drivers that propelled us into our current configuration of countries and nations.
There are some clues of course; there are people and history books and documents that claim to tell us the true story, and sometimes our own intuition and experience can be
used to make deductions about the nature of things. Very often these resources are sufficient (and many people trust them) but I had a few nagging questions...
My questions were these: What if we dive under the world's metaphorical floorboards and try to map out all the pipes and wires and pillars and foundations that are seen down there? What knowledge can we glean from this 'wiring map' about the reality of those externally visible social forces that seem to drive change today? And what if that same underground map (properly considered) tells a different story to the one we all know today? And what extra things might it reveal that have simply been forgotten or lost in the dusty mists of time? And what might these differences mean or even predict?
So, armed with these questions, my best quill, some blank charts, and the trusty ship's lantern, I donned a pair of pirate overalls and set off on a long journey to explore the farthest reaches of the dusty and ancient foundations of the late great planet earth.
What I found astonished me...
Renovator on bored..Yea muss be invisting in ole 3 masturs fur abargin prise.
De SS mite be oyonda yeers but it as mastured mani tropikel stooorms an sore orf mani a mermade.. Der be nay dri rot or borurs on de SS.
2013.. De yeer be nu like de moon..SC be a brite lite to steer us durin de daaa...Turk de wise ole captun, he be width us agin with undar kover silva tradin intel.
Have steedi hans mi cru, dis yeer be de yeer of de pirits..To b sure, to b sure.
Let de musik begin in de statesroom when Maggie gives de signel
To de N, To de N, be de battel kall for 13.
AK ER 43
De SS mite be oyonda yeers but it as mastured mani tropikel stooorms an sore orf mani a mermade.. Der be nay dri rot or borurs on de SS.
2013.. De yeer be nu like de moon..SC be a brite lite to steer us durin de daaa...Turk de wise ole captun, he be width us agin with undar kover silva tradin intel.
Have steedi hans mi cru, dis yeer be de yeer of de pirits..To b sure, to b sure.
Let de musik begin in de statesroom when Maggie gives de signel
To de N, To de N, be de battel kall for 13.
AK ER 43
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Renovators here! Maybe he wants to buy the ss boat, renovate it and flip it for a profit?.. Or maybe turn it into the RE boat?
Just stirring
Just stirring
Geewiz...Kould be de SS be wurth her wate in gold...We all b rich if de renovtur desides to bi..We do hav a gold ankur ye no.
De statesroom it be wurth a kool $ were ye to kool orf frum de fires on de land.
Tell me if ya c ani RE men hangin aroun de deks.
AK Er 43
De statesroom it be wurth a kool $ were ye to kool orf frum de fires on de land.
Tell me if ya c ani RE men hangin aroun de deks.
AK Er 43
Bak on bord AK errol, an redy fa akshun.
Bringit on.
Eye maybe old, but eye is willin. (coff, splutta)
Bringit on.
Eye maybe old, but eye is willin. (coff, splutta)
I like ye thinking ...did i just speak like a pirate ? Im here a bit ... just cant match you guys in the pirate talk so i lurk in the background scrubbing the decks.metalzzz said:geewiz said:Renovators here! Maybe he wants to buy the ss boat, renovate it and flip it for a profit?.. Or maybe turn it into the RE boat?
Just stirring
Nah party boat, rent it out for $2000 a day.
#30.68 Up she go!
It had to go soonare or latur
Now that our cru has Renovator
Dey sae he has houses of fame frum here to Burke
Dats wat we kno frum Captin Turk
Nour if de renovatur finds nay grubs or borers
Belo de deks onle snorers
Den de price of de SS mae go so hi
That silva mae reach the ski
An Blak Butch de blak bulldog he be bak
Liften his leg and fillin every crack
and in de statestroom, way up near de soutdern kross
Maggie de partie lady, redi to R K & l to toss
Rad Dood,forti 6, souderner and Azure, bemitey cru
They all juss live to see berg forty Two
And Ironwood trien to git sum mur kannon balls
Theyll her our kannons in the street of walls
Bodesilver and de wolman be de anker men
Liftin our golden ankur agin and agin
Fur this yeer for wat comes forth
Ye kan bet yer life we sailin North
And wen we lift high and prowd our flagand bannur
By de steenth of de monkee they call the spannur
2013 lets here the pirtits AAAAAAArrrrggghhhh
We have de biggist threed by far
AK ER 43
Edited fur securitee reasuns..De goldun pelikan doesnt like de kannons
It had to go soonare or latur
Now that our cru has Renovator
Dey sae he has houses of fame frum here to Burke
Dats wat we kno frum Captin Turk
Nour if de renovatur finds nay grubs or borers
Belo de deks onle snorers
Den de price of de SS mae go so hi
That silva mae reach the ski
An Blak Butch de blak bulldog he be bak
Liften his leg and fillin every crack
and in de statestroom, way up near de soutdern kross
Maggie de partie lady, redi to R K & l to toss
Rad Dood,forti 6, souderner and Azure, bemitey cru
They all juss live to see berg forty Two
And Ironwood trien to git sum mur kannon balls
Theyll her our kannons in the street of walls
Bodesilver and de wolman be de anker men
Liftin our golden ankur agin and agin
Fur this yeer for wat comes forth
Ye kan bet yer life we sailin North
And wen we lift high and prowd our flagand bannur
By de steenth of de monkee they call the spannur
2013 lets here the pirtits AAAAAAArrrrggghhhh
We have de biggist threed by far
AK ER 43
Edited fur securitee reasuns..De goldun pelikan doesnt like de kannons
Dirtbikepilot
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It be a nyce pome ta have danc an a drik ta
Dirtbikepilot
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Maggie said:
It be a oman maggy, it be a oman of tyms ta kum. I beans ta finkin
that sum winds lyke we neva seed bafore arre on theer way an
they allbe pushn uz norf
FFS I forgot it again
$29.11
De Silva tis up to 30.82..Woo Hoo.A nice height from which it can be SMACKED DOWN....
Don upset me howevr as its good buyin condishuns.
Sooner r later though,we're gonna have t have a group consensus to turn dis old rustbucket Norf.
Lets go "Norf to Alaska,Norf to the Russian zone",as I heer they be plenty icebergs up dere.
Might orslo be a chance to mix some wodka in with our rumnlimencoconut an p'raps invent a noo concoxshun.Maybe a chance to mix wid dem Eskimo lookin mermaids too. I notice AK Errol is orl ready dressed fur the occasion ..("fur".. get it?)
Don upset me howevr as its good buyin condishuns.
Sooner r later though,we're gonna have t have a group consensus to turn dis old rustbucket Norf.
Lets go "Norf to Alaska,Norf to the Russian zone",as I heer they be plenty icebergs up dere.
Might orslo be a chance to mix some wodka in with our rumnlimencoconut an p'raps invent a noo concoxshun.Maybe a chance to mix wid dem Eskimo lookin mermaids too. I notice AK Errol is orl ready dressed fur the occasion ..("fur".. get it?)
errol43 said:
Arrrghghghggrrrr
Ye be a Kaptun i kin folla kaptun eroll, murmamaids an icybergs matta not , ya kin arlways plot a chart norf an ya dere noo matta wot da weder. Da wodka be on me crewmates. Tirty tree cheers fur da Kapun errol. (wi mey nid ta chain im tu da mast wen we pass dem tings on da berg tirty tree but tis onli a smorl ting)
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Kouldnt not git on bored lasrst nit..Dam Komputa really playing hard to use. Forgot password more problims...Kurrently kan c video links but cannne hear...
Karri on cru...Di be theyeer of the big white bear Dose isebergs don't friten the bear frum de N..
AK ER 43
Karri on cru...Di be theyeer of the big white bear
Dose isebergs don't friten the bear frum de N..AK ER 43
Dirtbikepilot
Active Member
Nufn ta do wif nufn. Juz a purdy song.
It be a qwiet wekend
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It be a qwiet wekend
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Mornin guys n gals..Just a bit o trivia. This thread is very nearly two years old.Started by (captain) Turk way back on 1st april 2011..spot at the time 36.43USD.(imagine the excitement amongst de crew if we hit that "berg" now).second ever post by "Aktin kaptun Errol" and third post by Maggie. No doubt between you three you've seen Silver do some odd things, but interesting to note regardless of spot, you are all still enthusiastic about the shiny stuff.(with a good humoured piratical obsession one could say) Anyways, here's cheers to the threads pending second birthday with spot back up at 36 bucks an the gud ship SS stackers havin a crate full of rumnlimencoconuts
Spot 31.07USD
Spot 31.07USD