The Elastic Underpants Band

Used to know things like turning caffeine into chaos.
Some allsorts, incl. music, science & humour, here.

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I've never shoed a horse, but I did tell a donkey to fuck off once.

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@FrankBr05713205 Makes a nice metallic sound when flung across the workshop after it slips and your knuckles get a bashing.

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Unexpected acts of kindness from strangers you don't ever forget:

As a snot-nosed kid just starting out building electronic things, I tried to tackle a rather ambitious (and expensive for me) project. The damn thing didn't work. In fact, it turned electricity into smoke and some components even went bang! Eventually, after dog-earing the Yellow Pages, phoning around unsuccessfully for assistance, I came across a bloke at "Roake-Barefoot Electronics" who offered to have a quick look at it.

I pedalled around 30km on my bicycle to his shop. Despite him having his own work piled up high, without saying a word, began fixing it, unsoldering all the components and replacing the buggered ones. It took almost a whole afternoon of his precious time.

Handing it back to me in a working condition and with a totally deadpan expression on his face, just said, "No charge. Just don't do it again." (It turns out I had managed to solder the components to the wrong side of the PCB so everything was basically reversed 🤦‍♂️😂)

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@JayJosephVet When you submitted requisitions this way: "Suits Flying", "Mask Oxygen", "Kits First Aid"... 😆

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@RC135V Not a carving. It's AI Slop.

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😈🤭

Everyone thinks it's crazy that Jesus walked on water...
But no one ever mentions that Stephen Hawking ran on batteries.

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@FrankBr05713205 Indeed so. 😁
You're welcome.
(I really should get my arse into gear and haul out the photo scanner to digitise them properly...)

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@QueenAnticommie Write a letter. 😆
What started it, and the response.

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"Work Hard, Play Hard"
C'mon, I dare you, show us a pic of you sozzled.

Me, at a company Christmas party many years ago, doing an impromptu serenade with a much-loved and admired colleague. (I was also close, very close to running around with a lampshade on me head. 🤣)

PS: The venue also provided accommodation for all so no DUI involved whatsoever.

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"Flower Power"
One of the missus's orchids in her makeshift greenhouse.
(gawd, these things are fussy but she does 'em well...)

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I made up for it in chunks when I joined SABC-TV Outside Broadcasts to become a video cameraman. Eventually even sported a big, curly Afro (damn! those SABC hairdressers were good, heh)

Being supremely fit also helped with this at least:
https://t.co/Aumcbn0JXV

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Kids today will never know the joys of lugging these cameras around. The Bosch Fernseh camera (like in the example) we used on SABC-TV Outside Broadcasts in the late 70s weighed around 120 Kg for camera body, lens & tripod! (135 Kg when packed into ruggedised transport cases)

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Hands up those who loved their bell-bottoms in the 70s 😁
(Admittedly, my military haircut didn't go all that well with 'em)
https://t.co/SAJ4rdERqw

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Yes, everybody was Kung Fu fighting. Even many years later. 😆
Now sing along...
(Posted in the hope of giving you an earworm. 😈😂)
https://t.co/bXDXPCzvPm

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Why should it?
It's been around since aircraft could reach and fly through ISSRs (Ice-Supersaturated Regions). Like in 1944 already.
btw, even contrails with lobes or drop-like formations are not unusual. They develop from interacting vortices behind an aircraft.
https://t.co/fKnTA5NnoF

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@thereds8 Tell us you don't understand Scale without telling us you don't understand Scale. 🙄

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@thereds8

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Genie: "I shall grant you 3 wishes..."
Me: "I wish for a world without lawyers."
Genie: "Done, you have no more wishes."
Me: "But you said 3!"
Genie: "So sue me." 🤭

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A reminder that up to 60% of the human adult body is water. So we are basically just cucumbers with anxiety. 😆

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Indeed. 😁

This reminds me of another prank played on unthinking and usually nervous, eager-to-please appies:
A particular circuit required to be discharged using a 5 Ohm 5 Watt resistor across the poles... the appies would be handed a 1/4 W resistor... which quickly heated up to smoking hot... the resulting burnt fingers made the appies rather neurotic and distrustful of the seniors. 😂

Trying to keep a straight face while admonishing the seniors about this was nigh on impossible.