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@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@donsteppa he's packing a sad cos he got a broken record nomination.
I accepted the other nomination quite happily for "cellar" not "basement". Might even win with that one. Packing a sad is indeed a great expression that I haven't heard in ages.
This is still not a plane story.
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@donsteppa this whistling door concerns me too! He survived though so...
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@donsteppa
I've only been nervous on a flight once. Returning to London from Egypt you could hear wind whistling round one of the doors so loud that you could not hear the movie soundtrack even with headphones. Cabin crew stuffed towels around the doorWe didn't divert or land but it was a bit eerie. @Snowy how 'normal' is this?
Seeing as some of you asked nicely.
I couldn't say that it is common, but it certainly happens. Pressurisation leaks I had many times (20,000 hours is a lot of time airborne to put it in perspective). The doors are "plugs" so they can't just pop out or anything with out taking some of the fuselage with it, which is obviously a much larger issue. They are a clever design. Explosive decompression is very rare:
I did have to return to Singapore when I had one door that wasn't closed properly after take off. We had the electronic sensor go off at about 14,000 feet which is when you get pressurisation warnings. F/O went back to look at the door and the manual indicator was half red, half green and yes we had the "squeal". Leveled off at 16,000ft (didn't want to increase the cabin pressure differential) but that meant that we were about to go into a prohibited active military zone (would normally have been above it). Had I continued at that altitude we would also have been too short of fuel to make Hong Kong so had to go back to Singapore. Back on the ground they found that one of the sort of roller latches at the top of the door had come loose and allowed the door to shift a bit. It couldn't have come open but it was enough to inhibit proper pressurisation.
I then had to have tea and bickies with the chief pilot of course. He was actually fine and understood the whole scenario, it was the engineers getting in his ear because they wanted to divert blame that was the issue afterwards. Everybody gets scrutinised very closely in a "blame game". They talk about the "culture" of airlines and "free" reporting in the interests of promoting safety, but it is still there. Just human nature and "pilot error" never goes away, just the end of the chain ends with us.
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@snowy you were a pilot?
No. I just make shit up like the rest of you. Walter Mitty style. Never been in a plane actually.
If you lot stopped asking questions about it you wouldn't get bored with it I guess.
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@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I actually know what an awful lot of you guys do too. Is that creepy? Or just getting to know a bunch of internet rugby weidos too well? Hmmm.
I just assumed 90% of the posters in here are overpaid IT workers, @MajorRage is an overpaid banker, you were an overpaid pilot who has retired to some type of orchard/farm and a basement, and @voodoo was clearly overpaid in some sector because his life appears to be endless travel in between hotel quarantines.
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@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I actually know what an awful lot of you guys do too. Is that creepy? Or just getting to know a bunch of internet rugby weidos too well? Hmmm.
I just assumed 90% of the posters in here are overpaid IT workers, @MajorRage is an overpaid banker, you were an overpaid pilot who has retired to some type of orchard/farm and a basement, and @voodoo was clearly overpaid in some sector because his life appears to be endless travel in between hotel quarantines.
It's a cellar.
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@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I actually know what an awful lot of you guys do too. Is that creepy? Or just getting to know a bunch of internet rugby weidos too well? Hmmm.
I just assumed 90% of the posters in here are overpaid IT workers, @MajorRage is an overpaid banker, you were an overpaid pilot who has retired to some type of orchard/farm and a basement, and @voodoo was clearly overpaid in some sector because his life appears to be endless travel in between hotel quarantines.
It's a cellar.
I'm going to win that Fernie, but not because of my profession.
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@majorrage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia negative. Not worked in a bank since 2008
Pffft, that stain will never wash off.
Would I have been better to just use finance?
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@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@majorrage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia negative. Not worked in a bank since 2008
Pffft, that stain will never wash off.
Would I have been better to just use finance?
Yeah, probably. To be fair, where I work at a clearing bank now, which despite the name, isn’t really a bank!
Get your head around that!
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@majorrage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@majorrage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia negative. Not worked in a bank since 2008
Pffft, that stain will never wash off.
Would I have been better to just use finance?
Yeah, probably. To be fair, where I work at a clearing bank now, which despite the name, isn’t really a bank!
Get your head around that!
As I understand that, you are working for the middle man between two banks, so actually a double bank of sorts depending on semantics. Wasn't a clearing bank originally for cheques? Surely there are very few of them now, so what do they do? Do electronic payments also go through you guys?
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@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I actually know what an awful lot of you guys do too. Is that creepy? Or just getting to know a bunch of internet rugby weidos too well? Hmmm.
I just assumed 90% of the posters in here are overpaid IT workers, @MajorRage is an overpaid banker, you were an overpaid pilot who has retired to some type of orchard/farm and a basement, and @voodoo was clearly overpaid in some sector because his life appears to be endless travel in between hotel quarantines.
An outrageous slur!
But you're probably right, only someone vastly overpaid would choose to spend 7 weeks in Palmy during Covid. Living the dream!
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@snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@majorrage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@majorrage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@nepia negative. Not worked in a bank since 2008
Pffft, that stain will never wash off.
Would I have been better to just use finance?
Yeah, probably. To be fair, where I work at a clearing bank now, which despite the name, isn’t really a bank!
Get your head around that!
As I understand that, you are working for the middle man between two banks, so actually a double bank of sorts depending on semantics. Wasn't a clearing bank originally for cheques? Surely there are very few of them now, so what do they do? Do electronic payments also go through you guys?
In it's purest old school form, that is what a clearing bank does. The better way to explain it is that if you buy something expensive (say a car) off somebody privately, you deliver your cash to the bank, the seller deliver the car to the bank, then the bank distributes it. So you don't run the risk of sending the seller the cash and him not delivering on the car.
In reality that isn't what we do. We effectively finance clients trading activities, which is a banking activity, but the way we do it is a bit looser compared to standard banking activities. Most of our clients are the world biggest trading houses, so they effectively trade on the exchange and we net-settle their activities. So if a client buys 1,000 shares of ABC for 1,000 pounds, then sells them the same day for 1005 pounds, we basically give them 5 pounds and we do the rest. But the way it works in reality is that we may do 500,000 trades per day on a stock, and we net settle them all vs the exchange.
Does that make sense? Areyou still awake?
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I know it's not funny, but....
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@taniwharugby I wonder what that family thinks of PETA's humane catch and release policy.
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@jc especially with pyromaniac mice out there!
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Stargazers won’t need to rush out and buy a telescope. Experts say the blood supermoon will be visible to the naked eye, and is expected to be spotted from most parts of the country as long as it’s not too cloudy.
That will be a relief to @Stargazer, but - No shit, Sherlock?!!
The threshold for expertise seems to be diminishing. I may be an expert on pretty much everything....
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jc especially with pyromaniac mice out there!
I do wonder what that family had done to those mice to trigger such a reaction? Unless of course it was just a prank that went wrong?
