virtual crazy gang, part II

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla

Jigsaws are merely another way of going blind.

I have been making a few jigsaws from some of my photos.

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3837dcb04656

It is most disconcerting and demoralising when complete strangers can do one's own jigsaws in less than 10 minutes when it takes me anything from 40 to 50 minutes.

YM take the bull by the horns and organise an Aussie Night . Icey cold beer, a cholesterol busting Barbbie and a Slim Dusty tribute band. Jig-Saws my arse, It's Party Time.

[Engine Serang]

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3837dcb04656

37.51, beat that YM.

[Varley]

Jig saws keep one off the booze? No wonder I stay away from this and other rest home pass-times. Chess and GO should be the only idlers' comforts. The latter I used to play (before I started to win) with a teetotaller although as most of the time this was over the net he could not know if I was sneaking a swiftie or not) the former I play with his baby brother (who still offers the odd game as I still lose - perhaps the one unattractive trait of the family), and a contemporary gent (who I will continue playing with as equally unattractively I have got his game nailed now too!) neither are teetotal and with the venues usually pubs the afternoons are rather fattening (bitter, even Bushy's stretches both waistband and bladder). Not to the youngster of course but he has still to realise what his next 40 years will bring him!

[Engine Serang]

Chess I know, draughts for the A Level person. GO I've never heard off.

If two chaps played chess in a pub in Dublin off an afternoon they would be black guarded by the unemployed who spend the day watching Cheltenham or the Grand National.
What a civilised place Mona seems to be. Have you tried chess during TT Week?
Bladder? I'm beginning to think my drain valve has a LH thread. It was RH for 65 years.

[Varley]

TT when fine is fine for pub chess as the enthusiasts are out and about TTing and the weather allows play in the beer garden or its modern flag stoned equivalent. GO is supposedly more difficult for the computer to master than chess and certainly good for the 'leetill grey cells'. Draughts, especially this time of year, brings on the arthritis. Thus I dismiss this childish game! (at which I am hopeless).

[Tmac1720]

If the news is correct Baron V will be heading ashore to deal with the inclement conditions on the IoM. I noticed he took all the dewatering pumps with him. Either that or some bar steward has made off with them

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3837dcb04656

37.51, beat that YM.

Only just ES!
33:43 but I see that some other clever dick did it in 12:03.
There has to be a better way to go blind.

[Tmac1720]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

Bloody jig-saws are keeping me in my cabin and I am quickly going blind.

I have it on good authority it was your previous pastimes that have caused your vision deficiency Oh well better blind than mad I suppose, the main injun controls have been reproduced in Braille for your convenience although given your avoidance of this compartment I fear the expense was not justified.

For your information the injun room is the big space down the steps from the flat bit you are standing on

[Tmac1720]

Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla

Only just ES!
33:43 but I see that some other clever dick did it in 12:03.
There has to be a better way to go blind.

NO COMMENT !!!!

[billyboy]

tried that one YM. dont like. will stick with Jig Saw Lite by Kraisoft as I can do so much more with it. I choose my own background colour, the number of pieces. I can create from any pictures off my phone, desk top, or internet

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by Tmac1720

For your information the injun room is the big space down the steps from the flat bit you are standing on

The big space with a greasy beast at the bottom? The place is overrun with vermin and you never know what you'd catch. and in anyways we're on Bridge Control.
I'm away to ma bied and to ponder where things went askew, I said I'd try it until I went blind in one eye.

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by Tmac1720

If the news is correct Baron V will be heading ashore to deal with the inclement conditions on the IoM. I noticed he took all the dewatering pumps with him. Either that or some bar steward has made off with them

If you kit the Baron out with Wellies and a Sou'wester I'll brief him on how to batten down the hatches and make a hot whisky.
Looks like Lorenzo may give Hibernia a bloody nose lets keep our heads down.

[Varley]

Laxey more than a bit damp. No reports of human casualties as yet I am please to report. The bridge was carried away three years ago and this is not, by far, the first time the Laxey river has burst its banks (sorry, of course I mean in newspeak 'banks have been over-topped').
If it has washed out the Shore Hotel's brewery again I wonder if the kit will be renewed again as I suspect happened when the bridge carried away.

Pity, had a pint of Bosun's there a month or so ago. Not bad (before that one was apt to mistake it for failed homebrew except for on a good and fewly-far between day).

[Farmer John]

Ah, Paris. That smell of sewage and other undecided perfumes. Anyone for a cheap bottle of red and some of the cheap but excellent food? (this is fantasy after all).

[Engine Serang]

It's not a fantasy down this frigging engineroom. I sometimes believe youse on the Bridge live in a fairy land, all caviar and Melton Mobery pies. But things could be worse, the Baron is marooned in Mona surrounded by dampness and the brewery submerged. Com'mon FJ and we'll head ashore for a bottle of Premier Cru Biddy Rouge.

[Varley]

You'd not get a berth on any of the Fantasies. I know passenger ship material when I see it. And I don't see it here.

[Tom Alexander]

With all the observations about various board and card games, I would respectfully request, along with a case of Black Bush, that Tmac, either himself, or by delegation. design a cubicle to hold the correct size of dartboard range so that the board is positioned on the forward bulkhead of the vessel, and arranged to tilt from side to side at varying angles to simulate the roll of a ship in a seaway. That should provide memories and sharpen our sense of balance while we are imbibing cheap red plonk, chitterlings, and filling the air with the acrid smoke from Gaulois Bleu.

Of course accuracy would be improved by several

[billyboy]

Best to play across ship... she rolls to port you go for treble top, rolls to starboard you go for treble nineteen. 1/2 roll for the bull.

[Tom Alexander]

Originally Posted by billyboy

Best to play across ship... she rolls to port you go for treble top, rolls to starboard you go for treble nineteen. 1/2 roll for the bull.

I think we should get Tmac to injuneer some pitching motion into this device to make it seem even more realistic.

[Engine Serang]

We do not permit DARTS or Dartboards on the GD, it could set a bad example.
Allow darts and next you will have people clipping their toe nails in the Saloon and blowing their noses in the napkins (or serviettes as they so quaintly call them). Call me a snob if you wish but we must have an ethos and set of values.

[Varley]

I have my name carved on everything in my set of values and on my ethos. Can't trust anyone these days.

(Do Sears do a set of metric values? My Imperial set is in fine order but some modern nuts get a bit gnarled when I apply any of them.)

[Farmer John]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

We do not permit DARTS or Dartboards on the GD, it could set a bad example.

For a fellow who crept in with the milk one morning you like to try to lay down the law. Without darts how are we to indicate our disapprobation of politicians and such? The Chartroom dividers are all bent as it is, getting immovable objects out inconspicuous orifices.

[Tmac1720]

We throw hatchets at each other in the injun room

[Farmer John]

Originally Posted by Tmac1720

We throw hatchets at each other in the injun room

We all do that, scarcely worth mentioning.

[Tmac1720]

Only drawback is ES throws them back, thank God he is blind as a bat and never hits anything or maybe he's just nissed as a pewt