Same shit, different ship

[danno5]

thanks for taking us along again Mendip!

[Topper]

Mendip, you're not home yet.......flight, Bangkok and the bus trip all have to be documented!

Thanks for the thread, its the one I've looked forward to reading each evening.

[helge]

Thanks for the thread, its the one I've looked forward to reading each evening.

Me too (since they deleted the "News According to Helge" thread).


Have a safe trip, Dippy

You'll hear barking soon

[Mendip]

its a wonder looking at those plates that you haven't lost more weight along with your appetite?

I'm disappointed Mike... have you never heard of the mineral 'apatite'?

You missed the chance of one of the greatest geological puns ever.


QUOTE=Reg Dingle;4503516]Is it one of the crews discarded fleshlights?[/QUOTE]

There's strict rules about littering at sea these days, and besides, I was under the impression that these 'fleshlights' you speak of are re-usable? I certainly hope so, anyway.

That gangplank must be a great sight then you know your going home for a well deserved R&R

It is, mate!

Mendip, you're not home yet.......flight, Bangkok and the bus trip all have to be documented!

Thanks for the thread, its the one I've looked forward to reading each evening.

I need some privacy.

Have a safe trip, Dippy

Dippy? I don't want to plagiarise a favorite song, but who the fukk is Dippy?

Anyway, the pipeline features wasn't a 'fleshlight' or a 'Captain's log', it was an anode. I thought that a least Baldrick would have got that, seeing as he seems to have some level of knowledge in the matters? An anode sacrificially corrodes to protect the steel of the pipeline. So long as it is lower down the Noble scale it will protect. Magnesium/zinc are used to protect steel pipelines against corrosion. If you had a copper pipeline, then you could use steel anodes.

Yeah, I'm not just a rock licker.


My flight s home were unremarkable until we hit Thai soil with a jolt at Suvarnabhumi. This caused an overhead locker to open and deposit one of those carry-on suitcases that weigh at least half a tonne onto some poor fukkers head. I was in 23C and he was a few seats ahead so I watched it all unfurl. The impact of the suitcase not only embedded his glasses into his cheek but also seemed to have broken his his forearm.

I loathe these 'carry on' suitcases that weigh a tonne and take up all the luggage room, and the fukkers that ponce about in airports wheeling them around, so if it was his, then poetic justice... if not, then my sympathies.

Anyway, this all destroyed my usual exit plans. My habit is to leave the plane like a rat up a drainpipe, but after this incident six rows in front, we were told to wait until the Thai emergency services arrived. So, 15 minutes later and no such arrival, they started letting people off... I have to say, the Thais are really fukking useless. This poor guy was left sitting while everyone streamed to the starboard side around him and left the plane, Maybe he's still sat there now?

As is my habit, I'm off these flights like a bat out of hell and go like he clappers to immigration. My thinking is, every fukker I overtake saves me a couple of minutes in the immigration queue. This worked like a dream, I arrived at immigration with two people in front, wen thorough, and then made full use of the ten minutes or so it take for the luggage to arrive.

I detest long haul travel, from the moment I join the back of a queue to check in, to the moment I arrive. But there is one intense pleasure to be gained from long haul flights, that even the likes of Lufthana and KLM can't ruin... in fact, the worse the flight, the greater the pleasure...

An intense pleasure, that it is.



Yes. A travel tip you won't get in the books... get through immigration and then make use of the time it takes for the bags to arrive. I have never known these toilets to be taken and there's even water fountains to fill up yer bottles.

Another top travel tip... your breath may smell rank after a long haul flight... no toothbrush?

Simply rinse with an antiseptic mouth wash in the taxi!



Picked up the passport, no probs...



But then... faced with a four hour taxi ride back to the furnace of Korat... or a stop off in an air-conditioned hotel room at the lower end of Sukhumvit...

With some whisky onboard...

I'm only human.

I can't wait to see Lola tomorrow!

[malmomike77]

I loathe these 'carry on' suitcases that weigh a tonne

me too, the limit is supposed to be 7kg but never seems to get enforced, poor chap

[malmomike77]

I can't wait to see Lola tomorrow!

is she booked tonight?

[Mendip]

Please don't bring these smutty innuendos into this family thread Mike.

I can't wait to see Lola, but I've also heard that the Kommandant has banned her from the house in my absence.

Tomorrow awaits...

[Shutree]

Picked up the passport, no probs...

That is a big positive.
And yes, those overweight bags overhead are demons. As bad are those bottles of duty free which 'might have moved during the flight', they are a menace. Only marginally better these days in sealed bags. I usually take an aisle seat and try to be standing before anyone touches the overhead bins. Not easy if the flight is full of Chinese who are standing while the plane is still taxiing.

[DrWilly]

I take an isle seat and refuse to move, every time. Usually the fucker in the window seat wants to push past and I tell him to calm the fuck down.

[Looper]

And yes, those overweight bags are demons.

I think they are getting emptied by a team of dedicated pipeline-pressure-relief professionals somewhere in deepest darkest lower sukhumwit as we speak...

[BLD]

Ah yes, the over weight bags will need to to be dealt with asap. There are certainly pipe pressure relief specialists available

[malmomike77]

Please don't bring these smutty innuendos into this family thread Mike.

just be careful and let the kinks warn you



I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola
C-O-L-A, Cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A, Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola


[Chorus]
Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine
Oh, my Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola


Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand
Why she walks like a woman and talks like a man
Oh, my Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola


[Post-Chorus]
Well, we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
She said, "Little boy, won't you come home with me?"


Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes, well, I almost fell for my Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola


[Refrain]
Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola


[Bridge]
I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Well, I looked at her, and she at me


[Verse 2]
Well, that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
Except for Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
[Chorus]


Well, I'd left home just a week before
And I'd never, ever kissed a woman before
Lola smiled and took me by the hand
She said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man"

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola

[david44]

I'm a man
And so is Lola

very brave to cum out , luckily a very non judgemental forum where even nam prik truth is welcome

[Topper]

fooking Cebu Pacific weighed our bag...it was 10kg and they made us check it. It was simultaneously pleasurable as I had told the wife we didn't need three changes of clothes for a four day trip but a downer as we had to wait at the luggage claim, then repeat the process on the way back.

[malmomike77]

^ novice, you should have just put the clothes on

[DrWilly]

fooking Cebu Pacific weighed our bag...it was 10kg and they made us check it. It was simultaneously pleasurable as I had told the wife we didn't need three changes of clothes for a four day trip but a downer as we had to wait at the luggage claim, then repeat the process on the way back.

i love those little wins

[baldrick]

Yeah, I'm not just a rock licker.

Sacrificial anode , and your steel ship would have had one on its hull

A couple of times in my career I have been asked to look at the electronics control side of cathodic protection for tanks and pipelines onshore , but it is more the piping engineers backyard

[Joe 90]

The impact of the suitcase not only embedded his glasses into his cheek but also seemed to have broken his his forearm.

You got your 25 kilo rock back then, respecto.

[Topper]

the electronics control side of cathodic protection for tanks and pipelines onshore

I've only seen it used to protect a ship...zinc anodes with a low current power supply to them all over the ship. I never thought about it being used on pipelines.

[Reg Dingle]

^^

[DrWilly]

I've only seen it used to protect a ship...zinc anodes with a low current power supply to them all over the ship. I never thought about it being used on pipelines.

Drill platforms will have an anode on the legs.

[helge]

So long as it is lower down the Noble scale it will protect.

Lead is good too

And one of the few 'heavy metals' known to make north americans more 'north american'

This caused an overhead locker to open and deposit one of those carry-on suitcases that weigh at least half a tonne onto some poor fukkers head.

Fellow cutlery collector ?

[Mendip]

I've only seen it used to protect a ship...zinc anodes with a low current power supply to them all over the ship. I never thought about it being used on pipelines.

A pipeline may have an anode every 100 metres or so. One of the things we look for during an inspection is that the anodes are connected electronically to the pipeline steel.

We may also stab them with a probe to measure the cathodic potential. Same for any areas of bare metal. I find corrosion quite an interesting topic, tbh.

[Shy Guava]

We've drilled holes for cathodic protection besides buried PTT pipelines on land in Thailand and inserted multiple zinc anodes on copper wires at different depths selected by resistivity measurements and pumped carbon around them to basically build an insitu battery. The surface equipment measures cathodic potential and trickles a reverse polarity current into the pipeline. They always do it where EGAT high tension overhead powerlines cross the pipeline as there is an induced current there. I've probably over simplified this but that is my understanding of the theory.

[DrWilly]

We've drilled holes for cathodic protection besides buried PTT pipelines on land in Thailand and inserted multiple zinc anodes on copper wires at different depths selected by resistivity measurements and pumped carbon around them to basically build an insitu battery. The surface equipment measures cathodic potential and trickles a reverse polarity current into the pipeline. They always do it where EGAT high tension overhead powerlines cross the pipeline as there is an induced current there. I've probably over simplified this but that is my understanding of the theory.

Oh wow. How interesting, thank you for that explanation. But I’d imagine that there 100,000s of kilometres more that do not have an induced current from overhead power lines. How do they power them?