Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to Karacticus :

Lol, I've actually never heard that.

We had customer that used them on a lot of gravel strips up north. Lots of FOD.

Still impressive that they can take off, loaded on only one engine. Those PT6 engines deliver around 1200 shaft horsepower per side, not bad considering the original PT6 design only put out around 450.

In reply to NickD :

I saw one of those guys on a construction site a week later, he drives a truck with a Subaru rally car mural airbrushed on it.  He was no easier to understand but still funny as berkeley 

In reply to ShawnG :

I was working at the Bombardier Flight Test Center when they put together the gravel runway kit for the Dash 8 Q400 (at nearly 5,000 shp per side).  It was principally for Hydro Quebec if I recall correctly.

It was basically a vinyl wrap over great portions of the airframe, more armor on the fuselage in the prop zone and hope like hell regarding 12 expensive composite propellor blades.  

The way aerodynamics and propulsion performance works, it was the high speed cruise requirement that sized those engines-- as a result, that thing had a hole shot like a ski boat at low speeds.

My first Irish brogue run is was when I was 14 years old and would clean out the newly being built houses near my house and I would show up at 4pm to work into the evening.  

The Irish painters were finishing up and one or two of them had a few drinks from their thermos and between the brogue and the drinking I couldn't make out a word as they were always yelling at me about scuffing the walls.  

Karacticus said:

In reply to ShawnG :

I was working at the Bombardier Flight Test Center when they put together the gravel runway kit for the Dash 8 Q400 (at nearly 5,000 shp per side).  It was principally for Hydro Quebec if I recall correctly.

It was basically a vinyl wrap over great portions of the airframe, more armor on the fuselage in the prop zone and hope like hell regarding 12 expensive composite propellor blades.  

The way aerodynamics and propulsion performance works, it was the high speed cruise requirement that sized those engines-- as a result, that thing had a hole shot like a ski boat at low speeds.

I used to work for First Air up in the Arctic. We used HS 748s and 727s. The latter were great because you didn't need any ground support equipment thanks to the stairs in the tail and the engines were all well placed to avoid FOD. Had a prop shoot a rock through a 748 once, though - that was exciting...

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

ShawnG said:

In reply to Donebrokeit :

A British friend once told me: "German is for discussing engineering, French is for discussing love and English is for ordering the servants around."

As far as accents go, I was sent for training in the lovely metropolis of Piqua, Ohio. I was there with two fellow Canadians, a guy from our Alberta shop and a guy from our competition in Quebec.

The Quebecer was every Quebec stereotype rolled into one. Short, heavy accent, spoke Joual, smoked like a chimney, etc. 

One evening at the bar, a fellow came up to us and started to say something. The guy from Alberta and myself couldn't understand him and thought he might be mentally challenged.

It turns out, the fellow had a very heavy Cajun accent and our Fench-Canadian colleague could understand him just fine because they both spoke the same awful version of French.

I bought a car once from a man who was Irish, but lived in backwoods Georgia for a long time.

 

The intersection of thick Georgia plus brogue was a sight to behold.  So to speak

I only lived in this country a couple of years ( it's 26 now), and I was out at the assembly plant working on an issue. One of the line guys was describe the problem to us. He was this huge African-American guy. Had to be 6 foot six and at least 350 pounds. The thing was, although his voice sounded awesome to listen to, I literally could not understand a word he said. After several rounds of 'excuse me', 'I'm sorry' and 'could you repeat please' I had to have somebody else translate for me. As hard as I tried I had no idea what he was saying. My brain could hear It was meant to be English, but I just could not make out a word he said.  Very embarrassing for a youngish guy at that point.

Lower class Brits from south of London (I think), Scottish women, and hillbilly types from the southern states are incomprehensible to me.  I know they think they are speaking English, but they are not, really.

Relative to the language discussions. 

In reply to 11GTCS :

True story:  Riding in the car with my sister and my niece, who had JUST started talking (maybe 1 to 1 1/2ish).  We're the second car back at a light, which turns green.  The car in front of us sits at the green for MAYBE three seconds when a tiny little voice from the car seat in back says  "Get going doofus!".  

Eliminating ANY doubt where she learned that, my sister turned BRIGHT red and did the "I know you're looking at me, so I'm staring straight ahead" thing.

EDIT:  Forgot the meme.  This would also be my sister:

In reply to ShawnG :

In reply to kazoospec :

From the mouths of babes... you learn to filter quickly!