On 20/05/2020 01:09, Commander Kinsey wrote:
* I have no
idea what you're on about.
I see that ...

On 20/05/2020 00:54, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2020 00:11:07 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 19/05/2020 17:08, tim... wrote:


wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:15:05 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice* wrote:
Blimey. That's rather more 029 card punches than I've ever seen
in one
room.
I wasn't going to bother to look at that image, until someone
mentioned card punches...* B-)

Boots were very proud of their "perforated metal ceilings, filled with
a compound of fibreglass and asbestos" to absorb the noise ;-)


I'm sure Bryant & May were very proud of their matches filled with
phosphorus

your point was?

That one suspects that they would be less boastful of a ceiling in the
workplace full of asbestos these days?

I had an Irishman at my door last week claiming the asbestos was
crumbling at the edge of my roof.* I pointed out it was called "mortar",
then told him not to ****ing well wake me at 10am again for an "emergency".
not asbestos soffit boards then ? ...

On 20/05/2020 00:00, Xeno wrote:
On 20/5/20 8:14 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 06:51:02 +0100, Xeno
wrote:

On 19/5/20 9:41 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 00:32:49 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 May 2020 23:46:02 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 May 2020 22:40:21 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote

Actually probably all desks need it for support.

No they don't with the ones with frame of welded square steel
tubing.

I was thinking of wooden desks.

Still wrong, most obviously with dining room tables.

Those are much sturdier and expensive than desks.

Steel tubing is only used in schools,

Wrong, as always.

Never seen it elsewhere.

since they get bashed about a lot.

A long piece of furniture needs some kind of support to keep
it at
right
angles.

Wrong with the ones with frame of welded square steel tubing.

I was thinking of wooden desks.

Still wrong, most obviously with dining room tables.

Those are much sturdier and expensive than desks.

Plenty of them arent.

Different design, the legs aren't on the ends.* Less unsupported
wood on
top.

Odd, most dining tables I have seen have legs at or near the ends and
the centre sections between legs are supported by beams.

Which are too expensive for desks.

???

Steel tubing is only used in schools,

Wrong, as always.

Never seen it elsewhere.

As always, you need to get out more.

And study desks?!

Against a wall most times.

The word study in my sentence was a verb.

It was an adjective in the sentence you presented.

since they get bashed about a lot.

Plenty of tables are done that way and even someone
as stupid as you should have noticed that few dining
room tables have modesty panels.

Not enough room in McDonalds.

But plenty of room in most dining rooms.

I misunderstood, I thought you were talking about a restaurant.
And not
everyone has a huge house.

Don't need a huge house to have a table you eat off.

Do to have "plenty of room".

Only in Scotland where, it would seem, you need to eat on the floor due
to a lack of space in Scottish houses.

The UK is very overcrowded.

Lots of desolate wasteland in Scotland. Move there and stop whinging!

Scotland is all desolate wasteland ....

On 19 May 2020 at 08:19:53, Tim Streater wrote:
On 18 May 2020 at 22:18:09 BST, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Mon, 18 May 2020 19:46:29 +0100, wrote:

On Monday, 18 May 2020 18:38:10 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
I just find they get in the way when trying to get at wires behind them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_panel

Because in the 1960s we had women wearing short skirts and open plan offices

Would you let your daughter work in an open plan office? 1968.

https://k2space.co.uk/wp-content/upl...n-Observer.jpg

If she was a prude she could put knickers on. Otherwise, good way to get a
mate.

Blimey. That's rather more 029 card punches than I've ever seen in one room.

In my early days as an IBM CE I used to visit a couple of rooms larger than that.
The noise was unbelievable, but stopped instantly whenever a male entered the room,
and resumed after the Mary Quant lookalikes had looked him up and down.
Fixing a machine in the middle of the room was an experience!

On 20/5/20 10:10 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 07:27:11 +0100, Xeno wrote:

On 19/5/20 10:07 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 00:50:39 +0100, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article op.0kt6rzikwdg98l@glass, says...

Don't need a huge house to have a table you eat off.

Some houses don't have a dining room.* You eat on the sofa in the
lounge.

I used to live in a 3 bedroom house that had a living room we seldom
used. The other room was a small kitchen (cooking area) and we had
table
to eat on, couch, easy chair,and the TV set in that room.

You sat in the kitchen in preference to the living room?* Why?

Refined and cultured people don't eat in the living room. That's for
bogans. Dining rooms are for *dining*. Our first house of about 120
square metres had both a dining room and a kitchen large enough for a
decent sized table. We ate our breakfast on the kitchen table

Nope, proper snobs only use the dining room.* Council estate dwellers
eat in the kitchen.

I didn't use the term *snob*. You introduced that. Besides, I have never
lived on/in a council estate.

and other meals were partaken on the dining room table. It's what
*dining tables*
are for. You must be a boor.

And you must be a snob, or someone incapable of balancing a plate on
your lap.* Multitask, watch TV at the same time.

Meals on plates are not meant to be eaten in front of a TV. That is what
bogans do. Meals should be eaten at a table and the occasion used for
socialising. I can tell you have never done any o that since you don't
even understand the concept of *dining*.

The house was around 1100 sqft.

Twice my original size before the extension.* I'd still have been short
of space.

You live in a dogbox. A boor in a dogbox. Yes, quite apt.

Not my fault the UK is overpopulated.* Why do people not buy condoms?

If they did, you would definitely have been an early *victim*.
And the world a much better place.


--

Xeno


Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 20/5/20 11:00 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2020 00:03:39 +0100, Xeno wrote:

On 20/5/20 8:12 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 03:35:29 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 May 2020 00:32:49 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:



"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 May 2020 23:46:02 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 May 2020 22:40:21 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:

Plenty of tables are done that way and even someone
as stupid as you should have noticed that few dining
room tables have modesty panels.

Not enough room in McDonalds.

But plenty of room in most dining rooms.

I misunderstood, I thought you were talking about a restaurant.
And not
everyone has a huge house.

Don't need a huge house to have a table you eat off.

Some houses don't have a dining room.

Bu5 most do have a table you can eat off.

Do they?* Most eat on the sofa in front of the telly.

In uncultured Scotland, likely. Where I live, no.

Snob.* Does one live in London per chance?

Nope. I used to live in Melbourne, 33 years. Since then I have done a
tree/sea change. I live in a city on the north coast of NSW.

--

Xeno


Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On Wed, 20 May 2020 08:30:49 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins' endless blather

--
Typical "conversation" between sociopathic ****** Birdbrain and the
sociopathic senile Ozzietard:

Birdbrain: "So why did you mention hairy legs?

Senile Ozzietard: "Because that's what those who arent actually
stupid enough to shave their legs have."

MID:

On Wed, 20 May 2020 09:00:37 +1000, Xeno, another brainless, troll-feeding,
senile Australian idiot, blathered:


Lots of desolate wasteland in Scotland. Move there and stop whinging!

Not as long as a retarded senile Ozzie like you keeps feeding him, senile
idiot! tsk

On Wed, 20 May 2020 12:13:14 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins' endless blather

--
TYPICAL retarded "conversation" between sociopath Rodent and sociopath
Birdbrain from August 26th 2018:

Birdbrain: "I have one head but 5 fingers."

Senile Rodent: "Obvious lie. You hairy legged cross dressers are so inbred
that you all have two heads."

Birdbrain: "You're the one that likes hairy legs remember?"

Senile Rodent: "The problem isnt the hairy legs, it's the gross inbreeding
that
produces two headed unemployables like you."

Birdbrain: "So why did you mention hairy legs?"

Senile Rodent: "Because that's what those who arent actually stupid enough
to shave their legs have."

Birdbrain: "You only have hairy legs if both of the following are true:
1) You're quite far back on the evolutionary scale.
2) You haven't learned what a razor is for."

Senile Rodent: "Only a terminal ****wit or a woman shaves their legs."

Birdbrain: "There is literally zero point in having hair all over your
body."

Senile Rodent: "There is even less point in wasting your time changing what
you are born with."

MID:

On Wed, 20 May 2020 17:03:27 +1000, Xeno, another brainless, troll-feeding,
senile Australian idiot, blathered:


If they did, you would definitely have been an early *victim*.
And the world a much better place.

Not with senile assholes like you still around, Ozzietard!

On Wed, 20 May 2020 08:26:30 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins' endless blather

--
Typical retarded "conversation" between the Scottish ****** and the senile
Ozzietard:

Birdbrain: "Horse **** doesn't stink."

Senile Rodent: "It does if you roll in it."

Birdbrain: "I've never worked out why, I assumed it was maybe meateaters
that made stinky ****, but then why does vegetarian human **** stink? Is it
just the fact that we're capable of digesting meat?"

Senile Rodent: "Nope, some cow **** stinks too."

Message-ID:

On Wed, 20 May 2020 09:03:39 +1000, Xeno, another brainless, troll-feeding,
senile Australian idiot, blathered:


In uncultured Scotland, likely. Where I live, no.

Keep your senile STENCH out of normal people's ngs, you endlessly
bull****ting senile Ozzietard!

On Wed, 20 May 2020 17:06:12 +1000, Xeno, another brainless, troll-feeding,
senile Australian idiot, blathered:

Nope. I used to live in Melbourne, 33 years. Since then I have done a
tree/sea change. I live in a city on the north coast of NSW.

And now you suck troll cock on Usenet, Ozzietard! LOL

On Wed, 20 May 2020 12:08:16 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins' endless blather

--
Another typical retarded "conversation" between the two resident idiots:

Birdbrain: "But imagine how cool it was to own slaves."

Senile Rodent: "Yeah, right. Feed them, clothe them, and fix them when
they're broken.
After all, you paid good money for them. Then you've got to keep an eye
on them all the time."

Birdbrain: "Better than having to give them wages on top of that."

Senile Rodent: "Specially when they make more slaves for you
and produce their own food and clothes."

MID:

On Wed, 20 May 2020 07:04:33 +0100, Dim GM4DHJ ... the brain dead,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blathered again:


* I have no
idea what you're on about.
I see that ...

You can't even see that you are a bull****ting driveling troll-feeding
senile asshole!

On Wed, 20 May 2020 07:08:14 +0100, Dim GM4DHJ ... the brain dead,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blathered again:


I had an Irishman at my door last week claiming the asbestos was
crumbling at the edge of my roof.* I pointed out it was called "mortar",
then told him not to ****ing well wake me at 10am again for an "emergency".
not asbestos soffit boards then ? ...

Nothing better to do than feed the dumbest trolling attention whore around?
tsk

On Wed, 20 May 2020 15:45:56 +0100, wrote:

On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 11:38:11 AM UTC-6, Commander Kinsey wrote:
I just find they get in the way when trying to get at wires behind them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_panel

A modesty panel is a thin board of wood or metal that is attached to the front

Back. I'd say the front is what faces you.

of a desk, drafting table, electronic organ, or similar item. Its purpose is to shield legs, ankles, or feet from view. The panel provides privacy for the person seated at the desk or organ, as it covers the upper part of the legs. This privacy role is particularly useful in cases where the desk or organ is positioned in front of a class or hall.

Why? If you're that shy you'd have longer garments on, otherwise you'd be seen when you walked around.

The modesty panel may also provide structural support for the four legs of the desk or organ, and it may also be used as a place for affixing electric cabling, computer cabling, or electrical extension boxes.

On Wed, 20 May 2020 07:08:14 +0100, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

On 20/05/2020 00:54, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2020 00:11:07 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 19/05/2020 17:08, tim... wrote:


wrote in message
...
On Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:15:05 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
Blimey. That's rather more 029 card punches than I've ever seen
in one
room.
I wasn't going to bother to look at that image, until someone
mentioned card punches... B-)

Boots were very proud of their "perforated metal ceilings, filled with
a compound of fibreglass and asbestos" to absorb the noise ;-)


I'm sure Bryant & May were very proud of their matches filled with
phosphorus

your point was?

That one suspects that they would be less boastful of a ceiling in the
workplace full of asbestos these days?

I had an Irishman at my door last week claiming the asbestos was
crumbling at the edge of my roof. I pointed out it was called "mortar",
then told him not to ****ing well wake me at 10am again for an "emergency".
not asbestos soffit boards then ? ...

No, the vertical bit, like he http://roofers-rates.com/wp-content/...le-300x140.jpg

On Wed, 20 May 2020 07:04:33 +0100, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

On 20/05/2020 01:09, Commander Kinsey wrote:
I have no
idea what you're on about.
I see that ...

Childish snippage.

On Tue, 19 May 2020 15:08:17 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 19/05/2020 00:50, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article op.0kt6rzikwdg98l@glass, says...

Don't need a huge house to have a table you eat off.

Some houses don't have a dining room. You eat on the sofa in the lounge.

I used to live in a 3 bedroom house that had a living room we seldom
used. The other room was a small kitchen (cooking area) and we had table
to eat on, couch, easy chair,and the TV set in that room.

Working class homes had a back room called the 'parlour', usually with
the cooking facilities in it, which was used most of the time, and a
front room for 'best'. When the daughter of the house was 'courting',
she would entertain her 'young man' in the front room, with the mother
popping in at frequent intervals to ensure nothing untoward was going on.

If she wants to be a grandmother, untoward things need to happen.

On Wed, 20 May 2020 08:03:27 +0100, Xeno wrote:

On 20/5/20 10:10 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 07:27:11 +0100, Xeno wrote:

On 19/5/20 10:07 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 00:50:39 +0100, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article op.0kt6rzikwdg98l@glass, says...

Don't need a huge house to have a table you eat off.

Some houses don't have a dining room. You eat on the sofa in the
lounge.

I used to live in a 3 bedroom house that had a living room we seldom
used. The other room was a small kitchen (cooking area) and we had
table
to eat on, couch, easy chair,and the TV set in that room.

You sat in the kitchen in preference to the living room? Why?

Refined and cultured people don't eat in the living room. That's for
bogans. Dining rooms are for *dining*. Our first house of about 120
square metres had both a dining room and a kitchen large enough for a
decent sized table. We ate our breakfast on the kitchen table

Nope, proper snobs only use the dining room. Council estate dwellers
eat in the kitchen.

I didn't use the term *snob*. You introduced that. Besides, I have never
lived on/in a council estate.

You said "refined and cultured".

and other meals were partaken on the dining room table. It's what
*dining tables* are for. You must be a boor.

And you must be a snob, or someone incapable of balancing a plate on
your lap. Multitask, watch TV at the same time.

Meals on plates are not meant to be eaten in front of a TV.

There os no valid reason for not multitasking. Why waste time eating then watching TV when you can do both at once and in a comfier chair?

That is what bogans do. Meals should be eaten at a table and the occasion used for socialising.

Socialise by discussing the TV program. Or even just sit on the comfy chairs with the TV off and talk.

I can tell you have never done any o that since you don't
even understand the concept of *dining*.

Consuming food. That's what foods for.

The house was around 1100 sqft.

Twice my original size before the extension. I'd still have been short
of space.

You live in a dogbox. A boor in a dogbox. Yes, quite apt.

Not my fault the UK is overpopulated. Why do people not buy condoms?

If they did, you would definitely have been an early *victim*.
And the world a much better place.

It's the numbers that are important.