The totally off-topic thread

[medhead]

Ironing a shirt, repositioning after each comma: outside collar, inside collar, inside button track (on both sides), outside upper top left front, outside upper top back, outside upper top right front, outside upper right front, outside right back, outside middle back (if shirt has a pleat, watch out or reset the pleat), outside left back, outside left front, left sleeve, left cuff, right sleeve, right cuff.

Wrong technique?

Maybe I should upload a video showing me ironing a shirt.

Sleeves, collar (1 side only), yoke/shoulders each side including getting the pleat/s, then depending on handedness work from right side around the back to left side. Put on hanger. Steam setting on. If you want, fold over the collar and put a crease in it.
Always do sleeves first and body last as the body needs to look the best.

Definitely needs a good ironing board and iron.

yeah - me thinks the technique could use some work

If you iron the inside of the collar, the outside should automatically be ironed as well. Same for the button track - ironing the front of the shirt each side will auto iron the button tracks.

A steam generating iron means no more than two strokes down each panel/section and it's done. So about 15 strokes of the iron in total - or ~2 minutes.

 

[JohnK]

yeah - me thinks the technique could use some work

If you iron the inside of the collar, the outside should automatically be ironed as well. Same for the button track - ironing the front of the shirt each side will auto iron the button tracks.

A steam generating iron means no more than two strokes down each panel/section and it's done. So about 15 strokes of the iron in total - or ~2 minutes.

The words look like English words but my poor little mind non capiche....

 

[cove]

I use my warm body to remove the creases. The ironing service we use is great when we are living in Perth with their one day pick up and delivery service.

 

[marki]

I use my warm body to remove the creases. The ironing service we use is great when we are living in Perth with their one day pick up and delivery service.

Cove my mind starts wondering what else do you use your warm body for? lol

 

[cove]

Marki I think this thread is rated as G for General viewing. I find the humour thread to be funny but joke material I get sent by some of my friends often requires the destroy before reading delete button.
I have been lucky with the girl I married 42 years ago and tonight we are in London after train rides to Bletchley to see the code breaking up to 1945.

 

[marki]

Marki I think this thread is rated as G for General viewing. I find the humour thread to be funny but joke material I get sent by some of my friends often requires the destroy before reading delete button.
I have been lucky with the girl I married 42 years ago and tonight we are in London after train rides to Bletchley to see the code breaking up to 1945.

Thank you for pressing the delete button! So your quite young still!

On a more serious note ..... Wow I find that fascinating about BletchleyPark please if you may divulge a little more. ( I know it's secret squirrel stuff) but it's fascinating code breaking stuff like the enigma. Is it far away from Central London?

Any pictures

Thanks Cove

Ps I am in Berlin at the Moment doing some side work for the Company

 

[Flashback]

Marki I think this thread is rated as G for General viewing. I find the humour thread to be funny but joke material I get sent by some of my friends often requires the destroy before reading delete button.
I have been lucky with the girl I married 42 years ago and tonight we are in London after train rides to Bletchley to see the code breaking up to 1945.

And I'm still stuck in the office. Going to be another late one I think.

Looking forward to getting over to Ireland on Thursday, although I'll be working late again all day and Friday too. Maybe I can take the day off on Monday? Don't you love it when you go on holidays but end up working the whole time.......

 

[cove]

Bletchley Park is about 38 minutes from Euston station on a comfortable train. Sorry no photos but worth a visit even though it closed about 70 years ago.
Box Hill in Surrey would be a pretty good spot to hire a bike or go hiking....a train ride out of London's Victoria Station.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Bletchley Park is about 38 minutes from Euston station on a comfortable train. Sorry no photos but worth a visit even though it closed about 70 years ago.
Box Hill in Surrey would be a pretty good spot to hire a bike or go hiking....a train ride out of London's Victoria Station.

Loved Bletchley! Colossus was most interesting.

 

[Flashback]

Bletchley Park is about 38 minutes from Euston station on a comfortable train. Sorry no photos but worth a visit even though it closed about 70 years ago.
Box Hill in Surrey would be a pretty good spot to hire a bike or go hiking....a train ride out of London's Victoria Station.

Its a heck of a walk uphill!

 

[cove]

Yes so we went to the pub instead so all good with no heart attack from the hill climb at Box Hill.

 

[medhead]

And my pay is wrong, again! I wish they'd bring back the guy whose only job was to do the time sheet entries. Since he left my pay is wrong more often then right. But at least they've saved money by dumping that job onto someone who's already overloaded.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hands up anyone?

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

OK ..... I had to google that !

 

[blackcat20]

And my pay is wrong, again! I wish they'd bring back the guy whose only job was to do the time sheet entries. Since he left my pay is wrong more often then right. But at least they've saved money by dumping that job onto someone who's already overloaded.

Same thing happened in one of my previous jobs. When they left the payroll person alone to do her job, pay was perfect. When they got HR and a second person involved, my pay was wrong every second fortnight, and HR was "too busy" to pay me the weeks pay they owed me when she stuffed up.

 

[Hvr]

OK ..... I had to google that !

So did I, but now I've GoT it.

 

[Bundy Bear]

And my pay is wrong, again! I wish they'd bring back the guy whose only job was to do the time sheet entries. Since he left my pay is wrong more often then right. But at least they've saved money by dumping that job onto someone who's already overloaded.

Seems to be the way most companies operate at the moment, you can save money with less staff.

 

[Hvr]

Went to the theatre tonight and saw The Lion King on my last night in London. The number of scumbags who couldn't survive five minutes without checking their phone is amazing.

The person next to me received a curt 'stop it' from me when I decided I'd been annoyed enough. He did and then left the second the curtain came down.

 

[Pushka]

Hands up anyone?

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Dragons rule.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Marki I think this thread is rated as G for General viewing.
I have been lucky with the girl I married 42 years ago and tonight we are in London after train rides to Bletchley to see the code breaking up to 1945.

42 years well done Cove, you will be up to 50 in no time.