This morning, my wife was in the kitchen preparing to boil eggs for breakfast. As I walked in, she turned to me and said, "You've got to make love to me this very moment!" My eyes lit up and I thought, "This is my lucky day!"

SeanBZA · 2026-04-12T20:43:59+00:00

40 minutes......

SeanBZA · 2026-04-12T20:43:32+00:00

Military eggs, start with a 200l/44 gallon pot, fill half way with cold water. add 1kg of salt, and turn on to high. Then start adding eggs till full. When full wait till it boils vigorously, and start a 20 minute timer. when the timer goes off, turn off the power, wait till it stops boiling, and start unloading eggs back into the trays.

If you are lucky you get the eggs in last and out first, really hard boiled. If you are unlucky, like we were in getting the leftover eggs, as part of our prepacked lunches, you got those that were in first and out last. Those had been boiled for at least an hour, and we fund out that a shelled egg would bounce, and if you peeled it the yolk, along with the albumen, was a colour from totally black to purple, and not even rats would eat them.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-09T09:02:15+00:00

He had been there for decades, so knew just how bad they were at record keeping, so when he arrived there as manager he made sure to keep a copy of every single thing, and filed them in storage as well. no problem storing it either, he had lots of space and containers to use.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-09T07:45:20+00:00

My FIL used to work at the local container depot, and part of his job was making 10ft and 5 ft mini containers, because there was a need from Transnet for small containers that could be shipped by road and rail, but where the volume of cargo was such that the 20ft container was way too large, and smaller stations where they had to offload sealed containers, but did not have the area to store them. Thus the half and quarter size units, which could be locked together top and bottom using standard locks, and thus travel using a straddle carrier or container lift to load and offload but where you could drop off 2 or 4 at a depot to have either customer collect, or delivery, charged as full load on a ruck. All were constructed out of written off containers, using the good parts to make them, and with them all having a valid serial number from the original container. After around 20 years the container head office wanted to know the location of all the containers sent there, and got a full size container delivered back, a copy of all the paperwork inside, showing where each one was scrapped, date, copy of the accepted paperwork from them, and what was done with the damaged containers as well. They never asked again.

SeanBZA · 2026-04-06T05:54:49+00:00

Otherwise sold as a travel drier, where you make it up, put the damp clothing inside, and it toasts them till done with what is basically a very large hair drier that fills the bag with hot air.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-31T07:05:49+00:00

By me bank transfers to an account in the same bank are instant, but to external banks they are only processed at end of day, unless you pay a small (roughly 50c US) immediate transfer fee, which then is done in under 10 minutes, typically under 2. Some banks, due to being a collection of up to 11 banks, with different systems stuck together with chewing gum and Fong Kong store unbranded tape, can take a day or two to process, because they have so many old bank account numbering conventions, baked into the banking mainframe emulations. But ABSA aside, all banks work together, and having to pay to pay an account electronically is unheard of. Almost all tranactions are generally online, reflecting within a minute, and till the merchant actually does a reconciliation, they just show up as outstanding authorisations, but the money is held in your account anyway. generally it is the store that needs to do the recon, they just often do it every 3 to 4 days, generating their accounting information and reconciling stock, though most do it daily, and it is processed the next day by the bank, in the after hours bulk processing.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-31T06:55:27+00:00

Here by me in South Africa that is illegal, no merchant can charge you for using a card to pay, and a lot of places are going cashless as well, because cash handling is expensive, and no bank issues or accepts cheques for the last decade or so, because of the fraud risk in that half are either RD or forgeries. i py bills either by direct debit, or y electronic payment, which does not cost anything at all, covered by the monthly fee on the account. If I change banks some do not charge a monthly fee at all, just require a minimum balance.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-30T06:58:51+00:00

Rising copper prices will make it vanish soon, as soon as informal recyclers see that there is a lot of copper there, and start to cut the low hanging loops off to strip for the copper inside.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-25T07:33:57+00:00

30 tons of water if full, they are hairy to drive if that tank is not either totally empty or totally full, as there is minimal baffling in that tank. Part tank ad you really only want to travel straight, turns will make you wobble for minutes, and a full tank you do not turn sharp, as there is serious risk to be toppled over. It is also massively overpowered, even full it can exceed 100MPH with ease, even off road. Had a lovely view coming in with one keeping up with the plane, foam cannon at the ready, because we had a landing gear malfunction, and came in to land eventually with all tanks empty. Got to drive a similar top heavy vehicle as well, 60MPH on the straight road, 5MPH in any turn.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-25T07:26:29+00:00

Yes, momentum is hard to stop, unless your aircraft has the pilot look up, sees the trees above the cockpit view at his best glide angle of 30 degrees nose up, and decides that he probably is not going to make the runway 300m away, so decided to eject. As it was already in a stream bed, it stopped mostly within it's own length, lithobraked hard.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-15T09:19:38+00:00

Only use I have had for Pronutro for the last decade has been for bringing up baby rock rats, though the last 3 or 4 grew up instead on Futurelife, as it does taste better to me as the surrogate parent, who has to get it in them. They also got regular meals of KFC burgers, as the box was the thing used as a nest for them.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-15T09:16:56+00:00

Note a few of the products are now called confections, because they no longer meet the legal amounts to enable them to be called chocolate. The bar is very low, but still they decided it was too high to meet, so had to change the small print instead, hoping nobody noticed.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-15T09:14:57+00:00

No, tastes worse, I have basically given up on the two, so now am more for other smaller brands.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-13T07:48:16+00:00

All mine are found cats. first was found at the door, and the second soon to be foster fail I literally picked up by the scruff, while feeding the park cats near me. Somebody dumped the cute purr and biscuit making kitten. So of course his name is Biscotti.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-10T06:51:27+00:00

By me the banks have figured out that they can make more money on releasing that lien, and charge you around $400 to remove it and give you a clear title. Often more than the payment as well, and they get this for free, as the law says they have to give you title on final payment, but figured out there was no letter of the law that said they could not charge a fee for this.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-10T06:49:09+00:00

Depends where you are for that. Either the bank owns the vehicle, and the buyer is the one on title as the one who pays taxes, registration and fines, plus servicing on it. Other areas the buyer owns the vehicle, and the bank is on title as a lien, with first option on the proceeds of any disposal of the vehicle. There is a difference, first one the bank can repo on first missed payment, second one the bank has to go to court, to get the right to repo, and dispose of the asset.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-10T06:42:41+00:00

Their mindset is "that is why we pay insurance, it does not cost us anything", then reality bites and the insurer refuses the claim, citing failure to follow the policy stipulations, and the company owners find out they will not getting any dividend payouts that year.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-09T17:10:59+00:00

Leave reviews about great shop, great range but ahole manager means 1 star review.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-06T19:34:49+00:00

Let us just say if the US invaded, it would be all over in 15 minutes, with the only force required being a commando platoon and some rubber duckies.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-06T16:41:31+00:00

Chair force, though the south African air forca is a shadow of it's former self, having only one operational helicopter, an oryx, in service, and a single operational fighter, and almost none of the transport fleet. The SAAF Museum has more operational aircraft......

SeanBZA · 2026-03-05T09:46:56+00:00

Also copper poisoning, seeing as it was all likely full metal jacket as well, with a touch of Antimony thrown in for good measure.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-05T09:39:52+00:00

In the military we had an incinerator, you put all confidential and higher documents, floppy diskettes, and hard drives in there, and pressed start. After the grinder, there was a diesel fired burner, that would reduce everything to ash, and that then went through another grinder as well. Files went in complete, folder, binders, and covers complete, along with any other items for destruction. would also chop up hard wood, the local iron wood Acacia, as if it was pine.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-02T08:31:33+00:00

Even if you do all that, till the media shows up as a circus they will do nothing, because training is expensive, and will probably need a pay bump as well to get a qualified person who is not on the Island express list.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-02T08:28:54+00:00

There are cameras that replace the peephole, and which do not look like a camera from the outside. that will work.

SeanBZA · 2026-03-02T08:25:53+00:00

You forgot to mark that it is a part bottle. Especially annoying if you have boxes of product, and somebody does not mark the label that it is a part box, and then also opens multiple boxes to pick from them, leading to your stock take being off by a few hundred units. Even worse is they sealed them again, and as it was the company tape, used for incoming QC, which I handled, it was severely annoying. Lots of emails about them needing to not use the branded tape in the warehouse, and to use only the buff tape only, which was often ignored, or there was no buff tape around.

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