Phil Perry

Here we go again - the way the UK is sliding into a Sharia controlled Country, aided by the bent judiciary and the BBC / Sky news etc. . .. Like or loathe him, Tommy is the Biggest and most well known enemy of Muslim Rape gangs in the UK. This is why he has to be stopped at any cost to the reputation of British 'Justice' He was locked up, and then moved to a Prison by Sajid David, ( our Muslim Home Secretary ) so that ( Hopefully ) he would be murdered in jail. Fortunately, a public outcry got him put in Solitary. On the Ground Floor, right next to a Muslim Praying area, where he had human faeces thrown into his cell and had to survive on tinned Tuna in case the Muslim Cooks poisoned him. He lost half his body weight in that incarceration, which was Proved to be a serous Judicial Error, as he had NO Jury, and entered No plea, for doing noting other than broadcasting what was already in the Public domain. But other reporters of the events were not admonished, let alone Arrested. This is the $hit Country where I now live. Tommy gave an interview to a German TV crew, ( MSM - Waste of time - Angela Merkel would never allow it to be broadcast, even if Edited. . . ) and recorded it on his own moblie phone. Here it is. This country is almost Fekked. They have now added Two more charges to the list of Bollox, and if convicted, ( NO JURY AGAIN ) He will spend another 2 years in a Muslim dominated prison, where Hopefully for the British Govt, he will have an accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTjW_u_0zoU

My missus accused me of being a transvestite this evening ! !. I was so angry I packed all her clothes and left.

Nice Buffalo Springfield cover here. . .

There's a Lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold. . . .Led Zeppelin live 1975. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2187748584834079

The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrels. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded the squirrels were predestined to be there and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will. At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistery The deacons met and decided to put a water slide on the baptistery and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week. The Methodist church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God's creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist Church. Two weeks later the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water slide. But the Catholic Church came up with a very creative strategy. They baptized all the squirrels and consecrated them as members of the church. Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter. Not much was heard from the synagogue; they took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven't seen a squirrel since. What about the squirrel infestation at the Mosque you ask. . . .. ? You'll find out next time you order chicken Jalfrezi. . .

I Know. . I Know Nev,. . . .I continually stress this point to those whose work I continually borrow. . . .***EDIT*** 'Shamelessly Plagiarise' ( It's terrible having to correct the splelink errors too )

I recently 'Ferried' a Nissan E - something or other for friend who runs a small scale parcel / document delivery service, mainly for City use. He said that the battery was fully charged, and that I should be able to deliver the van to the demonstration event in Leicester, with no charging issues. Leics. isn't that far from his Base just up the road from me. After putting me on the company insurance, I had a safety briefing,. . He is using four of these vehicles in central London ( No congestion charges, due to all electric ) but he has had some issues with drivers almost reversing over pedestrians, crossing the roads behind the vehicles, whilst the driver was trying to manouvre out of a street parking space and not hearing any engine noises. He asked me to be super vigilant in this regard ( As If I'd reverse ANY vehicle without looking first. . .) As I drove off, I was Astonished at the Torque these vehicles have . . .they accelerate like a bloody high powered Motorbike. . . .but I can see how they could cause problems for pedestrians generally,. . .I had several lemmings walk off the pavement without looking first and giving me palpitations. . . . . If you heve not driven an all Electric vehicle, and you get the chance, I can recommend the experience.. . . Yes, it will be better when you can do more than 105 Miles per charge,. . .and when the country has massively upgraded its natinal power grid generation capacity. Utterly impossible at the moment in the UK without far more small Nuke stations dotted around.. . . until then,. .. small numbers of vehicles, nowhere near enough charging points. . and far far too little generation capabilty to keep them all on the road.. . .Maybe Hybrids will have to be acceptable for a few decades. . .

Here you go then: A true story about a fly, a fish, a bear, a hunter, a mouse and a cat.There is a moral to this story; but not exactly the one most of us are expecting ! In the dead of summer a fly was resting on a leaf beside a lake. The hot, dry fly who said to no one in particular, “Gosh…if I go down three inches I will feel the mist from the water and I will be refreshed.” There was a fish in the water thinking, “Gosh…if that fly goes down three inches, I can eat him.” There was a bear on the shore thinking, “Gosh…if that fly goes down three inches that fish will jump for the fly…and I will grab him!” It also happened that a hunter was farther up the bank of the lake preparing to eat a cheese sandwich…. Gosh,” he thought, “if that fly goes down three inches…and that fish leaps for it…that bear will expose himself and grab for the fish. I’ll shoot the bear and have a proper lunch.” Now, you probably think this is enough activity on one bank of a lake; but I can tell you there’s more…. A wee mouse by the hunter’s foot was thinking, “Gosh if that fly goes down three inches…and that fish jumps for that fly… and that bear grabs for that fish…the dumb hunter will shoot the bear and drop his cheese sandwich.” A cat lurking in the bushes took in this scene and thought, “Gosh…if that fly goes down three inches..and that fish jumps for that fly … and that bear grabs for that fish and that hunter shoots that bear…and that mouse makes off with the cheese sandwich …then I can have mouse for lunch.” The poor fly is finally so hot and so dry that he heads down for the cooling mist of the water. The fish swallows the fly… The bear grabs the fish… The hunter shoots the bear.. The mouse grabs the cheese sandwich… The cat jumps for the mouse.. The mouse ducks…The cat falls into the water and drowns. The moral of the story is: Whenever a fly goes down three inches, some pussy is in serious danger.

First World War Myths Lies and Distortions PART 3 - THE ENDLESS HORROR OF THE TRENCHES 16th Sept 2018 Officer conducting a foot inspection The young, patriotic volunteer of 1914 would be given some rudimentary training, shipped to one of the Channel Ports and then marched to the front line, singing a jaunty song. He would then go into a flooded, filthy, rat-infested hole in the ground where he would stay until November 1918, if he survived. He would suffer from lice and “trench foot” and fed on a paltry diet of bully beef and dry biscuits. When he wasn’t being constantly gassed or shelled, he would have to go “over the top,” into a hail of machine gun fire, his life thrown away by the uncaring generals and staff officers, whom he would never see. Those are the stark facts, aren’t they because Mr _______ said so? The BEF of 1914 was comprised of regular soldiers and trained reservists. They certainly would have done a lot of marching, but not up to the front line. They would have been moved to the reserve areas by trains or one of the hundreds of London buses shipped out to France to act as troop carriers. These regulars would have had to fight anywhere in the world and they routinely marched twenty miles a day or double that if a forced march was required. They were very tough and very professional. The reservists did suffer and it was not uncommon to see them on the sides of the roads with bleeding feet. With training and experience, they would become tougher and fine soldiers. Unlike the French and German armies, British soldiers rarely sang as they marched. It was a waste of breath that was needed for marching, boots, boots moving up and down again. After the early 1914 war of manoeuvre turned into a static war of attrition, safety was found by digging trenches. The British soldier was no stranger to digging trenches, as they had plenty of practice in South Africa, such as the Siege of Ladysmith and other colonial adventures. A well-constructed trench system would provide shelter and enable troops to move around unmolested. They could carry out personal admin, eat, sleep and use his personal weapon from cover. At first as manoeuvre was still the intent, trenches were temporary and makeshift, using the lie of the land and drainage ditches. Later, they would become more elaborate with fire steps, bunkers, dugouts and drainage, as the two sides moved into a war of attrition. Cross section of a trench system The construction of the type of trench was dependent on military doctrine. The French doctrine was of constant aggressive action, where the offensive was king. French trenches were a launch pad for the attack. The Germans believed in function with meticulous construction, firmly believing that defence in depth was the key and any fool could be uncomfortable. As the Germans tended to occupy the higher ground, digging down into the water table wasn’t such a problem for them and their trenches had better drainage. They used deep bunkers reinforced with concrete and even the heaviest barrages could not prevent their troops emerging unscathed to meet an attack, such as the Somme Offensive of 1916. The British doctrine tended to follow that of the French, but in certain areas that remained static, the trenches became more permanent. It was a typical British compromise, however, it was the British view that the war could be won by “Sitzkrieg,” and the only way to prevail was to winkle the Germans out of their defensive positions and push them back to Germany. There were three lines of trenches: the front line being the firing line and from where attacks were launched. The distance between the opposing lines of trenches was sometimes as close as twenty yards, but more normally 200 to 500 yards. Where possible the trench lines were built on the reverse slope, away from enemy observation and direct fire. If a shell landed in a trench, the force of the explosion could be funnelled up and down, so the trenches had doglegs built into their construction. Behind the firing trench was the observation and communication trench, which allowed commanders to survey their area of responsibility (AOR). This was where the commanders’ dugouts were usually located. The sides of the trenches had to be shored up to prevent the sides from collapsing in wet weather. Initially wood was used and later corrugated iron, although a shell could turn this reinforcement into a flying guillotine. Rolls of barbed wire were staked in front of trenches to impede and funnel attackers into the killing zones. The third line of trenches were the reserve trenches, where reinforcements were held. All the trench lines were served with communications trenches moving forwards. These labyrinths could be a confusing place for the new arrivals, so they were given familiar names such as Park Lane, Oxford Street and Hyde Park Corner. Trench maps were regarded as secret and not allowed in the front line. During offensives, trenches or saps were often dug out into no-man’s-land so that the advancing troops had less killing ground to cover. Modern aerial view of a trench system Despite perceived wisdom, cleanliness and hygiene were strictly enforced. Disease had always been one of the dangers of soldiering, as the English found out to their cost during the Siege of Harfleur in 1415. The average soldier produced 2.4 lbs of faeces and urine a day, a ton per week for a company. Latrines were constructed behind the reserve trenches, deep pits with wooden bench seats on the top. Once it was full the latrine was marked with “foul ground” warning signs and another on dug. These pits were 16 feet deep and usually constructed by engineers. There were of course separate latrines for officers, SNCOs and Other Ranks. Rats were attracted to ration stores and the horse lines as well as unburied bodies in no-mans-land. These bodies were buried where possible and in quieter moments, the Germans allowed burial parties to go about their business, because rats weren’t choosy about which side they decide to cohabit with. Unlike the French, the British did not bury their dead in the trench parapet. Lice could be a problem where men live in close proximity.in the fire trenches, where they could not wash and when coming out of the line, men had their clothing fumigated. The usual front line routine was for an infantry battalion to man the forward and support line, with half of those in support billeted up to a mile to the rear. The numbers in the firing line and support lines varied, according to the threat level. Usually it was two companies forward with two in reserve. Later it became common practice to have the fire line lightly held, with the majority held in the reserve line, to reduce casualties from sniper and sporadic shell fire. British soldiers did not spend four years in the firing line, or even at the front. The battalions were rotated from firing line back to support line and then back to billets some miles behind the front. These billets were requisitioned civilian houses or barns and sometimes huts erected by the engineers. Troops in these billets would train and play sport and bath houses were available as were field brothels for the French and Germans. French law prohibited the sale of alcoholic spirits to the military, but plenty was available, hence the numbers of field Court Martials for drunkenness. A battalion could normally expect to spend ten days per month in the trenches, although clearly this would depend on the strategic and tactical situation at the time. This constant rotation placed a great deal of work on the support and staff officers. There was always a danger that an attack would take place during a rotation and that local knowledge would be lost when troops moved out of the front lines. However, it was felt that the increase in fighting effectiveness and morale, outweighed the risks of having so many men to cover these rotations. The British Army never suffered a major collapse in morale on the Western Front, unlike the French and German armies. The Army grew enormously and between August 1914 and June 1916, the BEF increased from four infantry divisions to fifty-eight. This put a great strain on the training units and it would be fair to observe that the British New Army of 1916 was not ready to bear the brunt of the Somme Offensive. The planning of 1915 was for a joint British/French offensive in the Somme, with the French army bearing the brunt of offensive operations. However, the German attack at Verdun put paid to the plans and General Haig was bounced by his senior partners in the alliance, for the BEF to bear the brunt of the fighting at the Somme. By 1917 the training of the British Army was exceptional and it probably finished the war in 1918 with a better-trained army that it had started with in 1914. Venereal disease was a natural result of allowing troops in the reserve areas so much freedom and many of the French lady-folk were rife with it. The British took the view that these bestial urges could be controlled with a healthy diet, access to spiritual welfare and plenty of vigorous exercise. The RAMC treated 153,531 cases of VD on the western front. The equivalent of an infantry platoon in every infantry battalion caught VD. While it is easy to point the finger at French women, only forty-five per-cent of cases were contracted in France. The Army didn’t want to punish sufferers for fear of driving the disease and those suffering from it underground, when it could be treated and the soldier returned to duty. While it was acknowledged as understandable for an OR to contract VD, it could be the kiss of death for an officer. He would be required to resign his commission, a form of dishonourable discharge, with all the peace-time ramifications this entailed, and made the former officer likely for conscription. One wonders how many decided to keep their affliction a secret and suffer the consequences. The water table is high in Flanders and even in good weather, water appears after a few feet of digging. The winter of 1914-15 was cold and wet and many trenches flooded and many men suffered immersion foot, gangrene due to lack of circulation in the lower limbs. Before a rigid regime of foot inspections was introduced, many soldiers suffered from it in one way or another and many would continue to suffer in later life. The remedies were the rubbing of whale oil on the feet before going into the trenches, thigh-high rubber waders and mechanical pumps to drain the trenches. By late 1915, trench foot had been largely eliminated, except in the few cases of battalions new to the front. Notably, cases of immersion foot were proportionally much higher in the Falklands War of 1982 than during World War One. A severe case of immersion foot While an Army may not exactly march on its stomach, a balanced and nutritional diet is essential for maintaining troops and ensuring they are fit enough to carry out their duties. A balanced diet was produced and support and administrative staff took great efforts to deliver food to soldiers, wherever they were located. The British Army strived to provide a soldier in the front lines with 4,193 calories per day. This was less than the French but more than the Germans provided their troops. But the quality of the French rations were so poor that it caused mutinies in 1917. The Germans had problems maintaining their rations once the RN blockade started to bite. Hot meals were usually brought up to the front at night and contained where possible 18oz of fresh meat and bread. Soldiers did complain about the monotony of the dried biscuits and processed cheese, but they seldom went hungry, unlike other armies. During offensives, they would have to rely on bully beef and biscuits, but they were generally fed much better than those back on the home front. Great efforts were made to produce a special Christmas Dinner and all detachments were visited by their commanding officers, who often served the men with their dinner. Daily ration from planning guidelines 20 ounces of bread1/10 gill lime if vegetables not issued16 ounces of flour instead of above½ gill of rum18 ounces of fresh or frozen meat3 ounces of cheesemaximum of 20 ounces of tobacco5/8 ounces of tea1/3 chocolate – optional4 ounces of jam4 ounces of oatmeal instead of bread½ ounce of salt1 pint of porter instead of rum1/36 ounce of pepper4 ounces of dried fruit instead of jam1/20 ounce of mustard4 ounces of butter/margarine8 ounces of fresh vegetables or2 ounces of dried vegetables A good indicator of the general healthiness of an army is its sickness rates. Before the war a rate of 0.3% was regarded as the norm. In 1914 on the Western Front it was 0.26%, 0’25% in 1915, 0.13% in 1916, 0.15 in 1917 and 0’16% in 1918. The conclusion must be that despite the privations of life at the front, the British Army was comprised of fit, healthy and well-fed men, a credit to their Army and the country that bore them, shaped them, made them aware. 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Me and my Brothesr bought some furniture from the local zoo. I’m glad to say I got the lion’s chair.

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Most 'Fried Breakfast' purists here say that Baked Beans have too strong a flavour which overpowers everything else. Some cafes put beans in a separate 'side order' pot. I ever understood why some people have a Bacon Sandwich and smother the whole thing in HP or Daddies bloody Brown Sauce ! Horrible stuff . . . .

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We went to the zoo. They only had one animal. It was a Shih Tzu.

PART 2 – ROCKET ENGINE TECHNOLOGIES There are lots of weird and wonderful schemes for powering spacecraft, but in practice only three classes of engine have been built today that could realistically power a spacecraft in the next few decades. (aside: I exclude cold gas thrusters used for small manoeuvres such as docking). Before we look at engines, there are two measures that are particularly relevant in assessing rocket engines – thrust, measured in Newtons, and efficiency in turning fuel into thrust or roughly the rocket equivalent of miles per gallon, which is a measure called Specific Impulse (Isp). Space travellers care a lot about “mpg” as in space there are no filling stations – yet! If you can’t casually mention Specific Impulse when drinking down the pub – you will never be a steely eyed missile man. Isp is an odd measure – it relates directly to the exhaust velocity (Ve). If I is the total impulse of a rocket – then Isp is that quantum of Impulse created for each unit weight (on earth) of propellant. Isp has the slightly surprising unit of seconds – as the force units cancel to leave only seconds (and the bigger the better). Whilst how effectively the engine turns the fuel into thrust is very important, there are many other considerations when looking at the whole vehicle, including weight, and size which are consequences of fuel, oxidiser and other choices. I have made a table of some of existing engines – all have been built; not all have been flown. An Olympus Concorde engine included for comparison. There are three basic types of engine in this list:- Chemical, Nuclear and Electric. Chemical and Electric have been flown on real spacecraft, nuclear hasn’t although a working prototype Let’s start with chemical rocket engines the ones we are most used to seeing. As you can see from the table a single shuttle side booster produces a massive amount of thrust, but it isn’t very efficient. Solid rockets are what the chinese first used nearly a thousand years ago and are what your firework rockets you set off on Brexit independence day will be. They burn solid material, the burning happens where the fuel sits rather than moving the fuel to a nozzle, and once started they can literally not be stopped, or even throttled up or down. As they contain burning material the sidewalls of solid rockets tend to be made of thick metal which makes them heavy. The features of lack of control and weight of vehicle means that probably no-one will design a future manned spacecraft that uses them for propulsion (see also STS51 Challenger Disaster). Solid rockets are commonly used for missiles, as their long term stability means they are much easier to have the vehicle on ready standby –an example of this standby readiness is the charge that sets off the airbag in your car is probably a charge of the same sort of material used as a fuel in solid rockets. All the other chemical rockets in the list are liquid propellant, and that is the primary choice for most spacecraft today. Liquid fuelled rocket engines are potentially controllable (both throttle up and down and switch off and relight) and relatively efficient (higher Isp). The F1 used in the Saturn V was huge and had a good thrust to weight ratio but not a brilliant Isp i.e. not that efficient in turning its fuel into thrust. The RD180 is the russian built engine that the US made Atlas V uses. The RS-25 shuttle main engine is probably the most efficient chemical rocket engine ever flown – it has an Isp of 452 – to get an idea how good this is, you can calculate theoretical maximum Isp of an LOX/LH2 engine from the energy contained in the chemical reaction and it would be an Isp of just over 500; that assumes no losses from anything and that all the energy is directed perfectly along the axis of thrust – engineering that manages to get around 90% of the effective work out of the messy bitch that is combustion, is really good engineering. The downside of the RS-25 is that it uses liquid hydrogen which as mentioned in the last installment means huge fuel tanks and really tricky storage and pumping. The Merlin 1D from spaceX is not very powerful (but 9 of them are used together) but is fairly efficient for kerosene fuel, and just incredibly light. Two brand new engine designs in development use liquid methane with LOX, this can give a higher Isp than kerosene (RP1) but lower than LH2. The advantages, though – particularly for interplanatery travel is that it is much easier to carry than LH2; it is denser, doesn’t require active cooling, and it is simpler to pump (and as we will see in the next part the pump in a liquid rocket engine is the most critical and amazing component), and finally Methane can be synthesised on Mars! Those engines are the Blue Origin BE-4 and the SpaceX Raptor, both have got as far as some test firing. The second form of propulsion is electric – many satellites use electric thrusters to maintain position and three long distance space craft have used electric thrusters to make their long journeys from Orbit to their destination. The advantage is that they can make fantastically efficient use of the propellant they carry (very high Isp) but as you can see the thrust they produce is miniscule – The Dawn engine produces 90 milliNewtons – about enough to lift a newspaper off the ground. There are various forms of electric propulsion (electrostatic, thermal and magnetic) but in each case the plan is take a stream of atomic particles and eject from the back very very fast (high Ve = high Isp), so if you are patient and only have a tiny spacecraft you can eventually get to very high speed. The dawn thruster operated for more than 600 days in one continual “burn”. The Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres in 2015, trajectory and timeline can be seen here Dawn Mission | Timeline & Trajectory. Dawn Spacecraft approaching Ceres To date all craft using electric propulsion gain their electric power from solar arrays – A big problem with this is that as you move away from sun that radiation becomes much less effective., if you leave earth orbit with a massive 100KW solar array – enough to power the X3 thruster in the table above – then by the time you get two planets along to Jupiter you are down to 5KW. Adding a nuclear power plant is a credible way of overcoming this problem. Without such an addition, electric propulsion with solar power is never going to be the propulsion for a manned mission as the journey times are just too long. Which brings us to the third type of rocket engine – Nuclear Thermal. Nuclear Thermal rocket engines are not sci-fi, they have been built and tested by both the US and Russia. A nuclear thermal rocket does not involve the use of atomic bombs! It uses a nuclear reactor to heat a gas (typically Hydrogen) to such a temperature that it will provide thrust when expelled through a nozzle, in some ways it is very simple, hydrogen is pumped through pipes inside a cylindrical reactor (very reminscent of a steam engine boiler design) and thus heated it is expelled. The American test programme, carried out at the wonderfully named “Jackass Flats” , achieved some incredible things during the 1960s when the engine was under serious consideration for inclusion in the space programme – the most powerful engine they built a Phoebus 2 produced just shy of 5GW of power in something the size of a shipping container. Just 7 of these objects would provide enough power for all of the modern UK’s daytime electricity demand. The picture below gives a good idea of how compact the reactors were – the whole engine is the cylinder on top of the test building. They built a number of different engines, some tested with all the components for a real flight, for flight certification. If the development hadn’t been cancelled it seems they could have pushed up performance and longevity a lot further. As it is the engines they built were heavy (they did have a lot of Uranium in them after all) and didn’t work brilliantly at sea level but were excellent in Vacuum, giving good thrust and very good Isp – about twice what the best chemical rockets are capable of. If the prospect of travelling to Mars sitting on top of a nuclear reactor doesn’t take your fancy – then pervesely you may be interested to know you are might well get less radiation that way than any other – the much quicker transit time – perhaps a couple of months that such an engine would allow, would mean you were exposed to much less natural radiation – which is fierce this close to the Sun when outside the protection of the Earth’s magnetic field. Probably my favourite of all the tests the Nerva project did was named “Kiwi-TNT”. Imagine waking up in the morning and deciding to strap a load of TNT onto a nuclear reactor and blow it up to test the consequence of a launch failure…. Although Nerva was cancelled in 1973, there are many enthusiasts for this technology, and NASA started funding a new programme in 2017 with external contractor BXWT, albeit with a relatively small sum of $19M. If you are interested a complete spec for one of the Nerva engines can be found here https://fas.org/nuke/space/nerva-spec.pdf Next –(Turbo)Pumping Gas. Ross. September 2018 Going postal blog ( If you like this, I'll see if I can find Part One *ED. )

I went to school in a Really Rough area,. . . where the really hard teachers had leather jackets with Tweed elbow patches. . . .

I'm reading books about the apocalypse like there's no tomorrow. . . .

Genuine 'Black Pudding' mate ( Blood Sausage ) Essential on any fried Brekky !

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Police are this morning hunting the 'knitting needle nutter' who has stabbed 16 people in the bum. Police believe the attacker could be following some sort of pattern.

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The world’s heaviest man has spent £2,000 on a 3-metre Python skin belt. What a stupid waist. . . . .