"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Well... the flood didn´t rise during the day and it´s getting lighter, a little. After work I went to the bridge where we can go to Austria but it was closed and well prepared with sandbags against eventually flooding the whole bridge. That would have been worst case.

In Passau the river Danube has reached its topnotch at about 12,70 metres (that are 41 ft. 5 inch in american measures) today noon. We had some luck, but that´s what it was... I took some pics

Over there is Austria









 
Best of luck Andi. I hope the worst is behind you.
 
Glad to hear you're OK Andi, and that the water-level is going down :thumbup:
 
Thanks for the kind words, fellows. I´m glad getting out there pretty unshaved. 60 kilometres downwards its the worst flood ever, even since 1501 and 1954 as the old historic docments told. Here´s a short 2 minutes video taken froma a helicopter about Passau, where three rivers are meeting (Danube, Inn and Ilz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iluy9cx_uxw

It´s just in german, but the pics are of their own, I think.
 
Aw yeah I flew home on sunday and bruchsal helmsheim mannheim and Heidelberg were still flooded. We drove through bruchsal it being the closest city and the saalbach was still very high.
 
I´ve seen the flood on the Rhine, it is horrible, too. In our region this was the worst flood ever - even the flood 1954 didn´t get that high than the waters this weekend. Fortunatelly the leeve (dike) stayed ahead and didn´t break. That would have been a disaster. Other regions hadn´t had that luck.
 
You really got the worst of it in Bavaria, I hope you didn't suffer too heavy damages. We were quite lucky, the eastern part of Switzerland had it much worse (including a broken dam in the rhine-valley).
 
I'd like to know, from dealers and show goers alike; when you go to a knife show on the last day, do you think it's okay for dealers to start taking down their tables a couple hours before the show ends? I'm not talking about shutting down and getting ready to go home at 3 when the show ends at 4. Moreso shutting down at 12 when the show ends at 4. I understand that you might have had a slow day, and you need to shoot for home. However, I might have had some dollars to spend at your table, yet you have the knife I want packed away in a box. Even if I do not spend money at your table, I still think that you should stick around until the end of the show. I know that there are a lot of dealers here that may feel differently, and I respect that. I am not asking anyone to stay, if an emergency were to happen that you needed to leave pronto. I am also not expecting anyone to stay until the show is over, without packing up about an hour before the show ends.
 
scruffuk said:
All this home-brewing and not a drop to drink, I decided to get outta the house and headed for the old Rose & Crown in Holmfirth.....

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....now known as The Nook....and it brews its own ale too!

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This one is suitably titled 'Yorks'....an it's grand by'eck!

Cheers chaps! ;)
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Isn't Holmfirth where LOTSW was filmed?
 
You gents are talking in British code again! It took me a long time, many viewings of Red Dwarf and the movie Snatch, before I could understand what you buggers were talking about! Is this what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_of_the_Summer_Wine

As for older British comedies, Are You Being Served wasn't bad, on PBS channels while I nursed my broken back. The manager always had the loveliest secretaries...
 
Been coming across all kinds of wildlife in the Yorkshire jungle recently, but this red-eared terrapin was still a bit of a surprise (Aitor Castor for scale).

 
silenthunterstudios said:
Stuck on beards, my father shaved his when I was a little kid. My little sister, about 5 years younger than me, cried and screamed and wailed when my father greeted her. I guess it was too much for this creature that looked and sounded like daddy, without his ever present beard. My father quickly got down to growing his beard back. I still remember her wailing her head off and screaming "You're not my daddy" when he came home that night.
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I had a friend who had a similar experience. He shaved his beard without telling his family that he was going to do it.

When his son came into the kitchen after playing, he immediately started crying because "a strange man was kissing mommy."

At one job I had to shave my beard so I could wear a respirator. Having heard my friend's story, I had my four year old son watch me so that he would see the transformation and know who I was.
 
Frank, sorry if I went off track in that thread.

Kids are funny, but he must've felt horrible at the time. Now my dad says he keeps the beard to hide his turkey wattle chin.
 
No worries. I did it first. I just didn't want to do it twice to the same thread.
 
Jack Black, I'm glad to see that Aitor Castor, I really enjoy mine. Also that terrapin is massive, we've got some monster loggerheads here in OK.
Here's my Aitor
 
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