‘fairly good looking’ 
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Hefty isn’t exactly a compliment either
Game was the Met commissioner from 1935 to 1945 - different times
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My mum was chief clerk (half a dozen reporting to her) in a Co-Op Insurance office in Boston, Lincs when she married my dad, in 1954 or 55 I think. As a married woman she was expected to leave work. In fact she did, but mainly because my dad had finished his national service and wanted to relocate to London. When they got there my mum immediately got another office job, much better paid than the Boston one and with no concern at all about her marital status. The sticks vs the city, I guess.
I find it difficult to believe that employment had and advertised these personal requirements. A 50’s lad myself it seems so wrong, taught to give up my seat on the bus, hold doors open and be courteous and yet the law became a law unto itself. The good old days eh.
Good channel if you like nutters jumping at lampposts
He’d be buggered if he missed.
Worth a read and a watch of the tv prog. This is what happens when corporates get involved in health animal or human. Time for Vetinary regulator?
Just checking the levels my bags get at the airport screening.
Ignore the large white figures that was the background after. So 1 micro sievert and 50,000 counts per second.
Interestingly two blasts it appears over 20 seconds 
Be interesting to see the levels over the flight later on
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It looks to me like the graphing has maxed out (i.e. clipped) on the peaks Dom. The giveaway is that first small peak. It’s flat-topped on the count rate graph but sharp-pointed on the dose rate one which indicates that the detector and electronics have not maxed out, at least up to the small peak level (~600uSv/hr).
If anything has maxed out (I’d bet that at least the graphing has) then you can’t rely on the numbers on the graphs’ right hand axes for accurate values during the radiation peaks. If you did you’d be making an “It’s not 3.6 roentgen, it’s 15,000” error.
The checked-bag scanner beams can have quite complex spatial and temporal properties. So as well as the X-rays appearing to be in two main pulses (maybe the bag was conveyored back into the scanner for a second look at your detector ?) that first small peak could come from scatter when they were looking at some part of the bag a short distance away.
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I have read higher stuff than that before, so I don’t know if it maxed it out, maybe if the beam was on longer it would have given a better result? It reacts far quicker than Geiger tubes, but definitely seems to give best results once on a source for 10s or so.
Shame it takes a few minutes to do the spectrum discounting the background, would have been nice to know what they were using to generate the X-rays.
I couldn’t detect anything above normal background levels by the machine so at least the shielding works 
When we reached 39,000 feet this was the reading
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Wow, niche !
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@freefallrob Hope these aren’t your preferred ones.
Or have you moved on since the shrinkage scandal a number of years ago.
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I’m not amused 
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But, being on a diet and fitness streak, they are out of bounds anyway 
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