#virgil's thoughts

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

Congratulations on your win, Virgil!!✨🔥

Please contact the ThunderThirstBot main team for your prize 🏆

There are humans behind this bot? I am deeply disturbed.

In a moment of madness, I would like to find out what the prize is?

[anon-virgil]

My cosplay of you! I...I hope you like it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {~}My God, I’m so late on this, sorry lol{~} Oh my.... Wow, you look so cool! Thanks.

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

We recently interveiwed Kip Harris and he spoke very highly of you. He said that you were a "very capable young man". Do you have any comments on your experience working with him?

- Global News (Culture 📺)

Did he? Did he really? Kip Harris? Oh wow that's amazing.

I did get a bit of stage fright when I met him so I'm glad he saw past it. It's just incredible when you meet your hero and they're just so ... heroic. Exactly as I knew he would be.

You know I can't comment on rescue specifics but this is outstsnding. Kip Harris thinks I'm capable. Wow.

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

I have just achieved a new PB in deadlifting. I would be proud of it, but I'm only lifting because the piano does not deserve to bear the anxiety the thirstbot is giving me.

Seriously can you all stop now?

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

Dear thunderbird two, who art on Tracy island, hallowed be thy exosuit, unofficial patron saint of PPE. I ask you to bless my new steelies, so that my tootsies will not get shredded by my new booties?

Dear womble1

What excellent footwear! I recommend steelies in all scenarios. Even when walking round a house on a tropical island. You just never know when they will come in handy.

I've never thought of blessing my own footwear, but I'm very happy to bless yours if you think it will help.

"May these boots carry you on many projects, so that you may enjoy a blister free existence on sites that need steelies. May you reach the comfort level that you forget to take them off if you so desire.

May they offer suitable support that you can conduct any required rescues, such as rescuing the handwritten notes somebody left on the building site and now must have. May they also look suitably menacing, so that person who has changed their mind for the third time looks at the steelies and thinks no, this way is fine."

Just in case my unofficial patron saint blessing does not work, I also recommend breaking them in and socks.

Virgil 💚

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

Today I was called to a fire at a caravan park. It turned out to be a very small affair and something the local fire service could have handled, but apparently they were worried about it spreading.

I was sceptical until I realised it was the very park where @ill-put-the-kettle-on-then has his caravan, then I understood.

It turned out he'd overloaded the circuitry completely with futuristic Christmas decorations for the site Christmas party.

@hatsnothoods wasn't amused. It was his electricity Fischler was using.

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

I'm a bit behind with these, but as always people don't stop needing rescuing because Santa comes. In fact they tend to need rescuing more!

I probably should say something like the end of the global conflict in the 2040s. But actually it was the art easel and set of oil paints I got when I was 5. Dad had specially modified the easel so I could reach the canvas. The texture of the paint was amazing. I ruined so many clothes with those paints, I've never been very good at not painting myself as well!

[ilikebigshipsandicannotlie]

Today I thought I'd do a bit of museum-ing whilst on leave and I came across this:

More @scramjettracy's fascination than mine but it's very cool. It's been retired for 60 years. Look at the flight deck

I have no idea what all these switches and dials do and I'm a pilot and an engineer. It took 3 people to fly it! It's also really really small. I had to duck so Scott Mr Tall Tracy would just have to crawl to the cockpit.

1350 mph now sounds so slow. Two goes faster and she's not got Concorde's aerodynamics. One will do ten times that. But it's amazing to look what came before us and how technology has developed.