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CharlieMungus - MemberSo, the guns are ok, but the sex toy not. Which would be least appropriate for a child to have access to?
I played cowboys and indians as a kid. I never played cowboys and machine-assisted masturbators.
Also the guns are serious responses to the thread, content not punchlines. If you post up a really mechanically interesting and aesthetically pleasing vibrator, maybe that'll be OK 😉
Its all fab I would buy whole lot if the loto came up this week,apart from the guns and that Kona shut & cut what going on there? yuk.
CharlieMungus - Member
So, the guns are ok, but the sex toy not.
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Tattoo machines
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So, the guns are ok, but the sex toy not
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I played cowboys and indians as a kid. I never played cowboys and machine-assisted masturbators.
should've dug around your parents bedroom a bit more 😈
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Easy, tis the Caspian Sea Monster.
Here's a few of my pics of things mechanical;
Tiger 131
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Lancia Stratos
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Blackmoor Vale's drive rod
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And a bit of camera pron
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Also the guns are serious responses to the thread, content not punchlines. If you post up a really mechanically interesting and aesthetically pleasing vibrator, maybe that'll be OK
Well, the point was double edged, yes the ramapant rabbit makes people say "oh my, that's lovely" but also in design terms it represented a large step change in the design and functionality of vibrators. If you take the time to look at the design and think about the it's use, you will see the synergy of form and function which is present in an only in, all great design classics. The rampant rabbit is so well recognised as a classic that it actually features in the Design Museum on the South Bank. Yet it somehow fails to meet some individual's criterion on here. Oh well, can't expect the provinces to be as 'hip' as that there London.
Teej my old man was a vampire pilot.
I cannot believe this hasn't been posted.. Crap pic but the Harrier rocks.
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Ooh, nice klunk - to save anybody else searching, http://www.instructables.com/id/Ornithopter/ <off to find some coffee stirring sticks>
If you're submitting that toys, then you've got to have this
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Though to get away from the cars and planes here's a modern implementation of a [b]really[/b] old one
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A bit more down to earth. I remember truly lusting after a T140 Bonneville - I had a Trophy 250 at the time. Triumph were advertising in the mags - IIRC the Bonnie was something like £560
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toys ? full size ornithopters are a bit thin on the ground
you must have me blocked klunk.
who said that ?
Always loved Mamood miniature steam engines - we had one when we were kids and I remember happy times setting it up with our dad and the great smell of meths.
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Sorry, but for some reason Klunk's image reminded me of it.
I do like some of the steampunk stuff;
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but you can't beat a big bit of industrial machinery for 'gosh that looks interesting I wonder how it works' type stuff;
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I love the factory visit phot assignments in Rouleur.
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styling by wacky races, love it 😀
Some Italian art.... 🙂
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacqamoe/194796465/ ]Ducati 916[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jacqamoe/ ]jacqamoe[/url], on Flickr
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And from the rear....
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The 28x28 wheel drive vehicle used to move the telescopes around at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array as featured on the Horizon episode "seeing Stars"
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More Italian Art, love it ! (crap photo)
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LHC, CERN
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BRM V16 - lovely car, engine and the sound always makes the hairs on the back of my hair stand up.
Standing next to one at Silverstone as they warmed it up is one of my abidign memories. 40 blokes all stood round grinnign with blood runnign out of their ears. One of the few cars you could hear doing a whole lap of the circuit.
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The world's largest earth mover by German firm Krupp.
Not beautiful by any stretch but Jesus - it's bloody massive. Imagine the size of its balls 😆
EDIT: @ Klunk - hmmm....quite a disturbing picture of cammo compound bow on slightly cripsy bottom sheet...
derek - better representation of it's awesomeness:
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Newsprint machine at Palm Paper in Kings Lynn.
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Stoner - I feel like I need a long hot shower after that, I somehow feel sullied. What a disturbing piece of film.
*reaches for Foamburst*
Some Italian art
meh - we've already had plenty of threads with pics like that
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i'm not usually a fan of 'old stuff' - but i do like the mechanism of a sewing machine, it's really clever. and i like the pedal-powered nature of the old singers.
they make a lovely sound too.
Firstly there's this. Mankind's greatest achievement in my humble opinion:
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Then there's this. You can forget your F-16s or Tornados, this is what I went to airshows in the 1980s to see as a child:
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And I'm also a bit of a Mk2 Golf nerd too:
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Rusty, is the hangar in that picture far away or too small? If it is the latter they will pop the airship when they try to put it away.
This..
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Then this..
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[homer] Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Cheese![/Homer]
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Rusty, is the hangar in that picture far away or too small? If it is the latter they will pop the airship when they try to put it away.
Very far away!
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But they popped it anyway: 🙁
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3T MRI scanner
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CT scanner
Medical imaging. Amazing stuff.
My White Industries freewheel is lovely. Was almost reluctant to put it on my bike as it was such a beautiful thing!
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[i]Medical imaging. Amazing stuff. [/i]
not only does it feel like you're being loaded into a washing machine it sounds like a badly loaded one too.
I was amazed at quite how much banging and thumping there was when I went in one.
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Wehey..
Ring,ding, ding...
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B-2 Stealth Bomber.
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It is a shame that so many interesting, beautiful objects are purely there for destruction.
Jet engines (of all descriptions)
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All those parts spinning ridiculously fast at extremely tight tolerances, working at high temps. 1000's of them all over the world and on the whole, they just work (which is probably a good thing!)
And I know there's been a pic of it already, but it probably deserves another one. Still sad to think they aren't flying anymore:
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Test drove a VW b us on Sunday and the engine note made me get the 'oh thats lovely' feeling!
Also, had the same feeling about my White industries freewheel when I fitted it to my old Paddy Wagon
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was amazed at quite how much banging and thumping there was when I went in one.
Those noises are nothing to do with the imaging process. They're put in so that you lie there wondering WTF is going to happen next!
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Changed the course of [url= http://www.nmm.ac.uk/harrison ]history[/url]
If electricity is allowed, then Concorde and an E-Type do it for me.
Not very PC, but......
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I've been interested in planes for a long time but when I saw this one at the Leuchars airshow a couple of years ago it really did make me stop and say "oh my, that's lovely!" 🙂
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Oldgit, are they Purdey or Evans? Either way....yum!
Oldgit - there's nothing unPC about a pair of beautiful, high grade shotguns. They are splendid.
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If you pointed those at me, I'd shit myself.
i guess your perception of how lovely they are may depend on whether or not they're being pointed at you!
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Its a quote/line from a film that featured them (or at least the catalogue)....
Germanic mechanical prettiness.
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That's a STUNNING pic of that Quattro!
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dogbert - they're not real mate. Sorry. Oh and there's no Santa Claus either....
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Oh my! flamejob 😀
1) Pretty much any bike (with the exception of a few e.g. 'Paperclip bike') is a beautiful combination of form and function.
2) Most high-end hi-fi turntables (although I'm not sure of Yunki's picture)
3) The interlocking on mechanical signal boxes leaves me gobsmacked
4) A nicely finished GP14 dinghy, they may be fairly common a design of boat that can be sailed, rowed and powered that is still in production 50 years after it was designed
Unfortunately I'm on a mobile so you'll have to get your own pictures!
I think after CM defended his case so well that his post should be re-instated.
flamejob I think you are missing a cog on the forth line down. 😉
I think after CM defended his case so well that his post should be re-instated.
You could always repost it yourself 😈
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3) The interlocking on mechanical signal boxes leaves me gobsmacked
I shot a 360' pano of the Horsted Keynes signal box on the Bluebell Railway in 07.
In the scheme of things it's not a complicated track layout but I was like W(here)TF do you start?
It's a lovely bit of engineering and [url= http://www.mikeanton.com/360panos/Bluebellrailway/HKsignalbox.html ]here's the pano[/url]
dogbert - they're not real mate. Sorry. Oh and there's no Santa Claus either....
Thank god, i've had nightmares about those mechanical camels 😉