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Naiive

Didn’t watch – somehow his stuff hasn’t really captured my imagination 🙁

On the other hand, as undergrad geology students we were mightily impressed that Profs Cox, Wright and Upton had a mineral named after themselves*… 😆
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* allegedley, funnily, could never find coxwrightuptonite in the mineral reference books…

As a HR Manager for a blue chip company this is rather insightful

What the lack of trust, or the behaviour of other HR types…?

Every bedroom is bugged with mics and cameras.

Is that even legal?

I’d advise extreme caution. If you do decide to speak to HR play it in as positive light as possible, not as a whinge / moan – perhaps pose as a question…

From personal experience (previous employer) I had a conversation with HR, and specifically requested that it be confidential prior to proceeding. My line managec asked me what it was all about the very next morning 🙁

I’ve found AVG* works well…

… providing you don’t mind being told you’ve got an infection after it has landed. 👿

I quite like to be told that something is a bad file before it’s had time to do damage

* applies to AVG free

I think the Australian economy is in much greater danger than everyone else thinks

How come? Are those thoughts sector specific? or just the economy in general?

I was under the impression that a lot of the Australian resilience was commodities driven…

can’t see myself returning to the UK even though i am very fond of it and consider it home..quality of life is not great.. which is a shame.

Interesting…. care to expand??

This seems to be a constant conversation amongst many of the natives (especially at the moment). Always though that there was an element of the moaning British mentality about it, so a slightly different perspective is interesting

Walk

No – For the same reasons that the IS a Scottish and Welsh parliament / assembly…

… does that make sense?

This says

YES

Monitors

A weapons system for our financially constrained time???

Big gun – small ship

PS, dont tell Daviv Cameron

Interesting to see the references to Warspite and Hood.

My great uncle was on destroyers during WW2, including at Narvik with the Warspite.

His boat (HMS Echo) was also part of the escort for Hood during the engagement with Bismark and Prinz Eugen.

I always remember him recounting how the destroyers got left behind by the battelcruiser as they could not keep up in the heavy weather. He reckoned they were leaping out of the waves back to the bridge / funnel and one damaged / corrugated her hull, so they had to slow down.

After Hood was sunk they were sent in to rescue survivors. Echo didn’t pick up any. Sister ship Electra picked up 3… out of 1400.

Anyway, HMS Echo, one of the hard working little ships…

Electra

After the war he transferred to RFA ocean going tugs…

…they lost the tow on Warspite (didn’t really want her going to scrap after having the joint highest Battle Honours of any RN boat in WW2…

HMS Warspite at Prussia Cove, Cornwall…ooops…

love the fact that those puppies share their engines with Vulcan bombers and Intercity 125s

Ha – no…

The carrier, and Type 21 and 22 frigates, plus type 42 destroyers used RR Olympus engines similar to Vulcan / Concorde, but sadly the train used a diesel engine derived from Navy minesweepers and patrol boats – the Paxman Valenta.

Some of the British WW2 designs were very elegant.

Personal favourites would be the T Class subs and war emergency classes destroyers. My father worked on post war modernisations of both these classes

HMS Teazer – T Class War Emergency Destroyer

T Class submarine before streamlining

Of the more recent Navy, I remember these two coming home from the Falklands…

HMS Argonaut

and HMS Arrow

We wondered what the hell all the noise was at school – but the Red Arrows had decided to stage a flypast for their Navy namesake

Ours is a 56 plate so somewhat older. 2 kids, 2 dogs, 4 bikes is normal configuration. For camping we often use a roof box. The long narrow type Thule boxes still give room for 2 bikes up top (mountain mayhem config!!).

If it’s a titanium does it have the glass roof panel? Lovely airy feel with that

Very good in many ways, couple of niggling weaknesses. We’ve had a 1.8 td zetec for about 4 years…

Good: great to drive. Even the 1.8 diesel goes well as the engine and six speed box are well matched. Handling is nothing short of amazing for this type of car ( the Fat Max replaced a mk5 golf gti!). Very comfortable – excellent long distance cruiser. Spacious for four. Bikes go on the roof though. Worst mpg 42-44 urban. Best 50+ motorway cruise.

Niggly bits- ford build quality and main dealers… New clutch at 20k and turbo pipe at 50 ( both warranty). Not bad on tyres but they’re unusual size / high load, so expensive. Pads and discs last to about 65k and are ruinous at main dealer prices

Exeter St David’s???

Used to walk / ride / drive past that photo for years. Remember when the building in the picture burnt down!

Quite amazed by this thread.

There is undoubtedly an enduring fascination with trains and railways, yet the “trainspotter” tag is always trotted out. There is almost a reverse psychology here – the media stereotype as a defence mechanism for a wider public that share a level of interest?

My OP certainly seems to have raised some interest. Some of the comments (ignoring the blatantly flaming ones) show the low level of understanding regarding rural communities and that’s where where I feel the real issue lie.

OP you’ve managed to raise some very painful issues here. My own posts on here are admittedly more inflammatory, but it is a topic that makes me very angry and desperately sad.

brandeberryj That’s right anyone who lived in rural areas never owned there own property. Furthemore they ate shite for breakfast everyday while you just talk it. Nothing like a bit of left wing generalistion. By the way the last century was 1900 – 2000?

brandeberryj may believe that I’m talking shite,but I’m talking from family experience in Cornwall. Perhaps brandeberryj is too young to know, or too detached from his / her own roots. (the fishing thing was a metaphor, as I stated).

Anyway, my grandfather was the first person in our village to be allowed to buy his house. The local estate owned all the land, all the houses, the pub, the church, the village hall- everything. He could buy because he did well in the Royal Dockyard, but also because he played cricket with the local baronet. Subsequent sales of property in the village (to generate cash for the struggling estate) were advertised in London rather than locally. A few were sold to local tenent farmers, but almost all were eventually sold to “monied” outsiders. Double whammy for local working people. Not only were the sale prices way above what could be afforded on a rural wage, but the stock of local rented / tied housing also disappeared.

And no, I’m not talking centuries ago. This happened in the 60s and 70s

Had a DSG Golf for a while. Lovely car, well executed box (I’ll call i a clutch-less manual)…

But if I had another it would be a manual

Penhydd

A sad loss

If you want to wave willies, see posts above, but the OP asked for funnest.

Note to locals. If you didn’t sell your houses at over-inflated prices to in-movers for filthy lucre, then the fisherman would still be able to walk to his boat

Sorry, but this is utter shite.

Absolutely contemptuous, or just plain naive.

Who owned the frigging house to start with?
Sure as he’ll wasn’t the “fisherman” to keep with the same metaphor.

The properties were owned by the big landowners, and were sold off piecemeal for readies during the last century. In the main, they weren’t sold to the local families – they didn’t have the flipping money (because they worked for the skint landowner… And wouldn’t even have gotten to meet the bank manager)

OP is being far to friendly to the emits.

People have different aspirations in the modern world and older people have the money to ‘live the dream’ in the countryside.

And that’s the biggest rub. Those with the money have the choice. If you are from rural working class your choice is low aspiration, low pay & crappy rented accommodation – or move out.

Rural “ethnic” cleansing by rich urban tossers.

So many people just don’t “get” the implications of their free market choices.

I’m pretty sure that I wouldnt call Black Swan a psychological thriller on the basis that it wasnt thrilling or in any way psychological.

Ahh, haven’t seen the film, but was judging on what I’d heard here and elsewhere…

bears no correlation to any other genre of media entertainment, or social interest in my life, thanks.

Not sure I understand this comment…?

Surely “psychological thriller” is a fairly mainstream genre?

I dusted off my early 90s road bike last year and used it for a few commutes.

Normally about an hour on the mtb – 55 mins on a very good day.

About 45-46 mins on the road bike. Route is slightly different… mtb route is shorter, with a fab forest / quarry DH run. Road route is longer, but mid to high 40s (mph) road descent.

Tough climb (20 mins in, 40mins return) limits the advantage that the road bike has over the mtb IMO.

Also as a regular mtb rider I will rag the hell out of the mtb – late on brakes into corners, letting it run DH etc, but am still very cautious on the road bikes. It still feels very flighty compared to the mtb.

As an example in order to stir shit I sat in the science office of my school and invited anyone to explain, why counter steering works on a bicycle

All ears – please explain…

Our m/c instructor struggled with this (a good few years ago) 😛

He explanined it along the lines of by counter-steering your bringing more of the tyre edge into contact with the road – effectively using a part of the tread closer to the rim and with a shorther circumfrence = shorther turning radius.

Whatever – there was a big disconnect with doing it and explaining it

The French were also coming up with crazy ideas such as the “hatchback” which baffled many in Britain.
A 1938 Citroen :

Ohh, and the Citroen “Traction Avant”

Peugeot Citroen are one group – PSA Group??, but Renault are / were separate.

I think there is some justification for the fun / practical but tinnily built reputation.

Used to have a couple of 309s in the 90s. Great fun, but made of tin foil. My father still has a Renault Scenic, an this has the same feel (well, the tinny bit, not the fun)

Italian cars a better made.

DU typicaly refers to ….

depleted uranium

I thought this would be a thread about very heavy bike parts fitted directly beneath the crown jewels….

Sem to be a lot around second hand at the moment. Mazda garage near us had a pile of them late last year.

Ruinous CO2 and mpg

Oops – double post

It’s a hellava long way from E Anglia, and you pass a lot of other mtns to get there (pretty much all of them!), but Slioch is one of my favourites!

Diesels are geared longer, so you COULD be in 5th at 30 if you want, but you don’t have to be. Plus, in 5th at 30 it will still pull away nicely, reducing the need to be rumaging around in the gearbox all the time.

That’s precisely what I said… 🙄

ie, I was pointing out that in a diesel you were likely to have short shifted to use the torque available at low revs

Probably where I am at 3rd gear in a petrol I’d already be upto 5th in a diesel in the same scenario

Thats funny my last manual diesel would do well over 100 in 5th where as the fast petrol megane we have wont go any faster than 80 in third.

Isn’t that totally missing hora’s point???

Your diesel might do 120 in 5th, but you’ll probably already be in 5th at 30…

… whereas in a petrol you might hang on in 3rd until the redline, perhaps somewhere around 70 or so 😉

IIRC one of mrs rkk01’s former employers (may even be current one) does not recognise sports injuries as a valid reason for sick leave…

dog

They’re not complicated. Have them on all my forks…never had a problem

ID on some steerers is too narrow…
ID on some steerers is too big…

I’ve tried them on a couple of frame / fork combos and found them to be a PITA

He’s suggesting just that the ban they will start using diesel meant for cars, ignoring the fact there’s other marine diesel fuel options.

Serves me right for skim reading 😳

I thought ship engines burned some kind of tar-like sludge left over when everything else had been taken?

Yep – HFO, heavy fuel oil