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Post by scouse on Aug 3, 2020 9:52:01 GMT
Debatable - there was a possibility that Max's tyre(s) may have also let go on the final lap. The British GP does throw up some oddities over the years.... a wash-out ending with many cars spinning off on the final lap, Scheckter wiping out about half of the field, Schumacher winning in the pits and now Hamilton winning on 3 tyres Having watched the post mortem Christian Horner reckons Max's tyres were on the brink of failure but you never know, they may just have held on. Very possible since Sainz's let go on the last lap as well. It still doesn't answer why Mercedes didn't change Hamilton's as soon as they saw the redbull enter the pitlane though, but he won so what do we know?
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Post by scouse on Jul 30, 2020 10:45:12 GMT
maybe it's my naivity, but I think the problem they've had is this desire to make a splash with volume numbers for what is a niche market. What was TVR making at it's high point? 2, 3000 cars a year? but it took the best part of 20 years under Peter Wheeler to get there. Like Mark & Pete said, starting with refurbished/updated Wheeler era cars and working with the existing specialists such as Str8six would have made sense and got the money coming in..
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Post by scouse on Jul 27, 2020 12:02:49 GMT
I have to be honest, more than a weekend with just the wife doesn't appeal, but if people want to hire it for a week or more, that's their business. We do have one of these to go with it:-
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Post by scouse on Jul 26, 2020 2:48:08 GMT
Nice! I bet these are selling like hot cakes this year... I take it that is built as a camper rather than converted? I know a few people that had conversions done and they were always proper money! No, it’s a conversion from a used T6 Transporter. Not cheap, but lots cheaper than VW’s California.
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Post by scouse on Jul 23, 2020 21:04:58 GMT
Very nice. I had a look round a couple of them at CarFest last year, they weren't cheap! They were well finished inside though. At least you avoided the two tone one, I've seen a few white over red ones and it's not a great look. It’s a 67 plate and was under £40k, which stung a bit, but better than the £65+ that VW want for a proper California. The place we got it from had a number of two-tone ones, both in White over shades of light blue which looked rather nice, but I think we’re going to stick with white and coloured tops/accents (although I want to go with movie/tv colours).
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Post by scouse on Jul 23, 2020 20:53:48 GMT
Very nice. Is this a Merc replacement? No, it’s the first of a new business. It is at the moment until the merc is back on the road though.
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Post by scouse on Jul 23, 2020 20:52:38 GMT
Just need a surfboard strapped to the roof and you're good to go. I like that a lot, I've always wondered what a week away in one of those would be like. Drop me a pm and I’ll give you a decent rate...
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Post by scouse on Jul 23, 2020 13:01:17 GMT
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Bugger
Jul 20, 2020 11:36:42 GMT
Post by scouse on Jul 20, 2020 11:36:42 GMT
Came out to the car this morning to notice it was sitting noticeably lower at the back end. A brief drive to work felt like it was riding in the bump stops (way worse than the usual 'ride quality'), which a quick interweb search seemed to confirm the case. The E class wagon has air suspension at the back and I've found several instances of the air ride giving up the ghost either due to a failed relay (best case) or complete failiure of the system (av. cost £1200). To make matters worse, the car is both out of it's formal contract (on an informal rolling monthly) and out of warranty (first registered October 2016, despite me not taking delivery until May 2017. They did say it was pre-registered, but that date came as a surprise when the MOT reminder came). Soonest Mercedes in Liverpool can see it is August 24th. Would you guys wait or just send the thing back? I just don't want to get stung for the repair with a three year old car that has a suspension failiure. Registered owner is still Mercedes Fleet.
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Post by scouse on Jul 10, 2020 15:23:15 GMT
Best response I’ve seen to the Rhodes Must Fall/BLM bollocks
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Post by scouse on Jul 8, 2020 12:14:22 GMT
Thought I'd be further to the right to be honest. Yes I shagged the alien. Which way did you take the answer to the prsioner question? Does co-operate mean witht he police or with our fellow prisoner? Does defect mean dob him in?
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Post by scouse on Jul 8, 2020 11:29:00 GMT
At Renault according to their Instagram
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Post by scouse on Jun 30, 2020 8:54:14 GMT
I See Lewis' team has gone full BLM in painting the cars black in support of BLM. Merceedes following a fascist organistion, who'd of thought it?
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Post by scouse on Jun 15, 2020 14:01:29 GMT
There have been actual crushes at the Nike store on Oxford St. WT actual F, who would be that bothered to get into a scrum to buy a new pair of trainers. What? You mean it didn't get looted oer the last week??
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Post by scouse on Jun 11, 2020 13:29:43 GMT
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Post by scouse on Jun 11, 2020 0:47:20 GMT
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Post by scouse on Jun 10, 2020 19:51:11 GMT
Since he’s in uniform then the horse is probably one of his war mounts, trained to bite and kick those friendly Napoleonist we were so beastly to, so the horse must go as well.
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Post by scouse on Jun 10, 2020 18:26:09 GMT
Fought in India. Obviously for the chop
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Post by scouse on Jun 10, 2020 16:35:13 GMT
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Post by scouse on Jun 10, 2020 15:21:31 GMT
The Spectator's Steerpike's tongue in cheek list of statues, street & place names for Khunt to remove:
London's landmarks Downing Street, named after George Downing, who defended from first-hand experience the economics of West-Indian slavery.
Buckingham Palace, built by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and his third wife Catherine Darnley, an illegitimate daughter of James II, a prominent Briton who was the founding governor and largest shareholder of the Royal African Company.
Fitzrovia, this well-heeled district of London celebrates the offspring of Charles II, a prominent Briton of the 17th century and a major investor in his brother’s Royal African Company.
Westminster, this may be a popular London landmark, but it was nevertheless founded by William the Conqueror. Although the Normans gradually reduced slavery in England, the Domesday Book of 1086 reveals that, at the end of his rule, William still presided over a populace where more than one in ten were slaves.
Tower of London, the first stone castle in Britain was erected by the same William. Although for most of its existence it carried out the peaceful business of incarcerating and executing previously free citizens, its origins remain tied to an oppressive, slave-supporting monarch.
Oliver Cromwell, the prominent statue in Parliament Square stands in stark contrast with Cromwell’s expansion of the Irish slave trade.
The British Museum, founded on the basis of the collection of Hans Sloane, who worked as a doctor on a Jamaican plantation before marrying a Jamaican heiress.
Bank of England, the bank has a long and troubled involvement with the slave trade, especially the Society of West Indian Merchants.
Trafalgar Square, is linked to the Trafalgar headland in Spain that saw, and did not obstruct, many slave ships travelling past it to Cadiz, a major port in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
King’s Place (premises of the Guardian) and King’s Cross, commemorates statue to King George IV, a prominent Briton who continued to oversee slavery in the plantations of the West Indies.
Victoria (region, train station, and underground line), Queen Victoria presided over India, where slavery was not formally outlawed until 1843. Although she formally oversaw that process, her inactivity prior to that speaks volumes.
Queen’s Park Rangers, the name of this football club ultimately commemorates the same Victoria.
Victoria and Albert Museum, named after the imperialist Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert.
Crystal Palace FC, commemorates her husband’s expensive Exhibition of 1851, very probably funded indirectly by the slave trade.
Nelson's column, celebrates Lord Nelson, who opposed the abolition of the slave trade.
William Gladstone, the four-time prime minister may have opposed the slave trade, but his father was a major plantation owner in Jamaica and was compensated by the government after abolition. His statue on the Strand must no longer stand.
Achilles Statue, Hyde Park, this Greek ‘hero’ caused countless deaths in the Trojan War by taking umbrage at having to give up his captive slave Briseis.
Monument, although this huge column primarily commemorates the loss of 70,000 people's homes to the Great Fire of London, its pedestal memorialises several controversial supporters. It records the names of Sir Richard Ford and Sir Robert Viner, both Mayors of London, but both active supporters of the slave trade. More shockingly, the sculpture on its west face depicts Charles II and his problematic brother.
Cleopatra's Needle, this obelisk casts a shadow over the Embankment. Not only was it built by Thutmose III, a slave-owning pharaoh of Egypt, but it was donated to Britain by Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt and Sudan, who enslaved and traded captives throughout his problematic reign.
London, England’s capital city bears all the hallmarks of its problematic origins. Londinium was the name the slave-owning Romans gave to their new city, founded as a major base for their invasion and subsequent oppression of native Britons. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni and keen opponent of slavery, did good work by burning the city to the ground in AD 60, but the Romans had the arrogance to rebuild. Should the capital therefore be renamed?
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Post by scouse on Jun 10, 2020 0:13:27 GMT
I see that Khunt has removed Milligan’s statue from West India Docks. Obviously that statue was only put up to oppress the black occupants of London 200 fucking years later and had fuck all to do with the fact that he was primarily responsible for building the fucking place.
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Post by scouse on Jun 10, 2020 0:07:00 GMT
Some would have life follow arts perhaps?
I wish people would remember that Animal Farm and 1984 were fucking warnings and not how-to manuals.
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Post by scouse on Jun 9, 2020 14:52:28 GMT
I do think the Colston statue thing could have been handled better, apparently it has been a bone of contention for a long time. Perhaps it could have been moved to an area where it's context could have been explained better? Maybe a commemorative statue or frieze to recognize the suffering slaves went through on the Middle Passage. If we just take down these statues, change the name of roads and buildings, are we not just whitewashing a dark period of our history out of existence through embarrassment? How does that help us educate the young? On a brighter, more positive note, maybe they'll pull down Liverpool now as the whole place was built on slavery. Colston's statue has been a 'bone of contention' since the 1990's with the rise of grevance politics - even his wiki page doesn' reference any works on him prior to 1999. Why should there be any embarrasment of our (often very long past? Show me one country or people that hasn't done shitty or shady things to another. As for Liverpool it rose originally as a stopping off point for the monarch to go Paddy-bashing. Pull it down becasue it's a shithole full of thin-skinned, bin-diving, job-dodgers, not due to it's links with the slave trade.
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Post by scouse on Jun 9, 2020 14:39:21 GMT
I noticed we had a silence in parliament for the guy killed in the US. They did that for Jamal Khashoggi too, right? To be fair Kashoggi was up to his eyes in the whole Muslim Brotherhood thing so not exactly the same. No silence for Justine Damond or Tony Timpa or Kris Donald
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Post by scouse on Jun 9, 2020 9:29:05 GMT
Problem with tearing down Colston's statue is were do you stop? Literally every wealthy figure in the late 17th & early 18th century was involved in the slave trade directly or indirectly. Colston was as part of The Royal Africa Compnay. He was part of the company 12 years (1680-1692), eventually heading it in 1689-90. You know who elese was involved in the RAC? King Charles II, King James II, Samuel Pepys and John Locke (the 'Father of Liberalism'). What's next, George Washington's statue? St Paul's Cathedral? Tear down Chester's walls as the Roman's held slaves? The Colesseum?
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Post by scouse on Jun 4, 2020 12:36:21 GMT
Justine Damond - an unarmed white woman - was shot dead by a black cop in 2017. In Minneapolis! That cop remained on the police force for eight months. And then, when the arrest warrant was finally issued for the cop who shot Ms. Damond, he wasn't fired. He resigned. Eight months after he shot the unarmed white woman. No riots. Not even a single protest against police misconduct or brutality. Tony Timpa, an unarmed white man in dallas, who called 911 when he started going into convulsions having missed his medication was held in the same manner as George Floyd and was killed. No police officer was charged with even misconduct, let alone murder/manslaughter. Not even a single protest against police misconduct or brutality followed their deaths. The cop involved in Mr. Floyd's death was fired and arrested in the span of about four days. The other officers in George Floyd's killing where Asian, White and African American. The only one who made any attempt to get the officer off George's neck was white. I guess to some people ONLY black lives matter.
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Post by scouse on May 26, 2020 10:56:49 GMT
Calling for Cummings to resign and for an 'urgent investigation' for protecting his son when not calling for the resignation of Kinnock for visitng his multi-millionaire parents, Kevan Jones for attending a constituents birthday party , Vaughan Gethin for going on a picnic after telling peopethey couldn't, or Tahir Ali for attending a funeral along with around 100 others smacks of hypocracy of the highest order.
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Post by scouse on May 22, 2020 9:06:17 GMT
Regarding the cancellation of the school holidays, youd have to pay teachers a shit load more because their contract doesn't cover the holiday period. Forgot about that. Sefton's teacher contract is actually for 29 hours per week. Even at the moment, Mrs Scouse is generally still working one way or another long after 3.15. Normally only stops when i close the laptop at 5pm. In normal circumstances shes gets into school around 7.50, very rarely leaves before 5, generally puts in at least another 90 minutes of an evening and at least 4 hours of a sunday. Unfortunately a huge amount of this extra work generally has fuck all to do with the kids and revolves around spurious paperwork and statistics for OFSTED.
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Post by scouse on May 21, 2020 15:55:33 GMT
Do you have to be in a union to be a teacher? You dont have to be, it's just very strongly encouraged, usually along the lines of 'if a kid/parent/other teacher ever makes a false allegation, we'll be there to spport you' or 'if you need some sort of suport against management' type of bollocks. When in reality they'd be the first to turn away until you've cleared yourself. Personally I reckon teachers would be better off with some sort of Professional Indemnity insurance.
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Post by scouse on May 21, 2020 9:25:21 GMT
I see the EU7 is limiting power per litre so engine displacement is set to increase. There has to come a point where common sense says the witch hunt against carbon is strangling business and economies to the point it'd make more sense to focus on other things - like home energy or construction.
Wasn't this the way road tax was worked out in Britian pre-war? Hence long-stroke, low rev engines that struggled to compete against against the continental manufacturers?
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