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Aug 21, 2020 19:24:33 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Aug 21, 2020 19:24:33 GMT
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Aug 25, 2020 15:26:15 GMT
Post by Andy C on Aug 25, 2020 15:26:15 GMT
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Aug 26, 2020 16:06:09 GMT
Post by Tim on Aug 26, 2020 16:06:09 GMT
Mrs Tim was just changing her address details with her work and spotted that as her next of kin the HR bods have given me the title Archbishop!
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Aug 26, 2020 16:19:00 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Aug 26, 2020 16:19:00 GMT
Mrs Tim was just changing her address details with her work and spotted that as her next of kin the HR bods have given me the title Archbishop! Well I’m convinced, Reverend. |
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Aug 26, 2020 16:22:26 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 26, 2020 16:22:26 GMT
Shouldn't that be "Your Grace"?
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Aug 26, 2020 16:24:29 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Aug 26, 2020 16:24:29 GMT
Shouldn't that be "Your Grace"? You’re right it should be. I thought the Archbishop was giving me a funny look when he came round for tea. |
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Aug 26, 2020 16:24:59 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 26, 2020 16:24:59 GMT
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Aug 26, 2020 20:29:32 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 20:29:32 GMT
I recall being in a pub one Sunday afternoon with a couple of mates and the local vicar and his missus were sat in the same area. This guy Paul got up and loudly proclaimed "Right lads, I'm off home for a wank" at the top of his voice. The vicar and wife nearly choked on their sherry!
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Aug 27, 2020 8:18:45 GMT
Post by Tim on Aug 27, 2020 8:18:45 GMT
Shouldn't that be "Your Grace"? You’re right it should be. I thought the Archbishop was giving me a funny look when he came round for tea.  I've finally found some recognition for my greatness. Pity it's from some HR people who haven't met me. Still, it'll do. I'm away to buy a new 911 GT3RS to prove to everyone else how awesome I am  |
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Aug 28, 2020 8:05:39 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Aug 28, 2020 8:05:39 GMT
Interesting (?) Google Doodle on Alexandre Dumas today......
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Aug 28, 2020 17:39:13 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 28, 2020 17:39:13 GMT
Went to look at a £850 2006 BMW 320D for a mate of mine today. Was told it needed a new turbo, but no smoke.
Mmm. Horrible noise on startup and plume of blowby out of the oil filler cap. It had only done 135k.
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Sept 2, 2020 12:09:03 GMT
Post by PG on Sept 2, 2020 12:09:03 GMT
You can now fly open door in a Vietnam era Huey (or Bell UH-1 to give it its proper name) in the UK. £600 a seat for the experience. "Over the Bank Holiday weekend, The Telegraph got a seat on the first commercial open-doors flight inside a 1970s Huey - the famed symbol of the Vietnam War. It’s the “Spitfire of helicopters”, says Connolly. “The Spitfire is the iconic fighter aircraft symbol, and the Huey is the same for helicopters."
Behind a farm in Wesham, a small Lancashire village between Preston and Blackpool, there is a lane which leads to Vietnam, 1972. Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son plays in a stars-and-stripes draped aircraft hangar, which stores a Huey and a smaller Hughes OH-6 Cayuse, or a Loach, as it was nicknamed.
This Huey was not the last chopper out of Saigon. It flew 559 hours in Vietnam between 1972 and 1973, in combat, delivering supplies and rescuing troops. Although now fully restored, it’s impossible to hide its bloody past: inside the craft there are patched-up bullet holes, and on the door is a list of names of fallen soldiers from the regiment it served.
Before take-off, evacuation protocols are explained to me: the shaking of the Huey puts so much pressure on your bladder that you must go for a pee before putting on your flying suit. In the loo hangs a poster of the Huey, with the words: “We made it beautiful because it’s the last thing some people see”. This is not very comforting.
I clamber into the surprisingly roomy cabin with the other passengers: a photographer and paid customers Julie and Mark Aldred, two aircraft enthusiasts from Cheshire, who have paid £600 each for a seat to celebrate Mark’s 56th birthday.
During lift off the Huey judders like a washing machine, but in the air it feels miraculously smooth.
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After we land, I stand on the tarmac feeling dazed, shivering with cold, and full of adrenaline. We all stand around smiling like idiots from the thrill of it. “I’ve got the Huey grin”, says Julie. “It will last for a month.”"
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Sept 2, 2020 12:22:15 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 12:22:15 GMT
So they can shoot the folk responsible for the advertising?
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Sept 2, 2020 13:00:20 GMT
Post by Tim on Sept 2, 2020 13:00:20 GMT
Someone's set up a company/charity to run a variety of ex-services helicopters. I've seen that they have a Whirlwind and Sea King airworthy so far and have bought a selection of additional Sea Kings as well. I wonder how much one of those costs to run.
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Sept 2, 2020 13:22:32 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 13:22:32 GMT
Last I heard quite a bit. If a Lynx sized helo is in the £3k to £5k bracket the Sea Kings will add at least a grand.
Scarier than I thought, Sea King quoted at £14k per hour
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Sept 2, 2020 15:16:18 GMT
Post by PG on Sept 2, 2020 15:16:18 GMT
Last I heard quite a bit. If a Lynx sized helo is in the £3k to £5k bracket the Sea Kings will add at least a grand.
Scarier than I thought, Sea King quoted at £14k per hour
Those costs are MOD quoted "costs per flying hour" so massively inflated from reality. The figure includes original purchase costs, bases, overheads, all personnel etc etc. I'm sure the actual variable costs - fuel, parts, pilot are much much less. And the depreciation for the new buyers will be tiny compared to what the military paid for the aircraft in the first place.... If the Huey costs £600 per ticket (say an hours flight) and they can fly with 4 up (or the 6 they did pre Covid), then that's £2400 -£3000 per hour and has to cover all their costs. |
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Sept 2, 2020 15:40:48 GMT
Post by Tim on Sept 2, 2020 15:40:48 GMT
How fast can a tractor towing a trailer fully laden with grain go down a hill on a tarmac road?
The local farmer is clearly going for some sort of record. Not pleasant when you're walking up said single track road and he comes the other way.....
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Sept 2, 2020 15:52:12 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Sept 2, 2020 15:52:12 GMT
50kph is usually the limit for big tractors with suspension and proper trailer brakes. Some can do 60kph.
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Sept 2, 2020 16:10:16 GMT
Post by Tim on Sept 2, 2020 16:10:16 GMT
Ok. I think he's probably doing the 50 then. Even the combine came past pretty quickly which is brave when I see from the marks on the verge that the road is too narrow for it  |
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Sept 2, 2020 18:48:58 GMT
Post by PG on Sept 2, 2020 18:48:58 GMT
How fast can a tractor towing a trailer fully laden with grain go down a hill on a tarmac road? The local farmer is clearly going for some sort of record. Not pleasant when you're walking up said single track road and he comes the other way..... Young blokes driving big tractors towing grain trailers are the bane of all country roads. They're just fucking dangerous. And I say that as a country dwelling livestock farmer. Trouble is I guess it is not all their fault. Having done a very minor bit of grain hauling for my uncle (when I was a late teenager), if you're not back in time for the next load off the combine, so the combine has to stop rolling, you get a new arsehole ripped for you. |
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Sept 2, 2020 20:57:31 GMT
Post by Roadrunner on Sept 2, 2020 20:57:31 GMT
How fast can a tractor towing a trailer fully laden with grain go down a hill on a tarmac road? The local farmer is clearly going for some sort of record. Not pleasant when you're walking up said single track road and he comes the other way..... Young blokes driving big tractors towing grain trailers are the bane of all country roads. They're just fucking dangerous. And I say that as a country dwelling livestock farmer. Trouble is I guess it is not all their fault. Having done a very minor bit of grain hauling for my uncle (when I was a late teenager), if you're not back in time for the next load off the combine, so the combine has to stop rolling, you get a new arsehole ripped for you. Absolutely this. Plus the thrill of being a teenage King of the Road, blasting up and down through the village all day and half the night, with full loads of wheat or barley. Pull up outside the pub on the village green, neck a thirst-quenching pint down in one and then hit the road again, back to the field. Those were the days... |
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Sept 3, 2020 9:35:43 GMT
Post by Tim on Sept 3, 2020 9:35:43 GMT
This wasn't a young bloke, I think he might've been the farmer and I presume the combine is owned by a different local farmer.
I'm not complaining, I've lived in the country for long enough and I'm guilty in my younger years of driving at excess speed on the same bit of road albeit in cars.
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Sept 6, 2020 17:04:13 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Sept 6, 2020 17:04:13 GMT
No signs that there were several Formula E races here just a few weeks earlier:  And you don't often get the chance to stand on the centre line of a runway:  |
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Sept 9, 2020 9:14:43 GMT
Post by Tim on Sept 9, 2020 9:14:43 GMT
I saw an ad for Tom Hartley Junior cars in Classic & Sportscar yesterday, it features said individual, and the poor guy has a passing resemblance to Donald Trump Junior. Poor guy.
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Sept 9, 2020 19:38:13 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Sept 9, 2020 19:38:13 GMT
A truly heart-warming story... www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54094181<iframe width="400" height="500" frameborder="0" src="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/embed/p08qzrly/54094181"></iframe> |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Sept 17, 2020 11:50:50 GMT
Interesting sandwich a colleague procured:  |
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Sept 17, 2020 11:53:18 GMT
Post by Big Blue on Sept 17, 2020 11:53:18 GMT
What have they done to the relish to criminalise it and will he spit it out or swallow it?
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Sept 17, 2020 11:54:32 GMT
Post by michael on Sept 17, 2020 11:54:32 GMT
Don't the French call us Roast Beefs? It's obviously Brexit related.
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Sept 21, 2020 13:46:31 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 13:46:31 GMT
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Sept 29, 2020 1:18:40 GMT
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Post by rodge on Sept 29, 2020 1:18:40 GMT
Sitting in my back garden yesterday afternoon and noticed a large cloud out west.
Realised it is not due to rain, but a fire had broken out.
Then the local regional airport, that I live about 4 miles from, had massive fire planes taking off every few minutes for the next 3 hours.
The fire was 50 acres at 3:30pm, 1000 acres at 4:30pm,
7000 acres at 7:30 pm.
At 7am, it had grown to 15000 acres and was 0% contained.
This afternoon it’s at 27000 acres.
Gives you an idea as to how fast they spread.
Thankfully, it’s moving away from us but sadly, 3 people have been killed by it.
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