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Post by racingteatray on Aug 7, 2019 10:33:17 GMT
Working in a factory without any music can be quite soul destroying. Can be fairly soul-destroying with it.
As a teenager, I once spent half my summer holiday working the morning shift (6am to I think 2pm) in a jam factory in Schleswig-Holstein (improbable as that may seem, but it was my father's idea of trying to improve my German whilst simultaneously giving me a life lesson) and they always had the local radio station playing. Every day at the same time (11am from memory), pretty much without fail, the DJ would play Madonna's "La Isla Bonita".
More than 20 yrs later, that song still takes me straight back to standing there in white overalls and white rubber boots dealing with strawberry pulp.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 10:54:36 GMT
Music is a greatly underestimated resource but if music does not float your boat perhaps audio books might be an alternative but it is all very personal/individual.
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Post by Tim on Aug 7, 2019 11:13:42 GMT
The workshop of the garage I used to work in insisted on the radio being tuned to Tay FM which plays bland pop interspersed with crap adverts.
Fortunately, from my office I couldn't really hear it.
If I had reason to be passing through there and the place was empty I would always retune it to something 'inappropriate' like Classic FM/Radio 3.
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Post by racingteatray on Aug 7, 2019 11:45:06 GMT
Music is a greatly underestimated resource but if music does not float your boat perhaps audio books might be an alternative but it is all very personal/individual. I'm unsure I could concentrate whilst listening to an audio book. |
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Post by ChrisM on Aug 7, 2019 12:51:36 GMT
Working in a factory without any music can be quite soul destroying. That I can understand, but wearing headphones practically everywhere you go ?? |
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Post by Tim on Aug 7, 2019 13:56:00 GMT
The rear 3/4 view of the AMG estate is atrocious - I can't get past the hideousness of the jutting out exhausts.
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Post by grampa on Aug 7, 2019 14:19:45 GMT
For a small Mercedes it looks nice apart from the stupid paint.
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Post by grampa on Aug 7, 2019 14:25:36 GMT
Working in a factory without any music can be quite soul destroying. Can be fairly soul-destroying with it.
As a teenager, I once spent half my summer holiday working the morning shift (6am to I think 2pm) in a jam factory in Schleswig-Holstein (improbable as that may seem, but it was my father's idea of trying to improve my German whilst simultaneously giving me a life lesson) and they always had the local radio station playing. Every day at the same time (11am from memory), pretty much without fail, the DJ would play Madonna's "La Isla Bonita".
More than 20 yrs later, that song still takes me straight back to standing there in white overalls and white rubber boots dealing with strawberry pulp.
I worked in a pub as a teenager and the juke box had the power to drive me nuts. The place was popular with hells angels types (mainly because we were the only pub not to accede to the police's request to ban them) - I hope I can go the rest of my life without ever having to hear Hawkwind's Silver Machine again! |
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Post by michael on Aug 7, 2019 14:37:10 GMT
Can be fairly soul-destroying with it.
As a teenager, I once spent half my summer holiday working the morning shift (6am to I think 2pm) in a jam factory in Schleswig-Holstein (improbable as that may seem, but it was my father's idea of trying to improve my German whilst simultaneously giving me a life lesson) and they always had the local radio station playing. Every day at the same time (11am from memory), pretty much without fail, the DJ would play Madonna's "La Isla Bonita".
More than 20 yrs later, that song still takes me straight back to standing there in white overalls and white rubber boots dealing with strawberry pulp.
My parents had similar ideas for me. I worked in a factory sticking electromagnetic insulation to plastic sheets so it could be easily removed by workers in electronics factories across the planet. The local radio station seemed to have only bought a handful of tracks, one of which was 'Where have all the cowboys gone' by Paula Cole. It's a miserable song at the best of times but thankfully not one you hear very often now. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 23:17:15 GMT
10cc Mandy, fly me. Gunnery training 1976 and running laps with a half inch ranging gun barrel above my head.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 23:59:27 GMT
I once worked at a place that had piped music but it was on a computer so the same songs played every day. I found after a while that my mind blanked out the crap ones and tuned back into the ones I liked. Ended up getting into Ben Harper because this played all the time and I looked it up.
This live version is better, though. Gotta love a bass solo! The part referred to at the beginning is that the beatboxer is the bass player's son...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 20:52:17 GMT
Non "shooting brake" version is proper quick. 0-60 in 3.7 secs.
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Post by Martin on Jul 3, 2020 20:55:41 GMT
I do quite like the CLA, best of the A35s/A45s.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 21:19:05 GMT
I'd still have the hatch because of the pooch. The CLA looks really long, too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 11:58:32 GMT
The estate is £59,470!
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Post by Sav on Jul 4, 2020 22:10:21 GMT
Someone near me has a C63 S and he basically drives everywhere like his hair is on fire. It sounds fabulous, and if I were paying 60k for a Merc AMG, I would want it to sound like that. A farty four pot for 60k - no thanks. C63 Estate please!
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 9, 2020 12:25:25 GMT
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Post by michael on Jul 9, 2020 12:41:47 GMT
I like it but for the fact the profile looks like it needs a bend taking out. It's a theme shared with the last one that it just looks like it needs straightening out. The high performance shooting break/brake is surely the most sensible format for an EV?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2020 15:14:25 GMT
The bigger one that I can't remember the name of (CLS?) always looked bent as a banana to my eyes, too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 13:16:54 GMT
Someone local has one of these in pauper 180 spec. Really long for what is essentially an A Class. Seen it every day this week so far, so he must like popping out in it...
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Post by Martin on Jul 29, 2020 13:20:15 GMT
Someone local has one of these in pauper 180 spec. Really long for what is essentially an A Class. Seen it every day this week so far, so he must like popping out in it... The CLA is almost exactly the same length as a C class. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 7:41:49 GMT
Someone local has one of these in pauper 180 spec. Really long for what is essentially an A Class. Seen it every day this week so far, so he must like popping out in it... I know why he went for a 180 now. I, along with several other pissed off drivers, was stuck behind him pootling along at 30 down a twisty road with a 50 limit on it the other day. He was still jabbing on the brakes at every corner, too! |
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