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General Discussion Area / Re: ASA - TV Advertising

« on: 18 September 2023, 23:55:04 »

Amongst the bad and misleading adverts there have been some very good ones .

Acording to Google t

The Best TV Adverts of All Time

    Freeview: Singing Cat and Budgie. ...
    John Lewis: Elton John. ...
    Money Supermarket: Dave's Epic Strut. ...
    Cadbury's Dairy Milk: Drumming Gorilla. ...
    Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like. ...
    Gillette: We Believe: The Best Men Can Be. ...
    Coca-Cola: Holidays Are Coming! ...
    Haribo: Inner Child.

85 million years of evolution and here we are.   

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General Discussion Area / Re: Net Zero

« on: 16 September 2023, 00:18:06 »

Anyone who thinks you can have a net zero blast furnace clearly didn't pay attention in their Chemistry lessons at school.

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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...

« on: 08 September 2023, 19:30:30 »

https://youtu.be/Ct-KlbvGXgo?feature=shared

The 6.9 is good but I prefer the earlier 300 SEL 6.3.

A proper cold war Merc.

I imagine Jay Leno would be a great bloke to share a pint with.

You don't quite sit right in one unless you're a dictator, though.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Varche’s Music thread

« on: 08 September 2023, 18:59:18 »

Mark knopfler for musicality.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJzlIedCuo     Telegraph Road

I seem to recall "Love over gold" was the first vinyl album I purchased.

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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...

« on: 08 September 2023, 07:20:04 »

Look at the prices for mint W116 S Classes and ask that question again.

https://www.carandclassic.com/list/31/450%20sel/

Look at the prices for mint W116 S Classes and ask that question again.

https://www.carandclassic.com/list/31/450%20sel/

Do they come with thier own fuel tanker?
I drove one many years ago, didnt realise they were 6.9 Litre, had a play eacelerating using the cruise control and I swear I daw the fuel gauge drop. :'(

A mate of mine used to import gliders from Germany, and used a 450SEL 6.9 as a tow car. He recounted one time, when he was late for a ferry with a twin axle glider trailer on the back, and it was apparently still happy on the autobahn at 130 MPH.

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General Discussion Area / Re: RAAC building concrete

« on: 04 September 2023, 23:44:44 »

We did a lot of fancy little staircases for student flats at the Uni about 30 years ago. Probably been replaced by something else by now. 

Didn't have fancy staircases when I was there, just a dodgy lift where occasionally the doors on floor 12 would open when the lift was at floor 13. That sobered me up pretty quick after an evening in the bar the first time it happened! Seeing your extended foot hovering over an empty lift shaft tends to have that effect.

We have had two towers fully refurbed with all new lift gear as well. Next one is being done later this year for completion next summer. The bits Albs and me were talking about is the South Courts Accomadation. No lifts, just small staricases, max four storey

Ahh.. That was all built after my time.

I still remember my first day there, moving all my stuff up the stairs to the 12th floor of Bertrand Russel tower because the lift was broken.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Early parachute.

« on: 04 September 2023, 23:41:36 »

https://youtu.be/MDUYPrKKM5M?feature=shared


They don't say if he made a second attempt.

I reckon his moustache was more effective than his flying suit at slowing his descent.

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General Discussion Area / Re: RAAC building concrete

« on: 01 September 2023, 23:45:07 »

We did a lot of fancy little staircases for student flats at the Uni about 30 years ago. Probably been replaced by something else by now. 

Didn't have fancy staircases when I was there, just a dodgy lift where occasionally the doors on floor 12 would open when the lift was at floor 13. That sobered me up pretty quick after an evening in the bar the first time it happened! Seeing your extended foot hovering over an empty lift shaft tends to have that effect.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 01 September 2023, 07:40:25 »

Auto hill hold, but without a button. The S has it too. Great when you first stop on a slope, but not so functional in stop start/creeping traffic as it thinks you've pulled away already and won't reapply itself so you have to physically apply the parking brake to stop rolling back

The R had it too, not surprising being a related chassis to the ML/GL, although it had the traditional foot operated mechanical parking brake. The hill hold aspect is done through the ABS

That's what your left foot is for   

.. and your left arm. Oh, wait!

What's traditional about a foot operated "hand" brake?

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General Car Chat / Re: The engineering that went into this......

« on: 31 August 2023, 21:21:05 »

If I dropped a lottery win than an XJR-15 would be at the top of the shopping list.

Probably an XJ220 as well, plus a project 7.

I own a brace of XJ220.

One blue and one silver. Both are the special and very rare 'Maisto' version of the car.

Well, in that case, I have a 250GTO.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Burger King

« on: 31 August 2023, 13:56:11 »

Burger King has been taken to court somewhere, probably America, on the grounds that their Whopper isn't really a Whopper! 

The Whoppers are certainly smaller than they were. I remember when it was a real challenge to finish a double whopper, and a single one was a decent meal. Now you can inhale either in about 30s flat and still be peckish.

Perhaps you're bigger than you used to be?

Significantly so.

But that's not the yardstick I use when comparing burgers.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 30 August 2023, 20:44:17 »

For some reason, none of my tools are older than 10yrs, 6 weeks......

There's an awful lot of space debris orbiting the planet at the moment.

He needed a new garage - well, the door, anyway. There was a piece missing from the old one.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Burger King

« on: 30 August 2023, 20:37:20 »

Burger King has been taken to court somewhere, probably America, on the grounds that their Whopper isn't really a Whopper! 

The Whoppers are certainly smaller than they were. I remember when it was a real challenge to finish a double whopper, and a single one was a decent meal. Now you can inhale either in about 30s flat and still be peckish.

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General Car Chat / Re: The engineering that went into this......

« on: 29 August 2023, 21:56:27 »

Have you seen its dyno run? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m690xQJA7-I

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 29 August 2023, 17:30:07 »

There are plenty of old tools on here! 

Takes one to know one 

Do you have a favourite tool?

For years it was an old pair of mole grips. But now a snarling smoky 2 stroke chainsaw has now taken it's place.

I have a woodsaw which is quite charismatic, but not as gorgeous as my circular saw 

The first time I fitted a kitchen (20+ years ago) I treated myself to a Skilsaw Classic. Still makes me smile whenever I fire it up. Goes through any wooden board like a knife through butter.