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General Discussion Area / Re: Songs you forgot you knew...

« on: 22 April 2015, 12:19:08 »

I hadn't heard this song for several decades,and then it suddenly popped into my head recently for some unknown reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdKx9O31A0

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kawasaki 300hp supercharged h2r anyone?

« on: 14 April 2015, 15:15:37 »

The bike weighs 216kg, so I would imagine a carefully constructed Westfield would easily weigh twice as much - thus halving the power / weight ratio.
As for bikes not being able to go around corners. Seriously ??
Granted a good car will ultimately corner faster than a good bike due to the amount of rubber in contact with the road, but any modern bike will corner well above the abilities and fear threasholdof all but the bravest people.
As for the leather. Its a necessary evil for those who don't have a death wish.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nicola Sturgeon - a future PM?

« on: 11 April 2015, 07:45:03 »

Its like watching Wee Jimmy Cranky recite Marxist clichés - scary in all sorts of ways.
I think the Scottish referendum should be rerun, and if the result is the same as last time then Hollyrood  (and the other devolved assemblies ) should be abolished.
If we are all British we should be governed by the British Govt. in Westminster. If were getting a divorce, goodbye and good luck. Applications to join the British foreign aid programme should be made to the Dept. for overseas development. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: I love working nightshift

« on: 05 April 2015, 17:29:44 »

Similar problems here. I work nightshifts and get into bed at around 8.45 am. Neighbours small yappy dog is chucked outdoors about 5 minutes later.
They never walk the damn thing , just leave it in the garden barking its head off for anything between 1 and 4 hours.
Too thick and chavvy to reason with, so some day soon it will escape from an opened garden gate, hopefully never to be seen or heard again.
I am very considerate about if and when I make noise on my property,and have no time for the type of retards who leave a dog barking in their garden for hours on end, without thinking that it might piss people off in the surrounding area.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident

« on: 04 April 2015, 20:48:47 »

I had a similar experience in my Omega about a month ago. Tight right hand bend (luckily with a dropped kerb onto a driveway on the outside), turned the wheel to the right but nothing happened,panic braked and still nothing happened.
Car stopped on the driveway of someones house. Got out and had a look around to find lots of diesel was sloshed all over the road.
Might be worth revisiting the accident site to take a look ?

11991

General Discussion Area / Re: Accident

« on: 03 April 2015, 21:13:38 »

I hope Im not speaking out of turn, but have you examined the car (or had it examined by a professional) to determine brake and steering failure ?
I have heard drivers who were a bit short of experience describe terminal understeer in a very similar manner.

11992

General Discussion Area / Re: MotoGP Qualifying (Spoiler)

« on: 29 March 2015, 16:39:28 »

A 14 way battle for the lead on the last lap

11993

General Discussion Area / Re: Wireless speakers

« on: 29 March 2015, 06:52:45 »

Personally, to my ears, listening to a good quality album played back on a good quality turntable / tone arm / cartridge combination and amplifier and speakers made in the UK, is infinitely preferable to listening to the same material via any digital means with the same amplifier and speakers.

Maybe I'm just an old fart.... but put a modern digital media source through a valve amplifier and you suddenly realise what's missing in today's products.

Strangely I listen to MP3 media via a £3 MP3 player fed into an NCDC / Bose setup in the car...    but then, it is a car!!! 

Absolutely. Digital sound simply cannot replicate the "warmth and authenticity" of good quality vinyl played through a good quality system.
Just as an instrument such as an electric guitar will never sound as good through anything other than a good quality valve amp.
Having said that, it may be the case that "music" recorded in digital form in recent times is a different proposition ?
I wouldn't know,as to my ears 99% of what passes for music these days is an atrocious din.

11994

General Discussion Area / Re: Top gear suspended.

« on: 26 March 2015, 20:33:18 »

I think Rossi is still quite busy with his other job - chasing Marquez.
It would be nice if bikes had their own separate programme. Plenty of possible candidates for the presenting job. Foggy and James Witham would be a good team.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Top gear suspended.

« on: 26 March 2015, 20:03:33 »

Presumably he was talking rather than racing.
He was a fantastic racer, but a truly awful talker.

11996

General Discussion Area / Re: Top gear suspended.

« on: 26 March 2015, 19:39:01 »

Nigel Mansell and Suzi Perry in the same pitlane. She must have a time machine that can take her back to the 80,s. 
Love him or loathe him, Clarkson is / was Top Gear. If the BBC want to have a Top Gear programme in the future it will have to be something completely different to the previous version.
It would take someone seriously deluded to imagine they can parachute in A.N.Other celebrity in to fill his shoes.
Having said that, apparently someone at the Beeb suggested Stephen Fry as a replacement, which only shows how out of touch they are with the typical Top Gear viewer.
I don't care what they do, but please don't inflict that hateful, soulless tawt Chris Evans onto our screens.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The big debate

« on: 26 March 2015, 19:31:45 »

I cant see any justification for the SNP or Plaid Cymru being included in the National TV debates. They only put up candidates in one of the four countries in the U.K.
Particularily when the Northern Irish parties were specifically excluded from the debates.
The national debt is now £1.5 trillion or thereabouts, so I think Cameron / Osbornes claims of having gone a long way to sorting out the mess is a bit rich.
Obviously if the two Ed,s got into power things would be a hell of a lot worse though.
Re Cameron,s promise of an EU referendum - its not the first time he has promised that. 
He is a compulsive liar, even by the standards of Westminster.
I believe Cameron is indeed scared, but it isn't Milliband hes scared of. Hence insisting the one real debate is a seven way debate. Thus ensuring no-one in particular will have much time to say anything at all. 

11998

General Car Chat / Re: Monaro

« on: 26 March 2015, 11:47:54 »

Was offered one a few months ago, with only 25,000 on the clock. When I was younger and wealthier I would have snapped his arm off, but in these days of overcrowded roads, average speed cameras appearing everywhere, ANPR in police cars etc. I honestly don't see the point.
If you want to go fast these days, buy or build a trackday car, or move to Germany.

11999

Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: ABS Essex meets

« on: 26 March 2015, 11:43:45 »

I think that is nearer london than the other venue - might make it to this one in the coming months....

Umm, nope.

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General Discussion Area / Re: New Hoover - Dog compatible!

« on: 23 March 2015, 13:18:35 »

In my experience people don't realise just how mediocre Dysons,Henrys etc etc. are until they try a Sebo or possibly a Meile.
The difference is night and day.
Interesting to note that Sebo non upright (cant remember the correct term) have motorised cleaning heads (aka carpet beater), via an electric cable which runs along the tube between the machine and cleaning head.