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General Discussion Area / Re: Boots

« on: 22 February 2024, 23:05:01 »

Can you imagine, I'd be straining that hard, I'd rip the bathroom door of its hinges!

Nothing a Naga Chicken wouldn't fix. Explosively.

Tiffins used to do a cracking Chicken Naga, really tasty and spicy, but without being inedible hot.  Sadly, the others here either don't do one, or its just a vindaloo/phal with a few naga chillies in, so just stupid hot, but tastes of ghee.

My potty is relieved.

Next time you're passing Alton we can sort that out. I know a place...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boots

« on: 20 February 2024, 22:32:14 »

Can you imagine, I'd be straining that hard, I'd rip the bathroom door of its hinges!

Nothing a Naga Chicken wouldn't fix. Explosively.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 19 February 2024, 07:30:19 »

I was pleasantly surprised, esp as hers is the weight reduced one (hence small fuel and ad blue tanks) to get it in the £0 tax bracket, so probably has lighter, less luxurious seats.

I love driving it around the lanes, although hers lacks power, it can embarrass a lot of cars in corners

They do handle very nicely. I reckon I could easily stick with myself driving the MX-5 on the twisties, and enjoy myself just as much doing it, ignoring the fact that the XE's performance would leave any MX-5 for dust on the straights.

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General Discussion Area / Re: French lithium fire

« on: 18 February 2024, 23:29:13 »

Same thing happened near me a few years back. Very similar plume of smoke visible for miles. I was on my way to the airfield when it kicked off and seeing that made me wonder if an airliner had gone up.

Reduced a row of industrial units to a crater in the ground.

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 16 February 2024, 21:51:24 »

Just needs a Rover V8-----------

The chassis didn't come close to handling the power from the standard engine!

That's why they were fun to drive! 

Depends if you like negotiating every corner on full buttock clench with the mud flaps scraping on the road.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 16 February 2024, 21:50:18 »

Did the first long-ish trip in hers today, seeing as mine is still busted.  Previously, furtherest I’d gone in it was central Londonium or Brumingham.

Might have gone through some puddles that were deeper than they looked as well.


Ignoring the fact it’s a manual, it was a lovely cruise down to the seaside, and if the app is to be believed, mid 50s on Opti’s favourite fuel

They are every bit as comfy a mile eater as the Omega was. (when burning the correct fuel, at any rate. Never sampled the tractor variant.)

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 16 February 2024, 20:51:16 »

Just needs a Rover V8-----------

The chassis didn't come close to handling the power from the standard engine!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Police for sale?

« on: 04 February 2024, 11:43:36 »

Cheaper than fixing the car security perhaps?

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 28 January 2024, 12:39:24 »

HS oppsing 2.

So, using our money they build temporary bridges over roads so they don't need their wagons going along their expensive (temporary) haulage roads to had to cross public roads via traffic lights.  Yet the self-abusers leave the traffic lights in place.  And what's more, seem to have them set so badly that I spend most of yesterday giving way to fresh air.

Tosspots.

That whole project smells of the government waving a blank cheque and the contractors putting on as many layers of gold plating, and dragging it out for as long as they possibly can, to extract as much profit from the public purse as possible.

.. and no doubt it'll be managed just as well as the rest of the UK's Victorian train set at the end.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Gas Chamber

« on: 25 January 2024, 20:07:22 »

There was some idiot on the news this evening saying "It might be dangerous for those around him! What if some of the Nitrogen leaks out from the mask?".

Ermmm..

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General Discussion Area / Re: I Am Having A Great Day

« on: 23 January 2024, 18:37:54 »

You definitely want to steer clear of lentils and pulses, or the fire brigade will be picking up pieces of your property 

.. again.

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General Car Chat / Re: Pathetic laws in this country

« on: 20 January 2024, 06:59:43 »

I'm still none the wiser as to why "experts" claim this could be "deadly".

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General Car Chat / Re: Don't Fall Behind On The Car Payments

« on: 14 January 2024, 16:30:44 »

Is it April fools day?

Apparently not. It's the future. 

Well, I'm glad I'm finance free. I have never bought a car on finance, and now the mortgage(s) are finished I can just about scrape by and keep the wolf from the door.

Yeah, but what happens when the software has a spaz, an thinks you are behind on the non-existent finance....

Because car manufacturers are great at writing software...

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 13 January 2024, 08:54:24 »

V70 is FWD though so just towing the rears along.

Indeed. If it's not a proper car, the rear wheels are just for decoration.

.. and, for an opportunity to own an example... https://www.motorious.com/articles/highlights/both-halves-of-james-bonds-1984-renault-11-txe-for-sale/

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 03 January 2024, 23:27:44 »

Apparently nobody knew the DASH8 was on the runway because it doesn't have ADSB. Hmm...

That's a mis-understanding of how ADSB is used.

There is full ADSB-out whereby an aircraft transmits its lat-long when interrogated by a SSR radar source. This is what things like FR24 rely on to track aircraft. But there is also an earlier standard (Mode S) where the aircraft replies to normal Mode A/C/S SSR interrogations, but does not respond to ADSB position requests.

Most military/government aircraft do not respond to ADSB position requests, and hence don't show up on FR24 and the like. They will show up on the airports own SSR radar screens due to the Mode S responses.

There are some 'open world' tracking sites such as ADSB Exchange that support something called MLAT. This allows non ADSB-out aircraft to be located by triangulation. However, for that to work it needs at least 3 receivers to be getting signals from the aircraft, and in that area of Japan it appears coverage is not good enough to track anything by MLAT below about 1500'. So the coast guard plane doesn't show on any publically accessible trcking sites.

Just because you and I can't 'see' it on FR24 does not mean that ATC cannot see it on their screens.

I'm well aware how ADSB works. I was making a comment on the quality of the Sky reporting that postulated the above, and I'd be very surprised if any aircraft, military, civil or other, was allowed to operate from an international commercial airport without some form of EC.