RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 8 hours ago 5 hours ago, iL Dottore said: I have now found, in Tokyo, something more appropriate for our fellow TNM The scooter or the space shuttle? Dave 3 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 8 hours ago In the 1970s and 1980s Philips built in the Netherlands what I suppose could be called the forerunner of the Mariakan museum. It was called the Evoluon and contained exhibits, some interactive, of the latest in technological advancement and we took our boys several times. It was a superb place though eventually it closed (I don’t know when exactly) because, I understand, it became almost impossible to keep up with the pace of development as well as becoming increasingly expensive. Dave 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted 7 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 7 hours ago 2 hours ago, jjb1970 said: Gasoline direct injection engines can have quite high PM emissions in the smallest particle sizes, which tend to be the most hazardous for public health. Funny how that gets overlooked when it comes to air pollution. Encourage us into 20 year old petrol cars, more CO2 released / km and we can the whole whole planet quicker and add some PM 2.5 for good measure. Didn't make sense that my old, diesel powered car was cleaner than Mrs SM42's 15 year old petrol ( according to the V5) but mine had to pay ULEZ fees. Andy 4 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted 7 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 7 hours ago 17 hours ago, Chris Snowdon said: ...snip... I like Wagner's work but so did Bruckner. My condolences. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted 7 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 7 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, iL Dottore said: ...snip... including the rather endearing Aibo - a robotic dog (which you could interact with) ...snip... If only that were a cat! Although I suspect (with the Japanese liking of cats) that there probably is one. EDIT: There is one (see link below), although it does not have walking movement, it is somewhat of a "cuddle-cat". I had one but gave it to a lady at church that could not have a pet due to an un-caring landlord. She is quite happy with it. I had acquired a real cat (see the cat thread) and felt that Joyce would appreciate it; she does. https://joyforall.com/products/companion-cats?variant=12931092676651 Edited 7 hours ago by J. S. Bach To add some information 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flanged Wheel Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago I’m loving all this Bruckner talk! My favourite symphony (we haven’t even mentioned his stunning choral works) is the slightly left-field choice of the unfinished ninth symphony. This was my introduction to Bruckner as a seventeen year old in a sultry Royal Albert Hall in the summer of 1999. I’d taken myself off to my first Prom attracted by the first half programme of the Good Friday Music from Wagner’s Parsifal and Charles Neidich playing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. They were both wonderful but I was blown away by the RPO and Daniele Gatti delivering a life-changing performance of Bruckner 9 in the second half. When I was studying for my Part 2 Finals for my Physics Masters, I found that the Brucknerian symphonies were perfect background music. They are now indelibly linked in my mind to my final few months at university, grappling with the combined mysteries of atmospheric physics and wedding planning, all of which ended very happily… They are a bit like Marmite though - people do tend to love them or hate them! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 23 hours ago, GMKAT7 said: Good evening folks, If the Three Musketeers is based on C, H and M, then I would spare the latter two but include C in the same footings as PMcG. H, because he survived nearly writing himself off (although that may have been Darwin in action) and M, because of his all-round love of trains, planes, etc. To me C has no redeeming qualities; perhaps it should have been him in a close encounter with Mr Reaper (Grim to his friends). YMMV. Cheers, Nigel. Jeremy Clarkson took an unremarkable car magazine programme with nothing special in the ratings, and turned it into a hugely profitable world-wide brand. If that isn't being good at what he does, I don't know what WOULD qualify? 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 6 hours ago When E10 came in it stuffed the old kias fuel consumption, the car lost power and was hard to drive. until all the filters were changed and the garage ran some sort of cleaner through it. I My old land Rover definitely does not have any sort of DPF, but the last Landrovers did. They had huge problems making it work as with all that space it wouldn't get hot enough. They ended up fitting it tight against the engine and exhaust manifold. 1 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 6 hours ago 2 hours ago, iL Dottore said: Well, that’s the UK for you. You can’t provide anything to the British public without a whole bunch of scrotes messing it up for everybody else. This is a perfect example - the scrotes need their paws chopping off: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgxlj01zz8o 2 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 6 hours ago 1 minute ago, polybear said: This is a perfect example - the scrotes need their paws chopping off........ ....after themselves being spray painted. Dave 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 6 hours ago 21 minutes ago, rockershovel said: Jeremy Clarkson took an unremarkable car magazine programme with nothing special in the ratings, and turned it into a hugely profitable world-wide brand. If that isn't being good at what he does, I don't know what WOULD qualify? Though the programme was far more relevant to yer average person when the likes of William Woolard were running the show. 3 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 6 hours ago 4 hours ago, PupCam said: That's one heck of a 3D printer Is this big enough? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx7d34nl5vwo 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted 6 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 6 hours ago 14 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: ....after themselves being spray painted. With which particular acid substance? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted 5 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 5 hours ago (edited) 20 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: With which particular acid substance? Step up @Happy Hippo Edited 5 hours ago by BSW01 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted 5 hours ago Author RMweb Gold Share Posted 5 hours ago 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: If only that were a cat! Although I suspect (with the Japanese liking of cats) that there probably is one. EDIT: There is one (see link below), although it does not have walking movement, it is somewhat of a "cuddle-cat". I had one but gave it to a lady at church that could not have a pet due to an un-caring landlord. She is quite happy with it. I had acquired a real cat (see the cat thread) and felt that Joyce would appreciate it; she does. https://joyforall.com/products/companion-cats?variant=12931092676651 Any chance they do Hippos? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted 5 hours ago Author RMweb Gold Share Posted 5 hours ago 52 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: ....after themselves being spray painted. Dave I'd prefer it if they were used as the pick up shoes for a couple of hours 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted 5 hours ago Author RMweb Gold Share Posted 5 hours ago 30 minutes ago, BSW01 said: Step up @Happy Hippo I can turn and burn on request. 2 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Winslow Boy Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago (edited) 4 hours ago, iL Dottore said: Well, that’s the UK for you. You can’t provide anything to the British public without a whole bunch of scrotes messing it up for everybody else. In Japan, the scooters (and the bicycles) are returned to the charging stations as requested and instructed. Saw some graffiti today declaring Manutopea as Scrotetopia. Never a truer word said in jest. It was very well done though. Edited 4 hours ago by Winslow Boy 3 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 50 minutes ago, AndyID said: Can we have an “Yuck!” emoticon, please? 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 9 hours ago, Tony_S said: More recent diesel cars have an AD-Blue system which injects a chemical into the exhaust to reduce Nitrogen oxides (NOx) being emitted. Ad-Blue is urea and water. So can you save money and just pee in the tank? (Or does it have to be specifically BP?) 1 1 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 8 hours ago, jjb1970 said: I am old enough to remember the expression 'jap cr*p', which was followed by similar ideas about the inferiority of products made in the Republic of Korea and China and will no doubt be followed by others in the future. 6 hours ago, PupCam said: A phrase used extensively in the '60s and '70s to describe those foreign bikes that were doing away with the British Motorcycle industry. In reality perhaps it was something to do with the fact that at the time the were producing modern, high performance, high reliability, good motorcycles and the British motorcycle industry was still resting on its 20+ year old laurels and , errr, wasn't? Were Japanese bikes an instant success in the UK? I remember a Honda dealership opening locally in the early/mid 1960s and hearing of customer complaints about the quality of the bikes. One in particular was of a bike not making it to 1000 miles (mechanical problems, not accident!). 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted 3 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 3 hours ago 2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: ....after themselves being spray painted. Dave - with GWR Chocolate & Cream etch primer...... 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: I'd prefer it if they were used as the pick up shoes for a couple of hours - even better, Brake Shoes...... 4 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 2 minutes ago, polybear said: - with GWR Chocolate & Cream etch primer...... - even better, Brake Shoes...... If the punishment fitted the crime they would be de-faced. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago (edited) 48 minutes ago, AndyID said: If the punishment fitted the crime they would be de-faced. … or, as part of the cleanup, e-ffaced? Edited 2 hours ago by pH 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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