RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 Shakespear was a bit shaky on several issues. For instance, in Julius Caesar there was a clock that struck the hour. Dave 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post polybear Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted August 17 Bear here..... A Choo Choo ride, a wander to the Town, a long wander along a river, a look round a different Town, a (different) Choo Choo ride back to the first Town for another look round, a BLT Baguette, a wander back to the first Station and a Choo Choo ride back to Bear Towers (after I'd crawled up the killer hill, that is....). Got that? 7.7 miles, 20,200 steps. Tired Teddy. Now for the Rant.... The first Choo Choo (8m ride, return cost £3.80), whilst the second Choo Choo ride (only one station, single cost £4.20. Go figure. The only difference being different companies. When I looked round the first town (after the long wander along the river) I came across these by chance - I thought I'd try and match up a few with fellow ER'ers..... Chevy Apache Pickup? Who else but Chimpy @monkeysarefun.... With wings like those? @Dave Hunt...... Chevy Bel Air? Definitely Bear..... Country Lane Bimbler? Who else but Puppers @PupCam.... 1947(?) Triumph? Tricky one..... Who else commands the style and presence of a RR but @iL Dottore? Lotus Elan Sprint? Well I reckon that'd make a rather natty little number for blatting over the Mountain on Fraggle Rock.....so it's gotta be @New Haven Neil: Split Screen Vee Dub Camper? @Gwiwer perhaps? Tricky....very Tricky.....a little number for @southern42 to zip around the lanes in Wales perhaps? Harley? Who else but @rockershovel? Lotus Elan+2? @Erichill16 I reckon.... Beach Buggy? Easy - it's gotta be @DaveF.... That Weathered Look? Who else but Baz @Barry O? And finally..... Maserati? Well every Bear needs a weekend runabout...... So.....how'd I do?? ION..... No response as yet to the counter-offer Bear made on Harry...... Bear Gone..... 14 1 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 Ey up 2! Enjoyed my day.. Clack needs wine! Bought some bits... ouch! Met some RMWebbers..including @BSW01 .. nice to have a chat with. I aways wanted a Metro 6r4 ot a Bentley Mulsanne Trubo RL.... Time for tea. Baz 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 17 Evening. Some interesting vehicles at the Ford dealership this evening 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 8 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: Are they much lighter in weight? Evidence in the wheel spokes ... John, yes I think so. I'm no expert on them but I think they were more farm tractors (including power for threshers etc) rather than heavy duty - steam rollers and mobile industrial machinery power sources) like you see in the UK. They also tend to skew older. I suspect agricultural steam power in the US was long gone pre-WWII whereas it lasted longer in the UK. Am having problems with upload. Will fix later. Now fixed. The can be quite small as well. These would have quickly been replaced by IC engined tractors in the first half of the 20th century. Edited August 17 by Ozexpatriate 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) This went along with my upload problems. EDIT 2 hours later: I've seen this 504 error at least three times today (though it feels like more than that) - always when loading ERs. Opening the forum in another tab generally worked. The forum was never 'down' - it's just the bloat on the ER thread. Edited August 17 by Ozexpatriate 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 Had it a bit this evening, not just on ER's either. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 7 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: where you stop just "falling over" and instead "Have A Fall" Per common conventional euphemistic usage, the former is consequence free, the latter might have serious consequences. That distinction is implied in the wording. "I fell over" v "I had a fall" 6 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 22 minutes ago, roundhouse said: Evening. Some interesting vehicles at the Ford dealership this evening That yellow Deuce Coupe is straight out of American Graffiti. Dave 8 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 7 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: For steam powered historical Traction engines, the UK is the world leader. The above look a bit home made. Controversial? I suspect they might be older than many UK versions* or at least went out of service sooner. Certainly more neglected, probably being parked unceremoniously in a barn once the owner bought a shiny green John Deere tractor in the 1930s. The origin of John Deere is from the WW1 era. * Doubtless there remain plenty of pre-WW1 British steam tractors as well. I suspect the ownership model was different. Where (please correct me if I have this wrong) the UK tractors would move from farm to farm as a paid service, I suspect the US tractors were more likely owned by individuals with larger farms. While unscientific, all the agricultural photographs I remember seeing of dust-bowl era US agriculture show IC tractors. 9 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 6 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: They walk among us . "The Big Bang Theory" has a classic moment on that topic. 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) Rolls Royce? @polybear was close.. but rather a Bentley than a Royce. I am afraid that my view about Rolls-Royces have been skewed by a few things in my past. First off, during my impressionable teens, I read the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming; and in one of his earlier novels, he describes how Bond bought a Bentley which “some rich idiot wrapped around a tree“, straightened the chassis, put a new body on it and had it painted matt battleship grey, because Bond wanted a car to drive, not to fuss over. I don’t recall what Bentley it was, but as the novel was written in the 50s it most certainly was one of the pre 1960s Bentleys. Also at an impressionable age, I read an article somewhere by someone who claimed that Rolls-Royces were cars for “popstars, footballers and baked bean tycoons” (to which I would add, nowadays, petrosheiks, rappers and oligarchs), and that “a real gentleman drives a Bentley” Finally, from an aesthetic point of view, you can’t beat any of the Bentleys made before 1962 (when they stopped making the Bentley S2). From then onwards, I have always wanted a Bentley made between 1952 and 1962, never a Rolls-Royce! Nowadays – unfortunately – Bentleys, like Rolls-Royces, are basically extremely expensive boxes on wheels. As Ettore Bugatti supposedly said: Bentley make the "The world's fastest lorry" - an observation which is even truer now then it might have been when Bugatti said that in the late 20s (something that can be truly also truly said about modern Rolls Royces). The objects of my desire: Bentley R-Type The S1 The S2 Of the above, I would probably go for the Bentley S2, as it will have somewhat more modern technology in it. But I certainly wouldn’t turn my nose up at a Bentley S1 or a R-Type. Edited August 17 by iL Dottore Added text and photos 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 3 hours ago, pH said: If that makes Shakespeare a bit of a dill, then so be it! This is a dill. Dillon T. Pickle to be precise. The Portland Pickles (as of last night) are the West Coast League Champions having defeated the Wenatchee AppleSox (great name) in a bottom of the ninth, two outs, down 5-4. walk-off, comeback win for their first ever championship. Edited August 17 by Ozexpatriate 12 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, Barry O said: Met some RMWebbers..including Popped out for a stroll this afternoon. Stopped to snap a picture and had to wait whilst two woolly pooches and an owner came past. Pooch number one was off-leash and disobedient to the point of obliging an oncoming car to stop rather than risk conflict. And who should be driving said car? None other than our own @Coombe Barton Random meetings of RMWebbers in narrow Cornish lanes may continue. That photo? Which, had I not stopped to consider its possibilities, would have meant we would not have randomly met. Here tiz 21 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tigerburnie Posted August 17 Popular Post Share Posted August 17 My old car, liked it so much I bought it, series 11 V8 5340cc Aston Martin 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said: That yellow Deuce Coupe is straight out of American Graffiti. Dave And illegal in the UK (no mudguards) 2 4 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 11 hours ago, New Haven Neil said: Errr that's not me, I'm the photographist. Never assumed it was as we all know you have the physic of a racing snake and features of an Adonis. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 Evening all from Estuary-Land. Was a bit knackered after doing my shop at Tess Coes but after some eyelid inspection I feel a lot better. As it is I've got a lot to do so it's be back later. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 17 (edited) 1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said: That yellow Deuce Coupe is straight out of American Graffiti. Dave Apparently its the biggest American car meet in the country according to others talking nearby. It certainly was causing a lot of traffic congestion and pavements packed with on lookers in the centre of Redhill. Some fantastic cars . A great evening. Edited August 17 by roundhouse 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 7 hours ago, Tony_S said: I thought you only needed to,be careful if there were chickens… Yes I can report there were chickens however 'we' as in the royal we, behaved ourselves. 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 7 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: While having watched Aussie dash cam stuff I have had some thoughts about your people . I always had the picture of you all being laid back Mick Dundee have a another beer types , until you get into a car , then there are several types as this list , 1. Suicidal , will pull into oncoming traffic at the last second including B doubles . 2. Homicidal maniacs , will force others off the road when passing while crossing double white lines or barge their way into a gap just because . drive through red lights at high speed risking everyones life cos I cant wait a minute. 3. The rules don't apply to me , so I'll pass a line of traffic at the lights and then drive through the red one . or shortcut a roundabout the wrong way to save a few seconds because what ever I'm doing is so very important every second counts . 4. The ones who should just never be driving as they display all the above in one go . 😎 Sounds just like an average day on the roads in Manutopea to me, let alone done under. 5 2 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted August 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 17 4 hours ago, TheQ said: One for the Bear.. https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24518565.fen-raft-spider-continues-thrive-norfolk-waveney/ Or definitely not...... 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PupCam Posted August 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 17 10 hours ago, Gwiwer said: 14 hours ago, iL Dottore said: Call me a cynical old bu99er if you will, but I firmly believe this rot was accelerated by Tony Blair and his mantra of “educashun, educashun, educashun” which funneled far too many youngsters into university education, resulting in a plethora of (for want of a better term) “Mickey Mouse,“ courses, with a resultant unrealistically high expectations of the graduates of those courses. I will not. But I will lay that accusation at the feet of Captain Cynical Sounding more and more like a Bruce Wayne scenario to me. Are we 100% certain that Captain Cynical isn't in fact il Dottore in a fancy suit with his pants on the outside of his trousers! And on that bombshell .... 7 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said: While having watched Aussie dash cam stuff I have had some thoughts about your people . I always had the picture of you all being laid back Mick Dundee have a another beer types , until you get into a car , then there are several types as this list , 1. Suicidal , will pull into oncoming traffic at the last second including B doubles . 2. Homicidal maniacs , will force others off the road when passing while crossing double white lines or barge their way into a gap just because . drive through red lights at high speed risking everyones life cos I cant wait a minute. 3. The rules don't apply to me , so I'll pass a line of traffic at the lights and then drive through the red one . or shortcut a roundabout the wrong way to save a few seconds because what ever I'm doing is so very important every second counts . 4. The ones who should just never be driving as they display all the above in one go . 😎 I don't like to scare you but they sound more like the Muppets Puppers has to regularly fend off in Puppershire particularly when he's on a bike! 2 hours ago, polybear said: When I looked round the first town (after the long wander along the river) I came across these by chance - I thought I'd try and match up a few with fellow ER'ers..... Chevy Apache Pickup? Who else but Chimpy @monkeysarefun.... With wings like those? @Dave Hunt...... Chevy Bel Air? Definitely Bear..... Country Lane Bimbler? Who else but Puppers @PupCam.... 1947(?) Triumph? Tricky one..... Who else commands the style and presence of a RR but @iL Dottore? Lotus Elan Sprint? Well I reckon that'd make a rather natty little number for blatting over the Mountain on Fraggle Rock.....so it's gotta be @New Haven Neil: Split Screen Vee Dub Camper? @Gwiwer perhaps? Tricky....very Tricky.....a little number for @southern42 to zip around the lanes in Wales perhaps? Harley? Who else but @rockershovel? Lotus Elan+2? @Erichill16 I reckon.... Beach Buggy? Easy - it's gotta be @DaveF.... That Weathered Look? Who else but Baz @Barry O? And finally..... Maserati? Well every Bear needs a weekend runabout...... Well there's the full range of vehicles there from real beauties to those that I wouldn't want to touch with a barge pole. Can't say "foreign" cars (or HDs) generally do it for me. 1 hour ago, iL Dottore said: Rolls Royce? @polybear was close.. but rather a Bentley than a Royce. iD has of course used the correct term. 1 hour ago, iL Dottore said: Also at an impressionable age, I read an article somewhere by someone who claimed that Rolls-Royces were cars for “popstars, footballers and baked bean tycoons” (to which I would add, nowadays, petrosheiks, rappers and oligarchs), and that “a real gentleman drives a Bentley” As indeed does Derek Mathewson who has sold many of both marques. ION A thrash was thrashed over to Woburn this morning. Well actually it was more of a creep. Stuck behind a flaming field ornament trailer complete with two field ornaments for 90% of the journey. The law of SoD dictating long traffic streams in the opposite direction at the few points where sensible motorcyclists would overtake. This afternoon the rampant Wisteria has once again been tamed but don't tell WB! Night All 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 17 minutes ago, PupCam said: And on that bombshell .... Colour me confused. That was "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers (as linked in the playback) - first released in 1973 on their album Brothers and Sisters. It didn't even sound like a cover. It's been a while but I thought Top Gear had a different introduction here. Online references do suggest it was Jessica. (Not what I remember.) EDIT: Wikipedia to the rescue: Quote "Jessica" is also used for most international versions of Top Gear, including the US version, which used it as its theme only during the first season. Edited August 17 by Ozexpatriate 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 ... or the next two days I have to decide where to go ... weather dependent, of course, but the unpredictability of the weather down in these parts has caused me to change plans more then once https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/postcards-from-the-periphery-2024-21/ 2 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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