Hacksworth_Sidings Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 10 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383583806417?chn=ps&_ul=GB&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1ry6g_rbdQ2K_P9PimHjVgQ42&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=383583806417&targetid=1646683156259&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9045392&poi=&campaignid=17206177401&mkgroupid=136851690655&rlsatarget=aud-1164958979220:pla-1646683156259&abcId=9300866&merchantid=6995734&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwv7O0BhDwARIsAC0sjWONJi6ukejBzZHhXnH09eSsbPa2XKtV0CW76QRCuNaXYMg9eaDIticaAo2bEALw_wcB Now then! L@@K! Every modeller should add one of these to his/her collection! 😎 Useless and stupidly overpriced? Is this just commentary on Hornby’s Railroad range? (More specifically the “cheaper” stuff like the 0-4-0s, the old Dapol tooled pug, Airfix tooled 1400, etc) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 7 hours ago, The Johnster said: I have a small collection of useless stones, some interesting geological specimens (bet you haven’t got a piece of Lundyite) and some just because they look nice. They either sit artisticalky placed on shelves or decorate my fish tank. Each has a little story that only I know attached to it. I like useless things, and identify with them. Do you collect ex-girlfriends? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10 1 hour ago, Bucoops said: Do you collect ex-girlfriends? Or perhaps, does he feature in many collections of ex-boyfriends? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 18 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383583806417? Now then! L@@K! Every modeller should add one of these to his/her collection! 😎 To take a different stance on ‘useless stones’, if folk took just a few seconds to think about how old that rock is and the changes to our planet that it’s been through, it does put a perspective on our own self-centred existences. Rather than being useless, I think stones can tell us a lot. If only we can be bothered to listen. <\earth scientist mode> 😉 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 21 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Obviously when seen in conjunction with the pictures it is clear what it is, but, any seller who is clueless enough to need AI to try and describe something they know nothing about, or, who knows what they are talking about but is such a lazy, incompetent b'stard that that passes for an adequate description won't be getting my business. AI isn't artificial intelligence. It's genuine stupidity. And we're being told producing this sort of drivel is going to be the saviour of the western economy. To think people considered the Truss/Kwarteng budget to be the only recipe for economic collapse. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 10 1 hour ago, Michael Hodgson said: AI isn't artificial intelligence. It's genuine stupidity. What we need is a bot trained to identify and filter out AI-generated text. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 8 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: What we need is a bot trained to identify and filter out AI-generated text. Would that be an AI bot? Can you imagine if they ganged up on us.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 4 hours ago, Bucoops said: Do you collect ex-girlfriends? Funny you should say that… 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 55 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Funny you should say that… OMG, 10 Rillington Place, Cardiff version! Mike. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 1 hour ago, Hroth said: Would that be an AI bot? Can you imagine if they ganged up on us.... They have. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 (edited) 1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said: OMG, 10 Rillington Place, Cardiff version! Mike. Under the patio, Fred & Rosie stylee. I'm fairly certain I met Fred once, in the Windmill, a pub up a side street off Horton Road in Gloucester just over the level crossing from the shed frequented by railwaymen and interesting for having red and green ends to the bar for Midland and Western men respectively. He showed us some badly-lit Polaroid porn of Rosie, or rather, blurry closeups some of her various 'attributes', and quite persistently invited me and my driver home for a session with her and 'some girls' (utterly chilling in the light of later discoveries). We told him to f*ck off, the alarm bells were going off at full volume. He made the flesh crawl off my bones in a way not simply explained by the presence of an oversexed pervert and that it has only ever done on this one occasion in my entire life, which is why it stuck in my memory; my instincts are seldom unreliable and wild horses wouldn't have dragged either of us back to that house of horrors! This would have been maybe '72 or '73. I think the Windmill was one of his locals. But, as they said, he laid a lovely patio... Edited July 10 by The Johnster 1 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted July 10 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 10 4 hours ago, Compound2632 said: What we need is a bot trained to identify and filter out AI-generated text. They exist. Largely for use-cases where it's important to make sure that what's submitted was actually written by the person submitting it (e.g. university coursework). A development of the plagiarism detectors that have been in use for years. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 2 hours ago, Nick C said: A development of the plagiarism detectors that have been in use for years. If only that were true. People are still needed to actually detect and recognise plagiarism; Turnitin and its ilk are doing nothing more sophisticated than matching text, be it prose, references or even one’s own name at the start. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeps Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 On 27/06/2024 at 21:02, Deeps said: There are currently about half a dozen of these, a bit like a lucky dip: Well, there were actually 10 “Hornby Loco’s” listed, each at £75, and a hat-full of Hornby coaches/wagons and buildings, each at £25. They are currently reaching the end of their auctions. None of them have images, descriptions or details. Unsurprisingly there have been no bids. Am I missing something here or has the seller died before updating them? 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 11 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 11 80% off listing weekend, seller will have put dummy listings up to secure the offer and could have edited it with an item for sale should they have something there is a regular ‘Heljan’ seller does the same but never seems to actually replace the listings with actual items either 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 On 10/07/2024 at 00:29, The Johnster said: I have a small collection of useless stones, some interesting geological specimens (bet you haven’t got a piece of Lundyite) and some just because they look nice. They either sit artisticalky placed on shelves or decorate my fish tank. Each has a little story that only I know attached to it. I like useless things, and identify with them. Rock on, Johno! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326196760301?itmmeta=01J2K1D6D2MKZGK5SJWXAFT76T&hash=item4bf2d78eed:g:3fgAAOSwOKVmT9XR&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwGBp8MG5GKCf77jUckXCMko4NkvXkrYknQdq5bKEvglrENyvX%2B4lcoJu8sI914r35r4boG8hpOF0iSEoRmyKWDbrTWGznPK1rpT8N4CMOoYYj%2Bg1aPCz8hKKrF3NT899jtK02dauu9Aje9X4ow8YjV6i%2Fqd8FsNfImP4fBza9EdaPJNYiy9XjrpK7fjD5GPTTTfc8ASDfFMUKpeRemxQ%2Bsl0PdMOZZ0iCa6l6VaMfx5dSrumgulEuVO9tLQOmHVVvw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8rmtOGUZA A unique example of an Australian Siphon van has been located! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tim123 Posted July 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276555424283?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=c594UD6bTZ-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=grkKMP1sQqi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Spelling mistakes and miss-description. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted July 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17 3 hours ago, Tim123 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276555424283 Spelling mistakes and miss-description. Oh yes, a Bachman starter set loco. I'm not fond of that 0-6-0 chassis, I had the steam outline ones, one a blue ex-Thomas and a red one, DCC fitted, that ran very poorly. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SteveyDee68 Posted July 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 18 8 hours ago, Tim123 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276555424283?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=c594UD6bTZ-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=grkKMP1sQqi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Spelling mistakes and miss-description. Looking at what else he is selling, more a question of ignorance than wilfully trying to pull the wool over buyers’ eyes. With a starting price of £0.99, at least he’s not a Mendacious Chiseller! Steve S 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted July 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 18 9 hours ago, Tim123 said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276555424283?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=c594UD6bTZ-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=grkKMP1sQqi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Spelling mistakes and miss-description. Of course it's a Class 25, it says so on the side! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tim123 Posted July 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18 9 hours ago, Hroth said: Oh yes, a Bachman starter set loco. I'm not fond of that 0-6-0 chassis, I had the steam outline ones, one a blue ex-Thomas and a red one, DCC fitted, that ran very poorly. I was given the green diesel as a non runner. Fitted metal buffers, adjusted the pickups and fitted a Hornby R8249 combined with a Lais stay alive. Runs faultlessly now. I'd pay 99p plus p&p for another! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40152 Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 A rather fruity starting price for this specimen? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166868500176? 😳 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted July 18 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 18 Another of his is a hoot too. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166868468682 A Lone Star OOOLectric loco Quote Looks in good displayed condition Motorised I know it used to run however unknown if still works If we look at the underneath shot you can see that none of the drivebelts are present, so it won't move at all! I'm surprised that the wheels are still present, they fall out without the belts.... I wonder if the wiring to the bogie frames is still present. Also, its not original condition, Lone Star didn't do Full Yellow Ends, they were all Green, the bits on the roof have been blobbed with black too. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterem Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 I just wish he'd brushed down his worktop before taking the pictures - unless he's got a sideline in static grass and ground cover... 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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