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[Yoss]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

Can’t wait to be stuck on Hungarian border when they introduce this. It’s 4+ hours now. I fully expect wait time to be measured in days when the go time comes.

It seems a bit mad to think I can probably get to Hungary quicker than you can! 

[IronStar]

7 minutes ago, SiC said:

I'd argue a lot less in the last 20yrs from 2024 to 2000. NVH between a 2024 and 2000 similar class car is pretty much the same, handling similar, performance marginally quicker now and safety similar. Just more driver aids and better fuel economy.

I think this is it. We were around to see cars getting PAS, ABS, ESP, multizone climate, fog lights, heated seats, mirrors and all the other jazz as standard(ish) in late 90s and early 00s. Give it 20 more before that and none of those things were even optional extras. 
Now on design front things did change (not for the better IMO), but it’s probably more visible to people who are 16 or 18 as those cars were around since they can remember so they think about them as cars when they were 4. 
 

1 minute ago, Yoss said:

It seems a bit mad to think I can probably get to Hungary quicker than you can! 

They are absolutely out of their minds. I really don’t know how did I not get entry denied last couple of times, as I was openly insulting the border police and being fully noncooperative. Didn’t even want to speak Serbian or English to them and acted like I don’t understand a word. 

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Big pickups - Guardian article. Bit muddled, hysterical and including a very surprising Nazi reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/monster-pickup-trucks-accelerate-europe-sales-rise-safety-fears

I'm always interested in the space between what's legal and what certain section of society don't like. 

Nazi comparisons are never acceptable to make unrelated arguments.

Hilariously hysterical language; a perfectly reasonable argument(that US pick ups are bloat wagons and should be licenced/inspected/etc alongside commercial vehicles of similar weight, not as PLGs) utterly submerged in a bath of frothing nonsense. 

[Popsicle]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

'Alan's Funny Stories...'

I'm out and about this morning. In a caff having some toast and coffee.

Someone has found a phone and is trying to explain the location of the caff so the phone owner can drop by. A veteran of being given instructions of how to find addresses for cars for sale I am always amazed how difficult people find it to navigate or give an location.

Bloke: "What's the address of the caff?"

Caff Owner: "Where are you coming from?"

😂

The 'Where are you coming from' bit happens so often, then they speak as if you are a related and a local, 'turn left at the Dog & Duck, then right at our Tonys place, go over the hill round the bend and its the 21st house on the left next door to our Pats, but you can't get to the front door that way you'll need to go round the back down the lane by mad Petes and the knocking shop'. FFS man just give me the street name and number or post code, I'll find it.

[cort1977]

28 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Hilariously hysterical language; a perfectly reasonable argument(that US pick ups are bloat wagons and should be licenced/inspected/etc alongside commercial vehicles of similar weight, not as PLGs) utterly submerged in a bath of frothing nonsense. 

I read that and thought the same as you. Also thought of all the millions of full size vans in Europe that are also high up and weigh three tonnes loaded.

The graun seems to rely more on freelancers to fill space these days.

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

Point of order. If you had a bloke doing the same job would he be a "Dinner Gentleman"  ?  

Further point of order. Why are they called Dinner Ladies when they work at lunchtime?

[IronStar]

Yesterday, the Commission for the Protection of Competition initiated proceedings against four retail chains after raiding their offices and an office of a price comparison website due to the suspicion that the retail chains violated competition by concluding a restrictive (price fixing) agreement.

These 4 hold over 50% of market share in Serbia.

Now, I’m not shocked they are fixing the prices, this was obvious to everyone for ages. I’m shocked that they took it so far or forgot to bribe the authorities so it’s actually getting investigated. I fully expect this to go nowhere and business to resume as usual.

Google translate link:

https://www-danas-rs.translate.goog/vesti/ekonomija/komisija-za-zastitu-konkurencije-trgovinski-lanci-cene/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[artdjones]

33 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Further point of order. Why are they called Dinner Ladies when they work at lunchtime?

They're there to serve cheap food to working class brats, so the title is something that will be understood by those they serve.

[reb]

10 minutes ago, artdjones said:

They're there to serve cheap food to working class brats, so the title is something that will be understood by those they serve.

I worked in a posh school full of definitely not working class brats, being served not cheap food, they were still called dinnerladies

[clayts450]

20 year old Rover Streetwise in no advisories shocker. 

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, clayts450 said:

20 year old Rover Streetwise in no advisories shocker. 

Probably one of the only few who do get a clean sheet nowadays of the ones left, nice one 👌

[Snake Charmer]

On 10/10/2024 at 18:41, Popsicle said:

Make your own access panel, thats what angle grinders are for.... 🤠

I certainly would if it was my car, my father cut one in his Rover P6 for the rear calipers.

I now have a suitably bent cheap spanner for bleeding E-Type rear brakes and no great desire to do another! 

[4wheeledstool]

Just finished scraping all the PU sealant, bitumen and shite off the underside of this.

There's twenty odd welding repairs required, nothing major, just fiddly small stuff.

Hopefully I'll be cranking up the welding apparatus in the coming week.👍

[Popsicle]

16 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

I certainly would if it was my car, my father cut one in his Rover P6 for the rear calipers.

I now have a suitably bent cheap spanner for bleeding E-Type rear brakes and no great desire to do another! 

No I don't blame you they're not the easiest things to work on. Many years ago while struggling with the inboard brakes on a series 2 XJ6 rust bucket I owned, my dad came up with the plan to make his own access panel. Unfortunately neither of us owned an angle grinder back then so it was a drill and hacksaw/chisel job.

[comfortablynumb]

Re: dinner ladies

When I'd finished uni as a mature student, and before we moved to Norfolk, I was signed into an agency to get some work whilst the kids were at school, and Mrs cn was still studying.

I got put into school kitchens, absolute con, they knew I could drive, and had a car, but they still provided a taxi to and from a 4 hour shift. No wonder local councils had money problems. Still, I wasn't going to argue.

In these kitchens, there was only pink attire, which I thought was hilarious, and wore quite happily.

Primary school kids, the youngest probably just about 5, I'm stood at the counter dishing up the mash. One young lad looks at me with eyes like saucers, turns to his mate and on his best stage whisper:

"That lady's a man!"

This was about 20 years ago, but it still rates as one of the best jobs I've ever had.

 

[Snake Charmer]

3 minutes ago, 4wheeledstool said:

Just finished scraping all the PU sealant, bitumen and shite off the underside of this.

Super neat job. 👍

3 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

No I don't blame you they're not the easiest things to work on. Many years ago while struggling with the inboard brakes on a series 2 XJ6 rust bucket I owned, my dad came up with the plan to make his own access panel. Unfortunately neither of us owned an angle grinder back then so it was a drill and hacksaw/chisel job.

He would have cut the P6 panel out by chain drilling then filing, l think by then he may have had a Black & Decker drill. He beat an alloy panel up to cover the hole and held it in with dozens of PK screws, all very neatly spaced in his typical style!

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

Re: dinner ladies

When I'd finished uni as a mature student, and before we moved to Norfolk, I was signed into an agency to get some work whilst the kids were at school, and Mrs cn was still studying.

I got put into school kitchens, absolute con, they knew I could drive, and had a car, but they still provided a taxi to and from a 4 hour shift. No wonder local councils had money problems. Still, I wasn't going to argue.

In these kitchens, there was only pink attire, which I thought was hilarious, and wore quite happily.

Primary school kids, the youngest probably just about 5, I'm stood at the counter dishing up the mash. One young lad looks at me with eyes like saucers, turns to his mate and on his best stage whisper:

"That lady's a man!"

This was about 20 years ago, but it still rates as one of the best jobs I've ever had.

 

He would have been taken away for reindoctrination in the current year.

"Who will you believe, me or your lying eyes?"

[Lacquer Peel]

8 minutes ago, artdjones said:

He would have been taken away for reindoctrination in the current year.

"Who will you believe, me or your lying eyes?"

What do you mean?

[clayts450]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Probably one of the only few who do get a clean sheet nowadays of the ones left, nice one 👌

True, just a shame it's lacquer peeling like crazy and is probably rusty cornflakes behind all the plastic tat.

[brownnova]

Cracking day out at Oulton Park for Autos de France! 🇫🇷 

A full day of track action with the added bonus of a French car show… what’s not to like!

Took the 2CV Obs… 

Some of the Shiter friendly display items: 

To the track action… and one very honourable mention to whoever decided to race this! 

Unsurprisingly the 2CV racing was my favourite… 

What a spectacle! 
 

Good to see several fellow Shiters there too! 

[clayts450]

Some serious amount of choddage there, mate, thanks for sharing

[artdjones]

32 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

What do you mean?

Don't be disingenuous.

[Lacquer Peel]

1 minute ago, artdjones said:

Don't be disingenuous.

Honestly not following your train of thought at all. Is there a conspiracy?

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, reb said:

I worked in a posh school full of definitely not working class brats, being served not cheap food, they were still called dinnerladies

Obviously at a posh school, they would be taught the distinction between “dinner ladies” and “ladies that lunch”.

[New POD]

17 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Further point of order. Why are they called Dinner Ladies when they work at lunchtime?

It's a northern thing. 

 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

It's a northern thing.

I don't think so, it's the same down here.

[andy18s]

Just watched Space X launch and then catch the Starship 1st stage back at the launch pad.

Very impressive and quite the engineering achievement..

[M'coli]

On 12/10/2024 at 10:34, lesapandre said:

Big pickups - Guardian article. Bit muddled, hysterical and including a very surprising Nazi reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/monster-pickup-trucks-accelerate-europe-sales-rise-safety-fears

I'm always interested in the space between what's legal and what certain section of society don't like. 

Nazi comparisons are never acceptable to make unrelated arguments.

I've read that and I failed to spot the Nazi comparison, unless you're referring to them being compared to the size of a tank?

[lesapandre]

16 minutes ago, M'coli said:

I've read that and I failed to spot the Nazi comparison, unless you're referring to them being compared to the size of a tank?

"So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy".

One is a US truck manufacturer.

The other is despotic regime responsible for the deaths of upward of the 75 million people including the worst genocide known to mankind.

Any comparison is invidious.

[reb]

7 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

"So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy".

One is a US truck manufacturer.

The other is despotic regime responsible for the deaths of upward of the 75 million people including the worst genocide known to mankind.

Any comparison is invidious.

Bloody snowflake