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[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

[lesapandre]

Funny place the internet.

[chadders]

8 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.

I think Stalin was worse overall, starting with the Holomodor.

At least Hitler didn't systematically starve his own people to death en masse.

[reb]

Writing off an entire article and claiming it is comparing a company to the nazis because of something that is at the end of the day just a clumsy statement of the creators of a piece of the war machine is honestly so daft.

[chadders]

10 minutes ago, reb said:

Writing off an entire article and claiming it is comparing a company to the nazis because of something that is at the end of the day just a clumsy statement of the creators of a piece of the war machine is honestly so daft.

I found it quite useful in appreciating the actual size of the Ram, better than longer than two Fiestas for example.

[calebaaront]

Thought I’d get into the spooky mood and buy a mascot for the Hearse. I present Steven 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Some of these might be of interest:

 

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Some of these might be of interest:

 

Yes, I’d love a bertone volvo coupe please . Can you deliver the red one?

[Supernaut]

NC500 with a bunch of weirdos from the internet; completed.

Taken at John O Groats this morning:

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, chadders said:

I found it quite useful in appreciating the actual size of the Ram, better than longer than two Fiestas for example.

Less than 0.05% of vehicles registered in the EEA last year were Rams. A Ram is 20ft long, about the same as most LWB vans.

It might be a problem if 10% of vehicles sold were full size US pick ups, but are there many people around who could afford to run one? Really the article is a typical "why oh why" piece written by and for bed wetters. It would fit in the Mail just as well.

[comfortablynumb]

57 minutes ago, calebaaront said:

Thought I’d get into the spooky mood and buy a mascot for the Hearse. I present Steven 

Had one for 30+ years, he lives in my kitchen, and goes by the name of dead Tom.

Was a Muppet treasure island reference so the kids friends weren't scared stupid by him, although a couple still were

[somewhatfoolish]

Dead Tom looks like he might be an anatomically correct skellington for a medical student?

[comfortablynumb]

54 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Dead Tom looks like he might be an anatomically correct skellington for a medical student?

Yeah he is, Mrs cn was studying to be a paediatric nurse, and I thought he might come in handy.

It was him, for £40, or another one in Hertford, which the bloke reckoned was a historical real one, at £900!

Apart from not having £900, I didn't feel comfortable with a real one...😱

[stuboy]

Boot fair this morning.. thought u all enjoy the honda...and few in the auction lot..

[Leyland Worldmaster]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Yes, I’d love a bertone volvo coupe please . Can you deliver the red one?

Consider it done sir! 😜 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, calebaaront said:

I present Steven 

He looks a bit shaky 😀

[brownnova]

Oops… that’s another one in then! 

[stuboy]

Also today nip up the pub for a Pepsi cherry max pint.. the classics..

And now the mordern vag..

 

[Split_Pin]

Checked both driveshafts on the red A4 this morning. I've no idea how it's actually still driving. There must be about 15 degrees or so rotation on the wheel before the drive shaft starts turning and even when it does, they sound like someone stirring a bag of marbles. Nearside sounds like the inner joint is fucked too.

Not driving that again until they're both replaced 😅