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[danthecapriman]

OMGSNOWCHAOS!😄

Heres a shit photo from my shit iPad camera of the current situation in Coleford!

Im actually shocked it’s not raining instead to be honest. 
This, incredibly, is what an amber weather warning for snow and ice looks like FFS! It’s a light dusting!

[Wibble]

Yep, forecast heavy snow hear from 7pm, just light rain so far🤞

[SiC]

7 hours ago, grogee said:

That is such a wonderful feature, I agree. I've had several Fords with it and it works so quickly. 

Is it available more widely these days on Modernz? 

 

7 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I think Ford still have the patent and won’t share.

My 2005 Laguna II v6 had a heated windscreen.

[Wibble]

42 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Yep, forecast heavy snow hear from 7pm, just light rain so far🤞

Spoke too bloody soon. Snowing hard now and settling😡

[richardmorris]

21 minutes ago, SiC said:

 

My 2005 Laguna II v6 had a heated windscreen.

My info is obviously out of date.

[richardmorris]

18 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

My info is obviously out of date.

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/technology/brief-history-heated-windscreen/

[bramz7]

19 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Spoke too bloody soon. Snowing hard now and settling😡

Not fancying my luck driving back home later this evening, although I've still got to drive a train to Exeter and back first.....

[Wibble]

7 minutes ago, bramz7 said:

Not fancying my luck driving back home later this evening, although I've still got to drive a train to Exeter and back first.....

Oh shit, hopefully it will stop soon. Not too bad so far:

but still snowing at the moment, good luck!

[richardmorris]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x5q383exo
 

@Six-cylinder posed in her lagonda last year.

 

[Six-cylinder]

5 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x5q383exo
 

@Six-cylinder posed in her lagonda last year.

 

Should be @Mrs6C as she is the one with the Mk10!

[320touring]

A bit more spottage on a traipse round that there Lunnon..

Just down from the hotel was someone with a weakness for old Merc coupes..

The R107 was badged as a 560SL

 

The burd was particularly taken with this early 500, with a modern 5000 behind it🤣

 

Saw this abomination, and laughed at the fact the Berlingo behind has a better plate...

 

Lastly, some proper "fuck the aesthetic" planning decision - I reckon even @rantingYoof would struggle to justify this block of flats was in keeping with the area🤣

[rantingYoof]

Thanks I hate it. 

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, Wibble said:

Oh shit, hopefully it will stop soon. Not too bad so far:

but still snowing at the moment, good luck!

Reckon you’ll be ok @bramz7 as seems to be turning to rain/sleet and disappearing.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, rantingYoof said:

Thanks I hate it. 

Not a fan of neo-brutalism* then?

 

*I just made this up, neo-brutalism is just what happens when you hire an architect with no imagination 

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, 320touring said:

A bit more spottage on a traipse round that there Lunnon..

Just down from the hotel was someone with a weakness for old Merc coupes..

The R107 was badged as a 560SL

 

The burd was particularly taken with this early 500, with a modern 5000 behind it🤣

 

Saw this abomination, and laughed at the fact the Berlingo behind has a better plate...

 

Lastly, some proper "fuck the aesthetic" planning decision - I reckon even @rantingYoof would struggle to justify this block of flats was in keeping with the area🤣

It blends in so well. 😬

[mat777]

As the slow stripdown of the part-out P38 continues, I removed the ECU and fusebox today to be greeted by this absolute abomination. What the fuck is that supposed to be about?! There goes being able to sell on the engine loom.... 

[Barry Cade]

Just watched "Nobody". Kept me amused for a bit, but.... white 1972 Dodge Challenger in it.. Vanishing Point vibes, nearly  . BUT, they  made a couple of references to a 4.9 litre . Dodge never made a 299 cubic inch engine, smallest V8 in the Chally was a 318, or a 5.2 litre.. and that was considered a bit shit.

This film had a 16 million dollar budget. If they'd asked, for a couple if million, I could have saved every Mopar fan worldwide from choking on their Budweiser. FFS...

[reb]

I've just realised I'll have been on here for a decade this March.

How the hell did that happen?

[Metal Guru]

58 minutes ago, reb said:

I've just realised I'll have been on here for a decade this March.

How the hell did that happen?

A similar thought came to me. When I used watch football as a kid in the 70s, if the commentator says something like “Chelsea haven’t won away to Aston Villa for 35 years “, I’d think , that’s before the war, ancient history. Now I think, “Oh yes, I remember watching that in 1990.”

I think whoever controls the world, is bored and has pressed fast forward.

[reb]

15 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

A similar thought came to me. When I used watch football as a kid in the 70s, if the commentator says something like “Chelsea haven’t won away to Aston Villa for 35 years “, I’d think , that’s before the war, ancient history. Now I think, “Oh yes, I remember watching that in 1990.”

I think whoever controls the world, is bored and has pressed fast forward.

I have been on this godforsaken site for fully one third of my life.

And elsewhere on the internet I have 18 year olds telling me what things were like "on the old internet"

Bitch I've been online longer than you've been alive.

[PhilA]

7 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Just watched "Nobody". Kept me amused for a bit, but.... white 1972 Dodge Challenger in it.. Vanishing Point vibes, nearly  . BUT, they  made a couple of references to a 4.9 litre . Dodge never made a 299 cubic inch engine, smallest V8 in the Chally was a 318, or a 5.2 litre.. and that was considered a bit shit.

This film had a 16 million dollar budget. If they'd asked, for a couple if million, I could have saved every Mopar fan worldwide from choking on their Budweiser. FFS...

318 was anemic with the stock 2 barrel carb, for sure. 4 barrel with tuned intake and better breathing exhaust, the decent heads and a halfway decent cam was still not a 383 but it was starting to be a spicy engine for its size and weight.

[auntiemaryscanary]

Woke up to only slightly more than a dusting of snow which is now being rained on. Media going into overdrive about it all.

Maybe they should go and visit my brother in Bergen

They had 18 inches fall Friday night into Saturday morning.

 

[Metal Guru]

17 minutes ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

Woke up to only slightly more than a dusting of snow which is now being rained on. Media going into overdrive about it all.

Maybe they should go and visit my brother in Bergen

They had 18 inches fall Friday night into Saturday morning.

 

Yes the “Wall of Snow” predicted by the media seems to amount to the first layer of mortar in most places.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, reb said:

I have been on this godforsaken site for fully one third of my life.

And elsewhere on the internet I have 18 year olds telling me what things were like "on the old internet"

Bitch I've been online longer than you've been alive.

There’s another forum that I’ve been on since I turned 16.  I’m now 36.  20 years.  And I DO remember the early Internet as I was first online in 1995…

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

There’s another forum that I’ve been on since I turned 16.  I’m now 36.  20 years.  And I DO remember the early Internet as I was first online in 1995…

How about Viewdata? 1986  (OK so not, strictly speaking 'Internet' but with a smokin' 1200/75 modem we thought we ruled the world  )

https://www.viewdata.org.uk/index.php?cat=31_The-nbsp~Gnome&page=05_Introduction

[tooSavvy]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I think whoever controls the world, is bored and has pressed fast forward.

*Fast-forward BACK to 1914 😕 .... We're not bored just forgetful @11.11

🚙💨

[andyberg]

30 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Yes the “Wall of Snow” predicted by the media seems to amount to the first layer of mortar in most places.

Did we get predictions * of a ‘wall of snow’ in the 80s/90s? Or are we being scaremongered now. I remember walking to school with many inches of snow on the ground, now it seems schools are closed with the mearest dusting ‘ for the safety of the pupils’

[Metal Guru]

15 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Did we get predictions * of a ‘wall of snow’ in the 80s/90s? Or are we being scaremongered now. I remember walking to school with many inches of snow on the ground, now it seems schools are closed with the mearest dusting ‘ for the safety of the pupils’

Several years ago , one of the buses serving our local High School crashed on an icy road along one of the valleys. No one was badly hurt but since then the Council just shuts the schools down at a hint of snow. 
Seeing as everyone has a tablet and the majority can walk to the school , it wouldn’t be impossible to arrange for the kids that get the buses to log in from home, but it seems everyone prefers a day off (apart from working parents).

[artdjones]

52 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Did we get predictions * of a ‘wall of snow’ in the 80s/90s? Or are we being scaremongered now. I remember walking to school with many inches of snow on the ground, now it seems schools are closed with the mearest dusting ‘ for the safety of the pupils’

It's part of the feminisation of society. Every activity has a risk assessment performed by people who don't really understand what a risk assessment is.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

There’s another forum that I’ve been on since I turned 16.  I’m now 36.  20 years.  And I DO remember the early Internet as I was first online in 1995…

Ah yes, the cheerful beeps and squarks of the dial-up modem connecting to AOL for 1p/minute on your phone bill. I think 92 or 93 for me.