What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

"Bulgarian Police couldn't give a shit" shocker

That's fantastic

[Lord Sterling]

Mrs V8 has gone camping for the week with her mates and the kids.I have stayed as on nightshift.

So do i go all Tom Cruise in Risky business,hire hookers and coke,have a party?

Lie in bed all day watching youporn(other porn sites are available)(so i'm told).

Phone in sick for the week,fill the car with the devils jizz and head off on a road trip,as long as I answer calls and messages she would never know.

No I have been on my hands and knees cleaning the bathroom,floor and shower.

Living the high life.

I know it sounds strange but being at home is nice. I like being at home and getting with small jobs like washing, cleaning the flat and stuff.

[dollywobbler]

Driving into town with the sunroof back and windows down, and hearing a bloke say "Wow, a Nissan Bluebird. Haven't seen one of those for years!"

[Pillock]

China seem pretty good at making batteries and associated gubbins. I honestly think it'll be the French bits that let that venture down.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Jerry!

 

 

He even has some fruit growing! Mini Shrimp is proper excited.

[Guest Hooli]

Driving into town with the sunroof back and windows down, and hearing a bloke say "Wow, a Nissan Bluebird. Haven't seen one of those for years!"

 

What car were you in?

[dollywobbler]

What car were you in?

 

Horsey horseless...

[dollywobbler]

Its the Chinese way.

 

Import it and they'll tax the shit out of it.

Build it there and you have to have a joint venture with a local company so they steal all your technology.

 

You have to hand it to the Chinese. They obviously looked at how the Brits did it and said "nah, that's a really stupid idea!" Import quotas to try and stop the imports, then trying to gain access to reliable mechanicals with joint developments, then developing the K-Series regardless...

[dave21478]

Its a booming thunderstorm here tonight.

 

I went for a shit. I am a fat man who lives entirely on ramen noodles and Bigmacs. When I shit its like an explosion in a Nutella factory. 

Half-way through the deal....click..... the power goes off. No lights, no windows in the bog....pitch black.

eh, no big deal, I finish off in the dark...but.....h...how do you know when to stop wiping?

[SherpaMog]

The Chinese have the worlds only neomydium mining facility. There was one in California, shut due to pollution. The Chinese will not export it any more, only as pre manufactured components.Government policy. That's where your magnets for your electric motors come from. And the ones from your headphones, basically any efficient moving electrical parts.

[dollywobbler]

The Chinese have the worlds only neomydium mining facility. There was one in California, shut due to pollution. The Chinese will not export it any more, only as pre manufactured components.Government policy. That's where your magnets for your electric motors come from. And the ones from your headphones, basically any efficient moving electrical parts.

 

Hmm. A quick Google suggests India, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Australia also have reserves. However, that piece did go on to say that the Japanese have invented magnets that don't use that stuff and that China were selling the stuff 'illegally.' 

[Negative Creep]

[Cheggers]

Its a booming thunderstorm here tonight.

 

I went for a shit. I am a fat man who lives entirely on ramen noodles and Bigmacs. When I shit its like an explosion in a Nutella factory.

Half-way through the deal....click..... the power goes off. No lights, no windows in the bog....pitch black.

eh, no big deal, I finish off in the dark...but.....h...how do you know when to stop wiping?

An increase in friction...

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

An increase in friction...

 

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Lick it?

[Roobarb]

Wipe and sniff???

[cort1977]

Hmm. A quick Google suggests India, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Australia also have reserves. However, that piece did go on to say that the Japanese have invented magnets that don't use that stuff and that China were selling the stuff 'illegally.' 

 

Yes but the difference between reserves and a functioning and economically viable mine is probably five years and a risky investment in the tens of millions so China is in a strong position there.  

 

Developing a reliable supply is the kind of thing US government should be focused on instead of buggering up NAFTA because Trump is stuck in the 1980s.   Have a very boring graph.

 

[SherpaMog]

Hmm. A quick Google suggests India, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Australia also have reserves. However, that piece did go on to say that the Japanese have invented magnets that don't use that stuff and that China were selling the stuff 'illegally.'

Yeah there is lots about, especially in Afghanistan. Not many companies want to compete with the Chinese government on price, as they don't give a fuck about the environment. Do another quick Google search and look at the hundreds of miles of polluted wasteland the factory produces. They produce 97 percent of the worlds total. If you could point me in the direction of a powerful and efficient motor used in a car that does not contain it, I would like you to show me please, I would be very interested.

[SherpaMog]

Sorry, that sounded like I was having a go at you, I'm not, it really grinds my gears how polluting this new generation of electric cars is going to be. The batteries can't be economically recycled but will be produced in their billions. Its just a different type of pollution, and we still need to produce the energy to build and run the car. I suppose it all sounds great until you actually look into it.

[Tayne]

The batteries can be recycled, but it's likely to happen after their second life as storage batteries.

The fact that the salvage value on EV batteries is so high should tell you something.

Also, renewable energy can power all of these things.

[dollywobbler]

Indeed. No, EVs are not some miracle cure that will solve all of the world's problems, and yes, transport always needs energy from somewhere, but electric still seems a better idea to me than having millions of little power stations belching fumes out in our cities.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm sorry this is going to have to stop now! People* have said electric cars are clean and help the environment that petrol and diesel destroy.

 

We can't have you telling story's about how the creation of magnets kills hundreds of miles of land or is all being done by one country we can't go to war with, it's clean and safe so move on!!1

[Tayne]

I'm sure the petrochemicals industry would come up smelling of roses in comparison.

 

It's not like they've ever done anything which could grind anyone's gears.

 

 

 

[Craig the Princess]

I'm sorry this is going to have to stop now! People* have said electric cars are clean and help the environment that petrol and diesel destroy.

 

We can have you telling story's about how the creation of magnets kills hundreds of miles of land or is being all been done by one country we can't go to war with, it's clean and safe so move on!!1

We've got an electric car thread where we have had this argument. For big cities having petrol and diesel vehicles driving in by the hundreds of thousands every day is a terrible idea.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sorry it's not an argument I was, as normal, being sarcastic. You can't get stuff out of the Earth without making a bit of a mess. Same goes for burning stuff.

 

Nothing will change while there's money to be made.

[Tayne]

I think the RICO cases might just be the kick that big oil needs

[SherpaMog]

The batteries can be recycled, but it's likely to happen after their second life as storage batteries.

The fact that the salvage value on EV batteries is so high should tell you something.

Also, renewable energy can power all of these things.

They can't be economically recycled without government subsidy. Second useage yes, they can be useful, but the recycling process takes a huge amount of energy and causes pollution. I'm not implying fossil fuels are any cleaner or better, it just makes me chuckle how silly some people are about their zero emissions cars. They are far from environmentally friendly.

[tooSavvy]

Sorry it's not an argument I was, as normal, being sarcastic. You can't get stuff out of the Earth without making a bit of a mess. Same goes for burning stuff.

 

Nothing will change while there's money to be made..... 

 

 

... options 4 auto$hiters

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/29341-change-from-sounds-like-a-dropped-valve-m8/

 

 

TS

[Tayne]

zero emissions cars. They are far from environmentally friendly.

That would tie in with your statement that the Chinese "don't care about pollution".

 

They have a 12% EV mandate by 2020 and are investing over 300bn yuan in renewables.

[Aston Martin]

Went to see a business advisor, who likes it = grin.

 

He said I need to cover myself legally as I'm liable to get raped in every orifice = not so grin.

 

 

But it wasn't a "go fuck yourself" so overall it's a grin.

[Heidel_Kakao]

 

https://brickset.com/article/30277/75192-millennium-falcon-revealed!

 

Lego have finally confirmed the long rumoured new UCS Millennium Falcon! This could also go in the grump thread on behalf of my wallet as it's going to cost £650, but I will still be getting a copy at some point. It will be the largest retail Lego set ever by quite a margin