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- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10858
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Re: Friday Jokes
A stingy old lawyer who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness was determined to prove wrong the saying, "You can't take it with you." After much thought and consideration, the man finally figured out how to take at least some of his money with him when he died. He instructed his wife to go to t...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19376
- Views: 978453
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10858
- Views: 470202
Re: Friday Jokes
We had a contest at work for the best neckwear.
It was a tie.
It was a tie.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
- Replies: 830
- Views: 37342
Re: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
The top speed is about 44kph/27mph (same as the guy in the video) on the level. I would not want to go faster anyway because of the brakes, but it is perfectly stable at this speed. I managed to exceed a 40mph speed limit on my bike some years ago. down the hill into the Stroud Valley on the A419. ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19376
- Views: 978453
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
- Replies: 830
- Views: 37342
Re: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
I think the London Underground has had regenerative braking for a long time, way before it became fashionable for cars. A train coming into a station could dump energy back into the power rails. It had limited use originally, but it looks like they've had all sorts of upgrades in the last ten years ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
- Replies: 830
- Views: 37342
Re: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
There's already a maglev train in Shanghai. Way more fun than taking a taxi from the airport. Once I'd figured that out on my first trip there, I used the maglev and metro network to get to my hotel on subsequent visits. It was cheaper than a taxi, too, and faster.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
- Topic: Passengers Behaving Badly
- Replies: 86
- Views: 8160
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10858
- Views: 470202
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Canada
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10902
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3653
- Views: 108923
Re: Chaos in USA
May the farce be with you.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19376
- Views: 978453
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Evening all, good weekend at the dog show. Faraday showed as a veteran (7+ years of age) and got a bunch of pretty pink ribbons in addition to the others, plus a round of applause as she ran round the ring (tradition is to applaud the old dogs). She also ran FastCAT and got her FCAT5 title on Friday...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3653
- Views: 108923
Re: Chaos in USA
Methinks Thatcher's truism is going to be hitting them right between the eyes before 2028, and probably a lot sooner if Trump gets in. The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. There's another side to it. In Canada, Saskatchewan has just stopped paying the C...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3653
- Views: 108923
Re: Chaos in USA
Now that Trump has apparently failed to raise his bond money, the MAGA crowd may be about to cost him bigly. Scenario: NY seizes a property to auction. Threats are made against potential buyers and the post-sale property, which depresses interest and so it sells for a lower price. Then the state has...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:43 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19376
- Views: 978453
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Trip to the vet today. All three dogs and two cats, so I added the extra dog crate to the van and we took that. Kepler had a blood draw for her cancer vaccine trial, the other dogs needed rabies and other jabs, as did one of the cats. The other was just in for a check-up. There was a Tesla Cybertruc...
Re: Rubbish!
We have something called Bin Assist provided by our caring council, it is for old folk and disabled people who have difficulty with the bins. My neighbour and I live down a private drive about 400 yards long so we have to drag our bins to the road side every Sunday tea time ready for Monday. Bin As...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19376
- Views: 978453
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: NHS privatisation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 265
Re: NHS privatisation
Not if they can convert it to the American model where they can charge 10x the price, and there's an entire industry (health insurance) set up as a middleman to siphon off even more from the population.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Photos of Everybody
- Replies: 316
- Views: 49772
Re: Photos of Everybody
Errrr...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
- Replies: 5698
- Views: 160664
Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
In general, if it's seriously raining in a submarine then an umbrella is going to be the least of his worries.