Posts by MJI

Re: “Roads? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads” (Doc Brown)

Isle of Wight?

Re: I'll be sticking with petrol (or diesel) for my next car.

My moped did 200 mpg, you would not want to ride it 100 miles (rough range)

My old 250 managed to do 80 miles on one gallon, in one hour.

Re: I'll be sticking with petrol (or diesel) for my next car.

I am running through a few possibilities.

A new IC car is unlikely due to reliability, especially stop start and latest Diesels.

So going to life extend current car until it is 30, or spares not available, as it is last year of manufacture and earl ones still on road, why not?

Then do I give up driving, depends on biology and medical care.

If not would like a mid sized electric, would suit me for my journies, went on holiday last year, local filling station shut but loads ot charging points.

Johnson sacked any sensible ones, now they are pointing at the government saying told you so.

Johnsons achievements

Started the death of the Pound.

Tanked the economy.

Restarted hostilities in Northern Ireland.

Pushed many relocatable workers to work in Ireland or the Netherlands.

Ruined exports for many small businesses.

Unless they are village idiots like Johnson

Ignored details, details matter

Not a good idea.

I will work out how to do the most work with the least effort, so will reuse lots of code written to be reused.

As in the past we had junior developers knocking out the simpler screens by copying what was done before.

I managed to remove 90 or so screen classes and inherited the lot from one.

Re: Badge snobbery

When I had the 2.0 Carlton I found it was a LOT more roomy than a 5 series.

I have driven the smaller straight 6 VXs, TBH prefered the high compression 2.0 as the 2.5 was not much more power, but a lot more weight.

3.0 though lovely engine.

2.0 Carlton

1200 kg, a bit over 120bhp, roomy, comfortable.

I wanted aircon and it was getting rusty.

Re: Badge snobbery

I have had both Carltons and Omegas.

Good cars for German, but I did like the British engines in the Omega.

Prefered them to 5 series

Cats?

Jaguar?

Re: Iconic

My Sunbeam used to provide a rally car soundtrack, open windows and boot it (1600 not 2.2)

Being able to operate your own parking brake is essential

Slight slope at lights pull it on.

And people wonder why I am happy with a late 2003 car.

And prepared to rechassis it.

Or people pronouce vowls wrong.

Seen a bloke on TV who uses O for A, so plonts.

Then some TV historian, who on a quiz show sounds so weird you consider subtitles.

Best would be the west country who ER it.

Panders eats bamboo

Some northerners turn ERs into A so Panda and pander would both be panda.

Re: Dropping your aitches

Sounds like Parker, he did that.

Did similar and......

Found a burnt out car down a small lane in the middle of nowwhere, so reported it to the Police.

Shrunk it down to.

What road is it on?

Don't know, but I have the grid ref.

We can't use those?

This is OS grid ref, the standard way of IDing anywhere in the UK. What maps do you have then?

Gave up.

I wonder if it is still there or rusted away.

Send a correction then

Re: Nostalgia for times gone by?

Shapps/Green - dim

Wallace - competent

fireplace saleman - shifty, stupid, and nasty

Re: How about the UK?

Actually have we been included in the use your own browser or is this another right we have lost?

Re: Virtue signalling

With Destiny 2 cross platform play it was horrific.

When it died all the console owners celebrated.

It was also too expensive for what it was.

Re: Here's A Deal

However I think those days have gone, I would guess that the staff have moved on.

May be worth seeing if they have done any idie work.