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Love the goat's head portrait on the bonnet griz. With regard to multilinguicity (if that's not a proper word it ought to be) my dad plays accordion and sings in, I think, eight languages but is only fluent in English.
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Saw this on FB the other night. Is it you Glen?
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Aug 23, 2023 20:54:14 GMT
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Aug 22, 2023 21:52:06 GMT
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Yep. Biofuel is a red herring which in some cases uses more energy than it supplies.
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Aug 22, 2023 20:43:49 GMT
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Rumble, rumble, tank Dez. Loud pipes save lives.
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Aug 22, 2023 19:45:42 GMT
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So one could legitimately daily a shagged old ADO16 that burns a litre of oil an hour in the ULEZ? Since such a vehicle would also be mot exempt it theoretically wouldn't have to pass the visible smoke test so could legally chooch blue all day long?
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Last Edit: Aug 22, 2023 23:45:16 GMT by igor
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Aug 22, 2023 19:36:52 GMT
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The trouble with growing crops for biofuel is that in many cases it takes up valuable land that could be used for growing food.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:52:53 GMT
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Perhaps it was 70% of govt dept cars DR. I believe there was a directive issued from on high at some point that all govt vehicles would be converted to run on cng (whether it made any economic sense or not). I do remember seeing a Mini bearing cng warning placards at some point which I found quite laughable.
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Aug 19, 2023 22:24:50 GMT
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"In the 70s New Zealand had 70% of its vehicle fleet running on CNG."
No, we didn't. The govt of the day pushed it hard but it never became popular here.
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Realistically insurance is betting that a particular event will occur and hoping you lose. Compulsory insurance is the second biggest scam ever, right after the cult of anthropogenic global warming.
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When I saw "shiny ring piece" in the headline I began to question what you had been eating in Hannah's absence.
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Last Edit: Aug 18, 2023 7:40:25 GMT by igor
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The blue F100? does it for me.
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Is driving it back yourself a valid option? Just checked a map. 1200ish km. We purchased one of my wife's cars from considerably further away than that and got my then teenage son to collect and deliver it for us. Admittedly no international borders were involved but how big a complication is that?
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Last Edit: Aug 17, 2023 8:00:19 GMT by igor
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I first saw it at college in the early 90s. They used to show us films every Wednesday which meant an easy afternoon off for the tutors. Some of them were vaguely educational like documentaries or arty European animation but there were a few normal films too. If I remember correctly they also showed Bladerunner and I think The Exorcist too! Off track, at school so <18, we were taken to the cinema to see Macbeth (Roman Polanski's version) anybody who's seen it will probably agree not really suitable for <18's. It was the first film he made after Sharon Tates murder by the Manson gang. For American Graffiti as well as the main feature cars there some great cars in the street/cruising scenes include incongruously a Frogeye Sprite. My sixth form English class was shown Polanski's MacBeth in 1982 as part of our studies. I believe most of us thought it was pretty good. Back on topic replicas of THX138 and the black '55 Chevrolet exist here in Balclutha. A local lad now in his 50s has long been a huge American Graffitti fan. Pretty sure he started making the chassis for one of his cars, possibly THX138, in metalwork class at the local high school.
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Aug 13, 2023 23:04:58 GMT
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Epic... Your all set for a proper welsh winter now the Landys home SIL lived in Scotland for a while, in an ancient cottage with no real road access. She found that her Fiat Panda 4x4 was often superior to her Series 1 Landrover for driving across the common land between the house and the nearest road in extreme conditions.
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Would it not have made some sense for the recovery truck driver to simply deliver you and your car to the nearest auto parts store where you could purchase and fit a replacement hose and then proceed on your way? That's what happened when my Falcon spat out its fan belt on the Dunedin motorway.
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Who doesn't love an Allegro?
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So weird looking it's kind of cool. If it was anywhere near me I'd be on it like white on rice. Probably just as well I live on the other side of the world.
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It'll definitely make that wee Imp fly.
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