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@Muzzoom_Models @hughjarse103 @KeithMAllen1 @bluebirdk7 Well, I hope they're going to clean the oilways out this time...

@hughjarse103 @KeithMAllen1 @bluebirdk7 Indeed. Compare what we're hearing about K7 compared to how the Sunbeam 1000hp is being restored by Beaulieu.

Because they borrowed an engine & went on about how lovely it was then wouldn't make the necessary mod's. They forget that Campbell used a knackered old engine & made it fit. We built a hybrid & made sure it fitted too. This lot just cut out bits of structure.

@BuyEnglishMade We no longer drive over them every day, because the modern 'replacement' is a solid plastic thing caked with road dirt and near useless.

Percy Shaw was driving home through fog near Halifax when a cat’s eyes reflected in his headlights. That moment helped inspire Catseyes — the reflective road studs that now guide drivers across the world. The original Catseye is still made in Halifax, Yorkshire, by the company Shaw founded in 1935. Plenty of countries now make their own versions. But the original was English. Most people have never heard of Percy Shaw. You drive over his genius every day. #MadeInEngland

@bluebirdk7 I read that as "appropriate adult" It still works.

There really ought to be an appropriate audit of all that's happened by the Arts Council or similar. Having a gap in the oversight such that an iconic object has been so badly damaged for no valid reason is not a good look.

The problem isn't that Trump keeps falling asleep, it's that he keeps waking up.

@Mr_ian_B Don't bring anything behind you you wouldn't be happy to reverse.

Please don't come to Devon unless you can reverse in a lane.

@jonnycollage There are several like this in Nuremburg. Post-war denazificiation was so precisely done that it left perfect silhouettes remaining.

There is a Burger King in Nuremburg that was a Nazi Power Station and still has the outline of a Reichsadler on the outside.

@pablo_troyse @Helvegen29 Offensive grenade - you can throw it further than (most of) the boom. Defensive grenade - it goes boom further than you can throw it. You need something to hide behind.

@Helvegen29 Most confusing fucking thread I’ve ever read

Small thing about french handgrenades: During the Battle of Ifoghas in 2013, the usage of handgrenades was deemed crucial by French forces to neutralise Jihadists during the assault and searches of caves. One major issue came to light: 1/5

@DeborahBlythe @TheRegencyCook Always bring a butterknife to a bun fight.

@TheRegencyCook You have clearly never been in a bun fight, mister.

I’m hoping that my posts about historic food will reach you through all the outrage on Twitter/X. Do you think too that there should be a place for comfort posts about things that unite & don’t divide? Like buns for example?

@TheRegencyCook Buns? You mean rolls. Or barmcakes. Or whatever those heathens 5 miles away, the other side of the hill, call them?

@Nithya_Shrii I've always enjoyed this, when it was something project-based with a real timed goal in sight. 'Management is just one rolling car crash of incompetence at the whim of the stock market', isn't the same thing at all.

Job postings are always like, "Do you want to work in a FAST-PACED and HIGH PRESSURE environment?!" What? No. Not at all.

@SandyofSuffolk @GenerationNew4 Bollocks. The boomers were the generation were this broke down and working class women could get grants to study humanities at the new plate glass and concrete universities of the '60s and '70s. Wasn't perfect, but a big improvement.

@GenerationNew4 Only 6% of boomers went to university. Mostly men.

Just so you know. Boomers didn't have fast food. Except fish and chips. Boomers didn't have ready meals. Except Vesta beef curry. Look it up. Boomers didn't have colour TVs, front loading washing machines, central heating or holidays abroad. Boomers didn't have babymoons or baby showers nor did they go on stag or hen weekends. Boomers didn't go to restaurants. Except on birthdays. Boomers didn't have new clothes every year, every season. They made do and mended. But Boomers had a fabulous time in the 1960s to 1980s because people were friendly, respectful, dignified and hardworking. Boomers also had law and order and a judiciary who punished ALL criminals. Boomers were happy with their lot. Yes. I'm a Boomer. Just so you know.

@SandyofSuffolk We had ready meals. They came in a tin, and went onto toast.

@AGiftFromSorrow @TheRealJamieKay You mean that all the (extremely white and frequently Christian) Polish plumbers went home after brexit? Yeah, real result you achieved there mate.

@TheRealJamieKay The demographics.

What’s one thing in Britain that feels dramatically worse than 10 years ago?

@TheRealJamieKay The Labour Party. How did we go from Corbyn's optimism to re-appointing Mandelson and then cosying up to Reform?

@StalkerGrunt1 @ne_vluchiv Well I think it was a good idea.

@ne_vluchiv I still want to know why they thought it was a good idea to jump around on that bridge when the river was flowing so quick. Too much vodka that night, perhaps.

Do we have a meme for this kind of karma?

@saintjavelin I think the Russian 'breaks if you shake it' bridge handrail deserves some credit here too.

Russian propagandist drowned while visiting occupied Georgia to sceeen a documentary about participants of the so-called “special military operation.” Anna Tits and her colleague fell from a suspension bridge into a river. The man was rescued, but Tits was swept away by the current.

@nosateki @unusual_cars We've got two. Inherited the first by accident, loved it, bought another at 250k miles. We tow a caravan with it! The VTEC will even go fast if you rev it over 4,500 rpm. Maybe the best car (it does everyday car stuff with less grief) I've ever had.

@unusual_cars Nobody under 60 has ever owned one. If you've seen one driving anywhere close to the speed limit it was probably me, borrowing my mother's car.

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@SuzieWo20886208 M&S picalilli is one of the best I've tasted and it's just over a quid a jar. It tastes of things, not just vinegar and yellow.

@mSanterre @WheelmanForHire @aviationbrk But they do concentrate on certain local ridges. I'm not in Austria. But there are a couple of locations near me where I'd just never fly, because they're where the glider clubs operate. Everyone knows this (by NOTAM), everyone avoids.

@GrumpyBadger5 @WheelmanForHire @aviationbrk Can you link the NOTAM for that time? Paragliders don't only go during events.

🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See. The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday. According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian had started from Schmittenhöhe in the direction of Piesendorf. Above the Pinzgauer Hütte, she collided at 1:15 p.m. with the Cessna piloted by a 28-year-old. The pilot of the Cessna, which flew from the Glemm Valley in the direction of Zell am See, was able to land the aircraft safely at Zell am See Airport. Video: sab_thi

@WheelmanForHire @aviationbrk This is why we have NOTAMs! The Cessna shouldn't just have been looking out, it shouldn't have been there in the first place.

@aviationbrk The cockpit of a Cessna makes it difficult to see anything slightly below the dash. If the paraglider was ascending in a thermal (tight circles) it's possible he may have never seen her. It's a statistical fluke and both pilots are lucky to be alive.