Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I think some people would find that self cleaning animals are more compatible with their lifestyles. They are known as cats.
They also walk and sometimes feed themselves. Really they are like AI dogs.
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It's virtually like the Sahara here this evening. Well, without the sand, but we have got palm trees.
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Strictly speaking there were no 🚗, just 🟥🟧🟨💃🏻
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Indeed. With AI-like extra digits when they get a bit inbred.
Polydactyly is a lovely word.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Had forgotten that advert but it all came flooding back as soon as it started.
Everything apart from what it was trying to sell.
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I dunno, worked for me because I got into Velvet Underground off the back of that.
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I met a mother and daughter who both had that. It is almost as hard to ignore as the guy with the mole in Austin Powers. I guess we don't see it so much in the UK these days, as it gets corrected early.
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I just had Dunlops fitted on wife's Audi. Looks like she's ready for Putin's next escalation...
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Well you are in the West Country...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Those two were Amerindian Guyanese, back when I was a student living below the poverty line but still had more spare cash and time to travel than I do now.
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I'm at that point of buying new, upgraded "things" about the house, like decent kitchen scissors, a new wire side cutter for my workshop, new pliers, new set of screwdrivers, 1/4" drive socket set etc. However even after spending a not inconsiderable wedge on said items I find I use the older more knackered ones instead of the new. It's rather annoying.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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No High Sixes any more then.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
That's gone over my head.
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No. You need folk from The Forest of Dean for that.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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I looked this up. I was wrong. Polydactyly is not caused by inbreeding. There are lots of different causes with slightly different results.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I'm sure my German teacher in the late 1970s would be glad to hear that. He had two thumbs on each hand. Maybe it was because he was born before decimalisation.
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Superyachts. I didn't quite appreciate the market for chartering these things. Look at the price on this monster I just saw:
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Yeah. The one that caught my eye in Antibes was $1m/week. That was in 2017.
Edit:- Currently $1.1m/week. Plus expenses! 😮
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I'm just staggered that there must be enough people out there willing to drop £100,000 per person per week for ten of their nearest and dearest to make it something owners will do.
I can understand if you are merely a single billionaire or even a half billionaire that you need to get some return to pay the $5m annual upkeep but who's buying???
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The next rung down from the owners.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I know a chap who is a main engine technician for super yachts and flies all over the world troubleshooting.
In his words "if it flies, floats or f#cks, then you rent it"
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I've been away for a couple of weeks so apologies for dragging the Jag thing up again but I found this quite interesting given a conversation I had with a chap who lives in our village in the pub a few months ago.
He describes himself as a "brand ambassador" for JLR and was telling me that the new range of Jags will be "like nothing you've ever seen before in any car" (or words to that effect).
Now, obviously, as a "brand ambassador" he will be hugely biased but this advert could be seen to be a "taster" for a completely different type of car . . . possibly a desperate throw of the dice by Jag but will be interesting to see if the new range lives up to the hype.
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I suspect that if it's like nothing else we've ever seen, it will be because no one has ever asked for it.
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Sounds consistent with some commentary I heard from a marketing bod. It was more to mark the break with the previous image than advertise any new products.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Apparently Jag will be showing an actual car (or at least a prototype) at some Miami art week show tonight, so I guess we'll find out soon enough. In the end the critical thing for their survival is going to be whether they make good cars rather than this right-on advertising tosh, so if he is confident in the product then that's quite interesting.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Seems some ,'concept art' of the design has been leaked. Why does the theme to that 70s Pink Panther cartoon spring to mind?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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I'd forgotten about that! Good one.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
