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However neither the story nor the quote was as memorable and pointed as the Profumo scandal 14 years earlier. Then, when Lord Astor denied an affair or even having met Mandy Rice-Davis, she dispatched that swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?". Now that's a quote that is...

bd139 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:58 pm Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough.

If your acolytes don't feel dirty enough have them run through the orgy room a couple of times before feeling them.

One wonders if that sheriff cruiser has reasonable tyres on. My guess would be "no". Good luck, then. While snow may not be much of a thing in Florida I'm pretty sure that mud is. Everglades and all that. Don't forget the first part of "mud and snow rated tyres". So there's a fa...

tggzzz wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:47 pm
I also remember the winter of '63, the third coldest since records began in 1659, and which continued until March. Since I was a child it was just fun.

For me the winter of '63 brought the bizarre sight of watching the waves lapping again 2-3 feet of snow on Hove and Brighton beaches.

took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? Haven't heard that, but Cockney rhyming slang continually mutates. If it is that, then you would only ever say "ginger"; the "beer" must be omitted. While it's true that ...

Allergy testing is a known pig. Binary searching of dietary ingredients is not something that be easily fitted into a standard appointment :( That's a bit old school. Radioallergosorbent tests and fluorescence enzyme-labeled assays have been standard for quite some time now. One blood sample and yo...

If your condition is what I think it is, I had the same problem. Allergy testing showed I was allergic to nothing and I was just dumped an inhuman level of steroids to slap all over myself which did nothing. Turned out that the test was wrong and the test was just not effective. Stopped drinking mi...

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:53 pm if you think homeopathic remedies are harmless, clearly you are unaware that dangerous claims are made for them. The classic one is homeopathic malaria pills, but there are far too many others.

Now there's a classic bit of putting words in someone else's mouth.

Oh, I've occasionally tweaking those with a natural/alternative/etc bent. I start off by showing sympathy by noting that we should never forget that many "alternative medicine" remedies are indeed effective. I then put the knife in by pointing out that they are so important that they are ...

I always regard rebranding as a negative. Either there is something to forget, or the managers know something isn't right but don't know what to do. That leads to "something must be done, this is something, this must be done". I apologise if I've told y'all this anecdote before. I used to...

It seems Mike Magee (founder of The Register and The Inquirer) has died, RIP. https://www.semiaccurate.com/2024/08/12/industry-pioneer-mike-magee-has-passed-away/ That rather good obituary refers to one of many articles Magee wrote in his inimitable style, about to Queen Princess Fiorina. http://we...

How about TiN-ing? TiN is normally applied as a surface hardening treatment rather than as a corrosion passivating layer. I've no idea of the corrosion performance of TiN although instinct says it's probably quite considerable. As the whole 'stainless' bit of stainless steel is a self-passivating l...

This was a problem for early Apple Watch users as well. The alu alloy they used had a high nickel content. I couldn't wear one. They changed it around S6 or so as they did with their laptops finally. I dissolve them with my sweat instead now. Yeah, the nickel makes more contribution to chloride ion...

I've always found stainless steel watches cause slight skin irritation after a time. I haven't noticed the stainless steel has been even slightly corroded, although there must have been some chemical action. Surgical grade stainless steel is hardly expensive when you consider the amount used in a w...

I don't know what was going on there. The insurance company wasn't as red in tooth and claw as I thought they'd be. Maybe the claim was below the noise, or it was worth £500 to ding his no claims bonus, or it was the excuse they were looking for to get rid of him as a client. While there is the a p...

?C1? A failure code as would be reported on an Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR). Specifically Classification code C1 (Danger present) Where an observation has been given a Classification code C1, the safety of those using the installation is at risk and immediate remedial action is r...

If I were in the market for a performance car it would be one of these. https://www.caranddriver.com/honda/civic-type-r https://automobiles.honda.com/civic-type-r I'd always imagined you to be a souped-up 1970 Plymouth Barracuda kinda guy. Aw c'mon. Harley Lowrider and a beard you could lose a badg...

Well, I'm assuming that these are all as standard according to data I got, a 2006 Mustang 5 Litre gets 300hp and 320 ft/lbs of torque and a 1.7 litre Civic gets 98hp and 162 ft/lbs of torque and doing the maths, there is not a lot of difference in hp per litre but plenty more torques. So working it...

If I were in the market for a performance car it would be one of these. https://www.caranddriver.com/honda/civic-type-r https://automobiles.honda.com/civic-type-r For the avoidance of doubt, it wasn't your Civic I was referring to as a joke, but the Mustang posturing as a performance car when my bo...

Those big American V8s are rubbish at extracting the HP, I bet you're getting far more HP per litre of engine capacity then they are getting and your getting far better mpg in the bargain. ;) Better fuel economy without a doubt. Better HP/liter? That depends on how they are set up. There is an old ...

A while back I made some adapter boards for SOIC 14 and 16 chips with room to add decoupling capacitors. Not as ambitious as above, but it removed the frustration of decoupling these ICs on a breadboard with huge long leads to the decoupling caps.

Of course there are also garden sieves: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diggers.com.au%2Fcdn%2Fshop%2Fproducts%2Fgarden-sieve-black-hsiev_878a7ce2-01e5-401f-8334-fca9e6a4e805_1200x.jpg%3Fv%3D1637121152&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b05d143389dcd1632f5cf8c7580cf8827b7878f...

I think the EU are "having enough of that shit" at the moment. Hopefully it'll catch. Not the EU but Euro NCAP, who have added physical controls for certain things to the next version (2026) of NCAP testing. So you can't get a top safety rating for your vehicle unless it has real indicato...

Well it works slightly different to an automatic would. If you completely take your foot off it comes to a complete halt with no creeping so you can navigate multiple traffic light stops just on the accelerator. The downside, compared to using it in two pedal mode, is that you lose control of your ...

Well it works slightly different to an automatic would. If you completely take your foot off it comes to a complete halt with no creeping so you can navigate multiple traffic light stops just on the accelerator. The downside, compared to using it in two pedal mode, is that you lose control of your ...