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Forum: General Discussion Topic: That London (for a day) |
| Grim... |
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:31
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| ... advice: Depending on how you get from LegoLand to London, you might pass fairly close to Kew Bridge steam museum, which is full of awesome steam engines and not tourists looking at dull models of antelopes. http://www.waterandsteam.org.uk/ St. Paul's is fucking awesome. It does cost £15 to get ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: EU in or out? |
| Cras |
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 15:41
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:12
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| ... to do with how the products were specified, in technical terms: The Royal Navy’s fleet of six £1bn destroyers is breaking down because the ships’ engines cannot cope with the warm waters of the Gulf, defence chiefs have admitted. They also told the Commons defence committee on Tuesday that the ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 23:37
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MaliA wrote:
BAE are rubbish. I had to work with them, it is scary how bad they are. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 20:57
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MaliA wrote:
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
If I were Spain, now'd be the time to go for the Rock. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 20:49
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:02
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| ... could be a winner for AMD. Hurrah ! And with Vega due October/next year depending on who you believe they could well be firing up the big engines too. http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x93/alurencat/polaris2.png http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x93/alurencat/polaris1.png ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 14:57
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| ... up. Jus sayin. I thought the main issues with head gasket failure on the K-Series were people not maintaining coolant and oil properly, as the engines have very small tolerances for under/over-filling?[/quote] I think there's a case for increasing the size of the bypass and bleed hoses. My ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2016 11:37
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krazywookie wrote: Your k series will developed head gasket problems at 70k and blow up. Jus sayin.
I thought the main issues with head gasket failure on the K-Series were people not maintaining coolant and oil properly, as the engines have very small tolerances for under/over-filling? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Climate change |
| Cavey |
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 12:41
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| ... people, if it really was such a real, let alone pressing issue of life or death, would these dozen or so boats not be refitted with elephant dung engines or whatever? Don't give me the it's too expensive line either, in the week we learned that ONE company Tata made almost a billion pounds quite ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 10:23
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| The engines in these cars do use a bit of oil, which is normal (my Type-R was a generation ahead of myp's but the engines are effectively identical). I just put half a litre in every three-four months to keep it up to the top ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 13:38
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| ... own ass. If he's stupid then you will have problems. Sensors are a cunt though. As I said a few pages back modern cars have really good fucking engines in them and so on but there's an abundance of sensors which all run at stupid temperatures and tend to go wrong. And when they do your car will ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 18:09
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| ... cars. No-one is going to tell me that leaving these as (still relatively fuel efficient, as my earlier post proved) naturally aspirated ~3 litre engines - with HYDRAULIC STEERING thanks very much - was going to melt the fucking ice caps. Especially when, in any REAL WORLD situation, the smaller ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 17:58
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| ... with a hot hatch engine? I honestly think this is my last Porsche (or last new one at any rate). I have no interest in small four cylinder turbo engines and don't care how good the motoring press tell me they are. I reckon it's a V8 Mustang next, with lots of money spent making it more trick. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 14:20
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| ... was still working perfectly (you could hear it engaging and disengaging) but you can't buy them so BMW charged us over £500 for the privilege. But engines and what not generally tend to be pretty bulletproof now. In all the years of owning my Tiburon the only one thing to fail was the MAF, and ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 22:25
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| Been getting intermittent limp mode with my TDi Leon, usually when the engines cold and or giving it beans. Happened more and more on the run up to Christmas then the coolant light came on and realised it was practically empty! Topped it up and the limp mode ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 23:29
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| Also, as I understand it from the resident Audi-fan at work, the engines in the S4 are relatively unstressed, so as long as you don't knob around with them, they're capable of big mileages without too much fuss. alternatively, a simple map download puts ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 23:01
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| Also, as I understand it from the resident Audi-fan at work, the engines in the S4 are relatively unstressed, so as long as you don't knob around with them, they're capable of big mileages without too much fuss. alternatively, a simple map download puts ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 20:45
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| ... a bill measured in the long thousands of pounds for a scary variety of ailments.) Also, as I understand it from the resident Audi-fan at work, the engines in the S4 are relatively unstressed, so as long as you don't knob around with them, they're capable of big mileages without too much fuss. It's ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 21:34
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| ... not sure about voltage. I've recently started a game development course at University, so I'm looking for a CPU that'll easily run big game engines (Such as Unreal 4) for the next 4/5-ish years, and of course I will be gaming on it too. Budget is kinda... not sure at this point, it'll really ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
| Cavey |
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 15:42
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| ... years esp with tensioners (for some unfathomable reason), so their high end bikes like the VFR-800 V4 now have gear driven cams (as do most race engines). Not sure why gear driven cams aren't more common - money/complexity/noise I guess. Apparently the old V6 Capris had them so it's not exactly ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 15:01
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| Chains are no guarantee of safety. There's a very well documented issue with VW 1.8 and 2.0TSI engines from around 2008-2010 where the cam chain tensioner would fail, with exactly the same results as a snapped belt. Anyway, what you want is a nice Fiat Punto with a 1.2 ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 14:20
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| Chains are no guarantee of safety. There's a very well documented issue with VW 1.8 and 2.0TSI engines from around 2008-2010 where the cam chain tensioner would fail, with exactly the same results as a snapped belt. Anyway, what you want is a nice Fiat Punto with a 1.2 ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 14:11
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Replies: 30631
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| ... with since it routinely spins out to 8200rpm. Chains are no guarantee of safety. There's a very well documented issue with VW 1.8 and 2.0TSI engines from around 2008-2010 where the cam chain tensioner would fail, with exactly the same results as a snapped belt. Anyway, what you want is a ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Political Banter and Debate Thread |
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 16:56
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| ... ctrl-f, and typed 'eleph'. Took maybe... 45 seconds? Perhaps a minute, to be fair. I mean, seriously, why would I page through your posts? Search engines exist. He certainly leads an exciting life, fit for an Oxford alumnus. I'm not an alumnus, I dropped out. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Downloading videos from youtube |
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 23:28
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We are soon going on a long, long flight.
Young Master T loves youtube videos of fire engines, so I would like to download some and get them onto the ipad for him to watch on the flight. A quick google reveals quite a few options. Which is Da Best choice?
Thanks |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 14:20
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Replies: 30631
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| ... much bulletproof apart from occasional oil leaks on some (and only minor) - they don't have the same level of problems that the other big V8 BMW engines have. The one I've just taken delivery of is on 139K but you really couldn't tell, it's still just like driving a big armchair on wheels. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
| DavPaz |
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:56
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| How quickly did you shut it off when it went? From my limited research the Clios use interference engines so if the cam belt goes there's a good chance the engine has stuffed itself, but if you were quick to shut it down it might have limited the damage. I coasted to a ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:11
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| How quickly did you shut it off when it went? From my limited research the Clios use interference engines so if the cam belt goes there's a good chance the engine has stuffed itself, but if you were quick to shut it down it might have limited the damage. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits & Bobs 44 |
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 14:03
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| ... is at the end again. Which is good for people that are new to this kind of thing and haven't had years of practise optimising things for search engines like we have. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Hearthstone thread |
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 15:44
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Replies: 3553
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| ... timeframe? You've then got pretty much the worst boards known to man, although there are a few buff cards in there I suppose and some decent draw engines. If I come across this deck I shall freeze and fatigue it to the utmost of my abilities, even if I still lose at the end. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Clarkson |
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 22:02
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| ... mains electricity that is generated in fossil fuel plants is burnt more efficiently and can have better pollutant controls than petrol or diesel engines. But not all energy comes from there; renewables and nuclear are significant and growing, and likely to continue to grow in the coming decades. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Sunless Sea (PC/Mac) |
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 23:08
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| ... and its heartening to see that there is an achievable outcome. The simplicity and grandeur of the premise really stokes you for firing up those engines, too. But in walks with Johnny Tightlips, a handy mentor for this game and, no... he's shrugging his shoulders, shaking his head. "Hey, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Scottish stamp duty |
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 17:08
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| ... and in charge of a cow in Scotland. The law is part of the (alcohol) Licensing Act of 1872 and actually also includes horses and steam engines. It allegedly carries a penalty fine of up to 1,200 GBP excluding the costs of looking after the cow, horse, etc. :blown: :blown: :blown: |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Interesting things Wednesday |
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 13:50
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I have just been shown how Rolls-Royce test jet engines, from my office window I can see a Trent 900.
The thrust is engaged by a big silver throttle.
I want to say make it so.... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gas Guzzling Money Pits |
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 20:50
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What's your budget?
The previous generation VAG 2.0 TDI engines in a golf, Leon or Octavia will get close to 50mpg when driven sensibly and 9ish seconds to 60 if not.
The current generation ones are 10% better and 10% faster. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:35
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| ... your rubbish in, which in busy periods means that you will often queue for up to an hour in your car to get in - and most people leave their engines running of course, which presumably kind of upsets the whole "environmentally friendly recycling" thing. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Elite |
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 18:50
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| ... ride across the plains of Hyrule. I nearly shouted 'FREEEEDOM!' In the vein of my Scottish countrymen. Breaking free of the dock and boosting my engines felt like graduating from some interstellar university. I wished I had a hat to throw in the air and cheer. More satisfying than after more ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 21:57
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| ... be an arsehole. And I struggle to see how I'm being discourteous by waiting for a safe chance to pass, not sitting on their wheels, not revving engines or using my horn (although others were, unsurprisingly) even if it takes, as before, about 2.5 miles. I do, however, reserve the right to think ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 21:50
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| ... be an arsehole. And I struggle to see how I'm being discourteous by waiting for a safe chance to pass, not sitting on their wheels, not revving engines or using my horn (although others were, unsurprisingly) even if it takes, as before, about 2.5 miles. I do, however, reserve the right to think ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 19:29
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| ... big pink steamie," says Diesel, the bad-boy engine. (For the record, all the "villains" on Thomas and Friends are the dirty diesel engines. I'd like to think there was a good environmental message in there, but when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:34
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| ... life. That was done over winter so they are in theory good until the end of 2015 - just the regular service costs to find. I believe it's the engines that will then be the next potential show stopper. They had to use their last pair of complete spares last year to replace some damages while ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: B&B 43 |
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:27
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| ... life. That was done over winter so they are in theory good until the end of 2015 - just the regular service costs to find. I believe it's the engines that will then be the next potential show stopper. They had to use their last pair of complete spares last year to replace some damages while ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Formula 1 F1 2014 |
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 21:11
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Pundabaya wrote: Still worried about how the engines sound?
And about how ugly the cars are. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Formula 1 F1 2014 |
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 20:56
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| Still worried about how the engines sound? |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Forza Horizon 2 - Xbox 360 and Xbox one |
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 16:23
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| ... our hands-on time with the game. That sound you hear in the distance is the sound check for another music festival and the revving up of supercar engines… http://assets2.ignimgs.com/2014/05/30/anthemkeyarthorizontalv2rgbjpg-dcff4a_610w.jpg http://assets2.ignimgs.com/2014/05/30/anthemboxshotsx360rightv1-convertedjpg-dcff4b_610w.jpg ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The PC Gaming Topic |
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 14:58
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| ... to the Mun. To slow down at the Mun to avoid being slingshotted out of the system I basically turned on my engine a tiny bit + held rotate, cut engines and then let it rotate until I was facing the direction I wanted to and them FULL THROTTLE. Slowing down at the Mun to avoid a Kerbal escape, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Kickstarter |
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:03
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Replies: 520
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Grim... wrote: Bamba wrote: What's Sony got to do with it? They have a lot of second-hand emotion engines.
That's the greatest thing that's ever been written anywhere. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Kickstarter |
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 10:36
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Grim... wrote: Bamba wrote: What's Sony got to do with it? They have a lot of second-hand emotion engines.
:applause: |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Kickstarter |
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 10:32
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Bamba wrote: What's Sony got to do with it?
They have a lot of second-hand emotion engines. |
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