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staffordjas said:
Bubble car because I suddenly remembered a few being around in the days of my little black 1963 mini , and overtaking one stuck on a deep snowy road as the middle back tyre didn't have an already made tyre track to follow.
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Nice story , hope you didnt snigger on your way past :) .
 
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There was a lad at the Poly with a Reliant. I can't remember his real name, but we never used it after the following event...

In those days, Beaconside hadn't been extended, and just became the (current) road to Sandon after the junction with Sandon Road.

A lot of students used to arrive that way from the eastern side of Stoke via Meir and Hilderstone.

"Reliant Boy" got involved in a race with a Mini that had been (Demon) tweaked for rallying. Due to the weight restriction, a Reliant was fairly quick off the mark, but not the ideal machine for corners. At the RAF bend, just after Hopton Garage, the Reliant was on the verge of rolling - a quick (over)correction as the short straight appeared, nearly rolled it the other way, and so it continued, with about eight near-roll events. Eventually, he managed to stop it and got out, ashen-faced, before being able to continue the last mile to the Poly.

It ground a good bit of fibreglass off the front corners and he was thereafter known as Flipper.

Another lad, John Aitken, also had one and did roll it, in a gale somewhere in the northeast. It ended up the right-way-up, with him and his Dulux dog still sitting in the seats, but the bodywork had shattered and "just blew away", much to the amusement of the coppers that attended the scene shortly afterwards.
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Only a dumb f*** like Jeremy Clarkson would roll a Reliant. When you get in it, you accept the physics of the vehicle, and understand that on bends it's quickly going to become unstable. So you drive it accordingly. If you've ridden a bike previously, be it pedal or motored, you understand this which instinctively guides your ability to drive the bloody things. Bikes are by nature inherently unstable, the difference being that the instability disappears as you go faster.

I'm still hurting from laughing at Clarkson blaming everything but his own stupidity when he rolled it.
 
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My last car was a Ford Fiesta. I thought it was a pretty good car. Given my previous car to that was a 3 litre Volvo Estate which I drove for 12 years and I really liked, but the Fiesta won me over every time I went to fill up with petrol and was reminded of how much nicer it was not to need my own personal oil well in the back garden. :lol:
 
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Mrs p had a Fiesta ST, three cars ago. Very nice car and it drove really well. She only changed to a Mini Clubman because the Fiesta was on the small side.
 
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A couple of days ago Amazon delivered me a cd of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon.' (You don't get a proper case anymore, just a bit of cardboard ... :eek:) This was because I lent my last copy to someone who then moved away somewhere following a marriage break up etc etc and I never got it back. :(

OK, shrug your shoulders and buy another, no big deal. (But if someone asks to borrow it, I'll consider pulling their pelvis out through their mouth. :teef: )
 
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proactive said:
I knew it wasn't going to work because of the weather really but the urgency to do a few tracking shots prior to sending off a video, made it worth giving it a try.

Client will just have to cope without the tracking shots as he makes his decision.
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Nothing messes up a project like the weather. I got some 3D scans 6 months late from a more equator-located client because they literally couldn’t use the scanning equipment it was so hot.
 
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My old dashcam finally blew up. I decided to buy a new one with GPS blah blah and ordered a micro SD card from Amazon yesterday. It arrived promptly today, but I have to ask myself why it is necessary to need tin snips to get it out of the packaging without damaging it ?

What is it with modern packaging that would stop an armour piercing shell and leaves enough sharp edges behind to make the Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a vicar's tea party ?
 
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BobClay said:
My old dashcam finally blew up. I decided to buy a new one with GPS blah blah and ordered a micro SD card from Amazon yesterday. It arrived promptly today, but I have to ask myself why it is necessary to need tin snips to get it out of the packaging without damaging it ?

What is it with modern packaging that would stop an armour piercing shell and leaves enough sharp edges behind to make the Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a vicar's tea party ?
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I’ve received scissors in clamshell packaging before now. I purchased those scissors primarily for opening clamshell packaging..
 
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