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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Climate change in last few days eh?? in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
Schools closed, transport at a standstill, councils running out of salt …. UK is a country of wimps ….. one day sprinkling of snow and we can’t cope. Austria, Switzerland, Norway have it worse than us … and for longer, yet their daily lives don’t get affected.
It’s not comparing like with like though. Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Canada…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Urban Legends in the board Chat forum one boards 16 years ago
During the 1950’s the Bristol Car Company were active in sports car racing and they made various versions of a model called the 450 including a very odd-looking LeMans racer, the 450LM.
However Bristol found they couldn’t afford to keep up with the likes of Jaguar and pulled out of motor sport. The 450LM cars were scrapped. Or were they? There…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Strangely silent skies today. in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
Possibly. I think maybe a lot of flights from Europe had been cancelled because of the weather yesterday but it’s odd that I didn’t see a single plane – high-flying, low-flying, big or small, fixed wing or helicopter whan normally I’d see perhaps 30 or 40 in 2 hours.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic british jobs for british workers in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
I think if a foreign firm already has its own employees it’s OK to send them over to do jobs here if it’s short-term. On the other hand, if they need to recruit people for such a contract, they should recruit local to the job.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic anybody aboot in the board Off topic chat 16 years ago
Just popped by but I’m off again now. Au revoir!
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Name 5 things about you,,,, in the board Off topic chat 16 years ago
Kind
Artistic
Over 50
No middle-age spread yet
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic A127 in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
As a Train Driver for over 30 years, we were taught “Be able to stop in the distance I can see to be clear”.
Yes. As a train driver you’d be particularly well aware of kinetic energy and how it increases with the square of speed. Railways have speed limits and I think I’m right in saying that train drivers observe them without question.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic A127 in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
If you are driving, you should be concentrating. If you are increasing your speed to the extent you need to concentrate MORE, you are probably driving too fast for the conditions.
Saying that slow drivers are more dangerous than fast ones is one of those highway myths.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic A127 in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
Apart from driving dangerously and carelessly, more accidents are caused by low speed being the factor as the driver is less alert. This has been proved but of course, they can’t can’t drain as much money from the motorist as they can from speeding.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic A127 in the board Getting serious 16 years ago
The dual-carriageway speed limit for LGV’s (large goods vehicles – i.e. lorries over 7.5 tonnes gross weight) is already 50 mph. So there’s no change there for drivers of heavy lorries.
LGV’s are fitted with speed limiters which prevent them from exceeding 56 mph, even on motorways, where the law permits them to do 60 mph!
Lowering speeds on…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Nicknames, are they wrong ? in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
I see old Jugears is in trouble too now for calling a member of his polo team Sooty!
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Is this sentence long enough? in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
Causing death by dangerous driving has a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. To be murder, it would have to be a deliberate act of violence. This was an accident resulting from extreme recklessness by the driver.
There seem to be no mitigating circumstances in this case.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Nicknames, are they wrong ? in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
I remember we had a boy at school whose nickname was ‘Pants’.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Brit in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
Are we allowed to call ourselves white trash?
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic The End is Nigh in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
Low-energy bulbs make great sense – using a fraction of the electricity and lasting many times longer than conventional bulbs. Nearly all the bulbs in my house are low-energy and have been for years. I think one or two are still ones we brought with us from our previous house over 10 years ago.
But when conventional bulbs are phased out, I…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Derrrrrrrrrrrrrr in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
It’s not a ‘bloody great’ BMW, it’s a BMW 1 Series, which is about the size of a VW Golf not as good looking.
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Are we being watched? in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
I think one blade came loose, the turbine became unbalanced, the blade broke away and collided with the other two, mangling them, before falling to the ground. The lights could have been to do with electrical disturbance or shorting during the destruction
Or…………… could it have been ball lightning – a known phenomenon that is little…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Global Warming Update. in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
Shove CO2 that aint the problem methane is a far bigger problem than CO2
So they say – and particularly from cows and sheep around the world. But how does that compare with the amount of methane produced in untamed nature – from the sea, from rotting vegetation, from wildlife?
If Britain reverted to its natural state most of it would be oak or…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Global Warming Update. in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
Well I’m not giving up my Hairspray for anything!
That’s OK, they don’t use CFCs as propellants in aerosols any more, they were banned in (I think) 1987. But the effect on the ozone layer and the consquent global warming was predicted to continue for up to 50 years after the ban.
I have just wondered, thinking about the reduction in global…[Read more]
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Bassingbourne55 replied to the topic Global Warming Update. in the board Getting serious 17 years ago
Sorry but global warming is a fact
It was a fact until last year. From 2007 to 2008 global cooling is a fact! OK, annual statistics are just a snapshot, you can’t tell much from them. We’ve had a trend in rising temperatures for some decades now – in fact the general trend has been rising temperatures for the last 20,000 years, give or take the…[Read more]
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