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  1. Are speed limits only for petrol/diesel cars? Asking for a friend ...

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      What's the world speed record for a push bike?

       

    3. Nick C
    4. Cwmtwrch

      Cwmtwrch

      All powered vehicles, including electric vehicles, are classed as motor vehicles under the RTA, even those ***** electric scooters, although there is an exception for some [but not all] electric bicycles. They are therefore all subject to speed limits and restrictions on where they can be legally used, must be taxed and insured, and users must have licences and are subject to minimum age requirements.

  2. Good bye Forces TV, only just made it into the Radio Times, gone tomorrow.

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    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      BFBS - remember it well. I also remember Forces Favourites!

       

      Forces TV removed from Freeview as of tomorrow.

    3. Pacific231G

      Pacific231G

      Yes. I've just checked and it's going from Sky and Virgin also. Apparently, Offcom flogged the frequencies its multiplex uses to EE who wanted more of them for 5G. BFBS decided that that without being of Freeview it wasn't financially viable to run the channel just on the paid for networks.

      As always, a public service (in this case run by a charity mainly for our servicemen and women and their families but appreciated by many other viewers) loses out to commercial interests.

      I knew one their senior engineers who I'd worked with on the Microlive programme in the 1980s who went to BFBS after leaving the beeb. He showed me round their HQ near Missenden once. 

    4. QWILPEN

      QWILPEN

      shame it was a good station

  3. The return of Cuthbert the Caterpillar!

  4. Filled car with fuel £78! I've never spent so much.

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      At that rate of comparison, the fuel sounds almost reasonable!  However its not the same as the rake of Hornby Railroad Mk1s that could be obtained before things went mad....

       

    3. NHY 581

      NHY 581

      You think that's bad. More importantly,  have you seen the price of Nickel now ? 

       

      Better get your PECO streamline while you still can............

       

      Rob. 

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Burgulars will be breaking into houses to rip up model railway track to sell to scrap dealers, and ignore all the expensive locos, etc.  Just like the real thing!

       

  5. Not saying it's windy here, but my wheelie bin is on a speed awareness course later this month!

    1. mike morley

      mike morley

      I've just been out to my shed and found it swaying and rocking so much I think I'd end up seasick if I stayed in there more than a few minutes!

    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Never mind speed awareness courses - or the "rock and roll" routine - some bins round here are doing flying lessons.

       

      I wonder if this might have anything to do with some of them containing empty Red Bull cans ... .

       

      OK - I get the message: Hat - coat - all gone ... .

       

       

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Just been to shove my wheelies back into a corner, they were about to begin exploring the garden wall.

       

      Sometimes, if they've not been fed recently, they're almost sentient....

       

  6. When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
    And resentment rides high but emotions won't grow

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      LWTUAG is all very well, but

       

      Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way
      Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away

       

      Says it all.

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      That was supposed to be LWTUAA...

       

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      Joy Division Oven Gloves

       

      That extra-special Xmas gift from JML. At all good stores!

       

      For some reason, it won't let me edit my previous post...

    4. Barry Ten
  7. A local preserved railway had a Peppa Pig day, complete with Hog Roast.

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    2. Neil

      Neil

      What's with the Bullingdon Club's fascination with pigs?

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      They have a Boars Head at Christmas?

       

    4. truffy

      truffy

      Did BoJo attend? He loves Peppa. 

  8. What is it about dogs? Incessant barking from the neighbour's dog.

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Its when the howling starts that you should be worried....

       

      Is it the dog, or is it the owner.

       

    3. DK123GWR

      DK123GWR

      @truffy The Wurzels have an alternative method which uses tools easier to obtain in this country.

       

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

       

      The Wurzles even make the Barron Knights sound sensible!. though after that lot, its no wonder that Punk seemed a good idea...

       

       

  9. Have you noticed on the Amazon advert 'Pompey destroyed in 79AD', the Alexa moves itself as the camera focuses in. Creepy or what!

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      I don't think an ordinary Roman, citizen or slave, would know anything about the Anno Domini dating system (Popularised by the Venerable Bede in the 7th/8th century). 

       

      Year dating in Rome around then was by reference to  the current Caesar and the Consuls for the year. So if the poor bu@@er had his wits about him, he might have blurted, in Latin, something like "its the Year of the Consulship of Titus and Vespasianus", or if an intellectual, "Year 832 since the founding of Rome".

       

      The movement of an Echo device is the least of the annoyances about that futile ad!

       

       

      Hehehehehehe...  :crazy:

       

      btw Pompey was a Roman general who died over a century before the eruption of Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum and other places......

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      So it's not the place by the Isle of Wight?

    4. truffy

      truffy

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      Pompey destroyed in 79AD

       

      They were relegated shortly thereafter.

  10. First time the status update has worked in weeks for me!

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    2. truffy

      truffy

      “I'm left-handed - but there's nothing scary about that“
       

      One of my brothers and my youngest daughter are both left handed. And both were/are the biggest handful growing up. 
       

      So, yes, scary. 

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

       

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      One of my brothers and my youngest daughter are both left handed. And both were/are the biggest handful growing up. 

       

      Sinister, thats what I say!

       

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      I would ask Dexter!

  11. Just found that the 1923 Morris on the Titfield Thunderbolt is currently taxed!

    1. Adam
    2. 2mm Andy

      2mm Andy

      I think it appeared at the North Norfolk Railway's Titfield Thunderbolt weekend in 2012;

       

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-jGphHkfWo

       

  12. Just frightened myself by putting in some old toys on Google - the values were astonishing - I'm keeping them as a nest egg ...

  13. 100 best TV shows of the 21st Century in the Guardian. I haven't seen any of them ...

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      Whats worrying is not thet the shows are so niche, but that we're not even a fifth of the way into the 21st century.  Perhaps the Guardian is worrying that we won't even get to the half-way mark!

  14. I saw a mouse, where? There on the stair ..

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Was it going clip clippety clop on the shelf?

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Well, I declare!

  15. RMweb is verrrrrrry slowwwwwww

    1. richbrummitt

      richbrummitt

      I'm lucky when it doesn't timeout and it's been like this for days.:(

    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      They did a software update a few days ago.  Its probably been reindexing itself.

       

       

  16. According to the latest Toyota advert, I'd rather be in a Corolla than an E type. I think not!

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    2. 45568

      45568

      Toyota=whitegoods on wheels! The vehicle you buy when you have no interest in motoring or driving, would make Shumacher drive like a 85-year old vicar.

    3. tigerburnie

      tigerburnie

      The E-type is all right if you don't mind getting the bus home, not a very well built car and on the original cross ply tyres not a very good drive either.

  17. Just saw Captain Kernow on the TV!

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Can I get a licence refund?

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      No, you may not. It goes to a good cause!

    4. Harlequin

      Harlequin

      Are Spotlight covering the 14XX chassis upgrade, then?

  18. storms in channel continent cut off

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Storms in channel, Cornwall and West Devon cut off.

    2. Patrick

      Patrick

      I hope they've taken the roads in...

    3. 43179

      43179

      Dover for the continent , Bognor for the incontinent

  19. Alexa's advice "give up railway modelling"

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    2. bgman

      bgman

      Totally agree CK !

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      CK. Is that the place up above Slice?

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Somewhere north of Watford, I am led to believe.

  20. Be afraid, be very afraid. Singing parcels are coming to get you ...

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    2. Liam

      Liam

      Can you feel it? ;)

    3. sem34090

      sem34090

      Disgusting, Mr SVRlad... :P

    4. Liam

      Liam

      I know. I find all of their adverts in general irritating....

  21. All the leaves are brown And the sky is grey I've been for a walk On a winter's day

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    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Stopped into a church I passed along the way but some scallies had nicked the lead off the roof

    3. 11B

      11B

      Passenger on a Northern service!

    4. davefrk

      davefrk

      You're so poetic Tim...

  22. Open the pod bay doors HAL.

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    2. 25901

      25901

      Alexa, open the f@@king doors

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      That skill is not available Dave.

    4. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      I‘m sorry, Dave, I did not understand what you said.

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