RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: I understood that naked lady skydivers always wear knicks because it stops that whistling noise..... This one was definitely not wearing any knickers. The effect of a 120 mph wind on the human skin is interesting. And the effect on female genitalia makes me think that any males doing the same would have watering eyes. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 52 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: I Googled skydiving and found this. https://www.chattanoogaskydivingcompany.com/blog/the-truth-about-naked-skydiving/ There was also a film of a young lady skydiving naked as well but I won't put it on here for obvious reasons. 19 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: I understood that naked lady skydivers always wear knicks because it stops that whistling noise..... 10 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: This one was definitely not wearing any knickers. The effect of a 120 mph wind on the human skin is interesting. And the effect on female genitalia makes me think that any males doing the same would have watering eyes. I read the comments on the film, most of them very funny. As I said I can't post it on a family forum such as RMweb but if any adult member wants to view it I can PM it too them. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 2 hours ago, PhilJ W said: .....but if any adult member wants to view it ...... Physical age or Mental age? 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 6 hours ago, Northroader said: I reckon any single driver is going to be highly good looking, without worrying about which partickler company had it, so here’s six examples, all differing designs, builders and companies, without worrying about bogie stuff neither. g I don't know, I prefer something with a little more heft : 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Oldddudders said: I understood that naked lady skydivers always wear knicks because it stops that whistling noise..... Ah, the pipe organ theory. 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 16 hours ago, Dave Hunt said: Dear Mr. Arse, At first reading I was inclined to dismiss out of hand your accusation of scurrilous statement and discriminatory comment mongering but on reflection I decided first to do some fact checking and found that your objection to my earlier post has some merit. My search has revealed that I was indeed wrong to deny hippos the ability to hang glide, although their achievements in that pursuit are somewhat limited. It turns out that the world speed record for a hang glider is held by a certain Major H. Hippo during a flight from the top of the cliffs of Mojer to a landing directly below the take off point a matter of a few seconds later. I hope that this admission of fault on my part will satisfy your objections and negate the need for 'satisfaction'. If not, then as the challenged party my choice of weapon is the McDonnell F4J, K or M. I await communication from you appointed second. D. Hunt Dear Sir Further to your recent communication regarding our abysmal attempt to excuse yourself from your lamitable evidence of a hippos ability. I await your seconds approachment and my choice of weapon is a Starstreak ground to air missile system. Yours Mr A Arse 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 Pachyderms at tea time... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 6 hours ago, Compound2632 said: @bbishop, missing the information that it was singles specifically that were under discussion, Guilty as charged, well I was skim reading. There was, of course, William Adams' "might have been" - the 8 foot single. The history of locomotive design is littered with a member of the Locomotive Committee having a good idea. This was one of them, the member had travelled from St Pancras behind a "Spinner" and suggested a similar beast on the LSWR. Adams was no fool, so John Reid took the T6 design, raised the boiler, replaced the coupled wheels with an 8 foot driver and 4' 10" trailing wheels. A quick weight diagram gave 19 ton on the driving wheels, which was unacceptable to the resident engineer. Our member did not believe this, so a letter was sent to Derby, asking for the weights of a Spinner. Johnson rather disingenuously replied with the design weights, Adams smelt a rat and asked for the actual weights, and the answer killed off the Adams single. Much to Adams' relief. Everything would have been forgotten except for the preservation of a coloured scale drawing. Bill 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) 29 minutes ago, bbishop said: Johnson rather disingenuously replied with the design weights, ... as he had done with the Midland's engineer! Edited September 4, 2021 by Compound2632 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 4, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2021 Currently staying in Colyton, I am deep into LSWR territory. My favourite English non GWR line. I once planned a small station called Merry Meeting, just west of Blisland, (a friend's grandfather had once owned the forge there) on the line up to Wenford Bridge. Unlike the real thing, my version had a vestigial passenger service. I'll dig out the plan and bore you all with it once I get back to the Hippodrome. For those who feel that that Cornish clay line has been just slightly over exposed, it would transpose easily into West Wales. A simple name change to Llansawel and the clay branch became a quarry branch 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Well, she certainly appears to be enjoying herself.... I'd never associated the GER with singles and having now seen their efforts, I don't feel I've missed very much 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) Afternoon all, A good but sweltering session at the track was had today. On the way home we passed these Dash 9s (probably, don’t quote me on that) heading south on the old Frisco mainline. With regards to 4-2-2s, my absolute favorite is Sturrock’s GNR experimental, the first east coast high speed engine. Credit Douglas Edited September 4, 2021 by Florence Locomotive Works 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted September 4, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2021 I had Sturrocks once, but the doctor gave me some antibiotics. 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I had Sturrocks once, but the doctor gave me some antibiotics. Andy we really could use one… Edited September 4, 2021 by Florence Locomotive Works 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: my absolute favorite is Sturrock’s GNR experimental, the first east coast high speed engine. A standard gauge version of Gooch's broad gauge singles; Archibald Sturrock had been Gooch's works manager at Swindon before moving to Doncaster in 1850. He retired in 1866 but lived to 1909 - long enough to witness the rise and fall of the second generation of singles. 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 This is interesting, I'd like to go and see it. https://nla.london/exhibitions/the-new-london-model 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Ian is right about falling objects. They can only accelerate indefinitely at 10m a second squared in a vacuum. Not in the case of hippos. They have sufficient mass to distort space-time enough to cause the Earth to accelerate towards the hippo thereby reducing the net acceleration. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, AndyID said: Not in the case of hippos. They have sufficient mass to distort space-time Is it in fact the case that your average hippo is sufficiently massive that, from its relativistic reference frame, it perceives the Earth as revolving around it? 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted September 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 4, 2021 And there are people here who think I'm crazy..... Dave 2 4 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 55 minutes ago, AndyID said: They cause the Earth to accelerate towards the hippo … I believe this is correct. Gravity is a mutual attractive force. Any body falling towards the Earth is also causing the Earth to move ‘upwards’ towards that body. Normally, because of the huge imbalance in mass, this movement of the Earth is completely imperceptible, but in the case of hippos? - who knows! 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 (edited) Evening all, First light and temporary coat of black applied to the SB door, looking pretty good IMHO. I’m still undecided as to what to use for a dart, but it will be in LNWR/Caledonian style with a wheel and handle. This specific design of door was inspired by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway 4-6-4 tanks and the MR Johnson Compound. Dinner was had at the grandparents house this evening, and it consisted of red beans and rice with a fruit tart for desert. Thankfully all the family down in New Orleans are safe and have electricity, but no tv. Most got generators right before the storm, so they don’t have mains power yet. The only problem with that is finding gas. Re the Sturrock single, I had read that it was more or less a standard gauge Iron Duke, but I did not know Sturrock was ever employed by the GWR. Thank you for that. Douglas Edited September 5, 2021 by Florence Locomotive Works 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 6 hours ago, PhilJ W said: This is interesting, I'd like to go and see it. https://nla.london/exhibitions/the-new-london-model Big models are always interesting. I visited the Ringling Museum in Sarasota in Jan 20 and was much impressed by the "circus model" including, at one end a very nice "circus train" model which I believe is 1 gauge, you might imagine the size if the whole layout ... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted September 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2021 7 hours ago, AndyID said: Not in the case of hippos. They have sufficient mass to distort space-time enough to cause the Earth to accelerate towards the hippo thereby reducing the net acceleration. 7 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Is it in fact the case that your average hippo is sufficiently massive that, from its relativistic reference frame, it perceives the Earth as revolving around it? 6 hours ago, pH said: I believe this is correct. Gravity is a mutual attractive force. Any body falling towards the Earth is also causing the Earth to move ‘upwards’ towards that body. Normally, because of the huge imbalance in mass, this movement of the Earth is completely imperceptible, but in the case of hippos? - who knows! All the above made Bear think that Hippos could be THE answer to Global Warming - all we need to do is put the word out that FREE cake would always be available, but only in the middle of the night at one specific location on Earth. Net result? (1) Mass migration of Hippos (2) World moves towards Hippos (who are on the side furthest away from the Sun) - so the World effectively moves away from the Sun and hence drops the temperature. Cunning, eh? At that point in the planning (and bearing in mind it's only 07:14 on a Sunday morning) Bear's brain began to hurt; visions of a World Cake Shortage didn't help and eventually I thought that such a plan just wasn't worth the cost. Another great idea crashes n' burns. Oh well. 2 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted September 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2021 All I did was post about a hippo falling off a cliff and now we're on to relativity and global warming. What on earth would happen if someone was incautious enough to mention black holes and time dilation in the vicinity of extremely large masses...... Oops. Dave 5 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2021 10 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: What on earth would happen Cherenkov radiation I suspect. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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