Joseph_Pestell

6 minutes ago, Hobby said:

 

A quick search (I had to because I didn't know what ACL was!) reveals that a woman is 4 to 6 times more likely to be affected by it than men.

That's an interesting stat, perhaps reflecting that claim that hip dysplasia in women (female children) is putting more strain on ACL.

But what I meant is that there seems to be an increasing incidence of ACL injuries in both sexes. That could be down to pitches or to the design of the boots.

On 06/08/2023 at 14:23, Graham108 said:

These any good?

Useful photos. They show that the design closely follows that of Jouef steam loco tender drives. Daft arrangement with the motor overhang causing the driven bogie to be unbalanced such that only one axle is really providing any traction. 

It may mean that any split gears on a Class 40 could be recovered from a scrap tender drive.

8 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Painted black it would make a convincing hearse.

Where I lived in France, the Mairie used an ancient Renault estate as a hearse.

On one occasion the gentleman to be interred was rather tall and his coffin was too long for the rear door to be closed. I rather expected him to slide out on the steep hill up to the church.

21 hours ago, hayfield said:

 

Joseph

 

Is it the VAR at fault or those operating it ?  In most cases VAR gets it right, especially when its fact based and it is right and proper that every goal, penalty and sending off is checked.

 

Where there is a contention is where its a judgement call, there will always be a mistake as in the Man U and Wolves game and players and refs will make mistakes. plus VAR can only intervene is specific instances. Yesterday's West Ham match in the lead up the commentator (after reviewing the incident) stated a foul was made on a Chelsea player, and from the loss of possession a goal was scored

 

Nothing is perfect however what we have now is far superior to 4 or 5 years ago (pre VAR) Now most of the incorrect decisions are rectified. And most VAR checks are completed whilst the game continues

 

The delays in most cases caused by VAR reviews are reducing, extra time now is mostly injury or timewasting which is being clamped down, if anything the extra added time is making it even more enjoyable. Perhaps the pressure for referees to change their minds on reviewing an incident may be too high, it would be nice to see the odd (original) decision upheld.  

 

Injuries especially ACL are becoming more regular, more so in the woman's game. This is where sports science should be more evident, is it the pitches, sportswear or the ever increasing workload placed on players.

 

As for the England Nigeria game, its always dodgy on the side being punished, but perfectly correct on the side gaining the benefit !!  As for the final the penalty was a bit harsh, but then Earps was seemingly moving forward before the ball was kicked !!! Not even checked by VAR !!! two wrongs perhaps making it right ?

When I talk about VAR, I am not talking about the equipment. I mean the whole process including the rather large team of people. The machinery is never wrong except in cases where the camera angles don't give adequate info. The vast majority of VAR "incidents" are due to the people.

I resent your comment about the England-Nigeria game. I am not generally an England supporter (except for cricket, where my country is subsumed, and the Red Roses, because I have met them). I was looking at it from the perspective of an ex-referee which is why I was impressed by the referee getting herself into such good position to make the original decision.

I am not sure that it is just the women that are getting more ACL injuries.

12 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Good moaning, just from a rather warm Charente.   It is likely to be up in the mid 30's this afternoon.  A good day was head yesterday at the snail eating  festival.  550 of us were served 32 each and they were delicious as the second course in a much bigger meal.   All for 22 Euros.   It took about 6 hours and we were the only Anglais there.  Then the football was watched after which we turned our phones and tablets back on.  

 

This morning it was a trip to see the Dr for my 3 monthly prescription.   No problems there.   However a molar started causing me grief yesterday.  Paracetamol calmed it down and it is bearable today.  However our Dentist is on holiday till September 4th.  I mentioned this to the Dr and she has given me a prescription .  Now off to do a few minor tasks then not a lot this afternoon.   I believe there is freshly made courgette soup for lunch.   The courgettes have done brilliantly this year.

 

Jamie

32 snails seems like rather a lot to me. Are they a smaller breed than is usually served? Usually get 6 or 12 when served as a starter, and that's quite enough for me.

5 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I thought there was mention of 100 years? At about 2m 20 secs.

Possibly 100 years (assumed reserves). 50 years on confirmed reserves.

Amazing project. I do recall it first being proposed and the amount of concern for the landscape.

2 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

Unless things have changed, that's not a bay but a siding alongside the through line where the EPB is departing ..... hence the Brake Third being accessed by steps as its not at a platform.

I definitely agree that this photo is showing the passenger accommodation to be attached to the car-carrying vans of the Okehampton Motorail. Presumably, passengers would not embark using those steps but would have to wait until the train had been assembled and shunted into a platform road.

On 15/08/2023 at 15:39, Gareth Collier said:

A few years in and I'm still not a fan of VAR or if it even works.

Last night the Man Utd goalie jumped for the ball, missed it completely and wiped out the Wolves attacker, a stone wall penalty in seemingly everyone's eyes except the ref but never mind the VAR ref and VAR assistant are on call to rectify his mistake...... Nope, evidently not so it was down to the PGMOL to apologise to Wolves for the error but that doesn't award them a penalty and the chance of a last minute equaliser.

It wastes time, no one knows what is going on, you can't celebrate goals and they still can't get easy decisions right.

So agree. If VAR can't get right a decision like that, it is a waste of space and time. The delays to the game are wrecking it as a spectacle and could even lead to player injury.

The England-Nigeria game was the same. The referee had positioned herself ideally for a clear view of the incident and correctly awarded a penalty (positioning is always the key to good refereeing). But then VAR persuades her to go look at the monitor and change the decision. Dodgy or what? 

On 14/08/2023 at 09:46, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

That probably should be the case. But the history of football shows that a team which wins a difficult semi-final often underperforms in the final against a nominally weaker team.

Told you so.

Strangely enough, the Lionesses have replicated the Roses: a long stretch of winning matches until a final.

2 hours ago, Flying Fox 34F said:

Somewhere in my computer files, I have a diagram of a BR proposal for a rebuilt Buchanan Street station.  It appears BR was considering doing away with Queen Street at the time.  IIRC, the diagram was created before the end of Steam, and features a small servicing point with turntable.

I’ll see if I can locate it if you are interested?

 

Paul

If you Google it as Glasgow North, you should be able to find it easily. Rather large to model and not that interesting in my opinion.

This is not a matter of scale so the Ratio system can work perfectly well. You may need to drill an extra hole in any crank to reduce the amount of throw.

11 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

I've lived in this house for 35 years, I still find things that I'd completely forgotten or didn't know I had.

I can't match 35. But when we cleared out my parents' house in France where they had lived for 26 years, we found some items that had clearly been untouched after an expensive removal from the UK. The most obvious example was boxes of headed notepaper with the London address on.

15 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Woe is me!

 

Fish, chips and mushy peas for our evening meal, and a can of Old Speckled Hen has just burst open and has to be drunk before it goes off.

 

I think his friend who is hiding in the fridge might also feel he needs more exposure.

Beer cans bursting is now quite commonplace. All down to costcutting with thinner metal.

7 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

I would guess Mallaig?

 

Dave

Close. Mallaig is a little further east than Arisaig.

11 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I think there was a Trivial Pursuit question as to whether Bristol was further West than Edinburgh.  Trick because most people think of the UK as being aligned vertically rather than nnw to sse, 

 

One odd fact,  we, Iive very close to the Greenwich Meridian at 0 degrees plus a few minutes West.  IIRC I cross the meridian every time I go trainspotting 

 

Jamie

A very standard railway quiz question: what is the furthest west station in Great Britain? Not on here of course, but most Brits would answer Penzance.

22 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

 

 

 

And changing a headlamp bulb.

 

My big bugbear with modern cars.

Our Nissan Qashqai was bad. Various waterpipes had to be removed to get at the bulb and then reassembled afterwards. Needless to say, with such a heat source next to it, the bulb (LH) never lasted long.

The VW Beetle is even worse with the bulb very difficult to access. Local Kwik-Fit refused to even try.

On 12/08/2023 at 18:24, britishcolumbian said:

Matildas vs Lionesses will decide who wins the world cup.

That probably should be the case. But the history of football shows that a team which wins a difficult semi-final often underperforms in the final against a nominally weaker team.

29 minutes ago, Gareth Collier said:

I'm wondering if the ceiling for transfers fees will ever be reached as there seems no stopping the rich throwing more and more 0's around?

Moises Caicedo - being a Brighton fan I've seen him play a number of times but £115m, really? He's certainly talented but he's only got 45 Premier League appearances under his belt since his debut April last year and I'd argue in over half of those he was ok at best.

Anyhow Chelsea saw something and offered £60m, Brighton said £100m and he's yours and Chelsea said not a chance. A month later and after Liverpool offered £111m Chelsea get their man for £115m. I'm guessing negotiation isn't a strong area for Chelsea.

Tony Bloom can't believe his luck, £111m profit in 2 years and Chelsea have now paid us £224m in the last year.

Do you recall that book which had a chapter titled "What the average chairman knows about football". It consisted of a blank page.

I suspect that the author might have found something rather pithy to say about Tod Boehly.

In France, all pharmacists are expected to know their mushrooms. Foragers who are uncertain can take their basket of mushrooms to be checked.

Our local rugby pitch produced quite a crop. Harvesting before the crop would be ruined by the Sunday afternoon match was supervised by the local retired pharmacist.

16 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I remember them being cheap in the 70'swas it the early Silver Shadows. The first with a monocoque body rather than coach built on a chassis. 

 

Jamie

And a serious propensity for tin beetle.

A friend once collected me from Plymouth Station in his father's Rolls (we were down in Devon for a wedding). There was another Roller there picking up the Mayor of Plymouth. Made me feel quite grand but I found it very disappointing as a car.

No, it was nothing like a fine wine. Tried plenty of those (not so many as I would like) and never had a problem.

21 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Shock Horror!

 

If the strike is not settled, we may run out of Irn-Bru!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66455140

 

Not that it'll affect me, I can't remember ever consuming the stuff...

 

 

I had never tried Irn Bru in my 66 years of life. But just recently, my curiosity got the better of me. Not a good experience.

16 minutes ago, JeffP said:

Been caught out TWICE by internet sites selling tickets.

Both P&O and DFDS  sites, unknown to me defaulted back to the month you were booking IN instead of the month you wanted to travel.

Booking crossings for Easter during the month of February caused the problem. February that year having the usual 28 days, the day of the week of the booked sailing remained the same, so no red flag. Result: turned up at Dover with a booking for the previous month.

P&O sorted it, just had to pay a bit more at the port.

DFDS refused point blank, and I had to pay again.😒 Goodness knows what'll happen if they do close all ticket offices.

I have had the same problem with Brittany Ferries, Portsmouth. 

As I had an appointment the following morning in Brittany, I ended up having to drive overnight via the Channel.

There is clearly a serious glitch in the software.

Passed through Manc Victoria yesterday on my way to Chester. Coffee/snack provision there is a converted horsebox. IIRC Oxford do a suitable model.

Sadly, missed out on this Accurascale "takeover" as I went to Chester yesterday. Oddly, my first ever visit to the city given that my grandmother lived on the Wirral.

It really is an impressive model and I hope it gets out to other exhibitions. Operation was a bit iffy as they were allowing visitors (mainly children) to drive trains. Can the Accurascale team do any worse.