MartynJPearson

And given that there is only one photo, we have to assume that's the good side

The linked video at the end of the 59003 surely qualifies as the perfect example of level crossing stupidity - I suspect coupled with drink. NB - does contain bad language.

Are you getting brassed off?

It has it's own beer lorry? That's my kind of squirrel!

Corrected for you!!

The slightly slower cousin of the HST available here... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224639298763?hash=item344d8baccb:g:kTQAAOSw1ithX9zs The Intercity 123

I think I'm a supermarket too and not just occasionally, it's Aldi time.

Sadly, given that previous suggestions have been met by accusations of telling Warners how to run their business, I suspect it's unlikely they'd bother sharing that knowledge.

But in much of the same vein as Martin's comment that it is up to the site owners what goes on the site, the you are of course hosting the advertising service on your site and therefore allowing them to do the tracking It strikes me that there's two things that are annoying people, the fact that the ads are intrusive and the fact that the ads are not relevant. Maybe this is just what happens when you use a third party advertising provider, which lead me to wonder whether it would be more effective to manage ads yourselves. Warner clearly already has a department dedicated to advertising for BRM and other publications, so it doesn't seem an insurmountable step to extend that to website advertising too. The result would be that ads are relevant to the audience and actually complement the site. I guess the caveat is that there needs to be enough of an income to cover any extra cost of not just farming out ad management to a third party (although it would result in less time moderating conversations like this one!), and that's something commercially sensitive that isn't going to get debated in the open.

I wasn't really involved in the hobby at the time and during that period my trains were safely tucked away in their boxes. For me though, it was a little sad to see them go under. As a diesel era modeller, I looked back fondly on my younger days where Lima models were the mainstay of my layout. Indeed, I still have Lima Mk1s and an HST set running on my layout today. I always thought Lima stock was better than Hornby on many different fronts. The Lima HST power cars looked far better than the Hornby offering; the carriages were the right length, and I never had any Lima stock that had grown square wheels in transit (Hornby managed that, according to the letter received in response to a complaint about half of my Hornby purchases having to go back). Albeit now in the Railroad range (Class 156 excepted) , the fact that Hornby were able to buy and put into use the Lima tooling from 30 years ago has got to be a testament to their quality at the time.

Empty shelves in B&Q now.... Guess I should find this and get my coat off it

As far as I can tell, the driver on the left is breaking the law, which says that you can carry no more than 30 litres of fuel in no more than 2 containers. Sadly I bet he got away with it.

Or maybe they realise that it would be completely impractical. How would it work? I'm afraid that expecting orderly compliance is a non-starter, so it would need petrol stations to employ doormen to make sure that cars aren't entering the forecourt unless their number matches. And then the aggravation that no doubt that would escalate too would need the police to come along and deal with it. Hopefully what the government have done is realise two things - 1) The media have a great deal of power over their audience with the ability to disrupt supply chains by overexaggerating supply issues of things people regard as essential, and 2) The media clearly cannot be trusted with this level of power.

But if someone had just painted it in engineering sample grey, you'd soon know because there might be splashes and splodges on the underframe..... oh, there are.

And you still only get 300 Nectar points if you buy!

Another online shop coming as ordered today. Meanwhile on the Nottingham Post website there's a number of panic-buying inducing threads talking about empty shelves and one very enterprising businessman who has warned of shortages of Christmas trees. Whilst making sure his Christmas tree supply company is prominently mentioned.

Absolutely, and when you consider that people still need to work to deliver them and the supply chain that supports them, it shows just how a lockdown wasn't a lockdown for so many people who had to continue. Even if you considered food, water, medicine and toilet roll to be the bare essentials, farmers need to continue to grow and provide the food, factories need to continue producing medicines and toilet rolls, they need the raw materials so their suppliers need to continue working, then it needs to be transported which means that lorry drivers are needed, who in turn need fuel and Yorkie bars, then of course there is all of the utilities needed and the people required to keep them running. The "lockdowns don't work" mantra was probably incorrect; we didn't see a lockdown as we just can't do it.

I wonder how many of the empty shelves are actually caused by media fuelled panic buying, rather than logistics issues. Tomorrow Never Dies (the one where the media baron tries to spark war with China to increase newspaper sales) really is becoming more and more believable when you see the behaviour of the BBC and other media. At every opportunity, they appear to doing what they can to stoke up hatred and division and cause fear amongst their audience. There are those that state that they are only reporting facts, but remember, the editorial team choose which facts that they report. Brexit is a gift to them in order to cause division but through Covid they have once again wielded their powers, suggesting on many occasions food shortages which never materialised in order it seems to cause more trouble to report on. Did anyone naturally think "I'll stock up on 6 months worth of toilet paper just in case" when lockdown started? The rational would think that supplies of essentials would be protected and that as we could still shop for essentials there would be no issue. But along comes the media, and hey, we have the entire country divided into two camps, those that have recreated an Andrex puppy's paradise in their garage, and those that fear having to find out just how effective the daily rag will be when it comes to wiping down below. I strongly suspect too that the efforts of the media to undermine the government during Covid have made matters a lot worse; whenever advice is given the media seem adept at finding and giving air time to those "experts" who disagree. Take masks for example. Yes, masks will not completely stop the virus from spreading but they have to help. As an analogy imagine some railings that your fist will just fit through. Punch through the railings a few times and you represent the virus which escapes the mask. Now close your eyes and do the same again. Every bruised knuckle represents the virus which is caught by the mask. But the media wheels out the "masks don't work" expert which coupled with the "masks only protect others" expert and a disappointingly self centred populace that doesn't care for others means that a large number of people don't bother with them.

Whenever I struggle to get rail joiners on, I normally find that the problem is a burr on the track from cutting - even when using Xuron cutters rather than a saw. A quick bit of attention with a flat file and it makes it much easier. Of course, the other problem is where I have used pliers on the rail joiner and squeezed them too hard...

Something odd going on here, a Bachmann Class 08 with a starting bid of £200 sounds very optimistic https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174941727541?hash=item28bb56eb35:g:CmsAAOSwIG9hP35K&autorefresh=true And then a little further down, the same loco (or at least one with identically broken steps at the front) from the same seller for £170 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174937955935?hash=item28bb1d5e5f:g:CmsAAOSwIG9hP35K When I saw the first listing (the one for £170) I did wonder if this was someone who put a ridiculously high price on not knowing the worth, hoping to establish the value through the "Make an Offer" feature. That said, it's far easier to just look at sold listings to find the range that they go for.

Hope he's not a railway modeller. It's hard enough getting train purchases past one wife, let alone three.

I hope not otherwise my colleagues are in for some pretty interesting video calls later

It has to be said, I'm not sure that Persil have thought this one through. I'd have worded it differently, or at least put a much larger space between "use" and "less"...

The thing that doesn't add up for me is the fact that relatively quickly after 9/11, they had found the passports of the hijackers in the rubble. That seemed a remarkable stroke of luck that (a) they survived and (b) they were near the top of the debris. Generally though when it comes to conspiracy theories, it's fun to fight fire with fire. When a colleague consistently put across his fake virus anti-vax views, I suggested that Covid was actually a biological attack on the West and people dismissing vaccination were agents of the perpetrators trying to increase the effectiveness of the attack. We've not heard so much on the topic since then...