Jonboy

Well if he can accidentally takeout both red bulls just trying to make the start, what could he do to the Mercs with an axe to grind

 You May wish to look here https://www.sprog-dcc.co.uk/downloads/SprogIIv3UserGuide2-14.pdf pages 18 and 19

The manual says power led flashing means programming track is live.

Ah well the Frankenstein example is on my mind because we went to the new House Of Frankenstein in Bath a couple of weeks ago…..well worth an hour or twos time in my opinion.

This is a SciFi tradition is is not, take a brilliant book and mangle it to suit the directors vision…..just compare the Frankenstein movies over the years to the book….

I am enjoying it as its own/different interpretation but agree it’s nothing like the book(s).

11 hours ago, kevinlms said:

If I'm home, I appreciate people ringing me to give some notice and an ETA. Gives time for a bit of a tidy up and possibly in Covid times to get dressed! But for them to ring me up to say 'I'm at the front door', is just nonsense.

What happened before personal phones? Sometimes the world is mad.

Another flat dweller here who rarely answers the door unless a visitor is expected for the same reasons….my favourite being an Amazon driver who handed over one parcel for me and 5 for other 3 of the other 4 flats, one of whom was in and quite annoyed with me for not knowing this, rather than the driver for not trying his door……

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

Ours was at the local community centre across the river from our surgery, but it was organised by three local surgeries (although all under the same group) and “policed” by the Lions*

 

 

*step out of line and you get your head bitten off 

 Ours was the same but one surgery appears to have committed far more resource to it than the other three surgery’s involved, and has  consequently been dire for patients trying to be seen for any other reason.
My wife is at the aforementioned one whereas I am at another and the difference in service has been like night and day.

My parents had one such unit wired to both front and back doors. Front door went DingDong , back door just went ding….

I have taken the choice to be double jabbed, as soon as it was offered to my age group. I do however have concerns about the amount of social pressure being placed on people to accept medication that is still new, despite assurances to testing procedures (I am not anti-vax, but simply cynical in day to day life!).

I am sceptical as to how effective the checking will be at any such venues. I have been away for work on 7 nights this month, eating out each evening and eaten out twice with family. Each meal was at a different location. 
I would only say that one had a rigorous check in procedure and three didn’t attempt anything beyond the nhs code printed on the door.

This suggests to me that any such scheme may well lead to a false sense of security.

18 hours ago, laurenceb said:

Why anyone would want to "bring corona virus to your layout "is another question

Surely a great prototypical excuse for no passengers in the coaches, traffic on the road or pedestrians in the street???

A friends husband used to be a professional footballer (league 2) and their son showed talent, to the point of being scouted twice to different academies of professional clubs. The father ended up getting asked not to attend games or training sessions  at the village club his son played for due to the pressure he was putting on his son, despite being a very good coach to other youngsters.

I have also seen a similar situation in the cadet section of one of the uk’s first aid charities, where parents acting as instructors put unfair pressure on their children to do well and over react to normal teenager behaviour because it is their child.

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

 

Aside from which ……. Tourist hotspots: we’ve been camping in the Cotswolds over the past few days, and went to Bourton on the Water, which I’m given to believe is usually heaving at the weekends. Well it’s heaving in the week too! Despite most people making at least some effort, it was so busy that it was pretty well impossible to maintain distance on the streets. It’s not the sort of experience I would count as ‘pleasure’ normally, let alone now. So, I’d advise steering well clear of the most popular places.

BBC Oxford had a piece from the Bourton Model Village today. They said they would have usually expected around 15,000 visitors year to date and have had 18,000…..with a much higher proportion of domestic tourists and no coach tours running…

I said to the wife during the race when CH made his first comments that he was simply trying to get into Lewis’s head and I haven’t changed my opinion so far.

Part of me wants it to happen again simply to see if Christian Horner actually explodes….

I cannot remember if it was here or another forum I mentioned it on but at work we compared notes with a Japanese supplier last summer, when people were comparing the uk rates to Asia.

They said that to be declared as a COVID case there at that point, you had to have a positive test, to get a test you had to be extremely ill and already admitted to hospital.

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Red Bull runs an F1 team as a marketing and promo exercise. On the basis of their whingeing over recent seasons, I am unlikely to be buying their product, even if, at 72, I thought I needed wings! I wonder how many sales they've crippled in their target market, though?

The vast majority of people I know that drink it, like to think of themselves as adventurous and fit….and like nothing more than Vodka and Red-Bull halfway through the evening at the pub, or at lunchtime when hungover….

It isn’t just the microclimate of F1 but their wider package of sponsorship of almost any “extreme” sport from base jumpers, rock climbers, motor racing (bikes), BMX riders etc etc. to their sponsorship of events just as the soap box races and bird man competitions that needs to judged here, and I doubt CH’s wind will make it through to many of them.

My wife thinks I am spoiling our cat because I took the spring water from a tuna can, diluted it slightly and made him ice lollies….he isn’t interested in them as ice but loves the cold water as they melt…

10 minutes ago, Zero Gravitas said:

 

Certainly here in Didcot, the empirical experience is more like Neil’s - in Tesco it’s about 60:40 masks:no-masks.

Funnily enough on Tuesday morning I was personally impressed with not seeing any unmasked customers in the Didcot Tesco…

My employer went through a replacement web shop process at the start of the month.

A single customer asked us to recover their basket as they had a large amount of items within it, in preparation for a shop opening. To do so took over half an hour and involved downloading, integrating and then matching 4 different database tables (customer details, product details. Order headers and order lines are separate tables in almost every web shop with primary keys to match them up) before importing and verifying in the new system.

I am the only person in my company that had a clue on how to do it, as it meant going to the underlying server admin panel and database and not the interfaces the day to day staff use for their roles….the old developers are not interested in helping leave their services and the new ones would (rightly) charge to learn sufficient detail of the old system to action it correctly.

You also cannot do it until the old site is offline as you need up to the minute data to work from (or do it twice to capture the latest information such as items people have removed from their baskets…!).

It is not a straight forward or routine task and needs careful work, we made the same choices as rails and stand by it…

There was something said in the commentary about penalties not being announced in red flag time, is this to prevent strategy being changed accordingly before the restart?

Nah, it was just the number on the Clock she bought him…

There are a couple of councils have been known to install bollards on the pavement to block such driveways and protect the pavement and kerb from damage.

https://news.merton.gov.uk/2019/01/21/council-installs-bollards-outside-homes-to-stop-illegal-crossover-parking/ 

56 minutes ago, rocor said:

 

The point that I was making is that a spare car used to be available on race weekends. If one of the race cars suffered extensive irreparable damage during practice, qualifying or a red flagged race, this would not have resulted in one driver being unable to continue.

 

The banning of spare cars was bought in by the FIA as a cost saving measure.

Given the Mercedes chassis swapping the other week makes me wonder how much is truly saved this way…assembly costs only???

50 minutes ago, Hroth said:

What is it with C4 giving Christian Horner so much airtime during a race to express his opinions? 

 

"Lets go back to Christian Horner. Christian what do you think...?"

 

The place for that is either before or after the race.

Surely that’s just Christian keeping the attention on Red Bull’s name like a good marketing manager should….

Interesting to see Mercedes glueing and taping the front wing damage, budget cap showing???