Zero Gravitas

If it's of any help whatsoever, if you're happy to pm me your real name, I can tell you if you're on the subscribers list included in the book.

Oh my cup runneth over! My copy was waiting for me when I got back from working in Cambridge this week. It is truely a thing of beauty, wonderfully presented; and I consider it to be phenomenal value for money. Thank you very much indeed. P.S. I've no idea who Dr. Waterman is :-) - I'm just happy to be on the same list as Simon Castens.

Was London-bound through Didcot at about 12:30 on Monday.

Got mine from Railex, but it was in WHS IN Didcot at the weekend.

I think the UK is her garden...

To be serious for a moment (which will probably get me into trouble again), I've occasionally thought that when I've seen the contents list; but upon reading the magazine I've never failed to find something of interest.

I was thinking more "Springtime for Hitler"...

Ask not what Hatfield has to offer you, ask what you have to offer Hatfield. Sorry. Couldn't resist it.

I've lived in Didcot for 20 years and I can tell you it's no overstatement at all. If there's any problem on the A34 between the Chilton interchange and Abingdon north, then the first alternative is to leave at Chilton, past Harwell campus to Rowstock, on to Stevenson, then Drayton, onto Abingdon and up past Tilsley Park to Abingdon North. Soon as that fills up ( as it does very quickly) then the "escaping" starts to fan out to the east and the west to try and find a way around and chaos ensues... With no Steventon bridge, we get to chaos even quicker...

Actually - let me guess? Is it a Citroen? It wouldn't surprise me at all if it was. The linkage is probably made out of the dreams of children, and you have to activate it by brushing you eyelashes on the steering wheel...

I wish to make a complaint. I've read this thread all the way through and there's no reference to sheep movements anywhere. Our dog thinks they are a delicious tasty snack when out for a walk - I personally thought they were the worst chocolate raisins I'd ever tasted.

Oh. Never come across that before - and I suspect the advanced driving instructor hadn't either ( was 15 years ago). Purely out of interest, what cars have front wheel hand brakes? And I won't drift, if that's all right. It's really tough on the tyres and not safe on the public highway :-)

When I did advanced driver training, I was told to use both the foot brake and handbrake until you were sure the person pulling up behind you has stopped, and then release the foot brake. There were two reasons for this, the first being that your brake lights would be on to serve as warning to the traffic coming up behind you; the second being that the handbrake only acts on the back wheels, so if you are hit from behind and the rear of the car is lifted off the ground, then there's nothing to stop you rolling forwards if the foot brake is not applied, which could be very dangerous if waiting at a T-junction, for example.

Are you quite sure you were taking Lariam and not another drug beginning with L that the Beatles allegedly sang about?

For exactly the same reason that the sofa that looked quite small in the IKEA showroom looks enormous once you get it in your lounge...

You may be reading 256 in the sticks, but I sincerely hope you're not reading 257 in heaven.

And that's one of the reasons MRJ is so special. How many of the other magazines have ever had poems written about their publication on RMWeb? As I've said before, other companies would kill for this level of affection for their product... P.S. Not in WHS Reading today :-)

Just for the record, I'm certainly not advocating any circumvention of anything - in fact, as I said in post #29 of this thread, I would respect their wishes. The point I was trying to make was that if the not-very-serious thread (hereinafter referred to as the NVS thread) is not available to people when they go to the MRJ section, then it is likely that not-very-serious posts will end up being made in the serious threads (which is what was happening previously, and what the NVS thread was designed to try and get away from); and that, with glistening irony, this will end up making more work for the moderators than leaving the NVS thread in the MRJ section, from where it can be removed en masse at some point. And, after all, that appeared to be working for a couple of issues. However, given the responses that this has engendered, the best thing I can think at the moment is not to create an NVS thread at all, and see if that improves the situation. No good deed goes unpunished, does it?

Ah yes - the law of unintended consequence. Originally, that was the whole point of the creation of the not very serious thread - to separate out that sort of thing from the "serious" thread because people were complaining about it. What will probably happen now is that all the stuff we were helpfully trying to avoid will be mixed in with the serious stuff and that will really cause problems for all the google indexing (or whatever the correct phrase is). I can't help but think of the phrase "be careful what you wish for"... I'm guessing that if the complainants still complain about stuff in the serious thread, they will have to complain on a post-by-post basis, and that the moderators will have to take action on a post-by-post basis. Given that for the last couple of issues, the number of posts in the not-very-serious thread has significantly outnumbered the number in the serious thread, the moderators may need to get some finger strengthening exercises in... Edited for typos...

They're made by Neoplan - I don't want to invoke anycopyright issues, but if you google "Neoplan airport bus" there's quite a few examples. Edited to add that I missed that Joseph Pestell had already replied with Cobus at post #117...

Thank you for the explanation; although, with the greatest of respect, it would have been more effective had the explanation been supplied before the threads were moved and without having to ask for it. And can I just check - the thread has been moved because of "parties involved with the magazine"? Would the correct interpretation of this be that the publishers have registered their concerns? If so, whilst I will of course respect their wishes, I have to say that I am surprised. I suspect the publishers of BRM (other magazines are available) would give their eye teeth for the levels of anticipation ahead of publication that its readers have for MRJ, and it seems strange that they should want to discourage this.

Please could the moderator who has moved this to wheeltappers explain why that has been done? I'm afraid I don't understand. I can see why it might be moved after the next issue of the magazine has been published, I cannot understand what harm is being done by having the thread in the section dedicated to the magazine whose publication it anticipates, and where those who clearly enjoy the thread are expecting to find it. Thank you in advance.

The only MARK magazine I can find is about architecture... am I missing something here?

Gosh. It's that time again already. The scheduled publication date of MRJ 255 is upon us, so I've started this thread for those of us who like the whole "MRJ experience" - up to and including WH Smith in Ealing. I'll start the post-publication thread (assuming people are happy for me so to do) once we have confirmed sightings of 255 in the wild; so if that's where your interests lie, then - as usual - please ignore this thread for now and your time will come (hopefully) soon enough. Let the lack of seriousness commence!

According to 254, 11 May. My plan, insofar as I can be said to have a plan, is to to start the MRJ 255 not-very-serious thread on that day in the MRJ section.