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Very very cool. I had the pleasure of the turbo model couple of times.....alongside the Maserati Bi-Turbo and original (930) 911 Turbo it was the laggiest most whhhhhaaaaaatttttt thhhheeeeeeeee faaaaawwwwwwwkkkkk old school firist generation turbocharged road car i ever nearly killed myself in.

Higher (Beyond Therapy Extended Rave Mix) - YouTube

BA are using 787-8's on the LHR/BKK route now, I'd go with them as the direct option purely because of this. I was sceptical about all the fresh air, better pressurisation etc claims about the 787 but after experiencing it many times over the last few years i agree completely, you arrive feeling fresher, more awake, less fatigued and ready to hit the ground running.

McLaren have MB-HPP power units next year. The cars will be the same as this year, few tweaks. I'm looking to see what markets are available for specific bets based around Lando's strengths aligned with every different circuits specific characteristics.

The reason Russell was on it from the get go is because the car was already perfectly set up for the circuit ( i know it was a different track layout but the surface, temps and track characteristics play a huge part) and local conditions by Hamilton the week before. All the dynamics, load, and balance spanners guys at Mclaren and M-B say Hamilton is the best driver they have worked with to be able to get the car set up as good as it can be. That was a huge advantage for Russell. Russell is also good, really good. He has that rare thing where he can drive a car on the edge, it's limits but make it look smooth as silk. Jenson Button was exceptional in that respect as well but not consistently enough.

Not old, very new, A400M.😎

I have no idea mate, it's still showing in the thread fine for me 🤔

Saw one of these tonight, GR Supra, first one i've seen, looked cool AF 😎 Didn't take a pic but exactly the same as this...

I just puked a bit in my mouth.

Mixed feelings. Reacher in the books is a 6'5" 250lb lump of iron. Tom Cruise is not. BUT...Cruise had the style and personality to kinda pull the role off. The movies also would not have been made without him in the lead role to attract the studio funding. I still couldn't get past the physical/size issue though, a lot of who Reacher is is down to his size and how that lets him go about things. Clint Eastwood in his 40's would have been a perfect fit. Random fun fact, one of my bessies who used to do a lot of TV work said the most charming, polite, switched on, pleasant, respectful and easy to interview celeb she ever worked with was Tom Cruise.

Absolute top drawer, bloody damn good bloke. Died doing what he loved, way to early but how many people get to go that way at least.

Pfizer didn't need govt funding because they did jack shit to develop this immunization (NOT a vaccine, as no immunization other than that for Smallpox is a vaccine.....VACCINE -< VACCINAE -< VACCINIUS - "of or relating to cows"). Biontech are wholly responsible for the product development and hawked it around all the big pharma co's to get it mass-produced. Pfizer got it. The -70c requirement from manufacture to patient delivery is a HUGE logistical issue that meant a lot of the bigguns did not want to know. It's this same cryogenically freezing necessity that has hindered the development of all the similar RNA type products that Biontech and it's similar competitors have been working on. Biontech (rightly) gambled that a situation like Covid19 would break down the barrier for acceptance of such an incredibly hard to manufacture, distribute, store and deliver product. Taking the UK as an example, looking at the utterly shambolic, failed, useless govt and NHS response to the pandemic to date, and thinking back to all big UKG/NHS IT/Logistics projects of the last 20 years or so.....do you think UKG/NHS can put in place a functional, successful logistical storage, supply, tracking, delivery system maintaining the required cryogenic storage of the product right into the arms of millions of people within a couple of weeks? I'm not sure they can do it within a couple of years. For the same reasons, this is absolutely, totally a "First World" solution to the Covid problem...no way this product has any chance of functional success in Africa, South Asia, South America. This is also another reason why a lot of the big pharma boys said no thanks to it. The other, more traditional types of product using live v.vectors that only need referring at supermarket cold aisle temps (2c-10c) that we'll also start seeing the Ph.3 results from very shortly will be what "save us"....if anything does.

Amazing piece of film. BUT...it's "They shall GROW NOT OLD" NOT "They shall not grow old" The incorrect common usage and acceptance of this is a growing bugbear of mine. The correct, full, fourth stanza is - They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

20 year awaited sequel to Kill Your Friends. which was THE seminal book about the British Record Industry in the 1990's, when it was at it's peak and worldwide turned over $29 Billion.

Everlasting respect.

First job I had was working IBM VM/VSE. 1999. Another guy and I replaced two lads who had been head hunted by IBM to work on the Y2K problem....which as you know WAS a fucking big problem on anything coded in the 1970's....which pretty much everything on IBM VSE was. Those two lads went to work at IBM Amsterdam, the big place you see on the left when you get the train from Schiphol into town. I was a couple years too late to the big Y2K party. Those two lads got kept on for the Euro currency conversion project right after they helped make Y2K right, and then they said thank you very much and goodnight....and retired, very, very rich men indeed. Here's to Big Blue 😎

I've known a few TG's who had them in Thailand, they were able to pay for them on a kinda finance/PAYG basis, i guess the dentist would have just stopped treating them/adjusting the braces etc if they'd stopped paying. I think total cost between 50-70k THB but this was a few years ago now. They all turned out good but none of them had bad or noticeably wonky teeth to begin with lol. They went from having nice smiles to great smiles I guess you could sum it up as. A friend in the UK had them in his 30's and also had to have corrective jaw surgery...that was a huge ordeal for him and he said not really worth it overall and he would not do it again if he had the choice again and would not recommend it to others. Girl in the UK i know had them and a few other things and made huge difference. I'll PM some pics if i can find them.

'Spoons are bloody good value in general at any time. central London, pints for £1.99 is fantastic, some of them even have Asahi on tap.

That doesn't sound right. Sounds strangled and struggling to rev. In fact the engine sounds and revs like it's utterly f***d. Those guys are clueless chumps. The beardy guy was right about the Non-PAS steering having huge amounts of feedback though. Furniture polish all around the gate helps the shifts a lot.

It's a revelation, i've never lasted that long before 😆

Yep. I drove from London to the Lake District once with a bird i was seeing. £100 of fuel gone. Drove around the Lakes for a few days. Another £100 of fuel gone. Probably the funniest memory of it actually was on the last day when we were at the zoo, we came back to the 348 and it was surrounded by about a dozen people looking at it. I smiled and said "Sorry, excuse me...." One of the guys turns round and says "Hey up fella, wait yer turn int it". So I just stood back looking at my bird, both of us trying to keep straight faces, I was 21, she was 18 at the time. When the folks has finished getting their grubby hands all over the windows etc I unlocked and we got in, started up, windows down, looked out, big smile and said "You're welcome". 😁 So, then pulled into garage near zoo, another £100 of Shell's finest in the tank. The cashier says "I saw you drive by earlier, I thought that was a Ferrari at first, but they don't come in blue do they, can i ask yer what it is mate?" "Errrr it is a Ferrari." I replied. 🤣 So, back down to London, another £100 of fuel gone. Pull into garage, fill up, go in to pay, no chit chat this time, it's gone midnight, jump back in, turn the key.....CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. Bollocks. Call out RAC. Lots of boy racers then happen to drive past and shout some abuse. RAC guy asks where the battery is..."Are you bloody kidding me fella?!?" he asks when i give him the bad news. I tell him, "Look, volt gauge, the battery is good, ok?" Nope, he has to check it to confirm. Then he strokes his chin and goes and gets a big bloody mallet. Smacks the hell out of the starter motor. "Try it now please fella". Vrrrroooooooommmmmmm 😁 He says "Do not turn it off until you get home, drive straight home, the starter bushes are worn down, needs a new one tomorrow, ok fella?". "Gotcha". So of course I drive into the local town centre to give some shit back to the boy racer lads, job done, I take a short cut down a 100 yard one way street. The wrong way, but hey it's nearly 2am, no probs. Wrong. Police car comes the other, correct way, luckily there's a passing spot in the middle which i pull into. Police stop, get out, walk up, i put window down....copper says "Morning, Sir, can you turn the engine off please?" Suffice to say that was not a fun next 30 minutes 🤣

Agreed, couldn't go wrong with the old school Rover V8 in it. Apart from sitting in traffic in hot weather, lol, did get a bit hot then, like. The AJPV8 and Speed Six engines were nothing but trouble.

I used to work with the lady who now owns that exact car.

Limited by tyres more than anything else i think.