Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)
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Justayellowbadge said:
Ferrari built this unique TR spider one off for Gianni Agnelli in 86. That alone would make it the height of 80s cool, but it had a switchable auto clutch, as Agnelli had a dodgy leg.
You could use it as a normal manual, but press a button and the clutch pedal retracted and the Valeo system was activated.
As we would have said at the time, rad.
Others agree, it just sold for 1.2m eu.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C694341
Is it a sign of classic car values that I look at that price and think "Hey, for a one off Ferrari that's not so bad!"You could use it as a normal manual, but press a button and the clutch pedal retracted and the Valeo system was activated.
As we would have said at the time, rad.
Others agree, it just sold for 1.2m eu.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C694341
Great looking car though.
When I was a young impressionable teenager and how good a film was depended as much on how stoned you were at the time as any talent on behalf of the film-makers, one sequence stood out even through the haze of drug-addled hedonism. It was the bit in Blade Runner where Deckard scrolls around the dodgy old photo using a computer to blow up and enhance certain sections of it. It seemed fascinating, the idea of revealing an entire hidden world within an apparently staid and fixed image. And it still does, even though science fiction is now fact. I love photos where tiny little details can be made into the entire focus of the image.
...otherwise how would we be able to tell that Mr C has the most elegant and impossibly gentlemanly technique for holding a camera phone yet seen by man?
It's the weather too. My skin is so bad right now I swear I'm actually in the world of V and unbeknownst to me I'm actually a human-shaped meat puppet with a lizard living inside of it
...otherwise how would we be able to tell that Mr C has the most elegant and impossibly gentlemanly technique for holding a camera phone yet seen by man?
It's the weather too. My skin is so bad right now I swear I'm actually in the world of V and unbeknownst to me I'm actually a human-shaped meat puppet with a lizard living inside of it
Nik da Greek said:
When I was a young impressionable teenager and how good a film was depended as much on how stoned you were at the time as any talent on behalf of the film-makers, one sequence stood out even through the haze of drug-addled hedonism. It was the bit in Blade Runner where Deckard scrolls around the dodgy old photo using a computer to blow up and enhance certain sections of it. It seemed fascinating, the idea of revealing an entire hidden world within an apparently staid and fixed image. And it still does, even though science fiction is now fact. I love photos where tiny little details can be made into the entire focus of the image.
...otherwise how would we be able to tell that Mr C has the most elegant and impossibly gentlemanly technique for holding a camera phone yet seen by man?
It's the weather too. My skin is so bad right now I swear I'm actually in the world of V and unbeknownst to me I'm actually a human-shaped meat puppet with a lizard living inside of it
Are you a member of the Conservative Party?...otherwise how would we be able to tell that Mr C has the most elegant and impossibly gentlemanly technique for holding a camera phone yet seen by man?
It's the weather too. My skin is so bad right now I swear I'm actually in the world of V and unbeknownst to me I'm actually a human-shaped meat puppet with a lizard living inside of it
Y. Lizard embedded within. End.
N. Are you a member of the labour party.
Y. Lizard embedded within. End.
N. Are you a member of the green party?
Y. tofu eating single cell'd amoeba living within. End.
N. Are you Tony Blair?
Y. Invertibrate within. End.
N. Phew, you're safe. End.
When I worked in Paddington my lunchtime walk could either take me to a pub or sometimes further afield. Towards the Edgware Road was Connaught Square where lived Tony Blair and his fare dodging wife. To the front stood two armed Police Officers. Two more stood at the back. Apparently this was so 24 hours a day, 365 days a year whether the Blairs were there or not. I was reminded of David Bowie during the period he wanted to be a superstar. He acted like one and eventually was accepted as one. By acting like an International Statesman Tony Blair hoped eventually to be accepted as one. One evening on Paddington Station I bumped into Douglas Hurd. Admittedly he was never Prime Minister but as Foreign Secretary he can be assumed to have had enemies. His entourage consisted of one small well worn briefcase. He went up no end in my estimation.
DickyC said:
When I worked in Paddington my lunchtime walk could either take me to a pub or sometimes further afield. Towards the Edgware Road was Connaught Square where lived Tony Blair and his fare dodging wife.
I started on the railway at the time Cherie Blair became rhyming slang for Penalty Fare. You'd have thought a barrister and wife of the most financially-motivated PM in recent times could have afforded a ticket really 
Proof, no doubt, that you can't buy class. But you can upgrade to 1stShe wasn't the only one. Prescott (union bully made good) actually had the neck to go down the "Do you know who I am?" routine. Yes, sir, I'm well aware of who you are. And you still have to have a ticket...
Just popping in.....
The company that currently enjoys employing me fits electric clutches to manual vehicles - in most cases it would be cheaper to buy a automatic vehicle.
Bodyguards - at the height of the NI troubles I was in the same room as the governor of the Maze prison.
In a private house in rural Yorkshire.
He hated the fact that he needed the body guard to stop him being shot, I asked why the bodyguards weren't there now - he replied 'They are all there you just can't see them'.
Apparently there were about 20 SAS dotted around the house.
Popping out now...
The company that currently enjoys employing me fits electric clutches to manual vehicles - in most cases it would be cheaper to buy a automatic vehicle.
Bodyguards - at the height of the NI troubles I was in the same room as the governor of the Maze prison.
In a private house in rural Yorkshire.
He hated the fact that he needed the body guard to stop him being shot, I asked why the bodyguards weren't there now - he replied 'They are all there you just can't see them'.
Apparently there were about 20 SAS dotted around the house.
Popping out now...
My right arm aches,something to do with carrying heavy stuff on my own today.
In other arm news.
The lady with right forearm missing,who works in the big office next door at work was wearing a prosthetic
arm when I saw her today.
Never seen her with one before.
Probably just to stop the arm of her coat flapping about.
In other arm news.
The lady with right forearm missing,who works in the big office next door at work was wearing a prosthetic
arm when I saw her today.
Never seen her with one before.
Probably just to stop the arm of her coat flapping about.
Nik da Greek said:
I love photos where tiny little details can be made into the entire focus of the image.
...otherwise how would we be able to tell that Mr C has the most elegant and impossibly gentlemanly technique for holding a camera phone yet seen by man?
Elegant hands, yes, a definite plus. But what about the negative effect of his huge triangular head?...otherwise how would we be able to tell that Mr C has the most elegant and impossibly gentlemanly technique for holding a camera phone yet seen by man?
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