Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)

[Vitorio]

I shall be travelling by train later this afternoon, going to pick up my sis' new car (a derv twingo) with her.

Considering im actually working for the Railways right now, i shouldnt be this apprehencious about "eating my own dogfood"

[Iva Barchetta]

Is dog food what they serve on Dutch Inter city services ?....

Note to self......avoid Netherlandic trains.....

[Bomma220]

It can't be any worse than the muck I ate the last time I travelled on a train in the UK.

Mind, I couldn't fault the train operator. It was a sandwich I'd made myself.

[Vitorio]

Iva Barchetta said:

Is dog food what they serve on Dutch Inter city services ?....

Note to self......avoid Netherlandic trains.....

We dont actually serve food anymore i think...

Sometimes we have some underpaid students walking around with a backpack with some cookies and a can of (presumably questionable) coffee.

[anonymous-user]

Thats the last time I travel on Dutch railways if thats what they serve. The only time I've ever been on a Dutch train was a return journey to Rotterdam from Amsterdam at 1am after an evening at Canalstraat . Met the British dance chmapion she was very nice and very pretty.

[Iva Barchetta]

V6Pushfit said:

;). Met the British dance chmapion she was very nice and very pretty.

Antonia Du Beke ?......before the realignment.

[soad]

fatboy18 said:

I watched Bullitt last night

I watched I Am Legend, followed by Terminator Genisys.

[Nik da Greek]

*whispers* I actually don't think Bullitt is a very good film

My factoid for the day is that the low coolant sensor on a Series 6-on RX-7 is about £65 plus VAT from Mazda. The low coolant sensor from a Series 1 to 3 RX-7 is $18 via the wonders of eBay. The differerence? The former has a nylon block connector. The latter has an insulated bullet connector.

Wow! Mazda really got taken on those ~£67 block connectors

[Mr Roper]

Adenauer said:

Mr Roper said:

Morning.

What is this game?

Wot game?

[anonymous-user]

Mr Roper said:

Adenauer said:

Mr Roper said:

Morning.

What is this game?

Wot game?

synchronised swimming

[Bomma220]

A girl I was with back in the 1980's lived on Damrak in Amsterdam before I met her.

Her dad was a copper - 'no nonsense' type sergeant. When he went over to Holland to visit her once, he and her mum went for a bit of a wander around on their own. They found a pleasant little cafe which was serving some 'very moorish' fruitcake...

They both spent the rest of the weekend 'wired to the moon' and went home wondering what the bloody hell had happened.

[Bomma220]

Nik da Greek said:

*whispers* I actually don't think Bullitt is a very good film

My factoid for the day is that the low coolant sensor on a Series 6-on RX-7 is about £65 plus VAT from Mazda. The low coolant sensor from a Series 1 to 3 RX-7 is $18 via the wonders of eBay. The differerence? The former has a nylon block connector. The latter has an insulated bullet connector.

Wow! Mazda really got taken on those ~£67 block connectors

Is that the type that fits in the expansion tank chap? I fixed the dodgy one on my old Saab Aero with a quid's worth of kettle descaler and about 15 minutes' work.

[Nik da Greek]

Bomma220 said:

Nik da Greek said:

*whispers* I actually don't think Bullitt is a very good film

My factoid for the day is that the low coolant sensor on a Series 6-on RX-7 is about £65 plus VAT from Mazda. The low coolant sensor from a Series 1 to 3 RX-7 is $18 via the wonders of eBay. The differerence? The former has a nylon block connector. The latter has an insulated bullet connector.

Wow! Mazda really got taken on those ~£67 block connectors

Is that the type that fits in the expansion tank chap? I fixed the dodgy one on my old Saab Aero with a quid's worth of kettle descaler and about 15 minutes' work.

Fits on the filler neck. It's essentially an open contact that's earthed by being submerged in the coolant; if the level drops, the sensor is exposed to air, breaks circuit and the buzzer sounds in the dash. Trouble is, it's a single-wire that's soldered inside the (then) sealed bolt-head for the sensor, so they invariably break through NVH over time. Which is why mine's knackered; you have to destroy the mounting structure to get enough contact to solder to

You can just earth the remaining wire out but then you have no diea if the coolant's leaking

[DickyC]

Nik da Greek said:

*whispers* I actually don't think Bullitt is a very good film

Noooooo! For me it stands up as a police drama with a good solid plot with great cinematography, terrific score and a car chase. Plus, it ticks a box I look for which is the quality of the supporting actors. For my money the only weak spot among the actors is the journalist Bullitt goes to see. But he may have been acting spaced out. The interaction between Bullitt and Dalgetti played by Don Gordon is a real pleasure to watch.

[Nik da Greek]

DickyC said:

Noooooo! For me it stands up as a police drama with a good solid plot with great cinematography, terrific score and a car chase. Plus, it ticks a box I look for which is the quality of the supporting actors. For my money the only weak spot among the actors is the journalist Bullitt goes to see. But he may have been acting spaced out. The interaction between Bullitt and Dalgetti played by Don Gordon is a real pleasure to watch.

It has its moments, I wouldn't dispute that. And I very much respect that it comes from a time in film-making when the author and director were willing to allow time and space around the characters without the need to fill it with pointless speech or special effects. But it's actually a bit dull (for me) and every time I re-watch it determined to give it a fair trial, I spend a lot of time aware of... well, aware of time passing that I'll never get back. Possibly the fault is mine, not the film

[DickyC]

Having dropped a car back to Bath I am currently having a beer in the bar of a High Speed Train pointing towards London. There is a guy trying to pay for £13.75 worth of food and drink with a $20 bill.

Pure theatre.

[Iva Barchetta]

Muricans eh ?....

[Vitorio]

DickyC said:

Having dropped a car back to Bath I am currently having a beer in the bar of a High Speed Train pointing towards London. There is a guy trying to pay for £13.75 worth of food and drink with a $20 bill.

Pure theatre.

You people have bars with beer on trains?

Im doing something terrible wrong here, i shall be taking a 30 year old intercity with one lay-over to a place that would take me slightly over 30 minutes by car... and paying more then the petrol would cost...

[coopedup]

DickyC said:

Having dropped a car back to Bath I am currently having a beer in the bar of a High Speed Train pointing towards London. There is a guy trying to pay for £13.75 worth of food and drink with a $20 bill.

Pure theatre.

I tried to pay for something with a Guernsey ten pound note the other day by mistake, felt a bit stupid

[Nik da Greek]

If they were Zimbabwean Dollahs I can understand why the steward wasn't keen on accepting them