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Silverbullet767 said:
Absolutely f
king bonkers. Seeing what kind of special fkwit America can produce and that top Trump child in charge, I'm never going to America again.
That seems a tad OTT to me, but of course, it’s your prerogative.king bonkers. Seeing what kind of special fkwit America can produce and that top Trump child in charge, I'm never going to America again. I first went to the U.S. in 1976, for its 200th birthday, and I’ve been there dozens of times since, sometimes twice per year.
I’ve visited 18 or 19 of the lower 48, and it’s never entered my head that someone might shoot me, of course, anything’s possible, but I think that you’d have to be extremely unlucky, or be in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
The only time that I’ve felt vaguely uneasy, was in Atlanta GA once.
I came out of a bar one night, maybe 10.00 p.m. maybe later, walked to a taxi stand, asked a cab driver for the Marriott, near to Sun Trust Park, and he said that he didn’t know it! Some cab driver!
I knew that it was maybe one mile from the bar I’d been in, and started to walk.
After 5 minutes, all the street lights and traffic lights went out, there’d been a power cut, or outage as they called it.
I made it okay, but it was like walking around with your eyes shut, every time I encountered someone, I felt uneasy.
Lazermilk said:
Sway said:
Lazermilk said:
AstonZagato said:
Sway said:
Aren't there rules permitting 'movable' structures?
George Clarke did a cool off grid cabin built on a Artic trailer chassis, effectively sunk into the ground so the floor was at ground level.
A few leisure batteries, solar panels topping them up, and some rainwater harvesting - would be bloody epic.
There is a (perhaps apocryphal) story about our local riding school. They built a massive stable block on their land without planning. The council complained. The owner said, "No it is a mobile horse shelter. No planning required." The planning department told him to stop being ridiculous. He invited them to come and observe. He then hired the largest crane in the county, which lifted the structure and place it down 30cm to the left. The planners decided to accept it was indeed mobile.George Clarke did a cool off grid cabin built on a Artic trailer chassis, effectively sunk into the ground so the floor was at ground level.
A few leisure batteries, solar panels topping them up, and some rainwater harvesting - would be bloody epic.
Someone on here posted a thread about their amazing treehouse they built for rentals, not sure what was involved with the planning but the result looks really cool.
ETA - Someone bumped the thread so seen it just after posting this:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Edited by Lazermilk on Friday 17th May 22:12
Obviously had to have permission, but what an absolutely stunning place.
Agree though, the outcome is awesome!
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V8mate said:
The driver knew where the hotel was.
He just didn't like Frank starting the conversation with "I wouldn't normally entertain getting into anything other than a licensed Hackney carriage, which are the best-driven taxis on the planet, but..."
Très drôle V8, the only time a taxi driver was told that I was a Black Cab driver was in Stockholm once, and it was my friend, a Brit who was living there who told him.He just didn't like Frank starting the conversation with "I wouldn't normally entertain getting into anything other than a licensed Hackney carriage, which are the best-driven taxis on the planet, but..."
Back to Atlanta, I was quite surprised at the amount of cab drivers there who had very little idea of the geography of the city, often they said, “If you can show me where it is, I’ll take you.”
All the more surprising, when Atlanta’s downtown area seemed to be about as big as Norwich’s.
Frank7 said:
That seems a tad OTT to me, but of course, it’s your prerogative.
I first went to the U.S. in 1976, for its 200th birthday, and I’ve been there dozens of times since, sometimes twice per year.
I’ve visited 18 or 19 of the lower 48, and it’s never entered my head that someone might shoot me, of course, anything’s possible, but I think that you’d have to be extremely unlucky, or be in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
The only time that I’ve felt vaguely uneasy, was in Atlanta GA once.
I came out of a bar one night, maybe 10.00 p.m. maybe later, walked to a taxi stand, asked a cab driver for the Marriott, near to Sun Trust Park, and he said that he didn’t know it! Some cab driver!
I knew that it was maybe one mile from the bar I’d been in, and started to walk.
After 5 minutes, all the street lights and traffic lights went out, there’d been a power cut, or outage as they called it.
I made it okay, but it was like walking around with your eyes shut, every time I encountered someone, I felt uneasy.
The only time I've been uneasy in the US was in Atlanta. Marta does that to you.I first went to the U.S. in 1976, for its 200th birthday, and I’ve been there dozens of times since, sometimes twice per year.
I’ve visited 18 or 19 of the lower 48, and it’s never entered my head that someone might shoot me, of course, anything’s possible, but I think that you’d have to be extremely unlucky, or be in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
The only time that I’ve felt vaguely uneasy, was in Atlanta GA once.
I came out of a bar one night, maybe 10.00 p.m. maybe later, walked to a taxi stand, asked a cab driver for the Marriott, near to Sun Trust Park, and he said that he didn’t know it! Some cab driver!
I knew that it was maybe one mile from the bar I’d been in, and started to walk.
After 5 minutes, all the street lights and traffic lights went out, there’d been a power cut, or outage as they called it.
I made it okay, but it was like walking around with your eyes shut, every time I encountered someone, I felt uneasy.
jimmyjimjim said:
The only time I've been uneasy in the US was in Atlanta. Marta does that to you.
We must have ridden Marta with our eyes shut.My wife loves pandas, and they have a bunch in Zoo Atlanta.
En route to Tampa FL from London, we’d fly Delta into Atlanta, arriving midday or very early afternoon.
We’d take a shuttle to a local hotel, drop our bags, brush our teeth, then shuttle back to the airport.
Ride a Marta train into Five Points, then the 76 Marta bus to Grant Park, where the zoo was.
Maybe two or three hours in the zoo, then 76 bus back to Five Points, Marta train to the airport, shuttle to the hotel.
Next day, shuttle to the airport, fly to Tampa FL, pick up a car, enjoy holiday.
Never once felt unsafe on a Marta train, but there were often some unsavoury characters around Five Points Station, Central Atlanta.
jimmyjimjim said:
Try it at 6a.m. I wouldn't, not twice.
6 a.m.? As I said to a prospective employer once, back in the sixties, after he’d offered me the job, and told me to be in the depot at 6 a.m., “SIX A.M.?, I knew
that there was a six in the evening, is there one in the morning as well?”
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