Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[kowalski655]

Master Bean said:

I have a cold. Is there a limit to the amount of snot your body can produce? I'm getting through tissues like there's no tomorrow.

I doubt it. I have nasal polyps that need surgery,and even after clearing out one nostril it is blocked 5 minutes later. I can lie on one side and feel snot draining from one side to the other

[SpeckledJim]

I thought my nose was running but it’s snot.

[simoid]

Big noses run in my family too.

[Exige77]

simoid said:

Big noses run in my family too.

Who you calling big nose ? Big nose

[SpeckledJim]

When your nose runs and your feet smell, you know you’re upside down.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Travelling southbound on the M1 on Thursday, around J28. On the opposite carriage way two marked up Police X5's flew by, followed by two large blue unmarked lorries, with orange flashing lights. What was that all about, prisoner transfers?

[MartG]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Travelling southbound on the M1 on Thursday, around J28. On the opposite carriage way two marked up Police X5's flew by, followed by two large blue unmarked lorries, with orange flashing lights. What was that all about, prisoner transfers?

Prisoner transfers are white lorries with windows down the side.

More likely bomb squad ?

[The Mad Monk]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Travelling southbound on the M1 on Thursday, around J28. On the opposite carriage way two marked up Police X5's flew by, followed by two large blue unmarked lorries, with orange flashing lights. What was that all about, prisoner transfers?

Gold.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

MartG said:

Prisoner transfers are white lorries with windows down the side.

More likely bomb squad ?

Google suggests they are white too. I can only find one possible match here - http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ld07-lkz-is-the-lead-... - suggesting it may be Royal Mint, transferring a tonne of money? Edit, just seen response of gold above.

[StevieBee]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

MartG said:

Prisoner transfers are white lorries with windows down the side.

More likely bomb squad ?

Google suggests they are white too. I can only find one possible match here - http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ld07-lkz-is-the-lead-... - suggesting it may be Royal Mint, transferring a tonne of money? Edit, just seen response of gold above.

Orange lights would suggest it was a training run but otherwise, gold/money is the most likely. Often see them heading up the M11 towards Loughton where the Royal Mint incinerator is where they burn old notes.

Useless fact of the day....you can come off the M11 at Loughton but you can't join it. This is to make it difficult for anyone lifting old notes from scarpering on the motorway.

[C2Red]

StevieBee said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

MartG said:

Prisoner transfers are white lorries with windows down the side.

More likely bomb squad ?

Google suggests they are white too. I can only find one possible match here - http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ld07-lkz-is-the-lead-... - suggesting it may be Royal Mint, transferring a tonne of money? Edit, just seen response of gold above.

Orange lights would suggest it was a training run but otherwise, gold/money is the most likely. Often see them heading up the M11 towards Loughton where the Royal Mint incinerator is where they burn old notes.

Useless fact of the day....you can come off the M11 at Loughton but you can't join it. This is to make it difficult for anyone lifting old notes from scarpering on the motorway.

That’s what I was told a few years back by an old colleague who worked there

[Nimby]

StevieBee said:

Useless fact of the day....you can come off the M11 at Loughton but you can't join it. This is to make it difficult for anyone lifting old notes from scarpering on the motorway.

You can join southbound.

[StevieBee]

Nimby said:

StevieBee said:

Useless fact of the day....you can come off the M11 at Loughton but you can't join it. This is to make it difficult for anyone lifting old notes from scarpering on the motorway.

You can join southbound.

You can, yes. I think the theory is that it is easier to catch the crimms if they heads south towards London but less easy if they were to head north into Essex and East Anglia.

Knowing that area, it's all bit pointless as most of them could walk home anyway.

[V8mate]

StevieBee said:

Nimby said:

StevieBee said:

Useless fact of the day....you can come off the M11 at Loughton but you can't join it. This is to make it difficult for anyone lifting old notes from scarpering on the motorway.

You can join southbound.

You can, yes. I think the theory is that it is easier to catch the crimms if they heads south towards London but less easy if they were to head north into Essex and East Anglia.

Knowing that area, it's all bit pointless as most of them could walk home anyway.

The junction wasn't built simply because of local protestation. I'm sure it'll happen at some point: I had to direct infrastructure spending away from that area because of the highways limitations, so I'm sure people will become more bitter about being overlooked for 'nice, new things' than the memories of why they didn't want a northbound ramp.

[MartG]

Why don't beards extend to the nose - they always get cold so could do with being hairy

[SpeckledJim]

MartG said:

Why don't beards extend to the nose - they always get cold so could do with being hairy

This is the best question ever asked in this thread.

[simoid]

SpeckledJim said:

MartG said:

Why don't beards extend to the nose - they always get cold so could do with being hairy

This is the best question ever asked in this thread.

So we can smell and see things without intrusion?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

StevieBee said:

You can, yes. I think the theory is that it is easier to catch the crimms if they heads south towards London but less easy if they were to head north into Essex and East Anglia.

There are all sorts of reasons why some motorway junctions are built as limited access.

More often it is a financial decision, or a geographical one, or it is deemed that a full access junction would encourage local traffic, or conversely would increase congestion on local roads, or that it is too close to another junction, or any number of reasons. But I very much doubt that those reasons include foiling a bank robbery - I'm calling bullst on that one.

[StevieBee]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

StevieBee said:

You can, yes. I think the theory is that it is easier to catch the crimms if they heads south towards London but less easy if they were to head north into Essex and East Anglia.

There are all sorts of reasons why some motorway junctions are built as limited access.

More often it is a financial decision, or a geographical one, or it is deemed that a full access junction would encourage local traffic, or conversely would increase congestion on local roads, or that it is too close to another junction, or any number of reasons. But I very much doubt that those reasons include foiling a bank robbery - I'm calling bullst on that one.

I can assure you, that was indeed the original reason for there being no entry on the northbound side. When the M11 was built, the Royal Mint's facility, a few hundred yards from the junction printed bank notes and the government was concerned that the proximity of the motorway would create too easy a getaway route - particularly towards Stansted which then was more akin to an airfield than the airport it is today. The fear was that by the time any theft had been alerted to the police, any haul would be on a plane and gone by the time the police got to the scene.

They no longer print notes there but destroy old ones. Several plans have been put forward to built a northbound entry and will no doubt happen at some point in the future.

There's little official info online (for obvious reasons) but this was confirmed to me some years back by one of the highways team at Epping Forest District Council.

[Roofless Toothless]

I lived in Epping for over 30 years and it's 'common knowledge' in those parts that security is the reason for the limited access to the M11 at Debden.

However, the printing works have also had their share of inside jobs when it comes to thieving.

When I worked for the Blood Service, we used to do a donor session in the sports pavilion at the Debden works. (You can see it very clearly as you drive past on the motorway.) One day I happened to be doing the health checks and one of the questions donors are asked is about their recent travel. I couldn't believe how many of these people had been to top end destinations all over the world for their holidays - Seychelles, Rio, the lot. At lunchtime I went outside for some air and walked round the car park. It was ram packed full of expensive Jags, Beemers, even the occasional Bentley.

A few months afterwards, a bunch of them were collared for conspiring with the security people to siphon off free samples of the used notes coming in by the sackfull for incineration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughton_incinerator...

From what I saw that day, those that went down were only the tip of the iceberg.