Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 33)

[anonymous-user]

Bobberoo99 said:

V6 Pushfit said:

Bobberoo99 said:

"Thrusthead" sounds sexual, I'm interested now!!!

I thought that would perk you up as I typed it....

"Perky Thrusthead"
Mmmmmmmm

The Trivton watershed is still 10.08 you know, you’ll have Cynthia Censor down on you if you’re not careful.

[Bomma R1]

I'm afraid when I read it, all I could think was "Thrush"

Incidentally, Futtette has a cousin who she calls Thrush. She doesn't like him very much.

[Bomma R1]

V6 Pushfit said:

The Trivton watershed is still 10.08 you know, you’ll have Cynthia Censor down on you if you’re not careful.

Can you get a Polaroid of that if it all kicks off?

[glenrobbo]

V6 Pushfit said:

More a pistonhead than thrusthead but all the RAF stuff is fascinating.

Lots of piston action on these:

Edited by glenrobbo on Saturday 18th January 22:23

[Bobberoo99]

Mrs Bobbers has gone to bed, I'm still awake in the front room enjoying a wee Auchentoshan American oak!!

[Bomma R1]

i've no idea where Futtette is, she's not here though. All I can see is something that looks suspiciously like a

Clunk

[Bobberoo99]

Night chaps!!

[DickyC]

Bobberoo99 said:

DickyC said:

Fastest rate of climb ever IIRC. The Lightning, not Bomma, Robbo or Bobbers. Although Bobbers is fairly light on his feet.

I'll add the bit you missed, "for a lump like that!!"

I put it in. Then edited it out.

Think of it as an unspoken subtext.

[glenrobbo]

... And then there were two was one.

Clunk!

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Bomma R1]

Click

"Blood pressure? Yes, you can take my blood pressure. Don't bother with the velcro strap thing, just put 390 over 160 in the book.
That'll give 'em something to think about in the morning"

Click

Clunk

[Dibble]

That photo up there ^^^^^^^^ of the Jaguar reminded me of the clip below, when they landed a Jaguar on the newly built M55 (the motorway between Preston and Blackpool. Or Blackpool and Preston. Or both.) and took off again.

I suspect you wouldn’t get away with a similar stunt these days, what with elf n safety and all that.

https://youtu.be/VeBZ3xbgN_M

[anonymous-user]

Bomma R1 said:

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"Blood pressure? Yes, you can take my blood pressure. Don't bother with the velcro strap thing, just put 390 over 160 in the book.
That'll give 'em something to think about in the morning"

Click

Clunk

Our water supply pressure is well down at the moment would you mind awfully asking them to plumb you into the grid around 10 ish as I’m doing a wash.

Ta

[DickyC]

Dibble said:

That photo up there ^^^^^^^^ of the Jaguar reminded me of the clip below, when they landed a Jaguar on the newly built M55 (the motorway between Preston and Blackpool. Or Blackpool and Preston. Or both.) and took off again.

I suspect you wouldn’t get away with a similar stunt these days, what with elf n safety and all that.

https://youtu.be/VeBZ3xbgN_M

The lost soul that was your correspondent as a young man worked briefly at an awful ramshackle acid making plant south of Guildford. My job was scraping filters. The filters were in the open so we worked in the open. Like most of the workers I was swaddled in protective clothing. It was horrible. Due to the all round unpleasantness of the site it was miles from anywhere amongst farmland but surrounded by an impenetrable tall hedge. Mid morning one day a commotion started. It was deafening. I was really concerned and looked around to see the reaction of my coworkers so I could gauge whether to run or not. It was just so surreal. No one was taking any notice. The deafening noise, a hundred men in full protective gear ignoring it completely and a Harrier taking off vertically from the adjoining field. Kin hell. I asked the bloke I was working with. He just shook his head and carried on working. At break no one expressed an interest and I stopped asking. No idea what it was about.

[glenrobbo]

No wonder Bomma's BP reading is diastolical!

Edited by glenrobbo on Sunday 19th January 09:10

[Bobberoo99]

Morning chaps
Just watched that clip, bloody awesome bit of flying being able to land and takeoff on such a narrow thing!!!
Did you ever find out why the Harrier was in the field Dicky?? That's just bonkers unless it was an RAF base!!!

[DickyC]

Bobberoo99 said:

Did you ever find out why the Harrier was in the field Dicky?? That's just bonkers unless it was an RAF base!!!

No. It was just a field in the middle of nowhere. The only thing I could think was the farmer had an arrangement with the RAF for them to practice setting the thing down in secluded places with no facilities and taking off again. I should have followed it up but no one there was interested and it was a hundred and fifty years before the internet. I wasn't seeing much of my dad then. He would have been interested and might have followed it up. But I was nineteen and had just set up home with the young lady destined to be the first Mrs C. I had other things to absorb my time and energy.

If you know what I mean.

[Bobberoo99]

Ah, so you weren't always the journalistic terrier we see before us today, you were a "normal lad" at one time!!

[P5BNij]

glenrobbo said:

P5BNij said:

''Broadspeed calling Danny boy, Broadspeed calling Danny boy...''



A virtual pint of tiffin to anyone who recognises the owner...

Is it Siiiiiiiiiiiimon Dee?

A good punt Glenners, as was Dicky's with Scott 'ever so slightly otherworldly' Walker...……. it's a chap called Colin Peterson, he was the Bee Gees drummer, probably the most unrecognisable face in one of the most successful bands ever. Quite the petrolhead too, these were taken in March '69 and I believe the Broadspeed Mini still exists, it was advertised for sale in 'Motorsport' mag in '71...













ION, I had another spectacular loco failure last night, the crankcase blew at full chat between Leicester and Kibworth Beauchamp. Nice!

[DickyC]

P5BNij said:

A good punt Glenners, as was Dicky's with Scott 'ever so slightly otherworldly' Walker...……. it's a chap called Colin Peterson, he was the Bee Gees drummer, probably the most unrecognisable face in one of the most successful bands ever. Quite the petrolhead too, these were taken in March '69 and I believe the Broadspeed Mini still exists, it was advertised for sale in 'Motorsport' mag in '71...

Oh, yeah. Colin Peterson.

Never 'eard of 'im.

[P5BNij]

Neither had I till I stumbled on the Broadspeed pics