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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh my word that Merc and its completely hosed engine will keep me warm at night for quite some time. I'm a fan of the one where the little VW goes for it with gusto (and sinks) while the big Landy behind it sensibly stops at the water's edge.
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Miftan posted:This is amazing, I had no idea this existed. MMBN is one of my favourite game series of all time. Thanks for posting it!  I used to enjoy that game, even on emulator about 10 years back, never knew about the hypercompetative online scene although it makes perfect sense.Lord Ludikrous posted:Off topic (or not given the current flooding going on), but do folks like to watch extremely stupid people break their cars in entirely avoidable circumstances? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riEVJJC1JbM
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Jul 26, 2021 16:34
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https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1418993907103412233 What is wrong with this country
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Jul 26, 2021 16:40
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It's been stuck in bourgeois vs. aristocracy since the 17th century, never having the material conditions to push further than that.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:44
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The modern aristocracy mostly just does Films, TV and Theatre these days, rather than anything to do with politics
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Jul 26, 2021 17:06
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Off topic (or not given the current flooding going on), but do folks like to watch extremely stupid people break their cars in entirely avoidable circumstances? I like the moving camera showing that there's clearly one or more people just standing there waiting for cars to cross so they can film them and laugh. much more personal touch than the 11foot8 videos e: oh man and the ones where you can actually see the small crowd gathered there to watch the day's entertainment Angepain fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jul 26, 2021 |
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Jul 26, 2021 17:14
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Well yes of course if you're adopted you're not posh 
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Jul 26, 2021 17:15
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josh04 posted:https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1418993907103412233 loving hell I'm seething now. 18th century classifications for an aristocracy doesn't matter. Is Boris an actual aristocrat? Beside the point. Is Pigfucker General? No, he's not Alec Douglas Home but there is still a ruling class who come from privilege that most people cannot imagine. Really loving worthless lens to look at society through.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:17
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Nothingtoseehere posted:The modern aristocracy mostly just does Films, TV and Theatre these days, rather than anything to do with politics The actual aristocracy has never really done politics in this country simply because they don't have to, society just bends to their whims. We're born tugging our forelocks - even after we had an actual, king-killing revolution, we let all the aristocracy keep all their poo poo, then quietly put his son on the throne a decade later like nothing had happened.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:18
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Angepain posted:I like the moving camera showing that there's clearly one or more people just standing there waiting for cars to cross so they can film them and laugh. much more personal touch than the 11foot8 videos You would think though upon approaching a ford with a high water level, a crowd of people watching and filming, and ducks swimming around, that might be a clue that you should find another way around. goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh my word that Merc and its completely hosed engine will keep me warm at night for quite some time. It could be that the air intake is mounted in a very low position, or perhaps if the seals and gaskets are aged and deteriorating there could be water getting into the gearbox/crankcase/differential/etc.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:19
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Lord Ludikrous posted:You would think though upon approaching a ford with a high water level, a crowd of people watching and filming, and ducks swimming around, that might be a clue that you should find another way around. no no no don't be silly, they're just there to watch all the other drivers. the bad drivers. the ones who aren't as brilliant as driving as you are. time to show them what's what
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Jul 26, 2021 17:21
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knox_harrington posted:Well yes of course if you're adopted you're not posh All members of the Tory party who actually become a member of parliament are to visit Madame Guillotine for a special 20% discount off the top. 
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Jul 26, 2021 17:22
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Classes are just aesthetics that people choose, says man who has that choice.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:23
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goddamnedtwisto posted:we let all the aristocracy keep all their poo poo Some of the Catholic Lords in England just got set on fire instead, which all in all went a lot better.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The actual aristocracy has never really done politics in this country simply because they don't have to, society just bends to their whims. We're born tugging our forelocks - even after we had an actual, king-killing revolution, we let all the aristocracy keep all their poo poo, then quietly put his son on the throne a decade later like nothing had happened. I get to watch whoever is the current ruler of the Dukeries take off in his helicopter from the stately home in the middle of the estate of the county he has generously let the serfs live in.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:38
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Lord Ludikrous posted:You would think though upon approaching a ford with a high water level, a crowd of people watching and filming, and ducks swimming around, that might be a clue that you should find another way around. I like the ones that just totally ignore the already stricken silver car abandoned in the ford. I once saw a family bailing out a Fiesta just out of our local ford. Unlike the Rufford one, there's actually a perfectly good road bridge - the ford is just for vehicles which are too big or heavy for the bridge.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:42
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I was mostly driven mad by the national political discourse being centred on a conversation between Dom Cummings and Dom Joly.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:45
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Lord Ludikrous posted:It could be that the air intake is mounted in a very low position, or perhaps if the seals and gaskets are aged and deteriorating there could be water getting into the gearbox/crankcase/differential/etc. Water in the crankcase in sufficient quantities might* kill an engine but you'd need a hole in it big enough that you've got other, much bigger problems. Water in the oil is a "This is going to be a problem eventually" kind of thing, but again unless you've got a hole big enough that all the oil has already come out then it's pretty unlikely it's going to kill an engine immediately. Thinking about gaskets though - it's not impossible that the sudden thermal shock might be enough to warp the block - much more likely with an air-cooled engine of course, but I could see that causing enough distortion to let coolant into the cylinder, which would explain the big clouds of smoke and nasty piston-scoring noises that some of them were making. * Completely filling the crankcase with water would obliterate a single, a split-pin v-twin or one of the weirder firing order triples or 4s, but for almost every other engine configuration the actual volume under the pistons stays pretty much constant - obviously the turbulence and resistance might cause problems (especially for flat engines) but even then that's a "blow up miles away" kind of problem. Before anyone "Well actually..."s me about crankcase breathers, they're generally only a very small hole, and also normally connected to the airbox - water getting to them in sufficient problems to kill the engine will obliterate the top end and/or conrod(s) via hydro-locking** long before that. ** For the non-mechanically inclined, what's killing most of these engines is hydraulic locking. Your internal combustion engine works by squeezing a fuel-air mixture - if you get something incompressible like water in there instead then very, very bad things happen very very quickly because the pressure of the piston coming up (driven of course by the rest of the engine) has nowhere to go. If you're *incredibly* lucky the spark plug or a valve seat (both above the piston) will fail first like a safety valve, leaving you with only a few hundred quids worth of labour. Much more likely the pressure will either crack the top end of the engine or bend the connecting rod that connects the piston (the up-and-down bit) to the crankcase (the round-and-round bit). While theoretically repairable that's basically new engine time.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:51
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rufford ford is one of my toddler nephews go to calm down youtubes. Just sits there predicting yes,no oh oh , no oh oh yes... with almost perfect accuracy
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Jul 26, 2021 17:56
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Guavanaut posted:
Henry VIII was revolutionary in that he nationalised the local assets of a global corporation that had a monopoly before this change. Change my mind.
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Jul 26, 2021 18:01
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knox_harrington posted:Well yes of course if you're adopted you're not posh Are you posh? - Yes - No - I'm adopted
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Azza Bamboo posted:Henry VIII was revolutionary in that he nationalised the local assets of a global corporation that had a monopoly before this change. Change my mind. He did it so he could ditch his wife which is fairly Tory
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Jul 26, 2021 18:10
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh my word that Merc and its completely hosed engine will keep me warm at night for quite some time. Many years ago, our car ran through a deepish but not especially huge puddle on an A-road and ran into immediate trouble afterwards because the water pressure had actually pulled a chunk off the bottom of the vehicle and left it dragging along the road. Wonder if something similar happened to one or two of those cars?
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Jul 26, 2021 18:25
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Azza Bamboo posted:Henry VIII was revolutionary in that he nationalised the local assets of a global corporation that had a monopoly before this change. Change my mind. He didn't nationalize them, he privatized them. They all went to rich gits.
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Jul 26, 2021 18:35
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Produces empty 200 ml Cresta bottle. Covers it in saliva for 'speed lube' and destroys the competition. gets banned from arcade when saliva eventually corrodes button connections. (yeah those v2 buttons were a bummer)
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Jul 26, 2021 18:52
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serious gaylord posted:Also this is a spectacular own goal already given the poo poo Labour HQ have pulled last week. To be fair she's just following in the deputy leader tradition that T.Watson laid down.
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Jul 26, 2021 18:57
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Mental health breakdown Friday and food poisoning Sunday and reading that Dom Cummings tweet is still worse than my weekend was
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Jul 26, 2021 19:07
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Bobstar posted:Are you posh?
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HopperUK posted:He did it so he could ditch his wife which is fairly Tory
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Jul 26, 2021 19:26
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Bobby Deluxe posted:His historical status as 'Britain's first / most divorced man' also secures him a decent place. Lawrence Fox has of course taken the latter title from him.
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Jul 26, 2021 19:30
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the last news story on itv news one day last week was britain's longest serving lollypop lady
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Off topic (or not given the current flooding going on), but do folks like to watch extremely stupid people break their cars in entirely avoidable circumstances? Do they think if they go fast enough they can outrun the water or something?
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Jul 26, 2021 19:55
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Why car stop when get wet?
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Jul 26, 2021 19:59
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I’ve finally figured out why brexit is going wrong. See, remainers ran around saying it was financially impossible. Turns out it was true - going by mortal man’s financial rules. A fairy was going to plant and tend a Magic Money Tree that would have solved all these problems. There would have been food beyond compare for those who truly believed. BUT the perfidious Left never believed. As a result the fairy died. The believers tried so hard, they even got the populace to clap for the fairy under the guise of clapping for the NHS, but it was for naught. We are doomed. Perhaps I’ll become a pirate.
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Jul 26, 2021 20:00
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OwlFancier posted:Do they think if they go fast enough they can outrun the water or something? You gotta show dominance otherwise the water will smell weakness
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Jul 26, 2021 20:04
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OwlFancier posted:Do they think if they go fast enough they can outrun the water or something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvq-q56AhNQ None of those vehicles were that.
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Jul 26, 2021 20:05
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Off topic (or not given the current flooding going on), but do folks like to watch extremely stupid people break their cars in entirely avoidable circumstances? Love the guy at 2:20 who turns his van into a boat and just sails past flicking his cig into the water. What a stupid oval office.
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Jul 26, 2021 20:07
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I don't remember if i ever even covered how to ford a river because I have no idea where the nearest one to me would be, but I was under the impression that you are supposed to do it slowly. And also check the depth marker first. Also if there are people hanging out looking for an excuse to film you that's probably a hint too.
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sadly i think the mentality required to see a body of water of unfathomable depth and set about plunging a car into it so it becomes buoyant is not that uncommon
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