And ?

(I missed it) 🙁

Just caught it thanks to the ‘heads-up’! 🙂

Pretty routine ‘light’ entertainment treatment of the investigation into the crash of a Lancaster on a wartime training flight. Enjoyable enough but I don’t think you missed much.

There was a thread on this forum recently detailing the recovery of the engines. Anybody?

Edit – Here it is:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65284&highlight=lancaster+engines+recovered

Apparently as car safety standards have improved, so more people have been involved in road accidents – the general consensus of opinion being the safer people feel, the faster they drive.

I think it is a documented fact that the number of people killed on British roads increased when the wearing of seat-belts was made compulsory.

Of course fewer drivers and passengers were killed or seriously injured but the number of road-deaths for pedestrians and cyclists went up by an even greater degree.

Somebody once said the greatest aid to road safety would be to mount a big metal spike in the centre of the steering-wheel of every car!

Lesser vehicles…lesser vehicles!

This is just the sort of thing I’m talking about! 😀 😀 😀

My Mrs drives a BMW X5 and is one of the most patient a courteous drivers on the road..one of my daughters drives a Toyota Land Cruiser and drives similar to her Mother..i think lot of people are just intimidated by their size

Years ago I worked in an Isuzu dealership and have spent a lot of time around four-by-fours, the Trooper obviously, the Frontera (Isuzu chassis) but others too.

Interesting to hear you say that some people are intimidated by their size. One thing I always found ironic was that a lot of the Troopers were bought as a second car by men who ‘needed’ them to go caravanning, fishing or boating. Of course the novelty soon wore off and a lot of the ‘problems’ with four-by-fours became apparent.

Then what tended to happen is that they ‘let’ their wives use the vehicle and most of these poor women were completely intimidated by them. Typically they were intimidated by their size, taking up too much of the road and having difficulty parking and even seeing out properly, they were intimidated by the controls, having no clue about the gears in particular, they were intimidated by the amount of road-noise making them drive unnecessarily slowly and so on.

I know this is a generalisation and there will be many, many exceptions (your wife and daughter obviously) but in my experience there are a lot of drivers of these vehicles who are also intimidated by them.

Would you also accept that the roads of Australia are a probably much better place for these vehicles than the UK?

Don’t get me wrong, I like four-by-fours, I don’t own one, but then except very occasionally, I don’t need one.

I accept that there are those who do need them but I think most of us would agree that most of the people who own a four-by-four don’t need one.

However having said that I don’t need the car I drive to be as powerful as it is and I’m sure that (or something similar) can be said of most of us.

And of course, as many others have pointed out, generalisations about the behaviour of drivers based on what they drive are ridiculous…

…except for Mercedes drivers of course…who are the rudest drivers on the road! 😀

It is a free country and you are entitled to your opinion…

…but if you ‘publish’ your opinion and if others feel your opinion is defamatory they are ‘free’ to sue you! 😉

My only issue with the drivers of these vehicles is that if I meet one on a narrow country lane in my distinctly non-four-by-four vehicle it always seems to be me that has to get out of the way…

…Oi!…you bought the off-roader…you drive in the ****ing ditch! 😡

Do tell us what it is!

A small (approx 150mm long) coffin with ‘Italy 1945’ crudely carved into the lid. The lid pivots around a screw at the foot of the coffin to reveal a carved skeleton within. The skeleton is reasonably anatomically correct except that he has a penis which is articulated on the carving so that, to quote the listing, ‘with a subtle flick of the hand’ the skeleton appears to get an erection.

You had to ask! 😀