Greg Tingey

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• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  This discussion seems to be heading towards this month's "major panic" - the Threat to Humanity posed by AI Haven't the ignorant idiots writing this trash ever heard of Isaac Asimov & the Three laws of Robotics ?? IF you...
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  EC @ 125 Firstly: Big Bang Bullshitters - REALLY? What's your explanation for the Cosmic Microwave Background, then? Secondly: Agree, however - the Gen Rel / QM ummm .. mismatch has been telling us that for years....
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  Kardashev See my post @ # 480?...
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  EC While (in theory) this WOULD make a good basis for a fantasy world, it would be unmarketable. "You say that at least a hundred people might be able to understand the plot?" Oh dear, already been done - by...
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  Orissa / India railway smash: At the present state of incomplete information, it looks like a horrible combination of "Clapham" - wrong/faulty signals ... and... "Quintinshill", with three trains involved, one of which was "wrong line"....
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  It is trivially obvious ... that "Faust" is a load of christian lying bullshit, right? but heat (to keep the fires of Hell burning) - WRONG - the only person to visit, recorded that the ultimate depths were frozen over...
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  Oops ... @ 448 SHOULD READ: How about One of these working on 2-foot gauge in Wales? Transported back from SA, to use on the Welsh Highland Railway? The WHR also has the very first Beyer-Garratt, restored for use, as...
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  How about [One of these}(https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/NGG16#/media/File:Class_NG_G16_no._NG149-NG156.jpg) working on 2 foot gauge in Wales? Transported back from Sa, to use on the Welsh Highland Railway?...
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  Ramsay Even without the greedy rip-off extra add-on from HAL(*), the Cross-Liz line is infinitely preferable, since it goes through Paddington & the whole of central London, with useful interchanges all along the way. ( * HAL - Heathrow Airports...
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  David L The world's oldest mass-transit UndergrounD system, London, was the amalgamtion of, originally, at least five/six companies. The Metropolitan Railway { Which had ambitions to also be something of a "Main Line" in conjunction with the Great Central }...
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  whitroth not quite: We sent ( or allowed to leave ) the religious nut-jobs to what became the US & the criminals went to AUS. As one might expect, the civil criminals made a better society than the religious not-jobs....
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  I am told that .. with GW, tick-borne real nasties are already / about to be loose in the UK?...
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  Referring back to "DEET" & it's apparent ineffectiveness against "mossies" ... I'm told that it is, however, very effective against somethingmuch nastier than them ... Ticks Apparently ticks won't bite you / suck your blood / give you seriously unpleasant...
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  Moz In some ways purely decorative because the fast trains have already made the air routes unviable. - would be the same here of course, apart from the fucking stupid, greedy arsehole tories .......
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  John S OUGHT to be done YESTERDAY in the UK ... but if they did they would have to actually spend money on HS2 & the tories HATE railways. Um. Electrocution of unwanted livestock ... About 12 years back, I...
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  IIRC ... it was found with the very earliest Autobahnen in Germany ... they'd had the wonderful idea of making them completely straight - like many lengths of railway track. And then found large numbers of accidents, as people went...
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  DP NO Sometimes - the classic example is the "gap" near Kilsby where the Roman Road - now the A5, the Grand Union Canal , the LNWR main line & the M1 all parallel each other for about 5-10 k....
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  Charlie @ 164 ... re "pointy things" & reality ... Lois Mc M Bujold had an interesting take on that little problem: The protagonist/hero, Cazaril, is up against one of the cheif baddies' sword-wielding henchman ... He didn't doubt that...
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  Rbt Prior Movie sword-fights .... oh dearie, dearie me - just don't go there, it's pathetic at least 99% of the time. It's a long time since I fenced, but the actual moves, when you are facing someone else, also...
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  Pigeon On the few occasions, now-a-days when I wear a collar shirt, then I will wear a ... cravat .. usually silk. The point is that it is NOT tied tightly around the collar, nor itself buttoned-up. It's tied outsde...
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  EC Even worse than that, actually. Going to-&-from Matlock last weekend, the main lin train to Derby had luggage racks with CONVEX top sides - so even my moderate-sized, unframed rucksack { Which was all the luggage I had }...
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  Charlie @ 75 Several essential "tweaks" all came to gether at Rainhill ( October 1829 ) making a mobile steam locomotive a really practical proposition. Forced draught, with the exhaust assisting steaming, by drawing combustion gasses through the boiler tubes...
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  Charlie Railways were barely a thing before 1830, but by 1860 1850 they'd changed everything. Well ... Stockton & Darlington, 1825 - BIG bash coming up in 2 years' time ... but: Liverpool & Manchester 1830 was the big one,...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  EC @ 950 Even worse than that, actually ... By modern standards ... the "popes" were sponsoring International Terrorism. Multiple attempts on the life of Liz I, & actual murders of Willem the Silent, Henri III & Henri IV. Mm....
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  On an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TOPIC Is this something really significant, or just commercial puffery? - would be nice to know....
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  David L That makes some sort of sense ... maybe. Incidentally, said Irish gentleman comes from somewhere between Limerick Jn & Cork & his wife is Breton. - which leads ot EC @ 919: ... you do realise that that...
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  paws So, it isn't funny, even if an Irishman tells it me? anon @ 911 1 km from my door to my hut door. Allotments to the immediate N of Waltham Forest Town Hall - map aerial view link...
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  Anon-etc On our allotment-plots, of course! REMINDER: The racial & religious diversity down there is very wide. IIRC, the only time we had any problem when - I'll call him Bakr, to protect the guilty - made disparaging & sounding-sectarian...
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  paws If an Irish man finds it funny, then your, um, "regional stricture" does not apply, does it? She can no longer remember them, but "the boss" recalls being told a long string of Jewish-&-Arab jokes, most of which would...
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  diabolix In the nicest possible way - get stuffed. There is an Irish gentleman on our plots who told me that one, whilst we were discussing ... potatoes. Specifically, the difficulty of getting some varieties, that are very common "across...