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• Greg Tingey commented on No comment necessary
  SS Uphill - no problem, downhill, NOT so good & as for cornering, you don't want to know. whitroth Yes - she is the classic example & Cyril is still as "saint" But then there's Dominic - founder of a religious order & leader of the Albigensian crusade Or Thomas More, who deliberately had people burnt alive ... Or the recent torturer "mother Theresa"...
• Moz commented on No comment necessary
  I might have tried to explain to him I wasn't going to break the rules, I was looking for a place where what I wanted to do was lawful I started that way, and mentioned it a few times, but between "I can't give you advice, you need to hire someone who will tell you what I will allow" and "you can't build a structure on that land" I didn't feel that I was getting anywhere. So rather than buy a block of land then spend the next ten years playing silly buggers at my expense, I gave up early....
• Scott Sanford commented on No comment necessary
  I kinda want one of these: https://mymodernmet.com/volkswagen-bug-camper/ More seriously, I'd like a small campervan suitable for one person for photography trips. I've seen that! The kitchen is cute but I'd rather have someplace to sleep, since for my use cases I can often stop at a restaurant and will eat cold food other times. And I agree with the camper comment; either a Type II or Vanagon camping van would be everything I'd need for conventions and casual road trips. Greg: Uphill - no problem, downhill, NOT so good & as for cornering, you don't want to know. That surprises...
• whitroth commented on No comment necessary
  Really liked the ad campaign when VW reintroduced the beetle: 0-60: yes. heat: yes.......
• JohnS commented on No comment necessary
  Scott Sanford @ 1757: I recall an anecdote from a column written by an airline pilot during the early post-9/11 years, after the TSA materialized but also US congress legislated that pilots could carry handguns aboard: how the author carried a serrated plastic knife in his flight bag (to open his sandwiches) and had it confiscated ... even though he was about to take the controls of a loaded 767 and could legally have carried a gun on board. Really, security theatre would be hilarious if it wasn't so annoying. A similar story emerged from the early weeks after 9/11...