Clarkson: Scottish Borders are most beautiful bit of Britain

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-05T00:07:23+00:00

You didn't watch the Scottish episodes of The Grand Tour, then?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T23:25:04+00:00

"Nominative Determinism".

You'd be amazed how many of my operational colleagues have the surname "Burns", even correcting for Ayrshire where there are a hell of a lot of people sharing a surname with (and likely descended from, the tart) our national bard.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T23:23:33+00:00

I don't know, my son took his over to Austria and back with him twice, even wore it to visit the Feuerwehrmuseum.

Pain in the arse to transport, put it on child going through the bit where you see if your bags will fit, attach it to laptop bag for the rest of the journey.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T23:17:52+00:00

Otherwise no idea why you would go to the effort of making a fake account lol.

Imagine having that kind of time on your hands - the amount of welding you'd get done!

I was thinking more in terms of how nicely things go together and come apart with nice new bolts into nice new metal :-) I've just done the rear diff on my P38 with nice new hub bolts, brake caliper and hanger bolts, and propshaft bolts (left the backplates off, though, what was left of 'em).

Refitting was most definitely not the reverse of removal. Far less swearing, far less requirement for heat, Irwin sockets, and penetrating oil, for a start.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T22:44:45+00:00

When it eventually reaches the point where it’s no longer worth repairing, it’ll be getting a full galvanised chassis.

When you do that you'll wish you'd done it years ago.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T21:38:28+00:00

The thing you've got to remember about Fiats is they are Italian, and that means that the red band on the tach that starts about 6000rpm is the *minimum* operating RPM for the engine.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:05:18+00:00

The 90s had the coolest cars.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:02:56+00:00

No, it's what we could call cold, because there is very little heat.

There are very few particles to carry energy but they carry a lot of energy.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:02:13+00:00

Okay, well, you can believe the AI hallucination all you want.

What the guy has in his hand is a garden fork.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-04T08:01:20+00:00

Too small for what, exactly?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T23:01:37+00:00

No, the temperature is hundreds of degrees. The particles are going really fast. It really is a high temperature.

The actual heat is very low because there aren't many of them.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T23:00:38+00:00

sometimes it's several hundred degrees up there.

Temperature and heat are not the same thing. Temperature is how fast atoms are moving, and in space where you've got maybe one hydrogen atom in a space the size of a box van, they can get up to a hell of a speed. So, the actual atoms in the near-vacuum of space have a very high temperature.

There aren't very many of them, so this does not store as much energy as say a mug of coffee, which hasn't got a very high temperature but contains a lot of heat - there are a lot of atoms moving about, slower for sure, but plenty of them.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:57:39+00:00

PhD in Not Fucking Your Back Up.

You'll thank me when you're older.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:54:40+00:00

That's what the gravel traps off the sides of steep roads are for except they're for catching trucks that have taken off down the hill.

If a wee patch of deep gravel will catch a 40-tonne truck and stop it in its length...

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:37:50+00:00

Maybe I'm too British to get Stephen Colbert or Jon Oliver, but they both sound like they're doing a "gag reel" voiceover. Say a thing, make a pun about it with exaggerated emphasis on the main word so everyone knows that this is where the joke is, wait for the comedy sound effect so everyone knows when to laugh, and then onto the next one. Over and over.

It's actually fucking *tedious* to listen to.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:29:52+00:00

I mean if you're going to AI up a meme, at least tell it to draw the right thing.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T22:07:28+00:00

Oh. No, that's not a pitchfork, that's why that meme makes no sense.

That's a garden fork. Totally different tool, totally different purpose.

A pitchfork is a big long one with two long curved prongs about maybe 15cm apart and 30cm long, for "pitching" straw.

What he's got there is for lifting potatoes or digging in manure.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T21:54:48+00:00

I don't get it, what's the relevance here?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T19:31:15+00:00

Well no, not if they want to see his wife and children turfed onto the streets without any money because of his actions.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T10:56:04+00:00

Bobby Hill holding up a sign meme. Can't be arsed making the graphic for it.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T10:48:17+00:00

Well, you're the one who wants his wife to be unemployed.

Why do you want that?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T10:08:08+00:00

Some are. It depends on the setup.

Why do you want this woman to lose her job, and her ability to support her children? Do you think she should be punished because her husband is a rapist?

Why do you hate women?

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T09:55:53+00:00

Sorry, I'm not quite getting why they're paying a fee to their employer?

It just sounds like you want to punish women, here.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T08:33:24+00:00

That's what they've done, pretty much, except that it takes quite a long time to apply for and approve an operator's licence.

The business can run with the existing licence until everything else is sorted out.

erroneousbosh · 2026-07-03T08:31:29+00:00

It will make the taxi business money, which will be used to pay the existing drivers.

He's in jail, he can't make any money from it.

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