Gas shortage UK

My dad's petrol Volvo was at 260K when he sold it, with the engine running perfectly.

Often the path to a great idea is through a region of crazy ideas. Rejecting ideas too soon blocks that path. The issue is, how do you explore a basically infinite solution space? You sure can't do that consciously, one idea at a time.

This is cool,

No. I have very brief, a second or two, extremely brilliant and beautiful and colorful still images, usually a place (a little english village for example) or a woman's face. One reason I like them is because I have mediocre vision, but the hallucinations are optically perfect. I wish I had more.

I've read that over 20% of the population has hallucinations, but most people have acoustic ones.

Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche market for ugly.

None.

Miles or kilometers? Which leads to the question of how you can put 260K on anything on a little island.

it does when it is a 270hp homologation special ...

I lean towards epiphenomenalism. All that fancy inner dialogue is noise from the real work. The trace on an o-scope isn't the signal.

As far as alcohol, I once got into a barroom conversation with a tech rep who was calling on a local defense contractor. During the course of the evening I roughed out a design for an electronic ignition system for something live the Vulcan. It must have been good because he contacted me the next day and offered to set up an interview. I passed since I only had the vaguest idea of what sort of smoke I'd been blowing.

It would have been an interesting project. Electrical primers are nothing new. Germany was using them during WWII in aircraft weapons but there still is the mechanical component of the 'firing pin' making contact with the primer.

I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like the plague.

When they got to about 16 everyone else stopped growing.

I went on a summer camp after I'd finished school, and there was an orienteering competition. Which if you don't know is a cross-country run with a map. I came second. Then had to explain that yes, I knew I was that fit, but no, I did not want to spend my Saturdays representing the school, I wanted to go sailing instead.

I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It's a complicated sport which has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your local football team.

Andy

I loved badminton, pirates and murder ball. Pirates involved one person having to tig the rest of the class, with all the gym equipment out and no-one allowed to touch the floor. Murder ball was the best, one mat at each end of the gym, a medicine ball in the middle, the class split in two and each half had to get the ball onto the opposing teams mat ... there were *NO* other rules. The latter two were banned by the council, but we still did them at the end of each term.

I played badminton most lunchtimes for years.

Unfortunately, the school was only interested in football - to the extent that when the pitch was frozen solid and we were at risk of injury, they kept those on the school team in the gym to keep them fit for the weekend's match and made the rest of us do football outside!

The result was that I pretty well loathed PE and was very glad when, for

Indeed. Central Scotland to South England (me to my Aunt's house) is 460 miles, so almost 1K miles round trip.

And lo and behold, that Volvo went right round France.

I don't think I have any. I can hear voices but I think it's just blood going through my ears with too much wax, the voices are not intelligible.

I don't see any ugly ones, but I do see plain ones. BMW for instance all look the f****ng same.

Then why are you so obsessed with looks?

Those 4 look ok to me. Top left and bottom right are beautiful, the other two are perfectly fine.

Same company. Same car really.

That one does look ridiculous. In fact it's so square you'd think it lacked aerodynamics and would fail the health and softy test for ramming pedestrians.

Are they still making petrol cars?

Why did you delete two thirds of the newsgroups?

Oh, one of those. You lot are fun to beat up.

Scuba diving is more fun. Another world under there.

I shall be going skiing. I have two feet, I prefer one device for each. People don't understand me not wearing a shirt in winter though.

My school concentrated too much on ball games. I'm not co-ordinated enough to be good at those (although my reaction speed is apparently 3 times faster than average), and they're boring.

And sharks.

Trump owns Apple?

We're giving everyone $5000 this year, but we call it Christmas. I hope nobody has a heart attack.