General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

[Jack by the hedge]

I remember someone at the office had a classic Triumph Stag that they loved. You could always tell their bay as it had the matching stains on the wall where the exhausts were

It's strange to find yourself driving behind an old pre-catalytic-converter car and be reminded that traffic just used to smell like that and the fuel had lead in it. What were we thinking?

 

[Darat]

It's strange to find yourself driving behind an old pre-catalytic-converter car and be reminded that traffic just used to smell like that and the fuel had lead in it. What were we thinking?

 

[Andy_Ross]

I really noticed the smoker smell the first time I visited the family after first moving out.
Everyone in the house but me smoked.

 

[Mongrel]

It's strange to find yourself driving behind an old pre-catalytic-converter car and be reminded that traffic just used to smell like that and the fuel had lead in it. What were we thinking?

Don't forget the clouds of billowing black smoke from diesels and poorly maintained vehicles.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

That only applies to people with dual nationality, though some reports did suggest that Farage did apply for a German passport in 2016.

Hey if it's good enough for a victim of state inaction, Shamina Begum, it's surely good enough for somebody actively working against the state.

 

[catsmate]

It's strange to find yourself driving behind an old pre-catalytic-converter car and be reminded that traffic just used to smell like that and the fuel had lead in it. What were we thinking?

It (TEL) was a cheap solution to 'knocking'.
Curiously I was reading Pedler's novel Brainrack recently, which discusses the effects of lead on the human brain. Thankfully no nuclear power facilities have been destroyed by TEL.

 

[Andy_Ross]

It (TEL) was a cheap solution to 'knocking'.
Curiously I was reading Pedler's novel Brainrack recently, which discusses the effects of lead on the human brain. Thankfully no nuclear power facilities have been destroyed by TEL.

It was also a way of using cheap, plaincast iron cylinder heads instead of having to machine and fit hardened steel seats.

 

[Pixel42]

It boggles my mind that the guy that came up with the idea of putting lead in petrol also developed CFCs. He was later described as a "one-man environmental disaster".

Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[jimbob]

◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ◊◊◊◊ bastards. They all need to get their whoreson ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ entitled ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ arses into the deepest ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ depths of the sea, like the ◊◊◊◊◊ that they are, IMHO.

ETA: I was expecting more diamonds.

Don't hold back.

 

[jimbob]

Everywhere had a cigarette smell, people even smoked in hospitals.

20 years ago at work we had smoking tea bars next to nonsmoking ones with a 3m opening between them. My shirt smelled just by walking past to get to my desk. And I was working in a manufacturing site where it had been well known that smoke from the lungs increased the particle count in the clean room significantly (I *think* at university, the lecturer said the effect lasted half an hour).

I also remember the massive complaintd by smokers about the loss of indoor smoking facilities. Not just at work but when the legislation was being discussed. One of the few ways that that Blair's Labour improved the country, which the Tories didn't actually try to undo.

 

[steenkh]

When I was in London for the first time (in 1977), I was shocked when I went to the cinema, and people were smoking during the movie with smoke billowing up in front of the screen. Back in Denmark, I had never experienced anything like it, although people in those days were also smoking everywhere.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Cars had an ashtray for front passengers in the dashboard and one between the seats for the rear and sometimes each passenger had their own ashtray in each door.

Our house had an ashtray in every room including the bathroom.
My dad smoked a whole 20 pack of Senior Service unfiltered navy cut every day.

 

[Andy_Ross]

30p Lee says

Musk's Money.

I don’t hear them bleating on when foreign businessmen are donating millions to the Labour Party.

They're frit !

 

[Norman Alexander]

30p Lee says

Can he bring evidence?

 

[The Don]

When I was in London for the first time (in 1977), I was shocked when I went to the cinema, and people were smoking during the movie with smoke billowing up in front of the screen. Back in Denmark, I had never experienced anything like it, although people in those days were also smoking everywhere.

I'm old enough to remember (and stupid enough to participate in) smoking on the Tube (the London underground railway).

The Kings Cross fire put a stop to that.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I remember someone at the office had a classic Triumph Stag that they loved. You could always tell their bay as it had the matching stains on the wall where the exhausts were

And presumably oil stains on the ground where the engine and gearbox was!

 

[jimbob]

And presumably oil stains on the ground where the engine and gearbox was!

As a semiconductor engineer, and chip designer, I felt seen when an American colleague told me that the reason why the UK doesn't have a computer industry is because nobody worked out how to make a PC leak oil.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

And presumably oil stains on the ground where the engine and gearbox was!

Where the replacement engine was.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

As a semiconductor engineer, and chip designer, I felt seen when an American colleague told me that the reason why the UK doesn't have a computer industry is because nobody worked out how to make a PC leak oil.

Well that's just not true. Charles Babbage solved the problem of how to make a computer leak oil in the 1800s.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Can he bring evidence?

It's 30p Lee: of course he can't, but that never stops him opening his gob and letting ◊◊◊◊◊ spew out.