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Part of his right elbow is visible beneath the rocket in the first picture, at the end of some suspicious fuzziness.
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David wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:16 pm Part of his right elbow is visible beneath the rocket in the first picture, at the end of some suspicious fuzziness.
Aye, although what I was getting at is the fact that he's such a scruffy git that he looks like a badly cut and pasted blob.
I work on building sites and honestly can't think of any of the builders I work with regularly who just looks so bloody scruffy, and thats when they're in pretty dirty situations.
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They've also removed half the frame holding the rocket up :D

4/10, worst. history. edit. ever.
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Hell, the magic eraser function on Pixel phones does better
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MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:17 am Hell, the magic eraser function on Pixel phones does better
ImagePXL_20220608_115805761 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

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Good point...there are a couple of suspicious areas, but no independently floating Boris bits.
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Glitch?

I hate the way they use Glitch in the media.
Glitch is a minor hiccup.
This is complete meltdown disaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-64238718
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Yorick wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:04 pm Glitch?

I hate the way they use Glitch in the media.
Glitch is a minor hiccup.
This is complete meltdown disaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-64238718
Have a major system failure

https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/11/flights- ... -18078793/
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Pirahna wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:56 pm
Yorick wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:04 pm Glitch?

I hate the way they use Glitch in the media.
Glitch is a minor hiccup.
This is complete meltdown disaster

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-64238718
Have a major system failure

https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/11/flights- ... -18078793/
Many years ago at Travelex, some numpty in India wiped completely the main server and backup/test server .
World outage. Bad

Guess which DBA had to rebuild the database when the system was running again :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:21 am
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:17 am Hell, the magic eraser function on Pixel phones does better
ImagePXL_20220608_115805761 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

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Is that Falmouth?
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cheb wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:57 pmIs that Falmouth?
It is, not long after we'd been mooching about in the maritime museum
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BMW has halted all car sales to police forces in the UK with immediate effect and shut down its sales centre in London.

BMW’s International & Specialist Sales Division, based at its Park Lane, Mayfair, dealership closed this week.

A team of around 20 people arrived at work to be told the department was shutting down. BMW Park Lane is consulting impacted staff.

BMW told Car Dealer that it would now be ‘prioritising sales to retail and corporate customers’ and moving away from sales to the police and other authorities.

The halt of sales to the police follows a number of forces across the UK restricting duties carried out by BMW police cars featuring the N57 diesel engine.

Some forces stopped the cars being used for high speed pursuits and relegated them to ‘less stressful’ duties.

The N57 engine features in the 330d, 530d and X5 models used by police up and down the country.

Forces have seen a number of cars engulfed in flames, the most serious of which claimed the life of police officer Nick Dumphreys who died after the BMW he was driving in Cumbria caught fire on an emergency run.

BMW said the problem with the N57 engine was down to the ‘particular way’ police use the vehicles and that there was ‘no need for action on any civilian vehicles’.

One serving traffic police officer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Car Dealer: ‘We have had no end of problems with the N57-engined BMWs.

‘After the fires, a lot of our cars were just put aside and we weren’t allowed to use them.
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Never heard of that ^^^ issue before. From just a brief read around, it sounds like the issue is caused by high mileage cars going from idle to max power/revs in short order?

So BMW 3 litre diesel drivers beware. Don't do that!
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:59 pm Never heard of that ^^^ issue before. From just a brief read around, it sounds like the issue is caused by high mileage cars going from idle to max power/revs in short order?

So BMW 3 litre diesel drivers beware. Don't do that!
I didn't quote the entire article (or post a link to help :( ), it did go on to say that the problems occurred when they'd been parked up with the engine ticking over, then went immediately to thrash errr... use firm acceleration... to another job.

Edit: BMW say it won't affect Joe Public, but I wonder about track days etc.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:28 pm
cheb wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:57 pmIs that Falmouth?
It is, not long after we'd been mooching about in the maritime museum

Spawn the younger did part of their doctorate down there. Nice place but a bit too east for my liking.
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cheb wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:32 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:28 pm
cheb wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:57 pmIs that Falmouth?
It is, not long after we'd been mooching about in the maritime museum

Spawn the younger did part of their doctorate down there. Nice place but a bit too east for my liking.
Was a day trip out, we were holidaying @ Praa Sands, which, out of season, was bloody lovely, looking at google maps it looks a little crowded for my tastes when in season
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