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Me too. Charlize Theron gets her kit off by the looks of it! (Oh dear, what a blokey thing to say). I'm sure there'll be scantily clad men in it too, for the ladies, and Ed.

If it's directed by Ridley Scott, it has to be good. Also, anything with Charlize Theron gets my vote. QIXY_x3kwLY

Yeah, that got broken from being hit by the crank alright. A cap/bolt must have failed. Any pics of the big end?

Europa Shopfitting, Maxted Road. We're about 100 yards away from the depot. The office staff all moved straight into a centrally heated barn conversion for a year while us joiners had to stay and work in broken glass and clear the place up. We even had to board up next door for them. Then we just carried on working in the condemned building. There was broken glass literally everywhere inside and I even got moaned at for sweeping up and not getting on with the job I was working on. Eventually, we moved to an asbestos roofed tractor shed on a farm for a year, complete with massive diesel patch in the middle of the floor and no proper heating. The senior Director had flyers printed with a photo of the office staff all gathered infront of the new barn, in a three deep choir formation, some kneeling at the front etc. all waving, and a caption saying, "We beat the Buncefield Blast!" Talk about them and us! To steer this back toward bonuses a little, he made a rare visit to the shed to congratulate us on being praised for the best joinery by one of the main contractors, stressing how very unusual this kind of praise was and brought a small box of Tesco cream cakes that he probably didn't even buy. I asked if this meant that we might get a decent pay rise now and he said we were lucky to get one atall. He was right, since we haven't had one!

Why, what do you do?

You must have got some good photos of Buncefield when it went up then? Mind you, it was on a Sunday but burned for a week or more. I got a few from the factory roof as we boarded up the windows. Might post them up in the new year.

Was it a snapped rod bolt/stripped thread or snapped rod beam that caused it, do you know? What were the bolts like when you saw them? All the caps in place on the rods or the broken one with bad bolts? When rod bolts snap under high tension just after TDC they allow the rod to get smacked by the crank on it's next revolution, which sends them through the block. It would be helpful if you knew which broke first, that's all. Pics would be awesome too.

You really know how to knock the wind out of me sometimes. That wasn't funny either.

Was that Lucas Aerospace by any chance, on Maylands Avenue? The site is still bare concrete even now. I used to be a member of Esporta and you can see the massive factory base out the back of the carpark. My best mate's sister used to work there until it closed. Karen Milnthorpe.

Wow, sounds like you were lucky to get out alive!

This is the key phrase. They won't have the same mass as they approach the corner if one has less momentum because he braked more.

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Edam well got knocked over I tell you!

If you haven't seen this vid yet, enjoy! L2HAeZM8ZG0

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You're probably right. I just remember a series of school physics lessons where we measured the acceleration of a toy 'matchbox' car on a wooden ramp about a foot long so we could time the speed increase per distance and vaguely recall acceleration being a square of velocity. This is why I said (sort of) that the car picks up momentum as a square. Same analogy as braking distances being a square of speed. If you're going twice as fast, you need more than twice the braking distance. We just got reminded of this on my recent speed awareness course when they told us that we'd surely kill someone if we went over the speed limit. There's no doubt in my mind however, that two cars travelling at the same speed at a given point in time can have dramatically different momentia, (if that's even a word), as one can still be overcoming inertia to attain a given speed while the other can be braking to shed momentum. 40 mph for example, is just the snapshot point at which their respective speeds cross, with their stored energy ramping in different directions. This is my point, basically. Imagine braking from 180mph down to zero as fast as you can. The car will still be lurching forward when the front tyres finally stop dead. It then rests back down level as the tyres and suspension absorb the remaining momentum. Now imagine it coasting smoothly to a stop over a much longer distance, say a mile. The car will just appear (and feel) to stop without any forward momentum to speak of because the momentum has been dissipated in line with deceleration. Speed and momentum are two seperate phenomena, the latter causing many back ends to swing out when it isn't killed properly and why you shouldn't brake during a corner but before. You need to kill the car's momentum as it isn't directly proportional to speed. There's a distinct lag time. This is why it's unnerving to drive with someone who brakes too late because you can feel the car's momentum pushing you forward strongly, even at slow speeds, making you doubt that you're going to stop in time. Once scientists understand gravity, they'll be up to speed. Mass for example, is not a constant. Acceleration increases mass, otherwise, standing on a set of bathroom scales, you wouldn't be able to make the weight reading increase by bending your legs quickly then stopping. You've gained mass or energy by moving faster. That's momentum.

It would if it had a bullet up it's @rse!

His judgement was Ho Ho Hopeless! Should have done it at Santa Pod.

C'mon Josh, credit where credit is due Each Taoist own. Oh yeah, petrol

I probably couldn't fit in one or I'd more than likely have bought one by now. Apparently they handle quite well?

Have you guys seen these? 91DngoT5Hi8&NR=1 I just found this explanation of something I thought had to be HAARP or it's Russian equivalent. Could still be but this explanation looks plausible enough......also they use words I didn't know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstreak_hole Here's a good vid of more lenticular clouds... vnyqLc8m41A

Looks like you've been stone-walled mate. My God I'm on form tonight and I'm not even pi$$ed!

I must admit, she did have a bed-pan delivery, didn't she.

Post of the year! Edit......Whoa! You bought the carbon wrapped V8! I was seriously considering that! Did you buy it with your CHRISTMAS BONUS? (see what I did there to bring it back on topic? Huh? Huh?)

Oh, that imposter. I'll admit he's a good likeness though. They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Just a bit wooden for my liking. The guy needs to lighten up.