Things you often Wonder

[sidcow]

When will the "Logins are changing" banner turn lime green. 

Edited January 21, 2022 by sidcow

[limpid]

33 minutes ago, sidcow said:

When will the "Logins are changing" banner turn lime green. 

In about a week.

[Xela]

4 hours ago, BOF said:

On a related-ish note, it's not until quite recently (about 3 or 4 years ago) I found out Triumph cars and Triumph bikes were 2 completely separate companies. I just assumed they were 2 divisions of the same company, as with the likes of other companies who make both cars & bikes like Suzuki and Honda etc. But nope, they rather weirdly operated with the same name as each other and no links whatsoever. Mad that they were even allowed to do that.

There are historic links, as they were founded by the same person, but they were separate from before WW2. 

[Xela]

5 hours ago, PussEKatt said:

Why did English motocycles go from the top of the heap to virtually non existant ?

I remember,when I was a teenager ( about 100 years ago ) all you saw was English bikes.Triumph,Norton,BSA,Matchless,AJS etc.I myself had an Aerial 600 Huntmaster and after that 5 ( one after the other ) Triumph Tiger T110s.I dont know for sure,but I would not be surprised if a Triumph Trident of BSA Road Rocket or Norton Dominator would leave a Harley for dead,yet British bikes are all but extinct ?!

Same as the British car industry?

[Anthony]

7 hours ago, PussEKatt said:

Why did English motocycles go from the top of the heap to virtually non existant ?

End of Empire and control of markets. On the one hand other countries were no longer forced to buy British products, and on the other hand... neither were we in the UK.

We'd spent so long being protected from competition we became complacent. Some companies adapted. Many withered.

[PussEKatt]

23 hours ago, mjmooney said:

Bob knew. 

Thats a 1958 Triumph Tiger 100/110

[bickster]

23 hours ago, BOF said:

On a related-ish note, it's not until quite recently (about 3 or 4 years ago) I found out Triumph cars and Triumph bikes were 2 completely separate companies. I just assumed they were 2 divisions of the same company, as with the likes of other companies who make both cars & bikes like Suzuki and Honda etc. But nope, they rather weirdly operated with the same name as each other and no links whatsoever. Mad that they were even allowed to do that.

They were once the same company, Triumph Engineering sold off its car making division to the Standard Motor Company in 1936

It also sold its bicycle manufacturing division to Raleigh in 1932

Triumph had a history of being rather poorly run, even before the second World War

[Chine]

Had this conversation with my lad on the way to football this morning….Why when your a young kid and travelling in a car at speed  over the brow of a hill do you nether regions have that strange tingle , it doesn’t work when your an adult ?

[mjmooney]

5 minutes ago, Chine said:

Had this conversation with my lad on the way to football this morning….Why when your a young kid and travelling in a car at speed  over the brow of a hill do you nether regions have that strange tingle , it doesn’t work when your an adult ?

Yes it does, if you're a passenger. I used to love it as a kid. I hate it as an adult. But it never happens if I'm actually driving, weirdly enough. 

My kids used to call it "unbellyishness". 

[Chine]

1 minute ago, mjmooney said:

Yes it does, if you're a passenger. I used to love it as a kid. I hate it as an adult. But it never happens if I'm actually driving, weirdly enough. 

My kids used to call it "unbellyishness". 

I’m always driving

[Seat68]

I drive between Stafford and Cannock regularly and it undulates, the main road. I floor it over the bumps as that feeling gives me a moderate thrill. 

[Xela]

49 minutes ago, Chine said:

Had this conversation with my lad on the way to football this morning….Why when your a young kid and travelling in a car at speed  over the brow of a hill do you nether regions have that strange tingle , it doesn’t work when your an adult ?

Oh it does!

There's a little bridge in Tamworth, by the Audi garage, if I go over it at anything above 20-25, my tummy does gambols (as I used to say as a kid!). As @Seat68 says, I quite like it! 

[TheAuthority]

7 hours ago, Seat68 said:

I drive between Stafford and Cannock regularly and it undulates, the main road. I floor it over the bumps as that feeling gives me a moderate thrill. 

 

7 hours ago, Xela said:

Oh it does!

There's a little bridge in Tamworth, by the Audi garage, if I go over it at anything above 20-25, my tummy does gambols (as I used to say as a kid!). As @Seat68 says, I quite like it! 

Lads have you not heard of PornHub yet?

[sidcow]

You need a proper hump back bridge for the testicular butterflies. 

[mjmooney]

15 minutes ago, sidcow said:

You need a proper hump back bridge for the testicular butterflies. 

The Camp Hill flyover on the top deck of a bus was my white knuckle ride as a kid. 

[Xela]

6 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

 

Lads have you not heard of PornHub yet?

[sidcow]

9 hours ago, mjmooney said:

The Camp Hill flyover on the top deck of a bus was my white knuckle ride as a kid. 

Wasn't it only supposed to be up for a couple of years but ended up being there for 50 odd years.  Built by the army in a weekend or something.   How a bus never fell off it is a complete mystery to me. 

Sitting on the top deck of the number 6 was twice as scary as any roller-coaster I've ever been on. Room for a couple of inches either side of the bus with a pretty tight curve to negotiate and they never slowed down. It was terrifying. 

Edited January 23, 2022 by sidcow

[mjmooney]

2 minutes ago, sidcow said:

Not half as scary as the Digbeth flyover. Wasn't it only supposed to be up for a couple of years but ended up being there for 50 odd years.  Built by the army in a weekend or something.   How a bus never fell off it is a complete mystery to me. 

Sitting on the top deck of the number 6 was twice as scary as any roller-coaster I've ever been on. Room for a couple of inches either side of the bus with a pretty tight curve to negotiate and they never slowed down. It was terrifying. 

Actually, now I think about it, it was probably the Digbeth one I was thinking of. Or maybe both. I just have this childhood memory of sitting at the front upstairs half terrified and half exhilarated. 

[sidcow]

http://paradisecircus.com/2020/11/19/birmingham-its-not-shit-reason-no-4-camp-hill-flyover/

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But if you like your driving urban, elevated, thrillingly unsafe then Birmingham had something that could help create a thousand unsettling novels. If Digbeth is our Faraway Tree, then the Camp Hill Flyover was our — rattling and juddering — slippery slip, a helter skelter to the Stratford Road, via sheer terror.

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Looking back from thirty years hence feels like climbing backwards — pre seatbelts — on the rear seat of a green mark one escort: the exhilaration is in remembering it. In saying:

“Holy shit, we really drove over that.”

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Barely as wide as a double decker bus in fact some types of Birmingham buses were not allowed to use it as it was too dangerous, the Camp Hill flyover helped ease a traffic pinch-point where the Coventry Road hit town. 

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It was installed on one October weekend in 1961, not by specialised contractors but by ‘the army’. At least according to the sort of people who live in Thailand, post on local history forums on the internet and say “i will never return, being no great fan of ‘Diversity’”.

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by sidcow

[sidcow]

I've often wondered if soap is covered in some kind of protective coating to protect it in storage. 

When you start a new bar it takes a while for it to get a good lather from it. 

It would make sense as you could imagine if stored in damp conditions it could deteriorate. 

I realise in making this post I have opened up almost unlimited opportunities for ridicule but it is just something I have often wondered about.