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Hahaha, is that a real British army recruitment poster? It is hilarious. It is real. Its one of a few in that campaign, which also has some videos that really beggar belief. All militaries are desperate to find a cultural connection to millennial. This is what comes out. I've got an archive folder from last year where I collected global military recruitment campaigns. Typically the US campaign stuck rigidly to the "Team America F*CK YEAH!" approach and showed dynamism, ambition, action, heavy metal accessories and a sense of being the alpha organisation. Sadly recruitment was down there too at the time of the study. It's a problem without a solution.
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We are grooming our offspring to be a bunch of pussies.
There will be no more heroes in 30 years time as everyone will be so risk averse. Everything is simulated on computer nowadays, where will test pilots etc be in the future?
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Apr 12, 2019 11:00:49 GMT
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This was one of many points I made in my presentation to the MOD. We lap up the idea of boot camp training, pushing ourselves, being the best of the best in life (ie on our terms, as part of our self-actualisation ambition), and yet when it comes to the military we have absolutely no appetite for it at all. It's great for selling breakfast cereal, terrible for selling a military career...
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Apr 12, 2019 11:05:07 GMT
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We are grooming our offspring to be a bunch of pussies. There will be no more heroes in 30 years time as everyone will be so risk averse. Everything is simulated on computer nowadays, where will test pilots etc be in the future? That's easy... test pilots will be indistinguishable from actual pilots, in the sense that both will be algorithms. The transition is from blood war to mechanical war to purely abstract math war. We're about to start thinking about pure mecha war as being the more efficient evolution of a human army, but eventually we'll realise the inefficiency of that and it will become a game of Tron between countries or ideologies in a virtual field of combat, with one country or ideology effectively ghosting the enemy out of the data landscape, plunging it into utter chaos for decades to follow. Total cost: 49p on BT Broadband.
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Apr 13, 2019 10:40:53 GMT
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Rebuilt vac unit back on. Idle now nice and stable and maybe it's my imagination but it seems to be pulling away much better without the idle constantly adjusting. Half an hour left before I'm needed back home and I'd stopped off at Stadium Motor Spares so I can replace my patchwork vac hose with a single length of hose... so I've rewarded myself with a sneaky Uncle Sam burger while I'm there... don't tell the wife.
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Apr 13, 2019 15:18:42 GMT
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Posted this on Facebook so I may as well post it here too. Off to Paris for work next week. Haven't been for years, but going again reminded me once more of Claude Lelouch's seminal (and illegal) 1976 Paris dashcam movie "C'était un rendezvous". Filmed at 5am in August, entirely without permission, without safety crews, without back-up, and with all junctions, red lights and tunnel exits a total gamble. All at full throttle, non-stop... hooning Paris in a 6.9litre Mercedes-Benz 450SEL. A no-edit single shot recorded using natural lighting. This is the cinema verité home made movie that spawned an entire genre of car chase movies and viral videos, before Youtube, Vimeo and Facebook had ever been dreamed of. This is the source material. Saluer Claude Lelouch!! and before any of you pedantic gits notice... If you've never seen this before, don't be fooled by the engine noise... that's not the 6.9L. He overdubbed the sound of his 275GTB because the audio recording was poor and the V12 sounded nicer than the V8. Personally, I'd love to see a cut with the original V8 audio, however compromised by wind noise and vibration it might be.
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glenanderson
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Apr 13, 2019 21:28:41 GMT
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Classic bit of footage. Like you say, the soundtrack is deceiving; he’s not going as fast as it makes it seem at times, but he’s certainly not hanging about. Like you, I’d love to hear it with the original sound.
That bloody beetle in the way at the end of the Avenue De L’Opéra always makes me wince, and I bet he put the wind up a few dustmen that morning, not to mention the woman with the dog! 😂
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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I found this topic on the Speeduino forum. Chap is only doing injection but could easily be ignition as well, just have to add a trigger wheel and sensor to crank. You would have to retain the dizzy mechanism as it drives the oil pump. Or you could just do the ignition.. The modules are cheap and easy to program.
If you need a miracle manifold build, then you can rope in @johnnybravo who can make anything out of nothing..!
I need a Scimitar!!! The thing is though, if all he wants to do is add fuel injection he may as well have gone for the Cologne engine as fitted to the SE6 Scimitar. I guess it depends on whether he wanted the challenge and experience of injecting the Essex or just the results. If the latter then the Cologne would have been quicker and easier. As for me personally... I prefer a carburetor. I wouldn't personally want to go to all the trouble of doing what he's doing (and I couldn't do it, even if I wanted to to be honest). You should scour UK Ebay and get a Scim imported. They sell for peanuts over here but generally need some work.
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We are grooming our offspring to be a bunch of pussies. There will be no more heroes in 30 years time as everyone will be so risk averse. Everything is simulated on computer nowadays, where will test pilots etc be in the future? That's easy... test pilots will be indistinguishable from actual pilots, in the sense that both will be algorithms. The transition is from blood war to mechanical war to purely abstract math war. We're about to start thinking about pure mecha war as being the more efficient evolution of a human army, but eventually we'll realise the inefficiency of that and it will become a game of Tron between countries or ideologies in a virtual field of combat, with one country or ideology effectively ghosting the enemy out of the data landscape, plunging it into utter chaos for decades to follow. Total cost: 49p on BT Broadband. Watching a country disintegrate in to chaos because you haxored their defense network? Priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
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luckyseven
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Not me... kinda the opposite, if that's possible. I never felt the need to belong that strongly
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Apr 15, 2019 10:48:17 GMT
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Not me... kinda the opposite, if that's possible. I never felt the need to belong that strongly Then you should sign up. They've shifted the campaign strategy to not belonging at all, and just sauntering in on flexi-time... working remote... Soldiering via blog, vlog and instagram. It's SO YOU!
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glenanderson
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Apr 15, 2019 12:15:21 GMT
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Not me... kinda the opposite, if that's possible. I never felt the need to belong that strongly Then you should sign up. They've shifted the campaign strategy to not belonging at all, and just sauntering in on flexi-time... working remote... Soldiering via blog, vlog and instagram. It's SO YOU! As a fellow cupboard dweller, I would suspect that Nik is similarly wired to me, and not really interested in enforced sociability and “bonding”. 😂😂
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Apr 15, 2019 13:43:19 GMT
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Question: (and maybe its been answered) THIS: "Claude Lelouch's seminal (and illegal) 1976 Paris dashcam movie "C'était un rendezvous". Filmed at 5am in August, entirely without permission, without safety crews, without back-up, and with all junctions, red lights and tunnel exits a total gamble. All at full throttle, non-stop... hooning Paris in a 6.9litre Mercedes-Benz 450SEL. A no-edit single shot recorded using natural lighting. This is the cinema verité home made movie that spawned an entire genre of car chase movies and viral videos, before Youtube, Vimeo and Facebook had ever been dreamed of. This is the source material."
How did they get the sounds timed so well?! tunnels, slow downs, sound reverberations off walls?....did they do the same run with the V12, then over dub it?...or are they just masters at overlaying sound seamlessly?
awesome vid!
JP
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I know its spelled Norman Luxury Yacht, but its pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove!
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Apr 15, 2019 14:10:17 GMT
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As a fellow cupboard dweller, I would suspect that Nik is similarly wired to me, and not really interested in enforced sociability and “bonding”. 😂😂 Must be a railway thing. Told the girls last night that I'd bring them home two big t-shirts they could use as sleeping shirts. "What are they?" "Well, one's from last years team-building weekend that I didn't go to, and the other is from this year's, that I'm currently not at." Apparently, 70% of the project staff attended this year. The 30% being Brit ex-pat railwaymen! Even now, stick me in a Control Room with maybe three others, or a cab with none, and I'm happy.
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Apr 15, 2019 14:21:36 GMT
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Question: (and maybe its been answered) THIS: "Claude Lelouch's seminal (and illegal) 1976 Paris dashcam movie "C'était un rendezvous". Filmed at 5am in August, entirely without permission, without safety crews, without back-up, and with all junctions, red lights and tunnel exits a total gamble. All at full throttle, non-stop... hooning Paris in a 6.9litre Mercedes-Benz 450SEL. A no-edit single shot recorded using natural lighting. This is the cinema verité home made movie that spawned an entire genre of car chase movies and viral videos, before Youtube, Vimeo and Facebook had ever been dreamed of. This is the source material." How did they get the sounds timed so well?! tunnels, slow downs, sound reverberations off walls?....did they do the same run with the V12, then over dub it?...or are they just masters at overlaying sound seamlessly? awesome vid! JP So the story goes he did the whole thing in the Merc but the sound quality was poor. He's a film maker anyway, so he had the dubbing equipment to then take his GTB out for a blast round, recording a wide variety of gear changes, hard charges, braking, sliding etc. Then he just phase-blended the right parts at the right time on a 16 track so the Ferrari sounds matched the action of the Merc. So I'm told anyways.
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bstardchild
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Apr 16, 2019 23:24:19 GMT
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What great service, for a bargain price too! I hereby recommend H&H Ignition solutions. They converted my dizzy from ECU controlled to Ignition amplifier and twist to adjust timing - bloody excellent job they did
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^^^^^ A proper car on this thread, at last
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here
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Can't help but wonder if it might benefit from a letterbox bolted to the bonnet and some careful worrying..
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Apr 22, 2019 11:49:12 GMT
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What can I say, my car is a big hit with the birds.
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