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Post by Humph on Jul 21, 2024 22:25:22 GMT
Oh indeed! We should all be the best judges of our own happiness.
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Post by bpg on Jul 22, 2024 7:07:02 GMT
Way heh! I did a thing! This IT malarkey isn’t so hard after all, dunno why they get paid so much! 😎 With that much expertise plus your Apple background you could get a job in an Apple Genius Bar. I've read they can get paid as much as £17 per hour. You pay peanuts you get an Apple Genius Bar Technical Specialist. |
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Post by WDB on Jul 23, 2024 8:23:10 GMT
Bay…May get to try it again in Southampton, at the risk of terrifying the family. And I did, outside the palatial Holiday Inn Express. They weren’t terrified, but weren’t impressed either. It made quite a meal of a simple manoeuvre, doing two or three reverse-forward-reverse shuffles when one should have been enough. And the amount of wheel-twiddling while the car was stationary made me wonder what it was doing to the tyres. So, interesting that it can do it but I think I’ll go on parking it myself. It is noticeable that the iX is less wieldy in a tight spot than the CLS. It’s not the size — the footprints are near enough the same — or the similar 245-255 front tyres, so I presume it’s the iX’s driven front wheels that make the difference. Whatever, turning it in the awkward close in which Boy1’s GF’s parents live took more shuffling than the CLS required. Expensive iX models — possibly only the M60 now — get rear-wheel steering to go with their air suspension, but those were not even options for my 40. Not a big deal, although a small turning circle is a pleasing trick for a big car to have. I still have the i3 for turning three-points into Us. |
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Post by Rob on Jul 23, 2024 8:28:15 GMT
Rear wheel steering is not only about smaller turning circle at low speed. It's better stability when changing direction at higher speeds - the wheels at the rear then turn in the same direction as the fronts.
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Post by WDB on Jul 23, 2024 8:31:07 GMT
It is. But I was describing a parking manoeuvre.
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Post by Humph on Jul 23, 2024 9:06:47 GMT
It’ll almost certainly be to do with FWD. My E is a doddle to park in a tight space despite its bulk. It’ll self park too apparently, but that seems unnecessary and slightly demeaning.
The Feep is ok but not as wieldy, and the old Qashqai was miserable to park. The Aygo of course fits in the smallest of spaces because it’s small I suppose.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2024 9:17:20 GMT
I heard Alexei Sayle use the word sybaritic on Radio 4 the other day. Wouldn't have understood it if it weren't for this thread.
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Post by WDB on Jul 23, 2024 9:34:13 GMT
Alexei Sayle has good words. One that stuck in my mind was his description of his part in a (fictional) prison football team, in which he was the ‘ironically titled libero’.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2024 9:39:10 GMT
Can't believe I spelled Alexei wrong. Bloody fingers won't do wot my brain says.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 23, 2024 12:10:25 GMT
I liked his chats with people on railway journeys (Radio 4). He manages to draw proper wit rather than the insults that Ben Elton used to deliver.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2024 12:14:25 GMT
It was on that precise programme I heard him use 'sybaritic'. Rail journey from Nottingham to Skegness.
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Post by WDB on Aug 2, 2024 7:05:27 GMT
Road journey today from York to The South. One sign of a good trip is that leaving feels too soon, but at least I get to go to the Railway Museum one last time. And the car seems to have enjoyed its gentle outing yesterday. Let’s see how long this estimate survives contact with the M1.  |
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 2, 2024 8:48:04 GMT
It won't!
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Post by bpg on Aug 2, 2024 11:49:37 GMT
Friday afternoon on the M1 heading south, I'd say pretty good. You're not going to be travelling very fast, the main consumers will be aircon and sound system.
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Post by WDB on Aug 2, 2024 19:55:21 GMT
And it didn’t. But it didn’t do badly either. BPG had it right on the traffic — and the interminable 50 limits — so it wasn’t an entertaining journey. And Fräulein Navi‘s 10 percent lower limit drove her to make increasingly bizarre attempts to get me to stop and charge, culminating in the suggestion that I drive past my own house to spend 12 minutes on a 7kW charge at Tesco. I didn’t do that and I reckon we got away with it.  For want of anything better to do on the M1, I’ve divided the computers into two personas. ‘She’ is the talkative one, who tells me that, OK, she will deactivate the warning warning when exceeding the speed limit but it will come right back upon [sic] the next start, and that I really should think about diverting for that charging stop. ‘He’ is the silent one, studiously collating the speed and consumption data, and only near the end giving me discreet text warnings at 40 miles and 10 percent. Easier this way — but I do wonder what they get up to when I leave them alone in the car. |
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