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Post by Humph on May 21, 2020 11:24:31 GMT
On the vitamin D / ginger thing, I've just been suckered haven't I ?
Bit like the fact that the word "gullible" doesn't appear in any dictionary eh?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2020 11:26:41 GMT
No. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair"Red hair is associated with fair skin color because low concentrations of eumelanin throughout the body of those with red hair caused by a MC1R mutation can cause both. The lower melanin concentration in skin confers the advantage that a sufficient concentration of important Vitamin D can be produced under low light conditions." |
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Post by tyrednexited on May 21, 2020 11:41:22 GMT
"Lockdown to continue unless you're a Ginge" 😉 .......Isn't that the poison dwarf's shortly to be announced exit stategy......? |
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Post by Humph on May 21, 2020 12:20:05 GMT
I used to have jet black hair, although it's more the colour of a jet contrail now, ( and currently nearly as long as one ) and I can get a tan pretty much if I sleep with the bedside light on, never mind sunlight.
Wonder if that means I produce lower levels of Vitamin D?
I genuinely feel less tired on a long journey if I drive a car with even a closed glass sunroof though.
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Post by WDB on May 21, 2020 13:48:46 GMT
Probably more to do with serotonin released in response to light through your eyes than any vitamin D synthesised in your skin. For one thing, you need to expose a largish area of skin to yield much of an increase in vitamin D, so unless you’re driving in skimpy shorts and a muscle vest (I’m guessing, as I’ve not been to Cheshire for a while) you’re unlikely to be making that much inside the car.
The 900 Carlsson is a bit, well, loud for my taste. Subtle by BMW or AMG standards of the period but still a bit Terry Tryhard. I’ll pass on that one.
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Post by Avant on May 21, 2020 14:41:07 GMT
I'm wondering which of you lot is going to give in first and buy an old Saab. If it's going to be a fun car it'll probably be a convertible.
I came close once - when choosing a new company car in the early 1990s. Two colleagues had gone for 9000s but I eventually chose a Renault Safrane to replace an Espace - swayed by the excellence of the Renault dealer (Cross Roads in Oxfordshire) who'd looked after five previous Renaults.
Both Saab drivers loved their cars initially, and I wondered if I'd done the right thing....but then the Saabs both gave a lot of trouble whereas the Safrane did a six-figure mileage and never missed a beat.
Sadly, after 2000 neither make was a good buy.
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Post by WDB on May 21, 2020 15:38:09 GMT
I'm wondering which of you lot is going to give in first and buy an old Saab. If it's going to be a fun car it'll probably be a convertible. Nope. Not for me, anyway - unless, just possibly, it's a yellow one. Much more appealing is the sheer form-follows-function practicality of the three-door 900. ...I eventually chose a Renault ... swayed by the excellence of the Renault dealer (Cross Roads in Oxfordshire) ... My parents were the same. Their succession of 4s and 12 estates came from the Kingston Bagpuize showroom. Even when Cross Roads opened a branch in Abingdon, much closer to home, they stuck with the old place. I remember exploring the then-new and range-topping 30TX (silver with blue velour interior) there in about 1979. The joystick-operated driver's side mirror was a thing of fascination, although if I'd been a driver I might have wondered why I still had to ask my passenger to work the other one. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 11:50:34 GMT
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Post by WDB on Jun 2, 2020 11:58:47 GMT
Both good ways to avoid peer pressure from mates wanting a ride in a cool car. 🤧
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Post by Humph on Jun 2, 2020 12:05:39 GMT
A frend's son inherited an old Corolla from his recently deceased grandfather. He's happy enough with it having just finished uni and being in his first job, it gets him around. Evidently his grandfather gave it to him shortly before he shuffled off with some comment about it being character building.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 12:56:47 GMT
If I remember correctly from my youth, when I drove utterly laughable cars in terms of image, I was never short of requests for lifts.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 2, 2020 15:22:07 GMT
Nothing wrong with a medium sized saloon... I drove a Cortina when aged about 19 - 21. Did its job very well.
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Post by Avant on Jun 2, 2020 17:09:40 GMT
I took a girl-friend out in 1973 in my new Maxi HL (twin-carburettor: just as fast as an MGB and far more useful), and she didn't object. I remember it was quite a bit shorter than her father's Rover 2000 but had more room for both people and luggage.
Our 46th wedding anniversary was yesterday.
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Post by Humph on Jun 2, 2020 17:28:00 GMT
Might be apocryphal, but I've heard tell that you could get a double mattress in the back of a Maxi...
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 2, 2020 17:30:58 GMT
I took a girl-friend out in 1973 in my new Maxi HL........ ....Famously capable of having an interior that would convert into a double-bed. Just sayin'   |
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