Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Aberdeenangarse

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

they are getting safer, year by year.

The most dangerous year for road deaths was about 1926.

Remind me not to stick that date into the Delorean

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

something I have noticed happens in marriage is that people want bigger beds. DH used to say he always wanted to sleep in a single bed with me, which I quickly scaled up to a 4ft6 bed. Then we spomehow inherited a five foot bed, and it made life more comfortable with cats and dogs on it, now we only share the bed with the cats and yet a six foot bed looks really good. I wonder if this trend goes on long enough if its why some plder couples end up in twin beds.

Middle aged spread is my guess at an explanation.

Winston and Clem Churchill had separate bedrooms. He was quite the porker.

sss555s

Re the aerial. The situation may well be different in other regions of the UK.

This should explain it better... http://www.switchhelp.co.uk/faq_aerial.html



Edit: Having looked a bit further i notice you need a wideband (group W) aerial (21-68) to pick up all the freeview channels anywhere in the UK.

If you have a high gain (grouped A-K) you will not receive all freeview channels.

UK TV is transmitted in the UHF band between 21 and 68. TV aerials are designed to receive certain bands these are:

Group A - Channels 21-37
Group B - Channels 35-53
Group C/D - Channels 48-68
Group E - Channels 35-68
Group K - Channels 21-48
Group W - Channels 21-68

A Wideband aerial is optimised to receive TV channels anywhere in the UK TV band (works on all UK transmitters). In areas of weaker signal, a wideband aerial may not be as effective as a high-gain aerial designed for the specific transmitter that you are trying to receive.

A High gain ‘grouped’ aerial can be used to reduce certain types of problem - including weak signal, interference and ghosting. They do this by getting the most out of the signal as they are more finely tuned to receive signals from a particular transmitter.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

something I have noticed happens in marriage is that people want bigger beds. DH used to say he always wanted to sleep in a single bed with me, which I quickly scaled up to a 4ft6 bed. Then we spomehow inherited a five foot bed, and it made life more comfortable with cats and dogs on it, now we only share the bed with the cats and yet a six foot bed looks really good. I wonder if this trend goes on long enough if its why some plder couples end up in twin beds.

We started in a 4ft 6 bed... and ended in a 4ft 6 bed.

Except it was a four poster bed...still have it now and the posts are excellent disability aids for getting out of the darn thing.

Mind you, apart from our flat, our rooms have never been big enough to have anything bigger.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always used to wonder why 'idiots' overtook me in poor weather on motorways .... until one day I was driving my boss' top of the range Mercedes - and it's a whole different ballgame driving one of those. Instead of being stuck in the inside lane unable to see a thing, there's something special about the shape/design and the rain simply didn't stick to the windscreen - the wipers were wiping it away and I could see perfectly down the road. It was really weird.... but I do now know that posh people in posh cars really CAN see where they're going in poor weather. I was passing lots of 'slow idiots' that day, but I knew they couldn't see and a whole new world of posh stuff was opened up to me.

People in posh cars may be able to see, but can they brake or steer? I know ABS brakes have contributed a lot to improving road safety, but if there's so much water that you aquaplane then you might as well be on sheet ice for all the control you've got, whatever kind of brakes you've got.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

farm watch and horsewatch...our rural equivalent of neighbourhood watch and a key part of rural policing is run via poking faces...so no, I'm not surprised a mototrway is a twit.

It looks to me as though somebody has hijacked an existing thread about the BMW M5.

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always used to wonder why 'idiots' overtook me in poor weather on motorways .... until one day I was driving my boss' top of the range Mercedes - and it's a whole different ballgame driving one of those. Instead of being stuck in the inside lane unable to see a thing, there's something special about the shape/design and the rain simply didn't stick to the windscreen - the wipers were wiping it away and I could see perfectly down the road. It was really weird.... but I do now know that posh people in posh cars really CAN see where they're going in poor weather. I was passing lots of 'slow idiots' that day, but I knew they couldn't see and a whole new world of posh stuff was opened up to me.

This post made me laugh :rotfl:

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

they are getting safer, year by year.
The most dangerous year for road deaths was about 1926.

I remember from family holidays in France in the 60s and 70s, especially near the Italian border, the number of accidents we saw seemed astonishing (including our family car getting wrecked, but with nobody hurt ).

I think the UK became one of the safest countries for driving. Sad incidents like this are possibly more shocking for their rarity.

lostinrates

PN...you can buy something from halfords that makes rain not stick to the windscreen. DH's firm's drivers use it and recommended it to to him. I'm sorry, I can't rememebr what its called.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

PN...you can buy something from halfords that makes rain not stick to the windscreen. DH's firm's drivers use it and recommended it to to him. I'm sorry, I can't rememebr what its called.

I need this - my car's just a cheap model and water sticks in all the wrong bits of the windscreen!
It's actually a silver car and I'm realising I mght be the only person here who has that colour.:D