Prat Warning

Simon Brooke said:

And the blue lights under the car to illuminate the road
surface. _Most_ necessary.

AND the LED's on the windscreen washer jets.

Gagh!

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Simon Brooke said:

And the blue lights under the car to illuminate the road
surface. _Most_ necessary.

I saw 'XR3i' in big, white, 20cm letters on a _windscreen_
the other day.

I might get 'Polo L' for mine. You know, just in case anyone
was wondering.

Peter Clinch said:

Around here I don't seem to see many... the local yoof
don't seem to have gone for Saltires instead as yet, but
maybe not being in the fitba next week is a deciding
factor there.

I had been wondering if the Scots had a similar pratt
warning system. I assume the Welsh don't, as AFAIK they
don't have a football team.

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Peter Clinch said:

Around here I don't seem to see many... the local yoof
don't seem to have gone for Saltires instead as yet, but
maybe not being in the fitba next week is a deciding
factor there.

I had been wondering if the Scots had a similar pratt
warning system. I assume the Welsh don't, as AFAIK they
don't have a football team.

Just as a FYI, the Welsh team was knocked out of the
European Championships at the play-off stage by Russian
drug cheats.

I bought a rather nice car flag from ASDA in Merthyr a
couple of weeks ago, but it will not be making its debut on
the camper van until the Alpe d'Huez TT stage next month.

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Robert Bruce said:

I bought a rather nice car flag from ASDA in Merthyr a
couple of weeks ago, but it will not be making its
debut on the camper van until the Alpe d'Huez TT stage
next month.

Are you suporting Markus Backstedt? He's and honourorary
Welshman, ain't he?

mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

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Robert Bruce said:

I bought a rather nice car flag from ASDA in Merthyr a
couple of weeks ago, but it will not be making its
debut on the camper van until the Alpe d'Huez TT stage
next month.

Are you suporting Markus Backstedt? He's and honourorary
Welshman, ain't he?

It's Magnus, actually, and we are.

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Reply to Peter Clinch

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I find that exhaust note and a quantity of tail surfaces
that wouldn't look out of place on an F14 are a pretty
reliable indication...

That's if you can hear the exhaust over the 120 bpm being
put out by 2kW of bass bins...

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Simonb [email hidden] opined the
following...

Quoted message said:

Simon Brooke said:

And the blue lights under the car to illuminate the road
surface. _Most_ necessary.

I saw 'XR3i' in big, white, 20cm letters on a _windscreen_
the other day.

I might get 'Polo L' for mine. You know, just in case
anyone was wondering.

Always fancied getting to one of these cars when it was
parked up, or in the garage (having an even bigger exhaust
fitted!), and putting an enormous transfer on it that reads
"Small knob".

And on that note, I did appreciate the (hopefully) tongue-in-
cheek humour of the genuine sports car with registration PEN
1 S (Or some variant thereof).

Jon

Robert Bruce said:

It's Magnus, actually

Oops!

Mark McN said:

That's if you can hear the exhaust over the 120 bpm being
put out by 2kW of bass bins...

I actually wonder if they're playing special compilations
made up, something like "Ferrari Daytona overlaid with
mindless bumchkkabumchkkabumchkka, Beach Barbecue Ibiza
Remix '98 Featuring DJ Vacant", as that way you could
simulate the noise of a serious engine more easily than
having to modify the output of a vanilla 1.1 to sound like
something that can actually drive fast.

I am somewhat sceptical of the claimed power of these stereo
systems. While they do appear to be pretty loud, the fact
that I can make my whole (fairly solid 30s) house shake
fairly easily with a decent 30 watt amp and reasonably
sensitive pair of speakers with fair low end suggests that
if you had Yer Ackchewal Genuine couple of KW on tap you'd
not only deafen the occupants but vibrate their vehicle's
welds undone...

Pete.
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Helen Deborah Vecht said:

"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]>typed

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1 - astonishment subsequently decreased after witnessing
a different Mrs. Prat asking the cashier in my local
Sainsbury's whether they sold Prat-Flags. Mercifully,
they did not.

Don't they? My local branch has a whole aisle bedecked
with St George memorabilia/clutter. I've no idea what is
stocked as I always walk straight past that aisle. I
thought they'd have flags though.

I should perhaps have noted that this was in the filling
station bit; while they did have giant economy-sized flags,
they didn't have the car ones. The cashier recommended Tesco
or Asda. There may be space here for a Scholarly Monograph
on the subject of Perceived Versus Actual Social Standing In
Supermarket Customers (i.e. snobbery) but I have a window
here which needs regular looking-out-of...

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Jon Senior said:

Always fancied getting to one of these cars when it was
parked up, or in the garage (having an even bigger exhaust
fitted!), and putting an enormous transfer on it that
reads "Small knob".

Once upon a time someone crept up to Mr Burrows' fully-
faired Windcheetah while it was parked outside a shop in
Norwich, and affixed a sticker thereto. It read "Your car is
REALLY boring!"

Quoted message said:

And on that note, I did appreciate the (hopefully) tongue-in-
cheek humour of the genuine sports car with registration
PEN 1 S (Or some variant thereof).

PEN 15 belongs, or at least used to belong, to motorcycle
racer turned TV commentator Steve Parrish, trivia fans.

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:50:59 +0100 someone who may be "Dave
Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

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Optionally, the heads may be removed and placed on pikes
atop the gates of the city.

I wouldn't make this an option.

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Or we could just shoot them, and burn the bodies.

On live television.

I'm sure the Human Rights Act would cause problems with the
television bit.

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David Hansen said:

I'm sure the Human Rights Act would cause problems with
the television bit.

No, it only applies to humans.

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:01:48 +0100 someone who may be Helen Deborah
Vecht <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

Don't they? My local branch has a whole aisle bedecked with
St George memorabilia/clutter. I've no idea what is stocked
as I always walk straight past that aisle. I thought they'd
have flags though.

In the early 1980s I used to comment on how the English were
just about the only people not to know what their own flag
looked like. The counter argument to this was that it was
very hard to get hold of an English flag, while one could
easily get hold of a union flag.

Time has passed...

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:32:09 +0100 someone who may be "Just zis Guy,
you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I'm sure the Human Rights Act would cause problems with
the television bit.

No, it only applies to humans.

Sadly not. A number of companies have claimed that their
human rights have been infringed. The most famous example
is probably Lafarge, in connection with the "superquarry"
in Harris.

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David Hansen said:

A number of companies have claimed that their human rights
have been infringed. The most famous example is probably
Lafarge, in connection with the "superquarry" in Harris.

Claimed successfully? If so, the world is doomed, since
corporate entities often have no scruples whatsoever :-(

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@doctor.cableinet.net:

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- disappointed to find my mother driving around with
one :-(

It's genetic you know - start worrying ;-)

Graeme

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Peter Clinch wrote:

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I am somewhat sceptical of the claimed power of these
stereo systems. While they do appear to be pretty loud,
the fact that I can make my whole (fairly solid 30s) house
shake fairly easily with a decent 30 watt amp and
reasonably sensitive pair of speakers with fair low end
suggests that if you had Yer Ackchewal Genuine couple of
KW on tap you'd not only deafen the occupants but vibrate
their vehicle's welds undone...

Pete.

Last time I saw a genuine 1kW (might have been 1.5 kW
actually) r.m.s. audio amplifier was way back in the 60's.
It was the size of a phone box and supplied the whole of
Mansfield with the Light Programme. Try putting two of them
in the back of a Fiesta!

Terry D.

Reply to Peter Clinch

Quoted message said:

I actually wonder if they're playing special compilations
made up, something like "Ferrari Daytona overlaid with
mindless bumchkkabumchkkabumchkka, Beach Barbecue Ibiza
Remix '98 Featuring DJ Vacant

Several of The Ones Round Here incline to lyrics linking
their mother with actions pertaining to the miracle of
conception (cf. Eminem, Limp Bizkit, &c.) <Insert middle-
aged rant to taste>

Quoted message said:

I am somewhat sceptical of the claimed power of these
stereo systems. While they do appear to be pretty loud,
the fact that I can make my whole (fairly solid 30s) house
shake fairly easily with a decent 30 watt amp and
reasonably sensitive pair of speakers with fair low end
suggests that if you had Yer Ackchewal Genuine couple of
KW on tap you'd not only deafen the occupants but vibrate
their vehicle's welds undone...

A genuine 2k would be more than adequate for amplifying a
voice in a thousand-seater hall. (Years ago I heard a rough
rule of thumb of 1W per seat.) But I've never been able to
understand amplifier ratings, either pro or the inflated
claims of Dixons/Halfrauds/whatever stuff. There'll
doubtless be a website somewhere, if I get sufficiently
interested!

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