Things that you didn't know you needed to know.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

I spent 4 nights in a small village near Thruxton race track in late December 2001. I was there to drive a Ferrari around the track.

I was having dinner in a pub (awesome pub meals) and I couldn't help notice the variety of accents in the place. The guy behind the bar had a accent like from a UK gangster movie "gidday guv'ner". Cockney? The woman he was serving sounded like the Queen, all very proper, posh. All this in pub just 100 kms from London.

We can have variations within a 20mile radius! It's nuts and I think it's down to people living in one place all their lives.

Pubs are great here but how many will survive due to Covid-19 I'm not too sure.

BTW, why were you testing a Ferrari at Thruxton? A very open and exposed track, I don't like it..

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by JD001

BTW, why were you testing a Ferrari at Thruxton? A very open and exposed track, I don't like it..

It wasn't a "test". It was organised track day "experience" like this crowd offers : https://thruxtonracing.co.uk/experiences
That was when I lost interest in really fast cars.

I've made mention of this before.

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

In 2001 I went to the UK to drive a Ferrari 360 Modena around Thruxton. 8 laps, 140mph, awesome sound.
But it turned out I enjoyed flogging the 90hp Peugeot rental around twisty mountain roads more than driving a Ferrari around a racetrack.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

It wasn't a "test". It was organised track day "experience" like this crowd offers : https://thruxtonracing.co.uk/experiences
That was when I lost interest in really fast cars.

I've made mention of this before.

And which mountains did you visit? Not many around the Thruxton area?

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

I spent 4 nights in a small village near Thruxton race track in late December 2001. I was there to drive a Ferrari around the track.

I was having dinner in a pub (awesome pub meals) and I couldn't help notice the variety of accents in the place. The guy behind the bar had a accent like from a UK gangster movie "gidday guv'ner". Cockney? The woman he was serving sounded like the Queen, all very proper, posh. All this in pub just 100 kms from London.

According to my mother who does a lot of work in the UK (repeating what was explained to her), accents are not just separated by region but by social status. Similarly to how Americans would call certain accents "inner city [insert city here]" (which is usually an indication they didn't grow up with money), some British folk apparently would straight up say the accent is low class or something like that. Obviously this only applies to those who don't consider the accent normal.

Now I'm not British, so something may have gotten lost in translation.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by JD001

We can have variations within a 20mile radius! It's nuts and I think it's down to people living in one place all their lives.

Pubs are great here but how many will survive due to Covid-19 I'm not too sure.

BTW, why were you testing a Ferrari at Thruxton? A very open and exposed track, I don't like it..

Nature abhors a vaccum. Pubs will return.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by JD001

And which mountains did you visit? Not many around the Thruxton area?

I spent 6 months in Western Europe. I had to leave the EU at the end of 3 months to regain my "can stay for 3 months" status. Doesn't work like that any more. I started with a 206 Pug Diesel, 67KW, 200nm, had to be careful of inside wheel spin in 3rd on damp roads. When that one got stolen in Amsterdam it was replaced with a 306. After that one got accidentally torched in Oporto Peugeot Leasing offered me a 3rd car but I said no thanks. It was a family dispute, some guy torched the family car and my lease car was collateral. It was kind of funny, sort of, walking down the street and seeing a burnt out shell of a car and thinking , wow that's different, don't see that every day, then coming to the slow realisation that it was my car behind that also wasn't looking so good.

It was that first Pug that made me get a 206 GTI.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Spuds

According to my mother who does a lot of work in the UK (repeating what was explained to her), accents are not just separated by region but by social status. Similarly to how Americans would call certain accents "inner city [insert city here]" (which is usually an indication they didn't grow up with money), some British folk apparently would straight up say the accent is low class or something like that. Obviously this only applies to those who don't consider the accent normal.

Now I'm not British, so something may have gotten lost in translation.

[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by soundman98

can you imagine the outrage now in hollywood if they did that again?

Horse was from a dog food place if I remember, not some healthy horse.
They just asked if they could get a head.
But then again lots of whinny people nowadays.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

I spent 6 months in Western Europe. I had to leave the EU at the end of 3 months to regain my "can stay for 3 months" status. Doesn't work like that any more. I started with a 206 Pug Diesel, 67KW, 200nm, had to be careful of inside wheel spin in 3rd on damp roads. When that one got stolen in Amsterdam it was replaced with a 306. After that one got accidentally torched in Oporto Peugeot Leasing offered me a 3rd car but I said no thanks. It was a family dispute, some guy torched the family car and my lease car was collateral. It was kind of funny, sort of, walking down the street and seeing a burnt out shell of a car and thinking , wow that's different, don't see that every day, then coming to the slow realisation that it was my car behind that also wasn't looking so good.

It was that first Pug that made me get a 206 GTI.



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Not much luck with rentals.. I ran a 205 GTi 1.9, it was slightly tweaked for track use. Great little car, but not really built to last. My wife used it as DD, lots attention from car geeks as it was immaculate, silver without the ugly sunroof. She loved the car but didn't understand the attention that it got.

[Wally86]

A word I learned last year that was very educational: diphalia.

Probably weirder than imperforate anus that I had learned about a few years ago.

[NoHaveMSG]

Stainless steel is corrosion resistant, not corrosion proof. It is corrosion proof because an oxide layer forms on the surface so that oxygen can not react with it. Stainless parts are prone to "free iron" in the surface which can cause surface corrosion and propagate more corrosion under the oxide layer. The "free iron" can be dissolved with citric or nitric(I think) acid and then neutralized to provide a better and more pure oxide layer.

Same thing happens when you anodize aluminum. It forms an non-reactive oxide layer protecting the aluminum underneath.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Wally86

A word I learned last year that was very educational: diphalia.

Of course I had to research that. The brief written description was enough; I certainly didn't need to see the picture.

[spcmafia]

Originally Posted by Wally86

A word I learned last year that was very educational: diphalia.

Probably weirder than imperforate anus that I had learned about a few years ago.

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[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Stainless steel is corrosion resistant, not corrosion proof. It is corrosion proof because an oxide layer forms on the surface so that oxygen can not react with it. Stainless parts are prone to "free iron" in the surface which can cause surface corrosion and propagate more corrosion under the oxide layer. The "free iron" can be dissolved with citric or nitric(I think) acid and then neutralized to provide a better and more pure oxide layer.

Same thing happens when you anodize aluminum. It forms an non-reactive oxide layer protecting the aluminum underneath.

I knew some of that from learning about etching & dying of the metals. This is what happens, when start blacksmithing lol