Adding to the chat the other day about diesel cars. A pretty good and simple explanation as to why diesel cars have always been more harmful overall and why a lot of people have been encouraged to keep buying the wrong technology: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33254803 Incidentally, our esteemed owner's father, Markus, was key in making diesel cars acceptable by developing common rail diesel systems, which made the diesel vehicle much more acceptable for the smaller private vehicle. Back in the mid-90's when I was at Uni' doing my environmental degree, I has one or two conversations with lecturers about the push for diesel. My interest was there because I simply couldn't see how diesels could be made to run cleanly. I actually got far more information and knowledge out of my eldest brother, a retired motor engineer, but the lecturer's knew about the atmospheric and health effects of primary and secondary particulates and NOx. It's a relatively simple thing for a petrol engine to be made quite clean, and, just as importantly, keep it running cleanly. Diesels require much more filtering and monitoring. Although diesels are more efficient [around 35% as opposed to 30% for petrol] they are overall just as expensive to run and maintain. Plus they tend to be a less pleasant driving experience on top of being more harmful to the environment. And hats off to the USA for not adopting diesel, in my opinion. VW are in real trouble with them, and possibly world-wide too.
VW are going to take a massive hit with concealing their diesel emissions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34324772 Their F1 involvement might well stall again, although with Bernie Ecclestone's principles it could be a USP.
I see there is not a lot of comment about the new Dr Who series. Is it suddenly uncool now.? FWIW, I watched the first episode of the new series, which is something a little strange for me as I've never been a fan. It was OK-ish, which was better than I expected.
A 105 year old man has broken the 100 metres world record for centenarians at 29.83 seconds. That's amazing but would be even better if he didn't waste valuable seconds getting away from the start line because he can't hear the starter's gun. Aww.!
I used to think that was all part of Jukebox Jury, but watching a repeat on Youtube made me realise I'd got the programme completely wrong.
Why's that? The big city stuff helps a little I guess, but it's no handicap her living in B'ton (plus she loves it here).
Just using a football analogy. However, many years ago it helped if you came from a big city with a reputation for churning out talent.
Common mistake, I think - many people seem to think it came from Jukebox Jury, but it definitely didn't. From memory, you're right, Chilcs ..........
Definitely TYLS, which was ITV's pop music show on Saturday evenings in the early '60's. Janice Nicholls was a member of the audience who was picked to be a judge in the "Spin-a-Disc" section, which was similar to the BBC's Juke Box Jury. Her strong Walsall accent made her a national treasure at the time. She's still going strong apparently.
