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It doesn't have 6 volt headlights does it?

I had an ancient Beetle as my first car and had to have the headlights replaced with two candles for safety reasons. I was driving it once in the winter with the generally ineffective heater turned to full. After a few miles, a burning smell forced me to stop. Nothing mechanical as it turned out: the heater consisted of venting hot air straight off the exhaust manifold into the foot wells. This had melted the soles of my shoes.
 
Blimey notDistant that was an old Beetle.

I bought a 1302S (12volt) in the 1970's.....known as the pregnant beetle.....bigger boot and 1600cc engine.....you could cook a pasty next to the heating vent.......that or your ankle.

It used to surprise cocky types who thought that they could burn you off from the traffic lights.
 
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Above the title of todays Daily Telegraph (17th Mar )... advertising an article in Fridays Features Supplement is the headline.....THE PLYMOUTH CHAINSAWN MASSACRE.....What led to the felling of 110 trees in the city centre.

Covering a page and a half with before and after pictures is the story of.....The curious incident of the trees in the nighttime.....

Plymouth council has incensed campaigners and residents by chopping down 110 trees after dark as part of a regeneration project.....Rosa Silverman reports.

" It's beyond heart-rendering"..."I am disgusted."...Plymouth will not forget this awful act of ecocide,".....These were some of the milder comments made this week by residents in the Devon City better known for gin and The Mayflower than for nighttime arboreal massacres. But when council contractors felled 110 city centre trees under the cover of darkness on Tuesday, they may have changed all that.

The works were halted at 1am by an injunction secured by a group called...STRAW... (Save the TRees of Armada Way),...Lynne Sears. one of it's members, said that trees were pruned while protesters stood beneath them...."And everyone around us was saying ...please just stop...she told The Telegraph".

By then, only 16 of the trees due to be removed still remained. Widespread condemnation of the felling swiftly followed....with wildlife television presenter Chris Packham branding it " despicable vandalism".

In fact, the strength of feeling had been known beforehand ...around 16,000 people had signed a petition to save the mature trees...which line Armada Way...a walkway between the railway station and the sea.


This article continues for two more full columns.....Daily Telegraph...features Supplement...Friday...17/03/2023.

PS......The only thing left green soon in Plymouth will be ARGYLE.
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ANYTHING YOU CAN DO WE CAN DO BETTER.

Further to the chainsaw massacre in Plymouth town centre.

An even bigger chainsaw massacre in Cator Park in Beckenham in the Borough of Bromley.

A total of a 131 trees were felled that morning...many of them mature oak trees.

Residents, furious and upset, said they called the police, who arrived and told the man felling the trees to stop.....at that point he did....but he is alleged to have later continued.....police were again called....the man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and taken into custody....before being released on bail.....Scotland Yard said in a statement

A number of items of tree felling equipment were also seized.

The man behind the incident is Prince Choudhary, 28, the son of a south London solicitor ....he is, he insists, "a law-abiding citizen" who would not of cut down the trees had he known about the tree protection order (TPO).

The site , say locals, is wildlife-rich, boasting tawny owls, woodpeckers and bats.

Choudhary says he was recently been granted a lease....."with a view to create sports facilities for children of all ages".

It seems that this well loved local park was sold in 2013 to Hopeson Group Limited...a Singapore based company, for £10,000 ...so is now privately owned.
 
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The was an editorial in the Times last weekend about the damage caused by Johnson and his crew to society and the political process. It started with a quote from George Orwell's 1984:

" To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink. "

Isn't that Johnson to a tee? Getting Brexit done when before he saw it could take him to the top he didn't believe in it? Maintaining it's been a huge success when it's patently obvious only this month that we've failed yet again to get a trade deal with America and every day it becomes ever clearer the whole thing is exactly the unmitigated disaster it was predicted to be?

Isn't that Trump telling us he's innocent of mishandling secret papers when we've seen the pictures of them in his house and he showed them to journalists before he was charged?
 
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Well shock horror surprise surprise.........Boris gets a job at the Daily Mail. Fancy that then. He will of course go down a storm with their readership.
 
We suffer a plague of potholes in our relatively lightly traffic street: the type that's at the bottom of the council's priority list.

It's such a relief when you see they've painted around the offending defect as it won't be long before they come and fill it in. However, one innovative Plymouth resident found that they come around a lot quicker if you do the painting bit yourself to save them a job.

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We have had the usual traffic chaos in Plymouth this morning due to the A38 being closed from Plympton westward to the Marsh Mills Roundabout.

A cyclist was killed on the A38 in the small hours following a collision with a car.

This is of course a tragedy and we don’t know where the fault lies, if there is any.

However, why oh why do we allow cyclists on 70 mph dual carriageway trunk roads that have no provision for cycle lanes, hard shoulders or safe crossing of high speed junctions?
 
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Only 18% of Leave.voters think Brexit has gone well.

That’s not to say they accept that Brexit was an intrinsically bad idea: they may merely be blaming others for failing to deliver it properly. That’s hardly a defensible position of course as everything that’s happened was warned of beforehand.

A massive 72% want to stop talking about it. I would too if I’d committed such an horrendous mistake.
 
I'm with you notdistant. Why should I shut up when it wasn't my fault in the first place and I did a whole load of "told you so" comments. The truth about the why did you vote for it is now down to one thing which is the only one now not denied. Racists and keeping all those foreign folk out. Even a shortage of workforce doesn't seem to change that one.
 
Why does Vladimir Putin only swing his left arm when he walks? It’s very weird.

There is no punchline, just asking for a friend.
 
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Why does Vladimir Putin only swing his left arm when he walks? It’s very weird.

There is no punchline, just asking for a friend.
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It's to do with KGB weapon training.

I just wrote in.....Putin's right arm.....and there it woz.


PS.........it could also be Parkinson's disease.
 
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Hmmm… there really is no limit to what’s on the internet is there?

In the days of sword and shield, official advice to warriors from DOSS (Department of Swords and Shields) was to sleep with their sword arm on top, not trapped beneath their body. (That’s mostly true).

This advice was later criticised after a rash of unintentional slayings of squires who’d merely come into the bedchamber at sunrise with a cup of breakfast tea. (No statistics on the slaying of squires exist to verify this statement).

What I’m wondering though is that it’s fine keeping your gun hand free if you have a weapon in a holster but it seems a bit pointless if you’d have to unbutton your suit jacket before returning fire. (Based on a random survey of American Netflix series on rogue FBI and/or CIA agents saving the world, of which there are many).

You’ll notice I’ve adopted the BBC’s new “Verified Live” methodology, in which stories are fact checked as part of the reporting.
 
You could always check out your comments about KGB agents and there weapons....by threatening one......of course you might need a third person present at such a time...in case you don't survive the moment to report back your findings personally.
 
I’m shocked to hear Thames Water may be in financial difficulties.

The whole point of such companies is that they have pretty much guaranteed levels of income and a relatively static cost base, made up of fixed asset base costs and an established headcount.

I know Thames has exposure to major capital projects, including that mega-tunnel thingy but to have got as far as risking the whole enterprise requires an exceptional level of mismanagement.

It’s not as the media reports would lead us to to believe i.e. that it’s all about the dividends paid to shareholders, although there is a question whether the yield is an above what a theoretically low risk investment should attract. It’s how they’ve managed to build up £14 billion of debt. How have they funded transformational capital works? How have they balanced their equity investors desire for dividends against the risk of interest paying borrowing? Did the regulator look at their funding strategy?
 
How have they managed to mis-spend that £500 of leak that I was charged for that month of undetected leak years back that they couldn't find.
 
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