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I was interested in how it affected the price of cattle.

Were people using cows for transport before the bicycle came along?

You need to watch the film 'It'. Pennywise the scary clown has a red balloon.

Not 99 of them, that was Nena.

PRSboy wrote:

You need to watch the film 'It'. Pennywise the scary clown has a red balloon.

Not 99 of them, that was Nena.

In the original German version of the song, the colour of the balloons was not specified.  'Red' was added to the English version so to make it scan.

Flintshire Boy wrote:

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'Yes, I am aware the balloons are the wrong colour... '

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I'm a bit slow. Please help me out here. Wrong colour for what?

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Pennywise

Tim Curry not wotsit Skarsgard.  Nice.

brooksby wrote:

Tim Curry not wotsit Skarsgard.  Nice.

Tim Curry is a Legend!

(Must get around to watching the Skarsgård version)

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Tim Curry not wotsit Skarsgard.  Nice.

Tim Curry is a Legend!

(Must get around to watching the Skarsgård version)

Ah, but if you watch Legend then you MUST watch the cut with the Tangerine Dream & Jon Anderson soundtrack, none of yer Jerry Goldsmith orchestral arrangements 

brooksby wrote:

Ah, but if you watch Legend then you MUST watch the cut with the Tangerine Dream & Jon Anderson soundtrack, none of yer Jerry Goldsmith orchestral arrangements 

Looks like I'm going to be searching the high seas for the UK TV version then.

Update: Looks like it's freely available here: https://archive.org/details/legend-1985

nope, Goldsmiths score was by far the superior soundtrack

Awavey wrote:

nope, Goldsmiths score was by far the superior soundtrack

Seems like a close call, but the Nerdist prefers Tangerine Dream: https://nerdist.com/article/legend-movie-movie-scores-tangerine-dream/

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Honestly, a case can be made for both. There’s a kitschy appeal to the Tangerine Dream score, which ties it directly to the syrupy, music-video fantasia of it all. But it’s also hard to separate the score from its context—that of worried studio executives hoping desperately to shape the film to appeal to teenagers by bringing in a popular pop group. 

But Legend is itself a rather shapeless product of its own time. A fantasy film with all the dreaminess and high camp production value of the music videos of that era. In that respect, Legend feels more strangely suited to the New Age kitsch of Tangerine Dream than the comparative self-seriousness of Goldsmith. 

Watching them back to back, I’m left overwhelmed by the syrupy sweep of Goldsmith’s more traditional score; I eventually clamor for the straightforward, more minimalistic work of Tangerine Dream. Potential blasphemy, I know. But in an age where genre scores are trapped by formula, sometimes you just need to throw out the rulebook, slam that Demo button on your Casio, and twirl away into a land of glam fantasy.

Awavey wrote:

nope, Goldsmiths score was by far the superior soundtrack

How can you say that?  Goldsmiths score could have been in any fantasy film from the first half of the eighties (Conan, Krull, Red Sonja et al) but the TD score is truly magical. Makes that film something *special* IMO.

It's a fairy story set in an enchanted forest with pixies,goblins and unicorns, a fantasy score seems wholly appropriate to its themes and stylings, not an 80s Euro synth techno pop group

They all float down here.

Meh.  Send 'em a proper Omafiets with chain case AND a rear drum / roller brake, let's see how they deal with that.  For a real challenge put Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres on there, give 'em front and rear punctures and no spare wheels or tubes.  They can use a hot air gun to dry the rubber solution though; I'm not a monster.

Took me nearly 40mins last time I did one roadside

My Brompton has an internal hub, requiring disconnecting the cable and some other faffing in order to remove the rear wheel. So far I've had rear pinch flats twice, once in the dark, and both times I've opted to just patch the tube with the wheel on, rather than have to pull the wheel off and change the tube. Each time, it took me between ten and fifteen minutes. I should probably just practice it at home a few times.

I also need to learn to avoid pot holes on the Brompton. My main bike with 650B x 48 mm tyres set up tubeless doesn't mind them so much.

Nice of Verstappen to do a close pass on a blind bend and spin away at the end......sure he wasn't driving a BMW or Mercedes?

(2.4 seconds is nowhere near what they actually did btw.)

I could have sworn I heard the car beep its horn too, I guess just to let Wout know he was there

I was stupid enough to search out previous posts from ABD's twitter account - based on that, it turns out that climate change is pretty much a hoax. Who knew!

So was I. Strangely for an organisation who are supposed to represent drivers, they don't seem to want drivers of electric vehicles either. I suppose it might be similar views on how E-bikes are not cycling but still....

According to car crash calculator a car of 3000kg ie 3ton at 120mph would impact at 107,916kN of force...I dont think pedestrian barriers are specced to cope with forces like that

Yeah the tweet in question has been deleted by the ABD.  Probably 'cause so many people called it out for what it was.

The video clip from the tesla that has been posted online shows the car is already in a barrel roll before it hits the barriers between the charging station and the cycle path.  And Google Maps shows that there was another set of similar barriers separating the road from the cycle path that the LR will have already destroyed before coming into shot.

No amount of extension of that type of barrier would have prevented the outcome.  The only way that it would have changed if it was reinforced anti-terrorist type bollards.

Or the driver sticking to the speed limit?

Easy there, it is clearly a cry for help. I had to google ABD and this is what came back:

"ABD is a rare form of severe mania, sometimes considered as part of the spectrum of manic-depressive psychosis and chronic schizophrenia"