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I apprecate it’s a bit later, but don’t forget Outland.
I remember watching it back in the day – like a remake of High Noon, but in space.
What I liked in the 70s scifi is the focus on the concepts (e.g. Soylent Green, Westworld, Rollerball, Logan’s Run etc) whereas modern scifi films quite often just end up being a big chase with the good guys running away from the bad guys. I think modern scifi is better served by TV series rather than films (I’m a big fan of Arrival though – a heroic attempt to put Ted Chiang’s writing on screen).
I think the 70s was when scifi moved on from being a sub-genre of horror as a lot of the earlier films were just themed monster movies.
No, no, no, if you’re going to quote Roger Moore Bond to me, you had better be ready for the obscure references.One of the nicest things my mum did [sniff] was take me to the cinema to see such delights as Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, Star Wars, Superman, and Capricorn One.
Isn’t Capricorn One the one with O J Simpson?
I love the old 70s scifi films – it was almost a golden age of interesting ideas, though cheaply made.
Having been in a car to car collision on a roundabout resulting in a claim I have to agree with you, particularly if there’s no camera evidence. One question you’ll get asked is whether you were established on the roundabout and whether you were changing lane. Priority and give way to the right doesn’t come into it.Wouldn’t being “established on the roundabout” also mean that you’d be to the right of a vehicle joining it?
Well, that’s clearly a
Well, that’s clearly a manufacturing fault, so Halfords shouldn’t be trying to avoid dealing with you.
One possible tactic is to insist on returning the entire bike as it’s not fit for purpose/faulty and see if that prompts them to be reasonable.
Are you somehow under the impression that boring tubed tyres never have delamination issues or other manufacturing defects?I’d be surprised to see delamination on tubed tyres as there shouldn’t be any noticeable air pressure against the inside of the tyre to push apart the layers. Yes, the inner tube will be pressing against the inside, but it will distribute pressure over any tyre defects so even if there is delamination, it’s unlikely to be visible as there won’t be blisters.
HP is a worthy source of advice about things to avoid- I have taken note of the radical Ultegra Pasta Cranks, and now it’s the delaminating tubeless super-techno graphene tubeless tyres with aero-blisters which confirm my decision to stick with boring old tubes and Schwalbe Marathon Plus. I’m sure they’re slower but it doesn’t make much difference while towing a trailer round the Lakes, and I haven’t had a puncture for over a yearI’ve had zero problems with Conti GP 5000TLs (running tubeless). Schwalbe Marathon Plus are a good way of avoiding the p-word, but they’re heavy and aren’t very flexible.
Is it anything like the
Is it anything like the blisters I got on my Goodyear tyre? https://road.cc/content/tech-news/270603-first-look-goodyear-eagle-f1-road-tyres-launched-graphene-technology
IIRC it’s the tyre layers delaminating which shouldn’t be a major problem, but I changed my tyre after getting them as they’re not confidence inspiring and they made a funny noise rolling until the blisters got flattened.
IanMSpencer wrote:
Alpacas are smaller and look silly, often helped along by stupid haircuts, llamas are bigger and have a face like a camel (not that this helps in the UK). I was surprised to discover that alpacas make noises. A local was walking two large shaggy dogs and the local alpacas went mad, making a screeching noise. Apparently they did it on sight of the dogs every time.There’s no dogs allowed on the alpaca-walk as alpacas get very nervous around them. Alpacas can be very skittish, but they’re quite friendly to humans as long as they don’t get spooked. Apparently they spit at each other as a dominance thing, but very rarely spit at humans whereas I’ve heard that llamas can be quite aggressive.
if its fields you want https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/driver-arrested-after-car-crashes-in-sudbury-field-9295420I just liked the picture of the Alpacas reaction…or was it a Llama…the police werent sure
Definitely looks like an alpaca to me. We took some alpacas for a walk on our recent holiday in Brecon courtesy of Alpaca My Boots
That seems odd, but if it can
If it can be tightened enough so that the wheel won’t move, then it should be fine for use. I’d agree that no gap does seem a bit odd, though.
It’d be interesting to see if anyone else has that stem and whether they have a gap or not.
Yeah, but its for a period drama so its fine. All the usual complainants will be gathered round watching it at teatime on a Sunday.They weren’t even able to feature them on TV adverts until 1972, and now they do whole dramas about them?
jaymack wrote:
When I were a lad, we used to dream of living in the corridor. It would have been a palace to us, we used to live in an old water tank in a rubbish tip. We were woken each morning with a load of rotting fish being dumped all over us.I told the kids of today your story and they didn’t believe you
Not encountered that issue
Not encountered that issue although my Bolt doesn’t seem to connect to my phone unless I open up the Elemnt app. Also, after it has connected to the app, it then won’t re-connect unless I terminate the app and restart it or leave it long enough e.g. overnight.
Your problem might be to do with your particular phone as Bluetooth seems to vary amongst manufacturers. What particular phone do you have?
It’s lucky that they didn’t
It’s lucky that they didn’t kill anyone or else it would have been in-fanta-cide
Hve you noticed that there are no cars in Star Trek* – they walk (or crawl in Jeffries tubes) have multi-dimensional lifts for long distance travel on the ship, and everything else is the transporter.I suspect we won’t evolve the transporter unless we manage to invent the nearly free energy we were promised with nuclear power – and don’t mind occasionally been turned into blobs of ooze. Still, worth it to avoid the parking problems of now.
*Excluding the obligatory time travel episode.
What amuses me is that the Star Trek transporters were invented to reduce the cost of making the programmes – no need for expensive space shuttle shots.
