what I have learned today.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That the temperature today is about 137 degrees. On the Delisle scale.

[Torslanda]

Pah! In Kelvin it's nearly 290^o . . .

 

[rogerzilla]

513 Rankine outside today.

[Kim]

What's that in Gas Marks?

[Gattopardo]

That the Workmate was designed by the same person who designed the Lotus Elan, Ron Hickman

I have just replaced the feet on mine. Why mention that? Well, it is an original workmate in perfect condition, scored off Freecycle from someone about 20 doors down my own road! Apparently it was "dad's" (he's in his 60s) and had been sitting open, unused for loadsayears. Some penetrating oil then light oil on the hinges and it's as good as new, now the perished feet have been replaced.

I have one and still use it.  Apart from some minor damage to the solid beech bars it's in good condition.  Hickman is pictured with the version B&D produced when they took over the Workmate company, rather than the real original model.

Funny... these days it's a lot heavier than it used to be.

Have you seen the prices as they are now collectable!

[Gattopardo]

What's that in Gas Marks?

Areas the size of Wales?

[T42]

That the Workmate was designed by the same person who designed the Lotus Elan, Ron Hickman

I have just replaced the feet on mine. Why mention that? Well, it is an original workmate in perfect condition, scored off Freecycle from someone about 20 doors down my own road! Apparently it was "dad's" (he's in his 60s) and had been sitting open, unused for loadsayears. Some penetrating oil then light oil on the hinges and it's as good as new, now the perished feet have been replaced.

I have one and still use it.  Apart from some minor damage to the solid beech bars it's in good condition.  Hickman is pictured with the version B&D produced when they took over the Workmate company, rather than the real original model.

Funny... these days it's a lot heavier than it used to be.

Have you seen the prices as they are now collectable!

£180 on eBay.  I'd rather keep it.  I have three normal-height benches in the workshop, but sometimes I need something lower.

[Ham]

FTR, mine's a B&D (that with the cast ally frame) not an original original.

[nikki]

The council's SPD Review is not as relevant to my interests as I had hoped.

[rogerzilla]

Mazda perfume is a thing.

[T42]

^^^ The word already existed before the car company usurped it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda

Why not indeed? There's a Christ carwash not far from here.

[rogerzilla]

I'm afraid this actually is perfume produced by the car company, inspired by its Kodo design language*.  Only in Japan.

*basically means everything has to look a bit like a crouching panther.  Really.

[T42]

Whatever the market will bear.  The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.

NEway, me own serendipitous discovery of the day - based on the solid electronic premise that if the plugs fit, bang on regardless -  is that a set of Logitech computer speakers hooked up to the amp/phones output socket of a G1Xon pedal replaces a practice amp very nicely. 

[Ham]

Whatever the market will bear.  The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.

....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.

(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)

[Cudzoziemiec]

Whatever the market will bear. 

Bear perfume? Now that might be a more... select market.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Whatever the market will bear.  The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.

....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.

(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)

Renault Clio?

[jsabine]

Whatever the market will bear.  The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.

....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.

(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)

Renault Clio?

You're just musing now.

[T42]

Whatever the market will bear.  The Japanese also marketed the Toyota MR2 in France, where MR2 is pronounced shitty.

....but then Audi have long marketed a premium sportscar in the UK that advertises the owner as a titty.

Like the Isle of Man Titty?

(Although to be fair the French primarily in the shape of Citroen have previous with phonetic alphabetisation (?) of car names - ID, DS etc. For the benefit of non-francophones, "ID" is spoken as the word for "Idea" and "DS" as "Goddess" - there are more)

Aye, but that was deliberate.  But I don't know what idiot christened a Citroën(?) van "Jumpy".  In French, though, a car which is "nerveux" is one that accelerates and handles well, so I can imagine some marketing twat who speaks good the English turning that into Jumpy.

[Mr Larrington]

Nothing, not even the Mitsubishi Pajero¹, tops the Mazda Bongo Friendee in the Daft Car Names stakes.

1: "wanker" in Spaignish

[Andrij]

Today I learned of The Ray Cat Solution.

[T42]

D'Artagnan really existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Batz_de_Castelmore_d'Artagnan

[Ruthie]

Mazda perfume is a thing.

There's a perfume for men called Creed, and it costs £625.00 a bottle.

[Kim]

Mazda perfume is a thing.

There's a perfume for men called Creed, and it costs £625.00 a bottle.

Is that the same stuff they sell for lubricating Rohloffs?

[orienteer]

Mazda perfume is a thing.

There's a perfume for men called Creed, and it costs £625.00 a bottle.

Should be called Scrood 

[Canardly]

Some cyclists are still game despite several inches of snow.