Touchy - is it the heat?

Pookeyhead said:
What you got in your Cobra then?




That would be me then. A) Saves fuel... B).. Not bothered by the heat.. when you're moving, the cool breeze from the windows down is nice... C) My engine sounds fantastic!
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My exhaust note is piped into the cabin, which is nice enough, but drive with the windows down and it sounds fantastic. Really tempted to have one of the silencers removed to improve it even more.
 
nilagin said:
My exhaust note is piped into the cabin, which is nice enough, but drive with the windows down and it sounds fantastic. Really tempted to have one of the silencers removed to improve it even more.
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What do you mean "piped" in? Not literally I hope... LOL

If you need the sound piped in it ain't loud enough :)
 
DorsetDude said:
... whether the heat has "loosened up" the diesel or something but Im getting epic MPG at the moment as well. Win/win.
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Er - it's because it's starting up from "less cold"! Warm air is less dense so the engine is actually producing a splodge less power but when you turn the key, the engine is churning oil round that's 30 degrees warmer and less viscous for those first few miles!

Don't forget to be one of those people who goes into their dealership in February and moans how the fuel consumption has been dreadful recently so it must be their fault!
 
nilagin said:
My exhaust note is piped into the cabin, which is nice enough, but drive with the windows down and it sounds fantastic. Really tempted to have one of the silencers removed to improve it even more.
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Just one? Lightweight! :)
 
Wondering whether to get a raunchier pair of tubes for Mrs Nod's since it's a bit civilized!
 
Nod said:
Wondering whether to get a raunchier pair of tubes for Mrs Nod's since it's a bit civilized!
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You might need to explain! I thought Mrs Nod's pair of tubes quite raunchy enough as they are! :whistle:
 
Well, she is a vegetarian...
 
Yves Geza said:
How spastic is that for the Playstation generation? *spits*
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Nice word to use. I'm sure anyone with, or has someone with cerebral palsy will appreciate that.
 
It's how my Godmother's daughter (who had cerebral palsy) used to refer to herself.
 
Nod said:
It's how my Godmother's daughter (who had cerebral palsy) used to refer to herself.
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Same here. My goddaughter refers to herself as spaz or spastic all the time. She's 14 with CP.

I think the none afflicted are sometimes overly righteously indignant when in truth those being referred to don't give a monkey's.
 
It's made my missus techy. I was stuck in traffic yesterday, and got home 15 mins later than what she'd made tea for. It went in the bin, and I was lucky not to follow it.

That spare bed of ours is damned uncomfortable.
 
nilagin said:
What's wrong with whiny things? There's nothing wrong with having a Whipple supercharger on a V8. Bank angle is all important on a V engine too for the perfect noise.
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That wasn't quite the whiny thing I meant ;)
 
viv1969 said:
I think the none afflicted are sometimes overly righteously indignant when in truth those being referred to don't give a monkey's.
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so you've met all of them then ?

and obviously the 'spastics association' changed its name for no reason whatsoever
 
big soft moose said:
so you've met all of them then ?

and obviously the 'spastics association' changed its name for no reason whatsoever
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I gave my example.
My apologies...I was under the impression that even you had an attention span long enough fir an entire post.

And it was The Spastics Society.
 
It should be noted that it was the staff's discomfort over the use of the word Spastic that caused the change of name not the sufferers from the condition.
 
Pookeyhead said:
What do you mean "piped" in? Not literally I hope... LOL
If you need the sound piped in it ain't loud enough :)
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ST4 said:
A lot of new motors have false sound generators in the car, Focus ST 4 clyinder, F10 M5, Clio RS (new shape).

Crazy innit
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The Focus ST is well insulated against outside noise, hence the need to pipe in the sound. But as I said drive with the windows down and you get the noise inside and outside magnifying the noise.
If you want loud, my previous car was a Mondeo ST TDCi with a custom built performance exhaust. On wide open throttle it could be heard almost a quarter of a mile away
 
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nilagin said:
The Focus ST is well insulated against outside noise, hence the need to pipe in the sound. But as I said drive with the windows down and you get the noise inside and outside magnifying the noise.
If you want loud, my previous car was a Mondeo ST TDCi with a custom built performance exhaust. On wide open throttle it could be heard almost a quarter of a mile away
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And I bet your neighbours just loved you :lol:
 
I'm rarely out after dark these days and even more rarely out on the bike after dark but if I am coming home late on the bike, I kill the motor at the top of the hill and coast home since the exhaust is a little antisocial for late night use. Sounds fabulous on a run though and isn't wearing over a distance.
 
viv1969 said:
Same here. My goddaughter refers to herself as spaz or spastic all the time. She's 14 with CP.

I think the none afflicted are sometimes overly righteously indignant when in truth those being referred to don't give a monkey's.
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Fine... as you were. Carry on calling anything rubbish, Spastic, spazzy... or even Gay... that's popular too... all perfectly harmless after all. I wonder if I started to call anything rubbish "black" or "Nigger". You know... like when someone is arsing around, being stupid, maybe I should say " Stop being such a nigger".... I wonder what would happen.. after all, they call themselves that don't they? Surely only the righteously indignant non afflicted would be upset by that. Just a joke after all.. where's you sense of humour? :) Doesn't matter that my kids hear me say it either... just a bit of harmless fun. Doesn't mean I'm racist, right? Surely you'd all be cool with that in here.. right?
 
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Pookeyhead said:
Fine... as you were. Carry on calling anything rubbish, Spastic, spazzy... or even Gay... that's popular too... all perfectly harmless after all. I wonder if I started to call anything rubbish "black" or "Nigger". You know... like when someone is arsing around, being stupid, maybe I should say " Stop being such a nigger".... I wonder what would happen.. after all, they call themselves that don't they? Surely only the righteously indignant non afflicted would be upset by that. Just a joke after all.. where's you sense of humour? :) Doesn't matter that my kids hear me say it either... just a bit of harmless fun. Doesn't mean I'm racist, right? Surely you'd all be cool with that in here.. right?
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So to answer the opening post...no, clearly it's not the heat!
 
Sorry.. awkward question?
 
I'm being serious though. The casual use of Spaz, or Gay to mean bad/rubbish/crap... it's not sending a great message to kids is it? I could say "Oh stop being so gay" and no one would care, but if I used the N word, I'd be banned.

How does that work? Why is one worse than the other?

Serious question BTW.
 
Pookeyhead said:
I'm being serious though. The casual use of Spaz, or Gay to mean bad/rubbish/crap... it's not sending a great message to kids is it? I could say "Oh stop being so gay" and no one would care, but if I used the N word, I'd be banned.

How does that work? Why is one worse than the other?

Serious question BTW.
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OK, well to clear up your misconception, I don't use any of the above, and nowhere have I inferred that I do.
By the same token, my goddaughter is free to refer to herself in any manner she chooses.
She has a hard road to travel and prefers to approach it with humour. I respect that.
I still maintain that people are far to quick and ready to be offended these days.
 
I wonder if there's a bit of overreaction to my deliberate perjorative which, of course, was in the abstract not the personal, but I do apologise sincerely if I have genuinely offended anyone, whether or not they've posted in this thread.
 
People take offence way to easily. The N word is used by clouted people all over the world to refer to themselves. The word spastic is just a word do refer to someone with issues like cerebral palsy. Change the word to some new PC phrase then eventual the gaurdian lot get upset with that. Same with the word gay. It's just a word. How it is used is important.
 
Pookeyhead said:
I'm being serious though. The casual use of Spaz, or Gay to mean bad/rubbish/crap... it's not sending a great message to kids is it? I could say "Oh stop being so gay" and no one would care, but if I used the N word, I'd be banned.

How does that work? Why is one worse than the other?

Serious question BTW.
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Because some words are worse than others! But only nominally and temporarily and in context. Never absolutely.

As for sending a message to kids, how about teaching them that language changes by explaining that the word gay once meant bright or cheerful. Then it was appropriated by the homosexual community; possibly as an acronym for 'good as you'. But language can never be static - it's a tool of its users, so now the complaint is that the word is being reappropriated by others, after a very short period of only 30 or 40 years, as a perjorative that can be very funny - vide the nonsense of the student who was arrested and held in a cell for saying "your Police horse is gay!!"
 
I thought this was meant to be a fun thread .......


Sent from Button Moon.....
 
Pookeyhead said:
I'm being serious though. The casual use of Spaz, or Gay to mean bad/rubbish/crap... it's not sending a great message to kids is it? I could say "Oh stop being so gay" and no one would care, but if I used the N word, I'd be banned.

How does that work? Why is one worse than the other?

Serious question BTW.
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Perhaps we could adopt "Stop being such a Ruth" - as its in fun i'm sure she won't mind
 
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