Jump to content

Horsetan

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,749

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    4

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Horsetan

  1. Horsetan
    The only other match I've seen where there was constant end-to-end attacking football and little attempt at defence was the Euro 2004 match between the Netherlands and the Czech Republic in Aveiro, Portugal. That was a real thriller of crazy football, relentless to the point of being demented. I regret not recording it whilst watching it, but I always say that this is exactly how football should be played. In the modern game, only women's professional football gets anywhere near to recreating it. At one point in the first half, the Dutch were 2-nil up against the Czechs and should have been home and dry. They lost!
  2. Horsetan
    The final turned out to be equally grim. Apparently, and showing how the art of losing gracefully has not been lost, Argentinian fans have demanded that the final be replayed owing to "corrupt officials" (something which the Argentinians are themselves quite proficient at).
  3. Horsetan
    What can IRM do? They've already been paid. However, those who didn't order direct in time to beat the touts will always lose out unless there are subsequent batches.
  4. Horsetan
    Strangely appropriate that they all act like Trump in the brazen pursuit of advantage.
  5. Horsetan
    It would be interesting to find out what percentage of the original Park Royal buyers - who ordered direct from IRM - only purchased in order to flip on for a profit. I reckon it would be significant. That reminded me that I have "071" no.085 in the shed waiting for 21mm conversion. It's been that long since I bought it that I actually forgot I had it - meanwhile, values seem to have increased due in no small way to the flipper community. £450 is very nearly 3 times what I paid for mine.
  6. Horsetan
    Touts.
  7. Horsetan
    They are more accurately termed effluencers, since much of their output is fit only for sewage outflow, and their only real motivation is money and/or the ability to extract something without paying for it. Welcome to the antisocial media generation.
  8. Horsetan
    Rails of Sheffield are now busy flogging off the remains of the KR stock, so I had a look at the GWR Mica B X8 van, now reduced to almost half price (and still a bit expensive once you realise its flaws). Apart from the fact that it's 6mm too long and the brake gear is the greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were introduced into the marriage service, it can at least be corrected by shortening with the help of scalpel and piercing saw.
  9. Horsetan
    In Glasgow, you can instead growl at the badger...
  10. Horsetan
    When Lima produced their rather weird 08/09 decades ago, they inadvertently used the cab of the class 11 so the single-arc roof stood out a mile.
  11. Horsetan
    When you're paying that much for a Silver Fox model, the use of Copydex strikes me as daylight rubbery.
  12. Horsetan
    DCC really comes into its own with FREMO networks - I've seen the Europeans use it to walk beside their stock as it travels along, maintaining the same speed on open stretches of line with the controller unplugged. They only plug in and regulate on the approaches to junctions and stations/yards.
  13. Horsetan
    The PICtroller has been around for at least a decade or more - it was partly designed to fill the gap when the Pentroller ceased production - but supply can be very erratic and it may be a few more months before another batch is made.
  14. Horsetan
    It's better to have them too long, as then you have scope to shorten them.
  15. Horsetan
    You need bogies with an overall wheelbase of 10ft 6ins. Coincidentally, the only British diesel to match this exactly is the Class 35 Hymek. So, if you can drill a centre axle in a Heljan Hymek bogie, you will have an instant bogie for a CIE Sulzer.
  16. Horsetan
    One of the most common phrases I used to hear was "I will, yeah..."
  17. Horsetan
    I've seen annual accounts from the Scottish National Party that are more trustworthy...
  18. Horsetan
    Bergen also has the Fløjbanen, but that's a funicular rather than a branchline. As far as asking Google for a bung goes, good luck with that.
  19. Horsetan
    What's not to like? https://youtu.be/0R5nAokvGSQ?is=_SZsyJ9I8xhse6Ew
  20. Horsetan
    Fintona, anyone?
  21. Horsetan
    There are a great many wealthy Irish donors, but they tend to prefer to put their spare cash into horses, particularly racing ones.
  22. Horsetan
    The triumph of hope is what lay behind a good number of Irish lines, not to mention the many proposed routes that were never built....
  23. Horsetan
    ...which is technically what England was after 1066....
  24. Horsetan
    Kleptocratic, surely?
  25. Horsetan
    I suspect that's partly to do with the peculiarities of motive power policy and needs in Northern Ireland, which is not like Britain or Portugal.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use

  I accept