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skinner75

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  1. I just thought of the band The Macc Lads as soon as Macclesfield was mentioned! With greats such as: "All day drinking" and "Beer and sex and chips and gravy"
  2. Mentions the scale/gauge in both the item heading and description - 00
  3. Reminds me of one of Al Bundy's songs from Married With Children: My wife will never cook or clean Still my money spends Who knew when I first chose my mate That she would put on that much weight Oh sex we'd like for sure If it only weren't with her Please K-I-L-L K-I-L-L Me, me, me
  4. I only ride bikes, but my dad always comments on the price of bike parts whenever I would mention them. Economy of scale is still a perfectly valid point
  5. Supply and demand I would suspect. Cost drops the more units being ordered - economy of scale. Same deal with motorbike parts vs car parts - car parts are way cheaper, due to the massive amounts being produced relative to motorbike parts. I'm sure if IRM ordered 500,000 sound chips, they'd be a lot cheaper per unit than they are currently!
  6. Yeah, but seeing as they are in the bad hemisphere, it is their summer!
  7. Colour looks fine in that shot of it in Cork
  8. skinner75

    Customs & VAT

    Start busting their chops over it!
  9. Bit of art imitating life then?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvyIrsZ7Zhs
  10. Also covered by Tim Traveller (great interesting vids btw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWgJ6-iHM0
  11. Same heads that rolled in the first post on this thread!
  12. Is there one of the transfer wagons (or narrow to 5'3 gauge) still in existence?
  13. Hi all, I came across the vid below and thought it may be of interest: https://youtu.be/UzVdBsods0w
  14. Here's a vid an Irish lad put together on it (I like this guys channel - interesting topics & good humour): https://youtu.be/BKATyrxez8A
  15. plus £28 postage, plus approx £71 duty
  16. Stick up an ad with a picture of The Square in Tallaght, with the title 'Pyramid for sale' lol!
  17. From the same channel, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the Great Lakes is another one - I heard the song that was penned about the sinking late one night on the radio, and found it very moving https://youtu.be/U9jDNEtg8JY https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A
  18. I suppose the climate must help keep the rust at bay, prolonging a vehicles usable lifespan
  19. Around the 2min35 mark of this cine transfer from 1980, put up by Tom Ryan, there is an example of a 'mixed' selection of coaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9lcXpkrtY
  20. What a cracking model! Funnily enough, the vid below popped up as a suggestion the other night - posting with the connection to the topic: https://youtu.be/LMg3Nf6kNls
  21. Some info from Guinness site on the railway: https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/content/pdf/archive-factsheets/transport-cooperage/brewery_railway.pdf another article on the Guinness railway, with a list of locos and when they were withdrawn: https://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/04/26/the-guinness-brewery-railways-dublin/
  22. Along that very line - in the video below, they create a gear train with a ration of 1 Googol:1 - madness!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXK4e4uqXY
  23. I remember having a BR blue Deltic, and the Lima Class33 in CIE colours with a couple of Lima CIE coaches
  24. Ever since Electric Jesus / Space Karen took over Twitter, it looks like he is trying to take over from Facebook as the new place for the loonies to go and spread their shite - with a few choice tweets from himself to get the party started
  25. I had to take myself off 'antisocial media' - Facebook/Meta/Twitter are poison. Don't get me started on businesses using FB as their main 'website' - if you are at that sort of thing, you have failed A dedicated forum is a different kettle of fish.
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