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My other forum used to be in the same position, showing the five or ten real users online, plus a few hundred guests, mostly harvesting robots. For some reason unknown to me, this stopped a couple of months ago and it now just shows real users plus some automated spam accounts that have never fully completed the 'entry process' and so can't post.

Or just a threshing machine?

It is being watched - from inside and outside...

Indeed, there are all sorts of odd individual perception issues - I even see slightly different colours in each eye, most noticeable with pale creams, etc - probably due to the start of a cataract. Trust nobody - not even yourself. An odd one that I accidentally found, when trying to fix a disaster at work once, is that your vision doesn't all operate in the same time-frame. The centre is processed faster, as it is more likely to be important, I suppose. I needed to illuminate an object down a small, long hole - this meant having the torch right next to my eye - when I turned it on, the object lit up just before the torch did, apparently. The processing delay is short, only just perceptible, but it was very obvious when it happens 'in the wrong order'

There is a genuine issue about females whose fathers have Daltonism - red/green colour blindness - they often have enhanced perception of reds and browns.

Actually, I think it's a bit too fast now. Could it be slowed? Just a little bit...

We are all migrants. That could upset a few. All very rapid here.

Favouritism!

Until yesterday, it had been as fast as usual for a good few days - then it went very slow, to the point of timing out before it connected at all. Now, all is normal again. Well, as normal as it ever is here...

Not railway-related, but an impressive example of the possibilities. This is printed in one articulated piece, not clicked together afterwards, but a full, interlinked chain. Each joint is a vertical ring with a horizontal ring around it. The bottom of the vertical ring is printed, then the horizontal ring is printed around it, and the top of the vertical ring follows, to close the joint. Somebody spent more than twenty minutes making the file for this... The cat was reasonably impressed, but would have preferred some meat on the bones. On that subject, I did once see something which suggested that it was possible to use foetal scan images and produce, using minced beef, a life-sized burger in the form of your heir-apparent...

After a few slow days, it's back to normal for me at the moment. But, I have just been reminded that any emails alerting me to an incoming PM on here are being popped into Spam by my Gmail account, despite me always confirming them to be 'Not spam'.

We were at Odiham in 1967 & 8.

90% of the time, it's normal for me, but it occasionally almost stops - just over the last few days. I can detect no obvious pattern to the "slow times".

It was also happening for me, but seems back to normal now.

It's possibly an "Amorce Cap" device - a 4.7" naval gun by Britains - Boer War era. The caps can still be got. Licensing discussions could be entertaining.

I came up with a system to make these, glass and lead. I made a couple of hundred in the 90s. This is the original prototype that I made for myself, around 1990, as I didn't fancy this getting full of dust. That's a 1/48th, so the case is about 210 x 180 x 90mm.

Artificial Ignorance - almost as good as the real thing.

I quite enjoy the hunt and the stalking of the 'victim'. It's like being a virtual hitman. I'm surprised my messages to the Forum's owner have not sparked off a visit from law enforcement.

On my other forum, we have a current spate of fake applications. Most of them just seem to be automated things that fail to complete the process, so they aren't able to do anything. Occasionally, one does become active, these give at least the impression of being real people, as they make a good effort at posting plausible things. They are, however still easily identified as 'fake', as they post things that are intended to look like an interaction, but without any real content. One of them was posting every few days, without any direct contravention, not even coming back to edit in a link to a post, after it had seemed 'clean', etc. So, I let him waste his time. But, then he made a mistake that I wasn't prepared to let lie, so I removed him straight away. A couple of weeks ago, he posted in an old thread about plumbing issues, in an effort to make himself look real - but, he claimed to have recently used a forum member who was a plumber, although he never posted much. He found that strategy by reading a few earlier posts in the thread. That was his mistake, as I know that the reason that the plumber hasn't posted much lately is that he died five years ago. The plumber's widow still pops on now and then and has just been on, in fact, but all trace of the errant spammer is long gone now. It's not necessarily a victimless crime...

The Scammell Routeman always seemed the pinnacle of both style and function to me, but without being comfortable enough to allow the driver to nod off to sleep...

I spent Septembers in Ireland from 75 to 80, and not at all again until the early 90s, by which time the future had arrived. A particularly noticeable thing on the roads in those years was the absolute preponderance of Hinos, although they were virtually unknown on the Big Island. Harris seems to have started assembling them as early as 1968, but it may have taken a few years to corner almost the whole market, to the extent that they eventually did. As a 'marker' of the second half of the seventies in Ireland to me, a Hino would be as necessary as a few cars with different coloured doors...

We've all splashed out on trees at some point, when it has been necessary...

Concrete, like tarmac, is never the same colour as another piece. They used to say, of the US colour TV system, NTSC* - Never The Same Colour... In real life, patching hardstanding will never merge in, even over considerable time. If you ever need to hide a body under some, put it in from the side, without disturbing the visible surface. * OK - color, in the example given...

Search terms can sometimes be quite unexpectedly ambiguous. I once needed to stop two adjacent doors from swinging into each other and getting the paint chipped by the handles hitting the faces of the doors. Both doors would never really be open at the same time, so I just needed to limit the swing available to each, so they wouldn't go far enough to strike the other, closed, door. I fancied something like those sliding arm things that you sometimes got on cupboard doors, but a bit more substantial, to cope with the mass of the 'full-size doors'. I decided to do an image search to help weed out the lightweight items. Wondering what these things might be professionally termed as, I decided on "door restraint". About a quarter of the pictures that were suggested to me showed young ladies, tied to doors and not wearing adequate PPE.