The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

Woo woo!

Steam Train Fanatics Are Rebuilding This Mythical Speed Record-Chaser From Blueprints
The T1 was a streamlined monster that could achieve 100 mph.

byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2022 2:30 PM


Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago/Getty Images

 

Dodging bullets from Crips and Bloods doesn't make your tastes better, you little scavenger. There is nothing Whiter than Surf "music".

Get over your mom's impression of you

 

Big powerful brute of a thing wasn’t it.?

The real speed record holder though was the graceful, streamlined Mallard. It used to run the London Edinburgh route and reached a timed speed of 126mph.


Mallard is on display at the fantastic Railway Museum in York (well worth visit) along with the first 100mph train The Flying Scotsman and a model of the engine that started it all The Rocket.
The Rocket ran the very first railway route from Liverpool to Manchester at an amazing 25 mph.
Up to then the horse held the speed record.

 

I was at the opening weekend of that museum! Mostly by chance. We had seen York Cathedral -- hated it, my brother and I -- and it was raining to wreck my mom's other plans. In desperation, we went to the museum and had a great time.

 

For the opening. That would have been great.

 

Man, most people’s cliche idea of SoCal is beaches and surfing, but yours is gang warfare?

And personally I think surf music gets monotonous, but at its best it’s just simple kickass rock n roll.

 

I'm halfway kidding. Roadkit just leaves the rails from time to time with his regional biases.

Yeah, my cliche idea of SoCal is either a USC game or a Mark Furhmann crime scene. I'm old enough that I wouldn't have been a regular on the surf scene..

 

My hometown in the burbs was full of USC fans, so probably resembled your image in that way, very white and with the Friday night high school football games being huge events.

But that town is now majority Chinese immigrants and looks nothing like it did then, and the football program is dead in the water. Such is the way of things.

 

I miss the attention given to school extracurriculars back then. Even in a town the size of the one I grew up in, you xould get 12K + standing on any Friday night game between two local schools. Now that town is literally 7x bigger and the two bands are bigger than the crowd. Having more shit to do shoukd never take away from your kids.

 

Sounds like maybe football is evolving toward what all the other high school sports besides basketball have been, something that only family members care about and show up for. Like in both my high school days and my son’s the soccer games were a frickin ghost town.

 

My family was UCLA oriented (dad and cousin went there, brother a massive fan), and there were only a few others in my class. Generally smarter and more left-leaning than the USC fans.

 

My NorCal junior high school now officially consists of 97% minority students and my high school is 94% minority. Both being up from about 25% minority back in the day. And those schools are in entirely different towns, as we moved after 8th grade.

Things indeed have changed.

 

Hey @Naughtius Maximus ..... forget pizza. Tonight for dinner I'm making that British dish pietanza a base di salsiccia cotta in pastella with applesauce on the side. Yum!

Ps...@blissett can translate if needed!

 

The Bay Area had a similar thing going with Stanford vs. Cal. Well, people didn't say that Cal students were smarter than Stanford students, that would have been a stretch. But the thought among the left tended to be that Cal was just as good as Stanford, but cheaper and more politically correct (to use an anachronism).

 

I visited SF 20 years ago and bought a Cal hat. Several people asked enthusiastically "are you going to the Big Game?" Had no idea WTF they were talking about. It has to be like 20th on the big rivalry list of CFB.

 

Paul Bunyan's axe?

 

Not for you, tomato casserole!

 

Rutgers v. Princeton is nowhere near what it used to be.

My dad, infantry veteran of D-Day, used to cheer for Navy in the Army/Navy game. Why should he cheer for ********ing officers? Eventually (early 60s), he realized he was still cheering for future officers, so he started giving that game a pass.