Silly Picture Thread.

[red750]

April Fools Day gag. A post on Facebook by Spirit of Tasmania.

 

Introducing the Spirit VI submarine - our first underwater ferry!  A sleek exterior is matched by state of the art design, features and facilities.

 

[facthunter]

The average depth of Bass strait is only 200 feet. Safer on the surface.   That's another bottom of the Harbour scheme.. Nev

[onetrack]

All the April Fools jokes this year seemed to be pretty weak. Nothing like the inventive and really funny ones of the past, such as the BBC reporting the spaghetti harvest in Italy.

[pmccarthy]

From Saturday, it will be Russia’s turn to take up the monthly presidency of the 15-member Security Council, in line with a rotation that has been unaffected by the Ukraine war.

 

I thought this was a pretty good April Fool's joke then I found out it was true.

[facthunter]

They were also chairing it when the whole thing started a year+ ago..   Nev

[nomadpete]

[Old Koreelah]

[red750]

And even more Big....

 

[red750]

[facthunter]

Nice work "Chairman" red. Nev

[onetrack]

The chairs will prove to be a much more reliable purchase than the Range Rover ever would.

[spacesailor]

I have been told that the range-rover has the 3.5 L ' Leyland P76 V 8 ' motor .

Maybe not in the latest versions .

spacesailor

[old man emu]

Speaking of the P76 with the V8 engine, I was following one today. We were stopped at traffic lights and the sound coming from the exhaust pipes made Lou Rawls sound like a castrati. The body work was a bit below par. I got the impression that the owner had only recently got it on the road and was due to start the bodywork restoration. 

[red750]

Used to be known as the P38 - half a car.

[facthunter]

I think the P76 V8 is bigger than the 3;5 litre Rover motor. A lot of the issues  were to do with metal swarf in the  block. Nev

[onetrack]

Whenever a friend took to describing a particular model or item as a complete dog, he'd say, "It's the P76 of Xxxxxx's!" (Xxxxxx being whatever model or item he was describing).

 

Edited April 6, 2023 by onetrack

[red750]

[Jerry_Atrick]

[willedoo]

12 hours ago, onetrack said:

Whenever a friend took to describing a particular model or item as a complete dog, he'd say, "It's the P76 of Xxxxxx's!" (Xxxxxx being whatever model or item he was describing).

 

I remember hearing it called Australia's Edsel.

[facthunter]

It had a very large boot which let water in sometimes. At least it was an attempt to build a car for Australian conditions and much more conventional than most BMC stuff at the time.  Nev

[onetrack]

The "British disease" (which is how the Japanese manufacturers described it), was the basic problem with virtually all British-built products in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

This "disease" was the gulf between the aloof, class-driven management, and the union-led, bloody-minded workforce, that had little interest in producing a finished product that had good attention to detail, fit and finish.

The vicious-thug-led unions of that era were basically run by criminals intent on dismantling any smooth-running worker-management arrangements. Strikes were constant, hatred of management was bred up and fostered, and union leaders sought vast levels of power that they were not entitled to acquire.

Union decisions were corrupt, strike decisions were led by rabble-rousers, and overall, these unionists set the groundwork for the hatred of unions that exists today.

This is wrong, because properly-run unions are a vital part of our society, to ensure the companies and corporations do not gain a major power imbalance - as has currently happened.

[red750]

26 minutes ago, facthunter said:

It had a very large boot which let water in sometimes.

I once read somewhere, don't know if it's true, that the boot could hold a 44 gallon drum.

[Old Koreelah]

23 minutes ago, onetrack said:

The "British disease" (which is how the Japanese manufacturers described it), was the basic problem with virtually all British-built products in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

This "disease" was the gulf between the aloof, class-driven management, and the union-led, bloody-minded workforce, that had little interest in producing a finished product that had good attention to detail, fit and finish…

I saw this attitude first-hand when I moved to the city and got factory jobs. Morale was appalling, you never saw management, even the foreman was hard to find and my fellow workers showed zero interest in doing a good job. This shocked me, after working in our little town’s mill, where everyone knew the owners and managers, drank and played darts with them. 

 

It sure was an education to work with people who took delight in sabotaging the efforts of others and vicimising new immigrants for pleasure.

 

If Australia plans to build Nuclear Submarines, any surviving residue of this attitude must be eradicated.

[red750]

[facthunter]

Is that HAGAR the Horrible?  Nev