Conforming to stereotype (other people's assumptions are worthless)

[hirez]

I grew up on a large and mechanised farm. The smells and sounds that remind me of summer are warm hypoid, burnt stubble and idling diesels. I suspect every season is the same and has a specific set of sounds and smells, given that it was cold last night walking back to the house and I could smell wet earth. The smell of wet earth in October is

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[hirez]

If I'm honest, all of my current nails appear to be Ruby code written by utter bastards.

[badnewswade]

That Vityaz does look exactly like a Chris Foss illustration, so much so that I have to ask myself if he ever visited the USSR.

[hirez]

From the mindset of cold-war western culture, Russia was an alien world. It's no surprise they had space vehicles for dealing with the place.

[quercus]

Somehow I had no idea who "Chriss Foss" was....

...despite which, I've read half of those book covers.

New Dyson vacuum cleaner pre-launch photos

[hirez]

I was strangely unsurprised to discover that Googling for 'hypoid' has you on the fist page.

It were all Panther PBs round here when I were a lad.

[quercus]

You just wait until I've finished writing Wikipedia...

[hirez]

... Even the daughter-shagging hedge-fund bits?

[moral_vacuum]

I like your world. This one is annoying.

[hirez]

There's probably a way of going to live there.

(The most obvious one being 'become as rich at creosote')

[quercus]

You should aim at doing just that. Ideally in a way that involves becoming the hooky creosote baron of Gloucestershire, with attendant empire of malodorous sheds.

It would be the Gloucestershire version of the Yorkshire / Genoese pig farmer pork baron jokes.

[christiffer]

You can get stolly's for about £4k.

I now have a proper man-cave and am planning a series of reengines of things, hopefully culminating in a meteor-engined trike.....