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The time: 03:31, 14th February 2019.
The place: My bed.
Herself: "Wake up! Something is talking in your office!"
Me: "Wablurkle? Hurgleflip?"
Herself: "WAKE UP! Something is TALKING in your office!"
I listen. Nothing.
Me: "What did it say?"
Herself: "«Attention Please: battery low.»"
Herself: "You better go look."
I drag myself out of bed (a complex process given where the cat is and the degree of retribution I get if I wriggle too much).
I look round the office. Nothing is on, except the "always on" stuff - router, NAS, traditional bunch of chargers, freezer.
Go and get a glass of water. Go back to bed.
Time: 04:01
«Attention Please: battery low.»
Smoke detector. And it's going to do this every 30 minutes until I fix it. Sod.
Go downstairs again, remove battery from detector.
Report back on actions.
Herself: "At least it wasn't anything important, like the router."
As I said, priorities. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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God forbid her soaps should stop downloading.
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"WAKE UP! Something is TALKING in your bedroom!"
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Exactly.
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As long as it is not "SOMEONE"... I am safe 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"How nice, this burning house picture on facebook"
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Me: "Wablurkle? Hurgleflip?"
oh yeah, me too....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm not as sad to see that go as I was Concorde - now that was an engineering marvel!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Two things that Concorde and the Spitfire have in common:
0. They're among the world's two most beautiful planes.
1. Britain.
If you need a plane designed, guys, you know where we are.
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3. The spitfire flew over France and Britain, Concorde was designed and funded by France and Britain.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: you know where we are.
Netherlands?
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Never heard of it.
Oh, wait...
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And don't forget the Tiger Moth, the Comet, the Vulcan ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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If we're going all Top Trumps on this, I'll throw in the Harrier Jump Jet[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's probably the most innovative of the lot - a supreme example of "outside-of-the-box" thinking. Has me pining for the days when Britain still had some proper boffins.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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There's also the Reliant Robin.
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We don't talk about that.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The Robin was actually the product of a crazy road tax and licensing rule rather than an "innovative" thought.
Having fewer than four wheels meant that it was classed as a motorcycle rather than a car or a van, so it was cheaper to tax and you didn't need a full driving license to drive one.
Two wheels = good, four wheels = good, three wheels = erm, have we really thought this one through? It would be interesting to know how many people died in them over the years.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The Robin was indeed foul, but three wheelers can be real fun.
I had a VW Beetle engined Trike for many years, and while it had all the disadvantages of a bike with all the disadvantages of a car it was solid fun to ride, and would wheelie with no effort at all. I never tipped it over sideways (though I overdid the wheelies a couple of times and nearly flipped it).
The three wheeled ATVs were one heck of a laugh as well!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Many years ago on my first visit to a friend in London i heard a lottery/competition on the radio.
First price was a trip to Mallorca.
Second was a Reliant Robin.
Third was two Reliant Robins.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If we're going all Top Trumps on this, I'll throw in the Harrier Jump Jet[^]
I was working on the top floor of a building in The Hard, in Portsmouth (it's one of the main inlets to the harbour), when the Ark was in, a number of years ago.
While I stood on the balcony, one afternoon, a harrier went past, about 70 feet away, at about 10mph.
I was stunned at how incredibly stable its movement was -- no wavering, no wobbles -- it just "strolled" past, at eye level, as solid as a rock.
Since then, I've asked every year for one for Christmas, but no luck, so far.
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Interesting, possibly apocryphal story about the Harrier I was told back in the late 80's:
Harrier engineers were working on improved digital flight controls. During a tethered, unpiloted test the aircraft successfully took off, slowly reached an altitude of about 10 meters, did a max-rate barrel roll of 180° and fell to the ground under full thrust.
All due to a sign error in some source code.
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