The British understand thier Imperial decline as something remotely possible in the far distant future possibly associated with solar expiration.
US Navy’s newest ship breaks down 20 days after commissioning,
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I once heard a young American lad ask his father why Canada was not pink like on the map. Just about everyone at the service station cracked up.
Rather. It used to be that money was real power. Then the basis of money became nothing but a concept and it is based upon electronic flow. The information became the real power. Now, the real power is ownership of debt.
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The rest of the planet manages to make good wiring. The Brits have ALWAYS had problems with wiring.
It was somewhere as late as the 1970s that the English discovered wiring harnesses (everyone else had been using harnesses for decades). Until then, every wire was separately installed. Hubby helped his cousin rebuild his cousin's XJ and ended up rerouting the wiring to something sensible. He also rerouted the fuel lines because he said they original ones seemed to come up into the trunk from the tank, and zigzag through the trunk for a mile or so then take the scenic tour through the chassis and body to eventually feed the engine at the front.
Hubby has also worked on Mini Coopers, Morris Minors, etc. He calls Lucas the "Prince of Darkness" and says a bad tail lamp can disable the entire car.
So yeah, keep laughing, Peewee. Your wiring companies are (in)famous.
And it is not just wiring and fuel delivery, it seems that at least till 1970 Brits could not make two flat surfaces mate well enough to prevent oil leaks in Brit motorcycles. We used to have a pair of Triumph Bonnies (!968 and 1969) and both leaked like collanders until hubby rebuilt the engines.
Meanwhile the opposition is acting like this.
Is Aegean Sea Incident With Russian Destroyer a 'Turkish Provocation'?
Is Aegean Sea Incident With Russian Destroyer a 'Turkish Provocation'?
Limeys cain't do anything right. Why hell did you see their camouflage outfits during the revolutionary war? Bright red. Ain't no red trees in the forest.
A friend of ours has a 1964 Chevy Impala SS. He has done routine maintenance on it and has only ever had it painted since he got it. It has close to 885,000 miles on it. He had an MGB whose frame broke after hitting a pothole.
Some dude with a 1966 Volvo P1800 has over 3 million miles on it.
My little Dakota has almost 235,000 km on it and is still running like it did at 235 km. I have only ever put routine maintenance into it.
Then we get stuff like this:
Jaguar XJR Does The Impossible, Goes 100,000 Miles
Some dude in another forum with a Rover 75 was bragging that he got 85,000 miles.
So it seems as if a Brit car with over 100,000 miles on it is an odd duck.
I really do like one lone British car, though. It is the 1922 Bentley Speed 6.
haha For sure. Bright red targets scooting around battlefields and TRYING to be sneaky in amongst green bushes.
I had a 68 Vauxhall Viva, the fan belt broke and went through the radiator, the drivers side rear wheel bearing burned out the retainer plate and that axle went over the car into the bushes on the trans Canada leaving me stranded. It was impossible to start with a light frost, I sat behind the wheel one day with a screwdriver in my *** pocket when I got out the seat came with me. While attempting to adjust the valves I pulled the stud right out of the block, the wipers were intermittent, unintentionally.The thing was three years old. I gave it to my little brother and he destroyed it completely driving arround the fields in a couple of afternoons.
Navy’s $700 million mine-hunting drone can’t find explosives
A mine-detection system the U.S. Navy invested nearly $700 million and 16 years in developing can’t complete its most basic functions, according to the Pentagon’s weapon-testing office.
The Remote Minehunting System, or RMS, was developed for the Navy’s new littoral combat ship. But the Defense Department’s Office of Operational Test & Evaluation says the drone hunting technology was unable to consistently identify and destroy underwater explosives during tests dating back to September 2014.
A mine-detection system the U.S. Navy invested nearly $700 million and 16 years in developing can’t complete its most basic functions, according to the Pentagon’s weapon-testing office.
The Remote Minehunting System, or RMS, was developed for the Navy’s new littoral combat ship. But the Defense Department’s Office of Operational Test & Evaluation says the drone hunting technology was unable to consistently identify and destroy underwater explosives during tests dating back to September 2014.