Typical 4X4's

[very-near]

I guess though, Linf, that with your job as a vet, you will think you need a 4x4

Believe what you want to Joe. You only like the sound of your own voice anyway.

 

[Joe24]

Cant you just tell us what job you do, do?

 

[very-near]

Cant you just tell us what job you do, do?

I have never made a secret of it.

 

[Joe24]

I have never made a secret of it.

So what is your job

 

[very-near]

So what is your job

Why, is it important ?

 

[Joe24]

Why, is it important ?

Yes

 

[very-near]

Yes

Amongst other things I'm a Design Draughtsman.

 

[very-near]

Many 4x4s are bought with no intention of ever being taken off road. The manufacturers are well aware of this.

What has this fact got to do with saloon cars?

You cannot blame the manufacturer if the customer doesn't want to risk putting a scratch in a mint £30k vehicle.

 

[User482]

You cannot blame the manufacturer if the customer doesn't want to risk putting a scratch in a mint £30k vehicle.

Of course you can. These vehicles are an utterly cynical exercise in marketing BS.

 

[very-near]

He's an engineer Joe. He makes banisters for bridges.

And has a hobby of selling some revolutionary horse-thing.

Not quite MrP

 

[very-near]

Nearly though, eh?

The notion I make 'banisters' for bridges is a funny one
I spend my day designing pathways in anything from 1000 to 5000 tonne presses for semi molten metal to flow through and form close tolerance shapes.

Banisters as you call them or lightweight armco for bridges might be a single profile made and sold by our customers for manufacture, but the next job could be a heatsink, window profile, cycle frame tubing, car chassis's, airframe components or anything which a UK or continental manufacturer can come up with and want made out of ally.

 

[very-near]

I was right then.

I think the definition you are looking for is 'fabricator'. Now I like working with my hands (how I got into engineering), but I don't fabricate any components.

 

[very-near]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8149270.stm

LandRover owners from Birmingham get caught out like so many other vehicle owners each year in this area, whatever next MrP ?

How about this one. You couldn't make it up

 

[very-near]

"The owners had been testing out the vehicle in the mud".

Testing for what?

I like the way which you tar all 4x4 owners with the same brush MrP. this would be like calling me a brummie because I get central news on TV

Why didn't you report this one instead for a fuller picture ? - perhaps because it show there are people in all walks of life with all sorts of devices who make bad calls perhaps ?

 

[dodgy]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8149270.stm

Happens all the time around here -

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0KDQoDp8Q


And - http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-...s-trapped-in-sand-near-hilbre-80491-23164109/

Always a 4X4.

I heard once that statistically you're more likely to come a cropper in the snow in a 4X4 than a 2WD car. Possibly because a lot of owners go out to 'test' their car's ability in the bad conditions and sometimes crash, while the 2WD drivers are sat at home watching the TV