Motoring Discussion > Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though Miscellaneous
Thread Author: smokie Replies: 12
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 15:54 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - smokie
Been away a couple of weeks and only slowly catching up with things so sorry if posted before...

uk.cars.yahoo.com/04112010/36/world-s-most-extreme-speed-camera-0.html

Trip was to Malta btw, where the roads are bad and some of the drivers are worse. Most spectacular incident was following a cement mixing lorry from the Gozo ferry area - he was tanking it up hills and round bends. At a roundabout I noticed one of his wheels was out of line with the others (in rear pair under cab). About a mile later it flew off and bounced a long way into the undergrowth. Took him quite some time to realise that he'd lost some of his stability around corners, but eventually someone stopped him and told him. Sorry for thread drift so soon... :-)
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 16:13 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - lancara
A pedant writes - presumably a concrete mixer - you don't need to mix cement.
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 16:19 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - Zero
So why is a cement mixer called a cement mixer?

Pedants have to be beyond reproach with pedantry. Another case of PPP.
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 17:25 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - WillDeBeest
The mixer mixes the cement into the sand, water and gravel. Many tools and machines - egg beater, potato peeler - are named after what they start with rather than what they produce.
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 17:31 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - Old Navy
I have started a thread for the pedants over in non motoring.
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 17:47 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - Clk Sec
What pedants in non motoring? I thought they were all over here.
:-)
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 18:25 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - SteelSpark
>> So why is a cement mixer called a cement mixer?

Must be the Irish Cream....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_mixer
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 19:03 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - Perky Penguin
Back to the speed camera - I don't don't see ANY way that that bit of kit is going to be fitted into a police car!
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 20:51 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - diddy1234
what pfd designed this ?

What with all of the monetary cut backs, I doubt it would be introduced in its current form.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 16 Nov 10 at 21:36
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 20:55 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - Manatee
"ASSET, developed by the VVT Technical Research Centre in Finland, has been funded by £7.1 million of European Commission money"

Yet another reason to detest the EC.
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 21:05 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - MD
Time to give up and move to Devon...........or 'Dog' Land!
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 21:21 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - Manatee
>> Time to give up and move to Devon...........or 'Dog' Land!
>>

Have you declared UDI? Or do you just carry on as if you have? Maybe it's the place for me! Are there any entry qualifications?
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New Tue 16 Nov 10 21:25 
 Clever camera, not arriving till 2013 though - MD
Maybe the desire to leave the mad mad world behind. Who knows, it's worked for me (for the last 22+ years).

Reg's..........M
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