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Jan 28, 2015 20:37:23 GMT
Post by Miculo on Jan 28, 2015 20:37:23 GMT
No Liam, but I was a claims QS for my own company. Lots of fun to be had doing that.
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Jan 29, 2015 14:09:02 GMT
Post by 747 on Jan 29, 2015 14:09:02 GMT
Also if it is an automatic and has cruise control you can make a cup of tea as you bowl along the highways and byways. PS, you never heard of google? An American screenwriter buddy of mine and her husband own a large RV and they go off every winter across the US to Florida as 'snowbirds'. They drive non-stop and change driver whilst the vehicle is thundering along using the cruise control - one climbs out one side of the driver's seat as the other climbs in the other. Absolute madness. They've even made videos of it! NOTE: you don't need an automatic to do this, just cruise control - not that I'm advocating it. Which reminds me, I haven't heard from my buddy since they set off to go to Florida in December, so maybe the 'trick' didn't work for them this time. We used to do that with a Toyota pickup in Oman. The driver would say "I'm tired, you take over", open the door and climb into the back of the pickup. The passenger slid (rapidly0 along the bench seat to take over and the former driver crossed the back of the pickup and climbed in the passenger door.
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Jan 29, 2015 15:47:11 GMT
Post by Barry B'stard on Jan 29, 2015 15:47:11 GMT
An American screenwriter buddy of mine and her husband own a large RV and they go off every winter across the US to Florida as 'snowbirds'. They drive non-stop and change driver whilst the vehicle is thundering along using the cruise control - one climbs out one side of the driver's seat as the other climbs in the other. Absolute madness. They've even made videos of it! NOTE: you don't need an automatic to do this, just cruise control - not that I'm advocating it. Which reminds me, I haven't heard from my buddy since they set off to go to Florida in December, so maybe the 'trick' didn't work for them this time. We used to do that with a Toyota pickup in Oman. The driver would say "I'm tired, you take over", open the door and climb into the back of the pickup. The passenger slid (rapidly0 along the bench seat to take over and the former driver crossed the back of the pickup and climbed in the passenger door. Shit. My mates dad (who owned a Nissan garage) had a big fuck off long wheel base Nissan Patrol with roof rack fitted. The challenge was for the driver to climb out of the window while the passenger held the wheel and slid over and the driver would climb onto the roof and crawl back inside the passenger window, or vice versa if you were really feeling rajed (Northern word for mental). Nick, my rather mental friend at the time and nuttiest son of said garage owner would occasionally pause for 30 seconds or so on the roof and do a "Ben Hur" Chariot race stance on the roof for a bit. All of this had to be done whilst on the move. Usually on the way or sometimes way back from the pub. Bet that sort of thing would be frowned upon these days in these PC days! Pah! Harmless fun.
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Post by nicholsong on Feb 8, 2015 11:56:00 GMT
At our flying school we had Cessna 310 4-seat aircraft in which we went up with 3 Students and an Instructor and Students swapped round in the air with a few gymnastic contortions to climb from front seats to back and vice-versa. Of course the Instructor was at the controls all the time. The other difficult manoeuvre was to climb into the baggage compartment behind the rear seats, open the door and hold it open in the slipstream while one pissed over Glasgow - very satisfying is pissing on Glasgow Geoff
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Feb 8, 2015 13:04:59 GMT
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Post by Barry B'stard on Feb 8, 2015 13:04:59 GMT
At our flying school we had Cessna 310 4-seat aircraft in which we went up with 3 Students and an Instructor and Students swapped round in the air with a few gymnastic contortions to climb from front seats to back and vice-versa. Of course the Instructor was at the controls all the time. The other difficult manoeuvre was to climb into the baggage compartment behind the rear seats, open the door and hold it open in the slipstream while one pissed over Glasgow - very satisfying is pissing on Glasgow Geoff They wouldn't know what it was. In Glasgow it's called Pish. I
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Post by nicholsong on Feb 8, 2015 14:10:19 GMT
'Pish' is how you say it in the second half of the evening It probably used to evaporate before hitting the ground/residents - but is the thought that counts !
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