Illuminati-R-Us

It goes against the grain, but sometimes we simply have to applaud our neighbours to the south.

Heid the Ba' wrote:It goes against the grain, but sometimes we simply have to applaud our neighbours to the south.

What? The French? What have THEY got to do with it?

OK. Viva Mexico!!!

Volvo buys Scandie racing team. Volvo + race/rally knowhow + two engines = fun and/or early death.

I saw that someone was selling a Concorde engine, complete with afterburner and for some reason remembered this thread.

And it's been relisted.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116016616403

I'd get them if they had a pair!

Heid the Ba wrote:I saw that someone was selling a Concorde engine, complete with afterburner and for some reason remembered this thread.

How much was your bid?

Sadly I have nowhere to keep it. And it went for about three quarters of a million USD.

Lance wrote:And it's been relisted.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116016616403

I'd get them if they had a pair!

The real fun starts with four of them!

Only supersonic over water, which the pilots took to be any tributary of the Bristol Channel so somewhere about Bath.

Not Sweden, but their neighbours. The most Norwegian thing ever as it involves a Tesla* and a floating sauna**.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68177125

*unlike certain other oil producing countries Norway is awash in Teslae and other electric vehicles.
** yes, I know saunae are Finnish. It's a Scanner thing.***
*** yes, I know Finland isn't in Scandinavia.

Lance wrote:And it's been relisted.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116016616403

I'd get them if they had a pair!

Under "Postage", it says that shipping to my country may not be available.

Мастер wrote:Under "Postage", it says that shipping to my country may not be available.

Heh, it says that for me too.